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"It will be extraordinarily hard to reach a consensus on a new director general when there isn’t any underlying consensus among members on what the WTO is supposed to do," [...]

Nick Bloom discusses the "Ikea-ization” of office costs—a reference to the way the Swedish superstores helped shift the responsibility for assembly from the seller to the customer.

SIEPR Visiting Prof. Rob Fairlie's recent study shows the number of active business owners in the US plunged by 22% from February to April due to coronavirus.

Will working from home endure after the pandemic? SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom explores the future of the virtual workplace in this WBUR audio segment.

“There’s a massive reallocation shock,” said Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at ���˴�Ƭ. The recession “hits different sectors differently. Some benefit and some fall."

Grant Miller, a health economics expert, found that as states granted the vote to women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, those states invested more in sanitation [...]

A two-year study done by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off.

"To simply return to the prepandemic health care system during a presidential election year would be a mistake. This is a time to think more boldly about the future of the US[...]"

Jonathan Levin, SIEPR Senior Fellow and dean of ���˴�Ƭ’s Graduate School of Business, discusses how the coronavirus pandemic will shape M.B.A. programs in September—and beyond.

A report coauthored by Mark Duggan—Director and Senior Fellow of SIEPR—found that mortality rates for people from ages 25 to 34 had risen by more than 20 percent since 2008.

A 2015 case study by Nicholas Bloom found that when one Chinese travel agency assigned a random group of employees to work remotely for 9 months, their productivity went up by 13%.

A recent study by SIEPR Senior Fellow Andrew Hall found that voting by mail did not advantage either party, and might increase voter turnout for both parties.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear and CNBC On-Air Editor Rick Santelli discuss retracing the footsteps of the last recession, good news on wages, and what to expect next month.

SIEPR Senior Fellow John H. Cochrane shares his thoughts on Modern monetary theory, also known as MMT.

Matt Gentzkow found that voter polarization in the United States nearly doubled over the last four decades, increasing at a much faster pace than in eight other developed nations.

SIEPR Visiting Professor Rob Fairlie determined that startups by people of color report, on average, substantially higher levels of loan denials than their white counterparts.

“The abruptness of this shock [COVID-19] is much larger than the 2008 global financial crisis,” said Ramin Toloui, an assistant Treasury secretary for international finance [...]

"Maybe a year or two from now, when firms relax and say...you can come back in two or three days a week, and spend the other couple of days at home [...]" says Nick Bloom.

"Companies developing Covid-19 treatments run the risk of acting too quickly," warns SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics at the ���˴�Ƭ GSB.

Matt Gentzkow, who is leading a group of researchers tracking partisanship in the virus response, said his team initially thought that a health crisis would minimize differences.