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      • 23 Feb 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Examining Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

      The late 20th century saw dramatic growth in incarceration rates in the United States. Of the more than 2.3 million people in US prisons, jails, and detention centers in 2020, 60 percent were Black or Latinx. Harvard Business School assistant professor Reshmaan Hussam probes the assumptions underlying the current prison system, with its huge racial disparities, and considers what could be done to address the crisis of the American criminal justice system in her case, “Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 01 Apr 2019
      • What Do You Think?

      Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

      by James Heskett

      SUMMING UP. Readers lined up to comment on James Heskett's question on whether federal deficit spending as supported by Modern Monetary Theory is good or evil. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 13 Nov 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

      by Dina Gerdeman

      In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, and Rene Bekkers. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 08 Aug 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy

      by Marco Di Maggio and Marcin Kacperczyk

      In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the United States Federal Reserve took an unprecedented decision to lower short-term nominal interest rates to zero, a policy commonly known as zero lower bound policy. This study shows that the policy adversely affected an important part of the shadow banking system, money market funds, whose returns are linked to the Fed funds rate. During times of unusually low interest rates, fund managers tended to increase their portfolios’ risk. The policy also triggered a reduction in capital supply to financial firms and large corporations and increased the financial markets’ exposure to costly runs and defaults.

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