160 Research Items Found
May 05, 2021
Why have consumer credit scores gone up during the pandemic? In this brief, public finance fellow Joyce Beebe discusses the …
April 29, 2021
Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have experienced a massive surge in popularity over the last year. How do SPACs work, …
April 13, 2021
In a study prepared for the National Association of Manufacturers, the authors use the Diamond–Zodrow computable general equilibrium model of …
March 31, 2021
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, which became law in mid-March, left out the mandate to increase the federal …
March 25, 2021
A substantial number of Americans remain unprepared for retirement, despite past policy support and tax incentives to enhance retirement income …
Jorge Barro, Ph.D. is a fellow in public finance at the Baker Institute. His area of research involves the development of dynamic macroeconomic models for fiscal policy evaluation. Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Barro was an economist at the …
John W. Diamond, Ph.D., is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance and director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University and CEO of Tax …
