Report No. 2
April 01, 2006
Report April 2006
The latest Levy Institute Strategic Analysis depicts a household sector that is struggling under an unprecedented burden of debt and relying upon an unsustainable upward trend in real estate prices. The authors find that a reversal of this trend could severely dampen economic growth.
Contents:
NEW STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
- Are Housing Prices, Household Debt, and Growth Sustainable?
NEW POLICY NOTES
- Reforming Deposit Insurance: The Case to Replace FDIC Protection with Self-Insurance
NEW WORKING PAPERS
- Are Long-run Price Stability and Short-run Output Stabilization All that Monetary Policy Can Aim For?
- Monetary Policy Strategies of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the US
- Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
- All Types of Inequality are Not Created Equal: Divergent Impacts of Inequality on Economic Growth
- Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
- Speculation, Liquidity Preference, and Monetary Circulation
- Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs? Competition and Gender Wage and Employment Differentials in USManufacturing
- Enhancing Livelihood Security through the National Employment Guarantee Act: Toward Effective Implementation of the Act
- Keynes’s Approach to Money: An Assessment after 70 Years
- Where Do They Find the Time? An Analysis of How Parents Shift and Squeeze Their Time around Work and Child Care
- Parental Child Care in Single Parent, Cohabiting, and Married Couple Families: Time Diary Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom
- Prolegomena to Realistic Monetary Macroeconomics: A Theory of Intelligible Sequences
- Government Effects on the Distribution of Income: An Overv
- Personality and Earnings
LEVY INSTITUTE NEWS
- Russell Sage Foundation Grant Supports Perlmann Book
- Upcoming Events
- Conference: Government Spending on the Elderly
- Symposium: Gender Equality, Tax Policies, and Tax Reform in Comparative Perspective
- Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars
- Recent Levy Institute Publications