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  Working Paper No. 998

  Technology and Productivity

  Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which economies are utilizing advances in technology. However, this measure is problematic on several different dimensions. First, the idea that it is possible to separate out the relative contribution to economic output of labor, capital, and technology requires ignoring their […]
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  Working Paper No. 997

  Identity and Well-Being in the Skilled Crafts and Trades

  We analyze the extent to which occupational identity is conducive to worker well-being. Using a unique survey dataset of individuals working in the German skilled crafts and trades (2017–18, n=757), we use a novel occupational identity measure that captures identity more broadly than just referring to organizational identification and social group membership, but rather comprises […]
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  Working Paper No. 996

  Seven Replies to the Critiques of Modern Money Theory

  Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political circles. MMT has been argued to be both fascist and […]
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  Public Policy Brief No. 156

  Still Flying Blind after All These Years

  Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray contend that the prevailing approach to monetary policy and inflation is influenced by a set of concepts that are a poor guide to action. In this policy brief, they examine two previous cases in which the Federal Reserve misread the data and raised rates […]
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  Levy BLS Grant Featured in Financial Times Op-Ed

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  New US Consumption Gauge To Include Unpaid Work, Housing

  New US Consumption Gauge To Include Unpaid Work, Housing The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will incorporate estimates of the value of unpaid household work and home ownership into a new measure of consumption, aiming for a more comprehensive view of living standards at a time when policymakers are increasingly concerned with addressing inequality. Read […]
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  Summary No. 3

  Summary Fall 2021

  This issue of the Summary features two Strategic Analyses, which are focused on the United States and Greece. In the report for the United States the likely impact of President Biden’s infrastructure and families plans is examined to highlight persistent structural weaknesses that continue to threaten the US economy’s stability; the report on the Greek […]
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  Levy Institute Wins Contract to Help Department of Labor Broaden Measures of Economic Well-Being

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  Blog

  Are Concerns over Growing Federal Government Debt Misplaced?

  If the global financial crisis (GFC) of the mid-to-late 2000s and the COVID crisis of the past couple of years have taught us anything, it is that Uncle Sam cannot run out of money. During the GFC, the Federal Reserve lent and spent over $29 trillion to bail out the world’s financial system,[1] and then [...]
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  Blog

  Is Climate Change a Fiscal or Monetary Policy Challenge?

  Lekha Chakraborty (Professor, NIPFP, and Member of Governing Board, International Institute of Public Finance, Munich) Climate change is about risks and uncertainty. How well the monetary policy stance can incorporate such risks and uncertainties is questioned by many economists. There is a broad consensus among economists that fiscal policy is capable of dealing with the [...]
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  Policy Notes No. 4

  A Recovery for Whom?

  The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed multiple risks faced by economies whose production structures depend on the volatility of international conditions. In the case of Greece, this has manifested itself in the severe impact the pandemic has had on one of the linchpins of the Greek economy: the tourism sector. Vlassis Missos, Nikolaos Rodousakis, and George […]
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  Working Paper No. 995

  The Employer of Last Resort Scheme and the Energy Transition

  The health and economic crises of 2020–21 have revived the debate on fiscal policy as a major tool for stabilization and meeting long-term goals. The massive surge in unemployment, due to the economic disruption of the lockdown measures, has increased the interest in policies that target employment directly instead of trying to achieve it via […]