Climate Change
Climate Economics
Carbon Pricing Paired with Green Bonds
SCEPA economists published a World Bank working paper arguing that both the carbon tax and green bonds are needed to…
Are Central Banks Prepared for the Next Recession?
SCEPA economists worked with the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) on their June 2019 evaluation of the IMF’s advice on…
IMF Working Paper: How Climate Disasters Affect Capital
Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, co-authored an IMF Working Paper modeling how climate disasters…
Sustainability
The Real Driver of Rising Inequality
Wage suppression - not monopoly power - is fueling corporate profits and the growing gap between rich and poor.
Past Event
Policies to Reverse Inequality
Only a power and resource shift from capital to labor can reverse the entrenched trends of inequality.
Resource Library
Economic Growth, Income Distribution & Climate Change
This paper explores how climate damage affects the long-run evolution of the economy.
A Bayesian Latent Variable Mixture Model for Filtering Firm Profit Rate
This paper examines the distribution of profit rates in the United States using firm-level data to examine the theory of the equalization of the rate of profit.
Varieties of Keynesianism
Recent claims from Paul Krugman on the superiority of the IS-LM version of Keynesian economics call for a re-thinking of Keynesian economics.
