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Ken Small, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, discusses traffic congestion, its toll on the economy, and strategies for mitigating congestion.
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Gerald Dwyer, director of the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability at the Atlanta Fed, discusses short selling in the stock market and its costs and benefits.
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Ed Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard University, discusses the economics of urban growth in Atlanta and the Southeast.
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Atlanta Fed economist and associate policy adviser Paula Tkac discusses the Atlanta Fed's 2010 financial markets conference, "Up from the Ashes: The Financial System after the Crisis," which examined...
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Tapen Sinha, a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University, describes the...
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Tapen Sinha, profesor del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) e investigador visitante en el Banco de la Reserva Federal de Atlanta y Georgia State University, describe los cambios en el...
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Steven E. Landsburg, an economics professor at the University of Rochester, discusses the role of economic growth and incentives in society and how economists view human behavior.
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Although several factors may be at play in the growing wage gap between more- and less-educated workers, recent research shows that the rapid growth of computers has been most influential in increasing...
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