Federal Policy Is a Wealth Tax the Best Way to Fight Wealth Inequality? National conversations about wealth inequality in the United States have led to proposals for a wealth tax. Learn more here.
Immigration The Case for Economic Openness in the Time of Coronavirus To retain the gains from international trade, immigration, and global capital flows, we need to modernize economic policy to suit the current era.
COVID Tax Flexibility Can Help in COVID-19 Recovery It is crucial that tax policy not stand in the way of the expansion of New Economy businesses that have proven invaluable during the pandemic.
COVID A Pandemic Trust Fund The Pandemic Trust Fund would insulate and protect pandemic preparation from the political process and budgetary discretion and degradation.
Federal Policy How Do Taxes Affect Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Productivity? This Research in Focus examines how income tax policy shapes incentives for innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States.
Federal Policy Sources of Consumer Inertia in the Individual Health Insurance Market This paper examines the causes of inertia in health insurance by examining Covered California, the largest U.S. health insurance Marketplace.
Federal Policy How Does Lobbying Regulations Affect the Stock Prices of Firms That Lobby the Most? This paper examines the effect of policy changes that increased public disclosure requirements associated with lobbying.
Regulation Social Security and the Increasing Longevity Gap This working paper contributes to the discussion about Social Security reform by developing a new measure of the progressivity of a Social Security system.