Carola Conces Binder
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Associate Prof of Civic Leadership and Economics at UT Austin. Author of Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. Catholic wife and mom of 5.
Here is a nice review of my book in Library Journal: libraryjournal.com/review/shock-v… Please consider pre-ordering! amazon.com/Shock-Values-I…
👇 Thread on research topics at FRBs. Of course, another angle to consider is what would happen if the FRBs were full of people doing research on right-wing coded topics and causes.
A few years ago, Christina Skinner and I published “Laboratories of Central Banking,” in the Review of Banking and Financial Law. A Mercatus policy brief on the paper is recently making the rounds and garnering some controversy, so I wanted to make a few comments. (Thread)
The real issue with Ha-Joon Chang’s FT op-ed last week isn’t his economics—it’s the cartoonish caricature of Catholic theology in the Middle Ages, straight out of an outdated high school textbook or a bad History Channel doc. The 12th and 13th centuries were among the most…
Analysis of Polymarket data suggests that a bet on "Powell out" increases the likelihood of a bet on an interest cut at the next FOMC meeting ("the revenge of time inconsistency"). But it also leads to higher expected 10-year Treasury yields and greater recession risk.
Would Americans be better off without Costco? Zephyr Teachout says yes. I say no. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Running surveys online? The way you advertise affects the kind of sample you get. Anja Neundorf and Aykut Öztürk test 23 ads, varying the incentives offered and how explicitly the survey theme is described. For tips on what to use for your next survey: doi.org/10.1093/poq/nf…