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Actionable Information - Research Briefs - 7 - Index of stringency in containment measures, their impact on economic activity and mobility reduction
(Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory, 2021-05-28)
Explore the association between the government's response to contain the pandemic and measurements of mobility reduction, economic activity, and unemployment.
The Signs of the Times
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2023-01-31)
The past year, we experienced the highest inflation rates in forty years. Recession fears have been on the rise in recent months even as inflation rates have started to turn a corner. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
Investing in Future Generation: Relating Debt Reduction and Environmental Protection
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-12-01)
Governments often engage in activities that affect the welfare of future generations in opposite directions. Long-term projects aimed at protecting the environment benefit future generations, whereas increasing government ...
Has the Information Channel of Monetary Policy Disappeared? Revisiting the Empirical Evidence
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-03-10)
Does the Federal Reserve have an “information advantage� in forecasting macroeconomic variables beyond what is known to private sector forecasters? And are market participants reacting only to monetary policy shocks ...
Are Charters the Best Alternative? A Cost Frontier Analysis
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-01)
Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
Risk and Risk Aversion Effects in Contests with Contingent Payments
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
Firms seeking new products, investors backing competitors, and government agencies in search of design solutions are all examples of different models of contest design found in the marketplace. In PERC’s working paper ...
How Much Will We Spend on Health Care?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-10-10)
This atypical election cycle has diverted attention from the growing evidence that premiums for health insurance sold on the exchanges are rising while options have declined. Health expenditures are also again growing ...
Taxing Wealth
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-01-29)
During this presidential primary season, several candidates have proposed a tax on the wealthy to fund platform promises. There is certainly appeal for a wealth tax, as these proposed taxes are seen as a tax on someone ...
Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
The absence of same gender role models in STEM fields has been shown to discourage female student participation in STEM fields of study. In PERC Working Paper 1706, Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches, ...
Monetary Policy Uncertainty: A Tale of Two Tails
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-11-12)
During the last few decades, central banks across the globe came to recognize the potentially valuable role that transparency can play in stabilizing the economy. For example, the Federal Reserve in the US started releasing ...