The normal temperature for the earth is very hot and little or no permanent ice.
Climate is essentially “a precariously balanced nonlinear system that lurches between very different states of col...
Discussion document of ideas for funding a national health insurance program for the U.S. while reducing the federal income and payroll taxes that the vast majority of citizens would be obligated t...
Could doomsday machines be a rational response to short-term economic drivers? Is it profitable to build doomsday machines? Once they are built, is it institutionally profitable to keep them in pla...
In this briefing paper, Alice Rivlin argues that we need an agency with specific responsibility for spotting regulatory gaps, perverse incentives, and building market pressures that could pose seri...
In this note, Darryll Hendricks argues that before getting into the issues of the organization of systemic risk regulation that legislators and regulators need to agree on the nature of the problem...
James K. Galbraith's testimony on Obama's suggestion that the Federal Reserve serve as "systemic risk regulator." A most informative discussion on the Constitutional, legal, and bureaucratic and ...
This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-200...