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S3E10 S3E10: Drivers of Falling Fertility: Professor Michèle Tertilt on What Economic Analysis Reveals
Why are people having fewer children and what does this mean for our economic future? U.S. fertility rates have been declining for decades, now sitting well below the replacement level needed to…
LECTURE: Central Bank independence: Critical for economic growth and stability?
In a time of persistent inflation, fiscal strain, and global uncertainty, the question of central bank independence has taken on renewed urgency. Widely accepted as a cornerstone of economic…
S3E9 S3E9: Automation, Adaptation, and Employment: Economist Kyle Herkenhoff on AI’s Labor Market Impact
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than most policymakers — and many workers — can keep up. In this episode of Heller-Hurwicz Office Hours, economist Kyle Herkenhoff joins us to break down…
S3E8 S3E8: Prevention, Policy, and Political Deadlock: Economic Lessons from the Individual Market
As the government shutdown stretches on, health policy sits at the center of America’s political gridlock. Recent legislative changes raise urgent questions about access, prevention, and long-term…
S3E7 S3E7: Plucking the Global Goose: Measuring Tariff Exposure in Trump's Trade War
How far can governments go in taxing trade before the global economy hisses?In this Heller-Hurwicz Office Hours episode, we explore how to quantify which products, firms, and supply chains feel the…
S3E6: America’s Rising Debt: Demographics, Risk, and the Future of Fiscal Sustainability
What does America’s increasing deficit mean for the economy? We explore the One Big, Beautiful Bill, demographics, and the risks to U.S. fiscal sustainability.America’s rising debt is one of the…
LECTURE: Fair Shares: Exploring the Role of Wealth Taxes in Modern Economies
Wealth taxes are one of today's most debated economic policy topics and often proposed as a way to bolster increasingly strained government budgets, reduce income inequality, and make the tax system…
S3E5 S3E5: America’s Climate U-Turn: Bob Litterman on Economic Risks in a Critical Time
In this special series of the podcast, we're focusing on the policy priorities of the second Trump administration and how research can inform our understanding of a rapidly changing economic…
S3E4: The Trade War between the U.S. and China: What’s at stake in the decoupling
In this special series of the podcast, we're focusing on the policy priorities of the second Trump administration, and how research can inform our understanding of our rapidly changing economic…
S3E3: Inflation, tariffs, and lessons learned (and relearned) from history
In this special series of the podcast, we're focusing on the policy priorities of the second Trump administration, and how research can inform our understanding of our rapidly changing economic…
S3E2: Checks, Balances, and Political Independence: President Trump and the Federal Reserve Bank
In this special series of the podcast, we're focusing on the policy priorities of the second Trump administration, and how research can inform our understanding of our rapidly changing economic…
S3E1: The End of the Free Trade Era: Trump’s Sledgehammer approach to constructing a new economic order
In this special series of the podcast, we're focusing on the policy priorities of the second Trump administration, and how research can inform our understanding of our rapidly changing economic…
LECTURE: Transmission of Monetary Policy and the U.S. Economic Outlook
The Spring 2025 Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute roundtable featured Governor Adriana D. Kugler, a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System on "Transmission of Monetary Policy…
LECTURE: Taxes, Tariffs, and Trade: Economic Policy in the Once and Future Administration
Economic Policy was a hot topic in the recent presidential campaign. Please join us for an impromptu and informal discussion on the possible economic policies of the incoming Trump administration,…
LECTURE: Who Cheats on Taxes? Understanding the U.S. Tax Gap
Americans underpay federal taxes every year. Underpayments are seen across business types, industries, taxpayer ages, and income groups. But some groups are less compliant than others. The…
S2E10 S2E10: Pricing the Risk of Climate Change: The Role of Incentives in Reducing Carbon Emissions
Economist Bob Litterman is well known for his risk management career on Wall Street. He has been at the forefront of using economics and a risk management framework to develop strategies that would…
S2E9 S2E9: One size does not fit all: Optimal subsidies for Medicare Advantage
50% of seniors get their healthcare through Medicare Advantage plans, yet the growth of Medicare Advantage has been controversial. Among the topics discussed about Medicare Advantage plans, is…
S2E8 S2E8: Trust in Government and Central Bankers: The Probability of a Bad Reputation
Trust is an important concept in economics. Economist Chris Phelan develops a theoretical model for better understanding the impact of trustworthy and opportunistic actions by governments in less…
LECTURE: How employers are using market power to underpay workers: The new antitrust merger guidelines' take on labor markets
Join us for a discussion of the economic research behind, and the legal and policy implications of, the newly released Merger Guidelines. In late 2023, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of…
S2E7 S2E7: The tax gap: How do we measure it, and what does it mean?
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that in 2018, little more than a third of business income wasn't reported in tax filings. That's roughly $700 billion. Policymakers have long railed…
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