Publications

The optimistic view of the subprime mortgage sector is that it makes the availability of credit for home purchases more egalitarian, extending it to those otherwise regarded as a high credit risk. The authors of a new Levy Institute Public Policiy Brief, however, are not as sanguine about such developments.

Contents:

NEW PUBLIC POLICY BRIEF

• Cracks in the Foundations of Growth: What Will the Housing Debacle Mean for the US Economy?

CONFERENCE

• Economists for Peace and Security: War and Poverty, Peace and Prosperity

WORKSHOP

• Future National Survey of American Jews

NEW WORKING PAPERS

• Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze
• A Simplified “Benchmark” Stock-flow Consistent (SFC) Post-Keynesian Growth Model
• Female Land Rights, Crop Specialization, and Productivity in Paraguayan Agriculture
• Implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India: Spatial Dimensions and Fiscal Implications
• The Effects of a Declining Housing Market on the US Economy
• Who’s a Jew in an Era of High Intermarriage? Surveys, Operational Definitions, and the Contemporary American Context
• The American Jewish Committee’s Annual Opinion Surveys: An Assessment of Sample Quality
• On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to Switzerland
• A Post-Keynesian View of Central Bank Independence, Policy Targets, and the Rules-versus-Discretion Debate
• The Fed’s Real Reaction Function: Monetary Policy, Inflation, Unemployment, Inequality—and Presidential Politics

LEVY INSTITUTE NEWS

• New Research Scholar
• Upcoming Event
• Workshop: International Comparisons of EconomicWell-Being

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars