What peer reviewed finance or economics paper are you reading?

[AerialWombat]

As an enrolled university student in retirement, I have access to a number of databases containing academic research papers, journals, and the like. Aside from using it for homework, of course, it's also been fun to occasionally look up papers cited in Ben Felix videos and on Planet Money podcast episodes. While I definitely can't follow any rigorous math in such papers, it's still fun to at least skim through them and learn about their methodologies and conclusions.

What are some finance and economics papers you've recently found interesting?

[N372TW]

Good questions. I’m curious to see if any of our community members have suggestions.

Posting to bump.

[OpenMinded1]

Not sure this one was peer reviewed, but it describes methodology and is related to finance. https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/asset ... e_2022.pdf

[HeavyChevy]

Peer review ain’t what it used to be. I’d prefer “excellent” or “interesting” regardless of review status.

[gtd98765]

The Conversable Economist highlights recent economic research, with links to the original articles. You can subscribe to his email updates, which come typically a couple of times per week. here's a small clip from his Sept 14 article:

It is remarkable but true that per capita US economic growth has hewed close to a trendline of 2% per year for the last 150 years. Here’s a recent figure showing this pattern from Charles Jones in his paper “The Outlook for Long-Term Economic Growth,” as prepared for the annual symposium at Jackson Hole hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (August 2023, full symposium proceedings including Jones’s paper available here, Jones’s paper also available as NBER Working Paper #31648).

Highly recommended
https://conversableeconomist.com/

[MBB_Boy]

There was a really interesting one a month or two ago from UChicago on impact of student loan payment pause - those who had their payments paused ended up taking out even more debt ultimately, and have higher debt loads going into the repayment period.

[JDave]

Peer review ain’t what it used to be. I’d prefer “excellent” or “interesting” regardless of review status.

Second that. If the pandemic taught us anything, it's to not trust any publication, peer reviewed or not. Caveat emptor.

[tertre]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 789090038D
An old paper "Macroeconomic populism"

"Macroeconomic populism is an approach to economics that emphasizes growth and income distribution and deemphasizes the risks of inflation and deficit finance, external constraints and the reaction of economic agents to aggressive non-market policies.
Populist policies do ultimately fail; and when they fail it is always at a frightening cost to the very groups who were supposed to be favored."

Helps to understand the crazy current inflation in Turkey or Hungary.