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Research Briefs·Sep 4, 2024

What Middle-Income Countries Can Learn from America’s Innovation System

Somik Lall and Ufuk Akcigit
The American model of innovation has long been the envy of the world. From the garage tinkerers of Silicon Valley...
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Research Briefs·Sep 4, 2024

Managing Margins: PE Effects on Financial, Physical, and Human Capital

Michael R. Richards, Maggie Shi, and Christopher M. Whaley
Private equity’s influence on hospital performance includes permanent improvements in hospital patient volumes and revenues, reductions in full-time employees, restrained...
Topics: Health care
Podcast Sep 3, 2024

Promises Delivered? The Economic Effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Tess Vigeland and Eric Zwick
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a landmark piece of tax legislation from the first year of the...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·Aug 29, 2024

Have CEOs Changed?

Yann Decressin, Steven Neil Kaplan, and Morten Sorensen
CEOs hired in recent years are similar in terms of their overall ability and interpersonal orientation compared to CEOs hired...
Research Briefs·Aug 29, 2024

Crypto Tax Evasion

Tom G. Meling, Magne Mogstad, and Arnstein Vestre
Crypto tax noncompliance is pervasive, even among investors trading on exchanges that share identifiable trading data with tax authorities. Since...
Research Briefs·Aug 21, 2024

Lessons from the Biggest Business Tax Cut in US History

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Owen M. Zidar, and Eric Zwick
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduced corporate tax revenue by 40%. Firms experiencing larger tax rate cuts...
Interactive Research Briefs·Aug 21, 2024

Corporate Income Tax Revenue & Investment around the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act

Podcast Aug 20, 2024

Creative Destruction: Why Innovation is Crucial for Growth

Ufuk Akcigit and Tess Vigeland
The primary contributor to long-run growth is productivity: A country’s ability to raise residents’ standards of living depends on its...
Research Briefs·Aug 6, 2024

The Graduation Part II: Graduate School Graduation Rates

Jeffrey T. Denning and Lesley J. Turner
Graduation rates from graduate programs increased from 58% for students entering in 2003-04 to 68% for students entering in 2012-13,...
Topics: Higher Education & Workforce Training