Research Brief Library

The American model of innovation has long been the envy of the world. From the garage tinkerers of Silicon Valley to the research labs of prestigious universities, the United States has consistently churned out groundbreaking technologies that have reshaped industries...

Private equity’s influence on hospital performance includes permanent improvements in hospital patient volumes and revenues, reductions in full-time employees, restrained technology adoption, and improved operating margins.

CEOs hired in recent years are similar in terms of their overall ability and interpersonal orientation compared to CEOs hired earlier. The same four factors revealed by earlier research still explain roughly half of the variation in CEOs’ characteristics: overall...

Crypto tax noncompliance is pervasive, even among investors trading on exchanges that share identifiable trading data with tax authorities. Since most crypto investors owe little in crypto-related taxes, however, enforcement needs to be well-targeted or cheap for benefits to outweigh...

The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduced corporate tax revenue by 40%. Firms experiencing larger tax rate cuts invested more, raising total investment by 11%. The TCJA raised GDP by less than 1%.

Graduation rates from graduate programs increased from 58% for students entering in 2003-04 to 68% for students entering in 2012-13, with substantial variation across fields of study and institutions.

An economic analysis of a historic competition among rail lines offers insights into competition between firms across space, including social welfare effects.

The locations of ancient ports near the Mediterranean reveal that large cities cast “agglomeration shadows” that discourage economic activity in nearby areas.

Targeting a policy’s beneficiaries based on their responses to past policies leads to larger gains than targeting based solely on pre-intervention information.

Rising health care prices are passed onto employers as higher insurance premiums, which decreases their demand for labor and reduces employment, leading to lost wages, reduced tax revenue, and increased suicide and overdose rates.