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A strong economy is one that operates at its potential and delivers a high standard of living to the entire population. Monetary, fiscal, and tax policy all play important roles in determining the level and distribution of income, wealth, and other, broader measures of economic wellbeing. Equitable Growth promotes research to improve our understanding of how these policy tools can ensure the economy works for everyone, and reduce the impact of economic downturns.

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Factsheet: What the research says about taxing pass-through businesses

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Closing the billionaire borrowing loophole would strengthen the progressivity of the U.S. tax code

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Doubling down on cuts to the IRS is bad for the federal budget and for tax fairness in the United States

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Why measuring inflation is surprisingly challenging

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What are the distributional effects of monetary policy?

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In Conversation with R. Jisung Park

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No one measure of inequality tells the whole story–income, wealth, and consumption should be considered together

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In defense of the statutory U.S. corporate tax rate

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Issue brief: Alleviating financial distress and its economic consequences in the United States

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Targeted debt relief and the origins of financial distress: Experimental evidence from distressed credit card borrowers

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Preferential pass-through tax rates and the declining share of labor income in the United States

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Measuring potential GDP in the United States, and the case for emphasizing demand in monetary policy

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Debt ≠ deficits: Why higher state and local government debt isn’t necessarily a result of higher spending

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Are economic boom-and-bust cycles stronger when capital is more available?

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How do credit supply shocks affect the real economy? Evidence from the United States in the 1980s

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The evolution of state-local balance sheets in the US, 1953-2013

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Seminar Series: Debt Sustainability in a Low Interest Rate World (Invitation only)

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Manufacturing employment, trade and structural change

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Recession Ready

Edited by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

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Xavier Jaravel

London School of Economics

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Karen Dynan

Harvard University

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Jacob Robbins

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Michael Barr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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