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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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How the opening to China may have partially fueled the U.S. housing bubble

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Macroeconomic revolution on shaky grounds: Lucas/Sargent critique’s inherent contradictions

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Bad credit, no problem? Credit and labor market consequences of bad credit reports

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What’s going to reduce U.S. corporate savings?

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Should policymakers worry about the level of debt or the pace of credit growth?

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How gig economy companies fit (or don’t fit) into the tax system

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The student loan crisis is fueled by a weak labor market

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Macro-prudential financial regulations versus capital controls

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A premature promise on tax rates could threaten tax reform

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What would rules-based monetary policy look like?

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A few graphs for Tax Day 2017

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Tax cuts for whom? Heterogeneous effects of income tax changes on growth and employment

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Recession Ready

Recession Ready

Edited by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

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Experts on the issue

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Xavier Jaravel

London School of Economics

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Steering Committee

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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