Regulation and Competition

The Guardian relies on SIEPR's recent Policy Brief on AI's impact on the labor market for insights into why an AI-driven jobs apocalypse has not materialized.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nick Bloom appears on the Financial Times podcast "The Economics Show," where he addresses a broad range of issues about AI and its current and future effects on economic productivity, employee hiring processes, and approaches to student learning.

SIEPR's Jared Bernstein details in a New York Times guest essay how federal agencies with limited resources, and lacking Trump administration support, can implement parts of a sweeping new law aimed at increasing supply of affordable housing.

Amit Seru, SIEPR senior fellow, writes in Barron's that the Federal Reserve's quest for independent evaluations of its core operations overlooked one critical area: financial stability.

In The New York Times, pioneering AI research methods by SIEPR Senior Fellow Daniel Ho and his Stanford RegLab team are featured in a story about a New York State initiative to cut through red tape across government agencies.

Neale Mahoney, SIEPR director and a leading scholar on medical debt, discusses on the Tradeoffs podcast research into strategies for helping patients manage health care costs.

Alvin Roth, Nobel laureate and SIEPR senior fellow, appears on Freakonomics Radio, talking about his new book, "Moral Economics," and what it says about the "repugnant" market for assisted suicide, which New York State recently legalized.

Matteo Maggiori, SIEPR senior fellow, explains the return of economic competition among powerful countries and predicts it will shape the next decades of international relations, in the latest issue of the International Monetary Fund's Finance & Development magazine.

SIEPR’s Darrell Duffie tells The Economist that, even if the Federal Reserve starts to play a smaller role in financial markets, the central bank will step in to avert a crisis. “But even with all guns blazing it can’t stop Treasury-market dysfunction. It can only make it less bad," Duffie said.

The Economist showcases a new book, "Moral Economics," written by Alvin Roth, a SIEPR senior fellow and Nobel laureate, that examines collisions between morality and markets for, say, sex work, recreational drugs and horse meat..

The Financial Times covers a new report by SIEPR's Neale Mahoney and Chad Maisel detailing what they dub the "annoyance economy." Mahoney tells the outlet that AI will likely lead to even more frustration as scams and fees rise.

Bloomberg cites proposed reforms by SIEPR's Darrell Duffie to help the Federal Reserve shrink its $6.6 trillion balance sheet without blowing up money markets.

Erika McEntarfer, a research scholar at SIEPR, explains in a NPR segment why it's hard to know at this point how much of an impact artificial intelligence is having on worker productivity.

A proposal in Congress to establish a market structure for crypto, while commendable, has rules for decentralized finance (DeFi) that could weaken U.S. power over the global financial system, warns SIEPR's Amit Seru in a new Barron's op-ed.

Marshall Burke, SIEPR senior fellow, tells the New York Times that leaving out estimates of the value of human lives saved in cost-benefit analyses for new air pollution rules is a mistake.

SIEPR's Neale Mahoney and Adam Shaw, writing in Time Magazine's World Economic Forum issue, call cost-of-living issues a worldwide problem and discuss how political leaders can respond.

The Fed's success also depends on its ability to keep the U.S. financial system strong. In Barron's, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru recommends 8 ways the Fed could get that job done.