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Ben Bernanke’s Contributions to Economics

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Ben Bernanke’s Contributions to Economics Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Christina Romer (University of California-Berkeley) Panelists: Mark Gertler (New York University), Emi Nakamura (University of California-Berkeley), Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University), Mary C. Daly (President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In?

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Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In? Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Ayşegül Şahin (Princeton University) Authors: Adrien Auclert (Stanford University) (presenting), Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) (presenting), Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) (presenting), Ayse Okten Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California) (presenting), Jonas Fisher (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Alessandro T. Villa (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

The Real State: Inside the Congo's Traffic Police Agency

By Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, Kristof Titeca, Haoyang (Stan) Xie, Aimable Amani Lameke, and Albert Malukisa Nkuku

American Economic Review, December 2024

This paper provides insight into a corruption scheme in Kinshasa's traffic police agency. First, various data collection branches show that the agency's revenue is five times that from fines and is derived from a coalition of traffic police officials, the...