Committee on Economic Education

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Past CTREE Annual Conferences

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Includes links to programs and schedule of events.

CTREE Conference 2025

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May 28–30, 2025 | Westin Denver Downtown, Denver, CO

Understanding the US net foreign asset position

[Research Highlight]

August 11, 2025

Andrew Atkeson discusses changes in how much the United States is indebted to the rest of the world.

The spillover effects of trade wars

[Research Highlight]

July 21, 2020

The 2018 tariffs caused price spikes to products that weren't even protected.

Text as Data in Economic Analysis

By Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Aakash Kalyani, Laurence van Lent, Markus Schwedeler, and Ahmed Tahoun

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

This article discusses how to apply computational linguistics techniques to analyze largely unstructured corporate-generated text for economic analysis. As a core example, we illustrate how textual analysis of earnings conference call transcripts can prov...

Protecting Antiquities: A Role for Long-Term Leases?

By Michael Kremer and Tom Wilkening

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

In order to preserve cultural patrimony for future generations, most countries ban exports of antiquities. However, this may drive trade underground, particularly in low-income and low-state capacity contexts, and cause irreversible damage to cultural her...

How Regional Inequality and Migration Drive Housing Prices and Rents

[Symposium: Housing Markets]

By Greg Howard and Jack Liebersohn

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

We argue that rising regional inequality contributes to higher average housing prices and rents. We show three key empirical facts that contribute to this mechanism: first, income growth has been faster in already high-income cities; second, people are dr...

Curbing Rising Housing Costs: A Model-Based Policy Comparison

[Symposium: Housing Markets]

By Boaz Abramson and Tim Landvoigt

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

Recent decades have seen house prices grow strongly relative to incomes, making housing ever less affordable. We develop and quantify a model of segmented housing markets to study the drivers of rising housing costs and to evaluate policies aimed at curbi...

The Folk Economics of Housing

[Symposium: Housing Markets]

By Christopher S. Elmendorf, Clayton Nall, and Stan Oklobdzija

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

Why is housing supply so severely restricted in US cities and suburbs? Urban economists offer two primary hypotheses: homeowner self-interest and political fragmentation. Homeowners, who outnumber and have organizational advantages over renters, are said ...

International Dimensions of Housing Markets

[Symposium: Housing Markets]

By Cristian Badarinza and Tarun Ramadorai

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

We make the case that an international perspective on housing markets can help us understand why house prices and transactions volumes sometimes vary in ways that cannot easily be attributed to local economic factors. We first document cross-country and c...

Carbon Rollercoaster: A Historical Analysis of Decarbonization in the United States

By Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Joshua Lewis, and Edson Severnini

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

This paper documents the changing trends in US carbon emissions and discusses the main factors that contributed to the historical carbon emissions rollercoaster. We divide the discussion into four periods: up to 1920, 1920–1960, 1960–2005 and after 20...

Building Costs and House Prices

[Symposium: Housing Markets]

By Brian Potter and Chad Syverson

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

We take a long, broad, and theoretically agnostic view toward the connection between building costs and house prices in the US housing market. We find that building costs have never had all that much explanatory power over US housing prices, but even the ...

Basel Endgame: Bank Capital Requirements and the Future of International Standard Setting

By Stephen Cecchetti, Jeremy Kress, and Kermit Schoenholtz

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

In 2023, US regulators proposed the "Basel Endgame," a long-awaited overhaul of bank capital requirements. The proposal aimed to bring the United States into compliance with international standards established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision...

Interview with Anne O. Krueger

By Dylan Matthews

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

Matthews interviews eminent international economist Anne O. Krueger, tracing her life in academia and her service at multilateral economic institutions, and explaining her myriad intellectual contributions to the field. Krueger recounts her early skeptici...

How Congress Designed the Federal Reserve to Be Independent of Presidential Control

By Gary Richardson and David W. Wilcox

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

Conventional wisdom traces the origins of the Federal Reserve's independence to the 1951 Treasury-Fed Accord. That rendition of history is inaccurate. The principal source of the Fed's monetary-policy independence is the Banking Act of 1935, which created...

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2025

Trade, AI supply chains, and industrial Policy

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August 05, 2025

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives"

Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection

By Girija Borker, Jan Eeckhout, Nancy Luke, Shantidani Minz, Kaivan Munshi, and Soumya Swaminathan

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference in which parents desire a male heir and daughter aversion in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls. Our model incorporates both mechanisms, providing m...