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The Employment Effects of Advances in Internet and Wireless Technology: Evaluating the Transitions from 2G to 3G and from 3G to 4G

Continuing investments to upgrade the wireless broadband Internet infrastructure,including the transitions from 2G to 3G wireless technologies, and now from 3G to 4G, had produced cascades of innovation. Based on previous advances, the current transition to 4G technologies is likely to spur significant new job creation and growth which could help the American economy restore gains in incomes and business investment.... Read more

Who Owns America's Oil and Natural Gas Companies

Broad ownership of public corporations, economic researchers find, yields substantial economic and social benefits. One critical benefit is stronger economic growth. Investors seek out the highest returns available, adjusted for their levels of risk. Thus, the pressures from investors buying and selling shares based on the performance of companies force those companies to invest in the factors that help secure strong returns, including new plant and equipment... Read more

What Ideas Are Worth: The Value of Intellectual Capital And Intangible Assets in the American Economy

The United States has become an idea-based economy, measured in very concrete terms. This study generates those measures and estimates their values. One sign that the United States is truly an idea-based economy comes from Federal Reserve data, which show that since the mid-1990s, a majority of U.S. business investments have gone into intangible assets rather than traditional physical assets. These intangible assets include the traditional intellectual property... Read more

The Economic Impact of U.S. Trade Sanctions on Imports of Paper Products

In September 2009, three, large U.S.-based paper companies (NewPage Corporation, Appleton Coated andSappi-North America) and the United Steelworkers Union (USW), filed complaints of unfair trade practicesby Chinese and Indonesian coated paper producers with the International Trade Commission (ITC) of the U.S.Department of Commerce. This study examines the economic impact of the anti-dumping and countervailingduties ultimately imposed on those imports by the ITC. Read more

An NDN Press Lunch: Update on Politics and the Economy
September 26, 2011

BGOV Debate with
Rob Shapiro and
Kevin Hassett
August 4, 2011

The State of the Union and the Power of Technological Change

January 25, 2012

President Obama made inequality a major theme of his State of the Union address last night, an unsurprising choice as he prepares to face Mitt Romney. Everyone now knows that just last year Mr. Romney...
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October 28, 2011
Why Consumers Aren't Spending

October 28, 2011
Still `Some Ways Away' From EU Stability