Barro et al. (2022) investigate the quantity of safe assets held in the cross-section of developed countries and find that the average safe-asset ratio (ratio of safe assets to total assets) was 37% in 2015 and has remained relatively stable over time. They also document a crowding-out...

The attendance rate at religious services is an important variable for the sociology and economics of religion, but long-term and global data are scarce. Retrospective questions from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) allow the construction of rates of religious-service attendance...

Articles from the 1970s applied a general-disequilibrium framework to the determination of output and employment with sticky nominal prices and wages. Quantities are determined on the short sides of the goods and labor market and involve non-price rationing. With general excess supply, where...

Long-term data show that the dynamic efficiency condition `rg` holds when `g` is represented by the average growth rate of real GDP if `r` is the average real rate of return on equity, `E(r^e)`, but not if `r` is the risk-free rate, `r^f`. This pattern accords with a simple disaster-risk model...