Policymakers and pundits have not shied away from using economic jargon while covering the United States' recent financial crisis. Language typically reserved for banking, finance, and economic policy experts has become commonplace. While the economic crisis has been widely covered, there is...

The results of Lettau and Ludvigson (2001) show that Cay-LL has a significant predictive power both in the in-sample and the out-of-sample forecast of excess return. Our study departs from Lettau and Ludvigson (2001) in adding and comparing other two estimates of cay namely cay-OLS and cay-DLS...

We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is...