The world is adjusting to President Trump’s second ‘first hundred days’ in office. This column introduces a new CEPR eBook in which over 50 experts explore how the new administration’s policies are reshaping the US economy and sending ripples across the global economic order. While the assessment is preliminary, in part due to the great […]
Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine has devastated Ukraine’s scientific productivity. This column examines the war’s impact on Ukrainian research output, drawing on a dataset of over half a million journal articles by researchers affiliated with over 15,000 Ukrainian institutions. Military conflict significantly reduced research activity, particularly in natural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences, with […]
As inflation surged globally, economists and policymakers focused their attention on the expectations of households and financial markets – but relatively little was known about the inflation expectations of firms. Using a survey of French firms from 2020 to 2024, this column examines how inflation expectations form, evolve, and affect decisions, as well as their […]
