A great economics paper does two things. It takes on a big question, and it finds a smart way to answer that question. But some papers go even further. The very best papers have the power to change ...

Today, I discuss a new pre-print by Finbar Curtin and Matt Burgess of the University of Wyoming which is by far the most important climate paper I’ve read in quite some time — “The empirically ...

The scariest economics paper of 2022 argues that labor markets remain extremely tight, underlying inflation is high and possibly rising, and several years of very high unemployment may be necessary to ...

We here at Planet Money love economics papers. And that is also the case for so many of the economists we speak with. For them, new research can explain something they have always wondered about, or ...

A new University of Massachusetts Amherst study delivers clear evidence of how large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are reshaping the landscape of academic research. It applies a new ...

American Economic Review this month retracted a paper that concluded that tax increases on French dividends also increased firms’ investment. The retraction note says the authors didn’t tell editors ...