Noah Williams develops a simple model where adaptive learning by investors leads to recurrent booms and busts in asset prices. The model captures aspects of Minsky’s “financial instability hypothesis” in which periods of tranquility lead investors to increase their estimates of expected returns and reduce their estimates of return volatility. The c

Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. They explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a unique dataset of Swedish adoptees. Its unique charact

Central banks have a primary task of pursuing price stability. They do so by issuing different forms of money, setting an array of interest rates, producing fiscal revenues, defining the unit of account, and affecting marginal costs of production via credit regulations and other policies. This article surveys the economic theories that justify the