Many countries have faced harrowing debt burdens, and reducing the national debt is usually a lasting challenge. But in just... more

The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on supply chains, with shortages in everything from baby formula to microchips. This spurred... more

Economists have long debated the potential for rising wages and prices to push each other increasingly higher, driving inflation out... more

Predictably, the rate of new business formations and business expansions at the beginning of the pandemic plummeted. But, in two... more

In an effort to quell post-pandemic inflation, the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates eleven times since March 2022, with... more

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there was a heated debate in Germany about whether to embargo the import of... more

In their latest research in the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Anne Case and Angus Deaton show that life expectancy... more

For over 50 years, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity has published research on urgent public policy issues by some... more

Labor force participation plummeted by more than 3 percentage points during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic in... more

It is widely understood that the global economy has become increasingly interconnected over the last century, with especially rapid globalization... more