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Rosenthal cited in Financial Post article on commercial real estate

February 12, 2021

The authors' empirical analysis of 56,765 commercial leases signed between January 2019 and October 2020 across 109 urban centers in the United States revealed that commercial real estate in the urban core, especially in cities where public transit accounts for a sizable share of work trips, has indeed lost value.

See related: Labor, State & Local, United States, Urban Issues

Liu examines how firm integration decisions are made in new study

February 11, 2021

Engelhardt cited in Bloomberg article on missed housing payments

February 10, 2021

Fewer people surveyed at the end of last year said they feared losing their homes, which may be a result of government aid so far, says Gary Engelhardt, professor of economics. Read more in the Bloomberg article, "More Than 5% of Americans Didn’t Pay Rent, Mortgage in December."

See related: Federal, Housing, Income, United States

Lovely discusses Biden's approach to trade in Associated Press article

February 10, 2021

"He is going to take his time," says Professor Mary Lovely. "Biden has said repeatedly that he needs America to be stronger before he takes on a lot of these trade issues.’" Read more in the Associated Press article, "Biden treads carefully around Trump's combative trade policy."

See related: Economic Policy, Trade, United States

Baltagi celebrated in special issue of Empirical Economics journal

February 9, 2021

Empirical Economics published a special issue to celebrate Distinguished Professor of Economics Badi Baltagi’s myriad contributions to the field of econometrics, as well as his long service to the journal.

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Lovely quoted in Politico article on impact of Trump's trade policy

February 8, 2021

"The Trump administration never had a feasible plan for reducing the trade deficit," explains Professor Mary Lovely.

Wang article on fixed-k inference for conditional extremal quantiles published in JBES

February 3, 2021

WP 239 The Effect of Industrial Robots on Workplace Safety

February 1, 2021

WP 238 Depth-Weighted Forecast Combination: Application to COVID-19 Cases

January 31, 2021

WP 237 Trimmed Mean Group Estimation

January 31, 2021

Schwartz study on special education, academic performance published

January 22, 2021

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Lovely weighs in on Trump's failed trade war with China in Bloomberg

January 13, 2021

"China is too big and too important to the world economy to think that you can cut it out like a paper doll," says Professor Mary Lovely. "The Trump administration had a wake-up call." Read more in the Bloomberg article, "How China Won Trump’s Trade War and Got Americans to Foot the Bill."

See related: China, Trade, United States

Lovely talks to Marketplace about Capitol riot, foreign investors

January 11, 2021

Professor Mary Lovely sees the nation in uncharted territory and is focused on the question of how much uncertainty was added into the system Wednesday.

See related: China, Government

Lovely predicts what 2021 will bring for China in Politico

January 8, 2021

"China pushed the boundaries of acceptable international behavior during the Trump years, exploiting the absence of consistent American leadership," says Professor Mary Lovely, who was quoted in the Politico article, "China 2021: Experts make their one big prediction."

See related: China, International Agreements

Lovely talks to SCMP, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! about future of US buying practices, trade

January 5, 2021

Professor Mary Lovely spoke with several media outlets about the US-China trade landscape for 2021, the future of tariffs and the impact of President-elect Joe Biden's buy America pledge.

See related: China, Trade, United States

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