Where is the incentive sweet spot?


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When are people more likely to complete a task: when they receive one dollar or when they receive nothing? Sound obvious? Uri Gneezy and Pedro Rey-Biel use behavioral economics to show that finding the incentive sweet spot is not as easy as it first appears.

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The Effects of Monetary Policy on Asset Price Bubbles: Some Evidence


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Jordi Galí and Luca Gambetti provide evidence on the response of stock prices to monetary policy shocks, and try to use that evidence to infer the nature of the impact of interest rate changes on the bubble component of stock prices.

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