We’ve refreshed the CER Working Paper Series! 📄✨
New papers by Tanner Regan, Carmel Chiswick &
Tomas Williams explore topics from urban economics to green finance.

Read the latest research ⬇️

🔗 cer.columbian.gwu.edu/working-papers

Our Microeconomics Seminar hosted Emma Harrington (UVA) presenting “Learning About the Bias of Others: Prosecutors and Police Before and After Body-Worn Cameras.”

When prosecutors gained access to BWC footage, incarceration disparities ↓ ~10%.

On Wednesday, our Macro-International Seminar hosted Sharon Ross (Fed Board) presenting “Risk and Specialization in Covered-Interest Arbitrage.”

Using $25T in data, the paper shows CIP arbitrage is risky — banks specialize, fragmenting markets.

On Oct 30, our H.O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting hosted Robin Lumsdaine (American U) presenting “Restricted Large Bayesian VARs.”

Her MDP prior clusters parameters, improving forecasts while easing the bias-variance trade-off.

#Forecasting #Econometrics

On Oct 29, our Macro-International Seminar featured Bernardo Cruz Morais presenting “Fiscal Rules, Credit Reallocation, and Expansionary Austerity.”

Local Govt Debt limits in Mexico led to ↑ private credit, ↑ GDP, ↓ in moderate poverty, but ↑ in extreme poverty.

Today in our Microeconomics Program Seminar Series, we hosted Jason Baron (Duke & NBER) presenting “Mechanism Reform for Task Allocation.”

In CPS simulations: false placements ↓14% and missed cases ↓ too — while no worker is worse off.

CER member Tanner Regan's research was featured by the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE! His work shows how knowledge diffusion + firm networks drive innovation and economic performance. 👏

🔗 cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

On Oct 9, 2025, GWU hosted the 26th Federal Forecasters Conference — with the H.O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting and the AI Economics Program from the CER as partnering organizations. 🧵👇
#FederalForecastersConference #Forecasting #GWU

On Monday October 20th, The GWU Economics department hosted Professor Daniel McMillen from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Professor McMillen presented his research "The Magnitude, Persistence, and Demographics of Assessment Regressivity."

On Oct 11, members of the GWU Economics department Center for Economic Research joined the 2nd annual Washington Area Network Economics Symposium (WANES), hosted by Virginia Tech — connecting researchers studying how networks shape the economy.
#Economics #NetworkEconomics #CER

Yesterday, our H.O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting hosted Andrew B. Martinez (American University) and CER member Tara Sinclair (George Washington University), who presented their paper “When the Fed Reveals Its Hand: The SEP and Monetary Policy Surprises.”

On Wednesday 10/8, our Macro-International research area hosted Ricardo Alves Monteiro (IMF) for a seminar. He presented exciting work on the macroeconomic implications of different types of sovereign debt auctions.
ralvesmonteiro.github.io/assets/paper...

#sovereigndebt #auctions

In a world of loneliness epidemics, as coined by the U.S. surgeon general, how do we make more friends? On Monday October 6th, Professor Amanda Pallais, Professor of Economics at Harvard University visited us as part of our ongoing microeconomic seminar series to discuss.

🚨 Introducing the Center for Economic Research (CER) at the George Washington University! We’re the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences’ hub for world-class economics research—right in the heart of Washington, D.C. 🏛️📊