"[2] The journal is written in a clear and accessible manner in order to maximize understanding of economics and policymaking, and covers a variety of macroeconomic topics from housing, business investments, and fiscal and monetary policy, to international capital flows, environmental issues, and more.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke contributed a paper to the Fall 2018 journal to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the financial crisis and the onset of the Great Recession.
For example, the Spring 2019 paper "Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century" by Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton looked deeply "at a divided America – and its crisis of suicide, overdoses, and drug- and alcohol-fueled diseases.
"[7] That paper was also cited in the Washington Post for its notable findings, such as, "[s]ickness and early death in the white working class could be rooted in poor job prospects for less-educated young people as they first enter the labor market, a situation that compounds over time through family dysfunction, social isolation, addiction, obesity and other pathologies…".
[10] Twenty-three winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics have contributed as authors or discussants for BPEA since its inception in 1970, including: Michael Kremer (2019) William Nordhaus (2018) Paul M. Romer (2018) Oliver Hart (2016) Sir Angus Deaton (2015) Jean Tirole (2014) Robert J. Shiller(2013) Thomas J. Sargent(2011) Christopher A. Sims(2011) Peter A. Diamond(2010) Christopher A. Pissarides (2010) Oliver E. Williamson(2009) Paul Krugman(2008) Edmund S. Phelps (2006) George Akerlof (2001) Joseph Stiglitz (2001) Daniel L. McFadden (2000) Gary S. Becker (1992) Robert Solow (1987) Franco Modigliani (1985) George Stigler (1982) James Tobin (1981) Lawrence Klein (1980)