David Schleicher is a professor at Yale Law School, and as a returning guest to Macro Musings, he joins to talk about the historical role that the federal government has played in responding to state and local budget crises, including the municipal trllemma it faces. This trilemma says the federal government can only avoid two of the three following harms: (1) moral hazard for state budgets; (2) worsening recessions; (3) reducing future state and local infrastructure investment. Specifically, they discuss this trilemma as well as its implications for the COVID-19 crisis.

Transcript for the episode can be found here: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/tags/macro-musings

David’s Twitter: @ProfSchleich

David’s Yale profile: https://law.yale.edu/david-n-schleicher

Related Links:

Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stagnation by David Schleicher

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/stuck-the-law-and-economics-of-residential-stagnation

Hands On! Part I: The Trilemma Facing the Federal Government During State and Local Budget Crises by David Schleicher

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3649278

David Schleicher on Local and State Regulation and Declining Mobility by Macro Musings

https://macromusings.libsyn.com/58-david-schleicher-on-local-and-state-regulation-and-declining-mobility

The Future of Remote Work by Adam Ozimek

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3638597

States Continue to Face Large Shortfalls Due to COVID-19 Effects by Elizabeth McNichol and Michael Leachman

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/states-continue-to-face-large-shortfalls-due-to-covid-19-effects

David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

David’s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/