Sebastian Barnes

European consumers have withstood major shocks since 2019, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the energy and food price shock following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a sharp rise in the overall price level amid tightening of monetary policy. This paper constructs a new high-frequency, granular dataset from aggregated, anonymised transaction-level data from Mastercard.

Government expenditures average around 40% of GDP across OECD countries. With advanced economies facing fiscal challenges - including large deficits, high debt and rising ageing, climate and defence costs and already high taxes - there is strong interest in understanding and managing public spending. This paper explores the composition and determinants of government spending across OECD countries.

Hawaiʻi and family go hand in hand. Hawaiian culture values ‘ohana, meaning that family takes care of and looks out for one another. That’s evident when you look at the teams of Hawaiʻi. UHM has family bonds throughout different sports, one being sisters Jovi Lefotu and Lily Wahinekapu on the Rainbow Wāhine basketball team. Wahinekapu and Lefotu have been playing basketball together their entire lives until older sister Wahinekapu accepted an offer to play at Cal State Fullerton her freshman year.