Joao Guerreiro

Should we regulate artificial intelligence?

By Joao Guerreiro The short stories in Isaac Asimov’s…
Jacob Kohlhepp

The Inner Beauty of Firms

By Jacob Kohlhepp Full article available here. Anyone…
Daniel Haanwinckel

Why does wage inequality change over time?

By Daniel Haanwinckel A recent article by The Brookings…
Pablo Fajgelbaum

The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations

By Pablo Fajgelbaum In 2018-19, a major trade conflict…
Andrew Atkeson

The Recent Decline in the United States’ Net Foreign Asset Position

By Andrew Atkeson Since the early 1980’s, the residents…
Alex Bloedel

Designing Disclosure for an Inattentive Audience

By Alex Bloedel Having good information is key to making…
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The Long-Term Consequences of Slum Clearance on Children

By Fernanda Rojas Ampuero More than 25% of the world’s…
John Asker

The Economic Cost of OPEC’s Control of Global Oil

By John Asker OPEC, the global cartel of oil producing…
Hugo Hopenhayn

Aging Population and Aging Firms

By Hugo Hopenhayn During the last 40 years, the US economy…
Michela Giorcelli

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

By Michela Giorcelli and Bo Li The importance of international…
Will Rafey

Droughts, Deluges, and (River) Diversions: Valuing Market-Based Water Reallocation

Climate change will continue to amplify water scarcity and…
Yotam Shem-Tov

Restorative Justice and Recidivism: Evidence from the Make-it-Right Program

The United States criminal justice policy has historically…
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Market power in rural labor markets

There are increasing worries about rising `market power’…
Juliana Londono-Velez

Enforcing Wealth Taxes in the Developing World: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia

The rise in income and wealth inequality has spurred a renewed…
Bernardo Silveira

Arbitration in Wage Negotiations

Arbitration is a private bilateral conflict resolution procedure…
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The Intergeneration Impact of the Freedman’s Bank Failure

In the U.S. today, there exist large racial disparity in…
Oleg

Granular Comparative Advantage

Large firms play a pivotal role in international trade, with…
Prof. Natalie Bau

Match-Specific Quality in Education

Despite dramatic expansions in access to schooling in low-income…
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Bond Liquidity During the Covid-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc on the global economy.…
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Do Youth Employment Programs Work?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 10% of…
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Infrastructure, Development and the Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan, sponsored by the United States between…
Van Patten

Multinationals, Monopsony and the United Fruit Company

The effect of large-scale foreign investments in developing…
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Individual vs. Joint Taxation

How do different income taxation systems -- for instance…
Carrera, Felipe

Cartels and Productivity

Cartels are a common feature in most economies. For instance,…
Ariel Burstein

Immigration and Labor Markets

Economists have been studying the labor-market consequences…
Felipe Goncalves

Racial Bias in Policing

In January 2017, Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions was…
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Digitization in the Film Industry

Technology standards play a central role in a broad array…
McGarry

Quantifying the Cost of Caregiving

The aging of the population brings with it a host of pressing…
Arteaga

The Cost of Bad Parents

Almost three million children in the U.S. have a parent in…
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

Learning Dynamics in Social Networks

How do societies learn about the quality of innovations?…
Rodrigo Pinto

Rethinking Randomized Controlled Trials

Sir Ronald Fisher (1890-1962) is often regarded as the most…
Jay Lu

Identifying Beliefs from Choice Data

How can we untangle beliefs from tastes in everyday decision-making?…
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The California Policy Lab at UCLA

Earlier this month, Professor Till von Wachter was awarded…
Edward kung

The Sharing Economy and Housing Affordability

The sharing economy represents a set of peer-to-peer online…
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Regulations and Competition in Subsidized Insurance Markets

The U.S. government has been increasingly relying on markets…
Saki Bigio

Debt Strategy

A classic question in economics is: How to design an optimal…
Volker Nocke

Merger Policy in a Globalizing World

Merger approval decisions of national antitrust authorities…
Simon Board

Dynamic Pricing with Strategic Customers

The rise of information technology has made it relatively…
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Medicaid and Financial Health under the ACA

Over half of the uninsured struggle to pay their medical…
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Understanding Network Formation

Social and economic networks permeate our lives. They play…
Andrew Atkeson

The Impact of Innovation on Growth

In ongoing research, Professors Andrew Atkeson and Ariel…
youssef-benzarti

The Asymmetric Impact of Taxes on Prices

Value Added Taxes (VAT) don’t exist in the US but they…
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Kidney Vouchers

Until recently, if someone wanted to donate a kidney to a…
Pablo Fajgelbaum

Optimal Transport Networks

Trade costs are a ubiquitous force in international trade and…
Weiss

Devaluation Risk and the Real Economy

A pertinent form of economic uncertainty for developing countries…
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

Recruiting Talent

The success of most firms is built upon hundreds of individuals…
Denis-Chetverikov

Inference using Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) methods, developed mostly by computer scientists…
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The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfer

A long-standing question in Economics is whether differences…
Pierre-Olivier Weill

Measuring the Financial Soundness of Firms

A commonly held view is that adverse macroeconomic shocks…
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Investigating Income Inequality

It is well known that income inequality in the United States…
John Asker

Navigating Minimum Advertised Prices

In his recent working paper entitled “Vertical Information…