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Should we regulate artificial intelligence?
By Joao Guerreiro
The short stories in Isaac Asimov’s…
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The Inner Beauty of Firms
By Jacob Kohlhepp
Full article available here.
Anyone…
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Why does wage inequality change over time?
By Daniel Haanwinckel
A recent article by The Brookings…
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The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations
By Pablo Fajgelbaum
In 2018-19, a major trade conflict…
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The Recent Decline in the United States’ Net Foreign Asset Position
By Andrew Atkeson
Since the early 1980’s, the residents…
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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…
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The Economic Cost of OPEC’s Control of Global Oil
By John Asker
OPEC, the global cartel of oil producing…
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Aging Population and Aging Firms
By Hugo Hopenhayn
During the last 40 years, the US economy…
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Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
By Michela Giorcelli and Bo Li
The importance of international…
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Droughts, Deluges, and (River) Diversions: Valuing Market-Based Water Reallocation
Climate change will continue to amplify water scarcity and…
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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’…
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Enforcing Wealth Taxes in the Developing World: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
The rise in income and wealth inequality has spurred a renewed…
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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…
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Granular Comparative Advantage
Large firms play a pivotal role in international trade, with…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Cartels and Productivity
Cartels are a common feature in most economies. For instance,…
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Immigration and Labor Markets
Economists have been studying the labor-market consequences…
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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…
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Quantifying the Cost of Caregiving
The aging of the population brings with it a host of pressing…
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The Cost of Bad Parents
Almost three million children in the U.S. have a parent in…
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Learning Dynamics in Social Networks
How do societies learn about the quality of innovations?…
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Rethinking Randomized Controlled Trials
Sir Ronald Fisher (1890-1962) is often regarded as the most…
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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…
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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…
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Debt Strategy
A classic question in economics is: How to design an optimal…
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Merger Policy in a Globalizing World
Merger approval decisions of national antitrust authorities…
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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…
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The Impact of Innovation on Growth
In ongoing research, Professors Andrew Atkeson and Ariel…
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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…
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Optimal Transport Networks
Trade costs are a ubiquitous force in international trade and…
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Devaluation Risk and the Real Economy
A pertinent form of economic uncertainty for developing countries…
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Recruiting Talent
The success of most firms is built upon hundreds of individuals…
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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…
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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…
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Navigating Minimum Advertised Prices
In his recent working paper entitled “Vertical Information…