The long view on fighting climate change

[Research Highlight]

January 07, 2019

How much does it cost to reduce one ton of carbon dioxide?

Expanding access vs. controlling costs

[Research Highlight]

January 15, 2019

A new paper examines some of the factors that may drive patient choices to pursue expensive fertility treatments.

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Wealth taxes (and how to evade them)

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Sweden’s wealth tax has proven easy to avoid.

Mental accounting and grocery shopping

[Research Highlight]

January 17, 2019

Food stamps are designed to put food on the table. But do they work?

The Social Value of Financial Expertise

By Pablo Kurlat

American Economic Review, February 2019

I study expertise acquisition in a model of trading under asymmetric information. I propose and implement a method to measure r, the ratio of the marginal social value to the marginal private value of expertise. This can be decomposed into three sufficien...

CSMGEP Profiles: Kaye Husbands Fealing

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Shipping may vary

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How can differences in export costs explain cross-country income inequality?

Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments

By Hunt Allcott and Christopher Knittel

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing ...

Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution

By Judith A. Chevalier and Anil K. Kashyap

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

This paper proposes a method for aggregating prices when retailers use periodic sales to price-discriminate amongst heterogeneous customers. In the motivating model, loyal customers buy one brand and do not strategically time purchases, while Bargain Hunt...

Patchwork Policies, Spillovers, and the Search for Oil and Gas

By Eric Lewis

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

The United States has a complex patchwork of mineral ownership, where rights to oil and gas may be owned by the federal government, state governments, or private agents. I show why the policies imposed by one owner have theoretically ambiguous spillover e...

City planning for retirement

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Why do some cities have higher unfunded liabilities than others?

Learning from Sesame Street

[Research Highlight]

January 28, 2019

An interview with Melissa Kearney about the impact of educational television on young children.

Call for Papers for the Fourth Annual Cambridge Conference on Alternative Finance

[News]

February 01, 2019

View the conference announcement and call for papers.

LERA Call for Proposals

[News]

February 01, 2019

The deadline for proposal submission is March 15, 2019.

Call for Papers for 5th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability"

[News]

February 04, 2019

Workshop to be held on August 19th and 20th, 2019, to be held in Halle (Saale).

Entrepreneurship Research Bootcamp: Call for Applicants

[News]

February 05, 2019

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation will host a bootcamp for entrepreneurship research on May 19 – 23, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri.

China’s struggle to control credit

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Does shadow banking hamstring monetary policy?

Politically risky business

[Research Highlight]

January 30, 2019

How much do close elections affect business investment?

What's in a name?

[Research Highlight]

January 16, 2018

Two researchers propose a new standard for ordering coauthor names.