CTREE Conference 2014

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May 28 - 30, 2014, Washington, DC

CTREE Conference 2021

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June 2 - 4, 2021, Virtual

CTREE Conference 2019

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May 29 – 31, 2019, St. Louis, MO

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records

By Itzik Fadlon and Torben Heien Nielsen

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

We provide new evidence on households' labor supply responses to fatal and severe nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we leverage administrative data on Danish families and construct counterfactuals using ho...

Capital Markets in China and Britain, 1770–1860: Evidence from Grain Prices

By Wolfgang Keller, Carol H. Shiue, and Xin Wang

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Based on comprehensive grain price data, we employ a storage model to estimate consistent interest rates and compare capital market development between Britain and China. Interest rates for Britain were lower than China's on average by about 3 percentage ...

Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

By M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi, and M. Helal Uddin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Traders are often blamed for high prices, prompting government regulation. We study the effects of a government ban of a layer of financing intermediaries in edible oil supply chain in Bangladesh during 2011–2012. Contrary to the predictions of a standa...

Communication Infrastructure and Stabilizing Food Prices: Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China

By Pei Gao and Yu-Hsiang Lei

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

This paper exploits a unique historical setting―the expansion of the telegraph network in nineteenth-century China when railroads were limited―to examine whether the reduction of information frictions stabilizes grain prices. Employing a difference-in...

Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors

By Jian Chu, Raymond Fisman, Songtao Tan, and Yongxiang Wang

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Audits are a standard mechanism for reducing corruption in government investments. The quality of audits themselves, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show greater l...

Minority Salience and Political Extremism

By Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, and Nico Pestel

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

We investigate how the salience of an ethnic minority affects the majority group's voting behavior. We use the increased salience of Muslim communities during Ramadan as a natural experiment. Exploiting exogenous variation in the distance of election date...

Persistent protesting

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June 25, 2021

How do political movements sustain participation over the long run?

Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements

By Leonardo Bursztyn, Davide Cantoni, David Y. Yang, Noam Yuchtman, and Y. Jane Zhang

American Economic Review: Insights, June 2021

We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify the persistent effect of protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into participation in an antiauthoritarian protest. To iden...

CTREE Conference 2011

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June 1-3, 2011, Palo Alto, CA

CTREE Conference 2012

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May 30 - June 1, 2012 Boston, MA

CTREE Conference 2013

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May 29 - 31, 2013 Chicago, IL

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021

Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: From Devilish Details to Insights

By G. Jacob Blackwood, Lucia S. Foster, Cheryl A. Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Zoltan Wolf

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021

Firm-level, revenue-based productivity measures are ubiquitous in studies of firm dynamics and aggregate outcomes. One common measure is increasingly interpreted as reflecting "distortions" since in distortions' absence, equalization of marginal revenue p...

Trade in Commodities and Business Cycle Volatility

By David Kohn, Fernando Leibovici, and Håkon Tretvoll

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021

This paper studies the role of differences in the patterns of production and international trade on the business cycle volatility of emerging and developed economies. We study a multisector small open economy in which firms produce and trade commodities a...

Optimal Inflation Target in an Economy with Menu Costs and a Zero Lower Bound

By Andrés Blanco

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021

I study the optimal inflation target in a quantitative menu cost model with a zero lower bound on interest rates. I find that the optimal inflation target is 3.5 percent, which is higher than in models commonly used for monetary policy analysis. Key to th...

Comparative Advantage in Innovation and Production

By Mariano Somale

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021

This paper develops a dynamic model of innovation and international trade in which agents can direct their research efforts to specific goods in the economy. Trade affects the direction of innovation through its impact on the expected market size for an i...