Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016

By Michael Geruso, Dean Spears, and Ishaana Talesara

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2022

Inversions—in which the popular vote winner loses the election—have occurred in four US presidential races. We show that rather than being statistical flukes, inversions have been ex ante likely since the early 1800s. In elections yielding a popular v...

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Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education

By Mikko Silliman and Hanna Virtanen

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2022

We study labor market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a regression discontinuity design created by the centralized admissions process in Finland. Admission to the vocational track increases initial annual income, and this be...

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January 14, 2022

What are the long-run impacts of vocational education on labor market outcomes?

Call for Papers: CSWEP Sessions for ASSA 2023

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January 25, 2022

The deadline for submissions is March 4, 2022.

CSWEP 2022 Business Meeting

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The income gap in China

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Is there a correlation between urban–rural income disparity and overall inequality?

Call for Papers: NBU and EABCN's Annual Research Conference on "The Macro and Micro of Digital Coins and Markets"

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January 26, 2022

The deadline for submissions is February 19, 2022.

Call for Papers: 32nd International Trade and Finance Association Annual Conference 2022

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January 26, 2022

The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2022.

Call for Papers: Research Prize in Historical Finance Honoring the Memory of Professor Georges Gallais-Hamonno

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January 27, 2022

The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2022.

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American Economic Review, February 2022

Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services

By Mitra Akhtari, Diana Moreira, and Laura Trucco

American Economic Review, February 2022

We study how political turnover in mayoral elections in Brazil affects public service provision by local governments. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design for close elections, we find that municipalities with a new party in office experience uphea...

Taxes and Turnout: When the Decisive Voter Stays at Home

By Felix Bierbrauer, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Nicolas Werquin

American Economic Review, February 2022

We develop a model of political competition with endogenous turn-out and endogenous platforms. Parties trade off incentivizing their supporters to vote and discouraging the supporters of the competing party from voting. We show that the latter objective i...

An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System

By Dmitry Mukhin

American Economic Review, February 2022

What explains the central role of the dollar in world trade? Will the US currency retain its dominant status in the future? This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium framework with endogenous currency choice that can address these questions...

Incomplete Information Bargaining with Applications to Mergers, Investment, and Vertical Integration

By Simon Loertscher and Leslie M. Marx

American Economic Review, February 2022

We provide an incomplete information bargaining framework that captures the effects of differential bargaining power in markets with multiple buyers and multiple suppliers. The market is modeled as a mechanism that maximizes the expected weighted welfare ...

Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange

By Mark Shepard

American Economic Review, February 2022

Health insurers increasingly compete on their networks of medical providers. Using data from Massachusetts's insurance exchange, I find substantial adverse selection against plans covering the most prestigious and expensive "star" hospitals. I highlight a...