A Satellite Account for Health in the United States

By David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, Kassandra L. Messer, Trivellore Raghunathan, Allison B. Rosen, and Susan T. Stewart

American Economic Review, February 2022

This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector and measures productivity growth in health care for the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. We measure the change in medical spending and health outcomes for a comprehensive set of 80 ...

Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition

By Mark Armstrong and Jidong Zhou

American Economic Review, February 2022

This paper studies competition between firms when consumers observe a private signal of their preferences over products. Within the class of signal structures that induce pure-strategy pricing equilibria, we derive signal structures that are optimal for f...

Fighting brands and mobile phone plans

[Research Highlight]

January 25, 2022

How do incumbent companies react to a new competitor?

Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market

By Marc Bourreau, Yutec Sun, and Frank Verboven

American Economic Review, November 2021

We study a major new entry in the French mobile telecommunications market, followed by the introduction of fighting brands by the three incumbents. Using an empirical oligopoly model, we find that the incumbents' fighting brand strategies are difficult to...

Smoking bans and compensating differentials

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How do workers’ wages react to a sudden improvement in conditions?

CSWEP: Helping Faculty Help Students get into PhD Programs in Economics

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CSMGEP: Sarah Jacobson

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CSMGEP: Luisa Blanco

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CSMGEP: Neville Francis

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CSMGEP: Neil Ericsson

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Senior Lecturer in Economics and Econometrics

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Endowed Director of the Ness School of Management and Economics

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CSWEP Webinar: Helping Faculty Help Students get into PhD Programs in Economics

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DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics - Part 1

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DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics - Part 10

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DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics - Part 2

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DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics - Part 3

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DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics - Part 4

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DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics - Part 5

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DSGE Modeling in Macroeconomics - Part 6

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