Neoliberalism
For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now - more than...
View ArticleEconophysics of Business Cycles: Aggregate Economic Fluctuations, Mean Risks...
This paper presents hydrodynamic-like model of business cycles aggregate fluctuations of economic and financial variables. We model macroeconomics as ensemble of economic agents on economic space and...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Health Shocks and Adult Wellbeing: Evidence from Wartime...
A growing literature argues that early environments affecting childhood health may influence significantly later-life health and financial wellbeing. We present new evidence on the relationship between...
View ArticleHow Extensive is Inter-State Diversion of Recreational Marijuana? -- by...
Despite federal prohibition, recreational marijuana is available to 21% of the United States population. A chief concern among policy makers across multiple levels of government and political parties...
View ArticleSocial Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being -- by John F....
This paper surveys evidence documenting positive linkages among social capital, prosocial behaviour, and subjective well-being. Whether in the workplace, at home, in the community, or among nations,...
View ArticleThe Effects of Marijuana Liberalizations: Evidence from Monitoring the Future...
By the end of 2016, 28 states had liberalized their marijuana laws: by decriminalizing possession, by legalizing for medical purposes, or by legalizing more broadly. More states are considering such...
View ArticlePricing when Customers Care about Fairness but Misinfer Markups -- by Erik...
This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First,...
View ArticleHow Wide Is the Firm Border? -- by Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortacsu, Mary Jialin...
We examine the within- and across-firm shipment decisions of tens of thousands of goods-producing and distributing establishments. This allows us to quantify the normally unobservable forces that...
View ArticleBiased Monitors: Corporate Governance When Managerial Ability is Mis-assessed...
An important aspect of corporate governance is the assessment of managers. When managers vary in ability, determining who is good and who is not is vital. Moreover, knowing they will be assessed can...
View ArticleScalable Price Targeting -- by Jean-Pierre Dube, Sanjog Misra
We study the welfare implications of scalable price targeting, an extreme form of third-degree price discrimination implemented with machine learning for a large, digital firm. Targeted prices are...
View ArticleLearning by Ruling and Trade Disputes -- by Giovanni Maggi, Robert W. Staiger
Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes interpreted as symptoms of a dispute resolution system in decline. In this paper we...
View ArticleGravity in FX R-Squared: Understanding the Factor Structure in Exchange Rates...
We relate the risk characteristics of currencies to measures of physical, cultural, and institutional distance. The currencies of countries which are more distant from other countries are more exposed...
View ArticleTax Evasion and Inequality -- by Annette Alstadsaeter, Niels Johannesen,...
This paper attempts to estimate the size and distribution of tax evasion in rich countries. We combine random audits--the key source used to study tax evasion so far--with new micro-data leaked from...
View ArticleStrategy-proofness in the Large -- by Eduardo M. Azevedo, Eric Budish
We propose a criterion of approximate incentive compatibility, strategy-proofness in the large (SP-L), and argue that it is a useful second-best to exact strategy-proofness (SP) for market design....
View ArticlePrimary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of 'Bob the...
Economists have long been puzzled by event-ticket underpricing: underpricing both reduces revenue and encourages socially wasteful rent-seeking by ticket brokers. This paper studies the introduction of...
View ArticleHigh School Choices and the Gender Gap in STEM -- by David Card, A. Abigail...
Women who graduate from university are less likely than men to specialize in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM). We use detailed administrative data for a recent cohort of high school...
View ArticleMedically Necessary but Forbidden: Reproductive Health Care in Catholic-owned...
The United States has recently seen a large increase in hospital mergers and acquisitions, and Catholic hospital systems have actively participated in this. As of 2016, 40% of the largest healthcare...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Corporate Cash -- by John R. Graham, Mark T. Leary
We put the recent increase in corporate cash in historic perspective by studying nearly 100 years of average and aggregate cash holdings. Corporate cash more than doubled in the first 25 years of our...
View ArticleFinancialization in Commodity Markets -- by V.V. Chari, Lawrence Christiano
The financialization view is that increased trading in commodity futures markets is associated with increases in the growth rate and volatility of commodity spot prices. This view gained credence...
View ArticleThe Impact of Partial-Year Enrollment on the Accuracy of Risk Adjustment...
Accurate risk adjustment facilitates healthcare market competition. Risk adjustment typically aims to predict annual costs of individuals enrolled in an insurance plan for a full year. However,...
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