Research Highlights

The AEA profiles research from all of its journals covering the wide range of topics that economists study. The entire archive of research highlights is below. A list of featured charts from AEA journals are also available.

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Archive

Quietly preventing a bank run

October 5, 2020

Should policymakers maintain anonymity for financial institutions who need a bailout during a crisis?

Taxing hidden wealth

September 30, 2020

Professor Daniel Reck discusses how the US found offshore tax havens and what more it can do.

Open access

September 25, 2020

Is there a way that companies can use consumer data while also respecting their privacy?

The DNA of new exporters

September 21, 2020

Which companies are successful at selling abroad?

Reviving distressed communities

September 16, 2020

Tim Bartik of the Upjohn Institute on how economic development policy is shortchanging poor regions.

You don’t have to put on the red-light cameras

September 11, 2020

Does monitoring traffic intersections make them safer?

Kill the machines

September 8, 2020

To what extent can technological disruption lead to civil unrest?

What hurts minorities’ progress in economics?

September 2, 2020

Professor Gary Hoover discusses how to make the economics profession more welcoming to underrepresented groups.

Market rushes

August 28, 2020

How well informed are traders during a panic?

Boosting the youth vote

August 24, 2020

How do states respond when young voters gain more political leverage?