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Research Highlights

AEA Research Highlights feature selected articles published in the AEA journals.

Podcasts — Interviews with AEA authors discussing their work.
Articles — Summaries of AEA articles, based on interviews with the authors.
Featured Charts — Illumination of graphs from AEA journal articles.

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Man vs machine

November 28, 2018
Robots take jobs, but create new ones too. Which will happen faster?
Research Highlights Article

Building trust with buyers

November 21, 2018
How much do offers of "satisfaction guaranteed" improve efficiency in the marketplace?
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Waiting for the windfall

November 19, 2018
How do financial considerations influence discharge decisions at long-term acute-care hospitals?
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State-unbuilding

November 14, 2018
The Taliban recognized the importance of elections and made them a primary target.
Research Highlights Article

Shadow business

November 12, 2018
How many cartels exist and how important is competition policy to reining them in?
Research Highlights Article

The heroin balloon

November 7, 2018
A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.
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A shock to civility

November 5, 2018
When liberalized trade caused foreign competition to increase in Brazil, crime went up, too.
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Fragile innovation

November 2, 2018
This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.