The Pass-Through of Retail Crime

By Carl Hase and Johannes Kasinger

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper shows that retailers increase prices in response to organized retail crime. We match store-level crime data to scanner data from the universe of transactions for cannabis retailers in Washington state. Using quasi-experimental variation from...

AEA Member Announcements and Annual Meeting Highlights

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January 12, 2026

View the AEA Member Announcement from January 13, 2026.

The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity

By Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Hyman, and Or Shachar

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

States and localities are relied upon to implement macroeconomic stabilization policies and ensure service delivery in times of crisis. In April 2020, the introduction of the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) added an emergency lending instrument to th...

Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation

By Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal S. Yang

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We investigate whether removing a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. We estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted with the goal of improving employment opportunities for ...

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in the Transition to Clean Technology

By Sjak Smulders and Sophie Zhou

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Technological lock-in has been a standard explanation for the slow take-off of clean innovation, but is hard to reconcile with forwardlooking investors who anticipate the eventual switch to clean technologies. We provide an alternative explanation: str...

Selection, Structural Transformation, and the Cost Disease of Services

By Martin Shu

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Labor productivity growth in the service sector may be mismeasured if workers with heterogeneous skills self-select into sectors. I document with U.S. data that workers reallocated from manufacturing earn more than incumbent workers in professional ser...

AEA Continuing Education: Recent Developments Lectures

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Learn about the AEA's annual program for continuing education.

Past ASSA Annual Meetings

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Diversifying college applications

[Research Highlight]

January 13, 2026

Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer discuss the optimal strategy for applying to college.

Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation

By S. Nageeb Ali and Ran I. Shorrer

American Economic Review, February 2025

Applicants to schools, colleges, and jobs hedge by applying to a broad range of options, including reaches, matches, and safeties. We develop a simultaneous-search framework that rationalizes this practice. In this framework, the admissions process is cor...

Past CSWEP Chairs

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AEASTAT: 2009 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics, 2009 ASSA meetings

AEASTAT: 2008 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics, 2008 ASSA meetings

Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices

By Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study the impact of product liability litigation on new product introductions by leading medical device firms. We find that the defendant firms, and other firms to a lesser extent, reduce their propensity to introduce new products in the litigated prod...

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Distinguished Fellow 2025

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RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Effects of Environmental and Land Use Regulation in the Oil and Gas Industry Using the Wyoming Checkerboard as an Experimental Design

By Mitch Kunce, Shelby Gerking, and William Morgan

American Economic Review, December 2002

Demand, Competition, and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry

By Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Frank Verboven

Journal of Economic Literature

We review the flourishing literature on the automobile industry since the seminal work of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995), or briefly BLP. Their work provides a structural equilibrium framework that forms a basis for conducting policy counterfactuals i...

CSMGEP: The Minority Report

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Competitive Bottlenecks and Platform Spillovers

By Tat-How Teh and Julian Wright

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We provide a general framework to analyze competition between oligopolistic platforms in competitive bottleneck settings, allowing for pricing and non-price design choices by platforms, and postparticipation buyer-seller decisions. We show that equilib...

CSWEP Midwest

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