What will the next global financial crisis look like?

[Research Highlight]

April 17, 2018

Crises could be less likely, but they may also be worse.

Henry Aaron, Distinguished Fellow 2018

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Henry Aaron is a 2018 Distinguished Fellow

Joel Mokyr, Distinguished Fellow 2018

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Joel Mokyr is a 2018 Distinguished Fellow

Richard Posner, Distinguished Fellow 2018

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Richard Posner is a 2018 Distinguished Fellow

Collective Self-Control

By Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2017

Behavioral economics presents a "paternalistic" rationale for a benevolent government's intervention. We consider an economy where the only "distortion" is agents' time-inconsistency. We study the desirability of various forms of collective action, ones p...

Re-evaluating risk

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What can the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake tell us about how men and women respond differently to traumatic events?

From the archives: How the growing service sector shrank the gender gap

[Research Highlight]

April 13, 2018

In the 2018 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper, the authors study how the rise of service sector jobs increased opportunities for women.

Making a fresh start

[Research Highlight]

April 11, 2018

What was the long-term impact of Hurricane Katrina on its victims' earnings?

From the archives: Can temporary affirmative action policies have lasting effects?

[Research Highlight]

April 13, 2018

In the 2018 AEJ: Applied Best Paper, the authors study how hiring regulations can lead to fundamental changes in how employers recruit.

Slate of Candidates for the 2018 AEA Election Announced

[News]

April 26, 2018

Voting opens August 1, 2018

This land is my land

[Research Highlight]

March 05, 2018

Land rights were the key to economic development in 19th century Russia.

Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production

By Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2018

Assessing productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research and policy debate. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to productivity spillovers; however, an alternative, much less emphasized channel ...

2018 Panel Study of Income Dynamics Annual User Conference

[News]

April 30, 2018

June 4th is the deadline for submissions

A Theory of Indicative Bidding

By Daniel Quint and Kenneth Hendricks

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2018

When selling a business by auction, sellers typically use indicative bids—nonbinding preliminary bids—to select a small number of bidders to conduct due diligence and submit binding offers. We show that if entry into the auction is costly, ind...

Explaining agriculture's wage gap

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Barriers to switching jobs are smaller than usually thought.

Pinelopi Goldberg appointed chief economist at the World Bank

[News]

May 03, 2018

Goldberg is vice president of the AEA and former editor of the American Economic Review.

Coal is king no more

[Research Highlight]

April 26, 2018

The AEA interviews Harrison Fell about how natural gas and wind power have led to coal's decline.

Francine Blau, Distinguished Fellow 2018

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Francine Blau is a 2018 Distinguished Fellow

Money Matters

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To what extent can educational finance reform close the achievement gap?

Richard H. Thaler, Distinguished Fellow 2016

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