Knowledge Diffusion, Trade, and Innovation across Countries and Sectors

By Jie Cai, Nan Li, and Ana Maria Santacreu

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2022

This paper provides a unified framework for quantifying the cross-country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation, and knowledge diffusion. This framework is used to study the effect of trade liberalization in an endogenous growth model in w...

The Rise and Fall of India's Relative Investment Price: A Tale of Policy Error and Reform

By Alok Johri and Md Mahbubur Rahman

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2022

India's relative price of investment rose 44 percent from 1981 to 1991 and fell 26 percent from 1991 to 2006. We build a simple DGE model, calibrated to Indian data, in order to explore the impact of capital import substitution policies and their reform p...

2021 in Research Highlights

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December 14, 2021

Economists addressed the recovery of Southern wealth after the Civil War, why the United States has the best research universities, Facebook filters, and more.

Making healthy practices habitual

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An experiment in rural India boosted handwashing through social and financial rewards.

Call for Papers: Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) 2022 Conference

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January 04, 2022

The conference will be held July 1 - September 16, 2022.

CSWEP Board: Marionette Holmes

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CSWEP Board: Anna Paulson

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Inoculating adolescents, protecting the public

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February 26, 2019

The AEA interviews Emily Lawler about vaccination mandates and their spillover effects.

CSMGEP Profile: Alberto Dávila

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ASSA 2021 Webcasts of Select AEA Sessions

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View Webcasts of select AEA sessions from the ASSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting.

ASSA 2022 Webcasts of Selected AEA Sessions

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