Call for papers: Spring 2019 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings

[News]

December 07, 2018

View the call for papers for the meetings to be held May 17-19, 2019.

Party favors

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Do competitive elections curb party favoritism?

The Case for Imposing Cashlessness: A Review Article

By Neil Wallace

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2018

In The Curse of Cash, Rogoff (2016) makes two arguments. (i) Large denominations of currency are primarily used for illegal activity. Therefore, eliminating them would have benefits that far outweigh the costs in terms of lost seigniorage. (ii)...

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2018

Domestic policies with international consequences

[Research Highlight]

December 12, 2018

What drove post-World War II capital flows?

What are the economic impacts of a warming Earth?

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Policymakers make wide-ranging assumptions when determining the social costs of climate change.

Geoffrey Williams on guns and the 1960s crime wave

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How did access to cheap guns affect the homicide rate?

American Academy of Political and Social Science Elects Five 2019 Fellows

[News]

December 18, 2018

Five distinguished scholars have been selected.

Nudging consumers toward green practices

[Research Highlight]

December 03, 2018

Would a nickel tax on disposable bags be enough to change behavior?

Call for Papers for East Coast College Social Sciences Association Roundtable

[News]

December 19, 2018

The conference roundtable is scheduled for April 5-6, 2019.

2019 RAND Summer Institute

[News]

December 21, 2018

The 26th Summer Institute will be held on July 8-11, 2019.

2018 in Research Highlights

[Research Highlight]

November 27, 2018

Economists tackled gender issues, education, globalization, and more.

The unequal burden of a gasoline tax

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Gasoline taxes reduce emissions. But is there a better way?