Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments

By Hunt Allcott and Christopher Knittel

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing ...

Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution

By Judith A. Chevalier and Anil K. Kashyap

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

This paper proposes a method for aggregating prices when retailers use periodic sales to price-discriminate amongst heterogeneous customers. In the motivating model, loyal customers buy one brand and do not strategically time purchases, while Bargain Hunt...

Patchwork Policies, Spillovers, and the Search for Oil and Gas

By Eric Lewis

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

The United States has a complex patchwork of mineral ownership, where rights to oil and gas may be owned by the federal government, state governments, or private agents. I show why the policies imposed by one owner have theoretically ambiguous spillover e...

City planning for retirement

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Why do some cities have higher unfunded liabilities than others?

Call for Papers for the Fourth Annual Cambridge Conference on Alternative Finance

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February 01, 2019

View the conference announcement and call for papers.

LERA Call for Proposals

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February 01, 2019

The deadline for proposal submission is March 15, 2019.

Call for Papers for 5th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability"

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February 04, 2019

Workshop to be held on August 19th and 20th, 2019, to be held in Halle (Saale).

Entrepreneurship Research Bootcamp: Call for Applicants

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February 05, 2019

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation will host a bootcamp for entrepreneurship research on May 19 – 23, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri.

China’s struggle to control credit

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Does shadow banking hamstring monetary policy?

Politically risky business

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January 30, 2019

How much do close elections affect business investment?

What's in a name?

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January 16, 2018

Two researchers propose a new standard for ordering coauthor names.

Alcohol markets, Venezuela development, and disaster insurance

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January 22, 2019

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Stimulating the vote

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The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided a boost to Democrats in the 2012 election.

Flexible(ish) working hours

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February 06, 2019

How does part-time work respond to economic swings?

AEASTAT: 2019 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics, 2019 ASSA meetings

Looking for work first

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Should welfare require a period of job search?

Call for Papers: Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) 2019 Summer Workshops

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February 19, 2019

The workshops will take place on the Stanford campus from July 1 to September 13, 2019.

Call for Proposals: Host the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program -- Development Economics

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February 22, 2019

Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Fellowship for Academic Year 2020-2021

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February 25, 2019

June 27, 2019 is the application deadline.

Russell Sage Foundation Programs and Initiatives Currently Accepting Letters of Inquiry

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February 25, 2019

The deadline for letters of inquiry is May 23, 2019.