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Optimal Procurement Design: A Reduced-Form Approach

By Kun Zhang

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Standard procurement models assume that the buyer knows the quality of the good at the time of procurement; however, in many settings, the quality is learned only long after the transaction. We study procurement problems in which the buyer’s valuatio...

Public Debt Levels and Real Interest Rates: Causal Evidence from Parliamentary Elections

By Gabriel Ehrlich, Owen Kay, and Aditi Thapar

American Economic Review: Insights

We use close parliamentary elections as natural experiments to estimate the debt sensitivity of interest rates. Relative to an election in which one party barely secures a majority, an election in which no party achieves a majority causes the debt-to-GD...

Rules versus Discretion without Common Knowledge

By Zhen Huo and Fei Zhou

American Economic Review: Insights

The Missing Poor

By Torsten Figueiredo Walter, Niclas Moneke, and Ana Radu

American Economic Review: Insights

Population censuses constitute the basis of public resource allocation and political representation globally. This paper shows that census forms commonly generate incentives for enumerators to disproportionately omit members of larger households. Using...

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions

By Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, and Yves Zenou

American Economic Review

We examine how social interactions and friendships shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, a leading French university specializing in social and political sciences. The quasi-random assignment of students into short-ter...

Procyclical Fiscal Policy and Asset Market Incompleteness

By Andrés Fernández, Daniel Guzman, Ruy Lama, and Carlos Vegh

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We develop a model of the joint behavior of optimal tax rates and government spending to explain the procyclicality of fiscal policy in emerging/developing countries. We rely on financial frictions captured by asset market incompleteness and debt-elastic ...

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Shareholder overlap and drug market competition

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Common ownership between brand and generic pharmaceutical firms significantly reduces generic entry.

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