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The Sound of Silence: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

By Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2018

This essay reviews Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, which triggered a huge controversy that virally spread on the internet and in various journals. We will evaluate MacLean's...

Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

By Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, and John Van Reenen

American Economic Review, January 2019

We exploit changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a program to support jobs through investment subsidies. European rules determine whether an area is eligible for subsidies, and we construct instrumental variables for area eligibility based...

A Spatial Knowledge Economy

By Donald R. Davis and Jonathan I. Dingel

American Economic Review, January 2019

Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities. This paper develops the first system of cities model with costly idea exchange as the agglo...

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings

By Adnan Q. Khan, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and Benjamin A. Olken

American Economic Review, January 2019

Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. Yet we know little about whether this works, with heterogeneity in preferences over postings impacting effectiveness. We propose a performance-ranked serial dic...

The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications: Reply

By Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Gee Hee Hong

American Economic Review, January 2019

We address how using different censoring thresholds and imputation procedures affects the baseline results of Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Hong (2015). Higher censoring thresholds introduce measurement error and outliers that generate wide variability in r...