The Evolution of US Retail Concentration

By Dominic A. Smith and Sergio Ocampo

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2025

Increasing national concentration has contributed to market power concerns. Yet local trends are more informative about market power in retail, where consumers have traditionally shopped at nearby stores. Using novel product-level census data for all US r...

Optimal Bank Reserve Remuneration and Capital Control Policy

By Chun-Che Chi, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, and Martín Uribe

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2025

A central prediction of open economy models with a pecuniary externality due to a collateral constraint is that the unregulated economy overborrows relative to what occurs under optimal policy. A maintained assumption in this literature is that households...

Enemies of the People

By Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2025

The Soviet regime forcedly sent millions of enemies of the people, i.e. the educated elite considered a threat to the regime, to Gulag camps across the USSR. We use this large-scale episode of terror as a natural experiment to provide evidence on...

AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon - Fee Event

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AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon - Fee Event Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 5&6 Presiding: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University Speaker: Emi Nakamura, University of California-Berkeley Topic: Being Rational about Rational Expectations

Remembering Robert Solow, 1924-2023

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Remembering Robert Solow, 1924-2023 Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Moderator: James Poterba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER) Panelists: George Akerlof (Georgetown University), Stacey Tevlin (Federal Reserve Board)

Future of Higher Education

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Future of Higher Education Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Francisca Antman (University of Colorado-Boulder) Panelists: Benjamin E. Hermalin (University of California-Berkeley), Lara Shore-Sheppard (Williams College), Jacob L. Vigdor (University of Washington), Zachary Bleemer (Princeton University)

Inflation and the Macroeconomy

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Inflation and the Macroeconomy Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School) Panelists: Ben Bernanke (The Brookings Institution), John Cochrane (The Hoover Institution), Jason Furman (Harvard Kennedy School), Christina Romer (University of California-Berkeley)

Advice on Publishing in Economics and Science Journals

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Advice on Publishing in Economics and Science Journals Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) Panelists: Mary-Elizabeth Sutherland (Springer Nature Group and Editor of Nature), John List (University of Chicago and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy), Erzo Luttmer (Dartmouth College and Editor of the American Economic Review), Orley Ashenfelter (Emeritus Princeton University and Editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture

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AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 5&6 Speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Topic: Economics in the Age of Algorithms

Who Cares? Care, Care Work, and Family Leave Policies

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Who Cares? Care, Care Work, and Family Leave Policies Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Lawrence Katz (Harvard University) Panelists: Richard Frank (Harvard Medical School and The Brookings Institution), Ai-Jen Poo (Caring Across Generations & National Domestic Workers Alliance), Maya Rossin-Slater (Stanford University), Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)

AI and the Future of Work

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AI and the Future of Work Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) Panelists: John Horton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University), Gillian Hadfield (Johns Hopkins University), Jaime Teevan (Microsoft)

Frontiers for Analysis of Experiments and Clinical Trials

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Frontiers for Analysis of Experiments and Clinical Trials Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Noam Angrist (University of Oxford) Authors: Susan Athey (Stanford University) (presenting), Marcella Alsan (Harvard University and NBER), John Cawley (Cornell University and NBER), Joseph Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER) (presenting), Nicholas Skelley (Cornell University), Ricardo Godoy (Brandeis University), Dean Karlan (Northwestern University) (presenting), Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College) Discussants: Kaspar Wuthrich (University of Michigan), Rita Ginja (University of Bergen), Isaac Opper (RAND), Adrienne Sabety (Stanford University)

AEA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address

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AEA Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 5&6 Presiding: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University Speaker: Janet Currie, Princeton University Topic: Investing in Children to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis

2025 Awards & Presidential Address

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Evidence and Lessons on the Health Impacts of Public Health Funding from the Fight against HIV/AIDS

By Marcus Dillender

American Economic Review, July 2023

HIV/AIDS has been one of the largest public health crises in recent history, and the US federal government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the disease. This study examines the impact of the large amounts of federal funding allocated to ...

Ben Bernanke’s Contributions to Economics

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Ben Bernanke’s Contributions to Economics Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Christina Romer (University of California-Berkeley) Panelists: Mark Gertler (New York University), Emi Nakamura (University of California-Berkeley), Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University), Mary C. Daly (President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In?

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Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In? Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Continental Ballroom 4 Presiding: Ayşegül Şahin (Princeton University) Authors: Adrien Auclert (Stanford University) (presenting), Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) (presenting), Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) (presenting), Ayse Okten Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California) (presenting), Jonas Fisher (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Alessandro T. Villa (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

AEA Awards Announced at the 2025 ASSA Meeting in San Francisco

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January 07, 2025

View the AEA Member Announcement from January 8, 2025.

Call for Papers: International Conference on Empirical Economics (ICEE) at Penn State Altoona

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January 09, 2025

The submission deadline is April 15, 2025.

Best and Worst Practices in Econ Departments: A Working Session for Chairs

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