Competing Diffusions in a Social Network

By Arthur Campbell, C. Matthew Leister, Philip Ushchev, and Yves Zenou

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We develop a model of competing diffusions of goods on a social network. There are two types of goods and individuals: mass-market and niche-market. We find that there is a unique stable steady state and show that the adoption of a massmarket good is g...

Reputation and Competitive Selection

By Joyee Deb and Jack Fanning

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We demonstrate how selection in competitive markets can impede longrun reputational incentives. In our model, competent firms can exert costly effort to improve expected product quality, but inept firms cannot. With low entry barriers, we show competen...

Strategic Limit Orders and Intertemporal Price Dispersion

By Suman Banerjee, Ravi Jagannathan, and Kai Wang

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study a two-period commodity market with competitive consumers and Cournot sellers. Without speculation, equilibrium is stationary. A storage-capable, strategically large speculator can profitably create deterministic intertemporal price dispersion u...

Learning in the Marriage Market: The Economics of Dating

By Yair Antler, Daniel Bird, and Daniel Fershtman

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper develops a search-and-matching model where potential partners can learn about their compatibility as a couple by spending time together (interpreted as dating). We show that a steady-state equilibrium exists and characterize its induced dati...

Bonus Question: How Does Flexible Incentive Pay Affect Unemployment Dynamics?

By Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby, Jonathon Hazell, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

American Economic Review: Insights

We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment fluctuations. Our main result is that wage cyclicality from incentives does not affect the response of unemployment to productivity shocks. The response of unemployment is the same, ...

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Navigating the "Problem from Hell": A Guide to Climate Damages

By Derek Lemoine ⓡ Catherine Hausman ⓡ Jeffrey G. Shrader

Journal of Economic Literature

Multiple lines of research aim to quantify the economic impacts of climate change. We show that the effects of climate change on economic activity depend on how climate change alters weather across time and space. Changes in contemporary weather have dire...

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Professional Motivations in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Officers

By Aaron Chalfin and Felipe Goncalves

American Economic Review

We study how public sector workers balance their professional motivations with private economic concerns, focusing on police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by reducing arre...

Leaning Against the Global Financial Cycle

By Andrea Ferrero, Maurizio Michael Habib, Livio Stracca, and Fabrizio Venditti

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We investigate the impact of institutional quality on shielding emerging economies from the Global Financial Cycle. Our findings indicate that countries with a higher rule of law, characterized by superior contract enforcement and more robust protectio...