Funding White Supremacy: Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap by Robert B. Williams

By Vicki L. Bogan

Journal of Economic Literature

Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning by Georg Rilinger

By Peter Cramton

Journal of Economic Literature

Defying Distance? The Provision of Medical Services in the Digital Age

By Amanda Dahlstrand

American Economic Review

Digital platforms reduce geographic frictions, enabling better matching between service providers and users. I quantify reallocation gains in Swedish online healthcare, using nationwide time-conditional random assignment between patients and physicians....

The Environmental Bias of Corporate Income Taxation

By Luigi Iovino, Thorsten Martin, and Julien Sauvagnat

American Economic Review

We study the relationship between corporate income taxation and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the U.S. We show that CO2-intensive firms benefit more from the tax advantage of debt, and pay lower income taxes on their capital income. Building on thes...

Time Is Not Money: An Experiment with Community Contribution Requirements in Cash and Labour

By Serena Cocciolo, Selene Ghisolfi, Ahasan Habib, and Anna Tompsett

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Community contribution requirements are a ubiquitous but un- derstudied feature of projects to provide local public goods in de- veloping countries. A randomized experiment in rural Bangladesh shows that cash contribution requirements strongly reduce t...

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Who Knows? Information Access and Endogenous Network Formation

By Laura Derksen and Pedro CL Souza

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Networks play a key role in information diffusion. Yet, the impact of information on network formation is not well understood. We conducted a randomized experiment in Malawian boarding secondary schools, providing one fifth of students with exclusive acce...

Reply to “Comment on “Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Topographic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil”

By Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Tania Barham, and Dimitri Szerman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We update the results of Lipscomb et al 2013 to improve the stability of the instrument, to reconcile differences in definitions of the Amazon used in controls, and to update the standard errors based on the Lee et al 2022 tF procedure. We show that the i...

Capital Flows and the Global Collateral Cycle

By Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos, and Gregory Phelan

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Cross-country disparities in collateral technologies alone can account for large capital flows among mature economies, and allow the most advanced country to run a permanent trade deficit. When the collateral technology advantage is in creating negativ...

From Population Growth to TFP Growth

By Hiroshi Inokuma and Juan M. Sánchez

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

A slowdown in population growth reduces business dynamism by increasing the share of older firms. We explore how this affects productivity growth using a business dynamics model with endogenous productivity. The growth rate of older firms is a key fact...

Identifying the Impact of Inflation Expectations

By William A. Branch

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Individuals form inflation expectations based on their demographics and locations. Different demographic groups respond differently to sectoral price changes, which we exploit to identify the inflationary impact of expectations. Our shift-share instrum...

Cross-Border Spillovers: How U.S. Monetary Conditions Affect M&As Around the World

By Katharina Bergant, Prachi Mishra, Raghuram Rajan, and Freddy Pinzon-Puerto

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We study how U.S. monetary policy shocks transmit to cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Using country- and firmlevel data, tighter U.S. policy is shown to reduce both the value and the number of cross-border deals. The effects are espe...

The Benefits from Bundling Demand in K-12 Broadband Procurement

By Gaurab Aryal, Pallavi Pal, Charles Murry, and Arnab Palit

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study a new market design for K-12 broadband procurement that switched from school-specific bidding to a system that bundled schools into groups. Using an event study approach, we estimate that this program reduced internet prices by $9.17 (55%) per...

Determinants of Healthcare Provider Networks: Risk Selection vs. Administrative Costs

By Natalia Serna

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper shows that health insurers’ decisions to include providers in their networks are influenced by a previously underappreciated source of cost savings: network administrative costs. These costs counteract insurers’ incentives to offer narrow...

Divisive by Design: Shaping Values in Optimal Mechanisms

By Anja Prummer and Francesco Nava

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study a principal who allocates a good to agents with private, independently distributed values through an optimal mechanism. The principal can strategically shape these value distributions by modifying the good’s features, which affect agents’ ...

Platform-Mediated Competition

By Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

In many markets the interaction between individuals and competing firms is mediated by a strategic platform. A defining feature of modern platforms is their extensive ability to control interactions. To understand such markets, I incorporate within-sid...

Reskilling and Resilience

By Anders Humlum and Pernille Plato

American Economic Review: Insights

This paper shows that effective reskilling substantially reduces antidepressant use among injured workers and their partners. Exploiting institutional variation in access to higher education following work accidents in Denmark, we find that reskilling ...

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