Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform

By Santosh Anagol, Fernando Ferreira, and Jonah Rexer

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

We estimate the economic value of zoning reform in São Paulo, which altered maximum permitted construction along transportation corridors. Developers increased filings for multifamily construction in blocks affected by the reform, leading to more housing...

Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences Revisited

By David Lagakos and Todd Schoellman

Journal of Economic Literature

Development accounting is the search for proximate sources of cross-country income differences. This article describes how knowledge in this field has evolved over the two decades since the influential work of Caselli (2005). There have been large advanc...

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How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle by Ray Dalio

By Sarah Zubairy

Journal of Economic Literature

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Prizes and Feedback in Dynamic Contests

By Jeffrey C. Ely, George Georgiadis, and Luis Rayo

American Economic Review: Insights

We study contests in which players privately choose when to exert costly effort toward a random success. A designer who values total effort and at least one success chooses how to allocate a fixed prize and what feedback to provide. The optimal design ...

The effects of the 2017 US corporate tax cut

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Eighty-seven percent of the increase in personal earnings went to workers in the top of the income distribution.

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Interim Information Design And Buyer-Optimal Pricing

By Hershdeep Chopra and Jeffrey C. Ely

American Economic Review: Insights

We study efficient and buyer-surplus maximizing information policies in a bilateral trade setting where the buyer is initially privately imperfectly informed about his willingness to pay. We identify a canonical class of demand functions that can be im...

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Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal about How Markets Work by Alvin E. Roth

By Debra Satz

Journal of Economic Literature

Don't miss the AEA sessions on economic investments and institutions at ASSA 2027!

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Inheritance Tax Avoidance Through The Family Firm

By Isabel Micó-Millán

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper shows that family firms serve as vehicles for inheritance tax avoidance among the wealthy. Exploiting a tax reform in Catalonia (Spain) that widened the tax gap between favored and non-favored assets, I document a shift in inherited wealth t...

The Efficiency of Dynamic Electricity Prices

By Andrew J. Hinchberger, Mark R. Jacobsen, Christopher R. Knittel, James M. Sallee, and Arthur A. van Benthem

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

The marginal cost of electricity fluctuates hour-by-hour, yet retail customers typically face flat prices. Using data from all seven US wholesale markets and a new method to evaluate alternative rates set in advance that accounts for equilibrium price e...