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Numbers Tell, Words Sell

By Victor de Chaisemartin, Michael Thaler, and Mattie Toma

American Economic Review

When communicating numeric estimates, experts often choose between using numbers or natural language. We run two experiments to analyze whether experts strategically use language to persuade. In Study 1, senders in the general public communicate probab...

The Data Revolution, and Its Uses, in International Trade

By David Atkin and Benjamin Faber

Journal of Economic Literature

In recent decades, economists studying international trade have gained access to an unprecedented volume and variety of data. These data have provided new insights and a more granular understanding of the mechanics of trade. Analyzing a large corpus of pa...

Call for Research Proposals: The Kroner and Koenigsberger Center for Financial Research (KKCFR)

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September 17, 2026

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The Economic Impacts of Sexual Assault

By Abi Adams, Kristiina Huttunen, Emily Nix, and Ning Zhang

American Economic Review

We estimate the economic impacts of sexual assault using population-wide Finnish police reports and hospital admissions. Over the five years following a sexual assault, victims’ employment falls by 6 percentage points and annual earnings decline by ¤...

Education and Selection into Ethnic Identification: Evidence from Roma People in Romania

By Andreea Mitrut, Gabriel Kreindler, Margareta Matache, Andrei Munteanu, and Cristian Pop-Eleches

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

How does ethnic identification vary with education among disadvantaged minorities? We study this question for Roma people, Europe’s largest ethnic minority, using linked Romanian census data and birth records. We measure how individuals change report...

Markups and Inflation in Oligopolistic Markets: Evidence from Wholesale Price Data

By Patrick Alexander, Lu Han, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, and Ben Tomlin

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

How do market power and nominal price rigidity influence inflation dynamics? We formulate a tractable model of oligopolistic competition and sticky prices, and derive closed-form expressions for the pass-through of idiosyncratic and common cost shocks ...

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Patent Exhaustion and Licensing in the Supply Chain

By Jay Pil Choi and Heiko Gerlach

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper analyzes private and social incentives for levying ad valorem licensing fees in a supply chain under the legal principle of patent exhaustion. With perfect competition at both upstream and downstream stages, the licensing segment choice is irre...

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September 22, 2026

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Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy by Misty L. Heggeness

By Savannah Noray

Journal of Economic Literature

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