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Delegation in Veto Bargaining

By Navin Kartik, Andreas Kleiner, and Richard Van Weelden

òòò½Íø Review, December 2021

A proposer requires a veto player's approval to change a status quo. Proposer is uncertain about Vetoer's preferences. We show that Vetoer is typically given a non-singleton menu, or delegation set, of options to pick from. The optimal set balances the ex...

Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network

By Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Amit Khandelwal, Wookun Kim, Cristiano Mantovani, and Edouard Schaal

òòò½Íø Review: Insights, December 2021

We study optimal dynamic lockdowns against COVID-19 within a commuting network. Our framework integrates canonical spatial epidemiology and trade models and is applied to cities with varying initial viral spread: Seoul, Daegu, and the New York City metrop...

Do Women Respond Less to Performance Pay? Building Evidence from Multiple Experiments

By Oriana Bandiera, Greg Fischer, Andrea Prat, and Erina Ytsma

òòò½Íø Review: Insights, December 2021

Existing empirical work raises the hypothesis that performance pay—whatever its output gains—may widen the gender earnings gap because women may respond less to incentives. We evaluate this possibility by aggregating evidence from existing experiments...

Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multigroup SIR Model

By Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, ±õ±¹Ã¡²Ô Werning, and Michael D. Whinston

òòò½Íø Review: Insights, December 2021

We study targeted lockdowns in a multigroup SIR model where infection, hospitalization, and fatality rates vary between groups—in particular between the "young," the "middle-aged," and the "old." Our model enables a tractable quantitative analysis of op...

Cheating with Models

By Kfir Eliaz, Ran Spiegler, and Yair Weiss

òòò½Íø Review: Insights, December 2021

Beliefs and decisions are often based on confronting models with data. What is the largest "fake" correlation that a misspecified model can generate, even when it passes an elementary misspecification test? We study an "analyst" who fits a model, represen...