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ASSA Annual Meeting Information, òòò½Íø Committee Program Highlights, and More

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December 01, 2025

View the òòò½Íø Member Announcement from November 20th, 2025.

òòò½Íø Membership Dues and Information

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Annual dues are very affordable for students and professionals.

CSWEP East

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Intermediaries and Asset Prices

By Valentin Haddad and Tyler Muir

Journal of Economic Literature

Intermediary asset pricing posits that financial institutions play a central role in financial markets, and that their decisions shape asset prices beyond simply reflecting the preferences of the average household. This perspective helps make sense of key...

Statement from the òòò½Íø

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December 02, 2025

The òòò½Íø has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in òòò½Íø activities.

Targeted supply-side enforcement in the controlled substance market

[Research Highlight]

December 02, 2025

Adam Soliman discusses the effects of crackdowns on prescription opioids.

Disrupting Drug Markets: The Effects of Crackdowns on Rogue Opioid Suppliers

By Adam Soliman

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, November 2025

This paper estimates the impact of doctor crackdowns on the quantity demanded of prescription opioids, across-market substitution, and across-product substitution. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the timing and location of administrative actio...

Call for Proposals: Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research - Open-bid Applied Research Programme

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December 03, 2025

The submission deadline is February 23, 2026.

Call for Papers from Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making

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December 03, 2025

The submission deadline is January 31, 2026.

Signaling for Interviews in the Economics Job Market

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ASSA 2026 Event App

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ASSA 2024 Webcasts of Select Sessions

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ASSA 2025 Webcasts of Select Sessions

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From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities

By Marina Bassi, Bruno Besbas, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Saravana Ravindran, and Ana Reynoso

òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics

We evaluate a large-scale public preschool construction program in deprived rural communities in Mozambique using a randomized control trial. The program increased preschool enrollment from 2% to 75%, improved primary school enrollment and progression, ...

Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States

By Hans A. Holter, Serhiy Stepanchuk, and Yicheng Wang

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper studies the effects of income taxation on entrepreneurship, empirically and in a structural macro model with entrepreneurial choice. Combining state-level tax data with household and firm data we document that higher and more progressive ta...

Who Gets a Family? The Consequences of Family and Congregate Care Allocation for Child Outcomes

By Cameron Taylor

òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics

Hundreds of thousands of children grow up in the US foster care system every year and are at high risk of experiencing negative outcomes such as incarceration and homelessness. This paper documents how the placement of foster children into families rat...

Detection of Collusive Networks in Multistage Auctions

By Bruno µþ²¹°ùá²Ô±ð°ì, Leon Musolff, and ³Õí³ÙÄ›³ú²õ±ô²¹±¹ Titl

òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics

We develop a method for detecting cartels in multistage auctions. Our approach allows firms to act collusively against cartel members yet competitively otherwise. In these auctions, bidders submit initial bids and can later revise them downward. As init...

Understanding liquidity traps

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Lessons from Roosevelt's monetary policy changes and the end of the Great Depression.

On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

By Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto, Achmad Maulana, Vivi Alatas, and Elan Satriawan

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy

Given labor informality in developing countries, addressing employment shocks is challenging. We study Indonesia’s new approach for on-demand online applications for temporary cash assistance and online job training. Through 20 lotteries over two year...