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蝌蚪网 Member Announcements and Annual Meeting Highlights

[News]

January 12, 2026

View the 蝌蚪网 Member Announcement from January 13, 2026.

The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity

By Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Hyman, and Or Shachar

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

States and localities are relied upon to implement macroeconomic stabilization policies and ensure service delivery in times of crisis. In April 2020, the introduction of the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) added an emergency lending instrument to th...

Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation

By Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal S. Yang

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

We investigate whether removing a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. We estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted with the goal of improving employment opportunities for ...

蝌蚪网 Continuing Education: Recent Developments Lectures

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Learn about the 蝌蚪网's annual program for continuing education.

Past ASSA Annual Meetings

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Diversifying college applications

[Research Highlight]

January 13, 2026

Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer discuss the optimal strategy for applying to college.

Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation

By S. Nageeb Ali and Ran I. Shorrer

蝌蚪网 Review, February 2025

Applicants to schools, colleges, and jobs hedge by applying to a broad range of options, including reaches, matches, and safeties. We develop a simultaneous-search framework that rationalizes this practice. In this framework, the admissions process is cor...

Past CSWEP Chairs

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蝌蚪网STAT: 2009 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for 蝌蚪网 Committee on Economic Statistics, 2009 ASSA meetings

蝌蚪网STAT: 2008 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for 蝌蚪网 Committee on Economic Statistics, 2008 ASSA meetings

Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices

By Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

We study the impact of product liability litigation on new product introductions by leading medical device firms. We find that the defendant firms, and other firms to a lesser extent, reduce their propensity to introduce new products in the litigated prod...

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Distinguished Fellow 2025

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RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Effects of Environmental and Land Use Regulation in the Oil and Gas Industry Using the Wyoming Checkerboard as an Experimental Design

By Mitch Kunce, Shelby Gerking, and William Morgan

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2002

Demand, Competition, and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry

By Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Frank Verboven

Journal of Economic Literature

We review the flourishing literature on the automobile industry since the seminal work of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995), or briefly BLP. Their work provides a structural equilibrium framework that forms a basis for conducting policy counterfactuals i...

CSMGEP: The Minority Report

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Competitive Bottlenecks and Platform Spillovers

By Tat-How Teh and Julian Wright

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

We provide a general framework to analyze competition between oligopolistic platforms in competitive bottleneck settings, allowing for pricing and non-price design choices by platforms, and postparticipation buyer-seller decisions. We show that equilib...

CSWEP Midwest

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Technological change and the transformation of women's work in the twentieth century

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The adoption of milking machines in Norway.

Identifying Tax Compliance from Variation in Tax Policy: Theory and Empirics

By Andrew Bibler, Laura Grigolon, Keith F. Teltser, and Mark J. Tremblay

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Governments increasingly use changes in tax rules to combat evasion. We develop a general approach to point-identify tax compliance along with supply and demand elasticities. Identification requires data on prices and quantities, variation in tax polic...

The Effect of Public Insurance Design on Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from Medicare Part D

By Katja Hofmann and Zong Huang

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Public programs that provide benefits through private markets contend with strategic firm behavior. We study this dynamic in Medicare Part D. The Affordable Care Act closed a coverage gap in Part D by mandating drug manufacturers cover 50% of branded dr...