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Who Knows? Information Access and Endogenous Network Formation

By Laura Derksen and Pedro CL Souza

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics

Networks play a key role in information diffusion. Yet, the impact of information on network formation is not well understood. We conducted a randomized experiment in Malawian boarding secondary schools, providing one fifth of students with exclusive acce...

Reply to 鈥淐omment on 鈥淒evelopment Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Topographic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil鈥�

By Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Tania Barham, and Dimitri Szerman

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics

We update the results of Lipscomb et al 2013 to improve the stability of the instrument, to reconcile differences in definitions of the Amazon used in controls, and to update the standard errors based on the Lee et al 2022 tF procedure. We show that the i...

Capital Flows and the Global Collateral Cycle

By Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos, and Gregory Phelan

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics

Cross-country disparities in collateral technologies alone can account for large capital flows among mature economies, and allow the most advanced country to run a permanent trade deficit. When the collateral technology advantage is in creating negativ...

From Population Growth to TFP Growth

By Hiroshi Inokuma and Juan M. 厂谩苍肠丑别锄

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics

A slowdown in population growth reduces business dynamism by increasing the share of older firms. We explore how this affects productivity growth using a business dynamics model with endogenous productivity. The growth rate of older firms is a key fact...

Identifying the Impact of Inflation Expectations

By William A. Branch

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics

Individuals form inflation expectations based on their demographics and locations. Different demographic groups respond differently to sectoral price changes, which we exploit to identify the inflationary impact of expectations. Our shift-share instrum...

Cross-Border Spillovers: How U.S. Monetary Conditions Affect M&As Around the World

By Katharina Bergant, Prachi Mishra, Raghuram Rajan, and Freddy Pinzon-Puerto

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics

We study how U.S. monetary policy shocks transmit to cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Using country- and firmlevel data, tighter U.S. policy is shown to reduce both the value and the number of cross-border deals. The effects are espe...

The Benefits from Bundling Demand in K-12 Broadband Procurement

By Gaurab Aryal, Pallavi Pal, Charles Murry, and Arnab Palit

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

We study a new market design for K-12 broadband procurement that switched from school-specific bidding to a system that bundled schools into groups. Using an event study approach, we estimate that this program reduced internet prices by $9.17 (55%) per...

Determinants of Healthcare Provider Networks: Risk Selection vs. Administrative Costs

By Natalia Serna

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

This paper shows that health insurers鈥� decisions to include providers in their networks are influenced by a previously underappreciated source of cost savings: network administrative costs. These costs counteract insurers鈥� incentives to offer narrow...

Divisive by Design: Shaping Values in Optimal Mechanisms

By Anja Prummer and Francesco Nava

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

We study a principal who allocates a good to agents with private, independently distributed values through an optimal mechanism. The principal can strategically shape these value distributions by modifying the good鈥檚 features, which affect agents鈥� ...

Platform-Mediated Competition

By 蚕耻颈迟锄茅 Valenzuela-Stookey

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

In many markets the interaction between individuals and competing firms is mediated by a strategic platform. A defining feature of modern platforms is their extensive ability to control interactions. To understand such markets, I incorporate within-sid...

Reskilling and Resilience

By Anders Humlum and Pernille Plato

蝌蚪网 Review: Insights

This paper shows that effective reskilling substantially reduces antidepressant use among injured workers and their partners. Exploiting institutional variation in access to higher education following work accidents in Denmark, we find that reskilling ...

Unionization and wage inequality

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The impact of unionization on the salaries of faculty at Canadian universities.

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Message from the 蝌蚪网 Ombuds Team at MWI

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June 15, 2026

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Boundaries of the firm

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June 12, 2026

Limiting the cannibalization of existing patented products

Resetting the Innovation Clock: Endogenous Growth through Technological Turnover

By Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timo Boppart, and 闯别补苍-贵茅濒颈虫 Brouillette

蝌蚪网 Review: Insights

We propose a model of endogenous economic growth with 鈥渨eak鈥� scale effects and diminishing returns to innovation at the micro level. In our model, entrants introduce new technologies through research and incumbents incrementally improve them throug...

Call for Papers: Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research - 16th Workshop on Exchange Rates

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June 22, 2026

The submission deadline is September 13, 2026.

Monopsony Makes It Big

By Sydnee Caldwell, Arindrajit Dube, and Suresh Naidu

Journal of Economic Literature

The literature on imperfect competition in labor markets has expanded rapidly in recent years. This article provides a guide to the field, focusing on the firm-specific (鈥渞esidual鈥�) labor supply elasticity as the definition of a firm鈥檚 labor market ...