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The income channel to labor polarization explains substantial shares of increases in relative wages and hours-worked shares of high- and low-skill workers between 1980 and 2016, from Diego A. Comin, Ana Danieli, and Martí Mestieri nber.org/papers/w35315
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The unequal burden of oil shocks: Labour markets and monetary policy
Tobias Broer @PSEinfo, John Kramer @jvkramer1 @UCPH_Research, Kurt Mitman @SorryToBeKurt @IIES_Sthlm
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Quantitative easing can boost output and inflation in a deep liquidity trap at lower cost than conventional fiscal policy, making it vital when fiscal space is limited, from Tobias Adrian, Christopher Erceg, Marcin Kolasa, Jesper Lindé, and Pawel Zabczyk nber.org/papers/w35297
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For nearly 40 years at Brown, Gordon S. Wood helped shape the study of early American history through his teaching, mentorship and award-winning scholarship.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian leaves an extraordinary legacy at Brown and far beyond, influencing generations of students, scholars and readers.
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Jun 6
This is an insane paper and I love it
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Studying who owns US rental housing by using a new method tracing ownership through Census, IRS, and SEC records. Individual landlords own the large majority of rental units in 11 metros, from @stephkestelman, @rebeccardiamond, @john_eric, @katempenn, @WinnieVanDijk, and @john_voorheis nber.org/papers/w35258
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May 31
Excited to FINALLY release toughest most rewarding paper I've worked on...
….we attack a 150 year old Walras question that's gone unanswered, not for lack of trying (Hicks, Samuelson, Arrow; our chances?😱)...
Q: Is the market equilibrium stable or unstable?¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Presenting several new and counterintuitive facts about Modern Portfolio Theory, from Oliver Hellum, Theis I. Jensen, Bryan T. Kelly, and Semyon Malamud nber.org/papers/w35246
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May 29
Recently accepted by #QJE: “Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution,” by Juhász (@juhreka13), Sakabe, and Weinstein (@deweinstein): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjag021
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21530
Two-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade
Vanessa Alviarez @the_IDB, Michele Fioretti @Unibocconi, Ken Kikkawa @UBCSauderSchool @UBC, Monica Morlacco @USCDornsife
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A new tractable model with persistent, spatially correlated utility explains a new fact about how migration evolves over time, with implications for dynamics and welfare.
New paper by @greg_l_howard & Shao:
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May 26
Why do richer economies have more very large firms? This paper shows that the upper tail of the firm size distribution thickens as economies grow. A model of idea search explains why, showing how growth itself can produce rising concentration.
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Stricter density zoning laws (FAR, min lot) lead to larger housing units and higher prices per unit. Just Accepted new paper by Amrita Kulka @AmritaKulka Aradhya Sood @SoodAradhya and Nicholas Chiumenti zurl.co/y34ft
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May 22
Why do standard statistical methods struggle with spatial data?
A new @EconomicsUCD working paper introduces a simple but powerful way to improve spatial inference by “pre-whitening” dependence in the data — helping researchers draw more reliable conclusions.
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New at JIE: "Cross-border trade competition and international stock return comovement" by Sungjune Pyun, Johan Sulaeman
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May 20
I've updated my undergrad and grad 'metrics course slides from this spring -- including new material, (many) fixed typos, and more!
Check 'em out on my website (link below), and feel free to email for the source materials if you'd like to use some of it for your own teaching
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Local projections are surprisingly robust to misspecification. By contrast, VAR confidence intervals with short-to-moderate lag length can severely undercover for misspecification that is small, difficult to detect, and cannot be ruled out a priori.
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Using a quantitative GE model with heterogeneous banks, we show ECB collateralised lending mitigated real effects of euro-area money-market disruptions.
New paper by De Fiore, Hoerova, @rogers_ciaran , and @haralduhlig
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For researchers interested in U.S. banking and finance, we are sharing a new data resource!
It contains information on bank balance sheets, bank runs, and bank failures from the 19th century to the present:
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Data from hundreds of thousands of ancient coins is used to reconstruct granular time series of trade and real consumption around the Mediterranean from the 4th to the 10th century, from @johannesmboehm and Thomas Chaney nber.org/papers/w35156
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