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Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit

Marc Rysman, Robert M. Townsend, and Christoph Walsh
July 2023
Economic Theory

How Good Are Privacy Guarantees? Platform Architecture and Violation of User Privacy

Daron Acemoglu, Alireza Fallah, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, Asuman Ozdaglar
June 2023

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Appendix

The Economics of Tropical Deforestation

Prepared for the Annual Review of Economics
Clare Balboni, Aaron Berman, Robin Burgess, and Benjamin A. Olken
May 2023
Review of Economic Studies

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Appendix

The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics

Revise and resubmit, The Review of Economic Studies
Clare Balboni, Robin Burgess, Benjamin A. Olken
May 2023

Inequality and Globalization: Improving Measurement Through Integrated Financial Accounts

Forthcoming from Princeton University Press
Archawa Paweenawat and Robert M. Townsend
May 2023
Econometrics

GMM is Inadmissible Under Weak Identification

Anna Mikushev, Isaiah Andrews
May 2023
Political Economy

Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
April 2023

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https://revista.liftlab.com.br/lift/article/view/120

Brazil’s Central Bank Digital Currency: Improving Financial Infrastructure with Programmability

LIFT Papers No. 5
Victor Orestes and Robert M. Townsend
April 2023

Rise of Bank Competition: Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China

Haoyu Gao, Hong Ru, Robert M. Townsend, Xiaoguang Yang
March 2023

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NBER Working Paper

Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design

Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez
March 2023
Macroeconomics

Optimal Policy Rules in HANK

Revise and resubmit, The Review of Economic Studies
Alisdair McKay, Christian Wolf
March 2023
Industrial Organization

Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects

New version available
Andreas Grunewald, Jonathan Lanning, David Low, Tobias Salz
February 2023

Risk-taking over the Life Cycle: Aggregate and Distributive Implications of Entrepreneurial Risk

Dejanir H. Silva, Robert M. Townsend
February 2023
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Environmental Economics

Mirage on the Horizon: Geoengineering and Carbon Taxation Without Commitment

Journal of Public Economics, 219 (2023), pp. 1-22.
Daron Acemoglu, Will Rafey
December 2022
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One Instrument to Rule Them All: The Bias and Coverage of Just-ID IV

Joshua D. Angrist and Michal Kolesár
December 2022
Industrial Organization

Internet Matching Technologies and the Geographic Distribution of Chess Skills

Sara Fisher Ellison, Maren Young
December 2022

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News Release on LinkedIn IMF Working Paper

A Multi-Currency Exchange and Contracting Platform

IMF Working Paper No. WP/22/217
Tobias Adrian, Federico Grinberg, Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Robert M. Townsend, and Nicolas Zhang
November 2022

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

NBER Working Paper 30659
Daron Acemoglu, Gary W. Anderson, David N. Beede, Cathy Buffington, Eric E. Childress, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia S. Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John C. Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, Pascual Restrepo, and Nikolas Zolas
November 2022