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Macroeconomics

A Risk-centric Model of Demand Recessions and Speculation

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 135, Number 3
Ricardo Caballero, Alp Simsek
August 2020
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Political Economy

The Perils of High Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 12(3), pp. 1-43
Daron Acemoglu, Leopoldo Fergusson, James Robinson, Dario Romero, Juan F. Vargask
August 2020
Journal of Political Economy
Development Economics, Political Economy

Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan

Journal of Political Economy, 128(8), pp. 3090-3147.
Daron Acemoglu, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja, James A. Robinson
August 2020

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Prepublication PDF International Finance Discussion Papers 1280

The Economics of Platforms in a Walrasian Framework

Economic Theory, 71 (3): 877–924
Anil Jain, Robert M. Townsend
August 2020

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Health Economics, Public Economics

Randomized trial shows healthcare payment reform has equal-sized spillover effects on patients not targeted by reform

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Yunan Ji, and Neale Mahoney
August 2020
Development Economics

The (lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia

Journal of Public Economics Plus, Volume 1
Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto
July 2020
Economic Theory

No Trade and Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs

Stephen Morris
July 2020
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Adaptive Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in India: Local Gradual and Trigger-Based Exit Paths from Lockdown

Jonathan Gruber, Anup Malani, et al
July 2020
Economic Theory

Machine Learning for Evaluating and Improving Theories

SIGecom Exchanges
Fudenberg D and Liang A
July 2020
Development Economics

Messages on Covid-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-Recipient Members of their Communities

Abhijit Banerjee, Marcella Alsan, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Abhijit Chowdhury, Esther Duflo, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Benjamin A. Olken
July 2020
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Natural Disasters and Elective Medical Services: How Big is the Bounceback?

Tatyana Deryugina, Jonathan Gruber, Adrienne Sabety
July 2020
Development Economics

Field Experiments and the Practice of Policy

Esther Duflo
July 2020
Industrial Organization

Will Competition be Another COVID-19 Causality?

The Hamilton Project
Nacy L. Rose
July 2020
Review of Economic Studies
Political Economy

Population and Conflict

The Review of Economic Studies, (87)4, pp. 1565–1604.
Daron Acemoglu, Leopoldo Fergusson, Simon Johnson
July 2020
Development Economics

Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-Recipient Members of Their Communities

Abhijit Banerjee, Marcella Alsan, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Abhijit Chowdhury, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Benjamin A. Olken
July 2020

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Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer, and the Rise of Modern Development Economics

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122(3)
Benjamin A. Olken
July 2020
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Public Economics

Measuring Economic Efficiency Using Inverse-Optimum Weights

Journal of Public Economics 187
Nathaniel Hendren
June 2020
Operations Research
Economic Theory, Health Economics

Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing and the Spread of an Infection

forthcoming, Operations Research
Daron Acemoglu, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, Asu Ozdaglar
June 2020