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Industrial Organization

The Future of the Electric Grid

Interdisciplinary study of the MIT Energy Initiative
Nancy L. Rose (Contributor)
January 2011
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Health Care Reform: What it is Why it's Necessary How it Works

Jonathan Gruber, Illustrated by Nathan Schreiber
January 2011
Inside and Outside Liquidity Cover

Inside and Outside Liquidity

Cambridge: MIT Press
Bengt Holmstrom and Jean Tirole
January 2011
Economic Theory

Heterogeneous Beliefs and Local Information in Stochastic Fictitious Play

Games and Economic Behavior
Drew Fudenberg and Satoru Takahashi
January 2011
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Economic Theory, Labor Economics

Lotteries in Student Assignment: An Equivalence Result

Theoretical Economics, Vol. 6(1): 1-17
Parag A. Pathak and Jay Sethuraman
January 2011
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Projecting the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on California

Health Affairs, 30, 63-70
Jonathan Gruber, Peter Long
January 2011
Economic Theory

Sensitivity of Equilibrium Behavior To Higher-Order Beliefs in Nice Games

Games and Economic Behavior, 72, 288-300
Jonathan Weinstein, Muhamet Yildiz
January 2011
Journal of Political Economy
Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics

When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Journal of Political Economy, 118(6), pp. 1037-1078.
Daron Acemoglu
December 2010

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Journal of Public Economics
Labor Economics, Econometrics

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

Journal of Public Economics, 94(11-12), 824-837
Joshua Angrist, Stacey Chen, Brigham Frandsen
December 2010
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy

Supporting Work: A Proposal for Modernizing the U.S. Disability Insurance System

Center for American Progress and the Hamilton Project,
David Autor, Mark Duggan
December 2010
Annals of Economics and Statistics
Econometrics

Estimation of the Conditional Variance in Paired Experiments

Annals of Economics and Statistics/Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 91 (special issue on "Econometric Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications"), 175-187
Alberto Abadie with G. Imbens
December 2010

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Econometrics, Labor Economics

When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards (working paper)

Joshua Angrist, Philip Oreopoulos, Tyler Williams
December 2010

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Macroeconomics

A Caricature (Model) of the World Economy

Prepared for the Ninth Macroeconomic Policy Research Workshop "Understanding Financial Frictions", Magyar Nemzeti Bank, Budapest
Ricardo Caballero
November 2010
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Information-Constrained Optima with Retrading: An Externality and Its Market-Based Solution

Journal of Economic Theory 146(3): 1042-1077
Weerachart T. Kilenthong, Robert M. Townsend
November 2010
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Economic Theory, Political Economy

Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(4), pp. 1511-1576
Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
November 2010
Development Economics

Long Run Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 92 (4)
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Tim Watts
November 2010
Macroeconomics

Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings

Journal of International Economics 82.2: 124–136
Ricardo Caballero, Pierre Yared
November 2010
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Economic Theory, Political Economy

Spread of (Mis)Information in Social Networks

Games and Economic Behavior, 70(2), pp. 194-227
Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Ali ParandehGheibi
November 2010