The Review of Economic Studies

Studies price competition under supply disruptions. A monopoly option causes prices to jump, then rise. Price caps may help consumers, but cut stocks; reserves may help, too.

New paper by Taylor & @SamuelHfner1

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In a Mexico City pawnshop RCT, structured repayment cut costs by 19% and default by 17.5%. Only 11% chose it, but even those who declined would have saved on average.

New paper by @economictricks, McIntosh, Meza, Sadka, & Seira

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Review of Economic Studies is happy to announce the launch of the new journal, Review of Economic Studies: Insights. This is an open-access, general-interest economics journal that will publish short papers with a fast review process and accept/reject decisions.

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When covariates are required for IV validity, usual IV may be misspecified and yield negative weights; interacted IV is often preferable.

New paper by @TymonSloczynski

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Can AI conduct qualitative interviews with thousands of people? In a new REStud paper, Friedrich Geiecke and @XJaravel develop an open-source approach that combines the depth of qualitative interviews with the scale of surveys.

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