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The Subsidy Trap. Jeffrey Frankel, August 14, 2014. Opinion. "Few policies place good economics so directly at odds with good politics as subsidies for food and energy. The issue…
New Trade Models, New Welfare Implications. Marc Melitz, August 13, 2014, Paper. "We show that endogenous firm selection provides a new welfare margin for heterogeneous firm…
Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, and Preferences for Redistribution. James Alt, Torben Iversen, August 11, 2014, Paper, "We formalize and examine two overlapping models that…
It’s Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S. Richard Freeman, August 2014, Paper. "This paper links data on…
Who Wins, Who Loses? Tools for Distributional Policy Evaluation, Maximilian Kasy, July 28, 2014, Paper. "Most policy changes generate winners and losers. Political economy and…
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy? Karen Mills, July 21, 2014, Opinion. “Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not…
Growth in Regions. Andrei Shleifer, July 15, 2014, Paper. "We use a newly assembled sample of 1,528 regions from 83 countries to compare the speed of per capita income convergence…
Lawrence H. Summers on the Economic Challenge of the Future: Jobs. Lawrence Summers, July 7, 2014, Opinion. "The great economic problem for millennia has been scarcity. People…
Juma on Piketty's Capital: can Africa avoid the trap of unequal growth?, Calestous Juma, July 2, 2014, Opinion. "The revival of Africa's economic fortunes has ushered in a new…
Unhappy Cities. Edward Glaeser, July 2014, Paper. "There are persistent differences in self-reported subjective well-being across U.S. metropolitan areas, and residents of…