May 2024, Paper: "As the latest general-purpose-technology (GPT), we study the value of AI innovations as it diffuses across general and…
We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking – the belief
that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the…
May 2024, Paper: "Foreign policy-makers must grapple with complexity, uncertainty, and subjectivity. As Betts (2000) puts it, these…
Origin-specific tariffs are a common policy tool; however, critics claim that such tariffs are often circumvented by rerouting goods…
We use data on stock portfolios of Norwegian households to show that stock market wealth increases entrepreneurship by relaxing financial…
This paper provides new evidence on a long-standing question asked by Shiller (1997): Why do we dislike inflation? I conducted two surveys…
Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in…
We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people’s minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an…
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A common complaint about tax systems is that they are too complex and several countries offer simplified regimes to subsets of taxpayers.…
Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians…