WEAI Economic Inquiry

Western Economic Association International's Economic Inquiry.

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Our Editorial Board has chosen our Paper of the Year for 2024. This paper presents important results regarding the trustworthiness of economic research. Congratulations to Anna, Magnus and Yifan! https://t.co/pMq5QTnzoY

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As a small way of thanking referees for their work, we give awards for Outstanding Referee Service. For 2024, our editorial board has given these awards to Geoff Schnorr of West Point, @GeoffSchnorr, and Matias Cortes of York University, @cortesecon. Thanks for the support!

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We have decided to join the exodus to Bluer pastures. Please follow our new account @ei-sky.bsky.social for future updates from Economic Inquiry. Hope to see everyone over there! Also follow @weai.bsky.social if you can.

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What does optimal immigration policy look like?

This paper studies this question with a model of native preferences over redistributive transfers, a public good subject to congestion, and over the level of family-based migration!

https://t.co/z3k7rj6Xrx
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What role do underground economies play in fiscal consolidation policies?

These authors explore this question through a DSGE model allowing for reallocation between a formal and informal sector!

https://t.co/ZsCnxE1Ku5
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Economic research may be becoming more specialized! @RamiroHGalvez and @SFGaliani use natural language processing to show theory papers' citations are growing more narrow in scope, while applied papers show an opposite trend:
https://t.co/bC4WWjoWdS @WileyEconomics

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Does it matter if a leader is pro-social, or just claims to be? This Experiment shows that leaders claiming to be pro-social boosts efficiency even if that claim is false! https://t.co/NMInBlxCH5 @WileyEconomics #EconTwitter @cartwright_e

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This paper shows computational speed gains in replicating Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz's(EKK) 2011 paper with a GPU.
This method is then applied to Chinese manufacturing data.
EKK's results are corroborated by these findings!
https://t.co/6RNEQL7phQ @WileyEconomics

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Are price-match guarantees price discrimination?

These authors find the price of the policy-adopting retailer increases during the policy validity period.

These results indicate PMGs act as price discrimination or signaling tools!

https://t.co/5voIG0ppqJ @WileyEconomics

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The effect of new information on betting odds results in initial inertia followed by a lagged reaction!

@kai__fischer and @schmal_w show this following the absence announcements of soccer players.

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Automatic enrollment IRA policies increase the chance of firms offering employer-sponsored retirement plans by 7%!
Learn more from this paper by @SitaSlavov here: https://t.co/srEkVgjNJd
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Monetary policy expectations drive economic decisions, but accuracy matters. When expectations align with future policy, markets stabilize. When they don't, volatility increases! #EconTwitter @WileyEconomics https://t.co/x8lAnjCd6d

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Who is really hurt by boycotts?

Boycotts often hurt companies that work with foreign manufacturers as well as their direct target!

This paper provides evidence for this in the Japan-China automobile supply chain.

https://t.co/hRikKkZaaL @WileyEconomics #econtwitter

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What is the relationship between emotion and confirmation bias in politics? This paper finds negative emotions can help counteract confirmation bias!

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Under many pension schemes, optimal purchasing of pooled contracts are prevented by borrowing constraints. To mitigate this, this author finds a mandated pooled annuity targeting the middle-aged may be welfare improving!
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What impact does loss aversion have on player behavior in a winner-takes-all contest? To answer this, these authors introduce reference-dependent preferences to the Tullock contest! https://t.co/a3mIr51Rfj @WileyEconomics #econtwitter

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Economic Inquiry's October 2024 Issue is now available online!

This issue covers a variety of subjects, ranging from lab experiments on preferences to drinking habits during the pandemic. Read more here:
https://t.co/zhwVEmDpFv

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What impact does framing have on leading-by-example? @MDrouvelis and @cartwright_e use a 2 × 2 experiment design to find that contributions are strongly related to beliefs but framing effects remain once beliefs are controlled for.

https://t.co/F0flaw9Ayo @WileyEconomics

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This paper finds evidence that activity based funding improves technical efficiency for hospitals! @ValentinZeleny1 and coauthors achieve this result through a popular two-stage DEA framework.
https://t.co/9EvtluxyI7 @WileyEconomics #EconTwitter