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This paper studies how a large increase in the price level is transmitted to the real economy through firm balance sheets. Using newly digitized macro- and micro-level data from the German inflation of 1919-1923, we show that inflation led to a large reduction in real debt burdens and...
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We study the long-term effects of inflation surges on inflation expectations. German households living in areas with higher local inflation during the hyperinflation of the 1920s expect higher inflation today, after partialling out determinants of historical inflation and current inflation...
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recent economics research on prominent ideas in moral psychology. First, the theory that morality is ultimately economically … politico-economic outcomes influence each other if they engage with research in economics …
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We examine the ways in which political realities shape industrial policy through the lens of modern political economy. We consider two broad "governance constraints": i) the political forces that shape how industrial policy is chosen and ii) the ways in which state capacity affects...
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Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have the potential to revolutionize research in economics and other …
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Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals … Economics degree than non-enrollees (a plausible lower bound given negative selection into enrollment on math skills and major … participation in Economics …
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publications in the top journals in three fields - Psychology, Mathematics and Economics - and develop a series of models to …
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This article presents a comprehensive analysis of trends in the publication and citation of economics scholarly … research, with a focus on specialization within fields of economics research (i.e., applied, applied theory, econometrics … research economics journals. We then used state-of-the-art machine learning and natural language processing techniques to …
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Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment …
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In this paper I analyze the work on exchange rates and external imbalances by University of Chicago faculty members during the university's first hundred years, 1892-1992. Many people associate Chicago's views with Milton Friedman's advocacy for flexible exchange rates. But, of course, there was...
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