variety of real world markets, asking prices have received little attention in the academic literature. We construct an …

This paper analyses the welfare effects of price restrictions on private contracting in a world where agents have a …

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …