This paper shows how the internal job market for participants in the IMF Economist Program (EPs) could be redesigned to eliminate most of the shortcomings of the current system. The new design is based on Gale and Shapley's (1962) Deferred Acceptance Algorithm (DAA) and generates an efficient...

We propose a novel experimental design to assess how to combine predictions from a theoretical model with experimental evidence to yield new, more accurate quantitative predictions. The first step involves deriving the predictions of the theoretical model by estimating unobserved parameters. The...