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Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022
Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random subset of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra Leone illustrates this idea.
L. Casaburi, T. Reed
semanticscholar   +1 more source

When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains

open access: yesThe American Economic Review
We study unanticipated tariffs in a setting with firm-to-firm supply relationships. Firms conduct costly searches and negotiate with potential suppliers that pass a reservation level of match productivity.
G. Grossman   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Missing Growth from Creative Destruction

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2017
For exiting products, statistical agencies often impute inflation from surviving products. This understates growth if creatively-destroyed products improve more than surviving ones. If so, then the market share of surviving products should systematically
P. Aghion   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Information frictions limit the adoption of new agricultural technologies in developing countries. Efforts to improve learning involve spreading information from government agents to farmers.
M. Dar   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network
I present a new theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium, based on an innovative, scalable hedonic demand system, which I take to the data for the universe of US public firms.
Bruno Pellegrino
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Firms’ Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2019
Using confidential establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database, this paper documents how local shocks propagate across US regions through firms’ internal networks of establishments.
Xavier Giroud, Holger M. Mueller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2019
The National Banking Acts (NBAs) of 1863–1864 established rules governing the amounts and locations of interbank deposits, thereby reshaping the bank networks.
H. Anderson   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Coordination in the Fight against Collusion

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Microeconomics
While antitrust authorities strive to detect, prosecute, and thereby deter collusive conduct, entities harmed by that conduct are also advised to pursue their own strategies to deter collusion.
Elisabetta Iossa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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