Accepted Papers

Wealth Dynamics in Communities

5 August 2022

Daniel Barron, Yingni Guo and Bryony Reich

This paper develops a model to explore how favor exchange influences wealth dynamics. We identify a key obstacle to wealth accumulation: wealth crowds out favor exchange.

We are all behavioral, more or less: A taxonomy of consumer decision making

26 July 2022

Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman

We examine how 17 behavioral biases relate to each other, to three standard measures of risk and time preferences, to cognitive skills, personality, and demographics, and to outcomes in household finance, well-being, and health.

Infrequent Random Portfolio Decisions in an Open Economy Model

26 July 2022

Philippe Bacchetta, Eric van Wincoop and Eric R. Young

We introduce a portfolio friction in a two-country DSGE model where investors face a constant probability to make new portfolio decisions.

Sentimental Business Cycles

22 July 2022

Andresa Lagerborg, Evi Pappa and Morten O. Ravn

We estimate the dynamic causal effects of consumer sentiment shocks in the US.

Reputation Building under Observational Learning

22 July 2022

Harry Pei

A patient seller interacts with a sequence of myopic consumers.

Price Discrimination and Public Policy in the U.S. College Market

22 July 2022

Ian Fillmore

In the United States, the federal government grants colleges access to a student’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) which facilitates substantial price discrimination.

When Less is More: Improving Choices in Health Insurance Markets

22 July 2022

Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber

We study the impact of changing choice set size on the quality of choices in health insurance markets.

The Missing Profits of Nations

22 July 2022

Thomas Tørsløv, Ludvig Wier and Gabriel Zucman

By exploiting new macroeconomic data known as foreign affiliates statistics, we show that affiliates of foreign multinational firms are an order of magnitude more profitable than local firms in a number of low-tax countries.

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How do currencies become international?

Bahaj & Reis(@R2Rsquared) show that PBoC swap lines boosted RMB use abroad, revealing a policy lever to jumpstart a currency’s international status.

https://www.restud.com/jumpstarting-an-international-currency/

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Editorial update:
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich @gchodorowreich (Harvard University) has stepped down as a Foreign Editor of The Review of Economic Studies. We are grateful to Gabe for his excellent service and contributions to the journal and the REStud Tour.

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"Capital flowed to high-inflation countries during recent surge, worsening the output-inflation tradeoff. Reversing flows would have reduced volatility & tightening needs."

New paper by @LouphouC & Bengui:

https://www.restud.com/destabilizing-capital-flows-amid-global-inflation/

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We are pleased to welcome @andreamoro (Vanderbilt University) as our new Data Editor, effective 1 January 2026. We look forward to collaborating with him in this new role.

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Wealth Dynamics in Communities

We are all behavioral, more or less: A taxonomy of consumer decision making

Infrequent Random Portfolio Decisions in an Open Economy Model

Sentimental Business Cycles

Reputation Building under Observational Learning

Price Discrimination and Public Policy in the U.S. College Market

When Less is More: Improving Choices in Health Insurance Markets

The Missing Profits of Nations

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