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Optimal Age-based Policies for Pandemics: An Economic Analysis of Covid-19 and Beyond

Luiz Brotherhood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michèle Tertilt

This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic reveals an 80% reduction in the death toll due to voluntary actions and the lockdown implemented in the US.

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How You Pay Drives What You Choose: Mental Accounting in Health Insurance Plan Choice

Jonathan Gruber, Mengyun Lin, Haoming Liu, and Junjian Yi

We document that the source of funds for paying health insurance premiums has a dramatic impact on plan choices. We focus on the MediSave program in Singapore, a medical savings account that is used to pay out-of-pocket medical spending. Residents can also pay their health insurance premiums with cash or MediSave funds, but are subject to limits that vary by age and over time.

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Foreign Exchange Intervention with UIP and CIP Deviations

Philippe Bacchetta, Kenza Benhima, and Brendan Berthold

We examine the welfare-based opportunity cost of foreign exchange (FX) intervention when both CIP and UIP deviations are present. We consider a small open economy that receives international capital flows through constrained international financial intermediaries. Deviations from CIP come from limited arbitrage or through a convenience yield, while UIP deviations are also affected by global risk.

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Marriage, Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequality

Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso, and Luigi Pistaferri

We use population data on capital income and wealth holdings for Norway to measure asset positions and wealth returns before individuals marry and after the household is formed. These data allow us to establish a number of novel facts. First, individuals sort on personal wealth rather than parental wealth. Second, people match also on their personal returns to wealth and assortative mating on returns is as strong as that on wealth.

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Informative Certification: Screening vs. Acquisition

Gorkem Celik and Roland Strausz

We study monopolistic certification in markets where sellers possess partial private information about product quality. A certifier can provide information through two channels: screening sellers’ private information (soft information) and acquiring new quality data (hard information). We prove that any certification menu achieving less than maximal screening is Pareto dominated by one with full screening.

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An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union

Tristan Grupp, Prakash Mishra, Mathias Reynaert, and Arthur A. van Benthem

The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as protected areas, limiting economic development for biodiversity. We use the staggered introduction of protected areas between 1985 and 2019 to study the selection of protected land and the causal effect of protection on vegetation cover and nightlights. We find no meaningful impacts on either outcome across four decades, countries, protection cohorts, or land characteristics.

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Racial covenants became unenforceable in 1948. Their effects persist to date:

Covenants shaped who moved into neighborhoods, what got built, & where infrastructure was placed—and these early differences explain 6-24% of racial segregation and 3-4.4% of housing price gaps today!

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Data isn’t “free.” It’s missing from GDP.

A new macro model shows data barter, mis-measurement, and why growth is bigger than we think—by up to 6%.

New paper by @laura_veldkamp and Farboodi

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New paper by Farina, Fréchette, Ispano, Lizzeri, and Perego

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Under Smooth Diagnostic Expectations overreaction increases smoothly with uncertainty, providing a micro-foundation for key properties of survey data and the business cycle.

New paper by @Francesco_Bia, @CosminIlut, and @hpfilter

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