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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 9d

Colombia was the only major Latin American country not to default in the 1980s—despite having a similar default probability as its peers. In this forthcoming article the authors find short-term growth gains but no long-term market access benefits during turbulent times.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 9d

Forthcoming article "On the Benefits of Repaying" by Francesca Caselli @matildefaralli.bsky.social Paolo Manasse and @upanizza.bsky.social
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On the Benefits of Repaying

Abstract. This paper studies whether a country can benefit from not defaulting on its debts during times of widespread sovereign defaults. We focus on Colo

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 15d

Banks can ease SMEs’ information barriers to exporting. Using Italian data, we show that firms are more likely to start exporting to countries where their bank has foreign branches. These information spillovers reduce fixed entry costs, while export volumes remain unaffected.

jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 15d

Forthcoming article "Help in a Foreign Land: Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Export" by Emanuele Brancati
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Help in a Foreign Land: Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Exports

Abstract. The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper analyzes whether banks can supp

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 17d

2/2 Yet, aggregate adoption remains slow-moving, due to the homophily that naturally arises from the clustered nature of networks.

jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 17d

1/2 Why do farmers underinvest in profitable crops? We show that the adoption of highly-productive crops increases with social ties to adopters in tight-knit village networks of Vietnam.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 17d

Forthcoming article "The Pick of the Crop: Agricultural Practices and Clustered Networks in Village Economies" by and @andregroeger.bsky.social and Yanos Zylberberg
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The Pick of the Crop: Agricultural Practices and Clustered Networks in Village Economies

Abstract. This paper studies how social networks (might fail to) shape agricultural practices. We exploit (1) a unique census of agricultural production ne

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 20d

Forthcoming article "Spending Allocation under Nominal Uncertainty: A Model of Effective Price Rigidity" by Gaetano Gaballo and Luigi Paciello
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Spending Allocation Under Nominal Uncertainty: A Model of Effective Price Rigidity

Abstract. How do swings in inflation affect shopping behavior? We build on the idea that households’ price hunting intensifies with surprise inflation. In

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 23d

A model with technological diffusion in labor markets: new jobs copy technology from existing matches while less productive ones exit, driving growth through creative destruction. The economics differ from standard models, offering a new take on the Shimer puzzle.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 23d

Forthcoming article “Labor Market Dynamics and Growth” by Jake Bradley and Axel Gottfries @eeanews.bsky.social

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Fabian Kosse @fabiankosse.bsky.social · Sep 2

@michelatincani.bsky.social, Ranjita Rajan and I are very proud and thrilled that our paper “The Persistent Effect of Competition on Prosociality” has been accepted at @jeeanews.bsky.social

👉 First causal evidence that enduring competition persistently reduces prosociality

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Romain Wacziarg @romainwacziarg.bsky.social · Sep 4

The August 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now published (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...). It consists of 10 fantastic papers from a wide range of fields of economics. @jeeanews.bsky.social

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 29

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The lasting impact of war on trust: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone's civil war not only left a legacy of lost lives and damaged infrastructure, but changed the way trust is formed, showing how early-life trauma can shape long-term economic decision makin...

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Safe spaces for teenage girls in a time of crisis

An empowerment programme in Sierra Leone that supported girls through a simple life skills and livelihood training buffered adolescent girls from the adverse effects of the Ebola crisis.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 29

Even amid crisis, simple interventions can work. During Sierra Leone’s Ebola crisis, girls in a club-based program were less likely to get pregnant and more likely to stay in school.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 29

Forthcoming article "Safe Spaces for Teenage Girls in a Time of Crisis" by Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, @markusgold.bsky.social Imran Rasul and Andrea Smurra
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Safe Spaces for Teenage Girls in a Time of Crisis

Abstract. Adolescent girls across low-income countries face disadvantages stemming from limited agency over their bodies and barriers to investing in their

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 26

Forthcoming article "Mobile Apps and Targeted Advertising: Competitive Effects of Data Sharing" by Ding Li and Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai
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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 21

Does automation make experts more valuable or automate away their expertise? Both! In some jobs, automation eliminates expert tasks, reduces wages, and permits entry of less expert workers. In others, it eliminates inexpert tasks, boosts wages, and raises barriers to entry.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out the new article "Expertise" by @davidautor.bsky.social and Neil Thompson
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Expertise

Abstract. When job tasks are automated, does this augment or diminish the value of labor in the tasks that remain? We argue the answer depends on whether r

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Orkun Saka @orkunsaka.bsky.social · Aug 11

It has been a long journey but I’m glad that our paper with @b-eichengreen.bsky.social has now found itself such a nice home @jeeanews.bsky.social 😊

Interested in behavioural biases in banking or economics of culture in general? Download/read it for free here: academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 20

Check out the August 2025 issue (23,4) of @jeeanews.bsky.social Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social

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Issues | Journal of the European Economic Association | Oxford Academic

The Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) has a worldwide reputation for publishing articles of the highest scientific quality in theoretical and empirical economics for a global audienc...

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 1

Check out the virtual issue curated by former editor @bardharstad.bsky.social ‬- featuring papers - all with free access - on environmental economics, political economy and theory

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Editor’s Choice Collection: Bard Harstad

Thanks to all authors and referees: I have learned a lot from you and it is truly inspiring to see how the peer-review process contributes to the development of

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Jul 29

Forthcoming article by Pierre Olivier Gourinchas, Philippe Martin and Todd Messer "The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts, and the Eurozone Crisis" @eeanews.bsky.social

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The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts, and the Eurozone Crisis*

Abstract. Despite a formal ‘no-bailout clause,’ we estimate significant net present value transfers from the European Union to Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Por

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Jul 18

Combining field experiments, high-frequency data, and a dynamic model, we find female Uber drivers demand 19% more pay than men to give up flexibility and accept pre-committed schedules.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Jul 18

Forthcoming article by Kuan-Ming Chen, Ning Ding @johnlist.bsky.social and Magne Mogstad "Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment" @eeanews.bsky.social

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Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Abstract. We quantify how labor supply elasticities and reservation wages vary between people and over time, and infer workers’ valuation of flexibility in

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