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The JPE announced the winners of this year's Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize: Oleg Itskhoki and Dmitry Mukhin for "Exchange Rate Disconnect in General Equilibrium." Read more about the prize here: journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe/l… #JPE #economics #JPolEcon

The first issue of the Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics is now available to read for free! journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpema/2023… Chicago Journals

The first issue of the Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics is now available to read for free! tinyurl.com/2p823ndr Chicago Journals

The XXV workshop in intl econ & finance will be held at Economía UTDT on August 28, 29, 30. Tom Sargent will be a keynote speaker. Deadline for submitting papers is June 9th utdt.edu/ief-workshop. Partners Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo and World Bank.

1/7 🧵 Our new paper explores how supplier entry-exit impacts micro- and macro-economic outcomes. We reveal strong evidence that "Love-of-variety" and "Quality-ladders"—key aspects in growth and trade models—do exist and significantly influence growth.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Measuring Welfare by Matching Households across Time,” by Baqaee (@Dbaqaee), Burstein (Ariel Burstein), and Koike-Mori (Yasu Koike-Mori): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Recently published in REStud, ``Unequal expenditure switching: Evidence from Switzerland'', from Auer, Burstein, Lein and Vogel: restud.com/unequal-expend…

Chang He JMP: "Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions" Website: misschanghe.com

On Monday and Tuesday we'll have the Annual Economía UTDT conference. Here is the lineup utdt.edu/ver_contenido.…

A short interview on our paper measuring the “love for variety” in production networks.

A new method for measuring dynamic welfare without assumptions about functional forms or belief formation; useful for estimating welfare effect of dynamic/stochastic shocks, from @Dbaqaee, Ariel Burstein, and Yasu Koike-Mori nber.org/papers/w32567

Thread on new wp: measuring forward-looking welfare is challenging due to unobservable factors like state-contingent plans, future beliefs, and preference parameters. This typically requires strong assumptions and fully-spelled out structural model. 1/N nber.org/papers/w32567

I am happy to present at the #SED2024 tomorrow Saturday at 3:30 pm, accompanied by great papers! The session, chaired by Ariel Burstein, is called the transmission of shocks in complex economies. Attend and reach out if you want to connect!

Delighted to put out this WP motivated by puzzlingly low contraceptive use among female students in Zambia. Pregnancies seem to account for much of female dropout. Yet even though majority are sexually active, few use hormonal contraceptives. Why?

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19516 Cross-border shopping: evidence and #welfare implications for #Switzerland Ariel Tomas Burstein Ariel Burstein UCLA, Sarah Lein Sarah Lein University of Basel KOF Swiss Economic Institute SFI, Jonathan Vogel UCLA ow.ly/S8Cx50Tt2qt #CEPR_IMF #CEPR_ITRE

New: "Cross-border shopping: Evidence and welfare implications for Switzerland" by Ariel Burstein (Ariel Burstein), Sarah Lein (Sarah Lein) and Jonathan Vogel (Jonathan Vogel). doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/2

Do you carry your passport to shop? Swiss do! 👉Welfare impact of cross border shopping (id’d by Covid closure). New evidence VoxEU 🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… UCLA Economics CEPR

Using a comprehensive dataset of electronic invoices from Chilean firms to document new facts on price dispersion across buyers of manufactured intermediate goods, from Ariel Burstein, Javier Cravino, and Marco Rojas nber.org/papers/w33128

Characterizing long-run comparative statics by showing that balanced growth paths are equilibria of static economies where capital is an intermediate with an endogenous markup, from @Dbaqaee and @hannesmalmberg1 nber.org/papers/w33504