Jamie Bologna Pavlik of @ttu.edu and Amanda Ross of @uofalabama.bsky.social examine the heterogeneous effect of resource rents on the obstacles faced by different sized firms. #Africa #Corruption #Obstacles

"Estimating average treatment effects with only discrete covariates," by Jingping Gu of @uarkansas.bsky.social, Dennis W. Jansen of @tamu.bsky.social, and Xiaoyu Li of YUYI NET. #AverageTreatmentEffects #DiscreteCovariates #KernelSmoothing

The Presidential Address by Pia M. Orrenius of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and @mzavodny.bsky.social of University of North Florida explores the implications of the growing reliance on liminal status in U.S. immigration policy. #ImmigrationPolicy #TemporaryMigration #UnauthorizedImmigrants

"The effect of Certificate-of-Need laws on physician earnings and labor supply," by Moiz Bhai of @ualittlerock.bsky.social. #CertificateOfNeed #Healthcare #LaborMarket

Kihwan Bae of @kneecenter.bsky.social and @1armedeconomist.bsky.social of @provcollege.bsky.social evaluate the effect of Certificate-of-Need laws on health care workers. #CertificateOfNeed #HealthCareWorkers #Wages #Employment

"The effect of Certificate-of-Need laws on substance use disorder care for vulnerable populations," by Alicia Plemmons and Sarah Drain of @westvirginiau.bsky.social & @kneecenter.bsky.social, and @darwyyndeyo.bsky.social of San Jose State University & @kneecenter.bsky.social. #SubstanceUseDisorder

Shishir Shakya of @appalachianstate.bsky.social & Christine Bretschneider-Fries of @westvirginiau.bsky.social investigate how substance use Certificate-of-Need laws influence access to substance use disorder treatment facilities in the United States. #CertificateOfNeed #SubstanceUseDisorderTreatment

"The causal effect of repealing Certificate-of-Need laws for ambulatory surgical centers: Does access to medical services increase?" by Thomas Stratmann of @georgemasonu.bsky.social, Markus Bjoerkheim of the Joint Economic Committee Republicans, and Christopher Koopman of the Abundance Institute.

Vitor Melo of @rand.org, @lsigaud.bsky.social of @westvirginiau.bsky.social, Elijah Neilson of Southern Utah University, and Markus Bjoerkheim of the Joint Economic Committee Republicans offer the first estimate of the causal effects of CON laws on rural and urban healthcare access. #Regulation

"Certificate-of-Need laws in healthcare: A comprehensive review of the literature," by Matthew D. Mitchell of the Fraser Institute. #CertificateOfNeed #Healthcare #Regulation

The symposium introduction by Edward J. Timmons of Archbridge Institute examines the question: "Is certificate-of-need needed?" #CertificateOfNeed #RuralPatients #SubstanceUseDisorderTreatment #LaborMarket

"Further evidence on inflation targeting and income distribution," by @jtcoys.bsky.social of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis of @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. #IncomeDistribution #InflationTargeting #MonetaryPolicy ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

C. Richard Higgins of @colgate.edu and Irfan A. Qureshi of @adb.org examine the macroeconomic impact of changing central bank leadership. #MonetaryPolicy #Inflation

"Enhancing resilience with natural growth targeting," by Athanasios Orphanides of MIT. #FederalReserve #MonetaryPolicy #Pandemic ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Joshua Hendrickson of @olemiss.bsky.social makes the case for a nominal GDP level target in the United States. #FederalReserve #MonetaryPolicy #NominalGDP

"The fate of FAIT: Salvaging the Fed's framework," by @davidbeckworth.bsky.social of the Mercatus Center and Patrick J. Horan of Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill. #FederalReserve #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy

Lawrence H. White of @georgemasonu.bsky.social explores if the Federal Reserve should raise its inflation target. #FederalReserve #Inflation #Recession ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Monetarism and Monetary Policy," by Robert L. Hetzel of the Mercatus Center. #FederalReserve #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy

Louis Rouanet of University of Texas, El Paso and Alexander William Salter of @ttu.edu examine mission creep at the Federal Reserve. #FederalReserve #BankingPolicy #MonetaryPolicy

"How the Federal Reserve got so huge, and why and how it can shrink," by Bill Nelson of Bank Policy Institute. #FederalReserve #BankLiquidity #MonetaryPolicy

Thomas L. Hogan of University of Austin considers the effectiveness of the Federal Reserve's forward guidance in the 2020–2022 recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic. #FederalReserve #ForwardGuidance #COVID19

"The devolution of federal reserve monetary policy strategy, 2012–24," by Peter N. Ireland of @bostoncollege.bsky.social. #FederalReserve #DualMandate #PhillipsCurve ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Carola Binder of University of Texas at Austin discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States. #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy #FederalReserve

The symposium introduction by Bryan P. Cutsinger and William J. Luther of Florida Atlantic University reviews the Federal Reserve's monetary policy framework introduced in August 2020. #Greedflation #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy

The Presidential Address by Gary A. Hoover of @tulaneu.bsky.social examines where poverty in the United States stands today and how we got here. #Poverty #AmericanFamilies

Camilo Abbate of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, Jeffrey Cross of Hamilton College, and Richard Uhrig of the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimate the effect of objective review systems on home field advantage in soccer. #VideoAssistantReferee #ReviewSystems #Bias

"The paradox of transfers: Distribution and the Dutch disease," by Nazanin Behzadan of University of Prince Edward Island and Richard Chisik of @torontomet.bsky.social. #InternationalTrade #ForeignAid #Remittances ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Garth Heutel of @gsueconomics.bsky.social documents evidence for Giffen behavior in the demand for theme park rides. #ConsumerTheory #Demand #Recreation

"Income inequality, banking competition, and monetary policy," by Edgar A. Ghossoub of @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social and Robert R. Reed of @uofalabama.bsky.social. #Inflation #Banking #Income

Seung-Hun Chung of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and Ahmad Shah Mobariz of St. Olaf College investigate the influence of South Korea's exceptionally low fertility rate on neighboring China, particularly the Korean Chinese community. #Fertility #CulturalSimilarities #OpenBorders

"The color of coronavirus," by Cong S. Pham of @deakinuniversity.bsky.social and @devashishmitra.bsky.social of @maxwellsu.bsky.social. #COVID19 #PublicHealth #IncomeInequality #HealthInsurance ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Patrick Horan of the Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill examines Milton Friedman's work and his views on nominal income targeting. #MiltonFriedman #MonetaryPolicy #NominalIncome #InflationTargeting

"What philosophy can teach political economy about corruption: A non-ideal theory," by @mjuarezgarcia.bsky.social of @tulaneu.bsky.social. #Corruption #Philosophy #PoliticalEconomy ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

@marlytati.bsky.social, Vitezslav Titl, and @publicprocurement.bsky.social of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social examine the impact of changes in discretionary thresholds in the Czech Republic in 2012 and 2016 on discretion misuse and market competition. #PoliticalFavoritism #Procurement ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Foreign aid and corruption: Unveiling the obstacles to effective development," by Carlos Bethencourt and Fernando Perera-Tallo of @ull.es. #Corruption #ForeignAid #GrowthTheory ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Jamie Bologna Pavlik of @ttu.edu and Justin T. Callais of Archbridge Institute examine the relationship between corruption and income inequality across countries. #Corruption #Income #Inequality

"Exploring the corruption-inefficiency nexus using an endogenous stochastic frontier analysis," by Massimo Finocchiaro Castro of Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and Calogero Guccio of University of Catania. #Corruption #Endogeneity #Efficiency ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Vladimir Hlasny and @thomas-kalinowski.bsky.social of Ewha Womans University investigate how changes in inequality affect changes in corruption, controlling for comparative political economy factors. #Corruption #Inequality ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Does corruption discriminate? Racial opportunity gap in the United States," by Oguzhan Dincer of @illinoisstateu.bsky.social and Gary Hoover of @tulaneu.bsky.social. #Corruption #Discrimination #EconomicInequality #Racism

The symposium introduction by Oguzhan Dincer of @illinoisstateu.bsky.social, Michael Johnston of @colgate.edu, and Gary A. Hoover of @tulaneu.bsky.social outlines the political economy of corruption and topics that will be discussed in this special issue. #Corruption #Governance

"Did the affordable care act increase the availability of employer-sponsored health insurance?" by @conornomics.bsky.social of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. #ACA #EmployerMandate #HealthOutcomes

Joseph V. Terza of Indiana University Indianapolis offers teachers of econometrics a pedagogical approach for introducing Ph.D. students to asymptotic inference for two-stage M-estimators. #Asymptotics #Endogeneity ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Pedagogical practices and the gender gap in economics education," by Bryan Engelhardt, Marianne Johnson, and Sarinda Siemers of @uwoshkosh.bsky.social. #GenderGap #StudentEffort #LearningOutcomes

Yating Chuang of Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica examines peer effects on self-control problems by constructing a theoretical model to describe how peer networks influence consumption behaviors through social norms. #Consumption #Networks #PeerEffects

"Separating insider and informed behavior: Evidence from a natural setting," by Tadgh Hegarty of @ucddublin.bsky.social. #InsiderTrading #MarketEfficiency ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Andrew Farrant of Dickinson College and @vladtarko.bsky.social of @uarizona.bsky.social invoke a wealth of previously ignored primary source material that sheds significant new light on James M. Buchanan's early 1980s involvement with Chile. #Chile #Democracy #Dictatorship

"Does political conflict hurt immigration? Evidence from the South Korea–China THAAD dispute," by @himakun.bsky.social of @upenn.edu and Jongkwan Lee of Yonsei University. #China #SouthKorea #PoliticalConflict #Immigration #EconomicSanctions

Nicholas A. Curott of @ballstate.bsky.social and Lawrence H. White of @georgemasonu.bsky.social explain how Adam Smith's monetary and banking policy advice did not serve either Alexander Hamilton's or Thomas Jefferson's political agenda. #CentralBanking #FreeBanking

"The skilled worker premium and labor's share of income: Recent trends in U.S. manufacturing," by Norman Sedgley of Loyola University Maryland and Bruce Elmslie of University of New Hampshire. #SkillPremium #Outsourcing #MarketConcentration

Ahadul Kabir Muyeed of A2F Consulting and Ruoning Han of @whitmancollege.bsky.social examine how microfinance lenders design their loan contracts to motivate borrower repayments under competition. #Competition #DynamicIncentives #Microfinance