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The authors identify the rent-sharing elasticity in German manufacturing using firms' energy input mix. A 10% change in rents changes wages by about 2%. Effects are asymmetric: workers do not benefit from energy price cuts, but a 10% rise in energy prices cuts wage growth by 0.34%.

Identifying Rent-Sharing Using Firms’ Energy Input Mix Abstract. We present causal evidence on the rent-sharing elasticity of German manufacturing firms. We develop a new firm-level Bartik instrument for firm r

Forthcoming article "Identifying Rent-Sharing Using Firms’ Energy Input Mix" by Matthias Mertens, Steffen Mueller and Georg Neuschaeffer
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What drove top inequality in France since 1984? Markups, taxes, and asset prices, but mainly through saving-rate responses. The paper quantifies the mechanisms in a heterogeneous-agent model with three assets (deposits, housing and capital) and disciplined by DINA data.

Forthcoming article "Unpacking Rising Inequality: The Roles of Markups, Taxes, and Asset Prices" by Stéphane Auray @eyquem2.bsky.social @bgarbinti.bsky.social and Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
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Coordination and Sophistication Abstract. How coordination can be achieved in isolated, one-shot interactions without communication and in the absence of focal points is a long-standing q

Forthcoming article "Coordination and Sophistication" by Larbi Alaoui, Katharina A Janezic and Antonio Penta
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Communication and the Emergence of a Unidimensional World Abstract. While individuals hold, exchange, and update opinions over multiple issues, these opinions are often correlated, and a unidimensional spectrum is

Forthcoming article "Communication and the Emergence of a Unidimensional World" by Philippos Louis, Orestis Troumpounis and Nikolas Tsakas
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Why do groups sometimes acquire more information than individuals? This paper shows that groups seek more when information aligns preferences, but less when it creates divergence. An experiment supports these predictions. It speaks to state capacity and the wisdom of the crowd.

Forthcoming article "The Role of Information in Collective Decisions" by Nicolás Figueroa, José-Alberto Guerra and Francisco Silva
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Can micro data identify macro spillovers? The authors show that firm- and bank-level data can discipline both the direct and indirect general-equilibrium effects of sovereign risk. Calibrated to Italy, the model implies sovereign risk accounted for roughly one-third of output losses in 2011–13.

Forthcoming article "Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity" by Cristina Arellano, Yan Bai and Luigi Bocola
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Using data from PIAAC, the world's largest international survey of adult skills, Hartinger, Resnjanskij, Ruhose & Wiederhold show that people from more individualistic cultures develop stronger cognitive skills, invest more in education, earn higher wages, and face lower unemployment.

Individualism and the Formation of Human Capital Abstract. More individualistic countries experience higher economic growth. We provide evidence for a human-capital-based explanation of the growth effects

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This paper studies how entry affects gasoline price distributions in Germany. Using several hundred entries in an event study, it finds a persistent shift in prices: little change at the top, but substantially lower prices at the left tail of the price distribution.

The Heterogeneous Effects of Entry on Prices Abstract. We study the effect of entry on the price distribution in the German retail gasoline market. Exploiting several hundred entries over five years i

Forthcoming article "The Heterogeneous Effects of Entry on Prices" by Kai Fischer, Simon Martin and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler
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The Case for an Animal Welfare Levy

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The authors propose a non-anthropocentric Pigouvian levy on meat to address animal-welfare externalities. Under total utilitarianism, it is a tax when animals’ lives are not worth living. Calibrations suggest high levels, at least €10 per kg for pork and chicken.

The Animal-Welfare Levy Abstract. We provide a nonanthropocentric rationale for implementing a levy on meat consumption due to animal-welfare considerations. It operates as a Pigo

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Policies for Early Childhood Skills Formation: Accounting for Parental Choices and Noncognitive Skills Abstract. What are the returns in terms of children’s skills development to child allowance policies? Answering this question requires a theory of the trad

Forthcoming article "Policies for Early Childhood Skills Formation: Accounting for Parental Choices and Noncognitive Skills" by Iacopo Morchio
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When does norms-based discrimination emerge? We stress the importance of economic integration. A minority is at risk of discrimination in democracy (a majority of voters may prefer a world with discrimination than without) when it is composed of many workers and few employers.

A Political Economy of Social Discrimination Abstract. This paper studies the causes and consequences of social discrimination. We consider a labor market in which payoff-irrelevant identity traits ca

Forthcoming article "A Political Economy of Social Discrimination" by Torun Dewan and Stephane Wolton
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Editorial Board Managing Editor Romain Wacziarg UCLA Anderson School of Management wacziarg@ucla.edu Romain Wacziarg is a professor of economics at UCLA Anderson School of M

EEA Editorial Board 2026: Biggest thanks to Andrea Weber stepping down as Co-Editor after many years of outstanding service on the JEEA Editorial team as well as a warm welcome to Jessica Pan as new Co-Editor @eeanews.bsky.social
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking - ProMarket Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political polarization at historic levels, a new paper finds that ...

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In the “The Common Good and Voter Polarization”, Kendall and Matsusaka use data on ballot propositions to show that voters weight the common good and their own private interests roughly equally. Thus, there is still hope for democracy in an increasingly polarized environment.

The Common Good and Voter Polarization Abstract. Do voters see democracy entirely in spatial terms, as a tradeoff of conflicting interests, or do they also view it as a search for the “common go

Forthcoming article "The Common Good and Voter Polarization" by Chad Kendall and John G Matsusaka
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Can mandatory service build nations? Evidence from Argentina shows conscription boosts national identity and social integration, but not civic values. Effects appear driven by value inculcation in the military, not just contact across social groups.

Nation-Building through Military Service Abstract. This paper studies conscription’s role in durably shaping attitudes and beliefs consistent with nation-building. We pair original survey data cov

Forthcoming article "Nation-Building through Military Service" by Juan Pedro Ronconi and Diego Ramos-Toro
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