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作者：Jochmans, Koen; Weidner, Martin
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of London; University College London
摘要：This paper considers inference on fixed effects in a linear regression model estimated from network data. An important special case of our setup is the two-way regression model. This is a workhorse technique in the analysis of matched data sets, such as employer-employee or student-teacher panel data. We formalize how the structure of the network affects the accuracy with which the fixed effects can be estimated. This allows us to derive sufficient conditions on the network for consistent esti...
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作者：Kleiner, Andreas; Manelli, Alejandro
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：The main result in Daskalakis, Deckelbaum, and Tzamos (2017) establishes strong duality in the monopoly problem with an argument based on transportation theory. We provide a short, alternative proof using linear programming.
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作者：Chen, Songnian; Khan, Shakeeb; Tang, Xun
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Rice University
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作者：Fleiner, Tamas; Jagadeesan, Ravi; Janko, Zsuzsanna; Teytelboym, Alexander
作者单位：Budapest University of Technology & Economics; HUN-REN; HUN-REN Centre for Economic & Regional Studies; Institute of Economics - HAS; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Harvard University; Harvard University; University of Hamburg; Corvinus University Budapest; University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：We show how frictions and continuous transfers jointly affect equilibria in a model of matching in trading networks. Our model incorporates distortionary frictions such as transaction taxes and commissions. When contracts are fully substitutable for firms, competitive equilibria exist and coincide with outcomes that satisfy a cooperative solution concept called trail stability. However, competitive equilibria are generally neither stable nor Pareto-efficient.
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作者：Braun, R. Anton; Kopecky, Karen A.; Koreshkova, Tatyana
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Atlanta; Concordia University - Canada; Universite de Montreal
摘要：Half of U.S. 50-year-olds will experience a nursing home stay before they die, and one in ten will incur out-of-pocket long-term care expenses in excess of $200,000. Surprisingly, only about 10% of individuals over age 62 have private long-term care insurance (LTCI) and LTCI takeup rates are low at all wealth levels. We analyze the contributions of Medicaid, administrative costs, and asymmetric information about nursing home entry risk to low LTCI takeup rates in a quantitative equilibrium con...
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作者：Trebbi, Francesco; Weese, Eric
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); National Bureau of Economic Research; Kobe University
摘要：Insurgency and guerrilla warfare impose enormous socio-economic costs and often persist for decades. The opacity of such forms of conflict is an obstacle to effective international humanitarian intervention and development programs. To shed light on the internal organization of otherwise unknown insurgent groups, this paper proposes two methodologies for the detection of unobserved coalitions of militants in conflict areas. These approaches are based on daily geocoded incident-level data on in...
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作者：Andrews, Donald; Ely, Jeffrey
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作者：Lipnowski, Elliot; Sadler, Evan
作者单位：University of Chicago; Columbia University
摘要：We can often predict the behavior of those closest to us more accurately than that of complete strangers, yet we routinely engage in strategic situations with both: our social network impacts our strategic knowledge. Peer-confirming equilibrium describes the behavioral consequences of this intuition in a noncooperative game. We augment a game with a network to represent strategic information: if two players are linked in the network, they have correct conjectures about each others' strategies....
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作者：Breza, Emily; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We conduct an experiment to study whether individuals save more when information about the progress toward their self-set savings goal is shared with another village member (a monitor). We develop a reputational framework to explore how a monitor's effectiveness depends on her network position. Savers who care about whether others perceive them as responsible should save more with central monitors, who more widely disseminate information, and proximate monitors, who pass information to individ...
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作者：Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse M.; Taddy, Matt
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Brown University; Amazon.com
摘要：We study the problem of measuring group differences in choices when the dimensionality of the choice set is large. We show that standard approaches suffer from a severe finite-sample bias, and we propose an estimator that applies recent advances in machine learning to address this bias. We apply this method to measure trends in the partisanship of congressional speech from 1873 to 2016, defining partisanship to be the ease with which an observer could infer a congressperson's party from a sing...
