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Robots, Trade, and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation

30 October 2022

Arnaud Costinot and Ivan Werning

Technological change, from the advent of robots to expanded trade opportunities, creates winners and losers. How should government policy respond?

Editorial Board

New members of the Editorial Board

28 October 2022

We are delighted to announce that Daniel Gottlileb of LSE and Severine Toussaert of Oxford University will join the Editorial Board of REStud with effect from 1 January 2023.

IQ, Expectations, and Choice

26 October 2022

Francesco D'Acunto, Daniel Hoang, Maritta Paloviita, and Michael Weber

We use administrative and survey-based micro data to study the relationship between cognitive abilities (IQ), the formation of inflation expectations, and the consumption plans of a representative male population.

Optimal Feedback in Contests

23 October 2022

Jeffrey C. Ely, George Georgiadis, Sina Khorasani, and Luis Rayo

We obtain optimal dynamic contests for environments where the designer monitors effort through coarse, binary signals—Poisson successes—and aims to elicit maximum effort, ideally in the least amount of time possible, given a fixed prize.

Price Discrimination in the Information Age: Prices, Poaching, and Privacy with Personalized Targeted Discounts

23 October 2022

Simon Anderson, Alicia Baik and Nathan Larson

We study list price competition when firms can individually target consumer discounts (at a cost) afterwards, and we address recent privacy regulation (like the GDPR) allowing consumers to choose whether to opt-in to targeting.

Restud North American Tour – 2022

23 October 2022

In 2022, Alison Andrew (UCL), Nicolas Bonneton (Mannheim), Amanda Dahlstrand (LSE), Diego Kaenzig (LBS), and Noemi Pinardon-Touati (HEC Paris) visited Duke University, UC San Diego, the University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Liquidity and Exchange Rates: An Empirical Investigation

16 October 2022

Charles Engel and Steve Pak Yeung Wu

We find strong empirical evidence that the liquidity yield on government bonds in combination with standard economic fundamentals can well account for nominal exchange rate movements.

Agenda-manipulation in ranking

16 October 2022

Gregorio Curello and Ludvig Sinander

We study the susceptibility of committee governance (e.g. by boards of directors), modelled as the collective determination of a ranking of a set of alternatives, to manipulation of the order in which pairs of alternatives are voted on—agenda-manipulation.

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Robots, Trade, and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation

New members of the Editorial Board

IQ, Expectations, and Choice

Optimal Feedback in Contests

Price Discrimination in the Information Age: Prices, Poaching, and Privacy with Personalized Targeted Discounts

Restud North American Tour – 2022

Liquidity and Exchange Rates: An Empirical Investigation

Agenda-manipulation in ranking

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