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Rent-Seeking Platforms

Rodney J. Garratt, Michael Junho Lee, Antoine Martin, Robert M. Townsend
November 2023
Market Design

On the Alignment of Consumer Surplus and Total Surplus Under Competitive Price Discrimination

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper 2373
Dirk Bergemann, Benjamin Brooks and Stephen Morris
November 2023

Sources

Online Supplement
International Economics, Political Economy

Why is Trade Not Free? A Revealed Preference Approach

Dave Donaldson, Rodrigo Adão, Arnaud Costinot, and John Sturm
October 2023

Digital Safety Nets: A Roadmap

BIS WP No. 139
Karaivanov, Alexander, Benoit Mojon, Luiz A Pereira da Silva and Robert M Townsend
September 2023

Interactions of Formal and Informal Insurance

Hong Ru and Robert M. Townsend
September 2023

Sources

Social Protection Review Appendix
Development Economics

Social Protection in the Developing World

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken and Diana Sverdlin-Lisker
August 2023

A Young Person's Guide to Lawrence F. Katz

David Autor and David Deming
August 2023
Market Design

Cost Based Nonlinear Pricing

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper 2368
Dirk Bergemann, Tibor Heumann and Stephen Morris
August 2023

Tiered Intermediation in Business Groups

Yu Shi, Robert M. Townsend, Wu Zhu
July 2023

Sources

Appendices Previous version: NBER Working Paper
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

National Borders and the Conservation of Nature

Robin Burgess and Francisco Costa
July 2023

Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit

Marc Rysman, Robert M. Townsend, and Christoph Walsh
July 2023
Economic Theory

How Good Are Privacy Guarantees? Platform Architecture and Violation of User Privacy

Daron Acemoglu, Alireza Fallah, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, Asuman Ozdaglar
June 2023

Sources

Appendix

The Economics of Tropical Deforestation

Prepared for the Annual Review of Economics
Clare Balboni, Aaron Berman, Robin Burgess, and Benjamin A. Olken
May 2023
Review of Economic Studies

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Appendix

The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics

Revise and resubmit, The Review of Economic Studies
Clare Balboni, Robin Burgess, Benjamin A. Olken
May 2023

Inequality and Globalization: Improving Measurement Through Integrated Financial Accounts

Forthcoming from Princeton University Press
Archawa Paweenawat and Robert M. Townsend
May 2023

Sources

https://revista.liftlab.com.br/lift/article/view/120

Brazil’s Central Bank Digital Currency: Improving Financial Infrastructure with Programmability

LIFT Papers No. 5
Victor Orestes and Robert M. Townsend
April 2023

Rise of Bank Competition: Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China

Haoyu Gao, Hong Ru, Robert M. Townsend, Xiaoguang Yang
March 2023
Macroeconomics

Optimal Policy Rules in HANK

Revise and resubmit, The Review of Economic Studies
Alisdair McKay, Christian Wolf
March 2023