This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed
to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods …

This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with
economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is …

Platform sponsors typically have both incentive and opportunity to manage the overall value
of their ecosystems. Through selective promotion, a platform sponsor can reward successful …

Pump-and-dump schemes (P&Ds) pervade the cryptocurrency market. We find that P&Ds
trigger short-term episodes featuring dramatic increases in prices, volume, and volatility …

Individuals living in poverty remain a critical issue. This special issue focuses on how
entrepreneurship can help to solve such poverty. Rather than viewing those in poverty as a …

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A
masterpiece.”—Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.”—The …

This paper examines how prices, markups, and marginal costs respond to trade
liberalization. We develop a framework to estimate markups from production data with multi …

This survey gives a brief overview of the literature on the difference-in-difference (DiD)
estimation strategy and discusses major issues using a treatment effects perspective. In this …

Although a large literature seeks to explain the “missing middle” of mid-sized firms in
developing countries, there is surprisingly little empirical backing for existence of the missing …

Background Several states have expanded Medicaid eligibility for adults in the past decade,
and the Affordable Care Act allows states to expand Medicaid dramatically in 2014. Yet the …