JEEA-FBBVA Lecture
The JEEA-FBBVA Lecture is given twice a year: at the Annual ASSA/AEA Meeting and at the offices of the FBBVA. These lectures are subsequently published as leading articles in JEEA.
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This paper uses a dataset from Tanzania with information on consumption, income, and income shocks within and across family networks. Crucially and uniquely, it also contains data on the degree of information existing between each pair of households within family networks.
Aggregate production functions are reduced-form relationships that emerge endogenously from input-output interactions between heterogeneous producers and factors in general equilibrium.
This paper develops a framework to study environmentalism as a cultural phenomenon, namely as reflecting a process of social identification with certain values.
The importance of financial markets and international capital flows has increased greatly since the 1990s. How does this affect the effectiveness of monetary policy?
This paper explores the potential use of entertainment media programs for achieving development goals.
We develop a measure of maximum sustainable government debt for advanced economies.
This review paper discusses what has been learned empirically and theoretically from the WMS and other recent work on management practices.
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute.
In this paper, we develop a dynamic framework for the study of the interactions between IPR and competition, in particular to understand the impact of such policies on future incentives.
To understand the role of evidence in tax policy design, this paper organizes the empirical analysis of reform under five loosely related headings: (i) key margins of adjustment, (ii) measurement of effective tax rates, (iii) the importance of information and complexity, (iv) evidence on the size of responses, and (v) implications from theory for tax design.
The standard New Keynesian model with staggered wage setting is shown to imply a simple dynamic relation between wage inflation and unemployment.
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, and transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagement and political participation.
