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SSRN Review & Roundup: Endean Reviews Calderón Gómez & Kane’s Pigou Goes Abroad

This week, Jon Endean (Brooklyn) reviews a new work by Luís C. Calderón Gómez (Cardozo) & Mitchell Kane (NYU), Pigou Goes Abroad, __ U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming). Pigouv...

Summer 2026 Journal of Economic Perspectives Freely Available Online

I have been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since the first issue in Summer 1987. The JEP is published by the American Economic Association, which decid...

How economics is changing

As a proportion of the literature, research about econometric theory, monetary policy and corporate governance has slumped. Meanwhile, papers on development, crime and gender are o...

Economists do not think

The Guardian has an article this morning, hidden deep within its website, about an economic study on thinking. The amusing thing about this study is Read the full article...

Persistent Inequality in Publishing in Economics

This paper documents new facts about concentration in publishing in economics. First, the profession grows downward . The number of economists grew almost sixfold since 1990, but n...

SSRN Review & Roundup: Saito Reviews Gordon’s Tax and the Law of Market Cycles

This week, Blaine Saito (Ohio State) reviews Jeff Gordon (Vanderbilt), Tax and the Law of Market Cycles (July 28, 2026). One of the major goals of economic policy is to allow for e...

To Vote or Not to Vote?

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by De...

*Who Thinks Like an Economist?*

That is the title of a recent book by Beatrice Magistro.  Some key results are: Economic knowledge consistently predicts higher support for welfare-enhancing policies (Eurozone mem...

A natural experiment in economics

To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in early 2025 of a “blacklist” of words flagged by the U.S. gover...

SSRN Review & Roundup: Narotzki Reviews Avi-Yonah’s Taxation and Deglobalization

This week, Doron Narotzki (Akron; Google Scholar) reviews Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar), Taxation and Deglobalization, 80 Tax L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2027). Reuven...

“Making Statistics Work: Information Theory and Bayesian Inference”

I took a look at the above-titled book by economists Duncan Foley and Ellis Scharfenaker. It’s an interesting read, in many ways a throwback to the 1950s when a group of mathematic...

Routes to economic growth in Europe and China

In Two Paths to Prosperity, economists Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr and Guido Tabellini examine why Europe and China took such different development trajectories, pointing to the contra...

Solve for the (Refine) equilibrium

We’re proud to announce that Refine has signed partnerships with two leading publishers in economics. Both the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society now use Ref...

The Beginning of the VISTmany Research Journal

Research links: zero-sum propositions

Tuesdays are all about academic (and practitioner) literature at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s edition including a look at...

SSRN Review & Roundup: Gordon Reviews Lawsky’s Direct File as Formalization

This week, Jeff Gordon (Vanderbilt, Google Scholar) reviews Sarah B. Lawsky (Illinois, Google Scholar), Direct File as Formalization, 23 Pitt. Tax Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026). Many...

Update on a regression discontinuity dispute: some asynchronous collaboration

Anjali Thomas writes: I am writing to share a paper which is a re-examination of my 2018 AJPS article entitled “Targeting Ordinary Voters or Political Elites”  which was previously...

Traffic, trends and experimentation

It is, as anybody who monitors their performance on the basis of statistics knows, easy to get down when your data does not match your Read the full article...

LLMs and IMF Advice, Dollar Trinity, Risk-On/Risk -Off and Loanly Govts: (Almost) Live-Blogging ISOM 2026

Jeffrey Frankel and Hélène Rey organized a great conference for the NBER’s International Seminar on Macroeconomics, hosted by the Sveriges Riksbank; topics covered were wide and di...

Bozio et al.: Does Tax-Benefit Linkage Matter for the Incidence of Payroll Taxes?

Antoine Bozio (Paris Sch. Econ.), Thomas Breda (Paris Sch. Econ.), Julien Grenet (Paris Sch. Econ.) & Arthur Guillouzouic (Aix-Marseille Sch. Econ.), Does Tax-Benefit Linkage M...

One of the most prominent Friday linkfest items might be wrong

This week: stripped-down ecoevojobs.net, Steamboat Ladies vs. Cambridge, remembering the Morris Worm, there are some things money can’t buy (in the US), and more. One of the most i...

Why quantitative understanding of effect sizes matters, even if all you care about is the presence of the effect

In reaction to my article with Andy King proposing post-publication review, Dan “Fast and Frugal” Goldstein writes: Your process limits information search, computation, and time so...

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