Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 16, 2022 [2/4]
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This is part two of four.
Paper summaries
![Twitter avatar for @Conor_A_Walsh](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/Conor_A_Walsh.jpg)
This is an important paper, and I'm only lately getting to it. It should change how we think about the markup literature, and a host of firm dynamics trends.
nber.org/system/files/w…
Little thread.
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![Twitter avatar for @p_ganong](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/p_ganong.jpg)
“Why Do Borrowers Default on Mortgages?” w/@pascaljnoel
Three theories for why:
1) negative equity alone 6%
2) negative life events alone 70%
3) both (“double trigger”) 24%
voices.uchicago.edu/noel/files/202…
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![Twitter avatar for @QJEHarvard](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/QJEHarvard.jpg)
QJE @QJEHarvard
![Twitter avatar for @PorzioTommaso](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/PorzioTommaso.jpg)
A 🧵 on new working paper 👇.
Starting point: in low income countries, most firms are small and they produce within city centers, often clustered near the busiest road.
We collect new data to understand this location choice and study implications for exposure to pollution 1/
![Twitter avatar for @nberpubs](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/nberpubs.jpg)
NBER @nberpubs
![Twitter avatar for @bsecon](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/bsecon.jpg)
Publication Alert! 🥳
I am happy to report that our paper "Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting" with Ben Lochner @iab_news is forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics! @SOLE_Labor_Econ #EconTwitter
A🧵about our findings (my first). Let’s go. 1/n
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
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![Twitter avatar for @NunoGalo](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/NunoGalo.jpg)
Sovereign debt markets are huge. Treasuries issue bonds at several maturities.
Why? Which is the optimal way to do it?
We are talking about a lot of money for the taxpayers.
A short 🧵 based on a paper with @SakiBigio and @juanpassadore
1/n (n=10)
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![Twitter avatar for @davidfromterra](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/davidfromterra.jpg)
This is Rose Avenue near San Francisco. A quiet residential neighborhood, it looks like life on either side of the street should be pretty similar. But it turns out that opportunities and access to public goods are dramatically different. What's going on?
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![Twitter avatar for @MarcoGPalladin1](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/MarcoGPalladin1.jpg)
🚨NEW WP ALERT🚨
Damien Babet, @OlivierGodechot, and I study the recent dynamics of wage inequality in France.
A thread👇
#EconTwitter
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![Twitter avatar for @LHSummers](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/LHSummers.jpg)
New BLS paper confirms the takeaways of my work with @juddcramer and @MA_Bolhuis: rent inflation for new tenants leads official residential inflation by about a year. 1/N
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^more rent inflation discussion: here, here, here, …
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Excited to share a new paper “Some for the Price of One: Vote Buying on a Network” with fellow @PUPolitics grad student Perry Carter. In it, we ask: how does social structure affect vote buying electoral strategies?
Link: tinyurl.com/6bbfut86
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