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An Introduction to Auctions
How much can we trust the empirical auction literature?
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The Case for Bathroom Mandates
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Notes on the Economy of El Salvador
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What’s the Matter with India?
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So You Want to Learn About Economics
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Why Tariffs are Never the Optimal Industrial Policy
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A Summer Reading List for the Bright and Ambitious Student
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Why do firms choose to be inefficient?
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Berry-Hausman-Pakes Should Win the Nobel Prize
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Should Papers Report Their Results?
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Misallocation is Missing the Point
What is convenient to measure is not the most important stuff
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