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behavioral economics
January 26
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Rosemarie Nagel Named 2025 Fellow of the Economic Science Association
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Term 2 Begins for 2025-26 Cohort: Students Continue Their Masters Journey at BSE

January 26
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Vladimir Asriyan Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

macroeconomics
December 25
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Equivalent Logit Choice Probabilities from Optimization and Randomization

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Martí Mestieri FerrerandJordan J. Norris
BSE Working Paper 1547

January 2026
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Parental Educational Styles with Externalities

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Antonio CabralesandEsther Hauk
BSE Working Paper 1546

January 2026
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Ratcheting up Paris

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Humberto Llavador, John E. Roemer, and Thomas Stoerk
BSE Working Paper 1545

December 2025
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Deception Under the Veil of Noise

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Jawwad NoorandFernando Payró Chew
BSE Working Paper 1544

December 2025
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Immigrant Rights Expansion and Local Integration: Evidence from Italy

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Francesco FerlengaandStephanie Kang
BSE Working Paper 1521

December 2025
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The Opaque Scorecard: Environmental, Social and Financial Information During a Crisis

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Mircea EpureandSerhat Hasancebi
BSE Working Paper 1543

December 2025

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Core stability and strategy-proofness in hedonic coalition formation problems with friend-oriented preferences

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Bettina Klaus, Flip Klijn, and Seçkin Özbilen
Games and Economic Behavior

December 2025
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Estimating the history of a random recursive tree

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Simon Briend, Christophe Giraud, Gábor Lugosi, and Déborah Sulem
Bernoulli

November 2025
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Fiscal Stimulus with Supply Constraints

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Luca Fornaro
IMF Economic Review

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The “Kill Zone”: When a Platform Copies to Eliminate a Potential Threat

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Massimo MottaandSandro Shelegia
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

October 2025
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Polynomial rates via deconvolution for nonparametric estimation in McKean–Vlasov SDEs

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Chiara Amorino, Denis Belomestny, Vytautė Pilipauskaitė, Mark Podolskij, and Shi-Yuan Zhou
Probability Theory and Related Fields

October 2025
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Agricultural modernization and redistributive conflict

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Stefano FalconeandMichele Rosenberg
Journal of Development Economics

October 2025
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Do Giving Voice and Social Information Help in Revising a Misconception About Rent-control?

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Jordi Brandts, Isabel Busom, and Cristina Lopez-Mayan
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

September 2025
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What Goes Around Comes Around: The US Climate-economic Cycle

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Konstantin BossandAlessandra Testa
Journal of Macroeconomics

September 2025
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Corruption and renegotiation in procurement

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Leandro Arozamena, Juan-José Ganuza, and Federico Weinschelbaum
Economics Letters

September 2025
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Coordinating business cycles

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Edouard SchaalandMathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel
Journal of Monetary Economics

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Corruption and Renegotiation in Procurement

Microeconomics
December 2025
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How German Family Policies Balanced Birth Rates and Economic Welfare

Public Policy
November 2025
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