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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✨New Article✨ How does protectionist legislation affect consumer welfare? Angerhofer and Blair analyze the Florida Automobile Dealers Act and find that loss in consumer welfare may exceed $3.5 billion in 2023 alone.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

✨New Article ✨ Emissions resulting from purchased electricity are difficult to calculate. Werner and Levinson ask how three restrictions on what counts as carbon‐free electricity use affect the degree to which electricity use really is carbon‐free.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

✨New Article✨ How does natural resource dependence affect the development of wealth inequality in a country? Kim, Lin, and Liu demonstrate that the inequality effects of financial development are fundamentally shaped by resource dependence.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

✨New Article✨ Yun Huang, Yun Liu, and Meng Ding construct a novel economic index that is accessible, interpretable, and empirically validated for tracking the economy of Hong Kong.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

✨New Article✨ Policy makers may use place-based policies to boost a region's economy. But, the success of these policies vary widely from region to region. Xuan Zhang finds that the effects of Chinese county-level assistance policies vary widely based on pre-policy relative opportunity structure.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

✨New Article✨ Matsushima, Nishikawa, and Qiu propose a new theoretical mechanism where minimum wage regulation can simultaneously increase employment and a firms profit.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

✨New Article✨ How does FDI affect rural counties? Kara Jones estimates the effect of a $1.2 billion investment by Kia Motors in a rural Georgia county. Findings indicate it raised employment, but did not affect income.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

✨New Article✨ Veterans face a high level of underemployment. Cipran Domnisoru estimates the impact of G.I. bills on underemployment, identifying several determinants.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

✨New Article✨ How does trade openness influence occupational mobility? Hang Shan and Naiqian Wu find that liberalization of trade can foster social mobility and promote equitable labor opportunities.

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Wiley Economics, Business, and Finance @wileyeconbiz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

2025 Best Paper Award for Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social Congratulations to the authors of 'The fertility gap and economic freedom' - Clara E. Piano, Lyman R. Stone Read the article now: bit.ly/4pa1XKp

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

✨New Article✨ Chang Liu and Guangrong Ma show how targeted reserve requirements shape both bank behavior and regional economic outcomes, documenting strengths and limitations of using reserve-based instruments to engineer credit expansion.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

✨New Article✨ The Porter Hypothesis says environmental regulation can make firms more profitable by forcing innovation. Robert D. Mohr argues that when environmental regulation does benefit firms, it is a sign that regulators failed to price the externality correctly.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

✨New Article ✨ Jordan D. Hillman finds no evidence that unilateral no-fault divorce laws raised divorce rates. Instead, he argues the rise in divorce rates was likely underway regardless of legal reform.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

✨New Article✨ China implemented strict measures to prevent the spread of COVID. This paper explores the composition of risk sharing in between Chinese provinces before and during the pandemic.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

✨New Article✨ How can governments combat tax evasion? This new study looks at a Taiwanese policy in which tax evaders face jail time. Findings provide empirical patterns that may inform enforcement practice against incarcerated tax evaders.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

✨New Article✨ The impact of automation on the economy can not be understated. In this new article, Carol A. Scotese finds that automation displaced non-college educated men from both routine tasks and mid-skill abstract tasks.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

✨New Article✨ China's carbon markets represent an interesting experiment in market-based corporate green governance. Li and Zhao find that these policies enhance green governance by easing constraints and stimulating innovation.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

✨New Article ✨ How does firm adoption of AI coding assistants affect labor market outcomes for software engineers? Baird, Carpanelli, Xu, and Xu find that firm adoption is associated with a higher probability of entry level hires.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

✨New Article✨ How do value added tax credit refunds affect outward Foreign Direct Investment? Qilin Mao and Yueqing Wang find that these credits promotes firms' outward FDI. Additionally, the policy has a stronger effect on non state owned firms.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

✨New Article ✨ Cities are told the NFL Draft brings big economic gains. This paper suggests otherwise. E. Frank Stephenson finds, at best, small effects on hotel revenue and occupancy.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

✨New Article✨ Climate shocks can be a major constraint for developing nations. This study by Suyeon Ro and Jongwook Lee investigates how climate shocks affect food security and resilience in Malawi.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

✨New Article✨ Economic degrowth has become a trending topic over recent years. Acharya, Geloso, and Psurek formalize a model of degrowth and find little support for the model's central prediction

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

✨New Article✨ In the 1990's, the city of San Diego agreed to buy every unsold ticket to Chargers games at whatever price the team set. This article looks at the consequences of the policy, finding that ticket prices increased less than intuition may suggest.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

✨New Article ✨ Are students considering state marijuana laws when choosing where to attend college? New evidence suggests yes- large schools in states where recreational marijuana is legal see an increase in out-of-state enrollment over the sample period.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

✨New Article✨ How do firms create, maintain, and use political power? This study introduces a new measurement of corporate political power and finds that local political connections pay off more than national connections.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

✨New Article✨ How do you make sure welfare benefits reach the people who need them? This paper examines China's Dibao program and suggests methods that combine income verification with community-based assessments can help optimize the design of social protection programs.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

✨New Article✨ Monetary policy like inflation targets can only be effective if they are credible. Dieter Nautz uses German survey data from 2019-2024 to find that the ECB's delayed rate hikes- not just high inflation- were what eroded public trust in its 2% target.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

✨New Article✨ What do envirnomental and natural resource economists agree on? In a new article, @learachel.bsky.social , @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social and Timothy C. Haab survey experts to guage levels of consensus in the field on topics such as climate change, air quality, and more.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

✨New Article✨ What are the consequences of losing parental insurance at age 26? Dajung Jun finds a sharp drop in coverage at the cutoff, concentrated among unmarried, unemployed, and nonmetropolitan adults.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

✨New Article✨ Timothy Bianco and Nicholas Moellman examine the effect of household debt on safety-net participation. Using a PVAR, they find TANF participation is generally unresponsive to debt shocks, while SNAP participation responds positively, significantly, and persistently to changes to debt.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

✨New Article✨ How does economic freedom affect patience and risk tolerance? In a new article, Ryan Kitzan, Adam Stivers, and Nabamita Dutta investigate this relationship and find that countries with both higher economic freedom and risk tolerance also exhibit higher patience.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

✨New Issue✨ The January 2026 issue of Contemporary Economic Policy has been published. It contains 11 original research articles on a wide range of topics, from teenage drinking to borrowing against future Social Security wealth. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14657287...

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

✨New Article✨ How are consumers impacted by the elimination of low-denomination coins? In a highly relevant article, Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, and Daniel Levy find that Israel's elimination of the 1¢ and 5¢ coin equivalents led to a relativley small rounding tax on consumers.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

✨New Article✨ Does nurse practitioner scope of practice expansion affect safety net participation? Owen Fleming and Lilly Springer find that 4-5 years after NP's are granted full practice authority, WIC participation increases by 4.1%.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

✨New Article✨ Natural disasters can have a profound impact on a society. Serkan Demirkılıç, Zuhal Özbay Daş, and Güney Aydin investigate the labor market effects of the 2011 earthquakes in eastern Turkey and find, among other outcomes, an increase in low-skilled employment.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

✨New Article✨ How did city-level vaccine mandates affect vaccine uptake and COVID-19 transmission? Authors Vitor Melo, Elijah Nelson, and Dorothy Kemboi find no pattern of significant effects, suggesting local mandates may be less effective than national mandates.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

✨New Article ✨ What determines an individual's willingness to pay for top sports teams? In a new open-access article, Jaume Garcia, Fernando Lera-Lopez, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Santos, and Maria Jose Suarzez find that social trust and civic pride drive WTP.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

✨New Article✨ Ever thought about the impact of wildfire emissions? Molly Duddleson Elder estimates the social cost of US wildfire emissions, finding the annual social cost of from emmisions for all fires is around $4.6 billion.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

✨New Article✨ Monopsony power in local labor markets can lead to lower wages. Matthew E. Kahn and Joseph S. Tracy show that counties and time periods with higher levels of employment concentration experience brain drain and lower population growth.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

✨New Article✨ Eduardo Minuci and Scott Schuh investigate economic and financial behavior among banks in different states. They find states with slower economic growth have more, smaller, and less profitable banks. The banks also experience differing customer and manager behavior.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

✨New Article ✨ The Safe Passage Program was implemented in Chicago as a means of protecting the routes students take to school. @matttheeconguy.bsky.social finds that in areas where the program was implemented, fatal encounters decreased by 33%.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Check out our Editor's Report for 2024! It breaks down important metrics including topics covered, time to decision, the referee process, impact factor, and more.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Check out our new special issue: "Women and Economic Freedom". Thought-provoking articles on entrepreneurship, fertility, and more are now availible to read, free for a limited time!

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

✨New Article ✨ In a new open access article, Tanga M. Mohr and John C. Whitehead (@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social) use attribute non-attendance (ANA) models to test for differences in discrete choice expiriments with real and hypothetical payoffs

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

✨New Article✨ How does parents' legal status affect children's health insurance? In a new open access article, Nhan Tran finds DACA eligibility among likely undocumented mothers increases Medicaid enrollment among US-born children.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

✨New Article✨ How does timing of SNAP disbursement affect crime in the US? In a new article, Licheng Xu finds that more distribution days and a longer staggering period reduce financially motivated crime.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

✨New Article ✨ Following the signing of the Plaza Accord, Japan experienced a bubble in urban real estate and the stock market. In a recently published paper, Jedediah Pisa-Reese explores the causal connection between the agreement and the subsequent bubble

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

✨New Article✨ How do increases in political and economic freedoms affect women’s international football success? Craig A. Depken II and Tomislav Globan find that greater freedoms may initially reduce performance but over time lead to improved success on the pitch.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

✨New Article✨ How do people react to an increase in taxes on lottery winnings? Alvaro Muniz-Fernandez and Levi Perez use a Synthetic Differences in Differences approach to find the effect differs depending on the size of the jackpot.

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Contemporary Economic Policy @cep-sky.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

✨New Article✨ In this new open access article, Carsten Creutzburg, Wolfgang Maennig, and Steffen Q. Mueller investigate the potential effects of consumer-driven racial discrimination on worker productivity in tennis.

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