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Edward Wiles

@edwardwiles.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Academy Scholar at Harvard Academy Trade | Development | Contracts www.edward-wiles.com 🇬🇧

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Edward Wiles @edwardwiles.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I gave some to my father-in-law and he now routinely mixes the ground-up grains of selim with ground coffee in the moka pot. It isn’t the same but it’s kind of interesting

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Edward Wiles @edwardwiles.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We find: 1. Relaxing search frictions improves access to foreign goods, but relaxing both search *and* trust frictions (adverse selection + moral hazard) is needed to form meaningful relationships. 2. Smartphones + social media can lower these frictions and allow small firms to import directly.

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Edward Wiles @edwardwiles.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thanks for including my JMP! With @deivyhoueix.bsky.social, we run an RCT studying search costs, adverse selection, and moral hazard between firms and suppliers in a large international import market. More detail available in the paper, including model and estimation! tinyurl.com/4acf2uwm

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Edward Wiles @edwardwiles.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

For 1, not sure if you have in mind a group or individual thing. If group (and group not too small), then I’d do this. It can create meaningful externalities in terms of students bonding across cohorts. 2 was started at MIT recently and has been very useful, but if forced to choose I’d do 1.

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