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The official account of the Review of Economic Studies, one of the world's top economics journals.

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February 17, 2026 at 9:01 AM
New paper by Andre, Haaland, Roth, Wiederholt, and Wohlfart:

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February 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
"How to make decisions that are robust to sampling noise but also to misspecification and related concerns? We analyze this problem as one of minimax regret decision making under partial identification."

New paper by Montiel Olea, Qiu & Stoye:

www.restud.com/decision-the...

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February 10, 2026 at 9:48 AM
How should regulators target their limit enforcement budgets? We quantify the benefits of linked regulation, where regulators dynamically target plants co-owned with other plants with poor compliance records.

New paper by Leisten & Vreugdenhil

www.restud.com/dynamic-regu...

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January 28, 2026 at 10:04 AM
How do currencies become international?

Bahaj & Reis show that PBoC swap lines boosted RMB use abroad, revealing a policy lever to jumpstart a currency’s international status.

www.restud.com/jumpstarting...

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January 20, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Editorial update:
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard University) has stepped down as a Foreign Editor of The Review of Economic Studies. We are grateful to Gabe for his excellent service and contributions to the journal and the REStud Tour.

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January 19, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"Capital flowed to high-inflation countries during recent surge, worsening the output-inflation tradeoff. Reversing flows would have reduced volatility & tightening needs."

New paper by Coulibaly & Bengui:

www.restud.com/destabilizin...

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January 19, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Announcement📢:

We are pleased to welcome @andreamoro.bsky.social (Vanderbilt University) as our new Data Editor, effective 1 January 2026. We look forward to collaborating with him in this new role.

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January 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
"Free markets failed for 700 years. When poor farmers couldn't pay, a simple quota beat auctions. Sometimes the invisible hand needs handcuffs."

New paper by Donna & Espín-Sánchez

www.restud.com/the-illiquid...

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January 14, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Patent term boosts long run innovation, but policy anticipation creates surprising, medium term dynamics: innovation rises before expected cuts and remains high due to spillovers.

New paper by Bertolotti:

www.restud.com/patent-term-...

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January 13, 2026 at 9:39 AM
"We investigate how irreversible investment, arising from a wedge between capital purchase and resale price, affects aggregate capital fluctuations."

New paper by Baley & Blanco.

www.restud.com/the-macroeco...

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January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
"Survey incentives can worsen bias! Randomized incentives help detect & account for nonresponse bias. Methods using both incentives & reminders outperform existing approaches."

New paper by Dutz, Huitfeldt, Lacouture, Mogstad, Torgovitsky & van Dijk

www.restud.com/selection-in...

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January 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
"This paper uses data on banks' private risk assessments to show that banks produce more information in bad times"

New paper by Weitzner & Howes:

www.restud.com/bank-informa...

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January 6, 2026 at 1:09 PM
A new paper by Lewis & Mertens makes the Stock-Yogo test for weak instruments with multiple HAC robust endogenous regressors, propose tests for bias in a single coefficients, and extend to test general rank deficiency in the first stage

www.restud.com/a-robust-tes...

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December 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New paper by Pilossoph, Melc & Lewis estimates the distribution of spending responses to stimulus payments. MPCs are heterogeneous, with observables explaining 8% of the variation, highlighting the crucial role of latent heterogeneity

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December 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New paper, "Firm Quality Dynamics and the Slippery Slope of Credit Intervention" by Li & Li shows that direct government and central bank lending can distort firm quality and fuel future interventions.

www.restud.com/firm-quality...

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November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"We show how opportunity costs, a core economic concept, can explain seemingly non-rational behaviour (like cyclical choices) within a preference-maximising framework."

New paper by Manzini, Mariotti & Ülkü

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November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"Supply disruptions shapes the global internet backbone: new paper shows diversification drives cable entry & surplus, but markets may underprovide diversity."

New Paper by Hadi & Steck:

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November 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Serfdom in early modern Russia wasn’t inevitable—it was driven by landholding soldiers on the southern frontier. To defend against nomads, the state tied peasants to land, cementing coercive labor.

New paper by @andreamatranga.bsky.social & @timurnatkhov.bsky.social :
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November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"A new method for identifying and estimating consumer preferences when choice sets are constrained due to selection or search, but are not observed"

New paper by Agarwal & Somaini:

www.restud.com/demand-analy...

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October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Cities surrounded by expensive farmland are denser and agricultural productivity growth has lowered urban density over time in France. Our multi-region structural change framework can explain it.

New paper by Coeurdacier, Teignier & @floswald.bsky.social

www.restud.com/structural-c...

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October 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🏠Transaction taxes don’t just cool housing—they reshape it. Same rate, different impact: investors buy more, households less. Result: lower ownership and welfare losses of 111% of tax revenue.

New paper from Han, Ngai & Sheedy:

www.restud.com/to-own-or-to...

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October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Slum upgrading is a common policy to help residents, but it can delay redevelopment into formal neighborhoods. Evidence from the largest program highlights the tradeoff: upgrading in the center can lead to long-run opportunity costs.

New paper by Harari & Wong:
www.restud.com/slum-upgradi...
October 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
We are pleased to introduce Niels Gormsen, Copenhagen Business School & University of Chicago, as a new member of the Editorial Board of REStud. His outstanding expertise will help us continue to publish pioneering economic research.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM