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"Pledgeable Collateral, Dealer Leverage, and Runs" by Husnu C. Dalgic, Brittany Almquist Lewis, Andrea Modena is now available:
Collateral protection laws have unintended consequences. We show the 2005 BAPCPA reform protected repo holders but incentivized dealer-banks to dramatically increase leverage, leading to sharper deleveraging during the downturn.
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21985
Forward-Looking Credit Loss Recognition and Banks’ Internal Risk Models
Jannis Bischof @MannheimBSchool @EconUniMannheim, @HaselmannRainer @goetheuni, Frederik Kohl @LBS, Oliver Schlueter @bundesbank
#CEPR_BCF# #EconTwitter#
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21987
Comparative Statics of Information Acquisition and Risk Aversion
Antonio Cabrales @uc3m @EconomicsUc3m, Gregorio Curello @MannheimBSchool @EconUniMannheim, Olivier Gossner @CNRS @Polytechnique @LSEnews, Roberto Serrano @BrownUniversity
#CEPR_AP# #CEPR_BCF# #EconTwitter#
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21980 Paying Taxes Like Uli Hoeneß: Tax Evasion, Charitable Giving, and Political Congruence
@HansGruener @MannheimBSchool @EconUniMannheim, Sebastian Siegloch @UniCologne
#CEPR_PoE# #CEPR_PE# #EconTwitter#
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"Across 4,452 published replication packages for five economics journals, the workflow flags discrepancies in 3,460 articles or their appendices."
●US and Chinese tariffs had contrasting effects on third countries
●Economists analyzed more than 200,000 multinationals in 50 major economies
●Interview with Jan Schymik, EPoS Economic Research Center
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On Thursday, October 1st, 12:15 pm, we are thrilled to welcome Ben Moll, LSE, to our Macro-CRC TR 224 Seminar (@EPoS224, @EconUniMannheim ). He will present “Structural Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics.” More info –
@ben_moll
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Thursday, September 24st, 2026, 12:15 pm, we are thrilled to welcome, Andrea Lanteri, Duke University, to our Macro-CRC TR 224 Seminar (@EPoS224). He will present the paper “Optimal Subsidies for Capital Replacement and the Green Transition.” More info –
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Beyond trade diversion: How the US-China trade war reshaped global production
Harald Fadinger @univienna, Lei Li @uniGoettingen, Sophia Praetorius @unige_en, Jan Schymik @EconUniMannheim
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On Thursday, September 21st, 2026, at 12:15 pm, we are thrilled to welcome, Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota, to our Macro-CRC TR 224 Seminar (@EPoS224 @EconUniMannheim). He will present the paper “Labor, Despite AI.” More info –
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Platforms shape what users see and choose. A new paper develops the concept of recommendation power, maps the objectives behind rankings, defaults and prominence, and examines how the EU Digital Markets Act constrains it.
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Thursday, September 17th, 2026, at 12:15 pm, we are thrilled to welcome, Annika Bacher, Norwegian Business School, to our Macro-CRC TR 224 Seminar (@EPoS224). She will present the paper “Skill versus Money: A Fresh Take on Business Ownership" More info –
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Modern macroeconomics increasingly studies economies with heterogeneous households. In these models, aggregate dynamics depend on the distribution of individual states across economic agents.
But economic theory has moved ahead of economic measurement.
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The data come from our paper "Distributional Dynamics," where we develop a general method to estimate the dynamics of multidimensional distributions over time.
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Dedicated project webpage with all results:
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🆕New data product from the Macro Inequality Lab! From our new paper "Distributional Dynamics" w/ @christianbaye13 & Luis Calderon: quarterly data on the JOINT distribution of U.S. consumption, income & wealth, 1962–2024.
Details in thread 👇
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The starting point is our paper “Income and Wealth Inequality in the United States: An Update Including the 2022 Wave,” which provides a comprehensive look at these questions using the SCF.
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The idea is simple: make the facts on U.S. inequality easy to find and use.
How unequal are earnings, income, and wealth? How has inequality changed over time? How does it vary by age, education, employment, or family structure? Why do households save? 2/7
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🆕News thread:
We have been working on something new at the Macro Inequality Lab:
A public resource on income and wealth inequality in the U.S., based on the work with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull using the Survey of Consumer Finances.
It is now online!
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