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12772: Memes and Myths of Antitrust

Richard Langlois

12543: How State Occupational Licenses Affect Jobs and Salaries

Christos Makridis and Patrick McLaughlin

12482: Cutting Zoning Down to Size: Reevaluating the Legal Vulnerability of Urban Minimum Lot Sizes

Charles Gardner

12441: What Is the Monetary Standard? The Fed Should Tell Us

Robert Hetzel

12430: The Effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion on the Mental Health Of Already-Enrolled Medicaid Beneficiaries

Markus Bjoerkheim, Liam Sigaud and Kofi Ampaabeng

12390: Unfair Methods of Competition under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Comission Act: What Is the Intelligible Principle?

Gregory Werden

12375: Right-to-Work Laws and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Vitor Melo and Liam Sigaud

12299: Assessing the Impact of Worker Reclassification: Employment Outcomes Post–California AB5

Liya Palagashvili, Christopher Kaiser, Paola Suarez Rocabado and Vitor Melo

12244: Intended and Unintended Effects of Nursing Home Isolation Measures

Vitor Melo

11781: RegAuthorities: The Regulations Authorities Database, A Dataset

Kofi Ampaabeng, Dustin Chambers, Patrick McLaughlin and Jonathan Nelson

11691: Regulating without Zoning in Maine Towns

Salim Furth

11685: Drones, Airspace, and the Sharing Economy

Troy Rule

11667: Single-Family Zoning and Race: Evidence from the Twin Cities

Salim Furth and MaryJo Webster

11520: Immigration and US Labor Market Outcomes

Robert Krol

11433: Rehabilitating the Opportunity Cost of Capital in Cost–Benefit Analysis

James Broughel

11423: Industry Size and Regulation: Evidence from US States

Patrick McLaughlin and Marc Law

11284: The Expectations Gap: An Alternative Measure of Economic Slack

Andrew Martinez and Alex Schibuola

11271: Tech Platforms and Market Power: What’s the Optimal Policy Response?

Thomas Lambert

11270: Planepooling and Air Taxis for Post-COVID Aviation

Brent Skorup and Robert Graboyes

11220: The Impact of Land Use Regulation on Racial Segregation: Evidence from Massachusetts Zoning Borders

Matthew Resseger

11209: The Effects of Immigration on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Robert Krol

11199: Midwifery Licensing: Medicalization of Birth and Special Interests

Lauren Hall Lilly and Steven Horwitz

11071: Nursing the Opioid Crisis

Benjamin McMichael

11027: Using Machine Learning to Capture Heterogeneity in Trade Agreements

Scott Baier and Narendra Regmi

11020: Employee vs. Independent Worker: A Framework for Understanding Work Differences

Liya Palagashvili and Paola Suarez Rocabado

11019: Toward a Formalization of Policy Analytics

Dustin Chambers

11018: Man vs. Machine: A Novel Evaluation of Data Analytics Using Occupational Licensing as a Case Study

Conor Norris and Edward Timmons

11017: How to Improve Data Validation in Five Steps

Danilo Freire

11015: Democratizing Policy Analytics with AutoML

Danilo Freire

11014: Validating Readability and Complexity Metrics: A New Dataset of Before-and-After Laws

Wolfgang Alschner

11013: Measuring a Contract’s Breadth: A Text Analysis

Bryan McCannon, Yang Zhou and Joshua Hall

10999: The Princeton School and the Zero Lower Bound

Scott Sumner

10958: The Recovery from the Great Recession: Did the FOMC Learn the Right Lessons?

Robert Hetzel

10955: Words Speak Louder Than Numbers: Estimating China’s COVID Severity with Deep Learning

Weifeng Zhong, Julian Chan, Kwan-Yuet Ho and Kit Lee

10840: The Fate of FAIT: Salvaging the Fed’s Framework

David Beckworth and Patrick Horan

10839: COVID-19 and the Fed’s Monetary Policy

Robert Hetzel

10762: Drone Technology, Airspace Design, and Aerial Law in States and Cities

Brent Skorup

10752: Foundations and Microfoundations: Building Houses on Regulated Land

Salim Furth

10745: What Is Known from a Network? Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Pandemics in the Digital Age

Kelsie Nabben and Jan-Carlo Barca

10718: Abandon the Concept of Accredited Investors in Private Securities Offerings

Andrew Vollmer

10717: Larger Polities Are More Regulated

Patrick McLaughlin, James Broughel and James Bailey

10705: Reforming Australian Monetary Policy: How Nominal Income Targeting Can Help Get the Reserve Bank Back on Track

Stephen Kirchner

10702: The Fiscal Cost of COVID-19: Evidence from the States

Christos Makridis and Robert McNab

10698: A Critique of Interest Rate–Oriented Monetary Economics

Scott Sumner

10689: COVID-19 and the Fed’s Credit Policy

Robert Hetzel

10671: Industry-Level Baseline Risk of COVID-19 Infection

Richard Lowery, Taylor Canann and Carlos Carvalho

10656: Federal Pandemic Relief Could End the Interstate Economic Development Arms Race

Michael Farren and John Mozena

10646: Evidence on the Use of Disclosure Documents in Private Securities Offerings to Accredited Investors

Andrew Vollmer

10632: The Benefits of Coronavirus Suppression: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Response to the First Wave of COVID-19

James Broughel and Michael Kotrous

10608: Assessing Healthcare Capacity in India

Shruti Rajagopalan and Abishek Choutagunta