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NBER New Working Papers Sep 10 Score 0.7875000000000001

Comparisons -- by Thomas Graeber, Benjamin Enke

Economic decisions are often shaped by comparison points such as reference points, goals, expectations and peers. A long-standing puzzle is that decisions sometimes increase in these comparators (assimilation) and sometimes decrease in them (contrast). We deve

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NBER New Working Papers Sep 10 Score 0.7875000000000001

Health Insurance Underwriting and the Heterogeneous Effects of the Affordable Care Act -- by Pietro Tebaldi, Andrea Scalenghe, Joseph Orsini

The Affordable Care Act, the largest US welfare reform since 1965, banned health insurance underwriting and rejections based on pre-existing conditions and introduced large premium subsidies for low- to middle-income individuals. Yet how many people the ban ma

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Econbrowser Sep 9 Score 0.7289257180555555

High Real Interest Rates Because of Incipient Rapid Growth?

That's former CEA Chair Miran's argument in the FT. Is this assertion empirically validated? A graph from Hamilton, Harris, Hatzius and West (2016) suggests, maybe not: Source: Hamilton et al. (2016) exhibit 3.3, as edited by Chinn. If you see a clear positive

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Econbrowser Sep 9 Score 0.7258673847222222

Petroleum and Petroleum Product Prices

Data through 9/7 from the EIA: Source: EIA via FRED. Black + denotes November Brent futures as of 9/9/2026, 2pm CT. The black "+" above is the near month futures price. Cash as of today is $97.87. Regardless of how you take it, the price is up. NYMEX futures a

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