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Should We Take Everything from the Old to Give to the Young?
The strange implications of social discount rates
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Nicholas Decker
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So You Want To Estimate Markups
A practical guide
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Nicholas Decker
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A Simple Model of Market Volatility
Credit constraints are enough, right?
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Nicholas Decker
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Are Decisions Under Risk Decisions Under Complexity?
Reevaluating Oprea (2024)
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Nicholas Decker
Price Indices, Inflation Inequality, and CPI Bias
The challenges which affect the construction of a price index
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Nicholas Decker
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The Value of Life is Too High
Small changes add up to absurd conclusions
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Nicholas Decker
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Labor Market Impacts Are Not the Same As Welfare Impacts
AI may not be measured for a while
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Nicholas Decker
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The Implications of Non-Linear Pricing
Up is down and down is up
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Nicholas Decker
2
Zoning is Worse Than You Think
Cost is partially a function of price
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Nicholas Decker
6
Should More Firms Be Publicly Traded?
Thinking through the social spillovers of stock trading
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Nicholas Decker
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May 2025

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