Ravideep Sethi, 2020. Using a model that could apply to candidates seeking votes or to a product design team seeking to optimize sales, the author finds that the optimal policy platform or product design is one where the entrant differentiates just enough, so that the valence advantage of the incumbent is countered. [download pdf]

Ravideep Sethi, 2020. In a model that studies worker ability and conscientiousness (cost of effort) over time, the author shows that during the agent’s early career, effort is a higher component of output and. [download pdf]

Elena Patel, Lucas Goodman, and Molly Saunders-Scott, 2019. The authors contribute to an important and growing literature examining the behavior of passthrough business owners by using administrative tax data to investigate whether the income that owners of S-corporations receive from other sources is sensitive to negative shocks to pass-through income. [download pdf]

Nathan Seegert, 2019. The author develops an excessive risk index to quantify the amount of unnecessary risk governments accept when writing tax policy among uncertainty in private and public consumption. The author finds that the cost of inefficient risk for U.S. state governments is roughly 40% of their expected tax revenues and that this cost is mostly due to states being [...]