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Podcasts episode·Oct 1, 2024

What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Modern Monopolies?

Tess Vigeland and Chad Syverson
When the Soo Line threatened to expand into the Great Northern Railway’s territory in 1905, the two companies entered a...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Podcasts episode·Apr 30, 2024

Fighting Traffic in Chicago: Lower Fares, More Trains, Fewer Buses

Tess Vigeland and Milena Almagro
American cities are overreliant on cars. Policies for reducing this gridlock and pollution range from changing public transit fares or...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Apr 25, 2024

Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam

Milena Almagro and Tomás Domínguez-Iino
Different demographic groups tend to prefer different types of amenities, and businesses respond by expanding amenities in neighborhoods with greater...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Apr 3, 2024

Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago

Milena Almagro, Felipe Barbieri, Juan Camilo Castillo, Nathaniel Hickok, and Tobias Salz
In Chicago, welfare would be increased by charging almost nothing for public transit, increasing the frequency of trains, and lowering...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Jun 8, 2023

Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy

Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortaçsu, Chad Syverson, and Mehmet Fatih Ulu
Turkey’s Law 2012/3305 boosted economic activity among businesses in eligible industries/provinces and led to positive spillovers to the suppliers and...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·May 10, 2023

Managers and Productivity in Retail

Robert D. Metcalfe, Alexandre B. Sollaci, and Chad Syverson
Individual managers impact retail business productivity substantially; replacing a manager at the bottom of the quality distribution by one at...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·May 3, 2023

Local And National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation

David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van Reenen
Driven by the sizable shift in sales and employment from the relatively concentrated manufacturing sector to the relatively unconcentrated service...
Topics: Employment & Wages, Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Apr 5, 2023

100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration

Spencer Y. Kwon, Yueran Ma, and Kaspar Zimmermann
US corporate concentration has increased persistently over the past century, with the manufacturing and mining sectors consolidating at a faster...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Jan 19, 2023

The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector

Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson
Measurement error alone cannot explain the decline in US construction productivity over the last 50 years, with evidence pointing to...
Topics: Industrial Organization