BFI Working Papers

Sharing research in progress—and refining it through rigorous discussion and debate—is a hallmark of scholarship at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.
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BFI Working Paper Feb 13, 2023

100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration

Spencer Y. Kwon, Yueran Ma, Kaspar Zimmermann
Topics:  Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper Jan 30, 2023

Measuring the Share of Imports in Final Consumption

Emmanuel Dhyne, Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Magne Mogstad, Felix Tintelnot
Topics:  Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper Jan 18, 2023

The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the U.S. Construction Sector

Austan Goolsbee, Chad Syverson
Topics:  Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper Dec 14, 2022

Private Sanctions

Oliver D. Hart, David Thesmar, Luigi Zingales
Topics:  Financial Markets, Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper Dec 14, 2022

Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago’s Public Housing Demolitions

Milena Almagro, Eric Chyn, Bryan A. Stuart
Topics:  Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper Dec 14, 2022

Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam

Milena Almagro, Tomás Domínguez-Iino
Topics:  Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper Nov 28, 2022

Internal Adjustment Costs of Firm-Specific Factors and the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm

V. K. Chetty, James Heckman
Topics:  Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper Nov 8, 2022

Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, Scott Ohlmacher, Itay Saporta-Eksten
Topics:  Industrial Organization