Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:
- Biehl, Neto, and Gomez (with ungated earlier version here) find that, in Florida, the opening of a Dollar General store drives some nearby firms out of business but provides positive spillovers in terms of revenues and employment for the firms that survive
- Butler, Butler, and Singleton (open access) find that referees add substantially more time in the second half than the first half of games at the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship, and that referees allow more stoppage time when the score is close in the second half, but only at the World Cup
- Moyo and Gwatidzo (open access) find, using the synthetic control method, that although hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2010 had no positive effects on GDP in South Africa, it significantly increased tourism inflows
- Botha and de New (open access) find that the apparent decrease in measured financial literacy in Australia between 2016 and 2020 was entirely a consequence of moving from in-person to telephone interviews
- Sokolov and Libman (open access) conduct an online “beauty contest” experiment with a sample of academic economists in Russia, and find that economists who rely on theories assuming common knowledge of rationality do not expect more rational behaviour from their colleagues (so, even economists who believe in rationality don't believe that other economists are rational)
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