Two parties negotiate in the presence of external resolution opportunities (e.g., court, arbitration, or war). We study equilibrium effects of these opportunities on bargaining. From Mehmet Ekmekci and Hanzhe Zhang: restud.com/reputational-b… #bargaining #arbitration #war

Institutional contribution of nobel laureates. While in many sciences concentration decreases, in economic the majority of nobel laureates are from the same universities. #ICSSI

Evolution of institutional concentration of award-winer researchers in social sciences. Most disciplines becoming lees concentrated… except economics! (From Hanzhe Zhang’s closing #ICSSI keynote)

When market designers explain a (matching/selling/voting/…) mechanism to non-expert participants, they engage in a process akin to Science Communication: relaying scientific content to laypeople not trained in scientific thought. Let's learn how to do this from SciComm pros! 1/3

A beautiful short essay by Qingmin Liu (Columbia Economics) on the desired levels of abstraction in economic theory: groups.google.com/g/brainwriting… "The pursuit of pure intellectualism can sometimes lead to a detachment from the practical applications of economics—an applied discipline at

When this is Figure 1 of your paper you know that you have a killer paper. "All fields, EXCEPT FOR ECONOMICS, exhibit a low and decreasing concentration, which suggests a trend toward decentralized knowledge production." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…

David Deming Is the field of economics too concentrated and uncompetitive? A new NBER paper from HCEO member Hanzhe Zhang et al. shows that the winners of top economics prizes have spent most of their careers at just 8 elite US institutions. conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2… 1/2

Interested in our PhD program? Register for an upcoming PhD information session: forms.gle/tp1bLdiGNcYezu… #MSUEconomics #MSUSocialScience

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#MSUEconomics is pleased to announce Hanzhe Zhang published, "Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses," in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics: spr.ly/6013SPsy9

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Changes in marital sorting: theory and evidence from the US Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and Hanzhe Zhang show how the use of different measures can generate different conclusions. Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications/c…

NEW Discussion Paper: "Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the US" By Pierre-André Chiappori, Mónica Costa-Dias, Costas Meghir, & Hanzhe Zhang: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfdp-…

Providing an axiomatic characterization of measures of marital sorting by education and evaluating the changes in marital matching patterns in the US, from Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir, and @Hanzhe_Zhang nber.org/papers/w33354

Congratulations to Hanzhe Zhang on his publication, "Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration," in the Journal of Development Economics: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev… #MSUEconomics #MSUSocialScience

We're pleased to announce that Professor Hanzhe Zhang has published "Borrowing Stigma and Lender of Last Resort Policies," in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis: spr.ly/6018LIO0q #MSUEconomics #EconomicsResearch #MSUSocialScience