Contemporary Economic Policy

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✨New Article✨ Monetary policy like inflation targets can only be effective if they are credible. Dieter Nautz uses German survey data from 2019-2024 to find that the ECB's delayed rate hikes- not just high inflation- were what eroded public trust in its 2% target.

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✨New Article✨ What do envirnomental and natural resource economists agree on? In a new article, Lea-Rachel Kosnik, John C. Whitehead, and Timothy C. Haab survey respondents to guage levels of consensus in the field.

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✨New Article✨ What are the consequences of losing parental insurance at age 26? Dajung Jun finds a sharp drop in coverage at the cutoff, concentrated among unmarried, unemployed, and nonmetropolitan adults.

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✨New Article✨ Timothy Bianco and Nicholas Moellman examine household debt and safety-net participation. Using a PVAR, they find TANF participation is generally unresponsive to debt shocks, while SNAP participation responds positively and persistently to changes to debt.

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✨New Article✨ How does economic freedom affect patience and risk tolerance? In a new article, Ryan Kitzan, Adam Stivers, and Nabamita Dutta investigate this relationship and find that countries with both higher economic freedom and risk tolerance also exhibit higher patience.

✨New Issue✨ The January 2026 issue of Contemporary Economic Policy has been published. It contains 11 original research articles on a wide range of topics, from teenage drinking to borrowing against future Social Security wealth. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14657287/c…

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✨New Article✨ How are consumers impacted by the elimination of low-denomination coins? In a new article, Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, and Daniel Levy find that Israel's elimination of the 1¢ and 5¢ coin equivalents led to a relativley small rounding tax on consumers.

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✨New Article✨ Does nurse practitioner scope of practice expansion affect safety net participation? Owen Fleming and Lilly Springer find that 4-5 years after NP's are granted full practice authority, WIC participation increases by 4.1%.

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✨New Article✨ Natural disasters can have a profound impact on a society. Serkan Demirkılıç, Zuhal Özbay Daş, and Güney Aydin investigate the labor market effects of the 2011 earthquakes in eastern Turkey and find, among other outcomes, an increase in low-skilled employment.

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✨New Article✨ How did city-level vaccine mandates affect vaccine uptake and COVID-19 transmission? Authors Vitor Melo, Elijah Nelson, and Dorothy Kemboi find no pattern of significant effects, suggesting local mandates may be less effective than national mandates.

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✨New Article ✨ What determines an individual's willingness to pay for top sports teams? In a new open-access article, Jaume Garcia, Fernando Lera-Lopez, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Santos, and Maria Jose Suarzez find that social trust and civic pride drive WTP.