MHA schedules annual meeting for August 21

We thank seminar and conference participants at Chicago IO+, Yale, Penn, Princeton, Toronto, UT-Austin, KU Leuven, UNC, Wisconsin, Stanford, Northwestern, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSC, UBC, NBER IO, IIOC, and the FTC Micro Conference for comments. This paper would not be possible without Hugh McCartney’s contribution in sourcing…

“I own my home outright, have no children or other dependents.”

Shares of natural gas driller EQT Corporation (EQT +8.37%) rallied 8.5% in Wednesday’s trading. EQT reported second-quarter earnings today. While revenue and earnings per share actually came in lower than Wall Street analysts expected, the company also increased its production targets for the year while lowering costs. Meanwhile, management also announced big new supply deals…

We would like to thank David Autor, Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, Ohto Kanninen, Antoine Levy, Attila Lindner, Mathilde Muñoz, Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan as well as participants at numerous conferences and seminars for helpful comments. We are grateful to the Research Council of Finland (grant no. 346252 and 364188) for funding for this project….

The AUD/USD pair builds on its modest weekly bearish gap opening and retreats further from a two-and-a-half-week top, near the 0.6970 region, touched on Friday. Spot prices drop to the 0.6930-0.6925 area during the Asian session as escalating US-Iran tensions underpin the safe-haven US Dollar (USD). Furthermore, a fresh leg up in Crude Oil prices…

Teen Venezuela quake survivor mourns her ’young forever’ friends