期刊快享| American Economic Review [ Volume 114, September 2024]

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01 Arbitraging Covered Interest Rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending Lorena Keller Abstract ： I propose and test a new channel through which covered interest rate parity (CIP) deviations can affect bank lending in emerging economies. I argue that when CIP deviations exist, banks attempt to arbitrage them. To do so, banks must borrow in a particular currency. When this currency is scarce, bank lending in the currency required to arbitrage decreases, while they use this currency in their arbitrage activities. I test this channel by exploiting differences in the abilities of Peruvian banks to arbitrage CIP deviations. I find evidence that supports the proposed channel. 02 Revealing Choice Bracketing Andrew Ellis, David J. Freeman Abstract ： Experiments suggest that people fail to take into account interdependencies between their choices—they do not broadly bracket. Researchers often instead assume people narrowly bracket, but existing designs do not test it. We design a novel ex ………………………………