Homework for Wednesday 10/26

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Brief summary of this week's homework:

• Watch lecture videos 60–72, which are now online.
• No readings.
• Work on your research projects and prepare a research outline. The research outline should follow the same structure as last week (see Homework for Wednesday 10/19 #18).

Main comments on the projects

You should all improve the positionings of your projects in the literature to make them more analytical and precise. In addition:

• Matt - It would be good to have a very simple version of the product-market model that you will use. This would be helpful to understand how you will write the model down and proceed.
• Camilla - It would be good to redo the Beveridge curve estimations by limiting the number of breaks to 1 (or maybe 2) for each industry. It would be good to also report the values of $\kappa$ for each industry.
• Olivia - It would be nice to have an overview of the data that might be available to look at food loss over the business cycle. It would also be good to see possible data to estimate a Beveridge curve or matching function for farmer's markets.