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✨New Article✨ How does protectionist legislation affect consumer welfare? Angerhofer and Blair analyze the Florida Automobile Dealers Act and find that loss in consumer welfare may exceed $3.5 billion in 2023 alone.

✨New Article ✨ Emissions resulting from purchased electricity are difficult to calculate. Werner and Levinson ask how three restrictions on what counts as carbon‐free electricity use affect the degree to which electricity use really is carbon‐free.

✨New Article✨ How does natural resource dependence affect the development of wealth inequality in a country? Kim, Lin, and Liu demonstrate that the inequality effects of financial development are fundamentally shaped by resource dependence.

✨New Article✨ Yun Huang, Yun Liu, and Meng Ding construct a novel economic index that is accessible, interpretable, and empirically validated for tracking the economy of Hong Kong.

✨New Article✨ Policy makers may use place-based policies to boost a region's economy. But, the success of these policies vary widely from region to region. Xuan Zhang finds that the effects of Chinese county-level assistance policies vary widely based on pre-policy relative opportunity structure.