Wednesday assorted links
1. Dominant assurance contracts and the blockchain.
2. Financial incentives and social incentives.
3. Should Netflix “speed up” movies?
4. A Duke job market paper taking a sympathetic look at income-sharing agreements. Joshua Jacobs.
5. “I find that lowering the level of [NIMBY] restrictions in California back to its level in 2000 results in a large reallocation of labor. The state’s population rises by 45%, while the income gap and house value gap between California and the rest of the U.S. falls by 3.7% and 2.7%, respectively.” From Don Jayamaha, on the job market from NYU. Updated paper link here.