Economics Letters

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Volume 257, issue C, 2025

Motivations behind peer-to-peer (Counter-)punishment in public goods games: An experiment

Kenju Kamei and Katy Tabero

Improved two-period difference-in-differences by targeted estimation

Yuhao Deng, Tao Zhang, Xiang Peng and Qinqing Liu

Artificial intelligence and inflation in the EU

Jakub Borowski, Jarko Fidrmuc and Krystian Jaworski

Model complexity and the performance of global versus regional models

Minghui Chen, Matthias X. Hanauer and Tobias Kalsbach

Partial passive ownership holdings destabilizing collusion

Rupayan Pal and Emmanuel Petrakis

Upward pricing pressure in horizontal mergers with fuzzy capacity constraints

Ignacio J. Núñez

Firm-level reactions to trade policy risk: Evidence from the S&P 500

Rosa Cocozza and Serena Gallo

Motherhood penalty in consumption

Paula Calvo, Ilse Lindenlaub and Lindsey Uniat

The impact of FinTech on mortgage accessibility for same-sex borrowers

Zhilu Lin, Shiang Liu, Wentao Wu and Yang Zhao

Do bank hierarchies affect the use of guarantees?

Andrea Bacchiocchi, Giorgio Calcagnini and Germana Giombini

Skin in the game and securitized commercial mortgage pricing before the Global Financial Crisis

Nathan Godin, Akos Horvath, Xingliang Ma and Jacob S. Sagi

Optimal land-for-property real exchange options

Duarte Moura and Paulo J. Pereira

Voluntary bankruptcy and long-term credit exclusion: evidence from Chile

Julio Riutort and Benjamín Vallejos

Self-employment promotion as active labor market policy: Design and trade-offs in rigid labor markets

Joaquin Garcia-Cabo, Rocio Madera and Zoe Xie

Medical expenditure risk and household portfolios: Evidence from an insurance reform in China

Sidong Sun, Wenxuan Hou and Shenshen Tan

Labor union beyond borders: How customer unionization reshapes supplier labor strategies

Di Cui, Mingfa Ding, Yikai Han and Mi Shen

Organizing expertise

Carlos J. Ponce and Rafael R. Guthmann

Identification in two-score regression discontinuity designs with partial compliance

Weiwei Jiang and Rong J.B. Zhu

Promoting suppliers’ R&D investment: The power from climate risk-exposed customers

Hecong Xu and Xiao Wang

Nonparametric estimation of private value distributions in first-price auctions: Evaluating quantile density function approaches

Hassan Doosti, Isha Dewan and Masoud Talebian

Prudence and prevention – empirical evidence

Thomas Mayrhofer and Hendrik Schmitz

Hard forks, hard questions: Unraveling the microstructure effects on Bitcoin’s return, volume, and volatility

Matthew Jenni, Wolfgang Schadner and Martin Angerer

The surprising irrelevance of total-value-locked on cryptocurrency returns

Matthew Brigida

CSR investment timing in a duopoly: The threat of responsibility violations in the context of socially conscious customers

Stefan Kupfer and Elmar Lukas

Income inequality and social trust

Andrea Albertazzi, Patrick Lown and Friederike Mengel

Delegating decisions to a lottery can reduce preference for control

Antonio Estache, Renaud Foucart and Konstantinos Georgalos

Downstream price effect of upstream monopolization: Isoniazid as a case study

Yifu Shao

Forecast errors and the sacrifice ratio of monetary policy in the euro area

Corinna Ghirelli, Javier J. Pérez and Daniel Santabárbara

What drives educational technology adoption in classrooms serving young children? Evidence from two experiments

Daniela Bresciani, Ariel Kalil, Michelle Michelini and Rohen Shah

Robotic automation and right-wing populism: Do labor skills make a difference?

Massimo Del Gatto and Christos Mavridis

The long-term impact of financial literacy on wealth: Evidence from longitudinal data

Kenneth De Beckker, Bart Frijns, Frank Hubers and Sjuul Derkx

Pension design and general public finances: beyond baseline actuarial neutrality

Didier Blanchet and Gilbert Cette

Risk premiums for time risk under GEDU preferences

Takashi Nishiwaki and Yusuke Osaki

The problem of quality change in historical price statistics: An illustrative example using Baedeker travel guides

Jarod Coulter, Braden Strackman and Mark A. Wynne

An empirical investigation of the effects of monetary policy shocks on the Italian economy

Massimiliano Marcellino and Tommaso Tornese

Brand capital and trade credit policy

Akinloye Akindayomi and Md Ruhul Amin

Do financial constraints hinder or spur green innovation?

Quang Minh Nhi Nguyen and Trung K. Do

Monetary trade-offs: stability vs. renewables

Marcella Lucchetta

Large tariff cuts and corporate hedging: Evidence from interest rate swaps

Shu Zhang and Chen Shen

Racial disparities and monetary policy: Evidence from augmented Taylor rules

Ejindu S. Ume

Rare disasters and their impact on hedge fund valuation and leverage choice

Yuxiang Bian, Can Tang, Xiong Xiong, Jinqiang Yang and Yuzhao Zhang

The last shall be first: Innovation as a head-to-head race

Patrick Arnold, Marc Möller and Catherine Roux

Variable screening in high-dimensional vector autoregressions

Bo Ling and Yundong Tu

Amazingly versatile Durbin regressions with persistent and nonlinear errors: HAC comparisons

Richard T. Baillie, George Kapetanios and Kun Ho Kim

Consistent model selection for factor-augmented regression within hierarchical factor structures

Yundong Tu and Jinsha Zheng

Solution-robust estimation of strategic models

Andrés Aradillas-López

Does distance create beauty? technological distance, CVC investment diversification, and innovation performance

Yuanni Mu, Ye Yang and Zhixiang Fang

Impossibility results for weak strategy-proofness and respect for improvements in random assignment with priorities

Keisuke Bando and Souta Takase

Truncated History Framework for Synthetic Control Approaches

Peter Spoelstra, Tom Stolp, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Ilja Cornelisz and Chris van Klaveren

Inference with many instruments: When is Anderson–Rubin test still useful?

Firmin Doko Tchatoka and Yuguo Ma

Price discovery through wrapped tokens

William C. Johnson and Stefan Scharnowski

Stablecoin and cross-border crypto market integration

Chang-Mo Kang, Hyoung-Goo Kang, Donghyun Kim and Hong Kee Sul

Quality trade and transportation costs

Toshihiro Okubo and Akira Sasahara

Persistent fiscal expansions in sudden-stop crises: The expectation channel

Siming Liu, Hewei Shen and Wenya Wang

Monotonicity in estimating multiple structural breaks

Siyuan Xia and Junhui Qian

Land bubbles despite non-vanishing rents

Alexis Akira Toda

Receiver-optimal communication protocols

Aidan Smith

Bertrand competition and captive customers

David P. Myatt and David Ronayne

Personal income mobility and the demand for redistribution: Perceptions and reality

Manja Gärtner, Johanna Mollerstrom and David Seim

Monetary/fiscal policy dominance and conflicts: Evidence from crises

Francesco Giuli, Serena Ionta and Valeria Patella

Tax avoidance and commodity tax differentiation

Georges Casamatta and Helmuth Cremer

Social surrogacy: Market design and implications for fertility

Federico Innocenti and Lucia Schiavon

An OLG model with endogenous but distinct power-laws in earnings and wealth

Armando R. Lopez-Velasco

A simple approach to estimate technical efficiency in stochastic frontier models

Christopher Parmeter

Investment adjustment costs and growth dynamics

Rangan Gupta and Wei Ma