Economics Letters

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Volume 209, issue C, 2021

Are unconditional lump-sum transfers a good idea?

Yunmin Chen, YiLi Chien, Yi Wen and C.C. Yang

Bank-based financing and catch-up innovation: A three-way interaction approach

Min Yuan, Wenjun Chen and Jialiang Qin

Toehold acquisitions as option games

José Lacerda, Paulo J. Pereira and Artur Rodrigues

The SOFR and the Fed’s influence over market interest rates

Ivan Indriawan, Feng Jiao and Yiuman Tse

Rank response functions in an online learning environment

Tim Klausmann, Valentin Wagner and Isabell Zipperle

Are vaccine lotteries worth the money?

Christopher Robertson, K Aleks Schaefer and Daniel Scheitrum

Hands in the cookie jar: Exploiting loan loss provisions under bank financial distress

Malek El Diri, Timothy King, Laima Spokeviciute and Jonathan Williams

Rare disasters, exchange rates, and macroeconomic policy: Evidence from COVID-19

Hang Zhou, Mei Yu, Jiahui Li and Qilin Qin

With age comes immaturity: Do countries with older populations issue shorter maturity debt?

Gonca Senel and Mark Wright

The implications of self-reported body weight and height for measurement error in BMI

Apostolos Davillas and Andrew Jones

Technological capacity and firms’ recovery from Covid-19

Sebastian Doerr, Magdalena Erdem, Guido Franco, Leonardo Gambacorta and A. Illes

The real exchange rate and household consumption heterogeneity: Testing Kocherlakota and Pistaferri’s (2007) model

Robert Kollmann

Bitcoin mining activity and volatility dynamics in the power market

Sayar Karmakar, Riza Demirer and Rangan Gupta

The nowcast revision analysis extended

Fumio Hayashi and Yuta Tachi

Optimal intellectual property rights policy by an importing country

Takeshi Ikeda, Tadanobu Tanno and Yoshihito Yasaki

Seasonal price effects of mergers

Ali Umut Guler

Can HFT profit in Chinese stock market?

Wei Liu

Optimal ownership of entrepreneurial firms with rational inattention

Yuhua Zhang and Congming Mu

On the instability of private intertemporal liquidity provision

Diemo Dietrich and Thomas Gehrig

Estimating production functions using energy to control for unobserved utilization

Zhanyu Dong, Hongqi Ma and Guangjun Shen

Expectation spillovers and the return of inflation

Matteo Ciccarelli and Juan Angel García

Semiparametric estimation of varying trade elasticities in gravity

Yushan Hu and Penglong Zhang

Policy uncertainty in Scandinavian countries

Emil Johan Verlo Ifwarsson, Lars Erik Kleiven, Lars H. Sendstad and Verena Hagspiel

The effect of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown on gasoline prices

Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Srishti Slaria

How do institutional settings condition the effect of macroprudential policies on bank systemic risk?

Nicholas Apergis, Ahmet Aysan and Yassine Bakkar

The effect of doubling the minimum wage on employment and earnings in Mexico

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Gerardo Esquivel

BP-CVaR: A novel model of estimating CVaR with back propagation algorithm

Gang-Jin Wang and Chun-Long Zhu

Faster fiscal stimulus and a higher government spending multiplier in China: Mixed-frequency identification with SVAR

Mingyang Li and Linlin Niu

The uniqueness of steady-state equilibrium under state-dependent pricing: The case of deflation

Shuhei Takahashi

Do MTurkers exhibit myopic loss aversion?

Rene Schwaiger and Laura Hueber

Economic support during the COVID crisis. Quantitative easing and lending support schemes in the UK

Mahmoud Fatouh, Simone Giansante and Steven Ongena

COVID-19 pandemic increases the divide between cash and cashless payment users in Europe

Radosław Kotkowski and Michal Polasik

Consumption and housing net worth: Cross-country evidence

David Cronin and Kieran McQuinn

Tobin’s q and corporate investment with a pandemic shock

Shilin Li, Tongtong Li, Jinqiang Yang and Siqi Zhao

Differential impact of diversity in policy communication

Vidya Mahambare and Jalaj Pathak

The ‘time-release’, crime-reducing effects of education spending

Bebonchu Atems and William Blankenau

Sufficient conditions for jth order stochastic dominance for discrete cardinal variables, and their formulae

Gordon Anderson and Teng Wah Leo

Recession-specific recoveries: L’s, U’s and everything in between

Luiggi Donayre and Irina Panovska

Does the Community Reinvestment Act increase lending to small businesses in lower income neighborhoods?

Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee and John Earle

A reversal in the global decline of the labor share?

Selen Andic and Michael Burda

Multilateral bargaining with an endogenously determined procedure

Hong Gao and Haibo Xu

Careful what you say: The effect of manipulative information on the 2013 Czech presidential run-off election

Martin Guzi and Štěpán Mikula

Volume 208, issue C, 2021

Did the Paycheck Protection Program have negative side effects on small-business activity?

Pavel Kapinos

Sleep restriction and strategy choice in cooperation and coordination games

David McEvoy, David Bruner, David Dickinson and Sean P.A. Drummond

There may be no pass through of a merger-related cost efficiency

Joseph E. Harrington

On the expressiveness of assignment messages

Maximilian Fichtl

Prevention as a Giffen good

Richard Peter

The mean–variance relation: A 24-hour story

Wenzhao Wang

The Great Gatsby Curve in education with a kink

Andros Kourtellos

The broker-optimal bilateral trading mechanisms with linear contracts

Lijun Pan and Dazhong Wang

The asymmetric government spending multipliers: Evidence from US regions

Jiajun Lu and Yueteng Zhu

Product positioning with overlapping ownership

Youping Li and Jianhu Zhang

Vaccination lottery

Duk Gyoo Kim

“Whatever it takes”: A plea for active monetary policies

Paolo Canofari, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo and Marcello Messori

Equilibrium existence with spillover demand

Iwan Bos and Dries Vermeulen

Disclosure with unknown expertise

Run Li

Tax avoidance and state ownership — The case of Sweden

Axel Hilling, Frederik Lundtofte, Niklas Sandell, Amanda Sonnerfeldt and Anders Vilhelmsson

Do robots complement or substitute for older workers?

Michele Battisti and Antonio Francesco Gravina

The long-run effects of pandemics on inflation: Will this time be different?

Dennis Bonam and Andra Smădu

Kindness is rewarded! The impact of corporate social responsibility on Chinese market reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic

Yuyang Yi, Zongyi Zhang and Youliang Yan

Price change synchronization within and between firms

Øivind Nilsen, Håvard Skuterud and Ingeborg Munthe-Kaas Webster

Tail dependence between bitcoin and green financial assets

Muhammad Abubakr Naeem and Sitara Karim

Structural gravity and trade agreements: Does the measurement of domestic trade matter?

Rodolfo Campos, Jacopo Timini and Elena Vidal

Loss aversion in taste-based employee discrimination: Evidence from a choice experiment

Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert and Eva Derous

Macro shocks cause equilibrium price dispersion

David de Meza and Francesco Reito

Preference reversal and strategy-proofness with more than three alternatives

K.P.S. Bhaskara Rao, Achille Basile and Surekha Rao

On the inefficiency of perfect price discrimination

Camelia Bejan

A matter of time: Gender, time constraint, and risk taking among the chess elite

Maryam Dilmaghani

More goals, fewer babies? On national team performance and birth rates

Luca Fumarco and Francesco Principe

Attracting multinationals: Additional hurdles under firm selection

Martin Alfaro

Efficient GMM estimation of a spatial autoregressive model with an endogenous spatial weights matrix

Wei Kong and Kai Yang

Systemic risk of portfolio diversification

Kohei Maehashi

Forecasting Bitcoin realized volatility by measuring the spillover effect among cryptocurrencies

Yue Qiu, Yifan Wang and Tian Xie

A small sigma approach to certain problems in errors-in-variables models

Jinyong Hahn, Jerry Hausman and Jeonghwan Kim