Economics Letters

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Volume 205, issue C, 2021

The experience is (not) everything: Sequential outcomes and social decision-making

Johannes Buckenmaier and Eugen Dimant

Multi-prize contests with expectation-based loss-averse players

Qiang Fu, Xiruo Wang and Yuxuan Zhu

Clustering in network games

Sofía Ruiz-Palazuelos

Modelling corporate bank accounts

John Fry, Vlad-Marius Griguta, Luciano Gerber, Helen Slater-Petty and Keeley Crockett

On the value of second opinions: A credence goods field experiment

Parampreet Christopher Bindra, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer and Matthias Sutter

Currency substitution in the shadow economy: International panel evidence using local Bitcoin trade volume

Paul Marmora

Job search intensity of unemployed workers and the business cycle

Felix Bransch

A first aid kit to assess welfare impacts

Keisuke Kawata and Yasuhiro Sato

Reported MPC in the presence of debt

Hector Sala and Pedro Trivin

Peers, Buccaneers and Downton Abbey: An economic analysis of 19th century British aristocratic marriages

Mark Taylor

Market efficiency in foreign exchange market

Namhoon Lee, Wonseok Choi and Yuntaek Pae

Product differentiation and equilibrium price with partial product search

Lin Liu and X. Wang

Finitely repeated search and the diamond paradox

Arthur Fishman

Income Inequality and the depth of economic downturns

Emanuel Kohlscheen, Marco Lombardi and Egon Zakrajšek

Instrument approval by the Sargan test and its consequences for coefficient estimation

Jan Kiviet and Sebastian Kripfganz

Pricing carbon risk: Investor preferences or risk mitigation?

Stefanie Kleimeier and Michael Viehs

FOMC policy preferences and economic policy uncertainty

Michael Ellis and Dandan Liu

A century of Economic Policy Uncertainty through the French–Canadian lens

David Ardia, Keven Bluteau and Alaa Kassem

Covid-19 fiscal support and its effectiveness

Alexander Chudik, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

Recursive adjusted unit root tests under non-stationary volatility

Shaoping Wang, Yanglin Li and Kuangyu Wen

Bitcoin: Bubble that bursts or Gold that glitters?

Rocco Caferra, Gabriele Tedeschi and Andrea Morone

Do women give up competing more easily? Evidence from speedcubers

Chao Fang, Ernest Zhang and Junfu Zhang

(Almost) no one votes without ID, even when they can

Mark Hoekstra and Vijetha Koppa

A tale of two trade-offs: Effects of opening pathways from vocational to higher education

Jani-Petteri Ollikainen and Hannu Karhunen

Schelling’s model revisited: From segregation to integration

Ge Jiang

Dogit model and rational inattention

Karim Nchare

Firms’ environmental performance and the COVID-19 crisis

Pierre Guérin and Felix Suntheim

The effect of cultural distance between an analyst and a CEO on analysts’ earnings forecast performance

Bart Frijns and Alexandre Garel

Breaks in persistence in fixed-T panel data

Joakim Westerlund and Marcus Nordström

Labor market differentials estimated with researcher-inferred and self-identified sexual orientation

Michael Martell

Robots and skill-biased development in employment structure: Evidence from China

Chengjian Tang, Keqi Huang and Qiren Liu

The 2020 trade collapse: Exporters amid the pandemic

Felipe Benguria

Euro area house prices and unconventional monetary policy surprises

Oliver Hülsewig and Horst Rottmann

Lorenz optimality for sequencing problems with welfare bounds

Sreoshi Banerjee and Manipushpak Mitra

Is the second-cheapest wine a rip-off?

David de Meza and Vikram Pathania

Volume 204, issue C, 2021

Does funding targeted at improving the management of schools increase school performance over the long term?

William Cook

Efficient VAR discretization

Grey Gordon

Gravity model estimates of the spatial determinants of trade, migration, and trade-and-migration policies

Rebecca Freeman and John Lewis

Economic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of central bank independence

Ceyhun Elgin, Abdullah Yalaman, Sezer Yasar and Gokce Basbug

Coalitional efficient profit-sharing

Ruben Juarez, Kohei Nitta and Miguel Vargas

Presidential candidates linguistic tone: The impact on the financial markets

Matej Marinč, Nadia Massoud, Riste Ichev and Aljoša Valentinčič

Macroeconomic volatility at the zero lower bound: Evidence from the OECD

Anthony Swaminathan

The impact of COVID-19 on tail risk: Evidence from Nifty index options

Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla, Jayanth Varma and Vineet Virmani

Charitable giving for cultural goods: Asymmetric gender responses to votes on tax increases

Bryan McCannon and Amir Borges Ferreira Neto

Tabulated nonsense? Testing the validity of the Ethnographic Atlas

Duman Bahrami-Rad, Anke Becker and Joseph Henrich

An unconventional weekly economic activity index for Germany

Sercan Eraslan and Thomas Götz

Price discovery in US money market benchmarks: LIBOR vs. SOFR

Athanasios Fassas

Does the ease of reading of financial disclosures influence investment decision?

Jagriti Arora and Madhumita Chakraborty

What drives bank performance?

Luca Guerrieri and James Collin Harkrader

Stuck at zero: Price rigidity in a runaway inflation

Avichai Snir, Haipeng (Allan) Chen and Daniel Levy

Does governance quality enhance the efficacy of macroprudential policy?

Mallika Saha and Kumar Debasis Dutta

HIV infections and nightlight luminosity

Pratibha Gautam and Ben Li

Predicting SME’s default: Are their websites informative?

Lisa Crosato, Josep Domenech and Caterina Liberati

Real options for an entrepreneur with preferences for liquidity

Pengfei Luo, Ting Lu and DanDan Song

P2P lending Fintechs and SMEs’ access to finance

Kaleemullah Abbasi, Ashraful Alam, Noor Ahmed Brohi, Imtiaz Ali Brohi and Shahzad Nasim

Interest rate swaps and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy: A quantile connectedness approach

Ioannis Chatziantoniou, David Gabauer and Alexis Stenfors

Awareness of pandemics and the impact of COVID-19

Alejandro Buesa, Javier Pérez and Daniel Santabárbara

Two-stage least squares random forests with an application to Angrist and Evans (1998)

Martin Biewen and Philipp Kugler

High dimensional decision making, upper and lower bounds

Farzad Pourbabaee

Revealing information in auctions: The optimal auction versus the second-price auction

Alina Arefeva and Delong Meng

Why do managers disclose risks accurately? Textual analysis, disclosures, and risk exposures

Alejandro Lopez-Lira

IT adoption and bank performance during the Covid-19 pandemic

Aristeidis Dadoukis, Maurizio Fiaschetti and Giulia Fusi

Stock market volatility and public information flow: A non-linear perspective

Kristoffer Pons Bertelsen, Daniel Borup and Johan Stax Jakobsen

Self-enforcement, heterogeneous agents, and long-run survival

Kookyoung Han

What pandemic inflation tells: Old habits die hard

Zeynep Kantur and Gülserim Özcan

Supervisory information and loss aversion

Dongsoo Shin and Sungho Yun

Banks’ risk-taking within a banking union

Matteo Farnè and Angelos Vouldis

Partial passive ownership holdings and licensing

Stefanos Leonardos, Emmanuel Petrakis, Panagiotis Skartados and Giorgos Stamatopoulos

Some remarks on CCP-based estimators of dynamic models

Mogens Fosgerau, Emerson Melo, Matthew Shum and Jesper R.-V. Sørensen

A longitudinal study of multidimensional poverty in rural China from 2010 to 2018

Zhao Zhang, Caoyuan Ma and Aiping Wang

Motives and implementation with rights structures

Foivos Savva

Public-sector pension plans and the discount rate assumption: The role of political incentives

Sutirtha Bagchi and James P. Naughton

Partial information disclosure in a contest

Derek J. Clark and Tapas Kundu

Predicting stock prices based on informed traders’ activities using deep neural networks

Haejung Na and Soonho Kim

A characterization of preference domains that are single-crossing and maximal Condorcet

Arkadii Slinko, Qinggong Wu and Xingye Wu

A machine learning based asset pricing factor model comparison on anomaly portfolios

Ming Fang and Stephen Taylor

Human capital and average firm size

Qingmiao Bi, Jing Hang and Mohan Zhou

The determinants of output losses during the Covid-19 pandemic

Christian Glocker and Philipp Piribauer