Economics Letters

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Volume 203, issue C, 2021

Retaliation in Bitcoin networks

Laura Lepomäki, Juho Kanniainen and Henri Hansen

Assessing adult farm labor statistics: Evidence from a survey design experiment in Ethiopia

Ana Dammert and Jose Galdo

Attention-driven probability weighting

Di Wang

Democracy and COVID-19 outcomes

Gokhan Karabulut, Klaus Zimmermann, Mehmet Bilgin and Asli Cansin Doker

Strategic investment and industry location in a footloose capital model of economic geography

Kenji Fujiwara

Convergence rate of estimators of clustered panel models with misclassification

Andreas Dzemski and Ryo Okui

Can resale harm the original seller in a second-price auction?

Ethem Akyol

The effect of the US–China trade war on Chinese new firm entry

Chuantao Cui and Leona Shao-Zhi Li

Consignment auctions revisited

Yun Liu and Bowen Tan

Inflation and Bitcoin: A descriptive time-series analysis

Benjamin Blau, Todd G. Griffith and Ryan J. Whitby

Should vertically integrated platforms be mandated to share information with their rivals?

Jorge Padilla, Salvatore Piccolo and Helder Vasconcelos

The optimal allocation of prizes in two-stage contests

Shahar Alshech and Aner Sela

Did colonisation matter for comparative economic complexity?

Joseph Keneck-Massil and Youssouf Nvuh-Njoya

Pandemic and hospital avoidance: Evidence from the 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea

Hyunkuk Cho and Jihyeon Kwon

How did European retirees respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Marco Bertoni, Martina Celidoni, Chiara Dal Bianco and Guglielmo Weber

Does volunteering increase employment opportunities? An experimental approach

Antonio Alfonso, Rafael Morales-Sánchez and Dunia López-Pintado

A multivariate HAR-RV model with heteroscedastic errors and its WLS estimation

Eunju Hwang and Won-Tak Hong

Mallows criterion for heteroskedastic linear regressions with many regressors

Stanislav Anatolyev

A note on income inequality at the state level

V. Kerry Smith

Monetary policy uncertainty and bank leverage: Evidence from China

Buben Fu and Daqing Luo

Educated to be trusting? Evidence from Europe

Kamhon Kan and Tat-kei Lai

Who chokes on a penalty kick? Social environment and individual performance during Covid-19 times

Massimiliano Ferraresi and Gianluca Gucciardi

Productivity of firms using relief policies during the COVID-19 crisis

Masayuki Morikawa

Additively-separable and rank-discounted variable-population social welfare functions: A characterization

Dean Spears and H. Orri Stefánsson

Volume 202, issue C, 2021

Terrorist attacks and total factor productivity

Seongjae Mun, Seung Hun Han and Hyeong Joon Kim

A political economy of loose means-testing in targeted social programs

Helmuth Cremer, Justina Klimaviciute and Pierre Pestieau

Spousal beliefs and intimate partner violence: Are we conditioned to internalize patriarchal norms?

Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha and Sanket Roy

Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: It is not who you teach, but how you teach

George Orlov, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Thomas DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones and Jörg Stoye

Quantile eco-efficiency estimation and convergence: A nonparametric frontier approach

Michael Polemis, Thanasis Stengos, Panayiotis Tzeremes and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Resource allocation on the basis of priorities under multi-unit demand

Yajing Chen, Zhenhua Jiao, Yang Zhang and Fang Zhao

Comparison of stochastic frontier models using the Hyvärinen factor

Mike Tsionas

Decomposing differences in Black student graduation rates between HBCU and non-HBCU Institutions: The devil is in the details

Mels de Zeeuw, Sameera Fazili and Julie L. Hotchkiss

Growth risks, asset prices, and welfare

Mariano M. Croce

Vertical mergers with input substitution: Double marginalization, foreclosure and welfare

Serge Moresi and Marius Schwartz

Shrinkage estimation of the varying-coefficient model with continuous and categorical covariates

Xiaoyi Han, Bin Peng, Yanrong Yang and Huanjun Zhu

Global financial integration and monetary policy spillovers

Dongwon Lee

Market power and banking regulations: Evidence from RDD application to the Brazilian banking market

Alan De Genaro, Pedro Ivo Camacho A. Salvador and Ivan Filipe Fernandes

On the optimality of outsourcing when vertical integration can mitigate information asymmetries

Patrick W. Schmitz

Group incentive compatibility and welfare for matching with contracts

Yusuke Kasuya

Uncertainty shocks and inflation dynamics in the U.S

Qazi Haque and Leandro Magnusson

Macroeconomic shocks and Okun’s Law

Alexander Ziegenbein

Robust conditional expectation reward–risk performance measures

Noureddine Kouaissah

Decomposing anomalies

Sabri Boubaker, Bo Li, Zhenya Liu and Yifan Zhang

On-the-match price renegotiation: Evidence from Pakistan’s import data

Zara Liaqat, Karrar Hussain and Bilal M. Khan

On a diversity of perspectives and world views: Learning under Bayesian vis-á-vis DeGroot updating

Aniruddha Ghosh and M. Khan

Mergers and innovation sharing

Vincenzo Denicolò and Michele Polo

Systematic risk in pairs trading and dynamic parameterization

Yiyun Li and Keith K.F. Law

Volume 201, issue C, 2021

Is time preference different across incomes and countries?

Vincenzo De Lipsis

Lying in a finitely repeated game

Avner Ben-Ner and Fangtingyu Hu

Does monitoring deter future cheating? The case of external examiners in Italian schools

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Marco Alberto De Benedetto and Maria De Paola

Cross ownership and divestment incentives

Rune Stenbacka and Geert Van Moer

Macro-stress testing dividend income. Evidence from euro area banks

Christian Gross, Mariusz Jarmuzek and Cosimo Pancaro

Gini coefficient versus top income shares – Pattern change differences

C.Y. Cyrus Chu and Yi-Ting Wang

On the existence of Pareto undominated mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium in normal-form games with infinite actions

Haifeng Fu

A mobility decomposition of absolute measures of panel distributional change

Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky

On equilibrium in monopolistic competition with endogenous labor

Alexey Kushnir, Alexander Tarasov and Robertas Zubrickas

Prospect Theory and Mutual Fund Flows

Ariel Gu and Hong Il Yoo

Identification of attrition bias using different types of panel refreshments

Adrian Chadi

Panel threshold spatial Durbin models with individual fixed effects

Lili Wei, Chunli Zhang, Jen-Je Su and Lixiong Yang

Feasibility-free axiomatization of the core and its non-empty extension

Camelia Bejan, Juan Camilo Gómez and Anne van den Nouweland

Backward mean transformation in unit root panel data models

Artūras Juodis and Rutger W. Poldermans

Testing heteroskedasticity for predictive regressions with nonstationary regressors

Shaoxin Hong, Zhengyi Zhang and Zongwu Cai

Covariability of real exchange rates and fundamentals

Christian Grisse and Fabian Scheidegger

Narrative fragmentation and the business cycle

Christoph Bertsch, Isaiah Hull and Xin Zhang

Technology shocks and sectoral labour market spill-overs

Catalin Dragomirescu-Gaina and Leandro Elia

A note on robust procurement contracts

Alexander Rodivilov

Inada conditions asymptotically transform production function into the Cobb–Douglas

Ata Özkaya

Confidence intervals for the trade cost parameters of cross-section gravity models

Michael Pfaffermayr

Distance to the pre-industrial technological frontier, patience, and economic development

Sascha Möhrle and Uwe Sunde

Market value of 10-K readability and corporate cash holdings

Sanghak Choi, Chune Young Chung, Daejin Kim and Junyoup Lee

SRISKv2 – A note

Marco Migueis and Alexander Jiron

Do entry wages increase when severance pay drops? Not in recessions

Pedro Martins

A heteroskedasticity robust test for cross-sectional correlation in a fixed effects panel data model

Peng Bin, Junqi Yu and Yi Zhu

Nursing facilities, food manufacturing plants and COVID-19 cases and deaths

Twisha Asher, Partha Deb and Anjelica Gangaram

The role of in-person tutorials in higher education

Erik Merkus and Felix Schafmeister

The cost-channel of monetary transmission under positive trend inflation

Irfan Qureshi and Ghufran Ahmad

Melting constants in trade gravity’s rainbow

Sven Blank and Peter Egger

Spillovers and productivity: Revisiting the puzzle with EU firm level data

Ioannis Bournakis

Does targeted poverty alleviation disclosure improve stock performance?

Tongshuai Qiao, Liyan Han and Yang Liu

Alternative characterizations of the top trading cycles rule in housing markets

Yajing Chen and Fang Zhao

A multi-output multi-input stochastic frontier system with input- and output-specific inefficiency

Subal Kumbhakar and Hung-pin Lai