Economics Letters

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Volume 196, issue C, 2020

The increasing deflationary influence of consumer digital access services

David Byrne and Carol Corrado

Profit efficiency: Generalization, business accounting and the role of convexity

Rolf Färe and Valentin Zelenyuk

Inertia in partnerships: The role of gender

Wei Bao, Daniel Houser, Yulei Rao and Erte Xiao

Preference reversal and group strategy-proofness

Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno

The cost of gendered attitudes on a female candidate: Evidence from Google Trends

Raphael Corbi and Pedro Picchetti

Re-evaluating Okun’s Law: Why all recessions and recoveries are “different”

Sacha Gelfer

A Ricardian rationale for the WTO rules on R&D subsidies

Yumi Koh and Gea M. Lee

On the effects of macroprudential policies on Growth-at-Risk

Michal Franta and Leonardo Gambacorta

Sharing the sacrifice, minimizing the pain: Optimal wage reductions

Keaton Miller

China’s anti-corruption campaign and bank loan loss provisions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Yunqing Tao

Overlooked results on the competitive firm under output price risk: Alternative sufficient conditions for downward sloping factor demand curves

Richard Watt

Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? Discordant evidence from Germany

Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel and Marina Töpfer

The spread of social distancing

Jonathan Cook, Noah Newberger and Sami Smalling

Zero-diagonality as a linear structure

Jan R. Magnus and Enrique Sentana

The distributional effects of job loss from fiscal consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 2011

Tim Komarek and Gary A. Wagner

Does generalized trust depend on income?

Michael Alexeev

Fertility changes and replacement migration

Yunus Aksoy and Gylfi Zoega

Pre-earnings announcement returns and momentum

Archana Jain, Chinmay Jain and Revansiddha Basavaraj Khanapure

How does bank competition affect credit risk? Evidence from loan-level data

Alfredo Martin-Oliver, Sonia Ruano and Vicente Salas-Fumás

Ownership concentration and bank profitability in China

Qiubin Huang

Education and persistence of earnings shocks

Chiara Dal Bianco and Francesco Maura

A new test of asset return predictability with an unstable predictor

Seong Yeon Chang

Fixed effects spatial panel data models with time-varying spatial dependence

Juncong Guo and Xi Qu

Disclosure policies in inspection programs: The role of specific deterrence

Matthew Makofske

On the indeterminacy of the representation of beliefs by probabilities

Edi Karni

Asset bubble and endogenous labor supply: A clarification

Kathia Bahloul Zekkari and Thomas Seegmuller

Do rising top incomes fuel credit expansion?

Mehdi El Herradi and Aurélien Leroy

Growth forecast revisions over business cycles: Evidence from the Survey of Professional Forecasters

Sungjun Huh and Insu Kim

Estimating subjective poverty lines with discrete information

Tomas Zelinsky, Jason Wei Jian Ng and Martina Mysíková

Variable Effort, Business Cycles, and Economic Welfare

Minseung Kim and Myungkyu Shim

Mere Addition is equivalent to avoiding the Sadistic Conclusion in all plausible variable-population social orderings

Nathan Franz and Dean Spears

The determinants of sovereign bond liquidity during WWI

Tobias A. Jopp

Contests with a constrained choice set of effort

Doron Klunover and John Morgan

Characterization of variation averse preferences by present value

Umut Keskin

Recovering the finance-growth nexus

Panicos Demetriades and Johan Rewilak

Late-movers outperform first-movers in export markets

Jamal Ibrahim Haidar

Limiting risk premia in EMEs: The role of FX reserves

Emanuel Kohlscheen

The international trade effects of bilateral investment treaties

Benedikt Heid and Isaac Vozzo

Correcting for bias using multidimensional measures of Socially Desirable Response

Stefan Meyer and Paulo Santos

Benford’s Law and COVID-19 reporting

Christoffer Koch and Ken Okamura

The effects of COVID-19 lockdown on fairness and cooperation: Evidence from a lablike experiment

Irene Maria Buso, Sofia De Caprariis, Daniela Di Cagno, Lorenzo Ferrari, Vittorio Larocca, Francesca Marazzi, Luca Panaccione and Lorenzo Spadoni

Optimal legal standards for competition policy further re-visited

Yannis Katsoulacos and David Ulph

The wage curve across the wealth distribution

Roberto Iacono and Marco Ranaldi

An observation regarding Hamilton’s recent criticisms of Kilian’s global real economic activity index

Nima Nonejad

A bias aggregation theorem

Mark Schneider

Limit of the optimal weight in least squares model averaging with non-nested models

Fang Fang and Minhan Liu

Does bundling induce adverse selection in insurance?

Francis Annan

Measuring macroeconomic uncertainty: A historical perspective

Yifan Shen

Truncated productivity distributions and the intensive trade margin

Cletus Coughlin and Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

Revisiting the effects of monetary policy shocks: Evidence from SVAR with narrative sign restrictions

Kai Cheng and Yang Yang

Price advertising, double marginalisation and vertical restraints

Luke Garrod, Matthew Olczak and Chris M. Wilson

Competition among large and heterogeneous small firms

Lijun Pan and Yongjin Wang