Economics Letters

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Volume 191, issue C, 2020

Momentum trading in cryptocurrencies: Short-term returns and diversification benefits

Panagiotis Tzouvanas, Renatas Kizys and Bayasgalan Tsend-Ayush

Betting on Bitcoin: Does gambling volume on the blockchain explain Bitcoin price changes?

Thomas Conlon and Richard J. McGee

The destabilising effects of cryptocurrency cybercriminality

Shaen Corbet, Douglas Cumming, Brian Lucey, Maurice Peat and Samuel A. Vigne

What drives Bitcoin’s price crash risk?

Antonios Kalyvas, Panayiotis Papakyriakou, Athanasios Sakkas and Andrew Urquhart

Bubble regime identification in an attention-based model for Bitcoin and Ethereum price dynamics

Alessandra Cretarola and Gianna Figà-Talamanca

Cryptocurrencies in institutional investors’ portfolios: Evidence from industry stop-loss rules

Jędrzej Białkowski

Volatility forecasting accuracy for Bitcoin

Gerrit Köchling, Philipp Schmidtke and Peter Posch

Does Bitcoin add value to global industry portfolios?

Damian Damianov and Ahmed Elsayed

Is option-based compensation restrained by largest potential risk exposure? Evidence from the banking industry

Michael K. Fung

Intertemporal utility with heterogeneous goods and constant elasticity of substitution

Martin Quaas, Stefan Baumgärtner, Moritz Drupp and Jasper N. Meya

External validity of a laboratory measure of cheating: Evidence from Czech juvenile detention centers

Lubomir Cingl and Václav Korbel

Heterogeneous fragility, systematic panic and optimal transparency

Wang Bo and Zheng Suli

On the outside-option principle with one-sided options

Joel Watson

Vertical control, opportunism, and risk sharing

Teis Lunde Lømo

Nudging with your child’s education. A field experiment on collecting municipal dues when enforcement is scant

Charlotte Sutter, Wolfram Rosenberger and Matthias Sutter

The gross output agricultural productivity gap

Jing Hang

Computationally efficient inference in large Bayesian mixed frequency VARs

Deborah Gefang, Gary Koop and Aubrey Poon

Disclosure policies in research contests with stochastic entry

Bo Chen

Monopsony with nominal rigidities: An inverted Phillips Curve

Charles Dennery

Vulnerable growth in the euro area: Measuring the financial conditions

Juan Figueres and Marek Jarociński

Asymmetric noise and systematic biases: A new look at the Trade-Off method

Thibault Richard and Valentin Baudin

Intrahousehold flypaper effects — Quasi-experimental evidence from a randomized school-feeding program in rural northwestern China

Qihui Chen, Chunchen Pei and Qiran Zhao

Robust kernels for kernel density estimation

Shaoping Wang, Ang Li, Kuangyu Wen and Ximing Wu

On the economic geography of dual distribution — The case of McDonald’s in Germany

Nisa E. Freiwald, Steffen Juranek and Uwe Walz

Determining the number of factors in approximate factor models by twice K-fold cross validation

Jie Wei and Hui Chen

A characterization of status quo rules in the binary social choice model

Sarvesh Bandhu, Abhinaba Lahiri and Anup Pramanik

When to leave carrots for sticks: On the evolution of sanctioning institutions in open communities

Marina Chugunova, Wolfgang Luhan and Andreas Nicklisch

On the inconsistency of nonparametric bootstraps for the subvector Anderson–Rubin test

Wenjie Wang

Public goods game with ambiguous threshold

Daiki Kishishita and Hiroyuki Ozaki

Volume 190, issue C, 2020

Leverage, uncertainty and investment decisions

Turalay Kenc and Ciaran Driver

Welcome on board: A note on gender quotas regulation in Europe

Moez Bennouri, Chiara De Amicis and Sonia Falconieri

Commuting across the Irish border

Achim Ahrens, John Fitzgerald and Sean Lyons

Regional effects of monetary policy in the U.S.: An empirical re-assessment

Pietro Pizzuto

Fairness and efficiency in cake-cutting with single-peaked preferences

Bhavook Bhardwaj, Rajnish Kumar and Josue Ortega

How special is democracy?

Johanna Mollerstrom and Cass R. Sunstein

Using sub-majoritarian rules to select the winner of a competition

Pablo Amoros

On the scope of climate finance to facilitate international agreement on climate change

Matthew J. Kotchen

Identification of business cycles and the Great Moderation in the post-war U.S. economy

Yu Jiang

Overlapping ownership, endogenous quality, and welfare

Duarte Brito, Ricardo Ribeiro and Helder Vasconcelos

Are speculative bubbles welfare improving? A note on Wang and Wen (2012)

Jürg Fausch and Markus Sigonius

A model-free identification of relative risk

Olga Kuzmina

Asymmetric learning and the disposition effect

Yongkil Ahn

Half-panel jackknife estimation for dynamic panel models

Adrian Mehic

Spillover effects of nudges

Julia Nafziger

Tax on name

Yibo Sun and Bo Wang

Stringency of environmental regulation and eco-innovation: Evidence from the eleventh Five-Year Plan and green patents

Effie Kesidou and Lichao Wu

U.S. banking concentration, 1820–2019

Caroline Fohlin and Matthew Jaremski

Learning, belief manipulation and optimal relationship termination

Hong Gao and Haibo Xu

Directional technology distance functions through duality

Mike Tsionas

Volume 189, issue C, 2020

Housing search frictions and optimal search

Hans Koster and Jos van Ommeren

Using loss aversion to incentivize energy efficiency in a principal–agent context — Evidence from a field experiment

Christin Hoffmann and Kirsten Thommes

A modified bootstrap for kernel-based specification test with heavy-tailed data

Ta-Cheng Huang, Hongjun Li and Zheng Li

The effect of voice on indirect reciprocity: Results from the lab

Jingping Li, Roland Cheo and Erte Xiao

Is there adverse selection in the U.S. social security system?

Andrew Beauchamp and Mathis Wagner

Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data

Fiona Carmichael, Christian K. Darko, Marco Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen and W. Stanley Siebert

In search of lost time aggregation

Edmund Crawley

Information sharing in a contest game with group identity

Weixing Ford, Zeng Lian, Jaimie W. Lien and Jie Zheng

Average inflation targeting and interest-rate smoothing

Yunjong Eo and Denny Lie

Mapping out network connections between residential property markets

George Milunovich

Local vs. global strategy-proofness: A new equivalence result for ordinal mechanisms

Peng Liu

First difference estimation of spatial dynamic panel data models with fixed effects

Fei Jin, Lung-Fei Lee and Jihai Yu

Dynamic cost of living index for storable goods

Kozo Ueda

Counting innovations: Schumpeterian growth in discrete time

Guido Cozzi and Silvia Galli

Commodity currencies and causality: Some high-frequency evidence

Rashad Ahmed

Market-based policies, public opinion, and information

Grant Jacobsen

Sieve extremum estimation of a semiparametric transformation model

Yingqian Lin and Yundong Tu

Does politicizing ‘gender’ influence the possibility of conducting academic research? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Tünde Lénárd, Dániel Horn and Hubert Janos Kiss

The geography of intergenerational mobility — Danish evidence

Jesper Eriksen and Martin D. Munk

Do you need less money in retirement?

Martina Celidoni and Guglielmo Weber

A robust test for predictability with unknown persistence

Guannan Liu and Shuang Yao

A solution for the flood cost sharing problem

Anand Abraham and Parthasarathy Ramachandran

Digitization-based automation and occupational dynamics

Malin Gardberg, Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson

Political determinants of investment in water and sanitation: Evidence from Brazilian elections

Evan Kresch and Rodrigo Schneider

Have the free trade agreements reduced inflation rates?

Noh-Sun Kwark and Hosung Lim

Asymmetries in the bank lending channel of monetary policy in the United States

Horacio Sapriza and Judit Temesvary

The effect of doubling the minimum wage and decreasing taxes on inflation in Mexico

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Gerardo Esquivel

Analytical formulae for accurately sized t-tests in the single instrument case

Narayana Kocherlakota

A deep recession came with deep wage cuts

Katrin Olafsdottir

Estimating years of education using the current population survey after 2014

Joni Hersch, Fernando Mendoza Lopez and Jennifer Bennett Shinall