Boston College Working Papers in Economics

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535: Ordered Response Threshold Estimation

Arthur Lewbel

534: Downward nominal wage flexibility: real or measurement error?

Peter Gottschalk

533: Does It Matter (for Equilibrium Determinacy) What Price Index the Central Bank Targets?

Charles Carlstrom, Timothy Fuerst and Fabio Ghironi

532: The Property Tax as a Tax on Value: Deadweight Loss

Richard Arnott and Petia Petrova

531: Facilitating Applied Economic Research with Stata

Christopher Baum

530: "Rules Rather Than Discretion" After Twenty Five Years: What Have We Learned? What More Can We Learn?

Peter Ireland

529: Democratically Elected Aristocracies

David Heyd and Uzi Segal

528: Endogenous mobility, human capital and trade

István Kónya

527: Endogenously persistent output dynamics: A puzzle for the sticky-price model?

Fabio Ghironi

526: Productivity, Innovation Creation and Absorption, and R&D: Micro Evidence for Italy

Maria Laura Parisi, Fabio Schiantarelli and Alessandro Sembenelli

525: Weighted and Two Stage Least Squares Estimation of Semiparametric Truncated Regression Models

Shakeeb Khan and Arthur Lewbel

524: Private Inter-household Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s

Donald Cox

523: Calculating Compensation in Cases of Wrongful Death

Arthur Lewbel

522: Inventories, Employment and Hours

Marzio Galeotti, Louis Maccini and Fabio Schiantarelli

521: The second moments matter: The impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on the allocation of loanable funds

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan

520: Sectoral Fluctuations in U.K. Firms' Investment Expenditures

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan

519: A PANIC Attack on Unit Roots and Cointegration

Jushan Bai and Serena Ng

518: A New Look at Panel Testing of Stationarity and the PPP Hypothesis

Jushan Bai and Serena Ng

517: New International Monetary Arrangements and the Exchange Rate

Tommaso Monacelli

516: Anchor Stores

Hideo Konishi and Michael Sandfort

515: Games of Capacity Manipulation in Hospital-Intern Markets

Hideo Konishi and Utku Unver

514: How Do People Decide to Allocate Transfers Among Family Members?

Donald Cox

513: Coherent Odds and Subjective Probability

Kim Border and Uzi Segal

512: Min, Max, and Sum

Uzi Segal and Joel Sobel

511: On the Economic Meaning of Machina's Fréchet Differentiability Assumption

Zvi Safra and Uzi Segal

510: Super Majoritarianism and the Endowment Effect

Uriel Procaccia and Uzi Segal

509: Central Bank Learning, Terms of Trade Shocks & Currency Risk: Should Exchange Rate Volatility Matter for Monetary Policy?

Guay Lim and Paul McNelis

508: Borders, Trade and Welfare

James Anderson and Eric van Wincoop

507: Optimal Immigration, Assimilation and Trade

István Kónya

506: Urban Economic Aggregates in Monocentric and Non-monocentric Cities

Richard Arnott

505: Net Foreign Assets and the Exchange Rate: Redux Revived

Michele Cavallo and Fabio Ghironi

504: Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment

Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna, Roberto Perotti and Fabio Schiantarelli

503: Does Financial Liberalization Improve the Allocation of Investment? Micro Evidence from Developing Countries

Arturo Galindo, Fabio Schiantarelli and Andrew Weiss

502: The Economic Theory of Urban Traffic Congestion: A Microscopic Research Agenda

Richard Arnott

501: Tests for Skewness, Kurtosis, and Normality for Time Series Data

Jushan Bai and Serena Ng

500: A Note on the Selection of Time Series Models

Serena Ng and Pierre Perron

499: Endogenous Money or Sticky Prices?

Peter Ireland

498: Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice? The Impact of SSP Subsidies on Wage Growth

Helen Connolly and Peter Gottschalk

497: On Efficient Jurisdiction Structure in a Simple Local Public Goods Economy with Interjurisdictional Trade

Hideo Konishi

496: Moral Hazard, Insurance, and Some Collusion

Ingela Alger and Ching-to Ma

495: A Theory of Fraud and Over-Consumption in Experts Markets

Ingela Alger and François Salanié

494: Uniqueness of User Equilibrium in Transportation Networks with Heterogeneous Commuters

Hideo Konishi

493: Is Private R&D Spending Sensitive to Its Price? Empirical Evidence on Panel Data for Italy

Maria Laura Parisi and Alessandro Sembenelli

492: Dynamics of Intra-EMS Interest Rate Linkages

Christopher Baum and John Barkoulas

491: The Real Balance Effect

Peter Ireland

490: Self-Employment and Labor Market Transitions at Older Ages

Donald Bruce, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Joseph Quinn

489: Screening Ethics when Honest Agents Care about Fairness

Ingela Alger and Régis Renault

488: Nonlinear Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on the Volume of Bilateral Exports

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan

487: Antidumping Law as a Collusive Device

Maurizio Zanardi

486: Wage Mobility within and between Jobs

Peter Gottschalk