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11-04: Strategic Analysis of Influence Peddling

Mukul Majumdar and Seung Han Yoo

11-03: The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices

Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, Ted O'Donoghue and Joshua Teitelbaum

11-02: Efficient Ramsey Equilibria

Robert Becker and Tapan Mitra

11-01: Failure of a Credit System: Implications of the Large Deviation Theory

Rabi Bhattacharya and Mukul Majumdar

10-06: On the Nature of Suppes-Sen Choice Functions in an Aggregative Growth Model

Ram Dubey and Tapan Mitra

10-05: On Representation and Weighted Utilitarian Representation of Preference Orders on Finite Utility Streams

Tapan Mitra and Kemal Ozbek

10-04: On Optimal Forest Management: A Bifurcation Analysis

Swapan Dasgupta and Tapan Mitra

10-03: Sustained Positive Consumption in a Model of Stochastic Growth: The Role of Risk Aversion

Tapan Mitra and Santanu Roy

10-02: On Equitable Social Welfare Functions Satisfying the Weak Pareto Axiom: A Complete Characterimplete Characterization

Ram Sewak Dubey and Tapan Mitra

10-01: The Bayesian Approach to Default Risk: A Guide

Michael Jacobs and Nicholas Kiefer

09-14: How Sapient is Homo Economicus? The Evolutionary Origins of Trade, Ethics and Economic Rationality

Kaushik Basu and Ashok Guha

09-13: Incentive-Compatible Elicitation of Quantiles

Nicholas Kiefer

09-12: Correlated Defaults, Temporal Correlation, Expert Information and Predictability of Default Rates

Nicholas Kiefer

09-11: A Simple Model of the Financial Crisis of 2007-9 with Implications for the Design of a Stimulus Package

Kaushik Basu

09-10: Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis

Stephen Coate and Brian Knight

09-09: A Marketing Scheme for Making Money off Innocent People: A User's Manual

Kaushik Basu

09-08: Geometry of the Log-Likelihood Ratio Statistic in Misspecified Models

Hwan-sik Choi and Nicholas Kiefer

09-07: What Goes Around Comes Around: A Theory of Indirect Reciprocity in Networks

Maximilian Mihm, Russell Toth and Corey Lang

09-06: Altruism, Other-Regarding Behavior and Identity: The Moral Basis of Prosperity and Oppression

Kaushik Basu

09-05: Literacy Traps: Society-Wide Education and Individual Skill Premia

Vidya Atal, Kaushik Basu, John Gray and Travis Lee

09-04: On the Phelps-Koopmans Theorem

Tapan Mitra and Debraj Ray

09-03: Equivalence of Utilitarian Maximal and Weakly Maxmal Programs

Kuntal Banerjee and Tapan Mitra

09-02: The Mechanics of Central Bank Intervention in Foreign Exchange Markets

Kaushik Basu

09-01: The Maximum Entropy Distribution for Stochastically Ordered Random Variables with Fixed Marginals

Nicholas Kiefer

08-11: Strategic Analysis of Petty Corruption with an Intermediary

Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Mukul Majumdar and Roy Radner

08-10: Markov Processes Generated by Random Iterates of Monotone Maps: Theory and Applications

Mukul Majumdar

08-09: Petty Corruption: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Mukul Majudar and Roy Radner

08-08: Random Iterates of Monotone Maps

Rabi Bhattacharya and Mukul Majumdar

08-07: Experiments with the Traveler's Dilemma: Welfare, Strategic Choice and Implicit Collusion

Kaushik Basu, Leonardo Becchetti and Luca Stanca

08-06: Children, Education, Labor and Land: In the Long Run Short

Talia Bar and Kaushik Basu

08-05: A Powerful Tuning Parameter Free Test of the Autoregressive Unit Root Hypothesis

Morten Nielsen

08-04: A New and Easy-to-Use Measure of Literacy, Its Axiomatic Properties and an Application

Kaushik Basu and Travis Lee

08-03: Annual Default Rates and Probably Less Than Long-Run Average Annual Default Rates

Nicholas Kiefer

08-02: Default Estimation, Correlated Defaults, and Expert Information

Nicholas Kiefer

08-01: The Smooth Colonel Meets the Reverend

Nicholas Kiefer and Jeffrey Racine

07-15: Herding and Bank Runs

Chao Gu

07-14: Asymmetric Information and Bank Runs

Chao Gu

07-13: Benchmarking the Effective Literacy Rate

Travis Lee

07-12: Development and Validation of Credit-Scoring Models

Dennis Glennon, Nicholas Kiefer, C. Erik Larson and Hwan-sik Choi

07-11: Default Estimation and Expert Information: All Likely Dataset Analysis and Robust Validation

Nicholas Kiefer

07-10: The Role of Expectations in Sudden Stops

Karel Mertens

07-09: An Overlapping-Generations Model with Search

Tao Zhu

07-08: The Pattern and Causes of Economic Growth in India

Kaushik Basu and Annemie Maertens

07-07: On Commodity Prices and Factor Rewards: A Close Look at Sign Patterns

Tapan Mitra

07-06: Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration

Stephen Coate and Brian Knight

07-05: On Competitive Equitable Paths under Exhaustible Resource Constraints: The Case of a Growing Population

Tapan Mitra

07-04: A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt

Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate

07-03: Multiple Priors as Similarity Weighted Frequencies

Jürgen Eichberger and Ani Guerdjikova

07-02: Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U

Kaushik Basu, Sanghamitra Das and Bhaskar Dutta

07-01: Equilibrium Concepts in the Large Household Model

Tao Zhu