Working Papers

From Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Spozio ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

09-17: Multiple selves in intertemporal choice

Julian Jamison and Jon Wegener

09-16: Estimating demand in search markets: the case of online hotel bookings

Sergei Koulayev

09-15: Closed-form estimates of the New Keynesian Phillips curve with time-varying trend inflation

Michelle Barnes, Fabià Gumbau-Brisa, Denny Lie and Giovanni Olivei

09-14: Inflation persistence

Jeffrey Fuhrer

09-13: Financial leverage, corporate investment, and stock returns

Ali Ozdagli

09-12: Housing and debt over the life cycle and over the business cycle

Matteo Iacoviello and Marina Pavan

09-11: Social and private learning with endogenous decision timing

Julian Jamison, David Owens and Glenn Woroch

09-10: Estimating the border effect: some new evidence

Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Nicholas Li

09-9: Efficient organization of production: nested versus horizontal outsourcing

Oz Shy and Rune Stenbacka

09-8: Real estate brokers and commission: theory and calibrations

Oz Shy

09-7: Trends in U.S. family income mobility, 1967–2004

Katharine Bradbury and Jane Katz

09-6: The optimal level of deposit insurance coverage

Michael Manz

09-5: Geographic variations in a model of physician treatment choice with social interactions

Mary Burke, Gary Fournier and Kislaya Prasad

09-4: Empirical estimates of changing inflation dynamics

Jeffrey Fuhrer, Giovanni Olivei and Geoffrey Tootell

09-3: Has overweight become the new normal?: evidence of a generational shift in body weight norms

Mary Burke, Frank Heiland and Carl Nadler

09-2: Another hidden cost of incentives: the detrimental effect on norm enforcement

Andreas Fuster and Stephan Meier

09-1: Why are (some) consumers (finally) writing fewer checks?: the role of payment characteristics

Scott Schuh and Joanna Stavins

08-8: Race, obesity, and the puzzle of gender specificity

Mary Burke and Frank Heiland

08-7: The responsiveness of married women’s labor force participation to income and wages: recent changes and possible explanations

Katharine Bradbury and Jane Katz

08-6: The impact of immigration on occupational wages: evidence from Britain

Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen

08-5: Classroom peer effects and student achievement

Mary Burke and Tim Sass

08-4: The value of risk: measuring the service output of U. S. commercial banks

Susanto Basu, Robert Inklaar and J. Christina Wang

08-3: Blood donations and incentives: evidence from a field experiment

Lorenz Goette and Alois Stutzer

08-2: Credit card debt and payment use

Charles Sprenger and Joanna Stavins

08-1: Designing state aid formulas: the case of a new formula for distributing municipal aid in Massachusetts

Katharine Bradbury and Bo Zhao

07-16: Input and output inventories in general equilibrium

Matteo Iacoviello, Fabio Schiantarelli and Scott Schuh

07-15: Subprime outcomes: risky mortgages, homeownership experiences, and foreclosures

Kristopher Gerardi, Adam Shapiro and Paul Willen

07-14: The effects of expectations on perception: experimental design issues and further evidence

Tyler Williams

07-13: Active decisions and pro-social behavior

Lorenz Goette, Alois Stutzer and Michael Zehnder

07-12: Social networks and vaccination decisions

Markus M. Mobius, Neel Rao and Tanya Rosenblat

07-11: How much is a friend worth?: directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks

Quoc-Anh Do, Stephen Leider, Markus M. Mobius and Tanya Rosenblat

07-10: Space and time in macroeconomic panel data: young workers and state-level unemployment revisited

Christopher Foote

07-9: Doing good or doing well? Image motivation and monetary incentives in behaving prosocially

Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier

07-8: Population aging, labor demand, and the structure of wages

Margarita Sapozhnikov and Robert Triest

07-7: The effects of competition on price dispersion in the airline industry: a panel analysis

Kristopher Gerardi and Adam Shapiro

07-6: How strong is the case for downward real wage rigidity?

Steinar Holden and Fredrik Wulfsberg

07-5: Minimally altruistic wages and unemployment in a matching model

Julio Rotemberg

07-4: Debt and the effects of fiscal policy

Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

07-3: Impatience and credit behavior: evidence from a field experiment

Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger

07-2: Using unexpected recalls to examine the long-term earnings effects of job displacement

Yolanda Kodrzycki

07-1: GARCH-based identification of triangular systems with an application to the CAPM: still living with the roll critique

Todd Prono

06-19: Measuring disparities in non-school costs and revenue capacity among Massachusetts cities and towns

Katharine Bradbury and Bo Zhao

06-18: Do subsidies increase charitable giving in the long run?: matching donations in a field experiment

Stephan Meier

06-16: How small is zero price?: the true value of free products

Dan Ariely and Kristina Shampan'er

06-15: Decomposing consumer wealth effects: evidence on the role of real estate assets following the wealth cycle of 1990-2002

Andriy Avramenko and Michael R. Donihue

06-14: In noise we trust? Optimal monetary policy with random targets

Ethan Cohen-Cole and Bogdan Cosmaciuc

06-13: A tale of tails: an empirical analysis of loss distribution models for estimating operational risk capital

Kabir Dutta and Jason Perry

06-12: Minimally acceptable altruism and the ultimatum game

Julio Rotemberg

06-11: Estimating the New Keynesian Phillips curve: a vertical production chain approach

Adam Shapiro

06-10: Productivity and U.S. macroeconomic performance: interpreting the past and predicting the future with a two-sector real business cycle model

Peter Ireland and Scott Schuh