Discussion Papers in Economics

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07/6: Single Equation Models, Co-Integration and the Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Fabrizio Casalin

07/5: Financial Development, Openness and Institutions: Evidence from Panel Data

Badi Baltagi, Panicos Demetriades and Siong Hook Law

07/4: A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage in Latin America

Sara Lemos

07/3: Household-level Credit Constraints in Urban Ethiopia

Gamal Ibrahim, Abbi Kedir and Sebastián Torres Ledezma

07/2: Do childless households support local public provision of education

Berardino Cesi

07/1: Robust Benefit Function Transfer: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach

Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Riccardo Scarpa

06/16: On the Lowest-Winning-Bid and the Highest-Losing-Bid Auctions

Claudio Mezzetti and Ilia Tsetlin

06/15: The Utility Function Under Prospect Theory

Ali al-Nowaihi, Ian Bradley and Sanjit Dhami

06/14: Hang ’em with probability zero: Why does it not work?

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

06/13: Financial Liberalisation and Breaks in Stock Market Volatility

Panicos Demetriades, Michail Karoglou and Siong Hook Law

06/12: On Corruption and Institutions in Decentralized Eco

Svetlana Andrianova

06/11: Fairness and Direct Democracy

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

06/10: A Note On Generalized Hyperbolic Discounting

Ali al-Nowaihi and Sanjit Dhami

06/9: A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Sara Lemos

06/8: Auctions in which Losers Set the Price

Claudio Mezzetti and Ilia Tsetlin

06/7: State Dependence and Causal Feedback of Poverty and Fertility in Ethiopia

Arnstein Aassve, Abbi Kedir and Habtu Tadesse Woldegebriel

06/6: Tuition fees and admission standards: how do public and private universities really compete for students?

Tania Oliveira

06/5: Model Uncertainty and Bayesian Model Averaging in Vector Autoregressive Processes

Rodney Strachan and Herman van Dijk

06/4: Profitability of Horizontal Mergers in Trigger Strategy Game

Berardino Cesi

06/3: Public investment and higher education inequality

Berardino Cesi

06/2: Bayesian Inference in a Cointegrating Panel Data Model

Gary Koop, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Rodney Strachan

06/1: Minimum Wage Effects in a Developing Country

Sara Lemos

05/31: The Long Run Bias Against Manual Workers in British Manufacturing 1920 – 1995

Martin Hoskins

05/30: The Technological Bias Against Production Workers in United States Manufacturing 1949 – 1996

Martin Hoskins

05/29: Skill-biased Technical Change and the Relative Pay and Employment of Men and Women in the UK Economy 1971 – 1991

Martin Hoskins

05/28: Poverty and Fertility in Less Developed Countries: A Comparative Analysis

Arnstein Aassve, Henriette Engelhardt, Francesca Francavilla, Abbi Kedir, Jungho Kim, Fabrizia Mealli, Letizia Mencarini, Stephen Pudney and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

05/27: Firm Turnover, Restructuring and Labour Productivity in Transition: The Case of Poland

Barbara Roberts and Steve Thompson

05/26: Sequential vs. Single-Round Uniform-Price Auctions

Claudio Mezzetti, Aleksandar Pekec and Ilia Tsetlin

05/25: A Simple Model of Optimal Tax Systems: Taxation, Measurement and Uncertainty

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

05/24: Optimal Distribution Of Powers In A Federation: A Simple, Unified Framework

Sanjit Dhami

05/23: Why Do People Pay Taxes? Prospect Theory Versus Expected Utility Theory

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

05/22: Non-Linearities, Large Forecasters And Evidential Reasoning Under Rational Expectations

Ali al-Nowaihi and Sanjit Dhami

05/21: Coordination Failures, Philanthropy, and Public Policy

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

05/20: A simple derivation of Prelec’s probability weighting function

Ali al-Nowaihi and Sanjit Dhami

05/19: Insurance and Probability Weighting Functions

Ali al-Nowaihi and Sanjit Dhami

05/18: A Note On The Loewenstein-Prelec Theory Of Intertemporal Choice

Ali al-Nowaihi and Sanjit Dhami

05/17: Alice Through the Looking Glass: Strategic Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction in a Liquidity Trap

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

05/16: Corruption And The Provision Of Public Output In A Hierarchical Asymmetric Information Relationship

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

05/15: Minimum Wage Effects on Wages, Employment and Prices: Implications for Poverty Alleviation in Brazil

Sara Lemos

05/14: Bayesian Inference in Cointegrated I (2) Systems: a Generalisation of the Triangular Model

Rodney Strachan

05/13: Efficient Posterior Simulation for Cointegrated Models with Priors On the Cointegration Space

Gary Koop, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Rodney Strachan

05/12: The Political Economy of Financial Liberalisation

Sourafel Girma and Anja Shortland

05/11: "An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth." A Study of Political Violence and Counter-insurgency in Egypt

David Fielding and Anja Shortland

05/10: The Impact of Labour Turnover: Theory and Evidence from UK Micro-Data

Gaia Garino and Christopher Martin

05/9: Mortgages and Financial Expectations: A Household Level Analysis

Sarah Brown, Gaia Garino and Karl Taylor

05/8: Openness, Institutions and Financial Development

Siong Hook Law and Panicos Demetriades

05/7: “Ethical Tourism” or Self-Preservation? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Political Violence on Tourism in Egypt in the 1990s

David Fielding and Anja Shortland

05/6: How Do Alternative Minimum Wage Variables Compare?

Sara Lemos

05/5: Household Debt and Financial Assets: Evidence from Great Britain, Germany and the United States

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

05/4: Improper priors with well defined Bayes Factors

Rodney Strachan and Herman van Dijk