Discussion Papers in Economics

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05/3: Re-examining the Consumption-Wealth Relationship: The Role of Model Uncertainty

Gary Koop, Simon Potter and Rodney Strachan

05/2: What Will I Be When I Grow Up? An Analysis of Childhood Expectations and Career Outcomes

Sarah Brown, John Sessions and Karl Taylor

05/1: Mechanism Design with Interdependent Valuations: Surplus Extraction

Claudio Mezzetti

04/31: Forecasting and Estimating Multiple Change-point Models with an Unknown Number of Change-points

Gary Koop and Simon Potter

04/30: The Role of Politics and Institutions in LDC Currency Devaluations

Anja Shortland

04/29: Are Americans More Gung-Ho Than Europeans? Some Evidence From Tourism in Israel During the Intifada

David Fielding and Anja Shortland

04/28: Competition and Growth in Neo-Schumpeterian Models

Piercarlo Zanchettin and Vincenzo Denicolo'

04/27: Bayesian Approaches to Cointegration

Gary Koop, Rodney Strachan, Herman van Dijk and Mattias Villani

04/26: Prior Elicitation in Multiple Change-point Models

Gary Koop and Simon Potter

04/25: Anticipated Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Sara Lemos

04/24: Empirical Equations to Estimate the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Sara Lemos

04/23: Do Stock Markets Value Firm-Level Technical Efficiency? Some UK Evidence

Sourafel Girma and Kevin Amess

04/22: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices across Income Levels in Brazil

Sara Lemos

04/21: The Political Economy of Financial Development

Sourafel Girma and Anja Shortland

04/20: An Investigation of Thresholds in Air Pollution-Mortality Effects

Gary Koop and Lise Tole

04/19: The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Cash Holdings for Non–Financial Firms

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan, Neslihan Ozkan and Oleksandr Talavera

04/18: Semiparametric Bayesian inference in smooth coefficient models

Gary Koop and Justin Tobias

04/17: Bayesian Semiparametric Inference in Multiple Equation Models

Gary Koop, Dale Poirier and Justin Tobias

04/16: Forecasting in Large Macroeconomic Panels using Bayesian Model Averaging

Gary Koop and Simon Potter

04/15: The Vector Floor and Ceiling Model

Gary Koop and Simon Potter

04/14: Parametric and Nonparametric Inference in Equilibrium Job Search Models

Gary Koop

04/13: The second moments matter: The response of bank lending behavior to macroeconomic uncertainty

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan

04/12: The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Private and Public Sectors in Brazil

Sara Lemos

04/11: Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Sara Lemos

04/10: The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Sara Lemos

04/9: Who gets privatised? An empirical analysis of Polish manufacturing

Katarzyna Mikolajczyk and Barbara Roberts

04/8: The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Sara Lemos

04/7: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Sara Lemos

04/6: The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Sara Lemos

04/5: Finance, Institutions and Economic Growth

Panicos Demetriades and Siong Hook Law

04/4: Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Sara Lemos

04/3: A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil

Sara Lemos

04/2: Market Structure, Inflation, and Price Dispersion

Mustafa Caglayan, Alpay Filiztekin and Michael Rauh

04/1: The Impact of State and Foreign Ownership on Post-Transition Industrial Concentration: The Case of Polish Manufacturing

Kevin Amess and Barbara Roberts

03/18: Why Do People Pay Taxes? An Explanation Based On Loss Aversion And Overweighting of Low Probabilities

Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi

03/17: Quadratic Food Engel Curves with Measurement Error: Evidence from a Budget Survey

Sourafel Girma and Abbi Kedir

03/16: Religion and Education: Evidence from the National Child Development Study

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

03/15: Finance and Growth: What We Know and What We Need To Know

Panicos Demetriades and Svetlana Andrianova

03/14: Violent Crime in the United States of America: A Time-Series Analysis Between 1960-2000

George Saridakis

03/13: Executive Remuneration And Firm Performance: Evidence From A Panel Of Mutual Organisations

Kevin Amess and Leigh Drake

03/12: Is the public sector too large in a democracy?

Clive Fraser

03/11: How Does Monetary Policy Affect the Poor? Evidence from the West African Economic and Monetary Union

David Fielding

03/10: How Does Civil War Affect the Magnitude of Capital Flight? Evidence from Israel during the Intifada

David Fielding

03/9: Do Currency Unions Deliver More Economic Integration than Fixed Exchange Rates? Evidence from the CFA and the ECCU

David Fielding and Kalvinder Shields

03/8: Economic Integration in West Africa: Does the CFA Make a Difference?

David Fielding and Kalvinder Shields

03/7: The take-up of multiple means-tested benefits by British pensioners. Evidence from the Family Resources Survey

Ruth Hancock, Stephen Pudney, Geraldine Barker, Monica Hernandez Alava and Holly Sutherland

03/6: Informational cascades elicit private information

Olivier Gossner and Nicholas Melissas

03/5: Debt and financial expectations: an individual and household level analysis

Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor, Gaia Garino and Stephen Wheatley Price

03/4: Estimating Supply Response in the Presence of Technical Inefficiency Using the Profit Function: An Application to Ethiopian Agriculture

Abrar Suleiman

03/3: The Use of Self-Report and Drugs Tests in the Measurement of Illicit Drug Consumpiton

Ziggy MacDonald and Stephen Pudney