Department of Economics Working Papers

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2026_108: Why Do Supply Disruptions Lead to Inflation (While Demand Booms Do Not)? Survey Evidence from the COVID Pandemic

Gregory Phelan, Thomas Andreas Kohler, Jean-Paul L'Huillier and Maximilian Weiß

2026_106: Reviving Joint Liability Contracts: Asymmetric Joint Liability Loans and Moral Hazard

Burak Uras, Francesco Carli, Francesco Cecchi and Manuela Fritz

2026_107: Worker Selection and Skilled Immigration Policy

Caitlin Hegarty and Mishita Mehra

2026_103: Mispricing Through Misconfidence

Burak Uras, Niccolò Zaccaria and Sigrid Suetens

2026_105: Decomposing the Finance Wage Premium: Contributions of ICT and Risk

Burak Uras, Jose Gabriel Carreno, Harry Huizinga and Ata Bertay

2026_102: The Price of Traceability: E-Payments, Tax Compliance, and Policy

Burak Uras and Tulio Bouzas

2026_104: Flexible Labor Contracts, Firm-specific Pay, and Wages

Burak Uras, Jose Carreno and Harry Huizinga

2025-102: Collateralizability and Asset Prices: Evidence from Structured Funds

Gregory Phelan, Wei Li and Yongqin Wang

2025_111: The Russian Empire

Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger

2025_110: Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution

Paul Castañeda Dower, Scott Gehlbach, Dmitrii Kofanov and Steven Nafziger

2025_112: Black Lives Matter for Productivity: Heterogeneous Impacts of the 2020 Social Justice Movement on Faculty

Mackenzie Alston and Sarah Jacobson

2025_118: Can Ethereum survive a run? Hidden fragility in crypto’s Proof-of-Stake model

Gregory Phelan and Thomas Ruchti

2025_115: Importing the Opioid Crisis? International Trade and Fentanyl Overdoses

Timothy J Moore, William W. Olney and Benjamin Hansen

2025_114: No Refund, No Problem: Refund Institutions in a Combined Linear-Threshold Public Good Game

Sarah Jacobson and John Spraggon

2025_116: The Determinants of Declining Internal Migration

William W. Olney and Owen Thompson

2025_113: A Theory of Preference Discovery

Jason Delaney, Sarah Jacobson and Thorsten Moenig

2025_109: Energy Availability and Economic Growth

Gregory Casey

2025_106: When is growth sustainable? A simple model for undergraduates

Gregory Casey

2025_107: The Macroeconomics of Clean Energy Subsidies

Gregory Casey, Woongchan Jeon and Christian Traeger

2025_117: Offshoring and the Decline of Unions

Jakob Munch and William W. Olney

2025_105: The Slope of the Phillips Curve and the Mandate of the Central Bank

Gregory Phelan, Jean-Paul L'Huillier and William Zame

2025_104: Why Do Supply Disruptions Lead to Inflation?

Gregory Phelan, Thomas Kohler, Jean-Paul L'Huillier and Maximilian Weiss

2022-08: Sustainability in General Equilibrium

David Love and Gregory Phelan

2022-02: A Generalized Uzawa Growth Theorem and Capital-Augmenting Technological Change

Gregory Casey and Ryo Horii

2022-01: Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment

Gregory Casey, Stephie Fried and Matthew Gibson

2021-13: Gendered Language

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

2021-12: Should Monetary Policy Target Financial Stability?

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2021-11: Liquidity Provision and Financial Stability

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2021-10: Ore Money Ore Problems: A Resource Extraction Game

Sarah Jacobson

2021-09: Women Artists

Abigail LeBlanc and Stephen Sheppard

2021-08: Image Content, Complexity, and the Market Value of Art

Stephen Sheppard

2021-07: Collateral Constraints, Tranching, and Price Bases

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2021-06: Financial Stress and Health Considerations: A Tradeoff in the Reopening Decisions of U.S. Liberal Arts Colleges During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Jonah Tobin, Oliver Hall, Jacob Lazris and David Zimmerman

2021-05: Simple Diagnostics for Two-Way Fixed Effects

Pamela Jakiela

2021-04: Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin

2021-03: Seeds of Learning: Uncertainty and Technology Adoption in an Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Game

Babatunde Abidoye, Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2021-02: Historical Instruments and Contemporary Endogenous Regressors

Gregory Casey and Marc Klemp

2021-01: Technology Shocks and Predictable Minsky Cycles

Jean-Paul L’Huillier, Gregory Phelan and Hunter Wieman

2020-11: Information Asymmetries and Remittance Recipient Income: A Field Experiment in Malawi

Kate Ambler and Susan Godlonton

2020-10: Cournot Fire Sales

Thomas Eisenbach and Gregory Phelan

2020-09: Occupant Well-Being and House Values

Richard Rijnks and Stephen Sheppard

2020-08: Seeds of Learning: Uncertainty and Technology Adoption in an Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Game

Babatunde Abidoye, Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2020-07: Intra-African Trade

William Olney

2020-06: Money Growing on Trees: A Classroom Game about Payments for Ecosystem Services and Tropical Deforestation

Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2020-05: International Coordination of Macroprudential Policies with Capital Flows and Financial Asymmetries

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2020-04: Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill

Dietrich Earnhart, Sarah Jacobson, Yusuke Kuwayama and Richard Woodward

2020-03: Collateral Constraints, Tranching, and Price Bases

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2020-02: (Im)patience by Proxy: Making Intertemporal Decisions for Others

Angela de Oliveira and Sarah Jacobson

2020-01: Should Monetary Policy Target Financial Stability?

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2019-25: Windfalls and work requirements: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

Kate Ambler and Susan Godlonton