Department of Economics Working Papers

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2019-03: Cabotage Sabotage? The Curious Case of the Jones Act

William Olney

2019-02: Climate Risk and Beliefs: Evidence from New York Floodplains

Matthew Gibson, Jamie Mullins and Alison Hill

2019-01: Global Collateral and Capital Flows

Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos and Gregory Phelan

2018-12: Supplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Weight Eligibility Cutoffs

Melanie Guldi, Amelia Hawkins, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Lucie Schmidt

2018-11: Rural Labor Market Responses to Large Lumpy Cash Transfers: Evidence from Malawi

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

2018-10: How do Structural Features Affect Corporate Exposures to Macro-financial Shocks in Open Economies?

Rina Bhattacharya, Pranav Gupta, Xingwei Hu and Peter Pedroni

2018-09: Panel Cointegration Techniques and Open Challenges

Peter Pedroni

2018-08: Trilemma-Dilemma: Constraint or Choice? Some Empirical Evidence from a Structurally Identified Heterogeneous Panel VAR

Peter Montiel and Peter Pedroni

2018-07: A Policy of Credit Disruption: The Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900

Latika Chaudhary and Anand Swamy

2018-06: Dynamic Consequences of Monetary Policy for Financial Stability

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2018-05: Occupant Well-Being and House Values

Richard Rijnks and Stephen Sheppard

2018-04: Outside the Box: Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Great Recession and Beyond

Kenneth Kuttner

2018-03: Uncorking Expert Reviews with Social Media: A Case Study Served with Wine

Alex Albright, Peter Pedroni and Stephen Sheppard

2018-02: The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring

William Olney and Dario Pozzoli

2018-01: Cournot Fire Sales

Thomas Eisenbach and Gregory Phelan

2017-05: International Coordination of Macroprudential Policies with Capital Flows and Financial Asymmetries

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2017-04: Globalization and Executive Compensation

Wolfgang Keller and William Olney

2017-03: Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation

Quamrul Ashraf, Francesco Cinnirella, Oded Galor, Boris Gershman and Erik Hornung

2017-02: Preference Discovery

Jason Delaney, Sarah Jacobson and Thorsten Moenig

2017-01: (Im)patience by Proxy: Making Intertemporal Decisions for Others

Angela de Oliveira and Sarah Jacobson

2016-18: Dimensionality and Disagreement: Asymptotic Belief Divergence in Response to Common Information

Isaac Loh and Gregory Phelan

2016-17: Regional Concentration of Industry in China: Decentralised Choices or a Central Plan?

Stephen Sheppard and Dan Zhao

2016-16: Heat Stress: The Impact of Ambient Temperature on Occupational Injuries in the US

Lucy Page and Stephen Sheppard

2016-15: Value for Money? Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability in the Laboratory

Jessica Leight, Rohini Pande and Laura Ralston

2016-14: The Impact of Early Childhood Rainfall Shocks on the Evolution of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Jessica Leight, Paul Glewwe and Albert Park

2016-13: Grain into Gold? The Impact of Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households

Jessica Leight

2016-12: Capital Structure and Corporate Performance in Late Imperial Russia

Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger

2016-11: Anchoring Bias in Recall Data: Evidence from Central America

Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez and Mike Murphy

2016-10: Employment Risk and Job-Seeker Performance

Susan Godlonton

2016-09: Employment Exposure: Employment and Wage Effects in Urban Malawi

Susan Godlonton

2016-08: Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms

Paul Castañeda Dower, Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach and Steven Nafziger

2016-07: Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom

Johannes Buggle and Steven Nafziger

2016-06: Debt Collateralization, Structured Finance, and the CDS Basis

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2016-05: Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-cognitive Characteristics in Rural China

Jessica Leight and Elaine Liu

2016-04: Regulation-Induced Pollution Substitution

Matthew Gibson

2016-03: Do Airbnb Properties Affect House Prices?

Stephen Sheppard and Andrew Udell

2016-02: The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2016-01: Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

Prashant Bharadwaj, Matthew Gibson, Joshua Graff Zivin and Christopher Neilson

2015-17: Time Use and Productivity: The Wage Returns to Sleep

Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader

2015-16: The Effects of Road Pricing on Driver Behavior and Air Pollution

Matthew Gibson and Maria Carnovale

2015-15: When Do Punishment Institutions Work?

Patrick Aquino, Robert Gazzale and Sarah Jacobson

2015-14: Securitized Markets, International Capital Flows, and Global Welfare

Gregory Phelan and Alexis Akira Toda

2015-13: Debt Collateralization, Capital Structure, and Maximal Leverage

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2015-12: Global Collateral: How Financial Innovation Drives Capital Flows and Increases Financial Instability

Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos and Gregory Phelan

2015-11: Hyperbolic Discounting and Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice

David Love and Gregory Phelan

2015-10: On the Robustness of Theoretical Asset Pricing Models

Gregory Phelan and Alexis Akira Toda

2015-09: Policies with Varying Costs and Benefits: A Land Conservation Classroom Game

Sarah Jacobson and Sahan Dissanayake

2015-08: The Nature of Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2015-07: Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture

Quamrul Ashraf and Stelios Michalopoulos

2015-06: Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor