Department of Economics Working Papers

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2008-04: Cosigners as Collateral

Stefan Klonner and Ashok Rai

2008-03: Borrower Runs

Philip Bond and Ashok Rai

2008-02: Extreme Returns without News: A Microstructural Explanation

Carol Osler and Tanseli Savaser

2008-01: How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? New Estimates from Panel Data

Jon Bakija and Bradley Heim

2007-07: Micro-Perspectives on 19th-century Russian Living Standards

Steven Nafziger and Tracy Dennison

2007-06: Only Twice As Much: A Rule for Regulating Lenders

Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy

2007-05: Do Markets Care Who Chairs the Central Bank?

Kenneth Kuttner and Adam Posen

2007-04: Why Do Firms Offer Risky Defined Benefit Pension Plans?

David Love, Paul Smith and David Wilcox

2007-03: Risk Preferences and the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing

Lucie Schmidt

2007-02: Exchange Rate Response to Macro News: Through the Lens of Microstructure

Tanseli Savaser

2007-01: Adverse Selection in Credit Markets: Evidence from a Policy Experiment

Ashok Rai and Stefan Klonner

2006-06: Gender, Marriage, and Asset Accumulation in the United States

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

2006-05: Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India

Anand V. Swamy and Rachel E. Kranton

2006-04: Health disparities and infertility: impacts of state-level insurance mandates

Marianne Bitler and Lucie Schmidt

2006-03: Reconciling the Returns to Education in Off-FarmWage Employment in Rural China

Alan de Brauw and Scott Rozelle

2006-02: Documentation for a Comprehensive Historical U.S. Federal and State Income Tax Calculator Program

Jon Bakija

2006-01: Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and the Theory of Social Capital

Roger Bolton

2005-08: Timing vs. Long-run Charitable Giving Behavior: Reconciling Divergent Approaches and Estimates

Jon Bakija and Robert McClelland

2005-07: Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility

Lucie Schmidt

2005-06: Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance

Lara Shore-Sheppard

2005-05: Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

Alan de Brauw and John Giles

2005-04: Robust Unit Root and Cointegration Rank Tests for Panels and Large Systems

Peter Pedroni and Tim Vogelsang

2005-03: Regional Income Divergence in China

Peter Pedroni and James Yudong Yao

2005-02: Public Health Investments and the Infant Mortality Gap: Evidence from Federal Sanitation Interventions on U.S. Indian Reservations

Tara Watson

2005-01: System Design, User Cost and Electronic Usage of Journals

Robert S. Gazzale and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason

2004-17: Capitalising the Value of Free Schools: The Impact of Supply Characteristics and Uncertainty

Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

2004-16: Conservation Behavior: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

Matthew Kotchen and Michael R. Moore

2004-15: Panel Cointegration: Asymptotic and Finite Sample Properties of Pooled Time Series Tests with an Application to the PPP Hypothesis

Peter Pedroni

2004-14: Working Until Dropping: Employment Behavior of the Elderly in Rural China

Lihua Pang, Alan de Brauw and Scott Rozelle

2004-13: Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Childrens' Academic Achievement?

Quinn Moore and Lucie Schmidt

2004-12: Do the Rich Flee from High State Taxes? Evidence from Federal Estate Tax Returns

Jon Bakija and Joel Slemrod

2004-11: Transmission of External and Internal Shocks In Argentina During the Convertibility Period: Some Empirical Findings From VARs

Chris Geirgat

2004-10: Seasonal Migration and Improving Living Standards in Vietnam

Tomoko Harigaya and Alan de Brauw

2004-09: Are the new and old EU countries financially integrated?

Tomas Dvorak and Chris R. A. Geiregat

2004-08: Cosigned Or Group Loans

Philip Bond and Ashok S. Rai

2004-07: Private Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Household Participation in Green-Electricity Programs

Matthew J. Kotchen and Michael R. Moore

2004-06: Explaining The Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda For Open-Space Conservation

Matthew Kotchen and Shawn M. Powers

2004-05: The Impact of Rent Controls in Non-Walrasian Markets: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Ralph Bradburd, Stephen Sheppard, Joseph Bergeron and Eric Engler

2004-04: The Effect of Infrastructure on Long Run Economic Growth

Peter Pedroni and David Canning

2004-03: Social Capital, Barriers to Production, and Capital Shares: Implications for the Importance of Parameter Heterogeneity from a Nonstationary Panel Approach

Peter Pedroni

2004-02: When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting

Yan Chen and Robert S. Gazzale

2004-01: Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge

Christopher H. Brooks, Jeffrey K. MacKie Mason, Robert S. Gazzale and Edmund H. Durfee

2003-18: Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritance and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from Across States and Time

Jon Bakija, William Gale and Joel Slemrod

2003-17: Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity?

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-16: In Search of a Fair Bet in the Lottery

Victor Matheson and Kent Grote

2003-15: Super Bowl or Super (Hyper)Bole? Assessing the Economic Impact of America's Premier Sports Event

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-14: Research Note: Contrary Evidence on the Economic Impact of the Super Bowl on the Victorious City

Victor Matheson

2003-13: The Paradox of Championships "Be Careful, Sports Fans, What You Wish For"

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-12: The "Death-Effect" on Collectible Prices

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-11: The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from a Comparison of Matched Records

David Card, Andrew Hildreth and Lara Shore-Sheppard