Economics Discussion Papers

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2016-26: Social capital, institutions and policymaking

Marco Savioli and Roberto Patuelli

2016-25: Reassessing the link between firm size and exports

Pedro Jesús Hernández Martínez

2016-24: Job placement agencies in an agent-based model of the local labor market with the long-term unemployed and on-the-job flows

Marcin Wozniak

2016-23: A comparative analysis of forced migration: Cold War versus post-Cold War eras

Bilol Buzurukov and Byeong Wan Lee

2016-22: A financially stressed Euro area

Marcus Kappler and Frauke Schleer

2016-21: Do smoking bans always hurt the gaming industry? Differentiated impacts on the market value of casino firms in Macao (China)

Jing Hua Zhang, Kwo Ping Tam and Nan Zhou

2016-20: Dynamic pricing with reference price dependence

Régis Chenavaz

2016-19: The lumpiness of German exports and imports of goods

Joachim Wagner

2016-18: Nudging as a new "soft" policy tool: An assessment of the definitional scope of nudges, practical implementation possibilities and their effectiveness

Gabriela Michalek, Georg Meran, Reimund Schwarze and Özgür Yildiz

2016-17: Minimum wage and employment: Escaping the parametric straitjacket

Stefano Cabras, Jan Fidrmuc and Juan de Dios Tena Horrillo

2016-16: The role of corporate financial structure in the export propensity of manufacturing firms

Paloma Miravitlles, Toni Mora and Fariza Achcaoucaou

2016-15: A note on innovations from subjective ideas maps

Prateek Goorha

2016-14: The role of economic policy uncertainty in predicting U.S. recessions: A mixed-frequency Markov-switching vector autoregressive approach

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Mawuli Segnon

2016-13: The relationship between social capital and health in China

Xindong Xue, Erxiao Mo and W. Reed

2016-12: The Corporate Social Responsibility is just a twist in a Möbius strip

Nazaria Solferino and Viviana Solferino

2016-11: Consumption and social integration: Empirical evidence for Chinese migrant workers

Xiaobing Huang and Xiaolian Liu

2016-10: An equilibrium displacement approach to analyzing the effects of tariff reduction on farmers' profits: The Korea-Chile FTA's effects on Korean grape producers

Byeong-il Ahn and Jeong-bin Im

2016-9: A historical analysis of the US stock price index using empirical mode decomposition over 1791-2015

Aviral Tiwari, Arif Dar, Niyati Bhanja and Rangan Gupta

2016-8: Effects of Oscar awards on movie production

Betty Agnani and Henry Aray

2016-7: Passive unilateral cross-ownership and strategic trade policy

Luciano Fanti and Domenico Buccella

2016-6: Energy consumption and the size of the informal economy

Mustafa Metin Basbay, Ceyhun Elgin and Orhan Torul

2016-5: IPR protection and optimal entry modes of multinationals

Tanmoyee Banerjee (Chatterjee) and Nilanjana Biswas

2016-4: Measuring the instability of China's financial system: Indices construction and an early warning system

Lixin Sun and Yuqin Huang

2016-3: A double-edged sword: High interest rates in capital control regimes

Gudmundur S. Gudmundsson and Gylfi Zoega

2016-2: What drives long-term oil market volatility? Fundamentals versus Speculation

Libo Yin and Yimin Zhou

2016-1: A profit-maximization model for a company that sells an arbitrary number of products

Dragos-Patru Covei and Ioan Gheorghe-Ivanescu

2015-69: Distance and border effects in international trade: A comparison of estimation methods

Glenn Magerman, Zuzanna Studnicka and Jan Van Hove

2015-68: Cost-reduction innovation under mixed economy

Pu-yan Nie and Yong-Cong Yang

2015-67: Does the explanatory power of the OLI approach differ among sectors and business functions: Evidence from firm-level data

Spyros Arvanitis, Heinz Hollenstein and Tobias Stucki

2015-66: Strategic behavior between a bank and a microfinance institution: The role of psychological distance and education level

François Fall and Thanh Tam Nguyen-Huu

2015-65: The coming breakthrough in risk research

Carlo Jaeger

2015-64: Exporting firm dynamics and productivity growth: Evidence from China

Huang Xiaobing and Liu Xiaolian

2015-63: Issues in the estimation of dynamic happiness models: A Comment on "Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?"

Alan Piper and Geoffrey T. Pugh

2015-62: Institutions and investment in South and East Asia & Pacific region: Evidence from meta-analysis

Denise Hawkes and Sridevi Yerrabati

2015-61: Types of banking institutions and economic growth: An endogenous growth model

Khaled Elmawazini, Khiyar Abdalla Khiyar, Ahmad Al Galfy and Asiye Aydilek

2015-60: The order of knowledge and robust action: How to deal with economic uncertainty?

Josef Falkinger

2015-59: Government deficits in large open economies: The problem of too little public debt

Willem Buiter and Anne C. Sibert

2015-58: Is there publication selection bias in minimum wage research during the five-year period from 2010 to 2014?

Georgios Giotis and Michael Chletsos

2015-57: Testing for unit roots with cointegrated data

W. Reed

2015-56: Male-female labor market participation and the extent of gender-based wage discrimination in Turkey

Burak Günalp, Seyit Cilasun and Elif Acar

2015-55: On the efficiency of labor market reforms: How to solve the Spanish puzzle?

Stephen Sacht

2015-54: On merger profitability and the intensity of rivalry

Marc Escrihuela-Villar

2015-53: Pricing as a risky choice: Uncertainty and survival in a monopoly market

Per Andersen and Henrik Vetter

2015-52: Relational environment and intellectual roots of 'ecological economics': An orthodox or heterodox field of research?

Aurora Teixeira and Manuela Castro e Silva

2015-51: An application of econophysics to the history of economic thought: The analysis of texts from the frequency of appearance of key words

Estrella Trincado and José María Vindel

2015-50: Idealizations of uncertainty, and lessons from artificial intelligence

Robert Elliott Smith

2015-49: Intra-sector and inter-sector competition in a model of growth

Marco Di Cintio and Emanuele Grassi

2015-48: Oil prices and the US economy: Where is the boom?

Vipin Arora

2015-47: What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising: Application to the case of Kenya

Edward Balistreri, Jesper Jensen and David Tarr

2015-46: How to cope with (new) uncertainties: A bounded rationality approach

Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt