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213: The effect of all-day primary school programs on maternal labor supply

Janina Nemitz

212: On the equivalence of bayesian and dominant strategy implementation: the case of non-linear utilities

Alexey Kushnir and Shuo Liu

211: The role of trading frictions in financial markets

Samuel Huber and Jaehong Kim

210: Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

Alain Cohn, Michel Maréchal, Frédéric Schneider and Roberto Weber

209: Auctions vs negotiations in public procurement: which Works better?

Rafael Lalive, Armin Schmutzler and Christine Zulehner

208: Preaching water but drinking wine? Relative performance evaluation in international banking

Dragan Ilić, Sonja Pisarov and Peter S. Schmidt

207: An experimental test of the Anscombe-Aumann Monotonicity axiom

Florian Schneider and Martin Schonger

206: Explaining structural change towards and within the financial sector

Josef Falkinger, Sabrina Studer and Yingnan Zhao

205: Laboratory measure of cheating predicts school misconduct

Alain Cohn and Michel Maréchal

204: An econometric model of health care demand with non-linear pricing

Johannes Kunz and Rainer Winkelmann

202: The welfare effects of endogenous quality choice in cable television markets

Gregory Crawford, Oleksandr Shcherbakov and Matthew Shum

201: Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships

Lachlan Deer and Ralph-C Bayer

200: Inducing variety: a theory of innovation contests

Igor Letina and Armin Schmutzler

199: Limited commitment and the demand for money

Aleksander Berentsen, Samuel Huber and Alessandro Marchesiani

198: Monetary policy with asset-backed money

David Andolfatto, Aleksander Berentsen and Christopher Waller

197: The economics of television and online video markets

Gregory Crawford

196: The ambiguity triangle: uncovering fundamental patterns of behavior under uncertainty

Daniel Burghart, Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr

195: Contest success functions: the common-pool perspective

Christian Ewerhart

194: Debt into growth: how sovereign debt accelerated the first industrial revolution

Jaume Ventura and Hans-Joachim Voth

193: On the optimal quantity of liquid bonds

Samuel Huber and Jaehong Kim

192: Asymmetric information and imperfect competition in lending markets

Gregory Crawford, Nicola Pavanini and Fabiano Schivardi

191: Voting with public information

Shuo Liu

190: Informational requirements of nudging

Jean-Michel Benkert and Nick Netzer

189: The role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in subgame perfect implementation: an empirical investigation

Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr, Richard Holden and Tom Wilkening

188: Bilateral trade with loss-averse agents

Jean-Michel Benkert

187: On the origin of r-concavity and related concepts

Tamás L. Balogh and Christian Ewerhart

186: Contests with small noise and the robustness of the all-pay auction

Christian Ewerhart

185: Turning a blind eye, but not the other cheek: on the robustness of costly punishment

Peter H. Kriss, Roberto Weber and Erte Xiao

184: An envelope approach to tournament design

Christian Ewerhart

183: Holes in the Dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation

Mathias Hoffmann and Iryna Stewen

182: Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?

Andreas Beerli and Ronald Indergand

181: Comparing several methods to compute joint prediction regions for path forecasts generated by vector autoregressions

Stefan Bruder

180: Game form misconceptions are not necessary for a willingness-to-pay vs. willingness-to-accept gap

Björn Bartling, Florian Engl and Roberto Weber

179: The two faces of independence: betweenness and homotheticity

Daniel Burghart, Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr

177: Job mission as a substitute for monetary incentives: experimental evidence

Lea Cassar

176: The societal benefit of a financial transaction tax

Aleksander Berentsen, Samuel Huber and Alessandro Marchesiani

175: Optimal effort incentives in dynamic tournaments

Arnd Heinrich Klein and Armin Schmutzler

174: Analyzing educational achievement differences between second-generation immigrants: Comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland

Johannes Kunz

173: Are subjective distributions in inflation expectations symmetric?

Nikola Mirkov and Andreas Steinhauer

172: Resurrecting weighted least squares

Joseph P. Romano and Michael Wolf

171: Behavioral constraints on the design of subgame-perfect implementation mechanisms

Ernst Fehr, Michael Powell and Tom Wilkening

170: The Swiss franc's honeymoon

Alexandra Janssen and Rahel Studer-Suter

169: Higher bank capital requirements and mortgage pricing: evidence from the Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffer

Christoph Basten and Catherine Koch

168: Mixed equilibrium in a pure location game: the case of n ≥ 4 firms

Christian Ewerhart

167: Do leaders affect ethical conduct?

Giovanna d’Adda, Donja Darai and Roberto Weber

165: The (possible) effect of plain packaging on smoking prevalence in Australia: a trend analysis

Ashok Kaul and Michael Wolf

164: A small open economy in the Great Depression: the case of Switzerland

Peter Rosenkranz, Tobias Straumann and Ulrich Woitek

163: Business cycles in emerging markets: the role of liability dollarization and valuation effects

Stefan Notz and Peter Rosenkranz

162: A provincial view of global imbalances: regional capital flows in China

Samuel Cudré and Mathias Hoffmann

161: Capital’s long march west: saving and investment frictions in Chinese regions

Samuel Cudré