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110: Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?

Rafael Lalive, Simon Luechinger and Armin Schmutzler

108: All-pay auctions: Implementation and optimality

Stefan Jönsson and Armin Schmutzler

107: Fair wages and effort provision: Combining evidence from the lab and the field

Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr and Lorenz Goette

106: How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Holger Herz, Daniel Schunk and Christian Zehnder

105: Spectrum estimation: a unified framework for covariance matrix estimation and PCA in large dimensions

Olivier Ledoit and Michael Wolf

104: Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

103: Growing groups, cooperation, and the rate of entry

Eva Ranehill, Frédéric Schneider and Roberto Weber

102: 'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and credit reallocation during Japan’s Lost Decade

Mathias Hoffmann and Toshihiro Okubo

101: Degreasing the wheels of finance

Aleksander Berentsen, Samuel Huber and Alessandro Marchesiani

100: Verantwortliches Handeln - Gestalten von Ordnung

Josef Falkinger

99: The lure of authority: Motivation and incentive effects of power

Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz and Tom Wilkening

98: Use and abuse of authority: A behavioral foundation of the employment relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt

97: Auctioning risk: The all-pay auction under mean-variance preferences

Bettina Klose and Paul Schweinzer

96: The missing link: unifying risk taking and time discounting

Thomas Epper and Helga Fehr-Duda

95: How bulimia nervosa relates to addictive behavior

Daniela Iorio and Michelle Sovinsky

94: Does the stork deliver happiness? Parenthood and life satisfaction

Gregori Baetschmann, Kevin Staub and Raphael Studer

93: Em-powering economics: Some thoughts on policy and financial markets

Josef Falkinger

92: Stabilizing the economy: Market design and general equilibrium

Jacob Goeree and Luke Lindsay

91: The effectiveness of public sponsored training revisited: The importance of data and methodological choices

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Paul

90: A practical two-step method for testing moment inequalities

Joseph P. Romano, Azeem Shaikh and Michael Wolf

89: Reference points in renegotiations: The role of contracts and competition

Björn Bartling and Klaus Schmidt

88: Will you still want me tomorrow? The dynamics of families' long-term care arrangements

Michelle Sovinsky, Bridget Hiedemann and Steven Stern

87: Marijuana on main street: What if?

Liana Jacobi and Michelle Sovinsky

86: Race, social class, and bulimia nervosa

Michelle S. Goeree, John Ham and Daniela Iorio

85: Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the cantons of Switzerland

Philippe Widmer, George Elias and Peter Zweifel

84: Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Andreas Kuhn

83: Immigration and voting for the extreme right

Martin Halla, Alexander Wagner and Josef Zweimüller

82: Attraction and cooperative behavior

Donja Darai and Silvia Grätz

81: Trade and growth in an unequal global economy

Andreas Kohler

80: Reported happiness, fast and slow

Raphael Studer and Rainer Winkelmann

79: A new portfolio formation approach to mispricing of marketing performance indicators with an application to customer satisfaction

David R. Bell, Olivier Ledoit and Michael Wolf

78: Intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model with persistent leadership

Christian Kiedaisch

77: Structural change in developing countries: has it decreased gender inequality?

Michelle Rendall

76: Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes

Aderonke Osikominu

75: Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics

Timo Boppart and Kevin Staub

74: Communication and competition

Jacob Goeree and Jingjing Zhang

73: Expectations as reference points: field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Björn Bartling, Leif Brandes and Daniel Schunk

72: Inefficient markets

Jacob Goeree and Jingjing Zhang

71: Designing package markets to eliminate exposure risk

Jacob Goeree and Luke Lindsay

70: An investigation of individual preferences: consistency across incentives and stability over time

Emmanouil Mentzakis and Jingjing Zhang

69: Communication in asymmetric group competition over public goods

Jingjing Zhang

68: The incidence of Cash for Clunkers: an analysis of the 2009 car scrappage scheme in Germany

Ashok Kaul, Gregor Pfeifer and Stefan Witte

67: What makes voters turn out: the effects of polls and beliefs

Marina Agranov, Jacob Goeree, Julian Romero and Leeat Yariv

66: Mechanism design and intentions

Felix Bierbrauer and Nick Netzer

65: The French Great Depression: a business cycle accounting analysis

Slim Bridji

64: Bootstrap joint prediction regions

Michael Wolf and Dan Wunderli

63: Robust stochastic stability

Carlos Alós–Ferrer and Nick Netzer

62: Envelope theorems for non-smooth and non-concave optimization

Andrew Clausen and Carlo Strub

61: Modelling zero-inflated count data when exposure varies: with an application to sick leave

Gregori Baetschmann and Rainer Winkelmann

60: Controlling the danger of false discoveries in estimating multiple treatment effects

Dan Wunderli