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59: Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision

Giovanna d’Adda

58: Overvalued: Swedish monetary policy in the 1930s

Alexander Rathke, Tobias Straumann and Ulrich Woitek

57: Emerging from the war: Gold Standard mentality, current accounts and the international business cycle 1885-1939

Mathias Hoffmann and Ulrich Woitek

56: A geometric approach to mechanism design

Jacob Goeree and Alexey Kushnir

55: Siesta: A theory of freelancing

Maria Saez-Marti

54: Seeds of distrust: Conflict in Uganda

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti

53: Does prospective payment increase hospital (in)efficiency? Evidence from the Swiss hospital sector

Philippe Widmer

52: Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of hospital performance

Philippe Widmer, Peter Zweifel and Mehdi Farsi

51: Wealth inequality and the optimal level of government debt

Sigrid Röhrs and Christoph Winter

50: Generosity across contexts

Alexander L. Davis, Nadja R. Jehli, John H. Miller and Roberto Weber

49: Does it matter how happiness is measured? Evidence from a randomized controlled experiment

Raphael Studer

48: Financial incentives, the timing of births, birth complications, and newborns' health: Evidence from the abolition of Austria's baby bonus

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

47: Heterogeneity in the relationship between happiness and age: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Gregori Baetschmann

46: Identification and estimation of thresholds in the fixed effects ordered logit model

Gregori Baetschmann

45: Optimal disclosure policy and undue diligence

David Andolfatto, Aleksander Berentsen and Christopher Waller

44: The redistributive effects of monetary policy

Olivier Ledoit

43: How do informal agreements and renegotiation shape contractual reference points?

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

42: Parental leave and mothers' careers: the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits

Rafael Lalive, Analia Schlosser, Andreas Steinhauer and Josef Zweimüller

41: The demand for social insurance: does culture matter?

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Andreas Steinhauer and Josef Zweimüller

40: Education and optimal dynamic taxation: The role of income-contingent student loans

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

39: Rankings games

Bruno Frey and Margit Osterloh

38: Choice Democracy

Olivier Ledoit

37: The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model

Lasse Steiner and Lucian Schneider

36: Knowledge is power: a theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Jo Lind and Dominic Rohner

35: Maintaining efficiency while integrating entrants from lower-performing groups: an experimental study

Tim Salmon and Roberto Weber

34: Pre-Play communication with forgone costly messages: experimental evidence on forward induction

Andreas Blume, Peter H. Kriss and Roberto Weber

33: Cointegrated VARMA models and forecasting US interest rates

Christian Kascha and Carsten Trenkler

32: Free-riding on liquidity

Aleksander Berentsen, Samuel Huber and Alessandro Marchesiani

31: Generalized reduced-form auctions: a network-flow approach

Yeon-Koo Che, Jinwoo Kim and Konrad Mierendorff

30: Conspicuous consumption and satisfaction

Rainer Winkelmann

29: Copula bivariate probit models: with an application to medical expenditures

Rainer Winkelmann

28: Attention competition

Andreas Hefti

27: Big experimenter is watching you! Anonymity and prosocial behavior in the laboratory

Franziska Barmettler, Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder

26: Tastes, castes, and culture: The influence of society on preferences

Ernst Fehr and Karla Hoff

24: The coexistence of commodity money and fiat money

Olivier Ledoit and Sébastien Lotz

23: Auctions vs negotiations in public procurement: which works better?

Rafael Lalive and Armin Schmutzler

22: The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland

Sandro Favre

21: On the equivalence of Bayesian and dominant strategy implementation in a general class of social choice problems

Jacob Goeree and Alexey Kushnir

20: Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller

19: Applying for jobs: Does ALMP participation help?

Rafael Lalive, Michael Morlok and Josef Zweimüller

18: On uniqueness and stability of symmetric equilibria in differentiable symmetric games

Andreas Hefti

17: Testing for monotonicity in expected asset returns

Joseph P. Romano and Michael Wolf

16: Cournot games with biconcave demand

Christian Ewerhart

15: Tullock Challenges: happiness, revolutions and democracy

Bruno Frey

14: Imbalance of World Heritage List: did the UNESCO strategy work?

Lasse Steiner and Bruno Frey

13: War signals: a theory of trade, trust and conflict

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti

12: Uncertain demand, consumer loss aversion, and flat-rate tariffs

Fabian Herweg and Konrad Mierendorff

11: World Heritage: Where are we? An empirical analysis

Bruno Frey and Paolo Pamini

10: Structural development accounting

Gino Gancia, Andreas Müller and Fabrizio Zilibotti

9: Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany

Andreas Kuhn

8: Money cycles

Andrew Clausen and Carlo Strub

7: Social comparison in the workplace: evidence from a field experiment

Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann and Frédéric Schneider

6: The sources and magnitudes of Switzerland’s gains from trade

Christian Hepenstrick

5: Market Experience and willingness to trade: evidence from repeated markets with symmetric and asymmetric information

Luke Lindsay

4: Reconsidering the analysis of longitudinal happiness data - with an application to the effect of unemployment

Gregori Baetschmann, Kevin Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

3: Specification and estimation of rating scale models - with an application to the determinants of life satisfaction

Raphael Studer and Rainer Winkelmann

2: Structural change and the Kaldor facts in a growth model with relative price effects and non-Gorman preferences

Timo Boppart

1: What determines the World Heritage List? An econometric analysis

Bruno Frey, Paolo Pamini and Lasse Steiner