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Working Papers 2008 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
5-08	H. E. Frech, III, C. Paul Wazzan	Allocating Costs in Ninth Circuit Predatory Pricing Cases: Marsann Co. v. Brammall, Inc. and its Problematic Progeny, Inglis v. Continental Baking and Thales v. Matsushita
4-08	Robert T. Deacon, Christopher Costello, Dominic P. Parker	Improving Efficiency by Assigning Harvest Rights to Fishery Cooperatives: Evidence From the Chignik Salmon Co-op
3-08	Robert T. Deacon, Dominic P. Parker	Encumbering Harvest Rights to Protect Marine Environments: A Model of Marine Conservation Easements
2-08	Robert T. Deacon, Christopher Costello, Dominic P. Parker	A Model of Fishery Harvests with a Voluntary Co-op
1-08	John E. Pippenger	Freely Floating Exchange Rates Do Not Systematically Overshoot

Working Papers 2007 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
16-07	John E. Pippenger	Strictly Speaking, the Law of One Price Works in Commodity Markets
15-07	John E. Pippenger	How should we think about markets for foreign exchange?
14-07	John Hartman	The Relevance of Heterogeneity in a Congested Route Network with Tolls: An Analysis of Two Experiments Using Actual Waiting Times and Monetized Time Costs
13-07	John L. Hartman	A Route Choice Experiment With an Efficient Toll
12-07	Francisco Azeredo	The Equity Premium: A Deeper Puzzle
11-07	H. E. Frech, III, Kelly Bedard	Prison Health Care: Is Contracting Out Healthy?
10-07	Douglas G. Steigerwald, Marc N. Conte	Do Daylight-Saving Time Adjustments Really Impact Stock Returns?
9-07	Douglas G. Steigerwald, Jack Erb	Accurately Sized Test Statistics with Misspecified Conditional Homoskedasticity
8-07	Peter Rupert, B. Ravikumar, Paul Gomme	The Return to Capital and the Business Cycle
7-07	Peter Rupert, Guillaume Rocheteau, Randall Wright	Inflation and Unemployment in General Equilibrium
6-07	Peter Rupert, Bryan Engelhardt, Guillaume Rocheteau	Crime and the Labor Market in a Search Model with Pairwise-Efficient Separations
5-07	Robert T. Deacon, Felix Schlapfer	The spatial range of public goods revealed through referendum voting
4-07	Robert T. Deacon, Christopher Costello	Strategies for Enhancing Rent Capture in ITQ Fisheries
3-07	Robert T. Deacon, Christopher Costello	The Efficiency Gains from Fully Delineating Rights in an ITQ Fishery
2-07	Sarani Saha	Democratic Institutions and Provision of Public Good
1-07R	Stephen J. DeCanio, Catherine S. Norman, Lin Fan	Opportunities and Challenges for the 20th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol

Working Papers 2006 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
5-06	Cheng-Zhong Qin	On the Informational Role of Prices with Rational Expectations
4-06	Douglas G. Steigerwald	A Note on Adaptive Estimation
3-06	Cheng-Zhong Qin	Bid and Guess: A Nested Mechanism for King Solomon's Dilemma
2-06	Cheng-Zhong Qin	A Credit Mechanism for Selecting a Unique Competitive Equilibrium
1-06	Cheng-Zhong Qin	On Separating Equilibria with Positive Excess Demand for a Monopolistic Market

Working Papers 2005 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
4-05	Llad Phillips, John E. Pippenger	Some Pitfalls in Testing the Law of One Price in Commodity Markets
3-05	Rod Garratt, Todd Keister	Bank Runs: An Experimental Study
2-05	Robert T. Deacon, Sarani Saha	Public Good Provision by Dictatorships: A Survey
1-05	Gary Charness, Cheng-Zhong Qin, Guillaume Fréchette	Endogenous Transfers in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game: An Experimental Test of Cooperation

Working Papers 2004 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
6-04	Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone	The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random Fluctuations in Weather
5-04	Robert T. Deacon, Catherine S. Norman	Does the Environmental Kuznets Curve Describe How Individual Countries Behave?
4-04	Rod Garratt, John Wooders	Efficiency in Second-Price Auctions: A New Look at Old Data
3-04R	John E. Pippenger	The Modern Theory of the LOP and PPP: Some Implications
2-04	Rod Garratt, John Wooders	Behavior in Second-Price Auctions by Highly Experienced eBay Buyers and Sellers
1-04	Robert T. Deacon, Bernardo Mueller	Political Economy and Natural Resource Use

Working Papers 2003 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
22-03	Robert T. Deacon, Catherine S. Norman	Is the environmental Kuznets curve an empirical regularity?
21-03	Robert T. Deacon, Erwin H. Bulte, Richard Damania	Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development
20-03	Robert T. Deacon	Dictatorship, Democracy, and the Provision of Public Goods
19-03	Francisco J. Velazquez, Ismael Sanz	What do OECD countries cut first at a time of fiscal adjustments? A dynamic panel data approach
18-03	Andreas Roider, Jorg Oechssler, Mathias Drehmann	Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets: An Internet Experiment
17-03	Jorg Oechssler, Jose Apesteguia, Steffen Huck	Imitation - Theory and Experimental Evidence
16-03	Gary Charness, Aldo Rustichini, Luca Rigotti	They are watching you: Social facilitation in institutions
15-03	Gary Charness, Antonio Cabrales, Jordi Brandts	Forward induction and the excess capacity puzzle: An experimental investigation
14-03	Gary Charness, David I. Levine	The Road to Hell: An Experimental Study of Intentions
13-03	Gary Charness, Jordi Brandts	Do Market Conditions Affect Gift Exchange? Evidence from Experimental Markets
12-03	Gary Charness, Uri Gneezy	Portfolio Choice and Risk Attitudes: An Experiment
11-03	Gary Charness, Antonio Cabrales	Optimal Contracts, Adverse Selection & Social Preferences: An Experiment
10-03	Gary Charness, Gillaume R Frechette, John H. Kagel	How Robust is Laboratory Gift Exchange?
9-03	Gary Charness, Dan Levin	When Optimal Choices Feel Wrong: A Laboratory Study of Bayesian Updating, Complexity, and Affect
8-03	Carol McAusland	Trade, Politics,and the Environment: Tailpipe vs. Smokestack
7-03	Olivier Deschenes	The Long-Term Impact of Military Service on Health: Evidence From World War II Veterans
6-03	Kelly Bedard, Olivier Deschenes	Sexual Preferences, Marital Dissolution and the Economic Status of Women
5-03	Rod Garratt	A Tale of Two Cities and a Giffen Good
4-03	Rod Garratt, Thomas Troger	Speculation in Second-Price Auctions with Resale
3-03	Perry Shapiro, Jeffery Petchey	Policy Competition, Factor Mobility and Multiple Policy Instruments: Existence and Non-Existence of Equilibrium
2-03	Perry Shapiro	Taking the Castle: Efficiency and the Vibe of It
1-03R	Cheng-Zhong Qin, Son Ku Kim, Yan Yu	Bribery in Rank-Order Tournaments

Working Papers 2002 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
23-02	Ted Bergstrom	Vernon Smith's Insomnia and the Dawn of Economics as Experimental Science
22-02	Charles D. Kolstad	Climate Change Policy: A View from the US
21-02R	Carol McAusland	Harmonizing Emissions Policy in Symmetric Countries: Improve the Environment, Improve Welfare?
20-02	Peter Kuhn, Mikal Skuterud	Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
19-02	Thomas Troger	Double Auctions, Ex-Post Participation Constraints, and the Hold-Up Problem
18-02	Trenton G. Smith	Obesity and Nature's Thumbprint: How Modern Waistlines Can Inform Economic Theory
17-02	Trenton G. Smith	The McDonald's Equilibrium: Advertising, Empty Calories, and the Endogenous Determination of Dietary Preferences
16-02	Domenico Esposito	You Get What you Copay For The Influence of Patient Copayments on the Demand for Drugs within a Therapeutic Class: The Case of the Statins
13-02R	Cheng-Zhong Qin	Penalties and Rewards As Inducements To Cooperate
12-02	H. E. Frech, III, Richard D. Miller, Jr.	The Productivity of Health Care and Pharmaceuticals: Quality of Life, Cause
11-02	Jati K. Sengupta	Nonparametric efficiency analysis under uncertainty
10-02	Olivier Deschenes	Estimating the Effects of Family Background on the Return to Schooling
9-02	John E. Pippenger	A Better Measure of Relative Volatility
8-02	Kelly Bedard, Eric Helland, Heather Antecol	Does Single Parenthood Increase the Probability of Teenage Promiscuity, Drug Use, and Crime? Evidence from Divorce Law Changes
7-02	Kelly Bedard, Heather Antecol	The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences Across Black, Mexican and White Men
6-02	Francois Salanie, Nicolas Treich	Regulating an agent with different beliefs
5-02	Michael Hoel	Interregional Interactions and Population Mobility
4-02	H. E. Frech, III, Garry MacDonald, Sandra Hopkins	The Australian Private Health Insurance Boom: Was It Subsidies or Liberalised Regulation?
3-02	Stephen LeRoy, David Kelly	Liquidity and Liquidation
2-02	Peter Kuhn, Catherine J. Weinberger	Leadership Skills and Wages
1-02	Henning Bohn	Government Asset and Liability Management in an Era of Vanishing Public Debt

Working Papers 2001 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
18-01	Rod Garratt, Morten L. Bech	The Intraday Liquidity Management Game
17-01	Douglas G. Steigerwald, Richard J. Vagnoni	Option Market Microstructure and Stochastic Volatility
16-01	Ted Bergstrom	Free Labor for Costly Journals?
15-01	Ted Bergstrom, Carl T. Bergstrom	Do University Site Licenses for Academic Journals Benefit the Scientific Community?
14-01	Ted Bergstrom	Evolution of Social Behavior: Individual and Group Selection Models
13-01	Ted Bergstrom	The Algebra of Assortative Encounters and the Evolution of Cooperation
12-01	Olivier Deschenes	Unobserved Ability, Comparative Advantage, and the Rising Return to Education in the United States 1979-2000
11-01	Gary Charness, Uri Gneezy	What's in a Name? Anonymity and Social Distance in Dictator and Ultimatum Games
10-01	Gary Charness, Doron Sonsino, Ernan Haruvy	Social Distance and Reciprocity: The Internet vs. the Laboratory
9-01	Gary Charness, Brit Grosskopf	Cheap Talk, Information, and Coordination- Experimental Evidence
8-01	Stephen LeRoy	Infinite Portfolios
7-01	H. E. Frech, III	Corporate Demography and Empirical Industrial Organization: A Critical Appraisal
6-01	Okan Kavuncu, Shawn D. Knabb	An Intergenerational Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change
5-01	Kjell J. Sunnevag	Auction design for the allocation of emission permits
4-01	Kjell J. Sunnevag	Auction design for the allocation of multiple units of a homogenous good: Theoretical background and practical experience
3-01	Henning Bohn	Retirement Savings in an Aging Society: A Case for Innovative Government Debt Management
2-01	Carol McAusland, Christopher Costello	On agricultural protection and exotic species introductions
1-01R	Sigbjorn Sodal	Entry, Exit and Scrapping Decisons with Investment Lags: A Series of Investment Models Based on a New Approach

Working Papers 2000 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
12-00	H. E. Frech, III, James Langenfeld, Michaelyn Corbett	Managed Health Care Effects: Medical Care Costs and Access to Health Insurance
11-00	Rod Garratt	Potential Maximization and Coalition Government Formation
10-00	Kjell Erik Lommerud, Lars Sorgard, Odd Rune Straume	Merger Profitability in Unionized Oligopoly
9-00	Lars Sorgard, Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen	Private Labels, Price Rivalry, and Public Policy
8-00	Eduardo Schwartz, Svetlozar T. Rachev, Yesim Tokat	The Stable non-Gaussian Asset Allocation: A Comparison with the Classical Gaussian Approach
7-00	Hans Jarle Kind, Lars Sorgard, Oystein Foros	Access Pricing, Quality Degradation, and Foreclosure in the Internet
6-00R	Lars Sorgard, Tore Nilssen	TV Advertising, Programming Investments, and Product-Market Oligopoly
5-00	Perry Shapiro	Transboundary Environmental Problems with a Mobile Population: Is There a Need for Central Policy?
4-00	Eduardo Schwartz, Irina Khindanova, Svetlozar Rachev	Stable Modeling of Value at Risk
3-00	Irina N. Khindanova, Svetlozar T. Rachev	Value at Risk: Recent Advances
2-00	Lars Hakonsen, Lars Mathiesen	Comparing the cost of emission reductions in first and second-best economies
1-00	Svetlozar Rachev, Yesim Tokat	Asset and Liability Management: Recent Advances

Working Papers 1999 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
12-99	Rod Garratt, Todd Keister	A Characterization of Robust Sunspot Equilibria
11-99	Robert T. Deacon	The Political Economy of Environment-Development Relationships: A Preliminary Framework
10-99	Charles D. Kolstad, David L. Kelly, Glenn Mitchell	Adjustment Costs from Environmental Change Induced by Incomplete Information and Learning
9-99R	Hyungsik Roger Moon, Peter C.B. Phillips, Zhijie Xiao	How to Estimate Autoregressive Roots Near Unity
8-99	Charles D. Kolstad, David L. Kelly	Solving Infinite Horizon Growth Models with an Environmental Sector
7-99	Charles Stuart, Robert Montgomery	Sex and Fiscal Desire
6-99	Hyungsik R. Moon, Peter C.B. Phillips	Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Panels with Incidental Trends
5-99	Glenn Mitchell	Evolution of Networks and the Diffusion of New Technology
4-99	Rod Garratt, John Marshall	Equity Risk, Conversion Risk, and the Demand for Insurance
3-99	Rod Garratt, John Marshall	Exclusions and Demand for Insurance: Risk Theory Seminar 1999
2-99	Jati K. Sengupta	Stochastic Growth in Schumpeterian Dynamics
1-99	Hyungsik R. Moon, Peter C.B. Phillips	Estimation of Autoregressive Roots Near Unity Using Panel Data

Working Papers 1998 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
32-98	Charles D. Kolstad, David L. Kelly, Michael E. Schlesinger, Natalia G. Andronova	Learning About Climate Sensitivity from the Instrumental Record
31-98	Charles D. Kolstad, David L. Kelly	Integrated Assessment Models for Climate Change Control
30-98	Charles D. Kolstad, Rolando M. Guzman	Information and the Divergence Between Willingness-to-accept and Willingness-to-pay
29-98	Charles D. Kolstad, Elena Gorbacheva, Julia Khaleeva, Svetlana Shcherbich	Environmental Economics in Russia: Valuation and Regulatory
28-98	Charles D. Kolstad, Yuqing Xing	Do Lax Environmental Regulations Attract Foreign Investment?
27-98	Stephen J. Trejo	Immigrant Participation in Low-Wage Labor Market
26-98	Henning Bohn	Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty: The Risk of Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies
25-98	Alberto Cottica, Giovanni Ponti, Lisa de Propris	Friends Do Matter: Strategic Uncertainty and Vertical Contractual Relations
24-98	Hyungsik R. Moon	A Note on Fully-Modified Estimation of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Models with Integrated Regressors
23-98R	Glenn Mitchell, Gregrey W. Hunter	Options for compliance with pollution control regulation: the relationship between abatement costs and bankable permit prices
22-98	Rajnish Mehra, Raaj Sah	Can Small Fluctuations in Investors' Subjective Preferences Induce Large Volatility in Equity Prices?
21-98	Rajnish Mehra, George M. Constantinides, John B. Donaldson	Junior Can't Borrow: A New Perspective on the Equity Premium Puzzle
20-98	Giovanni Ponti	Splitting the Baby in Two: How to Solve Solomon's Dilemma when Agents are Boundedly Rational
19-98R	Charles D. Kolstad	Energy and Depletable Resources: Economics and Policy, 1973-98 (Revised)
18-98	Hyungsik R. Moon, Peter C.B. Phillips	Linear Regression Limit Theory for Nonstationary Panel Data
17-98	Hyungsik R. Moon, Peter C.B. Phillips	Nonstationary Panel Data Analysis: An Overview of Some Recent Developments
16-98	Stephen J. Trejo	Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
15-98	Edward Funkhouser	Individual Effects and Estimation of the Motives to Remit from International Migration
14-98	H. E. Frech, III, Lee Rivers Mobley	Efficiency, Growth and Concentration: An Empirical Analysis of Hospital Markets
13-98	H. E. Frech, III, Lee Rivers Mobley	Managed Care, Distance Traveled, and Hospital Market Definition
12-98	Daniel S. Hamermesh, Stephen J. Trejo	The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence from California
11-98	H. E. Frech, III	Reform of Fee-for-Service Medicare: The Forgotten Opportunity
10-98	Perry Shapiro, Jeffrey Petchey	Policy Harmonization in Integrated Common Factor Markets
9-98R	Perry Shapiro, Jeffrey Petchey	The Coincidence of Collective and Individual Interests
8-98	John E. Pippenger	Modeling Foreign Exchange Markets: Stock Versus Flow
7-98	Rod Garratt	On Market Games When Agents Cannot be Two Places at Once
6-98	Antonio Cabrales, Giovanni Ponti	Implementation, Elimination of Weakly Dominated Strategies and Evolutionary Dynamics
5-98	Henning Bohn	Will Social Security and Medicare Remain Viable as the U.S. Population is Aging?
4-98	Henning Bohn	Should the Social Security Trust Fund hold Equities? An Intergenerational Welfare Analysis
3-98R	Henning Bohn	Risk Sharing in a Stochastic Overlapping Generations Economy
2-98	Giovanni Ponti, Robert M. Seymour	Evolutionary Stability of Inequality Structures
1-98	Der-Yuan Yang	The Origin of the Bank of England: a Credible Commitment to Sovereign Debt

Working Papers 1997 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
17-97	Charles D. Kolstad, Rolando M. Guzman	Auction Equilibrium with Costly Information Acquisition
16-97	Giovanni B. Ponti	Cycles of Learning in the Centipede Game
15-97	Giovanni B. Ponti	Continuous-Time Evolutionary Dynamics and Their Economic Applications
14-97	H. E. Frech, III, Kenneth L. Danger	Exclusive Contracts Between Hospitals and Physicians
13-97	Der-Yuan Yang	A Cooperative Perspective on Sovereign Debt: Past and Present
12-97	Dan E. Hamilton	How Productive are Public Capital, Private Capital, Human Capital and R&D in the U.S.?
11-97	Jati K. Sengupta	A Dynamic Efficiency Model Using Data Envelopment Analysis
10-97	Henning Bohn	Social Security Reform and Financial Markets
9-97	Douglas G. Steigerwald, Doncho S. Donchev, Svetlosar T. Rachev	Optimal Policies for Investment with Time-Varying Return Distributions
8-97	Charles D. Kolstad, J.A. Machado, J.B. Braden, R.A. Woock	The Demand for Synthetic Fuels: Contingent Valuation of Quality-Differentiated Factors of Production
7-97R	Cheng-Zhong Qin	Escrow, "Hostages", and Cooperation
6-97	Jati K. Sengupta	New Efficiency Theory: Extensions and New Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis
5-97R	H. E. Frech, III, Richard D. Miller	The Productivity of Health Care and Pharmaceuticals: An International Comparison
4-97	Henning Bohn, Robert T. Deacon	Ownership Risk, Investment, and the Use of Natural Resources
3-97	Clement G. Krouse, Christos Cabolis, Daniel J. Ryan, Jon M. Riddle, Kenneth L. Danger, Tanja D. Carter	The Bell System Divestiture/Deregulation and the Efficiency of the Operating Companies
2-97	Perry Shapiro, Jeffrey Petchey, Richard Cornes	Autarky, Confederation and Federation
1-97	H. E. Frech, III, Kenneth L. Danger	Payment Source and the Cost of Hospital Care: Evidence from a Multiproduct Cost Function with Multiple Payers: Comment

Working Papers 1996 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
17-96	Rod Garratt	On Bargaining for an Indivisible Good
16-96R	Der-Yuan Yang	A Mechanism for Allocating the Expenses of Public Goods: Analyses of a Swedish Government Project
15-96	Charles D. Kolstad	Learning, Irreversibilities and Climate
14-96	Jati K. Sengupta	Recent Models in Dynamic Economics: Problems of Estimating Terminal Conditions
13-96	Jati K. Sengupta, Raymond E. Sfeir	Past Trend Versus Future Expectation: Test of Exchange Rate Volatility
12-96	Jati K. Sengupta, Raymond E. Sfeir	Modelling Exchange Rate Volatility
11-96	Robert L. Crouch, Lorne Everett, Samantha Carrington	A Cost Benefit Analysis of California's Leaking Underground Fuel Tanks
10-96	Douglas G. Steigerwald, Joon-Ho Hahm	Consumption Adjustment under Changing Income Uncertainty
9-96R	Charles D. Kolstad, David L. Kelly	Malthus and Climate Change: Betting on a Stable Population
7-96	Patrick F. Rowland	Transaction Costs and Convergence to an Internationally Diversified Portfolio
6-96	H. E. Frech, III	The Nonequivalence of Vertical Merger and Exclusive Dealing
5-96R	H. E. Frech, III, Lee Rivers Mobley	An Empirical Essay: The Demsetz Hypothesis and Hospital Markets
4-96	H. E. Frech, III	Health Economics: From Patient to Consumer
3-96R	Charles D. Kolstad, David L. Kelly	Tracking the Climate Change Footprint: Stochastic Learning About Climate Change
2-96	Charles D. Kolstad, Yuqing Xing	Environment and Trade: A Review of Theory and Issues
1-96	Edward Funkhouser	How Much of Immigrant Wage Assimilation is Related to English Language Acquisition?

Working Papers 1995 (top)

Series#	Author(s)	Title
21-95R	Stephen J. Trejo	Does the Statuatory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
20-95	Stephen J. DeCanio, William E. Watkins	Investment in Energy Efficiency: Do the Chracteristics of Firms Matter?
19-95	Stephen J. DeCanio	The Energy Paradox: Bureaucratic and Organizational Barriers to Profitable Energy-Saving Investments
18-95	Henning Bohn, Robert P. Inman	Constitutional Limitations and Public Deficits: Evidence from the U.S. States
17-95	Charles D. Kolstad, Rolando M. Guzman	Bidding Behavior Under Costly Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study
16-95R	Stephen J. Trejo	Why Do Mexican Americans Earn Low Wages?
15-95	Joon-Ho Hahm	Consumption Adjustment to Real Interest Rates: Intertemporal Substitution Revisited
14-95	Rod Garratt	On a Market for Coalitions with Indivisible Agents and Lotteries
13-95	Oluremi Ogun	Exchange Rate Instability and Non-Oil Export Performance in a Developing Economy
12-95	Richard D. Miller, Jr.	Estimating Compensating Differences for Employer-Provided Health Insurance Benefits
11-95	Rod Garratt, John Marshall	Supplemental Health Insurance
10-95	Charles D. Kolstad, Rolando M. Guzman	A Model of Auction Equilibrium with Costly Information Acquisition
9-95	Charles D. Kolstad, Rolando M. Guzman	Information and the Divergence Between Willingness-to-Accept and Willingness-to-Pay
7-95R	Llad Phillips, Sarani Saha, ,	The Impact of Income and Family Structure on Delinquency