Forthcoming Publications
Towards Smallholder Food and Water Security: Climate Variability in the Context of Multiple Livelihood Hazards in Nicaragua
Christopher Bacon, William A. Sundstrom, Iris T. Stewart, Edwin Maurer, Lisa C. Kelley
World Development
The Effect of Fee Shifting on Litigation: Evidence from a Policy Innovation in Intermediate Cost Shifting
Christian Helmers, Yassine Lefouili, Brian Love and Luke McDonagh
American Law and Economics Review
The Effects of an “Urban Village” Planning and Zoning Strategy in San Jose, California
Michael Kevane, C.J. Gabbe, and William A. Sundstrom
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Public Good Overprovision by a Manipulative Provider
Dongsoo Shin, Gorkem Celik and Roland Strausz
Rand Journal of Economics
Agricultural Returns to Labour and the Origins of Work ethics
Vasiliki Fouka and Alain Schläpfer
The Economic Journal
2020 Publications
Empathy, Gender, and Prosocial Behavior
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
A Tractable Framework for Analyzing a Class of Nonstationary Markov Models
Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar, John B. Taylor, Inna Tsener
Quantitative Economics 11 (4), pp 1289-1323, November 2020
To Work for Yourself, for Others, or Not At All? How Disability Benefits Affect the Employment Decisions of Older Veterans
Audrey Guo, Courtney Coile, and Mark Duggan
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Distorted Input Ratios in Vertical Relationships
Dongsoo Shin and Martin Peitz
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122 (4), pp 1480-1509, October 2020
How mixed ownership affects decision making in turbulent times: Evidence from the digital revolution in telecommunications
Christian Helmers, David Wehrheim, Hakki Dogan Dalay, and Andrea Fosfuri
Journal of Corporate Finance 64, (Article 101626), October 2020
Technology Entry in the Presence of Patent Thickets
Christian Helmers, Bronwyn Hall and Georg von Graevenitz
Oxford Economic Papers
Economies and Development
Michael Kevane
in Peter J. Schraeder (ed.) Understanding Contemporary Africa (6th edition) Lynne Rienner Publishers 2020.
Obstructive Monitoring
Dongsoo Shin and Aaron Finkle
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 29 (4), pp 873-891, Winter 2020
Matlab, Python, Julia: What to Choose in Economics?
Chase Coleman, Spencer Lyon, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar
Computational Economics
Regional and Income Disparities in Cost of Living Changes: Evidence from Egypt (This paper received "Best Paper Award, Microeconomics Theme, Economic Research Forum Annual Conference, July 2018".)
Shireen AlAzzawi
Middle East Development Journal DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2020.1770476
Does Empathy Pay? Evidence on Empathy and Salaries of Recent College Graduates
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Journal of Labor Research 41(1), 169-188
Uncertainty and Hyperinflation: European Inflation Dynamics after World War I
Kris Mitchener and Jose Lopez
The Economic Journal May 2020
Bearers of Bad News: Heterogeneous Effects of Alternative Front-of-Package Labeling Schemes for Nutritional Information
William A. Sundstrom, Shelby McIntyre, Gregory A. Baker, and Brian Avants
Journal of Agribusiness 38, (1 ) pp. 1-34, Spring 2020
Reading Fiction and Economic Preferences of Rural Youth in Burkina Faso
Michael Kevane
Economic Development and Cultural Change 68 (3), pp. 1041–1079, April 2020
The relative income effect: an experiment
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Dan Houser, and Lina Diaz
Experimental Economics 23, pp 1205–1234, March 2020
Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others
John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Economic Psychology 77, Article 102180, March 2020
Intellectual Property Use and Firm Performance: the Case of Chile
Christian Helmers, Carsten Fink, and Bronwyn Hall
Economic Development and Cultural Change January 2020
2019 Publications
Experiencing Poverty in an Online Simulation: Effects on Players’ Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors about Poverty
Christine Bachen, Pedro Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, John Ifcher, and Michael Broghammer
Cyberpsychology 13(3), Article 1, 2019
The Expectational Effects of News in Business Cycles: Evidence from Forecast Data
Wataru Miyamoto and Thuy Lan Nguyen
Journal of Monetary Economics
What to expect when you are expecting: Are health care consumers forward-looking?
Audrey Guo and Jonathan Zhang
Journal of Health Economics
Asset Inequality in MENA: The Missing Dimension?
Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 73, pp 44-55, August 2019
Household asset wealth and female labor supply in MENA
Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 73, pp. 3-13, August 2019
Asset inequality in the MENA: The missing dimension?
Vladimir Hlasny and Shireen AlAzzawi
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 73, pp. 44-55, August 2019
Tariffs, product quality, and the relative prices of durables: Evidence from 1989 to 2009 U.S. microdata
Adina Ardelean and Volodymyr Lugovskyyb
European Economic Review
Attention and Saliency on the Internet: Evidence from an Online Recommendation System
Christian Helmers, Pramila Krishnan and Manasa Patnam
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 161, pp 216-242, May 2019
Managing R&D in Vertical Relationships
Dongsoo Shin and Chifeng Dai
Economic Inquiry 57 (3) pp. 1510-1525
Network Contagion and Interbank Amplification during the Great Depression
Kris J. Mitcherner and Gary Richardson
Journal of Political Economy 127 (2), April 2019, pp. 465–507
Income Inequality and Well-Being in the U.S.: Evidence of Geographic-Scale-and Measure-Dependence
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, and Carol Graham
The Journal of Economic Inequality 17, pp 415–434, Sept. 2019
Choose the Neighbor before the House: Agglomeration Externalities in a UK Science Park
Christian Helmers
Journal of Economic Geography 19 (1), pp 31–55, January 2019
Can Empathy Explain Gender Differences in Economic Policy Views in the United States?
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Feminist Economics 25 (1) pp. 58-89, 2019
2018 Publications
Historical Measures of Economic Output
Alexander J. Field
Historical Measures of Economic Output. In: Diebolt C., Haupert M. (eds) Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp 1-23
Competing with Confidence: The Ticket to Labor Market Success for College-Educated Women
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 155, pp. 231-252, November 2018
Do Endowments Matter? Exploring the Gender Dimensions of Poverty in Egypt
Shireen AlAzzawi
Review of Income and Wealth 64 (S1) , S189-S224, Oct 1, 2018
Return Migration and Social Mobility in MENA: Evidence from Labor Market Panel Surveys
Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny
Topics in Middle Eastern and African Economies 20(2), pp.29- 64, September 2018
The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 75, pp 55-65, August 2018
Government Spending Multipliers under Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan
Lan Nguyen, Wataru. Miyamoto, and Dmitriy Sergeyev
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 10(3), pp 247-77, July 2018
Manufacturing Productivity and US Economic Growth
Alexander J. Field
Louis P. Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode, eds., Oxford Handbook of American Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 213-34.
Trademark Squatters: Theory and Evidence from Chile
Christian Helmers, Carsten Fink and Carlos Ponce
International Journal of Industrial Organization 59, pp 340-371, July 2018
Local Neighbors as Positives, Regional Neighbors as Negatives: Competing Channels in the Relationship between Others' Income, Health, and Happiness
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, and Carol Graham
The Journal of Health Economic 49 (3), pp 272–302, April 2018
The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan
In “Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development” (Dr Ajit Mishra and Dr Tridip Ray, eds.), Oxford University Press.
Litigation of Standard-Essential Patents in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
Jorge Contreras, Fabian Gaessler, Christian Helmers, and Brian Love
Berkeley Technology Law Journal 32 (4), May 2018
2017 Publications
Ideology, Economic Policy, and Economic History: Cohen and DeLong’s Concrete Economics
Alexander J. Field
Journal of Economic Literature 55 (4) December 2017 pp 1526-55
My Precious! The Location and Diffusion of Scientific Research: Evidence from the Synchrotron Diamond Light Source
Christian Helmers and Henry Overman
The Economic Journal 127 (604), pp 2006-40, September 2017
Limited Communication and Responsibility Budgeting
Dongsoo Shin, S. Yun
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 173 (3), pp. 548-564, 2017
Business Cycles in Small Open Economies: Evidence from Panel Data between 1900 and 2013
Lan Nguyen and Wataru Miyamoto
International Economic Review 58(3), pp 1007-44, August 2017
Patent litigation in Europe
Christian Helmers, Katrin Cremers, Max Ernicke, Fabian Gaessler, Dietmar Harhoff, Luke McDonagh, Paula Schliessler, and Nicolas van Zeebroeck
European Journal of Law and Economics 44(1), pp 1–44, August 2017
The Saving & Loan Insolvencies and the Costs of Financial Crisis
The Saving & Loan Insolvencies and the Costs of Financial Crisis in: Research in Economic History (Research in Economic History, Volume 33) Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.65 - 113
Do Board Interlocks Increase Innovation? Evidence from a Corporate Governance Reform in India
Christian Helmers, Manasa Patnam and Raghavendra Rau,
Journal of Banking and Finance 80, pp 51-70, July 2017
Optimal Loyalty-Based Management
Dongsoo Shin
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 26 (2), pp: 429-453, Summer 2017
Pulling up the Tarnished Anchor: the End of Silver as a Global Unit of Account
Kris Mitcherner, Ricardo Fernholz and Marc Weidenmier
Journal of International Money and Finance 74, 209-28, June 2017
Shared Ownership of Intangible Property Rights: The Case of Patent Coassignments
Christian Helmers, Andrea Fosfuri, and Catherine Roux
Journal of Legal Studies 46(2), pp. 339 - 369, June 2017
Vulnerability to Cumulative Hazards: Coping with the Coffee Leaf Rust Outbreak, Drought, and Food Insecurity in Nicaragua
Christopher M.Bacon, William A. Sundstrom, Iris T. Stewart, and David Beezer
World Development 93, pp 136-52, May 2017
Understanding the Cross Country Effects of U.S. Technology Shocks
Lan Nguyen and Wataru Miyamoto
Journal of International Economics 106, pp 143-164, May 2017
Lower Bounds on Approximation Errors to Numerical Solutions of Dynamic Economic Models
Serguei Maliar, Kenneth L. Judd, and Lilia Maliar.
Econometrica 85 (3), pp 991-1012, May 2017
California Water Reallocation: Where’d You Get That?
Damian Park
Natural Resources Journal 57(1), pp. 182-217, Winter 2017
What Can Explain the Chinese Patent Explosion?
Christian Helmers, Markus Eberhardt, and Zhihong Yu
Oxford Economic Papers 69 (1), pp. 239-262, January 2017
2016 Publications
Price Discrimination with Demarketing
Dongsoo Shin, J. Kim
Journal of Industrial Economics 64(4), pp. 773-807, December 2016
Did Trade Liberalization Benefit Female Workers? Evidence from Egypt on Wage and Employment Effects
Shireen Al-Azzawi
in Women, Work and Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa: The Role of Socio-demographics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies. Karshenas, M. & Chamlou, N. (Eds.) Imperial College Press
Inequality of Happiness: Evidence of the Compression of the Subjective-Well-Being Distribution with Economic Growth
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
In Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy: Volume I: Concepts and Analysis (Joseph E. Stiglitz and Kaushik Basu, eds.), Palgrave: New York, NY (2016) (formerly entitled, “Subjective-Well-Being Inequality and Per Capita Income: Evidence from the World Values Surveys”).
Invalid but Infringed?! An Analysis of the Bifurcated Patent Litigation System
Christian Helmers, Katrin Cremers, Fabian Gässler, Dietmar Harhoff, and Yassine Lefouili
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 131 ( Part A), pp. 218–242, November 2016
Are We Underestimating Inequality Aversion? Comparing Recruited and Classroom Subjects
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Economic Letters 14, pp. 157-159, October 2016
The Increasing Happiness of Parents
John Ifcher, Chris Herbst
Review of Economics of the Household 14(3), pp. 529-551, September 2016 formerly entitled, “A Bundle of Joy: Does Parenting Really Make Us Miserable?”
Pricing Competition: A New Laboratory Measure of Gender Differences in the Willingness to Compete
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghemee
Experimental Economics 19 (3), pp. 642–662, September 2016
“Envelope Condition Method with an Application to Default Risk Models”
Serguei Maliar, Cristina Arellano, Lilia Maliar, and Viktor Tsyrennikov
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 69,pp. 436–459, August 2016
The Heterogeneous Effect of Software Patents on Expected Returns: Evidence from India
Christian Helmers, Markus Eberhardt, Marcel Fafchamps, and Manasa Patnam
Economics Letters 45, pp. 73-78, August 2016
Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?
Christian Helmers, Brian Love and Markus Eberhardt
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 18(4), pp.713-741, Summer 2016
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Mental Health, and Happiness
John Ifcher, Cassey Boyd-Swan, Chris Herbst, and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 126 (part A),pp. 18-38, June 2016
Ruling Out Multiplicity of Smooth Equilibria in Dynamic Games: A Hyperbolic Discounting Example”
Serguei Maliar and Lilia Maliar
Dynamic Games and Applications, in "Dynamic Games in Macroeconomics" edited by Edward C. Prescott and Kevin L Reffett 6 (2), pp. 243–261, June 2016
Do Gender-Variant Preferences for Competition Persist in the Absence of Performance?
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
Economic Inquiry 54(4): 1918-1930, April 2016
Correlation or Causality?: The Sorry State of Empirical Modeling”
John M. Heineke, Xiaojing Dong
Journal of Investment Management, vol. 14, no.3, 2016
2015 Publications
Predicting Winners in Civil Wars
Kris Mitchener, Steve Haber, Kim Oosterlinck, and Marc Weidenmier
Journal of Banking and Finance 60, pp. 310-319, November 2015 and CEPR Discussion Paper 10109
The Evolution of Bank Supervisory Institutions: Evidence from American States
Kris Mitchener and Matt Jaremski
Journal of Economic History 75(3), pp. 819-59, September 2015 NBER Working Paper 20603 and CAGE Working Paper WP 181/2014
Can Social Preferences Explain Gender Differences in Economic Behavior?
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 116, pp. 525-539, August 2015
Was the Classical Gold Standard Credible on the Periphery? Evidence from Currency Risk
Kris Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier
Journal of Economic History 75(2), pp. 479-511, June 2015 CEPR Discussion Paper 10388 and NBER Working Paper 15401.
Incentives and Management Styles
Dongsoo Shin
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 40, pp. 22-31, May2015
Capital Controls and Recovery from Financial Crises: Lessons from the 1930s
Kris Mitchener and Kirsten Wandschneider
Journal of International Economics 95(2), pp. 188–201, March 2015 CEPR Discussion Paper 10019 and NBER Working Paper 20220.
Merging Simulation and Projection Approaches to Solve High-Dimensional Problems with an Application to a New Keynesian model
Serguei Maliara and Lilia Maliar
Quantitative Economics Volume 6(1), pp.1-47, March 2015