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To replicate or not to replicate?: exploring reproducibility in economics through the lens of a model and a pilot study (2017)
Journal Article
Maniadis, Z., Tufano, F., & List, J. A. (in press). To replicate or not to replicate?: exploring reproducibility in economics through the lens of a model and a pilot study. Economic Journal, 127, Article F209-F235. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12527

The sciences are in an era of an alleged ‘credibility crisis’. In this study, we discuss the reproducibility of empirical results, focusing on economics research. By combining theory and empirical evidence, we discuss the import of replication studie... Read More about To replicate or not to replicate?: exploring reproducibility in economics through the lens of a model and a pilot study.

The research reproducibility crisis and economics of science (2017)
Journal Article
Maniadis, Z., & Tufano, F. (in press). The research reproducibility crisis and economics of science. Economic Journal, 127, Article F200-F208. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12526

We provide a brief summary of two areas where cross-fertilization across economics and other disciplines is likely to have far-reaching benefits. The increasing concern about research reproducibility entails that economic design has much to contribut... Read More about The research reproducibility crisis and economics of science.

Twin Peaks (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Defever, F., & Riaño, A. Twin Peaks

Received wisdom suggests that most exporters sell the majority of their output domestically. In this paper, however, we show that the distribution of export intensity not only varies substantially across countries, but in a large number of cases is a... Read More about Twin Peaks.

Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians (2017)
Journal Article
Folke, O., Persson, T., & Rickne, J. (2017). Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians. Economic Journal, 127(605), F495-F517. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12494

We exploit close elections in Swedish municipalities to test whether relatives of politicians who become mayors obtain economic benefits. We find no benefits for the siblings of new mayors, but the average earnings of children of newly appointed mayo... Read More about Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians.

Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill (2017)
Journal Article
Borowczyk-Martins, D., Bradley, J., & Tarasonis, L. (in press). Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill. Labour Economics, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.09.007

In the U.S. the average black worker has a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for high-skill workers. We show that a mode... Read More about Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill.

Illegal immigration and media exposure: evidence on individual attitudes (2017)
Journal Article
Facchini, G., Mayda, A. M., & Puglisi, R. (2017). Illegal immigration and media exposure: evidence on individual attitudes. IZA Journal of Migration, 7(14), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40176-017-0095-1

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about the drivers of individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in t... Read More about Illegal immigration and media exposure: evidence on individual attitudes.

Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing? (2017)
Journal Article
De Quidt, J., Fallucchi, F., Kölle, F., Nosenzo, D., & Quercia, S. (2017). Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?. Journal- Economic Science Association, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-017-0039-9

We study the relative effectiveness of contracts that are framed either in terms of bonuses or penalties. In one set of treatments subjects know at the time of effort provision whether they have achieved the bonus / avoided the penalty. In another se... Read More about Bonus versus penalty: how robust are the effects of contract framing?.

Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition (2017)
Journal Article
Gaechter, S., Huang, L., & Sefton, M. (2018). Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition. Economic Inquiry, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12498

We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-... Read More about Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition.

Systemic risk and macroeconomic fat tails (2017)
Book Chapter
Bougheas, S., Harvey, D., & Kirman, A. (2018). Systemic risk and macroeconomic fat tails. In P. Commendatore, I. Kubin, S. Bougheas, A. Kirman, M. Kopel, & G. I. Bischi (Eds.), The economy as a complex spatial system (119-136). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65627-4_6

We propose a mechanism for shock amplification that potentially can account for fat tails in the distribution of the growth rate of national output. We argue that extreme macroeconomic events, such as the Great Depression and the Great Recession, wer... Read More about Systemic risk and macroeconomic fat tails.

Nonlinearities in the relationship between debt and growth: (no) evidence from over two centuries (2017)
Journal Article
Eberhardt, M. (in press). Nonlinearities in the relationship between debt and growth: (no) evidence from over two centuries. Macroeconomic Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100517000347

I revisit the popular concern over a nonlinearity or threshold in the relationship between public debt and growth employing long time series data from up to 27 countries. My empirical approach recognises that standard time series arguments for long-r... Read More about Nonlinearities in the relationship between debt and growth: (no) evidence from over two centuries.