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Occasional errors can benefit coordination (2017)
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Gaechter, S. (2017). Occasional errors can benefit coordination. Nature, 545, https://doi.org/10.1038/545297a

The chances solving a problem that involves coordination between people are increased by introducing robotic players that sometimes make mistakes. This finding has implications for real-world coordination problems.

Distributional Comparative Statics (2017)
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Jensen, M. K. (2018). Distributional Comparative Statics. Review of Economic Studies, 85(1), 581-610. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx021

Distributional comparative statics is the study of how individual decisions and equilibrium outcomes vary with changes in the distribution of economic parameters (income, wealth, productivity, information, etc.). This article develops new tools to ad... Read More about Distributional Comparative Statics.

Conducting interactive experiments online (2017)
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Arechar, A. A., Gaechter, S., & Molleman, L. (2018). Conducting interactive experiments online. Experimental Economics, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2

Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological... Read More about Conducting interactive experiments online.

Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers (2017)
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El-Sahli, Z., & Upward, R. (in press). Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12224

We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was... Read More about Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers.

Fiscal reforms and the fiscal effects of aid in Uganda (2017)
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Bwire, T., Morrissey, O., & Lloyd, T. (in press). Fiscal reforms and the fiscal effects of aid in Uganda. Journal of Development Studies, 53(7), https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1303677

Uganda implemented public expenditure and revenue management reforms from the early 1990s with specific aims of improving budget planning and aligning aid with fiscal priorities. The dynamic relationship between aid and domestic fiscal aggregates is... Read More about Fiscal reforms and the fiscal effects of aid in Uganda.

Internally reporting risk in financial services: an empirical analysis (2017)
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Bryce, C., Chmura, T., Webb, R., Stiebale, J., & Cheevers, C. (in press). Internally reporting risk in financial services: an empirical analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3530-6

The enduring failure of financial institutions to identify and deal with risk events continues to have serious repercussions, whether in the form of small but significant losses or major and potentially far-reaching scandals. Using a mixed-methods ap... Read More about Internally reporting risk in financial services: an empirical analysis.

Entrepreneurial migration in an integrated world (2017)
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Bougheas, S., & Falvey, R. (2018). Entrepreneurial migration in an integrated world. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 120(4), 1171-1201. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12249

A growing number of developed countries are offering entrepreneurial visas as a means of attracting entrepreneurial talent and capital. In this paper we use a simple two sector model of international trade with heterogeneous agents and financial fric... Read More about Entrepreneurial migration in an integrated world.

How does happiness relate to economic behaviour?: a review of the literature (2017)
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Lane, T. (2017). How does happiness relate to economic behaviour?: a review of the literature. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2017.04.001

This article reviews research on the relationship between happiness (subjective wellbeing) and economic behaviour. I describe how experimental and non-experimental methods have been used, across the social sciences, to investigate how happiness drive... Read More about How does happiness relate to economic behaviour?: a review of the literature.

The golden hello and political transitions (2017)
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Aidt, T. S., Albornoz, F., & Gassebner, M. (2018). The golden hello and political transitions. Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2017.03.004

We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson’s [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new... Read More about The golden hello and political transitions.

Immigration and the school system (2017)
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Albornoz, F., Cabrales, A., & Hauk, E. (in press). Immigration and the school system. Economic Theory, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-017-1041-4

This paper presents a tractable model to study the effect of immigration on host countries’ school system and student outcomes. In our model, education quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously by the interaction of parents, schools an... Read More about Immigration and the school system.