Outputs (85)

Overbooking (2017)
Journal Article
Ely, J. C., Garrett, D. F., & Hinnosaar, T. (2017). Overbooking. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(6), 1258-1301. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvw025

We consider optimal pricing policies for airlines when passengers are uncertain at the time of ticketing of their eventual willingness to pay for air travel. Auctions at the time of departure efficiently allocate space and a profit maximizing airline... Read More about Overbooking.

Cournot vs. Bertrand under centralised bargaining (2017)
Journal Article
Basak, D. (2017). Cournot vs. Bertrand under centralised bargaining. Economics Letters, 154, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.031

We revisit the debate on Cournot and Bertrand profit comparison in a vertically related upstream market for inputs. We find that when an input pricing contract is determined through centralised bargaining, the final goods producers earn higher (lower... Read More about Cournot vs. Bertrand under centralised bargaining.

All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Defever, F., Reyes, J.-D., Riaño, A., & Varela, G. (2017). All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal

This paper evaluates the effect on firm-level export out-comes of the Cash Incentive Scheme for Exports program provided by the Government of Nepal. The analysis utilizes customs-level data for 2011–14, combined with information on the subsidy paymen... Read More about All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal.

Signaling about norms: socialization under strategic uncertainty (2017)
Journal Article
Adriani, F., & Sonderegger, S. (2018). Signaling about norms: socialization under strategic uncertainty. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 120(3), 685-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12240

We consider a signaling model where adults possess information about the dominant social norm. Children want to conform to whatever norm is dominant but, lacking accurate information, take the observed behavior of their parent as representative. We s... Read More about Signaling about norms: socialization under strategic uncertainty.

Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence (2017)
Journal Article
Andrews, M., Schank, T., & Upward, R. (2017). Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence. World Economy, 40(9), 1750-1774. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12486

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identif... Read More about Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence.

The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach (2017)
Journal Article
Long, W., Appleton, S., & Song, L. (in press). The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2017.1287538

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural–urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates w... Read More about The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach.

An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change (2017)
Journal Article
Bonfatti, R. (2017). An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change. Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique, 50(1), 306-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12258

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which a home country's main trade partner may influence the course of regime change. The foreign country intervenes in support of the group that draws the largest gains from trade, since such a group i... Read More about An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change.

Time matters less when outcomes differ: uni-modal versus cross-modal comparisons in intertemporal choice (2017)
Journal Article
Cubitt, R. P., McDonald, R., & Read, D. (2018). Time matters less when outcomes differ: uni-modal versus cross-modal comparisons in intertemporal choice. Management Science, 64(2), https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2613

Uni-modal intertemporal decisions involve comparing options of the same type (e.g. apples now versus apples later), and cross-modal decisions involve comparing options of different types (e.g. a car now versus a vacation later). As we explain, existi... Read More about Time matters less when outcomes differ: uni-modal versus cross-modal comparisons in intertemporal choice.

Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model (2017)
Journal Article
Bradley, J., Postel-Vinay, F., & Turon, H. (2017). Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(6), 1214-1257. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvw026

We develop and estimate a structural model that incorporates a sizable public sector in a labor market with search frictions. The wage distribution and the employment rate in the public sector are taken as exogenous policy parameters. Overall wage di... Read More about Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model.

Financial literacy: a barrier to home ownership for the young? (2017)
Journal Article
Gathergood, J., & Weber, J. (in press). Financial literacy: a barrier to home ownership for the young?. Journal of Urban Economics, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2017.02.001

The decision to buy a home is one of the most important choices faced by a household. Most young households who purchase a home do so using a mortgage. But mortgages are complex financial instruments and this complexity may be a barrier to less sophi... Read More about Financial literacy: a barrier to home ownership for the young?.