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Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation (2019)
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Alempaki, D., Canic, E., Mullett, T., Skylark, W., Starmer, C., Stewart, N., & Tufano, F. (2019). Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation. Management Science, 65(10), 4451-4949. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3170

Stewart, Reimers and Harris (2015, SRH hereafter) demonstrated that shapes of utility and probability weighting functions could be manipulated by adjusting the distributions of outcomes and probabilities on offer, as predicted by the theory of Decisi... Read More about Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation.

Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework (2019)
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De Fraja, G., Facchini, G., & Gathergood, J. (2019). Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework. Economic Policy, 34(99), 523-583. https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiz009

We study the effects of public evaluation of university research on the pay structures of academic departments. A simple equilibrium model of university pay determination shows how the pay-performance relationship can be explained by the incentives i... Read More about Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework.

What is the association between price and economic activity with cigarette consumption in Cuba from 1980 to 2014? (2019)
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Varona-Perez*, P., Bridges, S., Lorenzo-Vazquez, E., Suarez-Medina, R., Venero-Fernandez, S.-J., Langley, T., …Fogarty, A. W. (2019). What is the association between price and economic activity with cigarette consumption in Cuba from 1980 to 2014?. Public Health, 173, 126-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.05.014

Objectives: Cuba is a tobacco producing country that has been economically isolated as a consequence of an embargo imposed by the USA, and has also experienced a severe economic depression in the 1990s after the withdrawal of support by the former So... Read More about What is the association between price and economic activity with cigarette consumption in Cuba from 1980 to 2014?.

Non-discriminatory donation relief and strategic commitment under political competition (2019)
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Giovanniello, M. A., Perroni, C., Scharf, K., & Slivinski, A. (2019). Non-discriminatory donation relief and strategic commitment under political competition. European Journal of Political Economy, 58, 164-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.10.002

Tax relief for private donations towards the provision of collective goods can protect minorities from majority-driven outcomes in which tax revenues are exclusively used to finance the provision of public goods that are only valued by the majority.... Read More about Non-discriminatory donation relief and strategic commitment under political competition.

Hedonic adaptation to treatment: evidence from a medical intervention (2019)
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Barazzetta, M., Appleton, S., & Owens, T. (2020). Hedonic adaptation to treatment: evidence from a medical intervention. Journal of Development Studies, 56(3), 613-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1618450

We investigate whether changes in life circumstances lead to long-lasting changes in subjective well-being using a medical intervention that provided orthotic equipment to Ugandan adults with lower limb disabilities. The intervention had a positive e... Read More about Hedonic adaptation to treatment: evidence from a medical intervention.

Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms (2019)
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Kölle, F., Lane, T., Nosenzo, D., & Starmer, C. (2020). Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms. Behavioural Public Policy, 4(1), 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2019.10

We report two studies investigating whether, and if so how, different low-cost interventions affect voter registration rates. Low-cost message-based interventions are increasingly used to promote target behaviours. While growing evidence shows that s... Read More about Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms.

Are Donors Afraid of Core Costs? Economies of Scale and Contestability in Charity Markets* (2019)
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Perroni, C., Pogrebna, G., Sandford, S., & Scharf, K. (2019). Are Donors Afraid of Core Costs? Economies of Scale and Contestability in Charity Markets*. Economic Journal, 129(622), 2608-2636. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez006

We study contestability in charity markets where non-commercial, not-for-profit providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, the absence of price-based... Read More about Are Donors Afraid of Core Costs? Economies of Scale and Contestability in Charity Markets*.

The Red, the Black, and the Plastic: Paying Down Credit Card Debt for Hotels, Not Sofas (2019)
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Quispe-Torreblanca, E. G., Quispe-Torreblanca, E., Stewart, N., Gathergood, J., & Loewenstein, G. (2019). The Red, the Black, and the Plastic: Paying Down Credit Card Debt for Hotels, Not Sofas. Management Science, 65(11), 5392-5410. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3195

Using transaction data from a sample of 1.8 million credit card accounts, we provide the first field test of a major prediction of Prelec and Loewenstein’s (1998) theory of mental accounting: that consumers will pay off expenditure on transient form... Read More about The Red, the Black, and the Plastic: Paying Down Credit Card Debt for Hotels, Not Sofas.

Credit Constraints and the Inverted‐U Relationship Between Competition and Innovation (2019)
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Bonfatti, R., & Pisano, L. (2019). Credit Constraints and the Inverted‐U Relationship Between Competition and Innovation. Economica, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12312

Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted‐U relationship between product‐market competition and innovation. This is inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian model, where greater competition always reduces the profitability of innovation and th... Read More about Credit Constraints and the Inverted‐U Relationship Between Competition and Innovation.