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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design (2012)
Journal Article
Tatsiramos, K., & Van Ours, J. (2014). Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design. Journal of Economic Surveys, 28(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12005

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we focus on the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We provide an ov... Read More about Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design.

Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: the interdependence hypothesis (2012)
Journal Article
Tomasello, M., Melis, A. P., Tennie, C., Wyman, E., & Herrmann, E. (2012). Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: the interdependence hypothesis. Current Anthropology, 53(6), https://doi.org/10.1086/668207

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast, we propose that humans’ species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species-unique forms of cognition, communication, and social life—all derive fro... Read More about Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: the interdependence hypothesis.

Cost effectiveness of epidural steroid injections to manage chronic lower back pain (2012)
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Whynes, D. K., McCahon, R. A., Ravenscroft, A., & Hardman, J. (2012). Cost effectiveness of epidural steroid injections to manage chronic lower back pain. BMC Anesthesiology, 12(26), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2253-12-26

Background The efficacy of epidural steroid injections in the management of chronic low back pain is disputed, yet the technique remains popular amongst physicians and patients alike. This study assesses the cost effectiveness of injections administ... Read More about Cost effectiveness of epidural steroid injections to manage chronic lower back pain.

A cooperative instinct (2012)
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Gaechter, S. (2012). A cooperative instinct. Nature, 489(7416), https://doi.org/10.1038/489374a

Acting on a gut feeling may sometimes lead to poor decisions, but it will usually support the common good, according to a study showing that human intuition favours cooperative, rather than selfish, behaviour.

How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy (2012)
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Dahm, M., Dur, R., & Glazer, A. (2014). How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy. Public Choice, 159(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-012-0016-z

This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district where voters or th... Read More about How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy.

The more the better?: foreign ownership and corporate performance in China (2012)
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Yu, Z., Greenaway, D., & Guariglia, A. (2014). The more the better?: foreign ownership and corporate performance in China. European Journal of Finance, 20(7-9), https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2012.671785

We examine the relationship between the degree of foreign ownership and performance of recipient firms, using a panel of 21,582 Chinese firms over the period 2000–2005. We find that joint-ventures perform better than wholly foreign-owned and purely d... Read More about The more the better?: foreign ownership and corporate performance in China.

Estimating panel time-series models with heterogeneous slopes (2012)
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Eberhardt, M. (2012). Estimating panel time-series models with heterogeneous slopes. Stata Journal, 12(1), 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x1201200105

This article introduces a new Stata command, xtmg, that implementsthree panel time-series estimators, allowing for heterogeneous slope coefficients across group members: the Pesaran and Smith (1995, Journal of Econometrics 68: 79-113) mean group esti... Read More about Estimating panel time-series models with heterogeneous slopes.

Split or steal? Cooperative behavior when the stakes are large (2011)
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van den Assem, M. J., van Dolder, D., & Thaler, R. H. (2011). Split or steal? Cooperative behavior when the stakes are large. Management Science, 58(1), https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1110.1413

We examine cooperative behavior when large sums of money are at stake, using data from the TV game show “Golden Balls”. At the end of each episode, contestants play a variant on the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma for large and widely ranging stakes avera... Read More about Split or steal? Cooperative behavior when the stakes are large.

Econometrics for grumblers: A new look at the literature on cross-country growth empirics (2011)
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Eberhardt, M., & Teal, F. (2011). Econometrics for grumblers: A new look at the literature on cross-country growth empirics. Journal of Economic Surveys, 25(1), 109-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00624.x

Abstract Since the seminal contribution of N. Gregory Mankiw, David Romer and David N. Weil in 1992 the growth empirics literature has used increasingly sophisticated methods to select relevant growth determinants in estimating cross-section growth r... Read More about Econometrics for grumblers: A new look at the literature on cross-country growth empirics.

Conditional Cooperation and Costly Monitoring Explain Success in Forest Commons Management (2010)
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Rustagi, D., & Engel, S. (2010). Conditional Cooperation and Costly Monitoring Explain Success in Forest Commons Management. Science, 330(6006), 961-965. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1193649

Recent evidence suggests that prosocial behaviors like conditional cooperation and costly norm enforcement can stabilize large-scale cooperation for commons management. However, field evidence on the extent to which variation in these behaviors among... Read More about Conditional Cooperation and Costly Monitoring Explain Success in Forest Commons Management.

Commitment in symmetric contests (2009)
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Possajennikov, A. (2009). Commitment in symmetric contests. Economics Bulletin, 29(1),

The paper proves that in two-player logit form symmetric contests with concave success function, commitment to a particular strategy does not increase a player's payoff, while in contests with more than two players it does. The paper also provides a... Read More about Commitment in symmetric contests.