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The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation (2021)
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We develop a political economy model to study the decision of representative democracies to join a preferential trading agreement (PTA), distinguishing between free trade areas (FTA) and customs unions (CU). Our theoretical analysis shows that bilate... Read More about The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation.

The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News (2021)
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We document a causal effect of the conservative Fox News Channel in the USA on physical distancing during COVID-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all US states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to 15–17 million smart... Read More about The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News.

Sex and the mission: the conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
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This article investigates the long-term impact of historical missionary activity on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. On the one hand, missionaries were the first to invest in modern medicine in the region. On the other hand, Christianity influenced sexual... Read More about Sex and the mission: the conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pareto-Efficient Solutions for Shared Public Good Provision: Nash Bargaining versus Exchange-Matching-Lindahl (2020)
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We compare two cooperation mechanisms for consumer/producers of a public good: the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) and the Exchange-Matching-Lindahl (EML) solution, where each agent specifies her demand for and supply of the public good according to h... Read More about Pareto-Efficient Solutions for Shared Public Good Provision: Nash Bargaining versus Exchange-Matching-Lindahl.

Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: Evidence from China (2020)
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We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on fi... Read More about Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: Evidence from China.

Does transparency come at the cost of charitable services? Evidence from investigating British charities (2020)
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Recent high-profile scandals related to misuse of funding and donations have raised the demand for scrutiny over financial transparency and operational activities of non-profit organizations in developed countries. Our analysis challenges the common... Read More about Does transparency come at the cost of charitable services? Evidence from investigating British charities.

Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis (2020)
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We study career concerns in Italian academia. We mould our empirical analysis on the standard model of contests, formalised in the multi-unit all-pay auction. The number of posts, the number of applicants, and the relative importance of the criteria... Read More about Incentives and Careers in Academia: Theory and Empirical Analysis.

Testing, disclosure and approval (2020)
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Write better, publish better (2020)
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There is evidence that having more readable abstracts and introductions help authors get cited. I show that, in economics, there is also an effect of readability on the probability of publishing in a Top 5 journal (and in a higher-ranked journal in g... Read More about Write better, publish better.

All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage (2020)
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Macroprudential Policy under Incomplete Information (2019)
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In this paper, we use a DSGE model to study the passive and time-varying implementation of macroprudential policy when policy-makers have noisy and lagged data. The model features an economy with two agents; households and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur... Read More about Macroprudential Policy under Incomplete Information.

Macroprudential policies in a low interest-rate environment (2019)
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In this paper, we analyze the use of macroprudential policies in a low interest rate environment, where an occasionally binding zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint gives rise to aggregate demand externalities. We study this issue by using a dynamic sto... Read More about Macroprudential policies in a low interest-rate environment.

Coercive trade policy (2019)
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Coercion is used by one government (the sender") to influence the trade practices of another (the target"). We build a two-country trade model in which coercion can be exercised unilaterally or channeled through a “weak" international organization wi... Read More about Coercive trade policy.

Which Boats are lifted by a Foreign Tide? Direct and Indirect Wage Effects of Foreign Ownership (2019)
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The attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be of particular importance for emerging economies because it represents a channel through which international convergence in standards of living may be achieved. One important effect... Read More about Which Boats are lifted by a Foreign Tide? Direct and Indirect Wage Effects of Foreign Ownership.

How do Americans repay their debt?: the balance-matching heuristic (2019)
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In Gathergood et al. (forthcoming), we studied credit card repayments using linked data on multiple cards from the United Kingdom. We showed that individuals did not allocate payments to the higher interest rate card, which would minimize the cost of... Read More about How do Americans repay their debt?: the balance-matching heuristic.

Dual sourcing with price discovery (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc. We consider a (standard) reverse auction for dual sourcing and propose to determine both the providers' shares and the reserve price endogenously, depending on the suppliers' bids. Our benchmark considers a two-stage game of comp... Read More about Dual sourcing with price discovery.

How Do Individuals Repay Their Debt? The Balance-Matching Heuristic (2019)
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We study how individuals repay their debt using linked data on multiple credit cards. Repayments are not allocated to the higher interest rate card, which would minimize the cost of borrowing. Moreover, the degree of misallocation is invariant to the... Read More about How Do Individuals Repay Their Debt? The Balance-Matching Heuristic.

Does the rental housing market stabilize the economy?: a micro and macro perspective (2019)
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© 2019, The Author(s). The size of the rental housing market in most countries around the globe is small. In this article, we claim that this may be detrimental to macroeconomic stability. We do it in three steps. First, using survey data for Poland,... Read More about Does the rental housing market stabilize the economy?: a micro and macro perspective.

Testing explosive bubbles with time-varying volatility (2018)
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This paper considers the problem of testing for an explosive bubble in financial data in the presence of time-varying volatility. We propose a weighted least squares-based variant of the Phillips, Wu and Yu (2011) test for explosive autoregressive be... Read More about Testing explosive bubbles with time-varying volatility.

The role of international and domestic R&D outsourcing for firm innovation (2018)
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Firms are increasingly outsourcing their high-tech services. Theory suggests that R&D outsourcing allows firms to specialize in core knowledge-intensive tasks, thereby increasing innovation, but R&D outsourcing may also undermine internal capabilitie... Read More about The role of international and domestic R&D outsourcing for firm innovation.