Working Papers (2000 to present)
09-04 - Arik Levinson
Pollution and International Trade in Services
09-03 - Arik Levinson
Valuing Public Goods Using Happiness Data: The Case of Air Quality
09-02 - Yongmin Chen and Marius Schwartz
Product Innovation Incentives: Monopoly vs. Competition
09-01 - David Amdur
International Diversication in Debt vs Equity
08-04 - Rodney Ludema and Anna Maria Mayda
Do Countries Free Ride on MFN?
08-03 - David Amdur
Capital Structure Over The Business Cycle
08-02 - Jinhui Bai and Roger Lagunoff
On the Faustian Dynamics of Policy and Political Power
08-01 - Luca Anderlini, Gino Gerardi, Roger Lagunoff
Communication and Learning
07-09 - James Albrecht, Axel Anderson, and Susan Vroman
Search by Committee
07-08 - Luca Flabbi and Daniele Checchi
Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: the Impact of Secondary School Tracks
07-07 - Luca Flabbi
Prejudice and Gender Differentials in the U.S. Labor Market in the Last Twenty Years
07-06 - Jim Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren and Susan Vroman
Counterfactual Distributions with Sample Selection Adjustments: Econometric Theory and an Application to the Netherlands
07-05 - Arik Levinson
Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
07-04 - Mark Huggett, Gustavo Ventura and Amir Yaron
Sources of Lifetime Inequality
07-03 - Mark Hugget and Alejandro Badel
Interpreting Life-Cycle Inequality Patterns as an Efficient Allocation: Mission Impossible?
07-02 - F.W. McElroy
Probability-of-Risk Aversion
and other Applications of Derivatives of the Certainty Equivalent
07-01 - Luca Anderlini, Dino Gerardi, and Roger Lagunoff
Social Memory and Evidence from the Past
06-12 - Ximena Pena
Assortative Matching and the Education Gap
06-11 - Mark Huggett and Juan Carlos Parra
How Well Does the US Social Insurance System Provide Social Insurance?
06-10 - T. Renee Bowen and Zaki Zahran
On Dynamic Compromise
06-09 - Ludema Rodney D. and Taizo Takeno
Tariffs and the Adoption of Clean Technology under Asymmetric Information
06-08 - Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli, and Andrew Postlewaite
Active Courts and Menu Contracts
06-07 - Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli, and Andrew Postlewaite-
Should Courts Always Enforce What Contracting Parties Write?
06-06 - James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro, and Susan Vroman
The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector
06-05 - Jinhui H. Bai and Ingolf Schwarz
Monetary Equilibria in a Cash-in-Advance Economy with Incomplete Financial Markets
06-04 - Rodney D. Ludema and Anders Olofsgård
Delegation versus Communication in the Organization of Government
06-03 - Anna Maria Mayda and Chad Steinberg
Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA
06-02 - Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda
Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries
06-01 Luca Anderlini, Dino Gerardi, and Roger Lagunoff
A `Super' Folk Theorem for Dynastic Repeated Games
05-20 Martin D. D. Evans
Foreign Exchange Market Microstructure
05-19 Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
Understanding Order Flow
05-18 Martin D. D. Evans and Viktoria Hnatkovska
Solving General Equilibrium Models with Incomplete Markets and Many Assets
05-17 Martin D. D. Evans and Viktoria Hnatkovska
International Capital Flows, Returns and World Financial Integration
05-16 Mark Huggett and Juan Carlos Parra
Quantifying the Inefficiency of the US Social Insurance System
05-15 William Jack and Roger Lagunoff
Social Conflict and Gradual Politicial Succession: An Illustrative Model
05-14 Masahito Watanabe
When Do Health Savings Accounts Decrease Health Care Costs?
05-13 Rodney Ludema and Anna Maria Mayda
Do Countries Free Ride on MFN?
05-12 William Jack, Arik Levinson and Sjamsu Rahardja
Employee cost-sharing and the welfare effects of Flexible Spending Accounts
05-11 Anna Maria Mayda and Dani Rodrik
Why are some people (and countries) more protectionist than others?
05-10 Anna Maria Mayda
Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants
05-09 Garance Genicot and Debraj Ray
Bargaining Power and Enforcement in Credit Markets
05-08 James Albrecht, Gerard J. van den Berg, and Susan Vroman
The Knowledge Lift: The Swedish Adult Education Program that Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
05-07 Roger Lagunoff
Markov Equilibrium in Models of Dynamic Endogenous Political Institutions
05-06 Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
Do Currency Markets Absorb News Quickly?
05-05 Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
How Is Macro News Transmitted to Exchange Rates?
05-04 Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
A New Micro Model of Exchange Rate Dynamics
05-03 Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow
05-02 Martin D. D. Evans
Where Are We Now? : Real-Time Estimates of the Macro Economy
05-01 Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
Meese-Rogoff Redux: Micro-Based Exchange Rate Forecasting
04-16 Garance Genicot
Informal Insurance in Social Networks
04-15 William Jack
Optimal risk adjustment in a model with adverse selection and spatial competition
04-14 Marcela C. Perticara (Georgetown University/Ilades)
Wage Mobility Through Job Mobility
04-13 Felipe Balmaceda (University of Chile), Eduardo Saavedra (Georgetown University/Ilades)
Vertical Integration and Shared Facilities in Unregulated Industries
04-12 Julio Peña-Torres (Georgetown University/Ilades), Sebastián Vergara (EC), Michael Basch (University of Chile)
Downward Adjustments in a Cyclical Environment: The Case of Chilean Pelagic Fisheries
04-11 Claudio A. Agostini (Georgetown University/Ilades)
Tax Interdependence in the U.S. States
04-10 Claudio A. Agostini (Georgetown University/Ilades)
The Impact of State Corporate Taxes on FDI Location
04-09 Luca Anderlini, Dino Gerardi (Yale University), and Roger Lagunoff
The Folk Theorem in Dynastic Repeated Games
04-08 Luca Flabbi
Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining
04-07 Roger Lagunoff
The Dynamic Reform of Political Institutions
04-06 Arik Levinson and Sjamsu Rahardja
Medicaid Stigma
04-05 Josh Ederington, Arik Levinson, and Jenny Minier
Trade Liberalization and Pollution Havens
04-04 Arik Levinson and M. Scott Taylor
Unmasking the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
04-03 Garance Genicot (Georgetown University) and Debraj Ray (New York University) and Instituto de An´alisis Econ´omico (CSIC)
Informal Insurance, Enforcement Constraints, and Group Formation
04-02 Gary Charness (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Garance Genicot (Georgetown University)
An Experimental Test of Risk-Sharing Arrangements
04-01 James Albrecht, Axel Anderson, Eric Smith and Susan Vroman (updated Feb.06)
A Matching Model of the Housing Market: Searching for a Motivated Partner
03-32 Robert M. Hussey
Labor Turnover and the Dynamics of Labor Productivity
03-31 James Albrecht, Binh Nguyen, Susan Vroman and Daniel Westbrook
A Quantile Regression Decomposition of Urban-Rural Inequality in Vietnam
03-30 Garance Genicot and Debraj Ray
Contracts and Externalities: How Things Fall Apart
03-29 Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli & Andrew Postlewaite
Should Courts Always Enforce What Contracting Parties Write?
03-28 Nabil Al-Najjar, Luca Anderlini,& Leonardo Felli
Undescribable Events
03-27 Luca Anderlini & Leonardo Felli
Transaction Costs and the Robustness of the Coase Theorem
03-26 Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli, & Andrew Postlewaite
Courts of Law and Unforeseen Contingencies
03-25 Jim Albrecht & Susan Vroman
Matching with Multiple Applications: The Limiting Case
03-24 Lars Sondergaard
Using Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Share of Backward-Looking Firms
03-23 Jonathan Heathcote
Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Incomplete Markets
03-22 Jonathan Heathcote
On the Distributional Effects of Reducing Capital Taxes
03-21 Jonathan Heathcote
Housing and the Business Cycle
03-20 Jonathan Heathcote
Financial Globalization and Real Regionalization
03-19 Jonathan Heathcote
The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States
03-18 Billy Jack
Poverty Reduction Using Self-Interested Intermediaries: Implications for the Design of Inter-governmental Transfers
03-17 Billy Jack
Comparing the Distortionary Effects of Alternative In-kind Intergovernmental Transfers
03-16 Billy Jack
Redistributing to the Sick: How Should Health Expenditures be Integrated into the Tax System?
03-15 Billy Jack & Jenny Lanjouw
Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: When Should Poor Countries Contribute?
03-14 Billy Jack
The Organization of Public Service Provision
03-13 Billy Jack
Purchasing Health Care Services from Providers with Unknown Altruism
03-12 Mark Huggett
When are Comparative Dynamics Monotone?
03-11 Mark Huggett & Edouard Vidon
Precautionary Wealth Accumulation: A Positive Third Derivative is not Enough
03-10 Mark Huggett
Human Capital and Earnings Distribution Dynamics
03-09 Mark Huggett
Precautionary Wealth Accumulation
03-08 Andrew Feltenstein & Roger Lagunoff
International versus Domestic Auditing of Bank Solvency
03-07 Rodrigo Harrison & Roberto Munoz
Stability and Equilibrium Selection in a Link Formation Game
03-06 Rodrigo Harrison
Global Games with Strategic Substitutes
03-05 Christian Gonzalez & Arik Levinson
State Rainy Day Funds and the State Budget Crisis 2002-?
03-04 Josh Ederington, Arik Levinson, & Jenny Minier
Footlose and Pollution-Free
03-03 William Jack and Roger Lagunoff
Dynamic Enfranchisement
03-02 James Albrecht, Pieter Gautier, & Susan Vroman
"Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications
03-01 David A. Malueg & Marius Schwartz
Interconnection Incentives of a Large Network Facing Multiple Rivals"
02-09 Debra Israel & Arik Levinson
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature
02-08 Maria Cancian & Arik Levinson
Labor Supply and Participation Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Evidence from the National Survey of America's Families and Wisconsin's Supplemental Benefit for Families with Three Children
02-07 Arik Levinson
Environmental Regulatory Competition: A Status Report and Some New Evidence
02-06 Yamin Ahmad
Money Market Rates and Implied CCAPM Rates: Some International Evidence
02-05 Roger Lagunoff & Matthew Haag
One Size and Structure of Group Cooperation
02-04 Roger Lagunoff
Credible Communication in Dynastic Government
02-03 Carol Rogers & Kenneth A. Swinnerton
A Theory of Exploitative Child Labor
02-02 Carol Rogers & Kenneth A. Swinnerton
Does Child Labor Decrease When Parental Incomes Rise
02-01 Marius Schwartz & Daniel R. Vincent
Same Price, Cash or Card: Vertical Control by Payment Networks
01-10 Carol Rogers & Kenneth A. Swinnerton
Inequality, Productivity, and Child Labor: Theory and Evidence
01-09 Arik Levinson
Energy Use By Apartment Tenants When Landlords Pay For Utilities
01-08 Arik Levinson
The Ups and Downs of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
01-07 Anja Decressin
Tinkering With or Tackling Unemployment Compensation
01-06 Robert Hussey, S.J.
Evaluating Business Cycle Models with Labor Market Search
01-05 David A. Malueg & Marius Schwartz
Interconnection Incentives of a Large Network
01-04 David A. Malueg & Marius Schwartz
International Telecom Settlements: Gaming Incentives, Carrier Alliances, and Pareto-Suerior Reform
01-03 Luca Anderlini & Roger Lagunoff
Communication in Dynastic Repeated Games: 'Whitewashes' and 'Coverups'
01-02 Roger Lagunoff & Akihiko Matsui
Organizations & Overlapping Generations Games: Memory, Communication, and Altruism
01-01 F.W. McElroy
An Inequality Related to Chebyshev’s
00-08 Arik Levinson
An Industry-Adjusted Index of State Environmental Compliance Costs
00-07 Arik Levinson, Bill Harbaugh and Dave Wilson
Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve
00-06 Arik Levinson and Wolfgang Keller
Environmental Regulations and FDI Inflows to U.S. States
00-05 Martin D.D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
The Price Impact of Currency Trades Implications for Intervention
00-04 Martin D.D. Evans
FX Trading and Exchange Rate Dynamics
00-03 John T. Cuddington
Finding Costs in the U.S. Petroleum Industry: Assessing the Opposing Effects of Technological Change and Depletion with Error Correction Modeling
00-02 George Viksnins
Baltic Monetary Regimes in the XX1st Century
00-01 John T. Cuddington and Hong Liang
"Will the Emergence of the Euro Affect World Commodity Prices?"
The EMU and Its Impact on Europe and Developing Countries. (WIDER Conference Vol, forthcoming 2000).

