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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8173 Pierre Cahuc
Search, Flows, Job Creations and Destructions
This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 22-29)
J6, J31, J38
8172 Edmund Cannon
Giam Pietro Cipriani
Katia Bazar-Rosen
Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market
We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 879-897)
D82, G22
8171 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Angelo Mele
Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates ...
(published as 'Viral Altruism? Charitable Giving and Social Contagion in Online Networks' in: Sociological Science, 2016, 3, 202 - 289)
D64, C93
8170 Luca Corazzini
Antonio Filippin
Paolo Vanin
Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design ...
(published in: PloS ONE, 10(4), e0121530)
D03, I10, C91
8169 Stephan Meier
Lamar Pierce
Antonino Vaccaro
Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy to experimentally demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 132 (Part A), 78-92)
C91, C92
8168 David Akerlund
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Hans Grönqvist
Lena Lindahl
Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a ...
(published as 'Time Discounting and Criminal Behavior' in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 133, 22)
K4, D03, D90
8167 Ana C. Dammert
Sarah Mohan
A Survey of the Economics of Fair Trade
Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015, 29(5), 855-868)
O19, P46
8165 Verena Dill
Uwe Jirjahn
Stephen C. Smith
Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, 40(1), 123-140)
F23, G34, M16, P10
8164 Pablo Agnese
Jana Hromcová
Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects
We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could ...
(published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426)
J68, F66
8163 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World ...
(published as 'Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values' in: Polish Political Science Review, 2017, 5 (1), 73 - 110)
C43, F50, Z12, D73
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