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    2008 Working papers

    The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS)

     

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    2008 Publications

     Number

    Title

    Author

    884 Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators

    Wiji Arulampalam and
    Mark B. Stewart

    883 Income Rank and Upward Comparisons Christopher J. Boyce and
    Gordon D. A. Brown
    882 Happiness and Productivity Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi
    881 Intellectual Property Disclosure as 'Threat' Scott Baker, Pak Yee Lee and Claudio Mezzetti
    880 Trust-Based Mechanisms for Robust and Efficient Task Allocation in the Presence of Execution Uncertainty Rajdeep K Dash,
    Andrea Giovannucci,
    Nicholas R. Jennings, Claudio Mezzetti, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
    879 The Frequency of Wars (updated) Mark Harrison and Nikolaus Wolf
    878 On Risk Aversion in the Rubinstein Bargaining Game Emanuel Kohlscheen and Stephen O’Connell
    877 The Optimal Choice of Pre-launch Reviewer: How Best to Transmit Information using Tests and Conditional Pricing

    David Gill and Daniel Sgroi

    876 Testing for Smooth Transition Nonlinearity in Adjustments of Cointegrating Systems Milan Nedeljkovic
    875 Family Labor Supply and Aggregate Saving Paulo Santos Monteiro
    874 Testing Full Consumption Insurance in the Frequency Domain Paulo Santos Monteiro
    873 Cash Breeds Success : The Role of Financing Constraints in Patent Races Enrique Schroth and Dezsö Szalay
    872 Are Central Banks following a linear or nonlinear (augmented) Taylor rule? Vítor Castro
    871 Was Germany ever united? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885 – 1933 Nikolaus Wolf
    870 Explanations of the inconsistencies in survey respondents'forecasts Michael P Clements
    869 Rounding of probability forecasts : The SPF forecast probabilities of negative output growth Michael P Clements
    868 Herding and Contrarianism in a Financial Trading Experiment with Endogenous Timing Andreas Park and Daniel Sgroi
    867 The Celtic Tiger In Historical And International Perspective

    Nicholas Crafts

    866 Noncooperative Oligopoly in Markets with a Continuum of Traders Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato and Sayantan Ghosal
    865 Testing for seasonal unit roots in heterogeneous panels using monthly data in the presence of cross sectional dependence Jesús Otero,
    Jeremy Smith and Monica Giulietti
    864 Sequential Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights Frederic Payot and Dezsö Szalay
    863 Monopoly, Non-linear Pricing, and Imperfect Information : A Reconsideration of the Insurance Market Dezsö Szalay
    862 Debt Bailouts and Constitutions Emanuel Kohlscheen
    861 Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data (updated 2011) Dennis Novy
    860 The duration of economic expansions and recessions: More than duration dependence Vítor Castro
    859 How Good was the Profitability of British Railways, 1870-1912?
    (revised August 2009)
    Brian Mitchell,
    David Chambers and Nicholas Crafts
    858 Regulating a Monopolist with unknown costs and unknown quality capacity Charles Blackorby and Dezsö Szalay
    857 Aversion to Price Risk and the Afternoon Effect Claudio Mezzetti
    856 Financial Systems, Micro-Systemic Risks and Central Bank Policy : An Analytical Taxonomy of the Literature Ashwin Moheeput
    855 Issues on the choice of Exchange Rate Regimes and Currency Boards –An Analytical Survey Ashwin Moheeput
    854 When Herding and Contrarianism Foster Market Efficiency: A Financial Trading Experiment

    Andreas Park and Daniel Sgroi

    853 Financial Fragility, Systemic Risks and Informational Spillovers: Modelling Banking Contagion as State-Contingent Change in Cross-Bank Correlation Ashwin Moheeput
    852 Commercialisation, Factor Prices and Technological Progress in the Transition to Modern Economic Growth Stephen Broadberry, Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto
    851 Fertility Response to Financial Incentives - Evidence from the Working Families Tax Credit in the UK Asako Ohinata
    850 The Debt-Adjusted Exchange Rate for China Jan Frait and Luboš Komárek
    849 Financial Integration of Stock Markets among New EU Member States and the Euro Area Jan Babecký, Luboš Komárek and Zlatuše Komárková
    848 Resolving the Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Response to Professor Ritschl Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop
    847 Did the Single Market Cause Competition in Excise Taxes? Evidence from EU Countries Ben Lockwood and Giuseppe Migali
    846 The Effect of the Exchange Rates on Investment in Mexican Manufacturing Industry Mustafa Caglayan and Rebeca Muñoz Torres
    845 Auctions in which Losers Set the Price Claudio Mezzetti and Ilia Tsetlin
    844 Democracy, Collective Action and Intra-elite Conflict Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto
    843

    The Impact of (In)Equality of Opportunities on Wealth Distribution: Evidence from Ultimatum Games

    Gianluca Grimalda, Anirban Kar and Eugenio Proto

    842

    Isolation, Assurance and Rules: Can Rational Folly Supplant Foolish Rationality? (updated)

    Peter J. Hammond

    841 Some Evidence on the Future of Economics Andrew J Oswald and Hilda Ralsmark
    840

    Chain-Store Competition: Customized vs. Uniform Pricing

    Paul W. Dobson and Michael Waterson

    839 On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings?

    Andrew J Oswald

    838

    Are immigrants so stuck to the floor that the ceiling is irrelevant?

    Priscillia Hunt

    837 Cournot-Walras Equilibrium as a Subgame Perfect Equilibrium Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, and Sayantan Ghosal
    836

    Moral hazard, bank runs and contagion

    Shurojit Chatterji and
    Sayantan Ghosal
    835 Beyond Normal Form Invariance: First Mover Advantage in Two-Stage Games with or without Predictable Cheap Talk Peter Hammond
    834 Behavioural Decisions and Welfare Patricio Dalton and Sayantan Ghosal
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