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Quantile regression methods for first-price auctions
The paper proposes a quantile-regression inference framework for first-price auctions with symmetric risk-neutral bidders under the independent private-value paradigm. It is first shown that a private-value quantile ... -
RangL: A Reinforcement Learning Competition Platform
(2022-01-01) -
Relational enforcement
A principal incentivizes an agent to maintain compliance and to truthfully announce any breaches of compliance. Compliance is imperfectly controlled by the agent’s private effort choices, is partially persistent, and is ... -
Restricted Access: How the Internet Can Be Used to Promote Reading and Learning
(Elsevier, 2022-01-18) -
Revealed Preferences over Risk and Uncertainty
(American Economic Association, 2020-06-01) -
Revenue- versus spending-based fiscal consolidation announcements: Multipliers and follow-up
(Elsevier BV, 2021-02) -
Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions
This paper analyses the relation between risk attitudes and household migration decisions. Using data of rural-urban migrants in China and their family members left behind, we obtain three key findings: (i) conditional on ... -
Robot Imports and Firm-Level Outcomes
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2024-06-25)We use French data over the 1994-2013 period to study how imports of industrial robots affect firm-level outcomes. Guided by a simple model, we develop a novel empirical strategy to identify the causal effects of robot ... -
Robots, Offshoring and Welfare
(2021)We study the effect of industrial robots in the presence of offshoring. -
Robust Inference on Correlation under General Heterogeneity
Considerable evidence in past research shows size distortion in standard tests for zero autocorrelation or zero cross-correlation when time series are not independent identically distributed random variables, pointing to ... -
THE ROLE OF EDUCATION SIGNALING IN EXPLAINING THE GROWTH OF THE COLLEGE WAGE PREMIUM
This paper incorporates an education signaling mechanism into a dynamic model of production and asks if “higher education as a signal” helps explain the simultaneous increase in the supply and price of skilled relative to ... -
The Role of Management Practices in Closing the Productivity Gap
(2008-03-20)There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such ...