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BU ECONOMICS WORKING PAPERS 2006
 
 

64) "The Limit Distribution of the Estimates in Cointegrated Regression Models with Multiple Structural Changes"
Mohitosh Kejriwal, Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), December 2006

 

63) "Assessing the Relative Power of Structural Break Tetsts Using a Framework Based on the Approximate Bahadur Slope"
Dukpa Kim, Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), December 2006

 

62) "When Should Firms Offer Free Trials?"
Monic Jiayin Sun (monic@bu.edu), December 2006

 

61) "Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Female Top Executive"
Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti (olivetti@bu.edu), November 2006

 

60) "Prohibitions on Punishments in Private Contracts"
Philip Bond, Andrew F. Newman (afnewman@bu.edu), November 2006

 

59) "Managerial Firms, Organizational Choice, and Consumer Welfare" Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman (afnewman@bu.edu), November 2006

 

58) "Credence Goods Markets with Conscientious and Selfish Experts"
Ting Liu (tingl@bu.edu), November 2006

 

57) "Cointegration with Structural Breaks : An Application
to the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
"

Mohitosh Kejriwal (mohitosh@bu.edu), October 2006

 

56) "Gender Roles and Technological Progress"
Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti (olivetti@bu.edu), October 2006

 

55) "Occupational Diversity and Endogenous Inequality"
Dilip Mookherjee (dilipm@bu.edu), Debraj Ray, October 2006

 

54) "Managing the Environmental Consequences of Growth: Forest Degradation in the Indian Mid-Himalayas" Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee (dilipm@bu.edu), Rinki Sarkar, Oct 2006

 

53) "Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-Run Effects of Dividend Tax Reform"
Francois Gourio (fgourio@bu.edu), Jianjun Miao (miaoj@bu.edu), October 2006

 

52) "Unit Roots Tests Allowing for a Break in the Trend Function at an Unknown Time Under both the Null and Alternative Hypotheses"
Dukpa Kim, Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), September 2006

 

51) "Testing for Multiple Structural Changes in Cointegrated Regression Models"
Mohitosh Kejriwal, Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), September 2006

 

50) "Are There Increasing Returns in Marriage Markets?"
Maristella Botticini (maristel@bu.edu), Aloysius Siow, September 2006

 

49) "Dynamic Equilibrium of Electricity Consumption and
GDP in Hong Kong: An Empirical Investigation
"
Chun-Yu Ho (chunyu@bu.edu), Kam-Wing Siu (eckwsiu@bu.edu), September 2006

 

48) "Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? -- Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans’ Labor Supply and Savings"
Laurence J. Kotlikoff (kotlikof@bu.edu), Dave Rapson, August 2006

 

47) "A Habit-Based Explanation of the Exchange Rate Risk Premium"
Adrien Verdelhan (av@bu.edu), August 2006

 

46) "Communication Constraints, Incentives and Decentralization in Organizations"
Dilip Mookherjee (dilipm@bu.edu), Masatoshi Tsumagari, August 2006

 

45) "The Cross-Section of Foreign Currency Risk Premia and US Consumption Growth Risk" data
Hanno Lustig, Adrien Verdelhan (av@bu.edu), August 2006

 

44) "Lumps and Clusters in Duopolistic Investment Games: An Early Exercise Premium Approach"
Doriana Ruffino (rdoriana@bu.edu), Jonathan Treussard (jtreussa@bu.edu ), August 2006

 

43) "Progress and Compliance in Alcohol Abuse Treatment"
Hsien-Ming Lien, Mingshan Lu, Ching-To Albert Ma (ma@bu.edu), Thomas G. McGuire, July 2006

 

42) "Complementarities in Information Acquisition with Short-Term Trades"
Christophe Chamley (chamley@bu.edu), July 2006

 

41) "Optimal Age-Based Portfolios with Stochastic Investment Opportunity Sets"
Doriana Ruffino ( rdoriana@bu.edu), Jonathan Treussard (jtreussa@bu.edu ), July 2006

 

40) "A Study of Inaction in Investment Games via the Early Exercise Premium Representation"
Doriana Ruffino ( rdoriana@bu.edu), Jonathan Treussard (jtreussa@bu.edu ), July 2006

 

39) "Are Working Women Good for Marriage?"
Zvika Neeman, Andrew F. Newman, Claudia Olivetti (olivetti@bu.edu), July 2006

 

38) "Inter-country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: An Empirical Exercise"
Sanjay Reddy, Sujata Visaria (vaguirre@bu.edu), Muhammad Asali, July 2006

 

37) "Maximal Loss from Collusion in the IPV Symmetric Auctions"
Gregory Pavlov (gpavlov@bu.edu), July 2006

 

36) "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language"
Jerry Green, Laurence J. Kotlikoff (kotlikof@bu.edu), June 2006

 

35) "Data Dependent Rules for the Selection of the Number of Leads and Lags in the Dynamic OLS Cointegrating Regression"
Mohitosh Kejriwal, Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), June 2006

 

34) "CEO Power, Compensation, and Governance"
Rui Albuquerque, Jianjun Miao (miaoj@bu.edu), June 2006

 

33) "The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel"
Kevin Lang (lang@bu.edu), Erez Siniver , June 2006

 

32) "From Famers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretion of Jewish Economic History
Maristella Botticini (maristel@bu.edu), Zvi Eckstein, June 2006

 

31) "Patents and Performance of Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations"
Marc Rysman (mrysman@bu.edu), Tim Simcoe, June 2006

 

30) "Colluding on Participation Decisions"
Gregory Pavlov (gpavlov@bu.edu), May 2006

 

29) "An Alternative Trend-Cycle Decomposition using a State Space Model with Mixtures of Normals: Specifications and Applications to International Data"
Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), Tatsuma Wada, May 2006

 

28) "Second-Hand Markets and Collusion by Manufacturers
of Semidurable Goods
"
Pasquale Schiraldi (paschira@bu.edu), May 2006

 

27) "Local Power of Andrews and Ploberger Tests Against Nearly Integrated, Nearly White Noise Process"
Ai Deng (dengai@bu.edu), May 2006

 

26) "Health Care Spending: What the Future Will Look Like"
Laurence J. Kotlikoff (kotlikof@bu.edu), Christian Hagist, April 2006

 

25) "Temptation, Welfare and Revealed Preference"
Jawwad Noor (jnoor@bu.edu), April 2006

 

24) "Temptation-Driven Preferences"
Eddie Dekel, Barton L. Lipman (blipman@bu.edu), Aldo Rustichini, April 2006

 

23) "Legal Reform and Loan Repayment: The Microeconomic Impact of Debt Recovery Tribunals in India"
Sujata Visaria (svisaria@bu.edu), April 2006

 

22) "Identifying the Age Profile of Patent Citations"
Aditi Mehta, Marc Rysman (mrysman@bu.edu), Tim Simcoe, March 2006

 

21) "Menu-Dependent Self-Control"
Jawwad Noor (jnoor@bu.edu), March 2006

 

20) "Managerial Preferences, Corporate Governance, and Financial Structure"
Hong Liu, Jianjun Miao (miaoj@bu.edu), March 2006

 

19) "Derman and Taleb’s The Illusions of Dynamic
Replication: A Comment
"

Doriana Ruffino (rdoriana@bu.edu), Jonathan Treussard (jtreussa@bu.edu), March 2006


18) "Social Norms, Demographic Shocks, and Dowries in Florence, 1250-1450"
Maristella Botticini (maristel@bu.edu), March 2006

 

17) "A Note on Financial Frictions and Risky Corporate
Debt in Relation to Cooley and Quadrini (2001)
"

Doriana Ruffino (rdoriana@bu.edu), Jonathan Treussard (jtreussa@bu.edu), March 2006

 

16) "An Analytical Evaluation of the Log-periodogram Estimate in the Presence of Level Shift and its Implications for Stock Returns Volatility"
Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), Zhongjun Qu, March 2006

 

15) "Moonlighting: Public Service and Private Practice"
Gary Biglaiser, Ching-To Albert Ma (ma@bu.edu), March 2006

 

14) "Optimal Mechanism for Selling Substitutes"
Gregory Pavlov (gpavlov@bu.edu), Februrary 2006

 

13) Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-country Analysis of Gender Gaps"
Claudia Olivetti (olivetti@bu.edu), Barbara Petrongolo, Februrary 2006

 

12) Estimating Deterministic Trends with an Integrated or Stationary Noise Component"
Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), Tomoyoshi Yabu, February 2006

 

11) "A Modified Information Criterion for Cointegration Tests based on a VAR Approximation"
Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), February 2006

 

10) "A Simple Modification to Improve the Finite Sample Properties of Ng and Perron's Unit Root Tests"
Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), Zhongjun Qu, February 2006

 

09) "The Marginal Worker and the Aggregate Elasticity of Labor Supply"
Francois Gourio (fgourio@bu.edu), Pierre-Alexandre Noual, February 2006

 

08) "Education and Labor-Market Discrimination"
Kevin Lang (lang@bu.edu), Michael Manove (manove@bu.edu), February 2006

 

07) "Network Size and Network Capture"
Gerard Llobet, Michael Manove (manove@bu.edu), February 2006

 

06) "Asymmetric Information from Physician Agency: Optimal Payment and Healthcare Quantity"
Philippe Chone, Ching-To Albert Ma (ma@bu.edu), Feburary 2006

 

05) "Firms’ Heterogeneous Sensitivities to the Business Cycle,
and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
"

Francois Gourio (fgourio@bu.edu), February 2006

 

04) "The Limit Distribution of the CUSUM of Squares Test Under General Mixing Conditions"
Ai Deng, Pierre Perron (perron@bu.edu), Februrary 2006

 

03) "Switching Costs in Infinitely Repeated Games"
Ruqu Wang, Barton L. Lipman (blipman@bu.edu), January 2006

 

02) "An Empirical Analysis of Payment Card Usage"
Marc Rysman (mrysman@bu.edu), January 2006

 

01) "Predictability and Predictiveness in Health Care Spending"
Randall P. Ellis (ellisrp@bu.edu), Thomas G. McGuire, January 2006

 

 
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May 19 2009