Research Papers

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Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men?

Grantee paper | By Julie Nelson | Sep 2012

While a substantial literature in economics and finance has concluded that women are more risk averse than men, this conclusion merits reconsideration.

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Is Dismissing the Precautionary Principle the Manly Thing to Do? Gender and the Economics of Climate Change

Grantee paper | By Julie Nelson | Sep 2012

Many public debates about climate change now focus on the economic “costs” of taking action.

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Fat-Tail Distributions and Business-Cycle Models

Grantee paper | By Giorgio Fagiolo, Andrea Roventini, and Guido Ascari | Sep 2012

Recent empirical findings suggest that macroeconomic variables are seldom normally distributed.

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Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? Implications for Teaching about Gender, Behavior, and Economics

Grantee paper | By Julie Nelson | Sep 2012

Would having more women in leadership have prevented the financial crisis?

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Chartbook of Economic Inequality: 25 Countries 1911-2010

Grantee paper | By Tony Atkinson and Salvatore Morelli | Sep 2012

The purpose of this Chartbook is to present a summary of evidence about changes in economic inequality – primarily income, earnings, and wealth – for 25 countries covering a 100 year period from 1911 to 2010.

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The Pricing Effects of Ambiguous Private Information

Grantee paper | By Scott Condie and Jayant V. Ganguli | Sep 2012

Ambiguous private information leads to informational inefficiency of asset prices in rational expectations equilibrium.

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Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination

Grantee paper | By Julie Nelson | Oct 2012

Contemporary mainstream economics has widely “poisoned the well” from which people get their ideas about the relationship between economics and ethics.

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Conventions and the European Periphery

Grantee paper | By Stephen Kinsella | Nov 2012

The European periphery is qualitatively dierent from the core.

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Time Series Forecasting: Model Evaluation and Selection Using Nonparametric Risk Bounds

Grantee paper | By Daniel McDonald, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Schervish | Nov 2012

We derive generalization error bounds — bounds on the expected inaccuracy of the predictions — for traditional time series forecasting models.

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Modeling Moments of Crisis: The Case of Ireland

Grantee paper | By Stephen Kinsella and Gnanonobodom Tiou-Tagba Aliti | Nov 2012

Ireland has experienced a series of interlocking banking, fiscal, unemployment and political crises since 2007.

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Aggregate Demand, Instability, and Growth

Grantee paper | By Steven Fazzari, Pietro E. Ferri, and Edward Greenberg | Feb 2013

This paper considers a puzzle in growth theory from a Keynesian perspective.

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The Inevitability of Shadowy Banking

Grantee paper | By Edward J. Kane | Mar 2013

Shadowy banking is safety-net arbitrage. It employs substitutes for products and activities performed within the traditional banking sector.

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If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?

Grantee paper | By Diego Comin and Martí Mestieri | Mar 2013

We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted.

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Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences

Grantee paper | By Diego Comin and Martí Mestieri | Apr 2013

This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the diffusion of technologies, and how have they changed over time; what are the key drivers of technology, and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology.

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From Green Users to Green Voters

Grantee paper | By Diego Comin and Johannes Rode | Jun 2013

We estimate the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party.

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