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Deposit Collecting: Unbundling the Role of Frequency, Salience, and Habit Formation in Generating Savings

By Suresh de Mel, Craig McIntosh, and Christopher Woodruff

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

We report on a field experiment using several methods for collecting deposits made in formal bank accounts in rural areas in Sri Lanka. We find that only frequent, face-to-face collection increases aggregate household savings. Collection involving communi...

The Effects of Monetary Policy on Stock Market Bubbles: Some Evidence

By Jordi 骋补濒铆 and Luca Gambetti

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2015

We estimate the response of stock prices to monetary policy shocks using a time-varying coefficients VAR. Our evidence points to protracted episodes in which stock prices end up increasing persistently in response to an exogenous tightening of monetary po...

New York City Cab Drivers' Labor Supply Revisited: Reference-Dependent Preferences with Rational-Expectations Targets for Hours and Income

By Vincent P. Crawford and Juanjuan Meng

蝌蚪网 Review, August 2011

This paper proposes a model of cab drivers' labor supply, building on Henry S. Farber's (2005, 2008) empirical analyses and Botond Koszegi and Matthew Rabin's (2006; henceforth "KR") theory of reference-dependent preferences. Following KR, our model has t...

Measuring the Efficiency of an FCC Spectrum Auction

By Jeremy T. Fox and Patrick Bajari

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, February 2013

We propose a method to structurally estimate the deterministic component of bidder valuations in FCC spectrum auctions, and apply it to the 1995-1996 C block auction. We base estimation on a pairwise stability condition: two bidders cannot exchange two li...

Are the Non-monetary Costs of Energy Efficiency Investments Large? Understanding Low Take-Up of a Free Energy Efficiency Program

By Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone, and Catherine Wolfram

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2015

We document very low take-up of an energy efficiency program that is widely believed to be privately beneficial. Program participants receive a substantial home "weatherization" retrofit; all installation and equipment costs are covered by the program. Le...

Imperfect Public Monitoring with Costly Punishment: An Experimental Study

By Attila Ambrus and Ben Greiner

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2012

This paper experimentally investigates the effects of a costly punishment option on cooperation and social welfare in long, finitely repeated public good contribution games. In a perfect monitoring environment, increasing the severity of the potential p...

A Continuous Dilemma

By Daniel Friedman and Ryan Oprea

蝌蚪网 Review, February 2012

We study prisoners' dilemmas played in continuous time with flow payoffs accumulated over 60 seconds. In most cases, the median rate of mutual cooperation is about 90 percent. Control sessions with repeated matchings over eight subperiods achieve less tha...

Ascending Prices and Package Bidding: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis

By John H. Kagel, Yuanchuan Lien, and Paul Milgrom

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, August 2010

We use theory and experiment to explore the performance of multi-round, price-guided, combinatorial auctions. We define efficiency-relevant and core-relevant packages and show that if bidders bid aggressively on these and losing bidders bid to their limit...

Creating a Smarter U.S. Electricity Grid

[Symposium: Energy Challenges]

By Paul L. Joskow

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2012

This paper focuses on efforts to build what policymakers call the "smart grid," involving 1) improved remote monitoring and automatic and remote control of facilities in high-voltage electricity transmission networks; 2) improved remote monitoring, two-wa...

Saving Social Security

[Symposium: Social Security Reform]

By Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2005

Social Security is one of America's most successful government programs. It has helped millions of Americans avoid poverty in old age. To be sure, the program faces a long-term deficit and is in need of updating. But Social Security's long-term financial ...

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1998

Induced Innovation and Energy Prices

By David Popp

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2002

I use U.S. patent data from 1970 to 1994 to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy-efficient innovations. Using patent citations to construct a measure of the usefulness of the existing base of scientific knowledge, I consider the effect of both d...

Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

By Prashant Bharadwaj, Katrine Vellesen 尝酶办别苍, and Christopher Neilson

蝌蚪网 Review, August 2013

This paper studies the effect of improved early life health care on mortality and long-run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of...

The Labor Supply Effects of Delayed First Birth

By Jane Leber Herr

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2015

In this paper I compare the relationship between first-birth timing and post-birth labor supply for high school and college graduate mothers. Given that pre-birth wages are increasing in fertility delay, the rising opportunity cost of time would suggest t...

The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations

By Charles R. Plott and Kathryn Zeiler

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2005

We conduct experiments to explore the possibility that subject misconceptions, as opposed to a particular theory of preferences referred to as the "endowment effect," account for reported gaps between willingness to pay ("WTP") and willingness to accept (...

Airline Pricing, Price Dispersion, and Ticket Characteristics on and off the Internet

By Anirban Sengupta and Steven N. Wiggins

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, February 2014

This paper uses transaction data to investigate the effects of Internet purchase on airline fares. Our data include ticket characteristics, restrictions, flight load factors, and dates and channel of purchase. Controlling for ticket and flight characte...

The Growth of Temporary Services Work

By Lewis M. Segal and Daniel G. Sullivan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1997

Temporary services employment grew rapidly over the past several decades and now accounts for a sizable fraction of aggregate employment. The authors use Current Population Survey data to examine the changing nature of temporary work and discuss explanati...

The Financial Crisis: Lessons for International Macroeconomics

By Matthieu 叠耻蝉蝉颈猫谤别, Jean Imbs, Robert Kollmann, and Romain 搁补苍肠颈猫谤别

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2013

This article introduces a special section of the 蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, containing five papers presented during a conference in Paris in October 2011. The aim of the conference was to derive lessons from the financial crisis, for re...

Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship

By John R. Hamman, George Loewenstein, and Roberto A. Weber

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2010

Principal-agent relationships are typically assumed to be motivated by efficiency gains from comparative advantage. However, principals may also delegate tasks to avoid taking direct responsibility for selfish or unethical behavior. We report three labora...

Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia

By Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Marianne Bertrand, Leigh L. Linden, and Francisco Perez-Calle

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2011

Using a student level randomization, we compare three education-based conditional cash transfers designs: a standard design, a design where part of the monthly transfers are postponed until children have to re-enroll in school, and a design that lowers th...