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2009
w15481 Wei Xiong
Jialin Yu

The Chinese Warrants Bubble

w15453 John List
Charles Mason

Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?

w15420 John A. List
The Economics of Open Air Markets

w15339 Philip Oreopoulos
Kjell G. Salvanes

How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything

w15298 Stefano DellaVigna
Matthew Gentzkow

Persuasion: Empirical Evidence

w15297 Lasse Heje Pedersen
When Everyone Runs for the Exit

w15246 Raj Chetty
The Simple Economics of Salience and Taxation

w15242 Rajkamal Iyer
Asim Ijaz Khwaja
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Kelly Shue

Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?

w15184 Stefano DellaVigna
Joshua M. Pollet

Capital Budgeting vs. Market Timing: An Evaluation Using Demographics

w15175 Bo Becker
Zoran Ivkovich
Scott Weisbenner

Local Dividend Clienteles

w15139 Bruce Ian Carlin
Simon Gervais
Gustavo Manso

When Does Libertarian Paternalism Work?

w15084 Nicola Gennaioli
Andrei Shleifer

What Comes to Mind

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

w15049 Robert B. Barsky
Eric R. Sims

Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence

w15038 Vincent Glode
Burton Hollifield
Marcin Kacperczyk
Shimon Kogan

Is Investor Rationality Time Varying? Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry

w15016 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

w14987 John Cawley
Joshua A. Price

Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss

w14969 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

w14958 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Maitreesh Ghatak
Jeanne Lafortune

Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

w14955 Bruce Ian Carlin
David T. Robinson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Evidence from Blackjack Tables

w14954 Bruce Ian Carlin
Gustavo Manso

Obfuscation, Learning, and the Evolution of Investor Sophistication

w14947 Nicholas C. Barberis
A Model of Casino Gambling

w14943 Andrei Shleifer
Robert W. Vishny

Unstable Banking

w14859 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

w14813 Ulrike Malmendier
Stefan Nagel

Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?

w14764 Roland Bénabou
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

w14659 Sumit Agarwal
Paige M. Skiba
Jeremy Tobacman

Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?

w14646 Lubos Pastor
Pietro Veronesi

Learning in Financial Markets


2008
w14612 Markus K. Brunnermeier
Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08

w14578 Justine S. Hastings
Ebonya L. Washington

The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

w14574 Zhiguo He
Wei Xiong

Multi-market Delegated Asset Management

w14508 Ernesto Dal Bó
Marko Terviö

Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing

w14507 John F. Helliwell
Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development

w14500 Benjamin Chabot
Eric Ghysels
Ravi Jagannathan

Price Momentum In Stocks: Insights From Victorian Age Data

w14473 Markus K. Brunnermeier
Stefan Nagel
Lasse H. Pedersen

Carry Trades and Currency Crashes

w14465 Amir E. Khandani
Andrew W. Lo

What Happened To The Quants In August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data

w14440 Nicholas C. Barberis
Wei Xiong

Realization Utility

w14406 Jessica Cohen
Pascaline Dupas

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment

w14396 Charles F. Manski
Partial Prescriptions For Decisions With Partial Knowledge

w14378 William A. Brock
Charles F. Manski

Competitive Lending with Partial Knowledge of Loan Repayment

w14359 Lawrence H. Summers
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Policymaking for Posterity

w14358 Gary B. Gorton
The Panic of 2007

w14356 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

w14353 Christopher F. Chabris
David Laibson
Carrie L. Morris
Jonathon P. Schuldt
Dmitry Taubinsky

Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times

w14330 Jeffrey Liebman
Richard Zeckhauser

Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies

w14319 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w14302 Julio J. Rotemberg
Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

w14278 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Long Term Persistence

w14270 Christopher F. Chabris
David Laibson
Carrie L. Morris
Jonathon P. Schuldt
Dmitry Taubinsky

Individual Laboratory-Measured Discount Rates Predict Field Behavior

w14228 Markus K. Brunnermeier
Filippos Papakonstantinou
Jonathan A. Parker

An Economic Model of the Planning Fallacy

w14177 Laurent E. Calvet
John Y. Campbell
Paolo Sodini

Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors

w14140 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate

Superstar CEOs

w14111 Robin Greenwood
Stefan Nagel

Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles

w14087 Robin Greenwood
Samuel Hanson
Jeremy C. Stein

A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice

w14083 Christopher J. Mayer
Karen Pence

Subprime Mortgages: What, Where, and to Whom?

w14078 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Cagri Kumru

Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges

w14074 C. Fritz Foley
Welfare Payments and Crime

w13976 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How are Preferences Revealed?

w13973 Lauren Cohen
Andrea Frazzini
Christopher Malloy

Sell Side School Ties

w13962 Robert J. Shiller
Derivatives Markets for Home Prices

w13929 Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data

w13923 Muriel Niederle
Carmit Segal
Lise Vesterlund

How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

w13922 Muriel Niederle
Alexandra H. Yestrumskas

Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions

w13907 Roland Bénabou
Ideology

w13896 Hanno Lustig
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Adrien Verdelhan

The Wealth-Consumption Ratio

w13884 Woodrow T. Johnson
James M. Poterba

Taxes and Mutual Fund Inflows Around Distribution Dates

w13873 Li Gan
Roberto Mosquera

An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Typers

w13822 Sumit Agarwal
John C. Driscoll
Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson

Learning in the Credit Card Market

w13763 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Ben Marx
David Rapson

To Roth or Not? -- That is the Question

w13762 Malcolm Baker
Robin Greenwood
Jeffrey Wurgler

Catering Through Nominal Share Prices

w13755 Julio J. Rotemberg
Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

w13754 Julio J. Rotemberg
Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

w13748 Jeffrey R. Brown
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Marian V. Wrobel

Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle

w13728 Daniel Rondeau
John A. List

Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

w13727 Uri Gneezy
Kenneth L. Leonard
John A. List

Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

w13724 Xavier Gabaix
Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance

w13718 Gordon Dahl
Stefano DellaVigna

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?


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