Working Papers

Paper #	Author(s)	Title
20-004	Weilin Liu Robin Sickles Yao Zhao	Measuring Productivity Growth and Technology Spillovers through Global Value Chains: An Application to a US-Sino Decoupling
20-003	Robin Sickles Kai Sun Thomas P. Triebs	The optimal use of management
20-002	Roberto Mosheim Robin Sickles	Spatial Effects of Nutrient Pollution on Drinking Water Production
20-001	Shasha Liu Robin Sickles	The Agency Problem Revisited: A Structural Analysis of Managerial Productivity and CEO Compensation in Large U.S. Commercial Ban
19-009	Weilin Liu Robin Sickles	Industry-Specific Productivity and Spatial Spillovers through input-output linkages: evidence from Asia-Pacific Value Chain
19-008	Levent Kutlu Robin Sickles Mike G. Tsionas	Heterogeneous Decision-Making and Market Power
19-007	Hülya Eraslan Kirill S. Evdokimov	Legislative and Multilateral Bargaining
19-006	Elisabeth Gugl George Zodrow	Tax Competition and the Efficiency of “Benefit-Related” Business Taxes
19-005	Cinzia Daraio Kristiaan Kerstens Thyago Nepomuceno Robin Sickles	Empirical Surveys of Frontier Applications: A Meta-Review
19-004	Anthony Glass Karligash Kenjegalieva Robin Sickles Thomas Weyman-Jones	An Overview of Issues in Measuring the Performance of National Economies
19-003	Binlei Gong Robin Sickles	Resource Allocation in Multi-divisional Multi-product Firms
19-002	Jaepil Han Robin Sickles	Estimation of Industry-level Productivity with Cross-sectional Dependence by Using Spatial Analysis
19-001	Bolun Li Robin Sickles Jenny Williams	Estimating Peer Effects on Career Choice: A Spatial Multinomial Logit Approach
18-012	Anders Isaksson Chenjun Shang Robin Sickles	Non-structural Analysis of Productivity Growth for the Industrialized Countries: A Jackknife Model Averaging Approach
18-011	Alexandros Leontitsis Dionisis Philippas Robin Sickles Panagiotis Tziogkidis	Evaluating countries’ innovation potential: an international perspective
18-010	Gary D. Ferrier Andrew L. Johnson Kevin Layer Robin Sickles	Direction Selection in Stochastic Directional Distance Functions
18-009	Aditi Bhattacharyya Levent Kutlu Robin Sickles	Pricing Inputs and Outputs: Market prices versus shadow prices, market power, and welfare analysis
18-008	Robin Sickles Wonho Song Valentin Zelenyuk	Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R
18-007	Devin Garcia Levent Kutlu Robin Sickles	Market Structures in Production Economics
18-006	Levent Kutlu Shasha Liu Robin Sickles	Cost, Revenue, and Profit Function Estimates
18-005	Dong Ding Robin Sickles	Frontier Efficiency, Capital Structure, and Portfolio Risk: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Banks
18-004	Dong Ding Robin Sickles	Capital Regulation, Efficiency, and Risk Taking: A Spatial Panel Analysis of U.S. Banks
18-003	Anthony J. Glass Karligash Kenjegalieva Robin Sickles Thomas Weyman-Jones	The Spatial Efficiency Multiplier and Common Correlated Effects in a Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model
18-002	Binlei Gong Robin Sickles	Resource Allocation in Multi-divisional Multi-product Firms
18-001	Ying Chen Hülya Eraslan	Learning While Setting Precedents
17-002	Hülya Eraslan Xun Tang	Identification and Estimation of Large Network Games with Private Link Information
17-001	Hülya Eraslan Saltuk Özertürk	Information Gatekeeping and Media Bias
16-003	Binlei Gong Robin Sickles	Non-Structural and Structural Models in Productivity Analysis: Study of the British Isles during the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
16-002	Morakinyo Adetutux Victor Ajayiz Anthony J. Glass Karligash Kenjegalievay Robin Sickles	Relative Winners and Losers from Efficiency Spillovers in Africa with Policy Implications for Regional Integration
16-001	Margaret K. McKeehan George Zodrow	Balancing Act: Weighing The Factors Affecting The Taxation of Capital Income in a Small Open Economy
15-023	Levent Kutlu Robin Sickles	Measuring Market Power When Firms Price Discriminate
15-022	Oualid Bada James Gualtieri Alois Kneip Robin Sickles	A Novel Method for Panel Models with Jump Discontinuities in the Parameters: An Application to the Impact of Algorithmic Trading
15-021	Robin Sickles Ximing Wu	Semiparametric Estimation under Shape Constraints
15-020	Michael Naaman Robin Sickles	The Volcano Distribution with an Application to Stock Market Returns
15-019	Jiaqi Hao Chenjun Shang Robin Sickles	Productivity Measurement, Model Averaging, and World Trends in Growth and Inequality
15-018	Jiaqi Hao Chenjun Shang Robin Sickles	Panel Data and Productivity Measurement
15-017	Yeşim Üçdoğruk Gürel Aliye Atay Kayış Yılmaz Kılıçaslan Robin Sickles	Impact of ICT on the Productivity of the Firm: Evidence from Turkish Manufacturing
15-016	Hulusi Inanoglu Michael Jacobs, Jr. Junrong Liu Robin Sickles	Analyzing Bank Efficiency: Are “too-big-to-fail” Banks Efficient?
15-015	Jaepil Han Deockhyun Ryu Robin Sickles	How to Measure Spillover Effects of Public Capital Stock: A Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model
15-014	Anthony J. Glass Karligash Kenjegalievay Robin Sickles	A Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model for Panel Data with Asymmetric Efficiency Spillovers
15-013	Rolf Färe Shawna Grosskopf Chenjun Shang Robin C. Sickles	Pricing Characteristics: An Application of Shephard’s Dual Lemma
15-012	Meryem Dugan Mohamed Shaban Robin C. Sickles Thomas Weyman-Jones	How regulatory capital requirement affects banks’ productivity: An application to emerging economies’ banks
15-011	Meryem Duygun Jiaqi Hao Anders Isaksson Robin C. Sickles	World Productivity Growth: A Model Averaging Approach
15-010	Meryem Duygun Levent Kutlu Robin C. Sickles	Measuring Productivity and Efficiency: A Kalman Filter Approach
15-009	Yoosoon Chang Robin C. Sickles Wonho Song	Bootstrapping Unit Root Tests with Covariates
15-008	Pavlos Almanidis Giannis Karagiannis Robin C. Sickles	Semi-nonparametric Spline Modifications to the Cornwell-Schmidt-Sickles Estimator: An Analysis of U.S. Banking Productivity
15-007	Antonio Merlo Aureo de Paula	Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological
15-006	Pavlos Almanidis Robin C. Sickles	Banking Crises, Early Warning Models, and Efficiency
15-005	Antonio Merlo Xun Tang	Bargaining with Optimism: A Structural Analysis of Medical Malpractice Litigation
15-004	Antonio Merlo Kenneth Wolpin	The Transition from School to Jail: Youth Crime and High School Completion Among Black Males
15-003	T. Renee Bowen Ying Chen Hülya Eraslan Jan Zapal	Efficiency of Flexible Budgetary Institutions (revised)
15-002	Ying Chen Hülya Eraslan	Dynamic Agenda Setting
15-001	Hülya Eraslan	Uniqueness of Stationary Equilibrium Payoffs in the Baron-Ferejohn Model with Risk Averse Players
14-031	T. Renee Bowen Ying Chen Hülya Eraslan Jan Zápal	Efficiency of Flexible Budgetary Institutions
14-030	Hülya Eraslan Gizem Koşar Wenli Li Pierre-Daniel Sarte	An Anatomy of U.S. Personal Bankruptcy under Chapter 13
14-029	Hülya Eraslan Tymofiy Mylovanov Bilge Yilmaz	Deliberation and Security Design in Bankruptcy
14-028	Peter R. Hartley	Wind Power in the United States: Prospects and Consequences
14-027	Peter R. Hartley	Real Estate Values, Air Pollution and Homeowner Perceptions: A Hedonic Study
14-026	Peter R. Hartley Kenneth B. Medlock III Jennifer Rosthal	Electricity Sector Demand for Natural Gas in the United States
14-025	Peter R. Hartley Kenneth B. Medlock III	HVDC Transmission and Solar Power in the US Southwest
14-024	Jorge Gonzalez-Gomez Peter R. Hartley	Nuclear Power Trends in the World
14-023	Peter R. Hartley Kenneth B. Medlock III	The Role of Nuclear Power in Enhancing Japan’s Energy Security
14-022	Peter R. Hartley	The Future of Long-term LNG Contracts
14-021	Peter R. Hartley Kenneth B. Medlock III	The Valley of Death for New Energy Technologies
14-020	Chao Fu Kenneth Wolpin	Structural Estimation of a Becker-Ehrlich Equilibrium Model of Crime: Allocating Police Across Cities to Reduce Crime
14-019	Jere Behrman Susan Parker Petra Todd Kenneth Wolpin	Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools
14-018	Frank Schorfheide Kenneth Wolpin	To Hold Out or Not To Hold Out
14-017	Petra E. Todd Kenneth Wolpin	Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom
14-016	François Ortalo-Margné John Rust	The Home Selling Problem: Theory and Evidence
14-015	Thomas R. Palfrey	External Validation of Voter Turnout Models by Concealed Parameter Recovery
14-014	Richard Boylan	Power to the People: Does Ownership Type Influence Electricity Service?
14-013	Elisabeth Gugl George Zodrow	Tax Competition and the Efficiency of "Benefit- Related" Business Taxes
14-012	Elisabeth Gugl George Zodrow	Tax Competition, Local Infrastructure, and Business Taxation: A Comparison of Different Tax Instruments
14-011	John W. Diamond George Zodrow	The Dynamic Effects of Eliminating or Curtailing the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
14-010	Charles E. McLure, Jr. Jack Mintz George Zodrow	US Supreme Court Unanimously Chooses Substance over Form in Foreign Tax Credit Case: Implications of the PPL Decision for the Cr
14-009	Peter Hartley Ted Loch-Temzelides Kenneth B. Medlock III Xinya Zhang	Energy Sector Innovation and Growth
14-008	Ted Loch-Temzelides Cyril Monnet	Monetary Emissions Trading Mechanisms
14-007	Bernardino Adao Ted Loch-Temzelides Borghan Narajabad	Renewable Technology Adoption and the Macroeconomy
14-006	Xin Li Ted Loch-Temzelides Borghan Narajabad	Robust Optimal Taxation and Environmental Externalities
14-005	Peter Hartley Ted Loch-Temzelides Kenneth B. Medlock III Xinya Zhang	Local Employment Impact from Competing Energy Sources: Shale Gas versus Wind Generation in Texas
14-004	Mark Agerton Peter Hartley Ted Loch-Temzelides Kenneth B. Medlock III	Employment Impacts of Upstream Oil and Gas Investment in the United States
14-003	Yao Luo Isabelle Perrigne Quang Vuong	Structural Analysis of Nonlinear Pricing
14-002	Andrea Mattozzi	Mediocracy
14-001	Hülya Eraslan	Some Unpleasant Bargaining Arithmetic?