Working Papers

Paper # Author(s) Title
22-001
  • Weilin Liu
  • Qian Cheng
  • Robin C. Sickles
Productivity Growth and Spillovers across European Industries: A Global Value Chain Perspective Based on EURO KLEMS
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?