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SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-047
Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice
M. Kate Bundorf, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neale Mahoney
June 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-046
Further Results on a Black Swan in the Money Market
John B. Taylor and John C. Williams
May 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-044
Insurance Policies for Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
Keith Kuester and Volker Wieland
May 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-045
Beyond the Market Advisory Committee: Proceedings from a Workshop held at Stanford University, January 15, 2008
Charles D. Kolstad, Oren Ahoobim, Nick Burger, Corbett Grainger, and Shaun McRae
April 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-041
Stiff Competition: Vertical Relationships in Cremation Services
Lori Parcel
March 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-038
Cooperation and Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Communities
Juan F. Escobar
March 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-037
Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?
Matthias Doepke and Michèle Tertilt
March 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-036
Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of U.S. Copyright Legislation
Paul A. David and Jared Rubin
March 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-034
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic Development
Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann
March 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-035
Economic Projections and Rules-of-Thumb for Monetary Policy
Athanasios Orphanides and Volker Wieland
February 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-042
Preferences and Choice Constraints in Marital Sorting: Evidence From Korea
Soohyung Lee
January 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-040
Understanding the Income Gradient in College Attendance in Mexico: The Role of Heterogeneity in Expected Returns to Colleg
Katja Maria Kaufmann
January 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-039
Brazilian Ethanol: A Gift or Threat to the Environment and Regional Development?
Sriniketh Nagavarapu
January 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-033
"Only Connect": Academic-Business Research Collaborations and the Formation of Ecologies of Innovation
Paul A. David and J. Stanley Metcalfe
January 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-032
Low-Income Demand for Local Telephone Service: Effects of Lifeline and Linku
Daniel A. Ackerberg, Michael H. Riordan, Gregory L. Rosston, and Bradley S. Wimmer
January 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-028
CEO Compensation for Major US Companies in 2006
Samia El Baroudy, Ruth Levine and Ling Shao
January 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-027
Why Media Regulation is so Tempting
Bruce M. Owen
January 2008
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-031
Beyond Revealed Preference Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel
December 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-025
Cohort Effects in Wages and Promotions
Illoong Kwon and Eva Meyersson Milgrom
December 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-024
“It Takes All Kinds”: A Simulation Modelling Perspective on Motivation and Coordination in Libre Software Development Projects
Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul A. David
December 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-023
Designing Institutional Infrastructure for E-Science
Paul A. David and Michael Spence
December 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-022
Dynamics of Innovation in an “Open Source” Collaboration Environment: Lurking, Laboring and Launching FLOSS Projects on SourceForge
Paul A. David and Francesco Rullani
December 2007
This paper is an extensive revision of Discussion paper No. 06-005, which it replaces
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-043
Evaluating Skilled Experts: Optimal Scoring Rules for Surgeons
Kyna Fong
November 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-020
Do R&D tax credits work? Evidence from a panel of countries 1979–1997
Nicholas Bloom, Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen
November 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-019
Understanding an Emergent Diversity of Corporate Governance and Organizational Architecture: An Essentiality-Based Analysis
Masahiko Aoki and Gregory Jackson
October 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-018
Linking Economic and Social-Exchange Games: From the Community Norm to CSR
Masahiko Aoki
October 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-017
The Economic Significance of Executive Order 13422
Roger G. Noll
October 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-008
Simplified Mechanisms with Applications to Sponsored Search and Package Auctions
Paul Milgrom
October 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-016
News and Business Cycles in Open Economies
Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo
September 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-009
Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Increased U.S. Gasoline Taxes
Lawrence H. Goulder
September 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-005
Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment
Anusha Chari and Peter Blair Henry
August 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-004
Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation
Peter Blair Henry
September 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-003
Housing and Monetary Policy
John B. Taylor
September 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-002
Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes and Competition from the Internet
Austan Goolsbee, Michael Lovenheim and Joel Slemrod
September 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-030
Social Image and the 50-50 Norm A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects
James Andreoni and B. Douglas Bernheim
August 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-001
U.S. Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim, from Fordney- McCumber to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962: A Political-Economic Analysis
Lei (Sandy) Ye
August 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-046
Designing an Effective Program of State-Sponsored Human Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
Roger G. Noll
June 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-045
Rational Diverse Beliefs and Economic Volatility
Mordecai Kurz
August 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-044
Diverse Beliefs and Time Variability of Risk Premia
Mordecai Kurz and Maurizio Motolese
August 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-043
Understanding the Increased Time to the Baccalaureate Degree
John Bound, Michael F. Lovenheim and Sarah Turner
August 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-040
How Far to the Border?: The Extent and Impact of Cross-Border Casual Cigarette Smuggling
Michael F. Lovenheim
August 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-007
State-Dependent or Time-Dependent Pricing: Does It Matter for Recent U.S. Inflation?
Peter J. Klenow and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
July 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-006
Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
Chang-Tai Hsieh and Peter J. Klenow
July 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-042
A Test of Confidence Enhanced Performance: Evidence from US College Debaters
Jonathan Meer and Edward D. Van Wesep
July 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-041
How Much do Real Estate Brokers Add? A Case Study
B. Douglas Bernheim and Jonathan Meer
July 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-039
Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Towards Linking Policy Research and Practice in ‘STIG Systems’
Philippe Aghion, Paul A. David and Dominique Foray
July 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-038
THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF ‘OPEN SCIENCE’
Paul A. David
June 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-029
A Solution Concept for Majority Rule in Dynamic Settings
B. Douglas Bernheim and Sita Nataraj Slavov
May 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-036
The Value of Intellectual Property Rights to Firms
Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers
May 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-035
Priorities for Telecommunications Reform in Mexico
Roger G. Noll
May 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-026
Status, Relative Pay, and Wage Growth: Evidence from M&A
Illoong Kwon and Eva Meyersson Milgrom
April 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-037
When Should Control Be Shared?
Eva Meyersson Milgrom, Paul Milgrom, and Ravi Singh
April 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-032
China’s Competition Policy Reforms: The Antimonopoly Law and Beyond
Bruce M. Owen, Su Sun, Wentong Zheng
April 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-013
Firm Dynamics, Markup Variations, and the Business Cycle
Nir Jaimovich
March 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-012
Income Effects and Indeterminacy in a Calibrated One-Sector Growth Model
Nir Jaimovich
March 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-010
The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility
Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu
March 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-034
Trade Marks and Performance in UK Firms: Evidence of Schumpeterian Competition through Innovation
Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers
March 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-029
The Causes and Consequences of Ballot Order-Effects
Marc Meredith and Yuval Salant
February 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-027
A Multi-Dimensional Signaling Model of Campaign Finance
Brendan Daley and Erik Snowberg
February 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-025
The Effect of Employer-Provided General Training on Turnover: Examination of Tuition Reimbursement Programs
Colleen N. Flaherty
February 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-024
Separating Psychological Costs from Time Costs: Female Labor Supply and Participation in Food Stamps and WIC
Colleen Flaherty and Kevin Mumford
February 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-019
Optimal Payment Cards Fees
Assaf Eilat
February 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-016
BROADCASTING AND TEAM SPORTS
Roger Noll
February 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-015
The Net Neutrality Debate: Twenty Five Years after United States v. AT&T and 120 Years after the Act to Regulate Commerce
Bruce M. Owen
February 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-021
Uncertainty and the Dynamics of R&D
Nicholas Bloom
January 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-033
Isolating the Causal Impact of Community College Enrollment on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes in Texas
Darwin W Miller, III
January 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-031
Who Cares for the Elderly? Intrafamily Resource Allocation and Migration in Mexico
Francisca Antman
January 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-020
The Optimal Tax Treatment of Families with Children
Kevin J. Mumford
January 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-026
Cyclical Wage Movements in Emerging Markets Compared to Developed Economies: A Contractual Approach
Nan Li
January 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-022
Price Control In Franchised Chains: The Case Of McDonald's Dollar Menu
Itai Ater and Oren Rigbi
January 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-030
All-Pay Contests
Qingmin Liu
December 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-023
All-Pay Contests
Ron Siegel
December 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-021
Implicit Social Security Tax Rates over the Life Cycle
Gopi Shah Goda
December 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-017
The Effect of Access Regulation on Broadband Deployment
Amitay Alter
December 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-028
Economics of Patent Pools When Some (but not all) Patents are Essential
Daniel Quint
November 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-018
Selling to Overconfident Consumers
Michael D.Grubb
November 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-014
Growth and Poverty Reduction Under Globalization: The Systematic Impact of Exchange Rate Misalignment
Yasuyuki Sawada and Pan A. Yotopoulos
December 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-013
Are Burdensome Registration Procedures an Important Barrier on Firm Creation? Evidence from Mexico
David Kaplan, Eduardo Piedra and Enrique Seira
December 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-005
Micro-dynamics of Free and Open Source Software Development: Lurking, laboring and launching new projects on SourceForge
Paul A. David and Francesco Rullani
December 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-011
SPORTS ECONOMICS AT FIFTY
Roger G. Noll
November 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-010
EUROPE’S UNIVERSITIES AND INNOVATION -- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Paul David
March 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-015
Behavioral Theories of the Business Cycle
Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo
October 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-011
Firm Dynamics and Markup Variations: Implications for Sunspot Equilibria and Endogenous Economic Fluctuation
Nir Jaimovich
October 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-009
Linking Policy Research and Practice in ‘STIG Systems’: Many Obstacles, but Some Ways Forward
Philippe Aghion, Paul A. David and Dominique Foray
October 2006
This paper has been replaced by a revised and expanded version, Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Towards Linking Policy Research and Practice in ‘STIG Systems’, 06-039 -- July 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-008
PATH DEPENDENCE – A FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPT FOR HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Paul David
May 2005 (revised January 2007; extensive revision October 2006)
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-006
Mandatory versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell
October 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-004
Economic policy analysis and the Internet: Coming to terms with a telecommunications anomaly
Paul A. David
October 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-014
Can News About the Future Drive the Business Cycle?
Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo
September 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-003
Risk Premia, Diverse Belief and Beauty Contests
Mordecai Kurz and Maurizio Motolese
September 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-001
Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies
Igor Livshits, James MacGee, Michèle Tertilt
September 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-007
A Multi-dimensional View of the “Sustainability” of Free & Open Source Software Development - Sustaining Commitment, Innovation and Maintainability with Growth
Paul A. David
August 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-002
Beauty Contests Under Private Information and Diverse Beliefs: How Different?
Mordecai Kurz
August 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-021
Are Female Workers Less Productive
Than Male Workers?

Trond Petersen, Vemund Snartland, and Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom
August 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-020
Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Guillermina Jasso and Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom
August 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-019
The Evolution of High-Speed Internet Access 1995-2001
Gregory L. Rosston
August 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-012
Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and Risk Sharing: A Joint Test
Doireann Fitzgerald
July 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-018
Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States
Shane Greenstein
July 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-017
Appropriability and Commercialization: Evidence from MIT Inventions
Emmanuel Dechenaux, Brent Goldfarb, Scott Shane, Marie Thursby
June 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-016
Public Enforcement of Law
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell
May 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-015
Reflections on the Patent System and IPR Protection in the Past, Present and Future
Paul A. David
April 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-014
Whither Japan’s Corporate Governance?
Masahiko Aoki
March 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-013
Mechanisms of Endogenous Institutional Change
Masahiko Aoki
March 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-012
Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth
Mikhail Golosov, Larry E. Jones, and Michèle Tertilt
March 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-009
INCOME MOBILITY OF INDIVIDUALS IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES
Niny Khor and John Pencavel
February 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-008
Discrete Time Duration Models with Group–level Heterogeneity
Anders Frederiksen, Bo E. Honoré, and Luojia Hu
February 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-007
Rising Wage Inequality: Does the Return to Management Tell the Whole Story?
Anders Frederiksen and Odile Poulsen
February 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-010
VALUING CONSUMER PRODUCTS BY THE TIME SPENT USING THEM: AN APPLICATION TO THE INTERNET
Austan Goolsbee and Peter J. Klenow
January 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-006
The Impact of "Deregulation" on Regulator Behavior: An Empirical Analysis of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Gregory L. Rosston, Scott J. Savage, Bradley S. Wimmer
January 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-011
Digital Information Network Technologies, Organizational Performance and Productivity
Alexandre Caldas, Paul A. David, and Orges Ormanidhi
December 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-005
Economic Analysis of Law
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell
November 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-004
The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell
October 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-002
China’s New Exchange Rate Policy: Will China Follow Japan into a Liquidity Trap?
Ronald I. McKinnon
September 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-037
Corner Solutions, Crises, and Capital Controls: A Theory and an Empirical Analysis on the Optimal Exchange Rate Regime in Emerging Economies
Yasuyuki Sawada and Pan A. Yotopoulos
August 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-035
The Political Economy of Law: Decision-Making by Judicial, Legislative, Executive and Administrative Agencies
Mat McCubbins, Roger Noll, and Barry Weingast
August 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-034
Hyperbolic Discounting and Uniform Savings Floors
Benjamin A. Malin
August 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-036
A Life Cycle Perspective on Changes in Earnings Inequality Among Married Men and Women
John Pencavel
July 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-003
The Effects of Temptation on the Optimal Provision of Education
Soohyung Lee
June 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 05-001
Can the Modular Helium Reactor Compete in the Hydrogen Economy?
Geoffrey Rothwell
June 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-033
Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel
June 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-032
Production Targets
Guillermo Caruana and Liran Einav
June 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-031
Estimating Risk Preferences from Deductible Choice
Alma Cohen and Liran Einav
June 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-030
Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete too Much?
Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund
June 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-028
The Politics and Economics of Implementing State-Sponsored Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
Roger G. Noll
June 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-029
Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties: A Story of Increased Gender Inequality?
Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan
May 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-027
Innovation and Universities' Role In Commercializing Research Results: Second Thoughts about the Bayh-Dole Experiment
Paul A. David
May 2005
Replaced by updated version
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-010
EUROPE’S UNIVERSITIES AND INNOVATION -- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
March 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-023
Expectations, Bond Yields and Monetary Policy
Albert Lee Chun
May 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-022
PATH DEPENDENCE – A FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPT FOR HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Paul David
May 2005
replaced with paper 06-008 October 2006
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-021
Exchange Rate or Wage Changes in International Adjustment? Japan and China versus the United States
Ronald McKinnon
May 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-019
Firm Fragmentation and Urban Patterns
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Pierre-Daniel Sarte, and Raymond Owens
May 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-018
Choice From Lists
Ariel Rubinstein and Yuval Salant
May 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-017
The Economic Impact of Wireless Number Portability
Minjung Park
May 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-015
Corporate Board Structure, Managerial Self-Dealing, and Common Agency
Vinicius Carrasco
April 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-013
Monetary Union with Voluntary Participation
William Fuchs and Francesco Lippi
April 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-012
Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private Evaluations
William Fuchs
April 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-011
Consumer Bankruptcy: A Fresh Start
Igor Livshits, James MacGee and Michele Tertilt
April 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-010
Competition Policy in Emerging Economies
Bruce M. Owen
April 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-024
Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making with School Choice
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain, Steven G. Rivkin, and Gregory F. Branch
March 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-016
Retraining the Unemployed in a Matching Model with Turbulence
Felix Reichling
March 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-009
A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
March 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-008
"Buyer Power" and Economic Policy
Roger G. Noll
March 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-007
Communications Policy for 2005 and Beyond
Reed E. Hundt and Gregory L. Rosston
March 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-026
Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries
Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann
February 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-025
The Market for Teacher Quality
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain, Daniel M. O’Brien, and Steven G. Rivkin
February 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-006
Measuring the Ex-Ante Social Cost of Aggregate Volatility
Mordecai Kurz
February 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-020
Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy
Pol Antràs, Luis Garicano, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
January 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-014
Evidence on the Returns to Secondary Vocational Education
Jonathan Meer
January 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-004
Diverse Beliefs, Forecast Errors and Central Bank Policy
Mordecai Kurz
January 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-003
Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production
Jean-Michel Dalle, Paul A. David, Rishab A. Ghosh, and W.E. Steinmueller
December 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-002
Simulating Code Growth in Libre (Open-Source) Mode
Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul David
November 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-001
Towards a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific collaboration: Providing its ‘soft’ foundations may be the hardest part
Paul David
August 2004 Revised May 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-040
Antitrust in China: The Problem of Incentive Compatibility
Bruce M. Owen, Su Sun, Wentong Zheng
September 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-039
OptimalPatronage, Reputation, and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution: From Keeping ‘Nature’s Secrets’ to the Institutionalization of ‘Open Science’
Paul David
August 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-038
Optimal Fines and Auditing When Wealth is Costly to Observe
A. Mitchell Polinsky
August 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-037
The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment When Wealth is Unobservable
A. Mitchell Polinsky
August 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-036
The Lovely but Lonely Vickrey Auction
Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom
August 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-035
Ascending Proxy Auctions
Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom
August 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-034
The Clock-Proxy Auction: A Practical Combinatorial Auction Design
Lawrence M. Ausubel, Peter Cramton, and Paul Milgrom
August 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-032
A Flexible Economy? Entrepreneurship and Productivity in New Zealand
John McMillan
August 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-030
How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru
John McMillan and Pablo Zoido
July 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-033
Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush
Karen Clay and Gavin Wright
May 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-028
Faculty Retirement Incentives by Colleges and Universities
John Pencavel
May 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-027
Assigning Broadband Rights
Bruce M. Owen
May 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-025
Prediction Markets
Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz
April 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-023
Identifying Direct and Indirect Effects. Estimating the Costs of Motherhood Using Matching Estimators
Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper
April 2004 Revised August 2005
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-020
The Effects of the Electoral Regime on Trade Policy
John William Hatfield and William R. Hauk, Jr.
April 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-024
THE TALE OF TWO TRAVERSES Innovation and Accumulation in the First Two Centuries of U.S. Economic Growth
Paul A. David
March 2004
This paper has been replaced by a revised and expanded version, THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF ‘OPEN SCIENCE’, 06-038 -- June 2007
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-022
WThe Conflict Over Vertical Foreclosure In Competition Policy And Intellectual Property Law
Roger G. Noll
March 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-019
What Construction Cost Might Trigger New Nuclear Power Plant Orders?
Geoffrey Rothwell
March 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-007
Accounting for Stock Options
Jeremy Bulow and John B. Shoven
March 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 04-005
Cost Contingency as the Standard Deviation of the Cost Estimate for Cost Engineering
Geoffrey Rothwell
February 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-031
Profit Sharing and the Role of Professional Partnerships
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
February 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-009
Imported Antitrust Law: Steel or Slag? A Review Essay
Bruce M. Owen
February 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-018
The Effect of Napster on Recorded Music Sales: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Seung-Hyun Hong
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-017
Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Endogenous Tradability
Kanda Naknoi
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-016
Electricity Regulation in California and Input Market Distortions
Mark R. Jacobsen and Azeem M. Shaikh
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-015
Asymmetric Responses of Local Expenditures to Changes in Intergovernmental Grants
Jaime Calleja Alderete
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-014
Optimal Second Price Auctions with Positively Correlated Private Values and Limited Information
Dan Quint
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-011
Empirically evaluating two-sided integrated network effects: The case of electronic payments
Catherine Tucker
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-010
Improving Social Security’s Progressivity and Solvency With Hybrid Indexing
Robert Pozen, Sylvester J. Schieber, and John B. Shoven
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-008
Auctions, Matching and the Law of Aggregate Demand
John William Hatfield and Paul Milgrom
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-015
Asymmetric Responses of Local Expenditures to Changes in Intergovernmental Grants
Jaime Calleja Alderete
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-014
Optimal Second Price Auctions with Positively Correlated Private Values and Limited Information
Dan Quint
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-011
Empirically evaluating two-sided integrated network effects: The case of electronic payments
Catherine Tucker
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-010
Improving Social Security’s Progressivity and Solvency With Hybrid Indexing
Robert Pozen, Sylvester J. Schieber, and John B. Shoven
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-008
Auctions, Matching and the Law of Aggregate Demand
John William Hatfield and Paul Milgrom
January 2004
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-029
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: The European Experience
Avner Greif
2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-013
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Public College Quality and Higher Education Policies of U.S. States
Lei Zhang
December 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-006
Matching and Price Competition
Jeremy Bulow and Jonathan Levin
December 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-021
Fifty Years Of Economic Growth In Western Europe: No Longer Catching Up But Falling Behind?
Nicholas Crafts
November 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-012
How Effective are International Intellectual Property Laws? Evidence from Patenting Decisions in Agricultural Biotechnology
Phoebe Chan
November 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-005
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
November 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-004
Remedies For Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss Of Coupons And Discounts
A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
November 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-003
Competition Policy in Latin America
Bruce M. Owen
November 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-001
Determinants of Stock Market Volatility and Risk Premia
Mordecai Kurz, Hehui Jin and Maurizio Motolese
October 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 03-002
Private Capital Flows and Default Risk
Mark L.J. Wright
September 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-045
Zvi Griliches on Diffusion, Lags and Productivity Growth …Conecting the Dots
Paul A. David
August 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-044
Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results
Justin Wolfers
August 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-043
The Organization of Sports Leagues
Roger G. Noll
August 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-040
Urban Structure and Growth
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Mark L. J. Wright
August 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-042
Can ‘Open Science’ be Protected from the Evolving Regime of IPR Protections?
Paul A. David
July 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-041
Auctions versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis
Patrick Bajari, Robert McMillan and Steven Tadelis
July 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-037
Local Broadband Access: Primum Non Nocere or Primum Processi? A Property Rights Approach
Bruce M. Owen and Gregory L. Rosston
July 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-034
The Role of Expectations in Economic Fluctuations and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy
Mordecai Kurz and Hehui Jin
July 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-039
A Spatial Theory of Trade
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
June 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-038
Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy
Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
June 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-033
Disagreement about Inflation Expectations
N. Gregory Mankiw, Ricardo Reis, and Justin Wolfers
June 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-032
Legal Reform, Externalities and Economic Development: Measuring the Impact of Legal Aid on Poor Women in Ecuador
Bruce M. Owen and Jorge Portillo
May 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-031
Regulatory Reform: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the FCC Media Ownership Rules
Bruce M. Owen
May 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-030
The Economic Logic of “Open Science” and the Balance between Private Property Rights and the Public Domain in Scientific Data and Information: A Primer
Paul A. David
March 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-029
Koyaanisqatsi in Cyberspace
Paul A. David
March 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-028
What do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?
Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz
March 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-026
Coordinated Interaction and Clayton §7 Enforcement
Stuart D. Gurrea and Bruce. M Owen
March 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-036
Gross Seasonality and Underlying Seasonality: Evidence from the U.S. Motion Picture Industry
Liran Einav
February 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-035
A Theory of Endogenous Commitment
Guillermo Caruana and Liran Einav
February 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-027
The Allocation of Software Development Resources in ‘Open Source’ Production Mode
Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul A. David
February 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-022
Incentive Compensation and the Quality of Disclosure
Ravi Singh
February 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-018
Invention under Uncertainty and the Threat of Ex Post Entry
David A. Miller
February 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-007
Coordination and Decomissioning: NSFNET and the Evolution of the Internet in the United States, 1985-95
Eiichiro Kazumori
February 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-024
Information Dispersion and Auction Prices
Pai-Ling Yin
January 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-021
The Performance of California’s Natural Gas Market during the Electricity Crisis
Azeem M. Shaikh
January 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-020
Performance Evaluations over Time
Korok T. Ray
January 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-015
Too Many Mutual Funds? —Financial Product Differentiation Over The State Space
Shujing Li
January 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-013
Social Influences and the Private Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Charitable Contributions in the Workplace
Katherine Grace Carman
January 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-012
The Limits of Arbitrage: Trading Frictions and Deviations from Purchasing Power Parity
Asaf Zussman
December 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-009
Housing Collateral, Consumption Insurance and Risk Premia
Hanno Lustig and Stijn Van Nieuwerburg
December 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-006
Why Do Firms Use Incentives That Have No Incentive Effects?
Paul Oyer
December 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-005
Why Do Some Firms Give Stock Options To All Employees?: An Empirical Examination of Alternative Theories
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer
December 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-025
Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Education Expenditure
Lei Zhang
November 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-023
Liquidity Premia in Dynamic Bargaining Markets
Pierre-Olivier Weill
November 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-017
The Venture Capital Keiretsu Effect: An Empirical Analysis of Strategic Alliances Among Portfolio Firms
Laura Lindsey
November 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-016
Labor Market Competition using Compensation Schemes and Intertemporal Relationships
Jeremy T. Fox
November 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-003
Debt Relief: What Do the Markets Think?
Peter Blair Henry and Serkan Arslanalp
November 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-004
Risk Sharing and Asset Prices: Evidence From a Natural Experiment
Peter Blair Henry and Anusha Char
October 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-001
Reforming the Taxation of Human Capital: A Modest Proposal for Promoting Economic Growth
Paul A. David
October 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-014
Trading Costs and Home Bias: Evaluating a Proposal for Resolving the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Sean Buckley
September 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-011
Is Light Water Reactor Technology Sustainable?
Geoffrey Rothwell and Bob van der Zwaan
September 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-036
Economic Inequality and the Emergence of Child Labor Laws
Dirk Krueger and Jessica Tjornhom
August 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-034
Consumption and Saving over the Life Cycle: How Important are Consumer Durables?
Dirk Krueger and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
August 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-033
Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory
Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri
August 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-031
The Economics of the Supreme Court's Decision On Forward Looking Costs
Gregory L. Rosston and Roger G. Noll
August 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-030
Local Telephone Rate Structures: Before and After the Act
Gregory L. Rosston and Bradley S. Wimmer
August 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-029
Patent Oppositions
Jonathan Levin and Richard Levin
August 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-028
A Theory of Partnerships
Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis
August 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-027
Federal R&D in the Anti-Terrorist Era
Roger G. Noll
July 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-032
On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax Code
Dirk Krueger and Juan Carlos Conesa
June 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-026
The Productivity Surge of the Nineties and Future Growth
Robert M. Coen and Bert G. Hickman
May 2002 - Revised February 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-025
Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-In-Differences Models
Susan Athey and Guido W. Imbens
May 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-002
Capital Account Liberalization: Allocative Efficiency or Animal Spirits?
Peter Blair Henry and Anusha Chari
April 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-035
Skill-specifc rather than General Education: A Reason for Slow European Growth?
Dirk Krueger and Krishna B. Kumar
April 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-024
The Economics of Scientific Research Coalitions: Collaborative Network Formation in the Presence of Multiple Funding Agencies
Paul A. David and Louise C. Keely
April 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-023
Currency Substitution, Speculation and Crises: Theory and Empirical Analysis
Yasuyuki Sawada and Pan A. Yotopoulos
March 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-022
The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes
Susan Athey and Scott Stern
January 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-021
Getting To Work
Paul Milgrom
January 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-020
Package Bidding: Vickrey Vs Ascending Auctions
Paul Milgrom and Lawrence M. Ausubel
January 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-019
The Rise of German Protectionism in The 1870’s: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Asaf Zussman
January 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-018
A Puzzle of Vertical Integration and Segmentation In U.S. Long Distance Telephony
Nathan G. Goldstein
January 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-017
Predicting Currency Crises With a Nested Logit Model
Kit Ming Yan
July 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-016
The Economics of Promotion and Relegation in Sports Leagues: The Case of English Football
Roger G. Noll
January 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-015
The Economics of Baseball Contraction
Roger G. Noll
January 2002 Revised March 2003
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-013
Resolving Policy Chaos in High Speed Internet Access
Roger G. Noll
January 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-014
Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society
Paul A. David and Dominique Foray
December 2001 - Revised February 2002
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-012
Heterogenous Forecasting and Federal Reserve Information
Mordecai Kurz
December 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-010
Not Invented Here: What Can be Learned From Elsewhere About Restructuring Electricity Markets
Robert Thomas Crow
December 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-009
Spectrum Allocation and the Internet
Bruce M. Owen and Gregory L. Rosston
December 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-008
The Long and Winding Road: The FCC Paves the Path with Good Intentions
Gregory L. Rosston
December 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-011
Endogenous Fluctuations and the Role of Monetary Policy
Mordecai Kurz
November 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-006
The Effect of Employer Recruitment Strategies on Job Placements and Match Quality
Jed DeVaro
November 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-007
Intergenerational Risk Sharing via Social Security when Financial Markets are Incomplete
Dirk Krueger and Felix Kubler
August 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 02-010
Standardization, Diversity, and Learning in China’s Nuclear Power Program
Geoffrey Rothwell
August 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-005
Two Centuries of American Macroeconomic Growth From Exploitation of Resource Abundance to Knowledge-Driven Development
Moses Abramovitz and Paul A. David
August 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-004
The Beginnings and Prospective Ending of “End-to-End”
Paul A. David
August 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-051
Network Effects and Microsoft
Timothy F. Bresnahan
August 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-050
The Economics of the Microsoft Case
Timothy F. Bresnahan
August 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-049
The Right Remedy
Timothy F. Bresnahan
August 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 01-002
Firm Reputation with Hidden Information
Steven Tadelis
July 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-046
Clusters, Competition, and “Global Players” in ICT Markets: The Case of Scandinavia
John E. Richards
July 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-045
Learning the Silicon Valley Way
Gordon Moore and Kevin Davis
July 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-044
Taiwan’s Hsinchu Region: Imitator and Partner for Silicon Valley
AnnaLee Saxenian
June 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-043
“Old Economy” Inputs for “New Economy” Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New SiliconValley
Timothy Bresnahan, Alfonso Gambardella, AnnaLee Saxenian and Scott Wallsten
June 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-042
Agglomeration and Growth: A Study of the Cambridge Hi-Tech Cluster
Suma S. Athreye
June 2001
SIEPR Discussion paper No. 00-041
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