IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2585

An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation

Gerard J. van den Berg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2583

Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2567

Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference

Robert J. Oxoby

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 422-427

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2565

A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman

published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, 12 (Supplement 2), 315-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2537

Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Holger Bonin, Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration , 2012, 1, Article 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2525

Self-Confidence and Search

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2467

Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?

Martin Salm

revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43(3), 1040-1057

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2463

Moral Hazard Contracts: Does One Size Fit All?

Alexander K. Koch, Eloic Peyrache

published in:Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (3), 399-401.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2451

Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

Kelly Shue, Erzo F.P. Luttmer

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(1), 229-257

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2380

The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (2), 645-677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2339

Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement

Laura Veldkamp, Justin Wolfers

published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54 (s1), 37-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2309

The Speed of Employer Learning and Job Market Signaling Revisited

Steffen Habermalz

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (7), 607-610

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2275

Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2249

Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Guido Friebel, Michael Raith

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2168

Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2125

Construction Contracts (or: "How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?")

Surajeet Chakravarty, W. Bentley MacLeod

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2124

Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort

Wendelin Schnedler

published as "When is it foolish to reward for A while benefiting from B" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 595-619

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2092

Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz

published in: Robert Hahn and Paul Tetlock (eds), Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions in the Public and Private Sectors, AEI-Brookings Press, 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2056

Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition

Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 311-319

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2054

Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Matthias Kräkel, Dirk Sliwka

published in: International Economic Review, 2009, 50(1), 117-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2012

Performance Pay and Risk Aversion

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka

revised version published as "Evidence on Performance Pay and Risk Aversion" in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 8-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2001

Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1999

Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (15), 1581-1586

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1991

Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice

Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz

published in: Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed (London: Palgrave), 2007

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1978

Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts

W. Bentley MacLeod

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2007, 45(3), 595-628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1975

Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1972

Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers

published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (258), 325-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1952

What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction

Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey

published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1950

Subjective Income Expectations and Income Risk

Xavier Ramos, Christian Schluter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1930

Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1918

Political Parties and Network Formation

Topi Miettinen, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1866

Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates

John T. Addison, C. R. Barrett, W. Stanley Siebert

published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 69 - 87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1861

The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Yves Zenou

revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1841

Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns

Alexander K. Koch, Eloic Peyrache

revised and extended version published as 'Aligning Ambition and Incentives' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 2011, 27(1).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1768

Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Dorothea Kübler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1754

In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents

Jacob K. Goeree, Arno Riedl, Aljaz Ule

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), 445-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1746

Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Jeffrey B. Nugent

published as 'Real Options and Demographic Decisions: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (21), 2739 - 2749

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730

Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner

revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1695

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1652-1678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1692

Don't Give Up On Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour

Andrew E. Clark, Fabrice Etilé

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (5), 958-978

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1669

Division of Labour and Directed Production

Marisa Ratto, Wendelin Schnedler

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy , 2008, 8 (1), Article 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1666

Actions and Beliefs: Estimating Distribution-Based Preferences Using a Large Scale Experiment with Probability Questions on Expectations

Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger, Arthur van Soest

published as ' Measuring Inequity Aversion in a Heterogeneous Population using Experimental Decisions and Subjective Probabilities' in: Econometrica, 2008, 76 (4), 815-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1661

From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency

Alexander K. Koch, Albrecht Morgenstern

substantially revised version available as 'Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns', IZA DP No. 4039

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1655

Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F10-F28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1538

Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy

Josef Falkinger

published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118, 1596-1620