IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Kumbhakar, S.C., Sickles, R.C., Wang, H.J. (eds), Advances in Applied Econometrics. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Springer, Cham, 2024, 55, 239 - 258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15617

Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages: New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni

published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 1 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15599

Mystery Shopping as a Strategic Management Practice in Multi-Site Firms

Sidney T. Block, Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Nick Zubanov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15477

Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, Monica Morlacco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15461

Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages and Diverse Patterns of Structural Transformation

Saumik Paul, Dhushyanth Raju

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15003

Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14945

Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration

Samuel Bazzi, Lisa A. Cameron, Simone G. Schaner, Firman Witoelar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14855

Shining with the Stars: Competition, Screening, and Concern for Coworkers' Quality

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2024, 144, 250-283.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14846

The (Alleged) Environmental and Social Benefits of Dynamic Pricing

Matthew Harding, Kyle Kettler, Carlos Lamarche, Lala Ma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14744

Learning-by-Doing and Productivity Growth among High-Skilled Workers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

Petter Lundborg, Stefan James, Bo Lagerqvist, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14662

Consumption Response to Seoul's COVID-19 Shopping Coupons: Evidence from Consumer Data

Seokjin Woo, Sangmin Aum, Dohyung Kim, Heyjin Moon, Soohyung Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14610

The Productivity Puzzle in Business Services

Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch, Caroline Stiel

published as 'The productivity shock in business services' in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 59 (3), 1273 - 1299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14554

The Political Economy of Kazakhstan: A Case of Good Economics, Bad Politics?

Simon Commander, Ruta Prieskienyte

published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2022, 8 (2), 122 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14532

Firms' Margins of Adjustment to Wage Growth: The Case of Italian Collective Bargaining

Francesco Devicienti, Bernardo Fanfani

published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 107 - 149

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14464

The Welfare Costs of Job Loss and Decarbonization– Evidence from Germany's Coal Phase Out

Luke Haywood, Markus Janser, Nicolas Koch

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024, 11 (3), 577–611

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14444

Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons, Anu Rammohan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14390

Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants

Francesco Amodio, Nicolás de Roux

published as 'Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 949–977

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14288

Do High Schools Choose Financial Education Policies Based on Their Neighbors?

Allison Oldham Luedtke, Carly Urban

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14287

Common Ownership of Competing Firms: Evidence from Australia

Andrew Leigh, Adam Triggs

published in: Economic Record, 2021, 97 (318), 333-349

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14082

The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, John Van Reenen

published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2894 -2936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14058

Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera, Nam Vu

published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 98, 69 - 85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14006

Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments

Nicolás de Roux, Marcela Eslava, Santiago Franco, Eric Verhoogen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13953

Consequences of a Massive Refugee Influx on Firm Performance and Market Structure

Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Yusuf Kenan Bağır, Seyit Mümin Cilasun, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103081.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13857

Searching with Friends

A. Stefano Caria, Simon Franklin, Marc J. Witte

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 887–922

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13567

Can Stimulus Checks Boost an Economy under COVID-19? Evidence from South Korea

Moon Jung Kim, Soohyung Lee

published in: International Economic Journal, 2021, 35 (1), 1 - 12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13557

Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality

Matias Cortes, Jeanne Tschopp

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, April 2024, Vol. 126, Issue 2: 320-354.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13552

Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?

Delia Furtado, Francesc Ortega

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13360

Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

Kevin Lang, Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13256

Hospital Resources: Persistent Reallocation under Price Changes

Florian Wozny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13244

Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Ioana E. Marinescu, Ivan Ouss, Louis-Daniel Pape

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 506 - 605

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13147

The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12951

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power

Sabien Dobbelaere, Quint Wiersma

published online in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 31 July 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12904

Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

Samuel Berlinski, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Luca Flabbi, Juan David Martin

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 2113–2177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12809

Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Thomas Breda, Alex Bryson, John Forth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12351

Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly

Marco de Pinto, Laszlo Goerke

published in: B.E.Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2019, 19 (4), 20180236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12158

When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research

Seth Gershenson, Morgan S. Polikoff, Rui Wang

published in: Educational Researcher, 2020, 49(4): 254-261.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12089

Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation

Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12042

Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics

Olga Demidova, Alena Kolyagina, Francesco Pastore

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 244-258.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12036

Does "Network Closure" Beef up Import Premium?

Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini, Francesco Serti

substantially revised version published in: Social Networks, 2023, 73, 89-103.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916

Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11857

Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers: Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Philipp Lergetporer, Jens Ruhose, Lisa Simon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11745

Firm Dynamics with Frictional Product and Labor Markets

Leo Kaas, Bihemo Kimasa

published in: International Economic Review, 2021, 62 (3), 1281-1317

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11683

Testing

Annika B. Bergbauer, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 349-388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11665

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11501

Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, 33(6), 742-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11498

Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (1), 256–280,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11387

Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11379

Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data

José Azar, Ioana E. Marinescu, Marshall Steinbaum, Bledi Taska

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101886

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11367

Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews

Ioana E. Marinescu, Nadav Klein, Andrew Chamberlain, Morgan Smart

published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2021, 27 (2), 393–407.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11230

Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap

Dan Zeltzer

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 169-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11225

Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 198-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11207

Fake News

Andreas Grunewald, Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11011

Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms

Andrea Bassanini, Federico Cingano

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 127-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10919

Positively Aware? Conflicting Expert Reviews and Demand for Medical Treatment

Jorge Balat, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Shaiza Qayyum

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10817

Active Ingredients: Exploring the Key Factors Affecting the Rising Cost of Developing New Drugs

Sarah J. Fossett, Phanindra V. Wunnava

published in: International Journal o Health Sciences, 2019, 7 (3), 1 - 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10756

The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson, John Van Reenen

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135 (2), 645-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10539

Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson, John Van Reenen

published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2017, 107(5), 180-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10420

Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The Impact of Information Campaigns

Giovanni Facchini, Yotam Margalit, Hiroyuki Nakata

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 141, 103959

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10328

Global Talent Flows

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives; 2016, 30 (4), 83 - 106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10297

Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

Saul Estrin, Adeline Pelletier

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10257

Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams: The Role of Social Ties

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 112, 74-90.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10152

Marketmaking Middlemen

Pieter A. Gautier, Bo Hu, Makoto Watanabe

published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2023, 54 (1), 83 - 103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10006

Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Elias Dinopoulos, Bulent Unel

revised version published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2018, 100 (4), 345-362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9932

Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing

Sharat Ganapati, Joseph S. Shapiro, Reed Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9806

Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers

Steffen Müller, Renate Neubäumer

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (5), 658-673

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9762

The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1136-1153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9740

Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence from Sectoral Data

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 78, 35-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9501

Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, Akhmed Umyarov

published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9455

Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence

Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen

published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 235-266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9294

The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Elizabeth Handwerker, James R. Spletzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9270

Corruption in the Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh

Wahid Abdallah, Shyamal Chowdhury, Kazi Iqbal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9260

Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9229

Do Hospitals Respond to Increasing Prices by Supplying Fewer Services?

Martin Salm, Ansgar Wübker

revised version published as "Do hospitals react to lower prices by supplying more services?" in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 209-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9187

A Bitter Medicine? Short-term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries

Andrea Bassanini

Updated and replaced by "Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms", IZA Discussion Paper 11011, joint with F. Cingano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9125

Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach, Jacques Mairesse

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8953

Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Tjaša Bjedov, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (3), 1519–1540.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8765

Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367