IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-level Upstreamness: Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data' in: World Economy, 2022, 45 (7), 2222 - 2250

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12706

Wage Discrimination Based on the Country of Birth: Do Tenure and Product Market Competition Matter?

Valentine Fays, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (13), 1551-1571

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12572

Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12512

Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power

James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121

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. 12034

Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding Is More Skewed Than Consumption

Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin Schmalz, Adam Triggs

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (3), 550 - 563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11967

A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets

Yinghua He, Thierry Magnac

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. 11668

Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives

Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2022, 50 (2), 435-453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10429

Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1373-1432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10251

Centralized Admission and the Student-College Match

Cecilia Machado, Christiane Szerman

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. 9950

Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9650

Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab

Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9566

"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" Auctions: Effects of Changing Bargaining Power in Sequential Trading Mechanisms

Tim Grebe, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Sabine Kröger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9240

Social Responsibility in Market Interaction

Bernd Irlenbusch, David Saxler

completely revised and extended version published as 'The Role of Social Information, Market Framing, and Diffusion of Responsibility as Determinants of Socially Responsible Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 80, 141-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9118

The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice

Monique de Haan, Pieter A. Gautier, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (2), 388 - 455

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8998

Market Distortions and Political Rent: The Case of Fertilizer Price Divergence in Africa

Abebe Shimeles, Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Dawit Birhanu Tessema

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8973

Market Design and Moral Behavior

Michael Kirchler, Jürgen Huber, Matthias Stefan, Matthias Sutter

published in: Management Science, 2016, 62, 2615-2625

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8550

College Choice Allocation Mechanisms: Structural Estimates and Counterfactuals

José-Raimundo Carvalho, Thierry Magnac, Qizhou Xiong

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2019, 10 (3), 1233 - 1277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8490

When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Giacomo Calzolari, Andrea Ichino, Francesco Manaresi, Viki Nellas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8375

Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Almas Heshmati, Shahrouz Abolhosseini

published in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 107-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8357

Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8345

Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja, Stefano Verzillo

published in Review of Economics and Statistics 2021, 103 (4), 786-802

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8137

Tax Incidence in the Presence of Tax Evasion

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8125

Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8108

Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior

Wendelin Schnedler, Christoph Vanberg

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8034

Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Alison L. Booth

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 53-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7695

Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Junghee Han, Almas Heshmati

published in: International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016, 20(7), 235-257.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7372

Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

Benjamin Enke, Florian Zimmermann

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 313–33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163

Competing with Asking Prices

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7116

The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Pierre Koning, Arthur van de Meerendonk

published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71, 1–14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6637

Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Almas Heshmati

published in: Journal of Economics Surveys, 2014, 28(5), 862-888.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6491

The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Uwe Dulleck, David W. Johnston, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6187

Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Antonio Filippin, Francesco Guala

published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 285-305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6113

A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory

Martin Biewen, Constantin Weiser

revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (9), 996-1020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6061

Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Michael Kosfeld, Ulrich Schüwer

published as 'Add-on Pricing in Retail Financial Markets and the Fallacies of Consumer Education' in: Review of Finance, 2017, 21 (3), 1189 - 1216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5900

Equilibrium Wage and Employment Dynamics in a Model of Wage Posting without Commitment

Melvyn Coles, Dale T. Mortensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5528

Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System

Monique de Haan, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek

published as 'School Consolidation and Student Achievement' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2016, 32 (4), 816 - 139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5241

Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5236

Efficient Redistribution: Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits

Felix FitzRoy, Jim Jin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4988

Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training

Matteo Picchio, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 712-722

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4939

Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions

Decio Coviello, Stefano Gagliarducci

published as "Tenure in Office and Public Procurement" in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (3), 59-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4884

Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4549

Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Jens Großer, Ernesto Reuben

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 101, 39-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4329

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models

James J. Heckman, Rosa Matzkin, Lars Nesheim

published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78(5), 1569-1591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4167

Are Two Tax Rates Better than One?

Felix FitzRoy, Jim Jin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4070

Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage

Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Hervé Le Bihan

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42 (7), 1199-1234

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4030

The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 526-555

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3855

WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect

Thomas K. Bauer, Christoph M. Schmidt

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (1), 4 - 11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3729

Human Capital Externalities with Monopsonistic Competition

Leo Kaas

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (2), 95-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3498

Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen, Panu Poutvaara

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 26 (3), 340-350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3445

Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions

Nauro F. Campos, Renata Leite Barbosa

revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (1), 28–51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3434

Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony

Leo Kaas, Paul Madden

published in: Economic Theory, 2010, 43 (2), 167 - 188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3381

A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment

Kaushik Basu, Amanda J. Felkey

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (3), 494-516

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2421

Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?

Leo Kaas

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(1), 51 - 71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2403

The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training

Hans Gersbach, Armin Schmutzler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2389

Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Heather Antecol, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 64(2), 496-509

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. 2043

Holdup in Oligopsonistic Labour Markets: A New Role for the Minimum Wage

Leo Kaas, Paul Madden

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 356-371

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. 1330

Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Jessica Holmes, Peter Hans Matthews

published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 92-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1260

Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions with Multiple Applications

Pieter A. Gautier, José L. Moraga-González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 988

Can Job Competition Prevent Hold-Ups?

Marcel Jansen

published as "Job auctions and hold-ups" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 608-619

IZA Discussion Paper No. 897

Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions

Martin Brown, Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr

published in: Econometrica, 2004, 72 (3), 747-780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 842

Rent Control and Unemployment Duration

Michael Svarer, Michael Rosholm, Jakob R. Munch

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89 (11-12), 2165-2181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 738

Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium

Volker Grossmann

published as "Firm Size, Productivity, and Manager Wages: A Job Assignment Approach" in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Advances in Theoretical Economics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 634

Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Adriana Kugler, Robert M. Sauer

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 437-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 499

Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure

Gerard A. Pfann, Hans van Kranenburg

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2003, 46 (1), 61-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 440

Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit

Giuseppe Bertola, Stefan Hochguertel, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2005, 46 (4), 1103-1142