IZA Discussion Papers

Updated and replaced by "Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms", IZA Discussion Paper 11011, joint with F. Cingano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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8705

Field Experiments in Strategy Research

Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael Findley, Nathan M. Jensen, Stephan Meier, Daniel Nielson

published in: Strategic Management Journal, 2016, 37 (1), 116–132,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8704

Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments

Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y. Wu, Brian E. Roe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8643

Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

Grégory Jolivet, Hélène Turon

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. 8476

Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices

Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek, Vítor Augusto Possebom

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8416

Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Emin Dinlersoz, Jeremy Greenwood, Henry R. Hyatt

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70(3): 733-766

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, pp. 107-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8349

Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Laure Pasquier-Doumer

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54, 74-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8219

Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy

Jörn Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller, Katrin Ullrich

published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 44 (1), 37-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8216

Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems

Matthias Wibral

published in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(3), 408-431

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8178

Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Marc Henry

published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2014, 8 (4), 405-416, (special issue in celebration of Ivar Ekeland's 70th birthday.)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8099

Learning-by-Doing in a Highly Skilled Profession When Stakes Are High: Evidence from Advanced Cancer Surgery

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8003

Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?

Ilham Haouas, Almas Heshmati

forthcoming in: International Research Journal of Finance and Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7991

The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Markus Poschke

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018, 10(3), 1-41 [awarded the AEJ Macro Best Paper Award 2018]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7765

Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World

Catia Batista, Jacques Potin

published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7751

Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?

Gil S. Epstein, Joseph Menis

published in: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Science, 2013, 3 (11), 614-632.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7718

Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

A. Kerem Cosar, Nezih Guner, James Tybout

forthcoming in American Economic Review, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7672

Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data

Tanja Hethey-Maier, Johannes F. Schmieder

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7516

Giving and Sorting among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121(2), 214-217

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7253

Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota, Jacques Mairesse

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7241

Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France

Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7233

Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus

forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economic Theory [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7198

Note on Lilien and Modified Lilien Index

Muhammad Rashid Ansari, Chiara Mussida, Francesco Pastore

published in: Stata Journal, 2014, 14 (2), 398-406

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. 7146

Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Sascha O. Becker, Hans K. Hvide

forthcoming as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7125

Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 192-214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7046

What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?

Bodo Aretz, Nicole Gürtzgen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6935

Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus

published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118(1), 192-194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6859

Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6718

The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School

Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 839-871

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. 6197

Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy

Roberto Basile, Alessandro Girardi, Marianna Mantuano, Francesco Pastore

published in: Empirica, 2012, 39 (4), 525-545

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5880

Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980

Ohyun Kwon, Belton M. Fleisher, Quheng Deng

substantially revised version, co-authored by Simon Chang published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(1), 17–44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5867

Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market

Domenico Tabasso

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5738

The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Oluwarotimi Owolabi, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5669

The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 145 - 159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5519

Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Cristina Terra

published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5511

Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms

Jens Arnold, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5452