IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published online as 'The heterogeneous response of real estate prices during the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 27 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15674

Gains from Trade and the Food Engel Curve

Farid Farrokhi, David Carson Jinkins, Chong Xiang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15666

The Determinants of Crude Oil Prices: Evidence from ARDL and Nonlinear ARDL Approaches

Leila Ben Salem, Ridha Nouira, Khaled Jeguirim, Christophe Rault

published in: Resources Policy, 2022, 79, 103085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15574

The Downward Spiral

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15520

Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location

Nils Braakmann, Arnaud Chevalier, Tanya Wilson

published in: American Economic Journal : Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (4), 144 - 160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15481

House Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises: Evidence from the U.S. Listings Data

Denis Gorea, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Marianna Kudlyak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15481

House Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises: Evidence from the U.S. Listings Data

Denis Gorea, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Marianna Kudlyak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15375

Price Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences

Robert Rutledge, Vinayak Alladi, Stephen L. Cheung

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15300

Real Estate Agent Earnings and Local Housing Prices

Barry Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Zichong (Tom) Qu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15296

How Does the Economic Uncertainty Affect Asset Prices under Normal and Financial Distress Times?

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir, Gurcan Aygun, Mark E. Wohar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15288

Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

Isabelle Chort, Rozenn Hotte, Karine Marazyan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15238

Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges

Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15238

Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges

Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15199

Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts

Lars Brausewetter, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer

revised version published as 'Regional Supply and Demand Fundamentals in the German Housing Price Boom' in: German Economic Review, 2024, 25 (1), 1-36.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15040

House Price Expectations

Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan, Claus Michelsen, Felix Weinhardt

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 218, 379-398

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14914

Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US

David Dorn, Peter Levell

published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3, 1042-1068

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14739

How to Tax Different Incomes?

Laurence Jacquet, Etienne Lehmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14706

Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Colin P. Green

published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2022, 4 (3), 197-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14592

The Natural Resource Boom and the Uneven Fall of the Labor Share

Andrés O. Dávila, Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Hernando Zuleta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14533

Import Competition and Public Attitudes Towards Trade

Alex Davenport, David Dorn, Peter Levell

also available as: IFS Report no. 176, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14170

Home Ownership and Home Equity Promote Entrepreneurial Activity

Wolter Hassink, Matteo Millone, Remco Mocking, Benedikt Vogt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14124

Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants

Orley Ashenfelter, Štepán Jurajda

published in: Journal of Labor Economics (special issue in honor of Alan Krueger), 2022, 40 (S1), S179 - S201

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. 13853

Investigating the Asymmetric Impact of Oil Prices on GCC Stock Markets

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh, Sami Ben Naceur, Oussama Kanaan, Christophe Rault

published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 102, 105589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13851

Price and Saliency in Health Care: When Can Targeted Nudges Change Behaviors?

Brigham Walker

published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 107, 102102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13798

To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment

Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Mats Köster, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103593

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13701

Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post 9/11 GI Bill

Matthew Baird, Michael S. Kofoed, Trey Miller, Jennie Wenger

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41 (4), 1012-1039.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13655

The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market

Edward W. Pinchbeck, Sefi Roth, Nikodem Szumilo, Enrico Vanino

published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023, 10 (6), 1439–1473

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13629

The Economic Effects of COVID-19 and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Italian Firms' Expectations and Plans

Pierluigi Balduzzi, Emanuele Brancati, Marco Brianti, Fabio Schiantarelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13568

Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Almut Balleer, Sebastian Link, Manuel Menkhoff, Peter Zorn

published as 'Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment Heterogeneity during the Covid-19 Pandemic' in: International Journal of Central Banking, 2024, 20 (1), 93-158, 2024.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13402

Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling

Ahmed Elsayed, Olivier Marie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13274

Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir, Mark E. Wohar

published as 'Effectiveness of monetary policy under the high and low economic uncertainty states: evidence from the major Asian economies' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 1741–1769

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. 12897

Elite School Designation and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Beijing, China

Bin Huang, Xiaoyan He, Lei Xu, Yu Zhu

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2020, 50, 101730

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12889

The Importance of Hiring Frictions in Business Cycles

Renato Faccini, Eran Yashiv

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (3), 1101 - 1143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12872

The Economics behind the Epidemic: Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Roberto Nistico

published as 'Opium Price Shocks and Prescription Opioids in the US' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (3), 449 - 484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12647

Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality

Michael Johannes Böhm, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Felix Schran

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (1), 201–243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12195

Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality

Janjala Chirakijja, Seema Jayachandran, Pinchuan Ong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12007

Real Estate Prices and Corporate Investment: Theory and Evidence of Heterogeneous Effects across Firms

Denis Fougère, Rémy Lecat, Simon Ray

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2019, 51(6), 1503-1546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11995

Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2021. 194, 105262.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11962

The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11811

Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya

published in: Urban Affairs Review, 2020, 56 (5), 1581–1604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11811

Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya

published in: Urban Affairs Review, 2020, 56 (5), 1581–1604

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. 11726

The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg

Josef Kjellander, Viktor Nilsson, Aico van Vuuren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11679

Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants

Alpaslan Akay, Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103682.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11636

Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?

Michael J. Osei, John V. Winters

published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2019, 33(3), 212-219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11563

Mind, Body, Bubble! Psychological and Biophysical Dimensions of Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets

David Butler, Stephen L. Cheung

published in: Gigi Foster (ed), Biophysical Measurement in Experimental Social Science Research, Academic Press, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11545

The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care

Rebecca McDonald, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published online in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11497

Do House Prices Sink or Ride the Wave of Immigration?

Matthew P. Larkin, Zohid Askarov, Chris Doucouliagos, Chris Dubelaar, Maria Klona, Joshua Newton, T. D. Stanley, Andrea Vocino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11490

Prices, Policing and Policy: The Dynamics of Crime Booms and Busts

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi, Robert Witt

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 1040-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11490

Prices, Policing and Policy: The Dynamics of Crime Booms and Busts

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi, Robert Witt

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 1040-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11358

Demographic Uncertainty and Generational Consumption Risk with Endogenous Human Capital

Patrick M. Emerson, Shawn D. Knabb

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11252

Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union

Timo Baas, Ansgar H. Belke

published as 'Oil Price Shocks and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union' in: Energy Journal, 2023, 44( 4), 223-240.

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. 11220

The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change

Michael Johannes Böhm

revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11, 761-799.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11161

School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography

Erich Battistin, Lorenzo Neri

published as 'School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 753–792

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10941

Housing Prices, Unemployment Rates, Disadvantage, and Progress toward a Degree

Leslie S. Stratton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10891

Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives

Apoorva Jain, Klara Sabirianova Peter

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. 10765

The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter: New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda

Mabel Andalón, John Gibson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10555

Investigating First-Stage Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Sectoral and Macro Evidence from Euro Area Countries

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh, Christophe Rault

published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (12), 2611 - 2638

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10516

International Migration and Regional Housing Markets: Evidence from France

Hippolyte D'Albis, Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly

published in: International Regional Science Review, 2019, 42(2), 147-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10376

Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda

Daniela Campus, Gianna Claudia Giannelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10231

Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Leo Feler, Mine Zeynep Senses

published in: American Economic Review: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 101 - 143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9971

Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Alexander M. Danzer, Robert Grundke

published as 'Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9971

Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Alexander M. Danzer, Robert Grundke

published as 'Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102464

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. 9899

Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, I. P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing, Wei-Kang Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9857

Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences

David Freeman, Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti, Luigi Mittone

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2016, 126 (Part A), 235–242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9789

Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers