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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 11962

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

Louise Grogan

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 9642

Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 657-686

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9467

The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh, Christophe Rault

published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2016, 21 (2), 154–166

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9109

The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis, Stephen Machin

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9109

The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis, Stephen Machin

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8848

Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs

Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal

published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7925

The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7576

Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis

Annalisa Cristini, Almudena Sevilla

published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 601-625.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7225

Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Volker Grossmann, Andreas Schäfer, Thomas M. Steger

published as 'Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification' in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 109, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7219

Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials

Philippe Askenazy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7177

Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 176-194

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. 7027

The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(4), 1556-1589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7002

House Lock and Structural Unemployment

Robert G. Valletta

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 86–97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6956

Who Cares about Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health

Anita Ratcliffe, Karl Taylor

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (3), 826-845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6668

The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices: A Micro-simulation Approach

Yu Chen, Kenneth D. Gibb, Chris Leishman, Robert E. Wright

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (5), 523 - 542

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6488

Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the EMU and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials

Mirko Abbritti, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2013, 45 (6), 1165-1186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6481

Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

Anna D'Souza, Dean Jolliffe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6443

Rent Building, Rent Sharing: A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis

Philippe Askenazy, Gilbert Cette, Paul Maarek

revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2018, 120 (2), 563-596.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6106

The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

Christopher A. Neilson, Seth D. Zimmerman

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 18-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5893

Immigration and House Prices in the UK

Filipa Sa

published in: The Economic Journal, 2015, 125(587), 1393–1424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5728

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

John Cawley, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5713

Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Anna Fruttero, Phillippe Leite, Leonardo Lucchetti

published in: Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 64 (1), 151-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5227

Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors: An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris

Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69 (1), 24-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5096

Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations

Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala, José I. Silva

published in: Energy Journal, 2011, 32 (3), 89-118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4808

Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?

Paul J. Burke, Andrew Leigh

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4719

Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform

Stephen Machin, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4694

Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK

Sean Holly, M. Hashem Pesaran, Takashi Yamagata

published as 'The spatial and temporal diffusion of house prices in the UK ' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69 (1), 2-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4433

Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?

Jonathan Wadsworth

published in: Fiscal Studies, 2010, 31 (1), 81-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4333

Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain

Libertad González, Francesc Ortega

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 37-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4194

How Large Is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?

Arnaud Dupuy, Wendy Smits

published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, 19 (5), 423-436

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. 3564

Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration

Guillermina Jasso, Mark R. Rosenzweig

published in: Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Migration Today: Phenomenon, Prospects, Problems, Policies. New York: Oxford, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3254

Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure

M. Hashem Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith, Takashi Yamagata

revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175(2), 94-115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3129

House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence

Olympia Bover, Juan F. Jimeno

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3049

Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations

Guido Ascari, Christian Merkl

published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2009, 41 (2-3), 417-435

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2793

Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis

Emmanuel Dhyne, Catherine Fuss, M. Hashem Pesaran, Patrick Sevestre

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2559

Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations

Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 697-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2547

Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Labor Market Reforms

Ansgar H. Belke, Daniel Gros

published in: in: Heise, Michael, Tilly, Richard, Welfens, Paul J.J. (eds.), Integration, Financial Markets and Innovations – 50 Years of EU Dynamics, 2007, 75-108.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2503

Immigration and the Neighborhood

Albert Saiz, Susan M. Wachter

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 169-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2189

Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities

Albert Saiz

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 61(2), 345-371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 900

Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities

Mark C. Berger, Glenn C. Blomquist, Klara Sabirianova Peter

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (1), 2008, 25 - 55