BEJEAP Contributions Articles
The Contributions tier publishes articles that make important contributions to specific literatures (e.g., predatory pricing). These articles would be suitable for publication in a very good field journal or a highly-regarded general interest journal. These articles are likely to interest many economists in the field as well as those writing in the specific literature. The publication rate is 19%.
Volume 9 (2009) - Issue 2 (Contributions)
Economic Geography and Color Maps
Geography: Graphics and Economics
William D. Nordhaus and Xi Chen
Green Market Geography: The Spatial Clustering of Hybrid Vehicles and LEED Registered Buildings
Matthew E. Kahn and Ryan K. Vaughn
Regulating NOx and SO2 Emissions in Atlanta
Nicholas Muller, Daniel Tong, and Robert Mendelsohn
Adapting to Climate Change Mosaically: An Analysis of African Livestock Management by Agro-Ecological Zones
S. Niggol Seo, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
Volume 9 (2009) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
Third-Degree Price Discrimination with Buyer Power
Roman Inderst and Tommaso Valletti
Using the Error in Pre-Election Polls to Test for the Presence of Pork
Craig McIntosh and Jacob Allen
Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior
Christopher S. Ruebeck, Susan L. Averett, and Howard N. Bodenhorn
Estimating the Price Effects of Non-Tariff Barriers
Judith M. Dean, José E. Signoret, Robert M. Feinberg, Rodney D. Ludema, and Michael J. Ferrantino
The Impact of Smoking Bans on the Hospitality Industry: New Evidence from Stock Market Returns
Jonathan T. Tomlin
The Effect of Price on Pharmaceutical R&D
Abdulkadir Civan and Michael T. Maloney
Great Moderation at the Firm Level? Unconditional vs. Conditional Output Volatility
Claudia M. Buch, Joerg Doepke, and Kerstin Stahn
The Default-Prone U.S. Toxic Asset Auction Plan
Charles Zhoucheng Zheng
Too Cold for a Jog? Weather, Exercise, and Socioeconomic Status
Daniel Eisenberg and Edward Okeke
Volume 8 (2008) - Issue 2 (Contributions)
Health Care Economics and Policy
Sequential Patterns of Drug Use Initiation - Can We Believe In the Gateway Theory?
Anne L. Bretteville-Jensen, Hans O. Melberg, and Andrew M. Jones
The Effect of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985 on Health Care Utilization of Employment Separators
David M. Zimmer
Did ‘Targets and Terror’ Reduce Waiting Times in England for Hospital Care?
Carol Propper, Matt Sutton, Carolyn Whitnall, and Frank Windmeijer
Mitigating the Problem of Unmeasured Outcomes in Quality Reports
Jacob Glazer, Thomas McGuire, and Sharon-Lise T. Normand
Advertising, Free-Riding, and Price Differences in the Market for Prescription Drugs
Ismo Erkki Linnosmaa
Patient Welfare under the Legal Standard of Care
Anja Olbrich
Volume 8 (2008) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
Daniel S. Hamermesh and Joel B. Slemrod
Millers, Commission Agents and Collusion in Grain Markets: Evidence from Basmati Auctions in North India
A. Banerji and J.V. Meenakshi
Resources for Sale: Corruption, Democracy and the Natural Resource Curse
Erwin Bulte and Richard Damania
Partners in Crime: Collusive Corruption and Search
Munirul Haque Nabin and Gautam Bose
An Empirical Study of Happiness in Italy
Vincenzo Scoppa and Michela Ponzo
Fairness in Extended Dictator Game Experiments
Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Reiner Eichenberger
Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach
Ana Fernandes, Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, and Andrea Ichino
Entry and Exit in the Nonprofit Sector
Teresa D. Harrison and Christopher A. Laincz
Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Predicting Resource Policy Outcomes via Meta-Regression: Data Space, Model Space, and the Quest for 'Optimal Scope'
Klaus Moeltner and Randall S. Rosenberger
Functional Distribution, Land Ownership and Industrial Takeoff: The Role of Effective Demand
Ennio Bilancini and Simone D'Alessandro
Before and After: Gender Transitions, Human Capital, and Workplace Experiences
Kristen Schilt and Matthew Wiswall
Entrepreneurial First Movers, Brand-Name Fast Seconds, and the Evolution of Market Structure
George Norman, Lynne Pepall, and Daniel J. Richards
Crossing the Line: Direct Estimation of Cross-Border Cigarette Sales and the Effect on Tax Revenue
Lesley Chiou and Erich Muehlegger
Corruption and Openness
Zvika Neeman, M. Daniele Paserman, and Avi Simhon
Informality Traps
Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Jamele Rigolini
Volume 7 (2007) - Issue 2 (Contributions)
Intergenerational Economic Mobility around the World
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Italy
Sauro Mocetti
Intergenerational Mobility in Australia
Andrew Leigh
Children of the Post-Communist Transition: Age at the Time of the Parents' Job Loss and Dropping Out of Secondary School
Gabor Kertesi and Gabor Kezdi
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Changes across Cohorts in Britain
Cheti Nicoletti and John F. Ermisch
Volume 7 (2007) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
Regional Integration, Subsidy Competition and the Relocation Choice of MNCs
Facundo Albornoz and Gregory Corcos
Academic Journal Prices in a Digital Age: A Two-Sided Market Model
Mark J. McCabe and Christopher M. Snyder
A Model of Dysfunctional Urges and Addiction with an Application to Cigarette Smoking
Jacob Glazer and Andrew M. Weiss
Gasoline Price Differences: Taxes, Pollution Regulations, Mergers, Market Power, and Market Conditions
Hayley H. Chouinard and Jeffrey M. Perloff
Disability Testing and Retirement
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Pierre Pestieau
The Short and Long Run Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Fatal Automobile Crashes
Neeraj Sood and Arkadipta Ghosh
The Effect of Smoking Bans on Bars and Restaurants: An Analysis of Changes in Employment
Scott Adams and Chad D. Cotti
The Pro-collusive Effect of Increasing the Repose Period for Price Fixing Agreements
Jeroen Hinloopen
Does It Pay To Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation
Bradley J. Ruffle and Richard Sosis
Vaccination Externalities
Bryan L. Boulier, Tejwant S. Datta, and Robert S. Goldfarb
Animal House: Economics of Pets and the Household
Peter M. Schwarz, Jennifer L. Troyer, and Jennifer Beck Walker
The Informational Value of Affirmative Action in College Admissions
Eric K. Furstenberg
Optimal Contracts for Health Services in the Presence of Waiting Times and Asymmetric Information
Luigi Siciliani
Does Investment Promotion Work?
Andrew Charlton and Nicholas Davis
Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
The Unpleasant Effects of Price Deregulation in the European Third-Party Motor Insurance Market: A Theoretical Framework
Domenico Scalera and Alberto Zazzaro
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime
Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Visa Screening and Collateral Import of Terrorism
Satya P. Das and Sajal Lahiri
Are There Treatment Duration Differences in the Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance Experiments?
Melvin Stephens Jr.
Optimal Origin-based Commodity Taxation in a Small Open Economy
Giampaolo Arachi
Consumer Food Safety Risk Perceptions and Attitudes: Impacts on Beef Consumption across Countries
Ted C. Schroeder, Glynn T. Tonsor, Joost M.E. Pennings, and James Mintert
Volume 5 (2006) - Issue 2 (Contributions)
Field Experiments
Does Framing Matter for Conditional Cooperation? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Stephan Meier
Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community
Jeffrey P. Carpenter and Erika Seki
Instrument-Induced Bias in Donation Mechanisms: Evidence from the Field
Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment
Yan Chen, Xin Li, and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
Volume 5 (2006) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
Indirect Costs and Discounting in Health Care Decision-Making: The Role of Distortionary Taxation
Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, and Thomas R. Saving
Can Supply Restrictions Lower Price? Violence, Drug Dealing and Positional Advantage
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter, and Lowell J. Taylor
Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life
Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, and James P. Ziliak
A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China
Daniel L. Millimet and Le Wang
Gluttony and Sloth: Symptoms of Trouble or Signs of Bliss? A Theory of Choice in the Presence of Behavioral Adjustment Costs
Heather Bednarek, Thomas D. Jeitschko, and Rowena A. Pecchenino
Modeling Addictive Consumption as an Infectious Disease
Benjamin Alamar and Stanton A. Glantz
Public Goods Provision and Well-Being: Empirical Evidence Consistent with the Warm Glow Theory
Julio R. Videras and Ann L. Owen
The Role of Segregation and Pay Structure on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De la Rica
Do Lower Student to Counselor Ratios Reduce School Disciplinary Problems?
Scott E. Carrell and Susan A. Carrell
Estimating Behavioral Response to the AIDS Epidemic
M. Christopher Auld
Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis
Naci H. Mocan and Erdal Tekin
Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins
Audrey Light and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Disability Insurance Adjudication Criteria and the Incidence of Hard-to-Diagnose Medical Conditions
Michele Campolieti
Managed Care and Physician Incentives: The Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Care
David J. Cooper and James B. Rebitzer
Measuring the Effect of Multimarket Contact on Competition: Evidence from Mergers Following Radio Broadcast Ownership Deregulation
Joel Waldfogel and Julie Wulf
Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs
Jan Guldager Jørgensen and Philipp J. H. Schröder
The Role of Wealth Transformations: An Application to Estimating the Effect of Tax Incentives on Saving
Karen M. Pence
The Effect of Switching Private Insurance Plans on Health Care Utilization
Fei Liu and David M. Zimmer
Consumer Product Labels, Child Labor and Educational Attainment
Drusilla K. Brown
New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals
Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Pingkang Yu
A Dynamic Analysis of Child Labor with a Variable Rate of Discount: Some Policy Implications
Satya P. Das and Rajat Deb
Efficiency and Sectoral Distributional Impacts of Output-Based Emissions Allowances in Canada
Yazid Dissou
Administrative Delays as Barriers to Trade
Pierre M. Regibeau and Katharine E. Rockett
The Determinants of Pharmaceutical Research and Development Investments
Abdulkadir Civan and Michael T. Maloney
Social Interactions and the Digital Divide: Identification and Policy Implications
Raffaele Miniaci and Maria Laura Parisi
Trade and Contract Enforcement
James E. Anderson and Leslie Young
Why Tariffs, Not Subsidies? A Search for Stylized Facts
Josh Ederington and Jenny Minier
Moral Federalism
Eckhard Janeba
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help?
Jose Anson, Olivier Cadot, and Marcelo Olarreaga
Deposit Insurance Altered the Composition of Bank Suspensions during the 1920s: Evidence from the Archives of the Board of Governors
Ching-Yi Chung and Gary Richardson
Volume 4 (2005) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
Cash Constraints and Business Start-Ups: Deutschmarks Versus Dollars
Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Harvey S. Rosen
On-the-Job Learning, Firing Costs and Employment
Pilar Díaz-Vázquez, Dennis J. Snower, and Luis E. Arjona-Béjar
The Effect of the Nonprofit Motive on Hospital Competitive Behavior
Teresa D. Harrison and Kristina M. Lybecker
Electoral Competition and Redistribution with Rationally Informed Voters
Valentino Larcinese
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring a Fresh Specification
David F. Bradford, Rebecca A. Fender, Stephen H. Shore, and Martin Wagner
Uncertain R&D and the Porter Hypothesis
David Popp
Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One? A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science
Paul J. Ferraro and Laura O. Taylor
A Theory of Health Disparities and Medical Technology
Dana P. Goldman and Darius N. Lakdawalla
Entry-Level Products with Consumer Learning
Justin P. Johnson
Adjustment Costs and Irreversibility as Determinants of Investment: Evidence from African Manufacturing
Arne Bigsten, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps, Bernard Gauthier, Jan Willem Gunning, Remco Oostendorp, Catherine Pattillo, Måns Söderbom, and Francis Teal
An Index For Venture Capital, 1987-2003
Min Hwang, John M. Quigley, and Susan E. Woodward
Environmental Information Provision as a Public Policy Instrument
Emmanuel Petrakis, Eftichios Sophocles Sartzetakis, and Anastasios Xepapadeas
Competition Policy and Exit Rates: Evidence from Switzerland
Stefan Buehler, Christian Kaiser, and Franz Jaeger
Volume 3 (2004) - Issue 2 (Contributions)
The Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Environmental Policy, Population Dynamics and Agglomeration
Chris Elbers and Cees Withagen
Cross-Country Policy Harmonization with Rent-Seeking
Patrik T. Hultberg and Edward B. Barbier
Environmental Regulation and International Trade: Empirical Results for Germany, the Netherlands and the US, 1977-1992
Abay Mulatu, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, and Cees Withagen
Pollution Abatement Expenditure by U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Do Community Characteristics Matter?
Randy A. Becker
Environmental Regulation as Export Promotion: Product Standards for Dirty Intermediate Goods
Carol McAusland
Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Shang-Jin Wei
Volume 3 (2004) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
Contestable Licensing
Zvika Neeman and Gerhard Oskar Orosel
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature
Debra Israel and Arik Levinson
Why Do the Poor and the Less-Educated Pay More for Long-Distance Calls?
Jerry A. Hausman and J. Gregory Sidak
A Model of Welfare-Reducing Settlement
Abraham L. Wickelgren
How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement?
Sewin Chan and Ann H. Stevens
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature: Comment
David E. Bloom and Jaypee Sevilla
Quantity Controls, License Transferability, and the Level of Investment
Kala M. Krishna, Ling Hui Tan, and Ram Ranjan
Instrumental Variables for Binary Treatments with Heterogenous Treatment Effects: A Simple Exposition
Alan Manning
Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach
Mark J. McCabe
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Additional Theory and Evidence
Dhammika Dharmapala and Stephen L. Ross
Poverty Measurement Under Risk Aversion Using Panel Data
Guillermo Cruces, Paul Makdissi, and Quentin T. Wodon
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium
Nuno Limao and Arvind Panagariya
Race and the Digital Divide
Robert W. Fairlie
A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth
Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer, and Paul Seabright
Selective Enforcement of Copyright as an Optimal Monopolistic Behavior
Danny Ben-Shahar and Assaf Jacob
Robin Hood's Compromise: The Economics of Moderate Land Reforms
Oriana Bandiera and Gilat Levy
Pricing Coordination Failures and Health Care Provider Integration
Karen Eggleston, George Norman, and Lynne Marie Pepall
Access Charges in the Presence of Call Externalities
Ulrich Berger
Volume 2 (2003) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
Suggested Subsidies are Sub-optimal Unless Combined with an Output Tax
Don Fullerton and Robert D. Mohr
War or Peace
Hongbin Cai
Selective Information Provision and Special Interest Influence: The Case of Trade Policy
Carl-Johan Belfrage
The Spite Motive and Equilibrium Behavior in Auctions
John Morgan, Ken Steiglitz, and George Reis
Optimal Liability for Libel
Oren Bar-Gill and Assaf Hamdani
Aggregation of Non Stationary Demand Systems
Jérôme Adda and Jean-Marc Robin
The Savings Impact of College Financial Aid
Andrew W. Dick, Aaron S. Edlin, and Eric R. Emch
A Theory of Utilization Review
David Dranove and Kathryn E. Spier
Cigarette Demand, Structural Change, and Advertising Bans: International Evidence, 1970-1995
Jon P. Nelson
Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music
Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan Png
Oligopoly Deregulation and the Taxation of Commodities
Gilbert E. Metcalf and George Norman
Ethnicity and Networks in African Trade
Marcel Fafchamps
Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Analysis
Christopher S. Magee
Volume 1 (2002) - Issue 1 (Contributions)
Why Governments Should Tax Mobile Capital in the Presence of Unemployment
Erkki Koskela and Ronnie Schöb
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment
Steven D. Levitt
Road Warrior Booty: Prize Structures in Motorcycle Racing
Michael T. Maloney and Kristina Terkun
Optimal Environmental Regulation in the Presence of Other Taxes: The Role of Non-separable Preferences and Technology
Seung-Rae Kim
Adverse Selection, Short-Term Contracting, and the Underprovision of On-the-Job Training
Benjamin E. Hermalin
Credits, Crises, and Capital Controls: A Microeconomic Analysis
Zvika Neeman and Gerhard Oskar Orosel
The Effects of Social Security Privatization on Household Saving: Evidence from Chile
Julia Lynn Coronado
Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Heuristic Search
W. Bentley MacLeod
Patent Theory versus Patent Law
Alexander Tabarrok
An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
Peter Diamond and Peter R. Orszag
Collusive Bidding in the FCC Spectrum Auctions
Peter Cramton and Jesse A. Schwartz