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2024

2024
	Autors	Paper
DP 2409	Costanza Naguib	P-hacking and Significance Stars
DP 2408	Luca Benati, Juan-Pablo Nicolini	The Welfare Costs of Inflation Reconsidered
DP 2407	Jean-Michel Benkert, Shuo Liu, Nick Netzer	Time is Knowledge: What Response Times Reveal
DP 2406	Jean-Michel Benkert, Armin Schmutzler	A Theory of Recommendations
DP 2405	Fabienne Lötscher, Christian P.R. Schmid, Michael Gerfin	The effect of higher out-of-pocket payments on drug prices and demand
DP 2404	Gabriele Camera, Rod Garratt, Cyril Monnet	Truth by Consensus: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
DP 2403	Fabio Gatti	Quantifying Trade from Renaissance Merchant Letters
DP 2402	Pierpaolo Benigno, Gauti B. Eggertsson	The Slanted-L Phillips Curve
DP 2401	Luca Benati, Juan-Pablo Nicolini	Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations

2023

2023
	Autors	Paper
DP 2313	Pierpaolo Benigno	The International Supply of Reserve Currency
DP 2312	Costanza Naguib	Is the Impact of Opening the Borders Heterogeneous?
DP 2311	Martín Gonzales-Eiras, Dirk Niepelt	Optimal Epidemic Control
DP 2310	Martina Jakob, Konstantin Büchel, Daniel Steffen, Aymo Brunetti	Participatory Teaching Improves Learning Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tanzania
DP 2309	Jean-Michel Benkert, Igor Letina, Shuo Liu	Startup Acquisitions: Acquihires and Talent Hoarding
DP 2308	Luca Benati	Forecasting Global Temperatures by Exploiting Cointegration with Radiative Forcing
DP 2307	Ralph Winkler	On the Relationship between Adaptation and Mitigation
DP 2306	Luca Benati, Thomas A. Lubik	Impulse Response Analysis at the Zero Lower Bound
DP 2305	Luca Benati	The Monetary Dynamics of Hyperinflation Reconsidered
DP 2304	Piero Gottardi, Vincent Maurin, Cyril Monnet	Fragility of Secured Credit Chains
DP 2303	Luca Benati, Pierpaolo Benigno	Gibson’s Paradox and the Natural Rate of Interest
DP 2302	Costanza Naguib, Patrick Gagliardini	A Semi-nonparametric Copula Model for Earnings Mobility
DP 2301	Giacomo De Giorgi, Luca Gambetti, Costanza Naguib	Life-Cycle Inequality: the Black and White Differential

2022

Diskussionsschriften
	Autors	Paper
DP 2216	Stefano Maria Corbellini	Optimal monetary and transfer policy in a liquidity trap
DP 2215	Ralph Winkler, Dominik Wlodarczak	Eine effektive und effiziente (Schweizer) Klimapolitik: Warum wir sie unbedingt und schnell brauchen und die Angst vor den damit verbundenen Veränderungen unbegründet ist
DP 2214	Winand Emons, Severin Lenhard	The Economics of Advice
DP 2213	Dirk Niepelt	Sovereign Bond Prices, Haircuts and Maturity
DP 2212	Dirk Niepelt	Money and Banking with Reserves and CBDC
DP 2211	Pierpaolo Benigno	Monetary Policy in a World of Cryptocurrencies
DP 2210	Luca Benati	A New Approach to Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest
DP 2209	Giacomo De Giorgi, Luca Gambetti, Costanza Naguib	Consumption Insurance among Blacks and Whites
DP 2208	Costanza Naguib	Financial Turmoil and Earnings Mobility
DP 2206	Giacomo De Giorgi, Costanza Naguib	Life after Default: Credit Hardship and its Effects
DP 2205	Philipp Brunner, Igor Letina, Armin Schmutzler	Research Joint Ventures: The Role of Financial Constraints
DP 2204	Mikhail Drugov, Margaret Meyer, Marc Möller	Selecting the Best when Selection is Hard
DP 2203	Jean-Michel Benkert	Bilateral Trade with Loss-Averse Agents
DP 2202	Luca Benati	Exploring the Trade-Off Between Leaning Against Credit and Stabilizing Real Activity
DP 2201	Martín Gonzales-Eiras, Dirk Niepelt	The Political Economy of Early COVID-19 Interventions in US States

2021

2021
	Autors	Paper
DP 2114	Aymo Brunetti, Konstantin Büchel, Martina Jakob, Ben Jann, Daniel Steffen	Inadequate Teacher Content Knowledge and What to Do About It: Evidence from El Salvador
DP 2113	Luca Benati, Juan-Pablo Nicolini	The Welfare Costs of Inflation
DP 2112	Luca Benati	The Joint Dynamics of Money and Credit Multipliers Since the Gold Standard Era
DP 2111	Tamara Bischof, Michael Gerfin, Tobias Müller	Attention Please! Health Plan Choice and (In-)Attention
DP 2110	Luca Benati	Long-Run Evidence on the Quantity Theory of Money
DP 2109	Nadia Ceschi, Marc Möller	Advance Selling in the Wake of Entry
DP 2108	Luca Benati	A New Approach to Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest
DP 2107	Luca Benati, Thomas Lubik	Searching for Hysteresis
DP 2106	Oleg Muratov	All-Pay Auctions with Reserve Price and Bid Cap
DP 2105	Severin Lenhard	Imperfect Competition with Costly Disposal
DP 2104	Severin Lenhard	Cartel Stability in Times of Low Interest Rates
DP 2103	Giacomo De Giorgi, Luca Gambetti, Costanza Naguib	Life-Cycle inequality: blacks and whites differentials in life expectancy, savings, income, and consumption
DP 2102	Oleg Muratov	Mapping an Information Design Game into an All-Pay Auction
DP 2101	Raphael Auer, Cyril Monnet, Hyun Song Shin	Distributed Ledgers and the Governance of Money

2020

Diskussionsschriften
	Autors	Paper
DP 2022	Luca Benati	Money Velocity and the Natural Rate of Interest
DP 2021	Luca Benati, Robert E. Lucas Jr., Juan Pablo Nicolini, Warren Weber	International Evidence on Long-Run Money Demand
DP 2020	Luca Benati	Leaning Against House Prices: A Structural VAR Investigation
DP 2019	Dirk Niepelt	Optimally Controlling an Epidemic
DP 2018	Dirk Niepelt	Monetary Policy with Reserves and CBDC: Optimality, Equivalence, and Politics
DP 2017	Juan Beccuti, Marc Möller	Fighting for Lemons: The Encouragement Effect in Dynamic Contests with Private Information
DP 2016	Blaise Melly, Rafael Lalive	Estimation, Inference, and Interpretation in the Regression Discontinuity Design
DP 2015	Christian Wipf	Should Banks Create Money?
DP 2014	Oleg Muratov	Entrepreneur-Investor Information Design
DP 2013	Lukas Altermatt, Christian Wipf	Liquidity, the Mundell-Tobin Effect, and the Friedman Rule
DP 2012	Martino Pelli, Jeanne Tschopp, Natalia Bezmaternykh, Kodjovi M Eklou	In the Eye of the Storm: Firms and Capital Destruction in India
DP 2011	Igor Letina, Shuo Liu, Nick Netzer	Optimal Contest Design: Tuning the Heat
DP 2010	Benedikt Janzen, Doina Radulescu	Electricity Use as a Real Time Indicator of the Economic Burden of the COVID-19-Related Lockdown: Evidence from Switzerland
DP 2009	Martin Gonzalez-Eiras, Dirk Niepelt	Tractable Epidemiological Modelsfor Economic Analysis
DP 2008	Martin Gonzalez-Eiras, Dirk Niepelt	On the Optimal “Lockdown” During an Epidemic
DP 2007	Juan Beccuti	On the Optimality of Price-posting in Rental Markets
DP 2006	Konstantin Büchel, Martina Jakob, Christoph Kühnhanss, Daniel Steffen, Aymo Brunetti	The Relative Effectiveness of Teachers and Learning Software: Evidence from a Field Experiment in El Salvador
DP 2005	Aymo Brunetti, Konstantin Büchel, Martina Jakob, Ben Jann, Christoph Kühnhanss, Daniel Steffen	Teacher Content Knowledge in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Math Assessment in El Salvador
DP 2004	Fabio Canetg	Monetary Policy Implementation and Pass-Through
DP 2003	Igor Letina, Armin Schmutzler, Regina Seibel	Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies
DP 2002	Winand Emons, Severin Lenhard	Rebating Antitrust Fines to Encourage Private Damages Actions
DP 2001	Guido Matias Cortes, Jeanne Tschopp	Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality

2019

Diskussionsschriften
	Autors	Paper
DP 1911	Luca Benati, Juan-Pablo Nicolini	The Welfare Costs of Inflation
DP 1910	Martino Pelli, Jeanne Tschopp, Natalia Bezmaternykh, Kodjovi M Eklou	In the Eye of the Storm: Firms and Capital Destruction in India
DP 1909	Germàn Pupato, Ben Sand, Jeanne Tschopp	Estimating the Gains from Trade in Frictional Local Labor Markets
DP 1908	Juan Beccuti, Marc Möller	Screening by Mode of Trade
DP 1907	Tamara Bischof, Boris Kaiser	Who Cares When You Close Down? The Effects of Primary Care Practice Closures on Patients
DP 1906	Nana Adrian	Price Discrimination and Salience-Driven Consumer Preferences
DP 1905	Nana Adrian, Ann-Kathrin Crede, Jonas Gehrlein	Market Interaction and the Focus on Consequences in Moral Decision Making
DP 1904	Nana Adrian, Marc Möller	Partnerships with Asymmetric Information: The Benefit of Sharing Equally amongst Unequals
DP 1903	Markus K. Brunnermeier, Dirk Niepelt	On the Equivalence of Private and Public Money
DP 1902	Chao Gu, Cyril Monnet, Ed Nosal, Randall Wright	On the Instability of Banking and other Financial Intermediation
DP 1901	Fabio Canetg, Daniel Kaufmann	Shocking Interest Rate Floors

2018

Diskussionsschriften
	Autors	Paper
DP 1826	Luca Benati	Cagan’s Paradox Revisited
DP 1825	Sophie Altermatt, Simon Beyeler	Shall We Twist?
DP 1824	Sophie Altermatt	The Long-Run Demand for M2 Reconsidered
DP 1823	Christian Myohl, Yannic Stucki	Confidence and the Financial Accelerator
DP 1822	Christian Myohl	Optimal Fiscal Policy and Private Sector Borrowing Constraints
DP 1821	Christian Myohl	The Effect of a Financial Block on the Identification of Confidence Shocks in a Structural VAR Model
DP 1820	Yannic Stucki, Jacqueline Thomet	The effects of firing costs on employment and hours per employee
DP 1819	Jacqueline Thomet, Philipp Wegmüller	Technology shocks and hours worked: a cross-country analysis
DP 1818	Yannic Stucki, Jacqueline Thomet	A neoclassical perspective on Switzerland’s 1990s stagnation
DP 1817	Fabio Canetg	Strategic Deviations in Optimal Monetary Policy
DP 1816	Winand Emons	The Effectiveness of Leniency Programs when Firms choose the Degree of Collusion
DP 1815	Stephan Imhof, Cyril Monnet, Shengxing Zhang	The Risk-Taking Channel of Liquidity Regulations and Monetary Policy
DP 1814	Cyril Monnet, Erwan Quintin	Optimal Exclusion
DP 1813	Dirk Niepelt	Reserves For All? Central Bank Digital Currency, Deposits, and their (Non)-Equivalence
DP 1812	Francesca Carapella, Cyril Monnet	Dealers' Insurance, Market Structure, And Liquidity
DP 1811	Luca Benati	Money and Credit: A Long-Term View
DP 1810	Guido Baldi, André Bodmer	Intangible Capital Formation, International Equity Investments, and Output Synchronization
DP 1809	Raf Van Gestel, Tobias Müller, Johan Bosmans	Learning from failure in healthcare: Dynamic panel evidence of a physician shock effect
DP 1808	Cornel Kaufmann, Tobias Müller, Andreas Hefti, Stefan Boes	Does personalized information improve health plan choices when individuals are distracted?
DP 1807	Luca Benati, Joshua Chan, Eric Eisenstat, Gary Koop	Identifying Noise Shocks
DP 1806	Luca Benati, Lucas Kyriacou	Does Sentiment Matter?
DP 1805	Luca Benati, Eric Eisenstat, Gary Koop	Can News and Noise Shocks Be Disentangled?
DP 1804	Luca Benati, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Juan-Pablo Nicolini, Warren Weber	Long-Run Money Demand Redux
DP 1803	Martín Gonzalez-Eiras, Dirk Niepelt	Dynamic Tax Externalities and the U.S. Fiscal Transformation in the 1930s
DP 1802	Dirk Niepelt	Financial Policy
DP 1801	Klaus Neusser	The New Keynesian Model with Stochastically Varying Policies

2017

	Autors	Paper
DP 1710	Raf Van Gestel, Tobias Müller, Johan Bosmans	Does My High Blood Pressure Improve Your Survival? Overall and Subgroup Learning Curves in Health
DP 1709	Tobias Müller, Mujaheed Shaikh	Your Retirement and My Health Behavior: Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design
DP 1708	Luca Benati, Peter Ireland	Money-Multiplier Shocks
DP 1707	Sophie Altermatt, Luca Benati	What Drives Money Velocity?
DP 1706	Luca Benati	Money Velocity and the Natural Rate of Interest
DP 1705	Luca Benati	Could the Bubble in U.S. House Prices Have Been Detected in Real Time?
DP 1704	Luca Benati	Cointegration Tests and the Classical Dichotomy
DP 1703	Dirk Niepelt	Sovereign Bond Prices, Haircuts and Maturity
DP 1702	Yashar Blouri, Maximilian von Ehrlich	On the optimal design of place-based policies: A structural evaluation of EU regional transfers
DP 1701	Klaus Neusser	Time - Varying Rational Expectations Models: Solutions, Stability, Numerical Implementation

2016

	Autors	Paper
DP 1610	Luca Benati	A New Approach to Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest
DP 1609	Luca Benati	Would a ‘Modest Policy Intervention’ Have Prevented the U.S. Housing Bubble?
DP 1608	Konstantin Büchel, Maximilian von Ehrlich	Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions: Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
DP 1607	Victor Chernozhukov, Ivan Fernandez-Val, Blaise Melly, Kaspar Wüthrich	Generic Inference on Quantile and Quantile Effect Functions for Discrete Outcomes
DP 1606	George Elias	Benchmarking Heterogeneous Distribution System Operators: Evidence from Norway
DP 1605	Blaise Melly, Kaspar Wüthrich	Local quantile treatment effects
DP 1604	Klaus Neusser	A Topological View on the Identification of Structural Vector Autoregressions
DP 1603	Maximilian von Ehrlich, Tobias Seidel	Financial development and inequality in the global economy
DP 1602	Philipp Wegmueller	International Evidence on Time-Variation in Trend Labor Productivity Growth
DP 1601	Claude Fluet, Winand Emons	Strategic Communication with Reporting Costs

2015

	Autors	Paper
DP 1512	Daniel Burkhard	Consumption smoothing at retirement: average and quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design
DP 1511	Daniel Burkhard, Christian Schmid, Kaspar Wüthrich	Financial incentives and physician prescription behavior: Evidence from dispensing regulations
DP 1510	Andreas Bachmann	Lumpy investment and variable capacity utilization: firm-level and macroeconomic implications
DP 1509	Kaspar Wüthrich	Semiparametric estimation of quantile treatment effects with endogeneity
DP 1508	Sarina Steinmann, Ralph Winkler	Sharing a River with Downstream Externalities
DP 1507	Andreas Bachmann, Kaspar Wüthrich	Evaluating pay-as-you-go social security systems
DP 1506	Maximilian von Ehrlich, Tobias Seidel	The persistent effects of place-based policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
DP 1505	Lisa R. Anderson, Gregory DeAngelo, Winand Emons, Beth Freeborn, Hannes Lang	Penalty Structures and Deterrence in a Two-Stage Model: Experimental Evidence
DP 1504	Marco Riguzzi, Philipp Wegmueller	Economic Openness and Fiscal Multipliers
DP 1503	Daniel Burkhard	Allocation of Expenditures in Elderly Households and the Cost of Widowhood
DP 1502	Stefan Sebastian Fahrländer, Michael Gerfin, Manuel Lehner	The influence of noise on net revenue and values of investment properties: Evidence from Switzerland
DP 1501	Andreas Beerli, Ronald Indergand	Which Factors Drive the Skill-Mix of Migrants in the Long-Run?

2014

	Autors	Paper
DP 1408	Kaspar Wüthrich	A Comparison of two Quantile Models with Endogeneity
DP 1407	Philipp Wegmueller	Utility functions, fiscal shocks and the open economy - In the search of a positive consumption multiplier
DP 1406	Marco Riguzzi	Economic Openness and Fiscal Multipliers
DP 1405	Marc Blatter, Winand Emons, Silvio Sticher	Optimal Leniency Programs when Firms Have Cumulative and Asymmetric Evidence
DP 1404	Philipp Wegmueller	Floating or fixed exchange rates: The role of government size
DP 1403	Michael Gerfin, Boris Kaiser, Christian Schmid	Health Care Demand in the Presence of Discrete Price Changes
DP 1402	Juan I. Beccuti	Optimal Selling Mechanisms under Imperfect Commitment: Extending to the Multi-Period Case
DP 1401	Juan I. Beccuti	Optimal Selling Mechanisms under Imperfect Commitment

2013

	Autors	Paper
DP 1313	Silvio Sticher	Competitive Market Segmentation
DP 1312	Marc Blatter, Silvio Sticher	Exclusivity Clauses: Enhancing Competition, Raising Prices
DP 1311	Silvio Sticher	Selection upon Wage Posting
DP 1310	Andreas Bachmann, Kaspar Wüthrich	Evaluating pay-as-you-go social security systems
DP 1309	Boris Kaiser	Detailed Decompositions in Generalized Linear Models
DP 1308	Boris Kaiser	Decomposing Differences in Arithmetic Means: A Doubly-Robust Estimation Approach
DP 1307	Andreas Bachmann, Stefan Leist	Sudden stop regimes and output: a Markov switching analysis
DP 1306	Winand Emons, Claude Fluet	Why Plaintiffs' Attorneys Use Contingent and Defense Attorneys Fixed Fee Contracts
DP 1305	Stefan Boes, Michael Gerfin	Does full insurance increase the demand for health care?
DP 1304	Kaspar Wüthrich	Set Identification of Generalized Linear Predictors in the Presence of Non-Classical Measurement Errors
DP 1303	Boris Kaiser, Christian Schmid	Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures?
DP 1302	Aurélie Dariel	Cooperation preferences and framing effects
DP 1301	Christian Schmid	Identification of Supplier-induced Demand What kind of consumer information matters?

2012

	Autors	Paper
DP 1207	Ana Fernandes	Institutions and the Sectoral Organization of Production
DP 1206	Gunter Stephan, Georg Müller-Fürstenberger	Global Warming, Technology Transfer and Trade in Carbon Energy: Challenge or Threat?
DP 1205	Andreas Bachmann	Exchange rate pass-through to various price indices: empirical estimation using vector error correction models
DP 1204	Matthew Canzoneri, Fabrice Collard, Harris Dellas, Behzad Diba	Fiscal Multipliers in Recessions
DP 1203	Christian Almer, Stefan Boes	Climate (change) and conflict: resolving a puzzle of association and causation
DP 1202	Christian Almer, Ralph Winkler	The Effect of Kyoto Emission Targets on Domestic CO2 Emissions: A Synthetic Control Approach
DP 1201	Oliver Schenker, Gunter Stephan	International Trade and the Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

2011

	Autors	Paper
DP 1107	Stefan Leist	Driving Forces of the Swiss Output Gap
DP 1106	Wolfgang Habla, Ralph Winkler	Political influence on non-cooperative international climate policy
DP 1105	Hans Gersbach, Noemi Hummel, Ralph Winkler	Sustainable Climate Treaties
DP 1104	Sergio Andenmatten, Felix Brill	Measuring Co-Movements of CDS Premia during the Greek Debt Crisis
DP 1103	Stefan Boes, Dominik Hangartner, Lukas Schmid	Identification of Causal Education Effects Using a Discontinuity in School Entry Tests: First Results from a Pilot Study
DP 1102	Stefan Boes	On the causal effect of schooling on smoking: evidence without exogeneity conditions
DP 1101	Domink Hangartner, Lukas Schmid	The Participation Gap Evidence from Compulsory Voting Laws

2010

	Autors	Paper
DP 1015	Eberhard Feess, Michael Gerfin, Gerd Muehlheusser	Contracts as Rent-Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer
DP 1014	Christian Almer, Ralph Winkler	Strategic behavior in IEAs: When and why countries joined the Kyoto Protocol
DP 1013	Maik T. Schneider, Ralph Winkler	Growth and Welfare under Endogenous Lifetime
DP 1012	Michael Gerfin, Boris Kaiser	The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach
DP 1011	Reto Foellmi	Inequality and Aggregate Savings in the Neoclassical Growth Model
DP 1010	Reto Foellmi, Rina Rosenblatt-Wisch, Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé	Consumption Paths under Prospect Utility in an Optimal Growth Model
DP 1009	Reto Foellmi, Christian Hepenstrick, Josef Zweimüller	Non-homothetic preferences, parallel imports and the extensive margin of international trade
DP 1008	Georg Müller-Fürstenberger, Gunter Stephan	What Really Matters: Discounting, Technological Change and Sustainable Climate
DP 1007	Maik T. Schneider, Christian Traeger, Ralph Winkler	Trading Off Generations: Infinitely-Lived Agent Versus OLG
DP 1006	Reto Foellmi, Manuel Oechslin	Market Imperfections, Wealth Inequality, and the Distribution of Trade Gains
DP 1005	Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller	Mass versus Exclusive Goods, and Formal-Sector Employment
DP 1004	Philipp Ackermann	External Price Benchmarking vs. Price Negotiation for Pharmaceuticals
DP 1003	Philipp Ackermann	Litigation and Settlement under Court Error
DP 1002	Philipp Ackermann	Loyalty Rewards and Monopoly Pricing
DP 1001	Winand Emons	Incentive Compatible Reimbursement Schemes for Physicians

2009

	Autors	Paper
DP 0904	Winand Emons, Claude Fluet	Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Testimony
DP 0903	Aline Bütikofer, Michael Gerfin	The economies of scale of living together and how they are shared - Estimates based on a collective household model
DP 0902	Olivier Bochet, Sidartha Gordon	Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
DP 0901	Olivier Bochet, Ton Storcken	Maximal Domains for Strategy-proof or Maskin Monotonic Choice Rules

2008

	Autors	Paper
DP 0805	Winand Emons, Claude Fluet	Non-comparative versus Comparative Advertising as a Quality Signal
DP 0804	Seraina Buob, Gunter Stephan	Global Climate Change and the Funding of Adaptation
DP 0803	Gregor Bäurle	Priors from DSGE Models for Dynamic Factor Analysis
DP 0802	Ana Fernandes	Endogenous Political Economy: On the Inevitability of Inefficiency under the Natural Resource Curse
DP 0801	Daniel Burren	The Role of Sectoral Shifts in the Great Moderation

2007

	Autors	Paper
DP 0707	Andras Niedermayer	On Platforms, Incomplete Contracts, and Open Source Software
DP 0706	Simon Loertscher, Andras Niedermayer	When is Seller Price Setting with Linear Fees Optimal for Intermediaries?
DP 0705	Gregor Baeurle, Daniel Burren	A Note on Business Cycle Accounting
DP 0704	Beatriz Gaitan, Terry L. Roe	Path Interdependence in a Dynamic Two Country Heckscher-Ohlin Model
DP 0703	Harris Dellas, Ana Fernandes	Finance and Competition
DP 0702	Winand Emons, Claude Fluet	Accuracy versus Falsification Costs: The optimal Amount of Evidence under different Procedures
DP 0701	Andras Niedermayer, Daniel Niedermayer	Applying Markowitz's Critical Line Algorithm

2006

	Autors	Paper
DP 0606	Harris Dellas, Ana Fernandes	The Allocation of Resources under Uncertainty
DP 0605	Winand Emons	Genetic Tests and Intertemporal Screening in Competitive Insurance Markets
DP 0604	Andras Niedermayer	Does a Platform Monopolist Want Competition?
DP 0603	Gunter Stephan, Georg Müller-Fürstenberger	Discounting The Global Climate When Technological Change is Endogenous
DP 0602	Andras Niedermayer, Daniel Niedermayer	Applying Markowitz's Critical Line Algorithm
DP 0601	Stefan S. Fahrlaender	Indirect Construction of Hedonic Price Indexes: Empirical Evidence for Private Properties in Switzerland

2005

	Autors	Paper
DP 0518	Robert Aebi, Klaus Neusser, Peter Steiner	A Large Deviation Approach to the Measurement of Mobility
DP 0517	Andras Niedermayer	Does a Platform Owning Monopolist Want Competition?
DP 0516	Aleksander Berentsen, Esther Bruegger, Simon Loertscher	Learning, voting and the information trap
DP 0515	Simon Loertscher, Yves Schneider	Switching Costs, Firm Size, and Market Structure
DP 0514	Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes, Andrea Ichino	Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach
DP 0513	Ana Fernandes	Knowledge, Technology Adoption and Financial Innovation
DP 0512	Simon Loertscher	Market making oligopoly
DP 0511	Simon Loertscher, Gerd Muehlheusser	Global and local players in a model of spatial competition
DP 0510	Simon Loertscher	Horizontally Differentiated Market Makers
DP 0509	Alain Egli	Hotelling's Beach with Linear and Quadratic Transportation Costs: Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria
DP 0508	Reto Nyffeler	Different Modeling Strategies for Discrete Choice Models of Female Labour Supply: Estimates for Switzerland
DP 0507	Stefan Sebastian Fahrlaender	Semiparametric Construction of Spatial Generalized Hedonic Models for Private Properties
DP 0506	Winand Emons, Claude Fluet	The Optimal Amount of Falsfied Testimony
DP 0505	Esther Bruegger	Replicator Dynamics with Frequency Dependent Stage Games
DP 0504	Esther Bruegger	Endogenous Institutions and the Dynamics of Corruption
DP 0503	Jaroslava Hlouskova, Martin Wagner	The Performance of Panel Unit Root and Stationarity Tests: Results from a Large Scale Simulation Study
DP 0502	Georg Müller-Fürstenberger, Gunter Stephan	Intensity Targeting or Emission CAPS: Non-Cooperative Climate Change Policies and Technological Change
DP 0501	Alain Egli	On Stability in Competition: Tying and Horizontal Product Differentiation

2004

	Autors	Paper
DP 0419	Winand Emons	Playing It Safe with Low Conditional Fees versus Being Insured by High Contingent Fees
DP 0418	Martin Wagner, Georg Müller-Fürstenberger	The Carbon Kuznets Curve: A Cloudy Picture Emitted by Bad Econometrics?
DP 0417	Alain Egli	On Holders, Blades and Other Tie-In Sales
DP 0416	Martin Wagner, Jaroslava Hlouskova	What's Really the Story with this Balassa-Samuelson Effect in the CEECs?
DP 0415	Wolfgang Drobetz, Gabrielle Wanzenried	What Determines the Speed of Adjustment to the Target Capital Structure?
DP 0414	Robert E. Leu, Martin Schellhorn	The evolution of income-related health inequalities in Switzerland over time
DP 0413	Robert E. Leu, Martin Schellhorn	The evolution of income-related inequalities in health care utilization in Switzerland over time
DP 0412	Stefan Beiner, Markus Schmid, Gabrielle Wanzenried	Product Market Competition, Managerial Inventives, and Firm Valuation
DP 0411	Eberhard Feess, Bernd Frick, Gerd Muehlheusser	Legal Restrictions on Buyout Fees: Theory and Evidence from German Soccer
DP 0410	Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider	Black Sheep and Walls of Silence
DP 0409	Winand Emons	Conditional versus Contingent Fees
DP 0408	Robert Aebi, Klaus Neusser, Peter Steiner	Equilibrium Mobility
DP 0407	Winand Emons, Nuno Garoupa	The Economics of US-style Contingent Fees and UK-style Conditional Fees
DP 0406	Roland Hodler	Redistribution to Rent Seekers, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth
DP 0405	Juerg Schweri	Does it pay to be a good student? Results from the Swiss graduate labour market
DP 0404	Roland Hodler	The Curse of Natural Resources in Fractionalized Countries
DP 0403	Martin Wagner, Jaroslava Hlouskova	CEEC Growth Projections: Certainly Necessary and Necessarily Uncertain
DP 0402	Martin Schellhorn	Wählbare Selbstbehalte in der Krankenversicherung der Schweiz: Nachfragesteuerung oder Selektion?
DP 0401	Manfred Deistler, Klaus Neusser	Prognose uni- und multivariater Zeitreihen

2003

	Autors	Paper
DP 0320	Simon Lörtscher	Monopolistic Intermediation in the Gehrig (1993) Search Model Revisited
DP 0319	Andrea Ichino, Gerd Muehlheusser	How often should you open the door? Optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents
DP 0318	Michael Gerfin, Robert E. Leu, Reto Nyffeler	Berufliche Weiterbildung in der Schweiz
DP 0317	Michael Gerfin	Firm-sponsored Work-Related Training in Frictional Labour Markets: An empirical analysis for Switzerland
DP 0316	Michael Gerfin	Work-Related Training and Wages: An empirical analysis for male workers in Switzerland
DP 0315	Winand Emons	Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders
DP 0314	Gabrielle Wanzenried	How Feminine is Corporate America?
DP 0313	Dietmar Bauer, Martin Wagner	On Polynomial Cointegration in the State Space Framework
DP 0312	Dietmar Bauer, Martin Wagner	A Canonical Form for Unit Root Processes in the State Space Framework
DP 0311	Kurt Schmidheiny	Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland
DP 0310	Christian Ghiglino	Wealth inequality and dynamic stability
DP 0309	Patricia Funk, Gabrielle Wanzenried	Product Market Competition and Executive Compensation: An Empirical Investigation
DP 0308	Dietmar Bauer, Martin Wagner	The Performance of Subspace Algorithm Cointegration Analysis: A Simulation Study
DP 0307	Thomas Liebi	The Demand for Tests
DP 0306	Alan S. Manne, Gunter Stephan	Global Climate Change and the Equity-Efficiency Puzzle
DP 0305	Gabrielle Wanzenried	Capital Structure Inertia and CEO Compensation
DP 0304	Michael Gerfin, Robert E. Leu	The Impact of In-Work Benefits on Poverty and Household Labour Supply. A simulation study for Switzerland
DP 0303	Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger	Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? An econometric analysis of two different schemes
DP 0302	Aleksander Berentsen, Esther Brügger, Simon Lörtscher	On Cheating and Whistle-Blowing
DP 0301	Gunter Stephan, Georg Müller-Fürstenberger	Does Distribution Matter? When Flexibility, Equity and Efficiency in Greenhouse Gas Abatement

2002

	Autors	Paper
DP 0220	Robert Aebi, Klaus Neusser, Peter Steiner	A Large Deviation Approach to the Measurement of Mobility
DP 0219	Harris Dellas, George Tavlas	Wage Rigidity and Monetary Union
DP 0218	Harris Dellas, Martin K. Hess	Financial development and stock returns: A cross country analysis
DP 0217	Fabrice Collard, Harris Dellas	Technology Shocks and Employment
DP 0216	Kurt Schmidheiny	Equilibrium and Stratification with Local Income Taxation when Households Differ in both Preferences and Incomes
DP 0215	Kurt Schmidheiny	Income Stratifcation in Multi-Community Models
DP 0214	Gabrielle Wanzenried	Signaling with Capital Structure Revisited
DP 0213	Christian Ghiglino, Marielle Olszak-Duquenne	The impact of heterogeneity on indeterminacy
DP 0212	Jaroslava Hlouskova, Kurt Schmidheiny, Martin Wagner	Multistep Predictions from Multivariate ARMA-GARCH: Models and their Value for Portfolio Management
DP 0211	Winand Emons	Subgame Perfect Punishment for Repeat Offenders
DP 0210	Martin Wagner	A Comparison of Johansen's, Bierens and the Subspace Algorithm Method for Cointegration Analysis
DP 0209	Gabrielle Wanzenried	Capital Structure Dynamics in UK and Continental Europe
DP 0208	Sandra Nocera, Gabrielle Wanzenried	On the Dynamics of Physician Density; Theory and Empirical Evidence for Switzerland
DP 0207	Thomas Liebi	Monitoring Eco-Labels: You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing
DP 0206	Simon Lörtscher, Michael Manz	Information and Barometric Prices: An Explanation for Price Stickiness
DP 0205	Dietmar Bauer, Martin Wagner	Asymptotic Properties of Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimate Kopieren s for Multiple Frequency I(1) Processes
DP 0204	Dietmar Bauer, Martin Wagner	A Canonical Form for Unit Root Processes in the State Space Framework
DP 0203	Michael Manz	Coordination Failure and Financial Contagion
DP 0202	Winand Emons, George Sheldon	The Market for Used Cars: A New Test of the Lemons Model
DP 0201	Thomas Liebi	Trusting Labels: A Matter of Numbers?

2001

	Autors	Paper
DP 0104	Winand Emons	A Note on the Optimal Punishment for Repeat Offenders
DP 0103	Winand Emons	Perjury versus Truth-Revelation: Quantity or Quality of Testimony
DP 0102	Gunter Stephan, Georg Müller-Fürstenberger	Does Distribution Matter? When Flexibility and Pareto-Efficiency in Greenhouse Gas Abatement
DP 0101	Dario Bonato, Sandra Nocera, Harry Telser	The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care: An Economic Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease

2000

	Autors	Paper
DP 0004	Helmut Zink	Credit Risk Management - RAROC-lead capital allocation and profit maximization
DP 0001	Gunter Stephan, Georg Müller-Fürstenberger	Where-to-Abate and Where-to-Invest Flexibility: An Integrated Assessment Analysis of Climate Change

Volkswirtschaftliches Institut

Forschungsstelle für Bildungsökonomie

Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)

World Trade Institute (WTI)

Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED)