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  • Eliciting Individual-Specific Discount Rates 
    Cameron, Trudy Ann; Gerdes, Geoffrey R. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-01-01)
    Longstanding debate over the appropriate social discount rate for public projects stems from our lack of knowledge about how individual discount rates vary across people and across choice contexts. Using a sample of roughly ...
  • An Empirical Model of Demand for Future Health States when Valuing Risk-Mitigating Programs 
    Cameron, Trudy Ann; DeShazo, J. R. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2004-03)
    We develop a structural option price model in which individuals choose among competing risk-mitigating programs to alter their probability of experiencing future years in various degraded health states. The novel aspects ...
  • The Empirical Trap of Sign Reversals with Equality Restrictions 
    Haynes, Stephen E., 1945- (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2005-01-15)
    This note explores the insidious empirical trap posed by two common equality restrictions in regression analysis. The trap is that restricted coefficients can lie outside the interval of unrestricted coefficients and even ...
  • Endogenous Lifetime and Economic Growth 
    Chakraborty, Shankha (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-01-26)
    Conventional wisdom attributes the severity of mortality in poorer countries to widespread poverty and inadequate living conditions. This paper considers the possibility that persistent poverty may arise, in turn, from a ...
  • The Equal Sacrifice Principle Revisited 
    Lambert, Peter J.; Naughton, Helen T. (Helen Tammela), 1976- (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2006-06-01)
    What does an equal sacrifice tax look like in the case of a rank-dependent social welfare function? One's tax liability evidently becomes a function of one's income and one's position in the distribution in such a case, ...
  • Estimating the Impact of Time-Invariant Variables on FDI with Fixed Effects 
    Davies, Ronald B.; Ionascu, Delia; Kristjánsdóttir, Helga (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2007-05)
    This paper applies the panel fixed effects with vector decomposition estimator to three FDI datasets to estimate the impact of time-invariant variables on FDI while including fixed effects. We find that the omission of ...
  • Estimating The Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Comment 
    Blonigen, Bruce A.; Davies, Ronald B.; Head, Keith (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-03-01)
    No abstract was submitted.
  • Evidence of Environmental Migration: Housing values alone may not capture the full effects of local environmental disamenities 
    Cameron, Trudy Ann; McConnaha, Ian (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2005-01-01)
    In hedonic property value models, economists typically assume that changing perceptions of environmental risk should be captured by changes in housing prices. However, for long-lived environmental problems, we find that ...
  • Exchange Rate Regime Choice and Country Characteristics: an Empirical Investigation into the Role of Openness 
    Magud, Nicolas (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2004-10-20)
    In choosing an exchange rate regime for a small open economy, the common wisdom (Friedman (1953), Meade (1950)) calls for a °oating regime to outperform a peg because of the ability of the former to cope with relative price ...
  • Existence of Adaptively Stable Sunspot Equilibria near an Indeterminate Steady State 
    Evans, George W., 1949-; Honkapohja, Seppo, 1951- (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-04-06)
    We examine the nonlinear model x_t = E_t F(x_(t+1)). Markov SSEs exist near an indeterminate steady state, hat(x)=F(hat(x)), provided |F'(hat(x)| > 1. Despite the importance of indeterminancy in macroeconomics, earlier ...
  • Expectational Stability of Stationary Sunspot Equilibria in a Forward-looking Linear Model 
    Evans, George W., 1949-; Honkapohja, Seppo, 1951- (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-01-14)
    We consider the stability under adaptive learning of the complete set of solutions to the model x_i=beta(Ei*)(x_i+1) when |beat| >1. In addition to the fundamentals solution, the literature describes both finite-state ...
  • Expectations and the Stability Problem for Optimal Monetary Policies 
    Evans, George W., 1949-; Honkapohja, Seppo, 1951- (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2001-08-03)
    A fundamentals based monetary policy rule, which would be the optimal monetary policy without commitment when private agents have perfectly rational expectations, is unstable if in fact these agents follow standard adaptive ...
  • Expectations, Deflation Traps and Macroeconomic Policy 
    Evans, George W., 1949-; Honkapohja, Seppo, 1951- (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2009-07-06)
    We examine global economic dynamics under infinite-horizon learning in a New Keynesian model in which the interest-rate rule is subject to the zero lower bound. As in Evans, Guse and Honkapohja (2008), we find that under ...
  • An Experimental Test of Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles and Young Adults 
    Visser, Michael Scott, 1976-; Harbaugh, William; Mocan, H. Naci (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2006-08)
    We report results from economic experiments that provide a direct test of the hypothesis that criminal behavior responds rationally to changes in the possible rewards and in the probability and severity of punishment. ...
  • Fix your attitude: Labor-market consequences of poor attitude and low self-esteem in youth 
    Waddell, Glen R. (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2003-09)
    Using longitudinal data on a cohort of high-school graduates, I show that individuals who reveal poor attitudes and low self-esteem as high-school students attain fewer years of post-secondary education relative to their ...
  • Fixed Costs, Foreign Direct Investment, and Gravity with Zeros 
    Davies, Ronald B.; Kristjánsdóttir, Helga (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2006-06)
    Fixed costs play a crucial role in current models of foreign direct investment (FDI), yet they are almost entirely ignored in empirical treatments of FDI. We fill this gap by using a 1989-2001 panel of FDI flows into ...
  • For Whom the Pell Tolls: Market Power, Tuition Discrimination, and the Bennett Hypothesis 
    Singell, Larry D. Jr.; Stone, Joe A. (Joe Allan), 1948- (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-04-10)
    Are federal Pell grants "appropriated" by universities through increases in tuition - consistent with what is known as the Bennett hypothesis? Based on a panel of 71 universities from 1983 to 1996, we find little evidence ...
  • The Formation of Communication Networks in Cooperative Games 
    Nouweland, Anne van den (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2004-01)
    I survey the literature on network formation in situations where the possible gains from cooperation of coalitions of agents are modeled by a coalitional game. I discuss the models that appear in the literature and their ...
  • A fourth ‘I’ of poverty ? 
    Esposito, Lucio; Lambert, Peter J. (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2007-02-02)
    Current poverty measurement methodology does not allow a definitive analysis of changes in distribution, through time or between countries, which involve changes in the number or proportion of poor people. By reopening some ...
  • Fragmentation of Headquarter Services and FDI 
    Davies, Ronald B. (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2003-09)
    I develop a simple model in which production of skill-intensive headquarter services are fragmented across borders in order to take advantage of complementarities between types of skilled labor. This setting indicates that ...

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