Economics Discussion Papers

2007- 2013

2013
No. Title Authors
2013-11     Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money(6) Chapter 8, 9 and 10: Keynes' Theory of Consumer Behaviour Brian S. Ferguson
2013-10 Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money(5) Chapter 6, The Definition of Income, Saving and Investment; Appendix to Chapter 6, Appendix on User Cost; Chapter 7, The Meaning of Saving and Investment Further Considered Brian S. Ferguson
2013-09 Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money(4) Chapter 4, "The Choice of Units"; Chapter 5, "Expectations as Determining Output and Employment" Brian S. Ferguson
2013-08 Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money(3) Chapter 3, "The Priniciple of Effective Demand" Brian S. Ferguson
2013-07 Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money(2) Chapter 2, "The Postulates of the Classical Economics" Brian S. Ferguson
2013-06 Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money(1) Chapter 1, Background and Historical Setting Brian S. Ferguson
2013-05 Economic Crises and Welllbeing: Social Norms and Home Production Louise Grogan and Katerina Koka
2013-04 Uncertainty in an Interconnected Financial System, Contagion, and Market Freezes Mei Li Frank Milne Junfeng Qiu
2013-03 Rural Electrication and Employment in Poor Countries: Evidence from Nicaragua Louise Grogan,Asha Sadanand
2013-02 Household Formation Rules, Fertility and Female Labour Supply: Evidence from Post-Communist Countries Louise Grogan
2013-01 Gender Wage Gaps, ‘Sticky Floors’ and ‘Glass Ceilings’ in Europe Louis N. Christofides,Alexandros Polycarpou,Konstantinos Vrachimis

 

2012
No. Title Authors
2012-13 NON-MONOTONICITY OF FERTILITY IN HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Spyridon Boikos, Alberto Bucci, Thanasis Stengos
2012-12 University Quality and Labor Market Outcomes of Canadian Youth Joniada Milla
2012-11 A nested contest: Tullock meets the All-Pay Auction J. Atsu Amegashie
2012-10 The Effect of Public Debt on Growth in Multiple Regimes Andros Kourtellos,Thanasis Stengos,Chih Ming Tan
2012-09 Measuring human development: a stochastic dominance approach Mehmet Pinar, Thanasis Stengos, Nikolas Topaloglou
2012-08 Genetic Testing and Insurance:The Complexity of Adverse Selection Maureen Durnin,Michael Hoy,Michael Ruse
2012-07 Persistence in Real Exchange Rate Convergence. Thanasis Stengos,M. Ege Yazgan
2012-06 Is there an optimal forecast combination? A stochastic dominance approach to the forecasting combination puzzle. Mehmet Pinar,Thanasis Stengos,M. Ege Yazgan
2012-05 Cheering Up the Dismal Theorem Ross McKitrick
2012-04 Trust, Reciprocity, and Guanxi in China: An Experimental Investigation Fei Song, C. Bram Cadsby,Yunyun Bi
2012-03 Average Household Size and the Eradication of Malaria Lena Huldén,Ross McKitrick,Larry Huldén
2012-02 Encompassing Tests of Socioeconomic Signals in Surface Climate Data Ross McKitrick
2012-01 The Implication of Peer and Parental Influences on University Attendance: A Gender Comparison Louis N. Christofides,Michael Hoy,Joniada Milla,Thanasis Stengos

 

2011
No. Title Authors
2011-11 Making Large Classes Small(er): Assessing the Effectiveness Of a Hybrid Teaching Technology Barb Bloemhof,John Livernois
2011-10 Group Size, Coordination, and the Effectiveness of the Punishment Mechanism in the VCM: An Experimental Investigation Bin Xu ,Bram Cadsby ,Liangcong Fan,Fei Song
2011-09 Multivariate trend comparisons between autocorrelated climate series with general trend regressors Ross McKitrick, Timothy J. Vogelsang
2011-08 How Competitive are Female Professionals? A Tale of Identity Conflict C. Bram Cadsby, Maros Servatka, Fei Song
2011-07 Testing for Bivariate Stochastic Dominance Using Inequality Restrictions Thanasis Stengos,Brennan S. Thompson
2011-06 Growth and Pollution Convergence: Theory and Evidence C. Ordás Criado, Thanasis Stengos
2011-05 Persistence in Convergence Thanasis Stengos, M. Ege Yazgan
2011-04 Dynamic Competition in Electricity Markets:Hydroelectric and Thermal Generation Talat S. Genc, Henry Thille
2011-03 Imperfect Competition with Competitive Speculation Sebastien Mitraille, Henry Thille
2011-02 Electricity Trade Patterns in a network: Evidence from the Ontario Market Talat S. Genc,Pierre-Olivier Pineaub, and Ege Yazganc
2011-01 Ranking Asymmetric Auctions using the Dispersive Order René Kirkegaard

 

2010
No. Title Authors
2010-15 Equilibrium Predictions in Wholesale Electricity Markets Talat S. Genc
2010-14 Labour market dynamics in Canada, 1891-1911: A first look from new census samples Kris Inwood, Chris Minns and Mary MacKinnon
2010-13 Longitudinal studies of human growth and health A review of recent historical research Kris Inwood, Evan Roberts
2010-12 Incomplete Information and Rent Dissipation in Deterministic Contests René Kirkegaard
2010-11 Persistence-Robust Surplus-Lag Granger Causality Testing Dietmar Bauer, Alex Maynard
2010-10 Product Line Pricing in a Vertically Differentiated Oligopoly George Deltas,Thanasis Stengos, and Eleftherios Zacharias
2010-09 An Updated Ranking of Academic Journals in Economics Pantelis Kalaitzidakis,Theofanis P. Mamuneas, and Thanasis Stengos
2010-08 Multimarket Contact in Vertically Related Markets Sencer Ecer and Talat Genc
2010-07 Supply Function Equilibria with Capacity Constraints and Pivotal Suppliers Talat Genc and Stanley S. Reynolds
2010-06 Investment Dynamics: Good News Principal Talat Genc and Georges Zaccour
2010-05 Preferential Treatment May Hurt: Another Application of the All-Pay Auction Rene Kirkegaard
2010-04 A Large Trade in Bubbles and Crashes: An Application to Currency Attacks Mei Li and Frank Milne
2010-03 Intuitions About Lagrangian Optimization Dan Kalman and Michael Hoy
2010-02 Testing Weak Form Efficiency on the Toronto Stock Exchange Vitali Alexeev and Francis Tapon
2010-01 Localized Level Crossing Random Walk Test Robust to the Presence of Structural Breaks Vitali Alexeev and Alex Maynard

 

2009
No. Title Authors
2009-13 Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter? C. Bram Cadsby, Maros Servatka and Fei Song
2009-12 The Impact of Risk Aversion and Stress on the Incentive Effect of Performance Pay C. Bram Cadsby, Fei Song and Francis Tapon
2009-11 Help or Hindrance: Temporary Help Agencies and the United States Transitory Workforce Fraser Summerfield
2009-10 Do Institutions Rule? The Role of Heterogeneity in the Institutions vs. Geography Debate Thanasis Stengos, Andros Kourtellos and Chih Ming Tan
2009-09 Investment in Electricity Markets with Asymmetric Technologies Talat S. Genc and Henry Thille
2009-08 Growth and the Pollution Convergence Hypothesis: A Nonparametric Approach Thanasis Stengos, C. Ordás Criado and S. Valente
2009-07 Structural Threshold Regression Thanasis Stengos, Andros Kourtellos and Chih Ming Tan
2009-06 Third-party Intervention in Conflicts and the Indirect Samaritan's Dilemma J. Atsu Amegashie
2009-05 Endogenous Infows of Speculative Capital and the Optimal Currency Appreciation Path Mei Li and Junfeng Qiu
2009-04 Impact of Genetic Testing on Surveillance and Prevention Michael Hoy and Lilia Filipova
2009-03 The Economics of Ending Canada's Commercial Harp Seal Hunt John Livernois
2009-02 Incomplete Property Rights and Overinvestment J. Atsu Amegashie
2009-01 The Evolution of the Conditional Joint
Distribution of Life Expectancy and Per Capita 
Income Growth		 Thanasis Stengos, Brennan S. Thompson and Ximing Wu

 

2008
No. Title Authors
2008-14 Measuring Lifetime Poverty Michael Hoy and Buhong Zheng
2008-13 On Capital Gain Taxation Anton Miglo
2008-12 Project Financing Versus Corporate Financing Under Asymmetric Information Anton Miglo
2008-11 A Positive Theory of Immutable Characteristics and Discrimination J. Atsu Amegashie
2008-10 Are You Paying Your Employees to Cheat? An Experimental Investigation C. Bram Cadsby, Fei Song and Francis Tapon
2008-09 Trust, Reciprocity and Social Distance in China: An Experimental Investigation C. Bram Cadsby, Fei Song and Yunyun Bi
2008-08 “No Solution to This Dilemma Exists”: Discrimination, Insurance, and the Human Genome Project Michael Hoy and Michael Ruse
2008-07 The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health Ximing Wu, Andreas Savvidesy and Thanasis Stengos
2008-06 Socially-Tolerable Discrimination J. Atsu Amegashie
2008-05 The Paradoxes of Revenge in Conflicts J. Atsu Amegashie and Marco Runkel
2008-04 Monopoly Behaviour with Speculative Storage Sebastien Mitraille and 
Henry Thille
2008-03 Can Earnings Manipulation Create Value? Anton Miglo
2008-02 The Contribution of Greenhouse Pollution to Productivity Growth Thanasis Stengos, Pantelis Kalaitzidakis and Theofanis P. Mamuneas
2008-01 THRET: Threshold Regression with Endogenous Threshold Variables Thanasis Stengos, Andros Kourtellos and Chih Ming Tan

 

2007
No. Title Authors
2007-08 American Idol: Should it be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest? J.Atsu Amegashie
2007-07 Real Wage Chronologies Louis Christofides and Amy Peng
2007-06 Evaluating the Effects of Asymmetric Information in a Model of Crop Insurance Michael Hoy, Adeyemi Esuola, Zahirul Islam and Calum G. Turvey
2007-05 Incomplete Property Rights, Redistribution, and Efficiency J. Atsu Amegashie
2007-04 A Note on Corporate Taxation, Limited Liability, and Asymmetric Information Anton Miglo
2007-03 Intentions, Insincerity, and Prosocial Behavior J. Atsu Amegashie
2007-02 Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid J. Atsu Amegashie, Bazoumana Ouattara and Eric Strobl
2007-01 Nonlinearities in Economic Growth: A Semiparametric Approach Applied to Information Technology Data Thanasis Stengos