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Zero Interest Policy & the New Abnormal: A Critique, by Michael Beenstock (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2022)
Published 2024Book review of Zero Interest Policy & the New Abnormal: A Critique, by Michael Beenstock (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2022)Article -
Promotion and demotion contests
Published 2024With a fixed prize budget, to increase total effort, we design a two-stage lottery contest where heterogeneous agents face the prospect of promotion and the threat of demotion from one stage to the next. We develop two ...Article -
It’s not you (well, it is a bit you), it’s me: Self- versus social image in warm-glow giving
Published 2024Attempts by charities to motivate giving tend to focus on potential donors’ altruistic tendencies. However, prior research suggests that approximately 50% of individuals are to some extent motivated by warm glow, the ...Article -
Did marginal propensities to consume change with the housing boom and bust?
Published 2024We extend a widely used semi-structural model to identify and estimate dynamic consumption elasticities with respect to transitory income shocks. Applying our model to household survey data, we find a structural break in ...Article -
Retaining Australian Nurses: An Analysis of Nurses’ Wages and Exit Rates
Published 2023-11-14This study examines the factors influencing Australian nurses’ decisions to leave the nurse profession, describes the pathways that nurses take after leaving the profession, and estimates the average wage change associated ...Thesis