School of Economics: Recent submissions
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Being ‘Too’ Smart Doesn’t Always Pay Off; Truth-Telling in a Strategy-Proof Mechanism
Published 2023-01-25In strategy-proof mechanisms truth-telling is a dominant strategy yielding optimal results for all participants, yet according to experimental evidence truthful revelation rates are worryingly low. This thesis is based on ...Open AccessThesis -
Can we make investors smarter using a nudge? Maybe, but we can’t prove it using the most common experimental disposition effect environment.
Published 2023-01-18Investors have been shown to behave in a way that reduces their earnings by being over hesitant to sell stocks that have decreased in price and over eager to sell stocks that have increased in price, exhibiting what is ...Open AccessThesis -
How does household consumption respond to housing price changes in China?
Published 2022-12-09How house price changes impact household consumption is a long-lasting debate in macroeconomics. Previous literature mainly analyses this relationship with macro-level data, while this thesis aims to identify the relationship ...Open AccessThesis -
Intergenerational disadvantage: Learning about equal opportunity from social assistance receipt
Published 2022We use variation in the intergenerational persistence across social assistance benefits over 18 years to study the drivers of intergenerational disadvantage. Young people are more likely to receive social assistance if ...Open AccessArticle -
Cyclical signals from the labor market
Published 2022We consider which labor market variables are the most informative for estimating and nowcasting the US output gap using a multivariate trend-cycle decomposition. Although the unemployment rate clearly contains important ...Open AccessArticle