Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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File-Sharing and Film Revenues: An Empirical Analysis
Published 2013-07-01This study examines the impact of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing on the Australian theatrical film industry. Using a large data set of torrent downloads observed on three popular P2P networks, we find evidence of a sales ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Endogenous time preference: evidence from Australian households' behaviour
Published 2013-07-01Recently, the focus has been increasingly on the importance of endogenous time preference and its varying degrees of marginal impatience. Two types of marginal impatience can change the representative household's endogenous ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Published 2013-06-01Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially-fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Lying through Their Teeth: Third Party Advice and Truth Telling in a Strategy Proof Mechanism
Published 2013-07-01We test the effect of advice on the well known top trading cycles (TTC) matching algorithm in a school choice frame work. We compare three treatments involving third party advice [right advice (R), wrong advice (W), and ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Price of Luck
Published 2013-06-01We find that the vast majority of students taking an advanced undergraduate finance course show a preference for luck in a classroom experiment. In Phase I of the experiment part of the students, group A, were asked to ...Open AccessWorking Paper