• A one-shot deviation principle for stability in matching problems 

      Newton, Jonathan; Sawa, Ryoji
      Published 2013-06-01
      This paper considers marriage problems, roommate problems with nonempty core, and college admissions problems with responsive preferences. All stochastically stable matchings are shown to be contained in the set of matchings ...
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    • Specification Tests of Calibrated Option Pricing Models 

      Jarrow, Robert; Kwok, Simon
      Published 2013-05-01
      In spite of the popularity of model calibration in finance, empirical researchers have put more emphasis on model estimation than on the equally important goodness-of-fit problem. This is due partly to the ignorance of ...
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    • The Impact of Resale on Entry in Second Price Auctions 

      Che, XiaoGang; Lee, Peter; Yang, Yibai
      Published 2013-04-01
      This paper investigates the effect of resale allowance on entry strategies in a second price auction with two bidders whose entries are sequential and costly. We first characterize the perfect Bayesian equilibrium in ...
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    • Is Monotonicity in an IV and RD design testable? No, but you can still check it 

      Edwards, Ben; Fiorini, Mario; Stevens, Katrien; Taylor, Matthew
      Published 2013-04-01
      Whenever treatment effects are heterogeneous and there is sorting into treatment based on the gain, monotonicity is a condition that both Instrumental Variable and fuzzy Regression Discontinuity designs have to satisfy for ...
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    • The Relationship Between Delegation and Incentives Across Occupations: Evidence and Theory 

      Prasad, Suraj; DeVaro, Jed
      Published 2013-03-01
      A large literature, both theoretical and empirical, suggests that delegation of authority and incentives should have a positive relationship. Using data from a large cross section of British establishments, we show that ...
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