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Calibrated Projection in MATLAB
Kaido, Hiroaki; Molinari, Francesca; Stoye, Joerg; Thirkettle, Matthew (2019-03-08)We present the calibrated-projection MATLAB package implementing the method to construct confidence intervals proposed by Kaido, Molinari, and Stoye (2019). This manual provides details on how to use the package for inference ... -
Consumer Cognition and Pricing in the Nines of Oligopolistic Markets
Basu, Kaushik (2006-08-30)The paper fully characterizes the Bertrand equilibria of oligopolistic markets where consumers may ignore the last (i.e., the right-most) digits of prices. Consumers, in this model, do not do this reflexively or out ... -
Data from: Mind Training, Stress and Behaviour - a Randomised Experiment
Alem, Yonas; Behrendt, Hannah; Belot, Michele; Biro, Aniko (2021-09-29)These files contain data supporting the results reported in “Mind Training, Stress and Behaviour – a Randomized Experiment”, by Yonas Alem, Hannah Behrendt, Michele Belot and Aniko Biro. The dataset includes one Stata .dta ... -
Discrete Choice Under Risk with Limited Consideration in Matlab
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; Thirkettle, Matthew (2021-10)We present the discrete choice under risk with limited consideration MATLAB package. The package implements the method to identify and carry out inference in models of decision making under risk with limited consideration ... -
Fuzzy Revealed Preference Theory
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Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behavior with Endogenously-determined Balance of Power
Basu, Kaushik (2006-10-11)The evidence that the same total income can lead a household to choose different consumption vectors, depending on who brings in how much of the income, has led to an effort to replace the standard unitary model of the ... -
Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behaviour with Endogenously Determined Balance of Power
Basu, Kaushik (2006-08-30)The evidence that the same income can lead to different household decisions, depending on who the earner is, has led to an effort to replace the standard household model with the ‘collective model’, which recognizes that ... -
The global child labor problem
Basu, Kaushik (2006-11-21)The problem of child labor has moved from a matter of regional and national concern to one of international debate and possible global persuasion and policy intervention. In crafting policy for mitigating this enormous ... -
Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms
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Globalisation and Babool Gum
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Heterogeneous Choice Sets and Preferences in Matlab
Barseghyan, Levon; Coughlin, Maura; Molinari, Francesca; Teitelbaum, Joshua C. (2021-10)We present the heterogeneous choice sets and preferences MATLAB package implementing the method to construct confidence sets on preference parameters in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity in choice sets proposed by ... -
Implicit interest rates, usury and isolation in backward agriculture
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Industrial Organization Theory and Development Economics
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International credit and welfare: A paradoxical theorem and its policy implications
Basu, Kaushik; Morita, Hodaka (2006-08-30)This paper considers a developing nation that faces a foreign exchange shortage and hence its demand for foreign goods is limited both by its income and its foreign exchange balance. Availability of international credit ... -
Isolated and proximate illiteracy
Basu, Kaushik (2006-11-21)Traditionally, a society’s literacy has been measured by the ‘literacy rate’ or the per cent of the adult population that is literate. The present paper maintains that the. distribution of . literates across households ... -
Methodological Individualism
Basu, Kaushik (2006-11-21)Methodological individualism - a belief that in explaining social phenomena we should begin from the individual as a unit of analysis - was a matter of debate and controversy a long time ago. Contemporary economists ... -
Paradoxes of Game Theory
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Participatory Equity and Economic Development
Basu, Kaushik (2006-11-21)The role of a person’s identity and sense of integration into society as instruments of economic development has been vastly underestimated in the literature in economics. We talk of policies to subsidize the poor and give ... -
Punctuality: A cultural trait as equilibrium
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Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity
Basu, Kaushik (2006-10-11)This paper demonstrates how our sense of identity can emerge out of mere markers of social distinction that may have no innate significance, but, nevertheless, spread to various aspects of our lives and be the root of ...