Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However … behavioral forces shape an important transaction cost of integration – the abuse of authority – and by providing an empirical …

competitive auction to determine the terms of trade than if she uses her authority to dictate the same terms directly. Our results …

consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …

deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation … in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental …