This study proposes an analytical framework towards behavioral political economy of institutional change. It considers institutional changes as central government’s choices under uncertainty, which are largely driven by the strategic outcomes in a behavioral coordination game between local...

pt. 1. Tokens of eccentricity: value and the aesthetic representation of economy -- pt. 2. Sublime intercourse; economics meets aesthetics (and vice versa) -- pt. 3. Name your price -- pt. 4. Moral economics and the romance of money.

Bringing together economists, literary and art critics, philosophers, sociologists, and others, this book fosters the emergence of a rich set of concerns about the intersections of art, aesthetics, and economics.&nbsp

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism,...

In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study within economics has changed. We then review the recent...

In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study within economics has changed. We then review the recent...