Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...

The combination of credit constraints and indivisible consumption goods may induce some riskaverse individuals to play lotteries to have a chance of crossing a purchasing threshold. One implication of this is that income effects for individuals who choose to play lotteries are likely to be...

We investigate life cycle patterns of demand for services from household durables using UK panel data. We take careful account of prices, demographics, labour supply and health. Demand for consumer electronics rises with age, while the demand for household appliances is flat. These findings...

Diese Dissertation untersucht, inwieweit die Annahme von Komplementarität zwischen Haushalts- und Geschäftskapital in einem DSGE-Modell mit Haushaltsproduktion eine verbesserte Abbildung der Investitionsdynamik für Deutschland und das Vereinigte Königreich erzielen kann. Sowohl für diese...