This paper provides evidence that market conditions matter for organization design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. We embed an incomplete-contract model of firm boundaries into an international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a tradeoff between...

In order to elicit discount functions, experiments commonly analyze how subjects trade-off money and time. However, discounting reveals itself most transparently in behavior obtained by fixing the money dimension and varying only the time dimension. This paper presents an experimental procedure...

This paper considers methods for estimating and testing multiple structural changes occuring at unknown dates in linear models using band spectral regressions. We con- sider changes over time within some frequency bands, permitting the coefficients to be di¤erent across frequency bands. Using...

This paper considers the estimation of multiple structural changes occurring at unknown dates in one or multiple conditional quantile functions. The analysis covers time series models as well as models with repeated cross-sections. We estimate the break dates and other parameters jointly by...

We consider the problem of estimating and testing for multiple breaks in a single equation framework with regressors that are endogenous, i.e., correlated with the errors. We show that even in the presence of endogenous regressors, it is still preferable to simply estimate the break dates and...

This note provides a simple proof for the problem of estimating and testing for multiple breaks in a single equation framework with regressors that are endogenous, i.e., correlated with the errors. We show based on standard assumptions about the regressors, instruments and errors that the second...

We study optimal public health care rationing and private sector price responses. Consumers differ in their wealth and illness severity (defined as treatment cost). Due to a limited budget, some consumers must be rationed. Rationed consumers may purchase from a monopolistic private market. We...

We propose a novel generalized recursive smooth ambiguity model which permits a three-way separation among risk aversion, ambiguity aversion, and intertemporal substitution. We apply this utility model to a consumption-based asset-pricing model in which consumption and dividends follow hidden...

This paper considers inference and model diagnostics for log-linearized DSGE models allow- ing an unknown subset of parameters to be weakly (including un-) identified. The framework allows for latent state variables, measurement errors and also permits analysis using only part of the spectrum,...

This paper summarizes findings from a decade-long project on forest degradation in the mid-Himalayan region of India and Nepal. The analysis is based on LSMS data for Nepal and field work in Indian states of Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh comprising sample surveys of forests, households and...