The UK has introduced an unusual right for parents of young children to be able to request a change to their working arrangements, and an obligation on employers to consider such requests seriously. This paper examines why such a right was adopted in the UK, and assesses its impact. Different...

David Ricardo (1772-1823) and Thomas Tooke (1774-1858) were contemporaries in the ‘golden era’ of English classical economics, along with Malthus, Torrens and McCulloch. The central figure in that era was undoubtedly Ricardo with his vital contributions to the ‘core’ analysis of value...

We use longitudinal data on stock prices of cross-listed firms to investigate abnormal systematic changes in the price disparity of cross-listed stocks between the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges from 2002 to 2014. We identify a liberalization policy that generated an unprecedented abrupt...

The ability to share intentions and adjust one's choices in collaboration with others is a fundamental aspect of human nature. We discuss the forces that would have acted for and against the evolution of this ability for a large class of dilemmas and coordination problems that would have been...

In this paper we document rise in wage inequality in Australia over the last decade. A key driver of this inequality is unobservable or residual inequality. We decompose residual wage inequality into permanent and transitory components. The estimates of the permanent shock from the first...

This paper considers marriage problems, roommate problems with nonempty core, and college admissions problems with responsive preferences. All stochastically stable matchings are shown to be contained in the set of matchings which are most robust to one-shot deviation.

In spite of the popularity of model calibration in finance, empirical researchers have put more emphasis on model estimation than on the equally important goodness-of-fit problem.This is due partly to the ignorance of modelers, and more to the ability of existing statistical tests to detect...

We find that the vast majority of students taking an advanced undergraduate finance course show a preference for luck in a classroom experiment. In Phase I of the experiment part of the students, group A, were asked to guess a coin toss five times in a row. In Phase II the rest of the students,...

Robust rankings of poverty are ones that do not rely on a single poverty measure with a single poverty line. Mathematically, such robust rankings of two populations specifies a continuum of unconditional moment inequality constraints. If these constraints could be imposed in estimation then a...

Presence of peers is often identified as the main source of welfare-decreasing decision-making in young adulthood and adolescence. The mechanism through which peers exert this influence is not fully understood. In this paper, using an incentive compatible experiment, we investigate whether young...