"The Tiebout model is one of our most important theories of local government. It is also one of the most controversial. Current debate over the Tiebout model revolves around the apparent disparity between results of macro- and micro-level empirical studies. While macro-level evidence shows...

Market sentiment drives fluctuations in financial markets, but it is measured with empirical proxies lacking strong theoretical foundations. In a generalization of the Consumption CAPM where the representative agent has a prospect theory probability weighting function, we derive a formula for...

Evidence from psychology and marketing suggests that those who make a "precise" first offer in bargaining get a better deal than those who make a "round" first offer. We report on a series of experiments designed to test for and improve our understanding of the "precise first offer" (PFO) effect...