We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red card is modeled as a shift in the goal-scoring rate. A red card may harm the team that receives a...

This paper examines prices of cannabis sold over the anonymous internetmarketplace AlphaBay. We analyze cannabis prices of 500 listings fromabout 140 sellers, originating from 18 countries. We find that both listingcharacteristics and country characteristics matter. Cannabis prices are lowerif...

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of...