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Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Yale University - Department of Economics and Tel Aviv University

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The Hurwicz Program, Past and Suggestions for the Future

PIER Working Paper No. 18-027

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 Nov 2018

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Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Tel Aviv University

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Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces: Facts, Theory and Evidence

PIER Working Paper No. 18-025

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Oct 2018

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Hanming Fang and Ami Ko

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Georgetown University - Department of Economics

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6.

The Lack of European Productivity Growth: Causes and Lessons for the U.S.

PIER Working Paper No. 18-024

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Sep 2018

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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Lee E. Ohanian

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics

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7.

Cryptocurrencies: A Crash Course in Digital Monetary Economics

PIER Working Paper No. 18-023

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Sep 2018

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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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8.

Should Straw Polls be Banned?

PIER Working Paper No. 18-022

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Sep 2018

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S. Nageeb Ali and J. Aislinn Bohren

Pennsylvania State University and Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

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Time Lotteries and Stochastic Impatience

PIER Working Paper No. 18-021

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Sep 2018

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Patrick DeJarnette, David Dillenberger, Daniel Gottlieb and Pietro Ortoleva

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University - Department of Economics

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Stochastic Impatience and the Separation of Time and Risk Preferences

PIER Working Paper No. 18-020

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Sep 2018

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David Dillenberger, Daniel Gottlieb and Pietro Ortoleva

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University - Department of Economics

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An Explicit Representation for Disappointment Aversion and Other Betweenness Preferences

PIER Working Paper No. 18-019

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Sep 2018

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Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger and Pietro Ortoleva

Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics

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History Remembered: Optimal Sovereign Default on Domestic and External Debt

PIER Working Paper No. 18-018

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 14 Sep 2018

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Pablo D'Erasmo and Enrique G. Mendoza

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania

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Machine Learning for Regularized Survey Forecast Combination: Partially- Egalitarian Lasso and its Derivatives

PIER Working Paper No. 18-014

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Aug 2018

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Francis X. Diebold and Minchul Shin

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Illinois

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Social Learning with Model Misspecification: A Framework and a Robustness Result

PIER Working Paper No. 18-017

Number of pages: 103 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2018

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J. Aislinn Bohren and Daniel N. Hauser

Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business and Aalto University - Department of Economics

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The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence

PIER Working Paper No. 18-016

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 20 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2018

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J. Aislinn Bohren, Alex Imas and Michael Rosenberg

Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Wayfair, Inc.

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Using Persistence to Generate Incentives in a Dynamic Moral Hazard Problem

PIER Working Paper No. 18-015

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 20 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2018

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J. Aislinn Bohren

Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

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On the Comparison of Interval Forecasts

PIER Working Paper No. 18-013

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Aug 2018

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Ross Askanazi, Francis X. Diebold, Frank Schorfheide and Minchul Shin

University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Illinois

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18.

Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform, Third Version

PIER Working Paper No. 18-012

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 15 Jun 2018

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Naoki Aizawa and Hanming Fang

University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Perturbations in DSGE Models: Odd Derivatives Theorem

PIER Working Paper No. 18-011

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Jun 2018

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Sherwin Lott

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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20.

Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Growth

PIER Working Paper No. 18-005

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 May 2018

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Paolo Martellini and Guido Menzio

University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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21.

You Are What Your Parents Think: Height and Local Reference Points

PIER Working Paper No. 18-007

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2018

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Fan Wang, Esteban Puentes, Jere Behrman and Flavio Cunha

University of Houston - Department of Economics, University of Chile - Diagonal Paraguay, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk

PIER Working Paper No. 18-004

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 26 Feb 2018

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Dirk Krueger and Alexander Ludwig

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Research Center SAFE

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23.

Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values

PIER Working Paper No. 18-003

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Feb 2018

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Bjoern Bruegemann, Pieter A. Gautier and Guido Menzio

VU University Amsterdam, Free University of Amsterdam and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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24.

Matching to Produce Information

PIER Working Paper No. 18-002

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 31 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2018

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Ashwin Kambhampati, Carlos Segura-Rodriguez and Penn Shao

University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania

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Go Big or Go Home: A Free and Perfectly Safe but Only Partially Effective Vaccine Can Make Everyone Worse Off

PIER Working Paper No. 18-006, PIER Working Paper No. 18-006

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2018

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Eduard Talamàs and Rakesh Vohra

University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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A Very Robust Auction Mechanism

PIER Working Paper No. 18-001

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Jan 2018

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Richard P. McLean and Andrew Postlewaite

Rutgers University - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Inferring the Ideological Affliations of Political Committees via Financial Contributions Networks

PIER Working Paper No. 17-022

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 20 Dec 2017

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Yiran Chen and Hanming Fang

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence

PIER Working Paper No. 17-021

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Dec 2017

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J. Aislinn Bohren, Alex Imas and Michael Rosenberg

Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Wayfair, Inc.

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29.

Predicting and Understanding Initial Play

PIER Working Paper No. 18-009

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 21 May 2018

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Drew Fudenberg and Annie Liang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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30.

A Walrasian Theory of Sovereign Debt Auctions with Asymmetric Information

PIER Working Paper No. 17-015

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2017

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Harold L. Cole, Daniel Neuhann and Guillermo Ordoñez

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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The Effects of Student Loans on the Provision and Demand for Higher Education

PIER Working Paper No. 17-020

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Nov 2017

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Rodrigo Azuero and David Zarruk Valencia

Inter-American Development Bank and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Complementary Information and Learning Traps

PIER Working Paper No. 18-008

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2019

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Annie Liang and Xiaosheng Mu

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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33.

Wealth Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Skills: Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data

PIER Working Paper No. 17-019

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Sep 2017

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Jere Behrman, Dante Contreras, Isidora Palma and Esteban Puentes

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Chile - Department of Economics, University of Chile and University of Chile - Diagonal Paraguay

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34.

The (Q,S,s) Pricing Rule: A Quantitative Analysis

PIER Working Paper No. 17-018

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Sep 2017

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Kenneth Burdett and Guido Menzio

University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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35.

Beating the Simple Average: Egalitarian LASSO for Combining Economic Forecasts

PIER Working Paper No. 17-017

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Sep 2017

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Francis X. Diebold and Minchul Shin

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Illinois

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36.

The Theory Is Predictive, but Is It Complete? An Application to Human Perception of Randomness

PIER Working Paper No. 18-010

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 21 May 2018

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Jon Kleinberg, Annie Liang and Sendhil Mullainathan

Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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37.

Instability of Centralized Markets

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Aug 2017

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Ahmad Peivandi and Rakesh Vohra

Georgia State University - Risk Management & Insurance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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38.

Political Distribution Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations

PIER Working Paper No. 17-016

Number of pages: 110 Posted: 28 Jul 2017

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Thorsten Drautzburg, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Pablo Guerrón-Quintana

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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39.

Institutions and Political Party Systems: The Euro Case

PIER Working Paper No. 17-014, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-73

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Jul 2017

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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Tano Santos

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School

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40.

A Walrasian Theory of Sovereign Debt Auctions with Asymmetric Information

PIER Working Paper No. 17-015

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 14 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2017

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Harold L. Cole, Daniel Neuhann and Guillermo Ordoñez

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Deliberately Stochastic

PIER Working Paper No. 17-013, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-58

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 May 2017

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Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger, Pietro Ortoleva and Gil Riella

Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

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42.

Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

PIER Working Paper No. 17-012

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 May 2017

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Juan Atal, Hanming Fang, Martin Karlsson and Nicolas R. Ziebarth

University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen and Cornell University

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43.

We Can Cooperate Even When the Monitoring Structure Will Never Be Known

PIER Working Paper No. 17-011

Number of pages: 121 Posted: 17 May 2017

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Yuichi Yamamoto

University of Pennsylvania

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44.

Voting as a Signal of Education

PIER Working Paper No. 17-010

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 May 2017

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Nicholas Janetos

Penn Wharton Budget Model

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45.

Fads and Imperfect Information

PIER Working Paper No. 17-009

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 May 2017

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Nicholas Janetos

Penn Wharton Budget Model

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Safe Assets

PIER Working Paper No. 17-008

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 May 2017

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Robert J. Barro, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Oren Levintal and Andrew Mollerus

Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah and Harvard University

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