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Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-04-01)
In any 22 global game, Carlsson and van Damme (1993b) showed that the game has a unique dominance solvable equilibrium that corresponds to the risk dominant equilibrium of the related common knowledge game with multiple ...
A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-06-01)
Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, the authors estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. ...
Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-04-01)
The 2009 Cash for Clunkers program aimed to stimulate consumer spending in the new automobile industry, which was experiencing disproportionate reductions in demand and employment during the Great Recession. Exploiting ...
The Impact of College Diversity on Behavior Toward Minorities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-02-03)
There is little question as to the lack of racial diversity at selective U.S. universities. However, there is considerable debate regarding the benets of various policy options to increase diversity. Proponents of ...
Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-01)
Can state and federal policies deter undocumented workers from entering the U.S.? In Working Paper 1604, PERC's Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra, and Sandra Orozco-Aleman, address this timely and critical immigration policy ...
Does Playing Against an Error Prone Opponent Influence Learning in Nim?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-04-01)
When learning to play a game well, does it help to play against an opponent who makes the same sort of mistakes one tends to make or is it better to play against a procedurally rational algorithm, which never makes mistakes? ...
The Identification of Response of Stock Returns to Monetary Policy Actions Using Market-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-08-11)
The authors investigate two related approaches to dealing with the possible joint repsonse bias in using Kuttner's approach to identifying monetary policy's impact on stock returns - the methodology recently suggested by ...
How Do Peers Influence BMI? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Classrooms in South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-08-01)
Obesity among children is an important public health concern, and social networks may play a role in students' habits that increase the likelihood of being overweight. We examine data from South Korean middle schools, where ...
Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-12-01)
At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a ...
Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-04-01)
Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimension--structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...