Economics: Recent submissions
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Unveiling the Dynamic Impact of Protected Areas: An Event Study Analysis to Assess Conservation Effectiveness
(American Economic Association (AEA), 2024)Previous studies estimating the effect of the creation of protected areas (PAs) on ecosystem conservation suffer from biases due to staggered protection and to unobservable drivers of protection’s effectiveness. We address ... -
Life May Be Unfair, But Do Democracies Make It Any Less Burdensome?
(Springer, 2023)Using a large panel of countries, this paper studies whether, or not, democracies can disproportionately produce better economic outcomes for the poor than non-democracies. To deal with the endogeneity of democracy and ... -
Theoretical and ethical reductionism and the neglect of subjectivity in economics and economic education
(Edward Elgar, 14 November 2023)The dominant ethical stance in economic analysis, especially in microeconomics, is grounded on a reduction of human behaviour to utility maximisation. We explore the concept of utility which is central to economic analysis, ... -
An introduction to a critique of Bernheim & Sprenger (2020) and a response by the authors
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Tail Behavior of ACD Models and Consequences for Likelihood-Based Estimation
(Elsevier, 2023)We establish new results for estimation and inference in financial durations models, where events are observed over a given time span, such as a trading day, or a week. For the classical autoregressive conditional duration ...