Academic publications by our graduate students

2022 - 2023

Higa, Minoru, Carlos Ospino & Fernando Aragon (2022) The persistent effects of COVID-19 on labour outcomes: evidence from Peru, Applied Economics Letters, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2036319

2019 - 2021

Donmez, Anil and Alexander Karaivanov, 2021. "Transaction Fee Economics in the Ethereum Blockchain", Economic Inquiry 13025, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13025

Karaivanov, Alexander and Tenzin Yindok, 2021. "Involuntary Entrepreneurship - Evidence from Thai Urban Data", World Development 149: 105706, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105706

Karaivanov, Alexander, Shih En Lu, Hitoshi Shigeoka, Cong Chen and Stephanie Pamplona, 2021. "Face Masks, Public Policies and Slowing the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada", Journal of Health Economics 78: 102475, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102475

Sun, Xiaolin, and Bertille Antoine, 2021. "Partially Linear Models with Endogeneity: a conditional moment based approach", The Econometrics Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/ectj/utab025

Hetalo, Stanislav, Yevdokimov, Yuri, and Yuliya Burina, 2021. "Econometric evaluation of large weather events due to climate change: floods in Atlantic Canada", International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 43(2/3). https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGEI.2021.10037748

Yindok, Tenzin, 2021. "Entrepreneurship during an Economic Crisis: Evidence from Rural Thailand",  Economic Development and Cultural Change, 69(3): 1071-1113. https://doi.org/10.1086/704380

Akbari, Mahsa, Duman Bahrami-Rad, Erik Kimbrough, Pedro Romero, and Sadegh Alhosseini 2020. "An Experimental Study of Kin and Ethnic Favoritism", Economic Inquiry, 58 (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12917

Djeutem, Edouard and Pierre Nguimkeu, 2020. “Robust learning in the foreign exchange market”, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2017-0117

Kimbrough, Erik, Kevin Laughren, and Roman Sheremeta, 2020. “War and Conflict in Economics: Theories Applications and Recent Trends”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 178: 998-1013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.026

Lei, Xiaowen, Dong Lu and Kenneth Kasa, 2020. “Wait and See or Fear of Floating”, Macroeconomic Dynamics 1-52. https://doi:10.1017/S1365100520000383

Mokhtarzadeh, Fatemeh and Luba Petersen, 2020. “Coordinating expectations through central bank projections”. Experimental Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-020-09684-6

Zhou, Shiqu 2020, Dynamic incentives in microfinance with commitment‐type borrower, Canadian Journal of Economics, 53(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12456

Akbari, Mahsa, Duman Bahrami-Rad and Erik Kimbrough, 2019. "Kinship, Fractionalization and Corruption", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 166: 493-528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.07.015

Arifovic, Jasmina, Joshua Boitnott, John Duffy, 2019. “Learning correlated equilibria: An evolutionary approach”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 157:171-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.09.011

Chen, Xianjuan, 2019. “Born like China, Growing like China”, Pacific Economic Review 24(2): 325-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0106.12258

Lei, Xiaowen, 2019. “Information and Inequality”, Journal of Economic Theory 184 (104937). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2019.08.007

Lei, Xiaowen and Michael Tseng, 2019. “Wait-and-See Monetary Policy”. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 23(5), 1793-1814. https://doi:10.1017/S1365100517000451

Schulz, Jonathan, Duman Bahrami-Rad, Jonathan Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, 2019. “The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation”, Science 366(6466), eaau5141; https://doi:10.1126/science.aau5141

2016 - 2018

Arifovic, Jasmina and Giuseppe Danese, 2018. “Homophily and Social Norms in Experimental Network Formation Games”, Games 9(4): 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/g9040083

Boichev, Georgi, 2018. “Does global titling sustain informal taxation? Evidence from Ecuadorian urban slums”, Environment and Development Economics 23(6):721-736. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x18000293

Freeman, David, Erik Kimbrough, Garrett Petersen and Hanh Tong, 2018.  Instructions. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 4: 165–179,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-018-0059-0

Kasa, Kenneth and Xiaowen Lei, 2018. "Risk, uncertainty, and the dynamics of inequality," Journal of Monetary Economics, 94(C), 60-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2017.11.008

Battisti, Michele, 2017. “High Wage Workers and High Wage Peers”, Labour Economics 46: 47-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.02.002

Dow, Gregory and Leanna Mitchell and Clyde Reed, 2017. “The Economics of Early Warfare Over Land”. Journal of Development Economics. 127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.04.002.

Kimbrough, Erik, Nikolaus Robalino and Arthur Robson, 2017. “Applying “Theory of mind”: Theory and experiments”, Games and Economic Behavior 106, 209-226, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.10.008.

Li, Meiyu and Ramazan Gençay, 2017. “Tests for serial correlation of unknown form in dynamic least squares regression with wavelets”, Economics Letters 155:104-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.03.021

Mahmoodzadeh, Soheil and Ramazan Gençay, 2017. “Human vs. high-frequency traders, penny jumping, and tick size”, Journal of Banking & Finance 85:69-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2017.08.015

Riahi, Ideen, 2017. “Colonialism & Genetics of Comparative Development”. Economics and Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2017.05.001

Battisti, Michele, 2016. “Individual Wage Growth: the Role of Industry Experience”, Industrial Relations Vol. 55(1), 40-70. https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12125

Li, Meiyu, Ramazan Gençay and Yi Xue, 2016. “Is it Brownian or fractional Brownian motion?”, Economics Letters 145:52-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.05.012

Robalino, Nikolaus, and Arthur Robson, 2016. "The Evolution of Strategic Sophistication." American Economic Review, 106 (4): 1046-72. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20140105

2013 - 2015

Arifovic, Jasmina, B. Curtis Eaton, Graeme Walker, 2015. “The coevolution of beliefs and networks”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 120:46-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.08.011

Gençay, Ramazan, Daniele Signori, Yi Xue, Xiao Yu and Keyi Zhang, 2015. “Economic links and credit spreads”, Journal of Banking & Finance 55:157-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.02.007

Javdani, Mohsen, 2015. “Noise or News? Learning About the Content of Test-Based School Achievement Measures,” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 15(3): 1417-1453. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2014-0052

Javdani, Mohsen, 2015.  “Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? The Role of Firms in Male-Female Wage Disparities,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 48(2): 529-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12135

Signori, Daniele and Ramazan Gencay, 2015. “Multi-scale tests for serial correlation”, Journal of Econometrics 184(1):62-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.08.002

Wang, Xuefei, Yu Benjamin Fu, Zhe George Zhang, 2015. “Population growth and the environmental Kuznets curve”, China Economic Review 36:146-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2015.08.012

Javdani, Mohsen and Krishna Pendakur, 2014. “Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada,” Journal of International Migration and Integration, 15(4):777-797. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-013-0305-5

Battisti, Michele, Jane Friesen and Brian Krauth, 2014. “English as a Second Dialect Policy and Achievement of Aboriginal Students in British Columbia”, Canadian Public Policy 40(2), 182-192. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2012-093

Djeutem, Edouard 2014, “Model uncertainty and the Forward Premium Puzzle”, Journal of International Money and Finance 46:16-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2014.03.001

Dong, Mei and Janet Huang, 2014. “Money and price posting under private information”, Journal of Economic Theory 150:740-777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2013.12.005

Nguimkeu, Pierre, 2014. “A Structural Econometric Analysis of the Informal Sector Heterogeneity“, Journal of Development Economics 107, 175-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.12.001

Nguimkeu, Pierre and Pascal Lavergne, 2014. “Uniform-in-Bandwidth Tests of Specification for Conditional Moment Restrictions Models”, in Econometric Methods and Their Applications in Finance, Macro and Related Fields, K. Haddri and W. Mikhail (eds), World Scientific Publisher & Imperial College Press, 223-241. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814513470_0009

Wang, Xuefei, 2014. “The Effect of Parental Migration on the Educational Attainment of Their Left-Behind Children in Rural China”, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 14(3):1037-1080. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2013-0067

Xue, Yi, Ramazan Gençay and Stephen Fagan, 2014. “Jump detection with wavelets for high-frequency financial time series”, Quantitative Finance 14(8):1427-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2013.830320

Allen, Douglas and Vera Lantinova, 2013. The Ancient Olympics As a Signal of City-State Strength” Economics of Governance 14(1), 23–44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-012-0119-5

Arifovic, Jasmina, James Bullard, Olena Kostyshyna, 2013. “Social Learning and Monetary Policy Rules”, Economic Journal 123(567):38-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02525.x

Arifovic, Jasmina, Janet Hua Jiang, Yiping Xu, 2013. “Experimental evidence of bank runs as pure coordination failures”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37(12):2446-2465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2013.06.016

Djeutem, Edouard and Kenneth Kasa, 2013. “Robustness and exchange rate volatility”, Journal of International Economics 91(1): 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.05.003

Robalino, Nikolaus and Arthur Robson, 2013. “Genes, Culture, and Preferences”. Biological Theory 8, 151–157, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-013-0108-0

2010 - 2012

Arifovic Jasmina and Michael Maschek, 2012. “Currency crisis: Evolution of beliefs and policy experiments”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82(1):131-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.01.001

Battisti, Michele, Jane Friesen and Ross Hickey, 2012. “How Student Disability Classifications and Learning Outcomes Respond to Special Education Funding Rules: Evidence from British Columbia”, Canadian Public Policy, 38(2): 147-166. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.38.2.147

Chen, Bo and David Jacks, 2012. “Trade, Variety and Immigration.” Economics Letters 117, 243-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.007

Friesen, Jane, Mohsen Javdani, Justin Smith and Simon Woodcock, 2012. “How do School ‘Report Cards’ Affect School Choice Decisions?” Canadian Journal of Economics 45(2), 2012: 784-807. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01709.x

Friesen, Jane, Jasmina Arifovic, Stephen C. Wright, Andreas Ludwig, Lisa Giamo and Gamze Baray, 2012. “Ethnic identity and discrimination among children”, Journal of Economic Psychology 33: 1156-1169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2012.08.003

Robalino, Nikolaus, and Arthur Robson, 2012. “The economic approach to 'theory of mind'.” Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences vol. 367(1599): 2224-33. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0124

Xue, Yi and Ramazan Gençay, 2012. “Hierarchical information and the rate of information diffusion”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36(9): 1372-1401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2012.03.001.

Xue, Yi and Ramazan Gençay, 2012. “Trading frequency and volatility clustering”, Journal of Banking & Finance, 36(3), p. 760-773, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2011.09.008.

Battisti, Michele, Mark Campbell, Jane Friesen and Brian Krauth, 2011. “Non-Standard English Dialects and the Effect of Supplementary Funding on Educational Achievement” Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 35(2), 190-197.

Xia, Bianjun, 2011. "A simple explanation of some key time preference anomalies," Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 44(2), pages 695-708. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01650.x

Nguimkeu, Pierre and Marie Rekkas, 2011. “Third-order Inference for Autocorrelation in Nonlinear Regression Models”, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 141, 3413-3425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2011.04.019

Dong, Mei, 2010. “Inflation and Variety”, International Economic Review 51(2):401-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2010.00585.x

Dong, Mei and Janet Huang, 2010. “One or two monies?”, Journal of Monetary Economics 57(4):439-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2010.04.002

Xia, Bianjun, 2010. "Status, Inequality and Intertemporal Choice" The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, vol. 10, no. 1, https://doi.org/10.2202/1935-1704.1606

Arifovic, Jasmina and Michael K. Maschek, 2006. “Revisiting Individual Evolutionary Learning in the Cobweb Model – An Illustration of the Virtual Spite-Effect”, Computational Economics 28(4):333-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-006-9053-3

2000 and earlier

Easton, S., C. Reed and W. Gibson, 1988. "Tariffs and Growth: The Dales' Hypothesis", Explorations in Economic History 25 (1988): 147-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4983(88)90014-9

Busche, K. and S. Easton, 1984. Focus on Worldwide Inflation, Fraser Institute, pp. 46

Callier, P., S. Easton and H. Grubel, 1977. "Nominal and Real Yields on International Reserve Assets, 1952-1974", Kyklos Vol. 30, Fasc. 4: 637-656. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6435.1977.tb02693.x