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Should more teams “trust the process” of tanking?

open access: yesContemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract In many professional sport leagues, the worst‐performing teams receive higher probability of earning top draft picks. This provides teams incentives to purposefully lose, or “tank,” if they are not likely to contend for the playoffs or championships.
Eduardo G. Minuci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing market connectedness and transmission of monetary policy

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates whether interconnectivity among local housing markets influences the effectiveness of the (United States) U.S. monetary transmission mechanism. We construct measures of housing market connectedness and employ a state‐dependent local projection method to estimate nonlinear impulse responses of macroeconomic variables to ...
Woo Suk Lee, Eunseong Ma
wiley   +1 more source

Time‐Varying Interactions Between US–China Political Relation, Flight Frequency, and Inbound Tourism

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the dynamics among US–China political relations, flight frequency, and inbound tourism through the utilization of a time‐varying parameter vector autoregression model. As political relations warm, there is a notable uptick in flight frequency between the two nations.
Shiteng Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do famines shape the health of survivors? We examine the long‐term impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845–52) on human stature, distinguishing between adverse scarring effects and the apparent resilience of survivors due to selection. Using anthropometric data from more than 14500 individuals born before, during, and after this famine, we ...
Matthias Blum   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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