SIER Working Paper Series

133 Irreversibility and Monitoring in Dynamic Games: Experimental Evidence

Author : Andrew Choi, Syngjoo Choi, Yves Gueron, Eungik Lee
Abstract :
This paper provides experimental evidence on the impacts of irreversibility and imperfect monitorin...

132 Solving Reduced-form Linear Rational Expectations

Author : Jae Won Lee; Woong Yong Park
Abstract :
This paper proposes an improvement on popular solution methods for linear rational expectations mode...

131 Income Volatility and Portfolio Choices

Author : Yongsung Chang, Jay. H. Hong, Marios Karabarbounis, Yicheng Wang
Abstract :
Based on administrative data from Statistics Norway, we fi nd economically significant shifts in hou...

130 Labor-Market Wedge under Engel Curve Utility: Cyclical Substitution between Necessities and Luxuries

Author : Youngsung Chang, Andreas Hornstein, Marios Karabarbounis
Abstract :
In booms, households substitute luxuries for necessities, e.g., food away from home for food at home...

129 Desperate times call for desperate measures: government spending multipliers in hard times

Author : Sokbae Lee, Yuan Liao, Myung Hwan Seo, Youngki Shin
Abstract :
We investigate state-dependent effects of fiscal multipliers and allow for endogenous sample splitti...

128 Factor-Driven Two-Regime Regression

Author : Sokbae Lee, Yuan Liao, Myung Hwan Seo, Youngki Shin
Abstract :
We propose a novel two-regime regression model where the switching between the regimes is driven by ...

127 Network-motivated Lending Decisions: A Rationale for Forbearance

Author : Yoshiaki Ogura, Ryo Okui, Yukiko Umeno Saito
Abstract :
We demonstrate theoretically and empirically the presence of forbearance lending by profit maximizin...

126 Can information alleviate overconfidence? A randomized experiment on financial market predictions

Author : Takanori Ida; Ryo Okui
Abstract :
In this study, we examine how information provision affects the degree of overconfidence using an o...

125 Equilibrium Redistribution under Ex-ante Heterogeneity and Income-Dependent Voting

Author : Bo Hyun Chang; Yongsung Chang; Sun-Bin Kim;
Abstract :
From a utilitarian point of view, the optimal income tax rate in the U.S. should be much higher than...

124 Financial Contagion in Networks: A Market Experiment

Author : Syngjoo Choi, Edoardo Gallo, and Brian Wallace
Abstract :
We investigate how the network structure of financial linkages and uncer- tainty about the location o...