Working Papers

Durham Economics Working Papers Series

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2026

• Mehmet Burak Akren, Eren Arbatlı, Sabri Arhan Ertan (2026), Ancestral Composition Distance  
• Diego Marino Fages (2026), Migration and Trust: Evidence on Assimilation from Internal Migrants
• Gianluca Grimalda and Diego Marino Fages (2026), Regional Trust as a Signal of Local Trustworthiness: Evidence from Migrants
• Yit Wey Liew and Muhammad Habibur Rahman (2026), Flood Voting
• Nejat Anbarci, Nurun Naher Moni, Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 
  & Ruhul Salim (2026), Work, Worship, and Welfare: How Earthquakes Reshape Labour Supply Preferences
• Aleksei Chernulich, Nobuyuki Hanaki & Yuki Tamura (2026), Top Trading Cycles vs. the Crawler: The Role of Obvious Strategy-Proofness
• Joseph Pickens & Demid Getik (2026), Marriage Market Competition and Labor Supply
• Aleksei Chernulich, Romain Gauriot & John Wooders (2026), The Value of Strategic Unpredictability: A Natural Experiment from Baseball 
• Diego Marino Fages (2026), Do People Know Who Knows? Evidence from Advice Networks
• Dudley Cooke & Tatiana Damjanovic (2026), Tail Elasticities and Threshold-Dependent Aggregation  
• Diego Marino Fages (2026), Partisan Bias in Economic Forecasts: Experimental Evidence from the Presidential Elections in Argentina
• Ashwini Deshpande, Veronique Gille, Rajesh Ramachandran and Andis Sofianos (2026),                       Merit, Identity, and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence on Affirmative Action
• Parantap Basu and Clive Bell (2026), Jab? No Thank You! Hesitancy and Free Riding in a Pandemic: Findings from COVID-19 in the EU
• Danae Arroyos-Calvera and Andis Sofianos (2026), The Limits of Moral Wiggle Room: Plausible Deniability in Public Good Games
• Spyros Galanis (2026), Information Aggregation with AI Agents
• Anca Balietti and Diego Marino-Fages (2026),  Zero-Sum Views and Support for Redistribution Across Borders

2025  

• Spyros Galanis and Sergei Mikhalishchev (2025), Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition

• Tatiana Damjanovic and Dudley Cooke (2025), Optimal Macroprudential Policy and Bank Capital in Open Economies
• Habib Rahman, Liu Cui and Yit Wey Liew (2025) Entrepreneurship, Economy and Inequality: Evidence from China’s Return-Home Policy
• Spyros Galanis (2025) No Trade Under Verifiable Information
• Anurag Banerjee, Nilanjan Banik, and Pranjal Chandrakar (2025) Political Economy of Sanitation in India

2024

• Arzu Kibris, Eren Arbatli, Cole Williams (2024) Adjusting to Toxic Husbands: Normalization of Domestic Violence by Women
• Demid Getik, Anna Sjögren, Anton Sundberg (2024) Migration Inflow and School Performance of Incumbents

2023

• Spyros Galanis, Christos A. Ioannou, Stelios Kotronis Supplementary Appendix to "Information Aggregation Under Ambiguity: Theory and Experimental Evidence
• Spyros Galanis, Christos A. Ioannou, Stelios Kotronis Information Aggregation Under Ambiguity: Theory and Experimental Evidence
• Parantap Basu, Susmita Das, Arnab Dutta Choudhury, Ritwik Mazumder Why do urban people in India succumb to Covid 19 more? Investigating the Role of Lifestyle Disorder Diseases
• Xiaoshan Chen, Spyridon Lazarakis, Petros Varthalitis,  Debt targets and fiscal consolidation in a two-country HANK model : the case of Euro Area
• Yit Wey Liew, Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Audrey Kim Lan Siah  Rail Stations to Development: Evidence from Colonial Malaya

2022

• Mustafa Oguz Afacan, Nejat Anbarci, Özgür Kibris, Arbiter Assignment
• Ayşe Yazci, Decentralized Matching at Senior-Level: Stability and Incentives

2021

• Dudley Cooke and Tatiana Damjanovic, Monetary Policy and Welfare with Heterogeneous Firms and Endogenous Entry
• Anurag Banerjee, Parantap Basu and Elisa Keller, Cross-country Disparities in Skill Premium and Skill Acquisition

2020

• Kenju Kamei,Incomplete Political Contracts with Secret Ballots: Reciprocity as a Force to Enforce Sustainable Clientelistic Relationships
• Kenju Kamei, Transfer Paradox in a General Equilibrium Economy: a First Experimental Investigation
• Kenju Kamei and Artem Nesterov Endogenous Monitoring through Gossiping in an Infinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: Experimental Evidence
• Kenju Kamei and Thomas Markussen, Free Riding and Workplace Democracy – Heterogeneous Task Preferences and Sorting

2019

• Hamdi Ben-Nasr, Lobna Bouslimi, M. Shahid Ebrahim, Rui Zhong, Political Uncertainty and the Choice of Debt Sources
• Rhys ap Gwilym, M. Shahid Ebrahim, Abdelkader O. El Alaoui, Hamid Rahman, Abderrahim Taamouti, Financial Frictions and the Futures Pricing Puzzle
• Parantap Basu and Tooraj Jamasb, On Green Growth with Sustainable Capital
• Kenju Kamei, Louis Putterman and Jean-Robert Tyran, Civic Engagement as a Second-Order Public Good: The Cooperative Underpinnings of the Accountable State
• Kenju Kamei, Voluntary Disclosure of Information and Cooperation in Simultaneous-Move Economic Interactions
• Tatiana Damjanovic, Vladislav Damjanovic and Charles Nolan, Default, Bailouts and the Vertical Structure of Financial Intermediaries
• Sara Eugeni, Exchange rate volatility and cooperation in an incomplete markets' economy
• Mauro Bambi and Fausto Gozzi, Internal Habit Formation and Optimality

2018

• Sara Eugeni, Capital shares and the intergenerational consequences of international financial integration
• Dudley Cooke and Tatiana Damjanovic, The Macroeconomic Implications of Firm Selection
• Joosung Lee and Daniel Z. Li, Sequential Search Auctions with a Deadline
• Kenju Kamei, Group Size Effect and Over-Punishment in the Case of Third Party Enforcement of Social Norms
• Xiaoshan Chen, Campbell Leith and Mattia Ricci, Debt Sustainability and Welfare along an Optimal Laffer Curve
• Mauro Bambi and Sara Eugeni, Exchange rates, sunspots and cycles
  

2017

• Laura Marsiliani and Thomas Renstrom (with Jiunn Wang), Tax Reform, Unhealthy Commodities and Endogenous Health
• Simone Tonin (with Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognaton), Nondictatorial Arrovian Social Welfare Functions, Simple Majority Rule, and Integer Programming
• Kenju Kamei (with Josie I Chen), Disapproval Aversion or Inflated Inequity Acceptance? The Impact of Expressing Emotions in Ultimatum Bargaining
• Sara Eugeni, Nominal Exchange Rates and Net Foreign Assets' Dynamics: the Stabilization Role of Valuation Effects
• Kenju Kamei, Cooperation and Endogenous Repetition in an Infinitely Repeated Social Dilemma
• Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau and Hong Il Yoo, Risk Attitudes, Sample Selection and Attrition in a Longitudinal Field Experiment
• David Chivers, Success, Survive or Escape? Aspirations and Poverty Traps
• Bo Gao (with Mich Tvede), The Impact of Trade with Pure Exporters
• Daniel Z. Li (with Minbo Xu), Equilibrium Competition, Social Welfare and Corruption in Procurement Auctions
• Daniel Z. Li (with Ian Jewitt), Cheap Talk Advertising in Auctions: Horizontally vs Vertically Differentiated Products
• Hong Il Yoo (with Jin Yan), Semiparametric Estimation of the Random Utility Model with Rank- Ordered Choice Data
• Hong Il Yoo, vce2way: A one-stop solution for two- way clustered standard errors