Department of Economics

Working Paper Series

Our Working Paper Series (ED-WPS) features recent research output by the members of our Department as well as colleagues outside the Univeristy.

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2013

Towards Impact Functions for Stochastic Climate Change

Richard Tol, Francisco Estrada
(ED-WPS No. 61-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-61-2013 [PDF 607.14KB]

Quantile Kernel Regression for Identifying Excellent Economists

Richard Tol
(ED-WPS No. 60-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-60-2013 [PDF 1.24MB]

Measuring Catch-Up Growth in Malnourished Populations

Kalle Hirvonen
(ED-WPS No. 59-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-59-2013 [PDF 587.49KB]

Fiscal Limits on First-Best Climate Policy: A CGE Analysis for Europe

Richard Tol, Stefano F Verde
(ED-WPS No. 58-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-58-2013 [PDF 386.67KB]

Are You Happy While You Work?

George MacKerron, Alex Bryson
(ED-WPS No. 57-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-57-2013 [PDF 842.99KB]

How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context?

Richard Tol, Kenneth J. Arrow, Maureen L. Cropper, Christian Gollier, Ben Groom, Geoffrey M. Heal, Richard G. Newell, William D. Nordhaus, Robert S. Pindyck, William A. Pizer, Paul R. Portney, Thomas Sterner and Martin L. Weitzman
(ED-WPS No. 56-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-56-2013 [PDF 1.07MB]

The Matthew Effect for Cohorts of Economists

Richard Tol
(ED-WPS No. 55-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-55-2013 [PDF 299.97KB]

The Determinants of Outward Processing: Evidence from Offshoring Intermediates by the European Union

Dimitra Petropoulou, Xavier Cirera, Dirk Willenbockel
(ED-WPS No. 54-2013) This paper is available for download: WPS-54-2013 [PDF 412.48KB] 

2012

The Effect of Learning on Climate Policy under Fat-tailed Uncertainty

Richard Tol, In Chang Hwang, Frédéric Reynès
(ED-WPS No. 53-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-53-2012 [PDF 873.48KB]

Climate Change and Tourism in the Arctic Circle

Richard Tol, Sharon Walsh
(ED-WPS No. 52-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-52-2012 [PDF 1.15MB]

After Ten Years of the Russian Crisis, How Might IMF Intervention Be Evaluated?

Malgorzata Sulimierska
(ED-WPS No. 51-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-51-2012 [PDF 477.56KB]

The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

Andrew Newell, Ian Gazeley
(ED-WPS No. 50-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-50-2012 [PDF 644.56KB]

Do Supply-Side Education Programmes Work? The Impact of Increased School Supply on Schooling and Wages in Indonesia Revisited

Gunilla Pettersson
(ED-WPS No. 49-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-49-2012 [PDF 724.24KB]

The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition

Andrew Newell, Ian Gazeley
(ED-WPS No. 48-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-48-2012 [PDF 338.35KB]

Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904

Andrew Newell, Ian Gazeley
(ED-WPS No. 47-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-47-2012 [PDF 562.28KB]

A Re-examination of the Impact of the UK National Minimum Wage on Employment

Richard Dickens, Rebecca Riley, David Wilkinson
(ED-WPS No. 46-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-46-2012 [PDF 506.17KB]

Minimum Wages and Wage Inequality: Some Theory and an Application to the UK

Richard Dickens, Tim Butcher, Alan Manning
(ED-WPS No. 45-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-45-2012 [PDF 590.14KB]

The Impact of Temperature Changes on Residential Energy Use

Richard Tol, Sebastian Patrick, Katrin Rehdanz
(ED-WPS No. 44-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-44-2012 [PDF 1.78MB]

The Persistence of Shocks in GDP and the Estimation of the Potential Economic Costs of Climate Change

Richard Tol, Francisco Estrada, Carlos Gay-Garcia
(ED-WPS No. 43-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-43-2012 [PDF 666.34KB]

A Household Welfare Perspective on the Expansion of Palm Oil Production in Indonesia

Outi Korkeala
(ED-WPS No. 42-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-42-2012 [PDF 471.55KB]

The Effect of Weather Shocks and Risk on Schooling and Child Labour in Rural Indonesia

Outi Korkeala
(ED-WPS No. 41-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-41-2012 [PDF 734.71KB]

Risk-Return Incentives in Liberalised Electricity Markets

Richard Tol, Muireann Lynch, Aonghus Shortt, Mark O'Malley
(ED-WPS No. 40-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-40-2012 [PDF 589.38KB]

The Implications of a Break-Up of China for Carbon Dioxide Emissions 

Richard Tol
(ED-WPS No. 39-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-39-2012 [PDF 413.00KB]

Climate Policy with Betham-Rawls Preferences

Richard Tol 
(ED-WPS No. 38-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-38-2012 [PDF 394.76KB]

Targets for Global Climate Policy: An Overview

Richard Tol
(ED-WPS No. 37-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-37-2012 [PDF 572.86KB]

Macroeconomic volatility, consumption behaviour and welfare: A cross-country analysis

Alessandro Federici & Pierluigi Montalbano
(ED-WPS No. 36-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-36-2012 [PDF 488.86KB]

Trade openness and vulnerability to poverty: Vietnam in the long run

Emiliano Magrini & Pierluigi Montalbano
(ED-WPS No. 35-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-35-2012 [PDF 672.45KB]

The Mexican Wage Curve 2000-2003: A Quantile Analysis

Héctor Elías Gutiérrez Rufrancos
(ED-WPS No. 34-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-34-2012 [PDF 315.69KB]

Maximum Carbon Taxes in the Short Run

Richard Tol 
(ED-WPS No. 33-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-33-2012 [PDF 411.25KB]

Oligopoly and Oligopsony Power in the Swedish Market

Conor Devitt & Richard Tol 
(ED-WPS No. 32-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-32-2012 [PDF 657.47KB]

Assessing the Trade Impact of the European Neighborhood Policy on EU-MED Free Trade Area

Pierluigi Montalbano & Silvia Nenci 
(ED-WPS No. 31-2012) This paper is available for download: WPS-31-2012 [PDF 1.87MB]

2011

The Evolution of Gender and Racial Occupational Segregation across Formal and non-Formal Labour Markets in Brazil – 1987 to 2006

Paola Salardi 
(ED-WPS No. 30-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-30-2011 [PDF 1.17MB]

Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times

Alexander Moradi & Denis Cogneau
(ED-WPS No. 29-2011) This paper is availabel for download: WPS-29-2011 [PDF 786.76KB] 

Product Durability and Trade Volatility

Dimitra Petropoulou & Kwok Tong Soo 
(ED-WPS No. 28-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-28-2011 [PDF 241.49KB]

The impact of GSP Preferences on Developing Countries' Exports in the European Union: Bilateral Gravity Modelling at the Product Level

Xavier Cirera, Francesca Foliano & Michael Gasiorek
(ED-WPS No. 27-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-27-2011 [PDF 421.34KB]

Explaining the Diversification Path of Exporters in Brazil: How Similar and Sophisticated are New Products? 
Xavier Cirera, Anabel Marin & Ricardo Markwald
(ED-WPS No. 26-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-26-2011 [PDF 419.38KB] 

How strong is the evidence for the existence of poverty traps? A multi country assessment

Andy McKay & Emilie Perge
(ED-WPS No. 25-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-25-2011 [PDF 657.14KB] 

A Framework to Analyze the Impact of Exchange Rate Uncertainty on Output Decisions

Gonzalo Varela
(ED-WPS No. 24-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-24-2011 [PDF 762.69KB] 

Protection through Proof of Age: Birth Registration and Child Labor in Early 20th Century USA

Sonja Fagernas 
(ED-WPS No. 23-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-23-2011 [PDF 397.33KB]

How Does Land Title Affect Access to Credit? Empirical Evidence from an Emerging Economy

Caio Piza
(ED-WPS No. 22-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-22-2011 [PDF 293.51KB]

The UK Minimum Wage at Age 22: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Richard Dickens
(ED-WPS No. 21-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-21-2011 [PDF 271.85KB]

Real Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Output: A Sectoral Analysis

Gonzalo Varela
(ED-WPS No. 20-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-20-2011 [PDF 1.95MB]

The Extrapolative Component in Exchange Rate Expectations and the Not-So-Puzzling Interest Parity: The Case of Uruguay

Gonzalo Varela
(ED-WPS No. 19-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-19-2011 [PDF 1.48MB]

Whether to Hire Local Contract Teachers? Trade-off Between Skills and Preferences in India

Sonja Fagernas & Panu Pelkonen 
(ED-WPS No. 18-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-18-2010 [PDF 647.28KB]

Does better local governance improve district growth performance in Indonesia?

Neil McCulloch & Edmund Malesky
(ED-WPS No. 17-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-17-2011 [PDF 430.76KB]

The Tobin Tax: A Review of the Evidence

Neil McCulloch & Grazia Pacillo 
(ED-WPS No. 16-2011) This paper is available for download: WPS-16-2011 [PDF 391.58KB]

2010

The Impact of trade preferences on export prices in the European Union - who captures the preference rent?

Xavier Cirera
(ED-WPS No. 15-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-15-2010 [PDF 252.59KB]

The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

Ian Gazeley & Andy Newell 
(ED-WPS No. 14-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-14-2010 [PDF 245.75KB]

Consumption Poverty and Pro-Poor Growth in Bolivia (1999-2007)

Marta Moratti
(ED-WPS No. 13-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-13-2010 [PDF 903.90KB]

Is the Border Effect an Artefact of Geographic Aggregation?

Carlos Llano, Asier Minondo & Francisco Requena
(ED-WPS No. 12-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-12-2010 [PDF 126.32KB]

Do Capital Inflows Hinder Competitiveness? The Real Exchange Rate in Ethiopia

Pedro M.G. Martins
(ED-WPS No. 11-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-11-2010 [PDF 667.55KB]

Aid Absorption and Spending in Africa: A Panel Cointegration Approach

Pedro M.G. Martins
(ED-WPS No. 10-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-10-2010 [PDF 539.10KB]

Fiscal Dynamics in Ethiopia: The Cointegrated VAR Model with Quarterly Data

Pedro M.G. Martins
(ED-WPS No. 9-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-9-2010 [PDF 960.52KB]

Economic growth in low income countries: How the G20 can help to raise and sustain it

L.Alan Winters, Wonhyuk Lim, Lucia Hanmer & Sidney Augustin
(ED-WPS No. 8-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-8-2010 [PDF 272.03KB]

Deep Integration in EU FTAs

Peter Holmes
(ED-WPS No. 7-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-7-2010 [PDF 173.94KB]

Border Carbon Adjustments and the Potential for Protectionism

Peter Holmes, Tom Reilly & Jim Rollo
(ED-WPS No. 6-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-6-2010 [PDF 190.46KB]

Trade as an Engine of Creative Destruction: Mexico experience with Chinese competition

Leonardo Iacovone, Ferdinand Rauch & L. Alan Winters
(ED-WPS No. 5-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-5-2010 [PDF 560.77KB]

Does trade openness increase vulnerability? A survey of the literature

Pierluigi Montalbano
(ED-WPS No. 4-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-4-2010 [PDF 304.16KB]

An Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Albania: An Heteroscedastic Ordered Probit Model Approach

Julie Litchfield, Barry Reilly & Mario Veneziani
(ED-WPS No. 3-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-3-2010 [PDF 273.93KB].

The end of destitution: Evidence from British working households 1904-1937

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell
(ED-WPS No. 2-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-2-2010 [PDF 176.00KB]

Why do cooperatives fail? Big versus small in Ghanaian Cocoa Producers' Societies, 1930-36

Chiara Cazzuffi & Alexander Moradi
(ED-WPS No. 1-2010) This paper is available for download: WPS-1-2010 [PDF 274.42KB]