Working Papers
2009
09-01 "The Maximum Entropy Distribution for Stochastically Ordered Random Variables with Fixed Marginals," by Nicholas M. Kiefer.
09-02 "The Mechanics of Central Bank Intervention in Foreign Exchange Markets," by Kaushik Basu.
09-03 "Equivalence of Utilitarian Maximal and Weakly Maximal Programs," by Kuntal Banerjee & Tapan Mitra.
09-04 "On the Phelps-Koopmans Theorem," by Tapan Mitra & Debraj Ray.
09-05 "Literacy Traps: Society-wide Education and Individual Skill Premia," by Vidya Atal, Kaushik Basu, John Gray & Travis Lee.
09-06 "Altriusm, Other-Regarding Behavior and Identity: The Moral Basis of Prosperity and Oppression," by Kaushik Basu.
09-07 "What Goes Around Comes Around: A Theory of Strategic Indirect Reciprocity in Networks," by Maximilian Mihm, Russell Toth & Corey Lang.
09-08 "Geometry of the Log-Likelihood Ratio Statistic in Misspecified Models," by Hwan-sik Choi & Nicholas M. Kiefer.
09-09 "A Marketing Scheme for Making Money off Innocent People: A User's Manual," by Kaushik Basu.
09-10 "Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis," by Stephen Coate & Brian Knight.
09-11 "A Simple Model of the Financial Crisis of 2007-9 with Impilcations for the Design of a Stimulus Package," by Kaushik Basu.
09-12 "Correlated Defaults, Temporal Correlation, Expert Information and Predictability of Default Rates," by Nicholas M. Kiefer.
09-13 "Incentive-Compatible Elicitation of Quantiles," by Nicholas M. Kiefer.
09-14 "How Sapient is Homo Economicus? The Evoluationary
Origins of Trade, Ethics and Economic Rationality," by Kaushik
Basu & Ashok Guha.