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School Discussion Papers

Below are all the discussion papers from staff in the School of Economics not affiliated with one of our research centres. You can view discussion papers from the research centres by visiting the links below:

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Papers by year: 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | Older papers

2015

Economics 15/06: Price Adjustment in Currency Unions

Description: Michael Bleaney and Lin Yin show that there is more price adjustment in currency unions than in other exchange rate pegs that allow devaluations, as predicted by their theoretical model.

Economics 15/05: A Dissection of the Current Account Persistence Puzzle

Description: Michael Bleaney and Mo Tian analyse why current account balances are as persistent under floating as under pegged exchange rates.

Economics 15/04: Financial Literacy, Present Bias and Alternative Mortgage Products

Description: John Gathergood and Jörg Weber

Economics 15/03: Global Trends in the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime

Description: Michael Bleaney, Mo Tian and Lin Yin show that there is still an underlying trend towards greater exchange rate flexibility across the world, even though it has been temporarily obscured by reduced inflation, which makes pegs more attractive.

Economics 15/02: Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers reduce poverty and improve well-being?

Description: This paper examines whether a PRSP impacts on poverty reduction and well-being and whether PRSP alignment to development paradigms impacts upon the achievement of these outcomes.

Economics 15/01: De Facto Exchange Rate Regime Classifications Are Better Than You Think

Description: Michael Bleaney, Mo Tian and Lin Yin analyse why existing classification schemes disagree so much, and suggest improvements that would lead to a much higher degree of agreement.

2014

Economics 14/06: The (Fuzzy) Digital Divide: The Effect of Broadbank Internet Use on UK Firm Performance

Description: Timothy DeStefano, Richard Kneller and Jonathan Timmis test whether access to ADSL broadband affected the performance of firms in the UK.

Economics 14/05: And the Winners Are…An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set

Description: Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja and Stefano Verzillo

Economics 14/04: Publish or Perish: An Analysis of the Academic Job Market in Italy

Description: Daniele Checchi, Gianni De Fraja and Stefano Verzillo show empirically that professional academics respond to incentives in the way their theoretical model predicts.

Economics 14/03: Decomposing the bid-ask spread in multi-dealer markets

Description: Michael Bleaney and Zhiyong Li

Economics 14/02: Classifying Exchange Rate Regimes by Regression Methods

Description: Michael Bleaney and Mo Tian propose a new and easily implemented regression method for distinguishing floating from pegged regimes, whilst simultaneously identifying anchors of pegged currencies. A revised version has been published as M. Bleaney and M. Tian, Measuring Exchange Rate Flexibility by Regression Methods, Oxford Economic Papers 69 (1) (January 2017), 301-319. Please cite the published version.