Joshua Gans

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Blog

(www.economics.com.au)

Recent Papers

• 'AussieMac': A Policy Initiative for the Australian Government to Protect Households and the Financial System Against Current and Future Credit Crises (with Christopher Joye) ((Postscript: Reaction and Market Update, June 2008))

• Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity: 2007 Update (with Richard Hayes)

• Born (Again) on the First of July: Another Experiment in Birth Timing (with Andrew Leigh)

• Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use (with Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman)

• Carbon Offset Provision with Guilt-Ridden Consumers

• Submission to Emissions Trading Task Group (with John Quiggin)

• Evaluating the Impact of the Payment System Reforms

• The Local Broadband Imperative, CEDA Report

• Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing (with Andrew Leigh)

• Bargaining over Labor: Do Patients have any Power? (with Andrew Leigh)

Recent Publications

• "Do Voluntary Carbon Offsets Work?" The Economists' Voice, Vol.4, Iss.4, Article 7.

• "The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence for Patent Grant Delays" (with David Hsu and Scott Stern), Management Science, 2008.

• "Concentration-Based Merger Tests and Vertical Market Structure," Journal of Law and Economics, 2007.

• "Housing and Income Contingent Loans for Low Income Households," (with Stephen King) Managing Government Risk: Income contingent loans for social and economic progress, Bruce Chapman (ed.), Routledge: London, 2006, Chapter 11.

• "Vertical Contracting when Competition for Orders Precedes Procurement," Journal of Industrial Economics, 2006 (forthcoming).