Journal: Economics Letters

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Econ Lett

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Elsevier

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0165-1765

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  • Terrorism and electoral accountability
    Item type: Journal Article
    Gassebner, Martin; Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Mierau, Jochen O. (2008)
    Economics Letters
  • Purchasing power parities and the Dollar-A-Day approach: An unstable relationship
    Item type: Journal Article
    Moatsos, Michail; Lazopoulos, Achillefs (2021)
    Economics Letters
    We show that the Dollar-A-Day methodology in global poverty measurement provides inconsistent International Poverty Line (iPL) solutions when a complete set of consistency criteria in the iPL definition is used. This article illustrates that minor fluctuations in purchasing power parity exchange rates can yield inconsistent iPLs. We find a rate of inconsistency of 46.1% and we conclude that this is a worrisome attribute of the method.
  • On the existence of symmetric mixed strategy equilibria
    Item type: Journal Article
    Becker, Johannes G.; Damianov, Damian S. (2006)
    Economics Letters
  • Mindfulness reduces information avoidance
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ash, Elliott; Sgroi, Daniel; Tuckwell, Anthony; et al. (2023)
    Economics Letters
    Mindfulness meditation has been found to influence various important outcomes such as health, stress, depression, productivity, and altruism. We report evidence from a randomised-controlled trial on a previously untested effect of mindfulness: information avoidance. We find that a relatively short mindfulness treatment (two weeks, 15 min a day) is able to induce a reduction in information avoidance — that is, avoiding information that may cause worry or regret. Supplementary evidence supports mindfulness's effects on emotion regulation as a possible mechanism for the effect.
  • Melting constants in trade gravity's rainbow
    Item type: Journal Article
    Blank, Sven; Egger, Peter H. (2021)
    Economics Letters
    Customary empirical gravity models are parametric and rely on the assumption that exports from country i to j depend on an additive index of three components: i-specific supply potential which is common across importers j; j-specific demand potential which is common across exporters i; and bilateral trade frictions which are indexed by ij and common within ij in a generic period. We demonstrate that the data reject the constancy of these components within category. The variation of trade-agreement-depth effects within category across country pairs and time is striking.
  • On the distribution of patent citations and its fundamentals
    Item type: Journal Article
    Egger, Peter; Seliger, Florian; Wörter, Martin (2016)
    Economics Letters
  • Measuring economic sentiment from open-ended survey comments using large language models
    Item type: Journal Article
    Seiler, Pascal (2025)
    Economics Letters
    This article develops a novel economic sentiment indicator (LLM-ESI) by applying large language models to open-ended responses from Swiss business tendency surveys. Using a BERT-based transformer model, it extracts firm-level sentiment from free-text survey comments and aggregates it into a high-frequency indicator of macroeconomic conditions. The LLM-ESI closely tracks the business cycle and performs on par with, or better than, traditional benchmarks in nowcasting GDP. These results highlight the potential of large language models and open-ended survey responses to deliver timely and nuanced signals for real-time economic analysis.
  • Social comparison and energy conservation in a collective action context: A field experiment
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kandul, Serhiy; Lang, Ghislaine; Lanz, Bruno (2020)
    Economics Letters
    This field experiment quantifies the impact of social norm information on the demand for indoor temperature. Based on high-frequency data from indoor temperature monitors, we provide participating households with a comparison of average temperature in their apartment relative to that measured in a control group. For more than 90 percent of participants, financial benefits of energy savings are only indirect, as building-level heating costs are shared across apartments in proportion to their volume. Despite the associated collective action problem, we estimate that the intervention induces a −0.28 °C reduction in average indoor temperature. This suggests that direct monetary incentives is not a pre-requisite for social comparison feedback to induce energy savings.
  • International competition and employment
    Item type: Journal Article
    Seidel, Tobias (2010)
    Economics Letters
  • Short-term effects of India's demonetization on the rural poor
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zhu, Heng; Gupta, Anubhab; Majumder, Binoy; et al. (2018)
    Economics Letters
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