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2003 CLEO Working Paper Series
- C03-2 Timur Kuran and Edward J. McCaffery, Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web.
- C03-3 Anthony M. Marino and Ján Zábojník, Merger, Ease of Entry, and Entry Deterrence in a Dynamic Model.
- C03-4 Thomas W. Gilligan, Lemons and Leases in the Used Business Aircraft Market.
- C03-5 Thomas W. Gilligan, A Signal Jamming Theory of Resale Price Maintenance.
- C03-6 Stephen J. Choi and A.C. Pritchard, Behavioral Economics and the SEC.
- C03-7 Jennifer Arlen and Eric Talley, Unregulable Defenses and the Perils of Shareholder Choice.
- C03-8 Seth Seabury and Eric Talley, Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence.
- C03-9 Hyungsik Roger Moon and Benoit Perron, Testing for a Unit Root in Panels with Dynamic Factors.
- C03-10 Hyungsik Roger Moon and Benoit Perron, Appendix: Omitted Proofs of "Testing for a Unit Root in Panels with Dynamic Factors."
- C03-11 Oguzhan Ozbas, Integration, Organizational Processes and Allocation of Resources.
- C03-12 Yong Kim, Outside Ownership as a Factor Input.
- C03-13 Jennifer Arlen and William Bentley MacLeod, Torts, Expertise and Authority: Liability of Physicians and Managed Care Organizations.
- C03-14 Timur Kuran, The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East.
- C03-15 Hyungsik Roger Moon, Maximum Score Estimation of a Nonstationary Binary Choice Model.
- C03-16 W. Bentley MacLeod, Planning Costs and the Theory of Learning by Doing.
- C03-17 Hyungsik Roger Moon, Benoit Perron and Peter C.B. Phillips, Incidental Trends and the Power of Panel Unit Root Tests.
- C03-18 Gouda Abdel-Khalek, Bad Policies or Systemic Dysfunction? The Perils of Financial Globalization: A South View.
- C03-19 Dan Simon, Daniel C. Krawczyk, Keith J. Holyoak, Construction of Preferences by Constraint Satisfaction (PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 15(5), 331 (2004)).
- C03-20 Dan Simon, Chadwick J. Snow, Stephen J. Read, The Redux of Cognitive Consistency Theories: Evidence Judgments by Constraint Satisfaction.
- C03-21 Jennifer Arlen and W. Bentley MacLeod, Malpractice Liability for Physicians and Managed Care Organizations.
- C03-22 Abel Cadenillas, Jaksa Cvitanic, and Fernando Zapatero, Dynamic Principal-Agent Problems with Perfect Information.
- C03-23 Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Heuristics and Biases in Thinking about Tax.
- C03-24 Timur Kuran, Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation.
- C03-25 Ken Hendricks, Robert Porter, and Guofu Tan, Bidding Rings and the Winner's Curse: The Case of Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions.
- C03-26 Guofu Tan and Okan Yilankaya, Equilibria in Second Price Auctions with Participation Costs.
- C03-27 Marcel Boyer and Donatella Porrini, Modeling the Choice Between Regulation and Liability in Terms of Social Welfare.
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