Past BUPA winners

The Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in China

Shirley ‘Yilin’ Ren, Princeton University—USA

Estimating Teacher Quality: Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures

Mira Potter-Schwartz, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Equal Convergence? Convergence Patterns Among Immigrants by Occupation

Gwyneth Donahue, Idaho State University, U.S.A.

Selective Entry in Highway Procurement Auctions

Sabrina Peng, University of Virginia, U.S.A.

An Empirical Asset-Pricing Model: Accounting for Sector Heterogeneity of Risk 

Maksim Papenkov, State University of New York, USA

The Effect of Inflation Targeting on Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Developing Countries

Iuliia Vasileva, Lafayette College, USA

Eliminating the Penny in Canada: An Economic Analysis of Penny-Rounding on Grocery Items

Christina Cheung, University of British Columbia, Canada

Synergies in Labor Market Institutions: The Nonlinear Effect of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment

Adam Brzezinski, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Joint-Liability in Microcredit: Evidence from Bangladesh

Hameem Raees Chowdhury, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Beyond In-Sample Significance: Using K-Fold Cross-Validation to Examine the Out-Of-Sample Significance and Specification of the Gravity Model of Bilateral Trade

Levi Boxell, Taylor University, U.S.A.

Constrained Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization with Alternative Return Estimation

Boris Georgiev, Aarhus University, Denmark

Responding to a Monetary Superpower: Investigating the Behavioral Spillovers of U.S. Monetary Policy

Colin Gray, Stanford University, U.S.A.

The Effects of Currency Devaluations on the Economic Growth in Developing Countries

Giacomo Saibene and Silvia Sicouri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

State-Building in Resource-Rich Economies: How Mother Nature Impedes Fiscal Capacity

Anders Ditlev Jensen, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Aid and Public Finance: A Missing Link

Markus Gstoettner and Anders Jensen, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Rational Inattention and Choice Under Risk

Maxim Pinkovskiy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

Responsibility to Punish: Discouraging Free-Riders in Public Goods Games

Zachary Devlin-Foltz and Katherine Lim, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Peer Effects and Cigarettes Use Among College Students

Jeffrey Wilson, University of Akron, USA

The Link Between CEO Compensation and Firm Performance: Does Simultaneity MAtter?

Matthew Lilling, Emory University, USA