When collusion is analyzed for Independent private value auctions, it is implicitly assumed that ring presence is commonly known to colluding and non-colluding bidders. We drop this assumption and analyze a simple model of a first price …

This paper explores the role of crude oil in determining corn prices for data on the weekly front future prices in the United States. With 38% of corn production allocated toward fuel ethanol, a possible effect of crude oil price variation on corn …

In this study, we investigate and apply the models from the machine learning (ML) paradigm to forecast the inflation rate. The models identified are ridge, lasso, elastic net, random forest, and artificial neural network. We carry out the analysis …

How have social movements in the United States been impacted by simultaneously evolving economic realities such as episodes of development and inequality across time? This paper empirically examines how the structural forces of the economy such as …

This paper examines persistence in tax revenues in a set of 21 OECD countries over the period 1965–2021 using long-range dependence techniques based on fractional integration. The results imply that there are only a few cases of mean reversion: …

In this article, I address the question of who crosses the border into the United States for the purpose of giving birth, and how these patterns may have changed over time. This work is the first timely, quantitative analysis of its kind for the …