Economics and Finance

The Economics Series presents research done at the Department of Economics and Finance and aims to share “work in progress” in a timely way before formal publication. As usual, authors bear full responsibility for the content of their contributions.

Editor: Robert M. Kunst (Econometrics)
Associate Editors: Walter Fisher (Macroeconomics), Klaus Ritzberger (Microeconomics)

Submission Guideline:
o   Notes to Contributors of our Working Paper Series
o  Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) subject codes

Useful Economic Links:
o  Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
o  Research Papers in Economics - RePEc                                           
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Fisher, Walter H., Hof , Franz X.: Status Seeking in the Small Open Economy (October 2001)
Economics Series, 106 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Di Maria , Corrado: Elastic Labour Supply and Optimal Taxation in a Model of Sustainable Endogenous Growth (October 2001)
Economics Series, 105 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Dupont, Dominique Y.: Extracting Risk-Neutral Probability Distributions from Option Prices Using Trading Volume as a Filter (September 2001)
Economics Series, 104 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Dupont, Dominique Y.: Hedging Barrier Options: Current Methods and Alternatives (September 2001)
Economics Series, 103 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Dimitz, Maria Antoinette: Output Gaps in European Monetary Union: New Insights from Input Augmentation in the Technological Progress (July 2001)
Economics Series, 102 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Drost, André, Felderer, Bernhard: Social Security as a Monopoly (July 2001)
Economics Series, 101 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Stark, Oded, Wang, Yong: Inducing Human Capital Formation: Migration as a Substitute for Subsidies (April 2001)
Economics Series, 100 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Fisher, Walter H.: Status Preference, Wealth, and Dynamics in the Open Economy (April 2001)
Economics Series, 99 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Villar, Antonio: The Welfare Evaluation of Primary Goods: A Suggestion (March 2001)
Economics Series, 98 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Hofer, Helmut, Huber, Peter: Wage and Mobility Effects of Trade and Migration on the Austrian Labour Market (February 2001)
Economics Series, 97 / 2001, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna