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Randomizing Endowments: An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences

By Annette Cerulli-Harms, Lorenz Goette, and Charles Sprenger

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2019

We test expectations-based reference dependence in market experiments with probabilistic forced exchange. Koszegi and Rabin (2006) predict that when the probability of forced exchange increases, individuals cannot expect to stick with the status quo, an...

The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland

By Andreas Beerli, Jan Ruffner, Michael Siegenthaler, and Giovanni Peri

American Economic Review, March 2021

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Altho...