The Working Paper series publishes original research related to IREF’s mission.
Every article also provides a non-technical Executive Summary.
Working Paper Series
WP 2018-11. Executive Summary.
Hospital Budget Constraint(s) and Patients’ Mobility: Evidence from Lombardy
WP 2018-06. Executive Summary.
WP 2018-04. Executive Summary.
An Impossibility Result on Nudging Grounded in the Theory of Intentional Action
WP 2018-01. Executive summary.
And Yet It Grows. Crisis, Ideology, and Interventionist Policy Ratchets
WP 2017-05. Discussions on the optimal level of government intervention in the economy have become very intense in recent years, especially following the 2008 financial and economic crisis. The hardships…
WP 2017-04. In many countries around the world, lottery services are provided by government-owned firms that are equipped with (regional) monopoly privileges. The official argument for lottery monopolies by state-owned…
WP 2017-03. Property rights play a crucial role in economics: They define the very essence of this discipline, which studies how individuals exchange in order to enhance their welfare, subject…
WP 2017-02. The prevailing opinion among national governments and supranational institutions is that climate change science is settled and drastic cuts in the emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases…
WP 2017-01. Since the financial crisis, government debt ratios have increased in many countries. Most studies indicate that there is a negative association between high medium- and long-term debt ratios…