We run a laboratory experiment to investigate how group size affects coordination in a bank-run game, in which participants choose simultaneously whether to withdraw or not and groups change over time. We find that bank-size significantly affects the …
Extreme values are common in survey data and represent a recurring threat to the reliability of both poverty and inequality estimates. The adoption of a consistent criterion for outlier detection is useful in many practical applications, particularly …
Recent literature emphasizes the importance of accounting for local unobserved effects, which may stem from either omitted neighborhood characteristics or shocks. As in a panel data setting, we exploit neighborhood data transformations to eliminate …