Pascal Courty

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Main Publications  

1.      Curbing cream-skimming: Evidence on enrolment incentives  (with Do Han Kim, and Gerald Marschke).  Labor Economics.  Forthcoming.  IZA Discussion Paper No. 3909, CEPR Discussion Paper 7121.

2.      Unpriced Quality.  Economics Letters. Forthcoming.

3.      The Impact of Price discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the concert industry  (with M. Pagliero). Review of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming. CEPR working paper 7120.

4.      Does responsive pricing smooth demand shocks? (with M. Pagliero).  Applied Economics.  Forthcoming.  CEPR Discussion Paper 6662. 

5.      Frictional Matching: Evidence from Law School Admission (with M. Pagliero).  Economics Letters.  108 (2010), p. 208-211. 

6.      Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies (with M. Pagliero).  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations. 75 (2010) 235–249.  CEPR Discussion Paper 6663.

7.      Suspense, (with Li, Hao and W. Chan).  Economic Journal.  (January 2009) 119, p.24-46.  CEPR Discussion Paper 3251.

8.      A General Test for Distortions in Performance Measurses (with G. Marschke). August 2008.  Review of Economics and Statistics. (3) 428-441.

9.      Do consumers care about how prices are set? (with M. Pagliero). February 2008. International Journal of the Economics of Business.  15 (1): 27-43.

10.  Responsive Pricing (with M. Pagliero). Economic Theory.  (2008) 34: 235–259. (Online publication March 07.)

11.  An Empirical Investigation of Gaming Responses to Explicit Performance Incentives (with Gerald Marschke). The Journal of Labor Economics.  January 2004, 22(1), p.23-56.  Awarded the H. Gregg Lewis Prize (2500$) for the best article published in the Journal of Labor Economics in 2004-2005.

12.  Dynamics of Performance Measurement Systems. (with G. Marschke). Oxford Review of Economic Policy.  2003, 19 (2), p. 268-84.

13.  Some Economics of Ticket Resale.  Journal of Economic Perspectives.  Spring 2003, 17 (2) p.85-97.  Reprinted in “Recent Developments in Cultural Economics,” volume edited by Ruth Towse, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. 

14.  Ticket Pricing Under Demand Uncertainty.  Journal of Law and Economics. October 2003, XLVI (2), p. 627-52. 

15.  Performance Incentives with Award Constraints, (with Gerald Marschke). Journal of Human Resources.  Vol 38 n.4 2002. p. 812-845.

16.  An Economic Guide to Ticket Pricing in the Entertainment Industry. Louvain Economic Review. (66) 2 2000  p. 167-192.

17.  Sequential Screening (with Li, Hao). Review of Economic Studies. (67) 2000. p.697-717.

18.  Timing of Clearance Sales and Competition. (with Li, Hao). Journal of Business October 1999.

19.  Measuring Government Performance: Lessons from a Federal Training Program (with G. Marschke).  American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings. May, 1997. p.383-88.

 

Public Policy and Other Refereed Publications  

20.  Making Government Accountable: Lessons from a Federal Job Training Program (with G. Marschke).  Public Administration Review. Sept-Oct 2007, 905-16.

21.  Setting the Standard in Performance Measurement Systems.  (with C Heinrich and G. Marschke).  International Public Management Journal.  2005, 8(3), p. 1–27.  Winner of the June Pallot Award (prize $1000) for Best Article published in IPMJ in 2005.

22.  Benchmarking Performance (with G. Marschke).  Public Finance and Management. 2004. 4(3), p. 288-316.

23.  Performance Funding in Federal Agencies: A Case Study of a Federal Job Training Program (with G. Marschke).  Public Budgeting and Finance. 2003, fall issues (Vol. 23:3).

24.  Financial Immunization, Market Incompleteness and Wavelets (with J.M. Lasry, J.M. Morel, and C.W. Yip). Compte Rendu de l'Academie des Sciences. Serie I, Mathematique, 1993, 316 p. 341-44.

25.  Linearization of the Portfolio Hedging Problem on Wavelet Basis (with I. Ekeland, J.M.Morel, and C.W. Yip). Compte Rendu de l'Academie des Sciences. Serie I, Mathematique, 1993, 316 p 399-402.

 

Book and Book Chapters

26.  The Performance of Performance Standards.  Editor James J. Heckman, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Pascal Courty, Gerald Marschke, Jeffrey Smith.  2011.  W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

27.  U.S. Employment and Training Programs and Performance Standards System Design  (with Carolyn J. Heinrich, Gerald Marschke, and Jeffrey Smith).  In The Performance of Performance Standards. Chapter 2, p. 15-30. 2011. 

28.  The JTPA Incentive System: Implementing Performance Measurement and Funding  (with Gerald Marschke).  In The Performance of Performance Standards.  Chapter 4, p. 67-98. 2011.

29.  Setting the Standards: Performance Targets and Benchmarks  (with Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Gerald Marschke).  In The Performance of Performance Standards.  Chapter 5, p. 99-128. 2011.

30.  Measuring Government Performance: An Overview of Dysfunctional Responses (with Gerald Marschke).  In The Performance of Performance Standards.  Chapter 7, p. 211-328. 2011.

31.  Behavioral Pricing in the Performing Art. (with  M. Pagliero). In,  Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Volume 2, Edited by Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby, in the Handbook in Economics series edited as a whole by Kenneth Arrow and Michael Intriligator.  (Forthcoming 2011.)

32.  Moral Hazard Under Incentive Systems: The Case of a Federal Bureaucracy  (with G. Marschke). In Advance in The Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth. Ed. Gary Libecap JAI Press, Greenwich, Vol. 7, 1996. P 157-90.

33.  Identical price categories in oligopolistic markets. Innocent behaviour or collusive practice? (with N. Fabra, M. Motta, and C. Fumagalli).  AGCM Collana Temi e Problemi, Vol 11, June 2006.