José A. Scheinkman

The Informal Sector ∗ (2008)

Aureo De Paula, Jose A. Scheinkman, Áureo De Paula, José A. Scheinkman

∗ We thank Rita Almeida and Sandra Brandão for their help with the enforcement data, and Joana Monteiro and Juliano Assuncão for providing us with the ECINF dataset and clarifying its...

Measuring Trust

Edward L. Glaeser, David I. Laibson, José A. Scheinkman, Christine L. Soutter

We combine two experiments and a survey to measure trust and trustworthiness - two key components of social capital. Standard attitudinal survey questions about trust predict trustworthy behavior in...

Long-Term Risk: An Operator Approach

Lars Peter Hansen, José A. Scheinkman

We create an analytical structure that reveals the long-run risk-return relationship for nonlinear continuous-time Markov environments. We do so by studying an eigenvalue problem associated with a...