Thanks. Yes, but even I would draw the line at mixing Whoppers and löyly.

The addition of a new co-author – and former RA – Josh Foster, Ivey, changed everything, and “Auctions for Risk-Averse Non-Profits" is now conditionally accepted at the Journal of Public Economics which, I note with some gratitude, has been very good to me/us over the last decade or two.

#3. Longtime co-author and friend Jeff Carpenter and I despaired, I think, of ever finishing the final paper in a research program on charity auctions, one that would bring together extensive lab and field data to provide a more complete characterization of both theoretical and empirical results.

It adopts an experimental approach to infer what both experts – a large panel of philosophers – and the public adopt as “building blocks” in their understandings of exploitation, with sometimes surprising results.

#2. “What Exploitation Is” was co-authored with Ben Ferguson, a philosopher at Warwick, and two other economists, Roberto Veneziani at Queen Mary, and David Ronayne at ESMT Berlin, and should appear soon in the American Journal of Political Science (!)

We all “know” that relative status matters, but is there causal evidence of whom we compare ourselves to, and how it matters? This paper, an experiment conducted in co-operation with Statistics Finland, provides just this evidence.

Look for sequels soon!

It has now undergoing final checks at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and it embodies the hard work of a wonderful and diverse team: Topi Miettinen at Hanken, Kaisa Kotakorpi at Tampere, Michael Kirchler at Innsbruck, Satu Metsälampi at Turku and Xiaogeng Xu, then of Hanken.

#1. I am perhaps most pleased about “Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data,” which has been several years, and many presentations and drafts, in the making.

I’ll share more about the papers themselves soon, but I just wanted to celebrate with three quite different “teams,” and thank three quite different journals, now ...