Academic Papers
Publications:
Gharehgozli, O. and V. Atal, "Gender Wage Gap: Within and Across Borders." Studies in Business and Economics, 16(2), 74-83, 2021.
Gharehgozli, O. and V. Atal, "A Simple Measure to Study Multinational In-come Inequality." Review of Economic Perspectives, 21(1), 27-40, 2021.
Gharehgozli, O. and V. Atal, ""Big Mac Affordability" and Real Income Inequality across Countries." Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 27 Issue 16, pp. 1352-1356, 2020.
Gharehgozli, O. and V. Atal, "Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in the United States." Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 66, pp. 207-216, 2020.
San Vicente Portes, L., V. Atal and M. J. Torres, "Women's Empowerment: Aggregate Effects on Savings and Wealth." Banco de México Documentos de Investigación, Vol. 2019 Issue 21, 2019. https://www.banxico.org.mx/publicaciones-y-prensa/documentos-de-investigacion-del-banco-de-mexico/%7B6C28F900-5FDA-6148-F5FE-A3657163F3EF%7D.pdf
San Vicente Portes, L., V. Atal and M. J. Torres, “From Households to National Statistics: Macroeconomic Effects of Women's Empowerment.” Economic Modelling, Vol. 79, pp. 286 - 294, 2019.
Atal, V., “Say at Home, or Stay at Home? Policy Implications on Female Labor Supply and Empowerment.” Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 15 Issue 4, pp. 1081-1104, 2017.
Atal, V. and K. Shankar, “Open Questions in Open Source: Exploring Incentives, Licensing and Competition.” Economics Bulletin, Vol. 36 Issue 3, pp. 140-152, 2016.
Atal, V., T. Bar and S. Gordon, “Project Selection: Commitment and Competition.” Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 96, pp. 30-48, 2016.
Atal, V. and K. Shankar, “Developers’ Incentives and Open Source Software Licensing: GPL vs. BSD.” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 15 Issue 3, pp. 1381-1416, 2015.
Atal, V. and T. Bar, “Patent Quality and A Two-Tiered Patent System.” (Supplementary material: Numeric simulation) Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 62 Issue 3, pp. 503-540, 2014.
Atal, V. and K. Shankar, “Open Source Software: Competition with A Public Good.” Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 42 Issue 3, pp. 333-345, 2014.
Atal, V. and R. Dubey, "Affirmative Action and Empowerment: Friends or Foes?" Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34 Issue 2, pp. 1012-1018, 2014.
Atal, V., “Do Journals Accept Too Many Papers?” Economics Letters, Vol. 107 Issue 2, pp. 229 – 232, 2010.
Atal, V. and T. Bar, “Prior Art – To Search or Not to Search.” International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 28 Issue 5, pp. 507 – 521, 2010.
Atal, V., K. Basu, J. Gray and T. Lee, “Literacy Traps: Society-wide Education and Individual Skill Premia.” International Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 6 Issue 1, pp. 137 – 148, 2010.
Atal, V., "The Big Mac Index and Real-Income Disparity." Journal of Business and Economics Research, Vol. 12 Issue 3, pp. 231-236, 2014.
San Vicente Portes, L. and V. Atal, "The Big Mac Index: a Shortcut to Inflation and Exchange Rate Dynamics? Price Tracking and Predictive Properties." International Business and Economics Research Journal, Vol. 13 Issue 4, pp. 751-756, 2014.
Atal, V. and L. San Vicente Portes, “Women's Empowerment and Households' Consumption-Savings Decisions.” Book chapter in Economic Empowerment for Women: A Global Perspective (M. Lownes-Jackson and R. Guy ed.), 2012.
Atal, V., “Tax Policies, Female Labor Force Participation and Women’s Empowerment.” Book chapter in Economic Empowerment for Women: A Global Perspective (M. Lownes-Jackson and R. Guy ed.), 2012.
Working Papers:
Atal, V., O. Gharehgozli and L. San Vicente Portes, "Higher Labor Market Bargaining Power, Higher Unemployment in Recessions?"
Atal, V., O. Gharehgozli and L. San Vicente Portes, "The Pro-Cyclical Unemployment Gender Gap: A Household Occupational Portfolio Choice?"
Atal, V. and T. Bar, "Two Phase Innovation Research Funding."
Atal, V. and K. Shankar, "Strategic Open Source Licensing and Software Market Entry."
Atal, V. and T. Bar, "Deferred Patent Examination."
Atal, V. and A. Zaby, "Why the Future used to be Brighter? An Economic Interpretation."