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."