About the Authors

Omar Al-Ubaydli

Affiliations Research Department, Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies, Awali, Bahrain, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Daniel Houser

Affiliations Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

John Nye

Affiliations Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, International Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Maria Pia Paganelli

Affiliation Department of Economics, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Xiaofei Sophia Pan

xpan@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OA JN DH MP XP. Performed the experiments: OA XP. Analyzed the data: OA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OA MP XP. Wrote the paper: OA JN DH MP.