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6916: Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

Gianmarco P Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri

6915: Individual Investors and Volatility

Thierry Foucault, David Sraer and David Thesmar

6914: Distorted Agricultural Incentives and Economic Development: Asia’s Experience

Kym Anderson

6913: Strategic Interactions between an Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt

Sven Jari Stehn and David Vines

6912: Statute Law or Case Law?

Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli and Alessandro Riboni

6911: Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance

Oddvar Martin Kaarboe and Luigi Siciliani

6910: Does Idiosyncratic Business Risk Matter?

Claudio Michelacci and Fabiano Schivardi

6909: Endogenous Borders? Exploring a Natural Experiment on Border Effects

Hans Christian Heinemeyer, Max Stephan Schulze and Nikolaus Wolf

6908: Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability¤

Paola Conconi, Nicolas Sahuguet and Maurizio Zanardi

6907: Optimal Monetary Policy in an Operational Medium-Sized DSGE Model

Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé and Lars E O Svensson

6906: Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their Implications for Romania

Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Yue Li

6905: Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products

Rachel Griffith and Lars Nesheim

6904: Manufacturing restructuring and the role of Real exchange rate shocks: A firm level analysis

Karolina Ekholm, Andreas Moxnes and Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene

6903: The Composition of Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate

Vahagn A. Galstyan and Philip R. Lane

6901: Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope

Harald Hau and Hélène Rey

6900: Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity

Dietmar Harhoff, Georg von Graevenitz and Stefan Wagner

6899: Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec and Klaus F Zimmermann

6898: Do Interest Groups Affect US Immigration Policy?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda and Prachi Mishra

6897: A Comparison of Debt and Primary-deficit Constraints

Roel Beetsma, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro and Andreas Schabert

6896: Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999

Marco Daniele Paserman

6895: The Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Johan N. M. Lagerlöf and Andrew J Seltzer

6894: A Political Economy Model of Merger Policy in International Markets

Massimo Motta and Michele Ruta

6893: Time-Varying Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry

Jacques Olivier and Anthony Tay

6892: Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage

Denis Fougere, Erwan Gautier and Hervé LE BIHAN

6891: Performance Gender-Gap: Does Competition Matter?

Evren Örs, Frédéric Palomino and Eloïc Peyrache

6890: Executive Compensation and Stock Options: An Inconvenient Truth

Jean-Pierre Danthine and John B Donaldson

6889: Optimal Central Bank Transparency

Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Lex Hoogduin and Carin van der Cruijsen

6888: Governing the Governors: A Clinical Study of Central Banks

Lars Frisell, Kasper F. Roszbach and Giancarlo Spagnolo

6887: The Long or Short of it: Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets

Philip R. Lane and Jay C Shambaugh

6886: Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Michael Lechner

6885: Finance and Growth: When Does Credit Really Matter?

Fabrizio Coricelli and Isabelle Roland

6884: Foreign Influence and Welfare

Pol Antràs and Gerard Padró Miquel

6883: On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations: Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence

Sara de la Rica, Juan J. Dolado and García-Peñalosa, Cecilia

6882: International R&D Spillovers and Institutions

David Theodore Coe, Elhanan Helpman and Alexander W. Hoffmaister

6881: Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova

6880: Quality Assurance and the Home Market Effect

Ai Ting Goh and Tomasz Michalski

6879: Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

Fredrik Heyman, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos

6878: Arbitrage in the Foreign Exchange Market: Turning on the Microscope

Qaisar Farooq Akram, Dagfinn Rime and Lucio Sarno

6877: The Secondary Market for Hedge Funds and the Closed-Hedge Fund Premium

Tarun Ramadorai

6876: Parental Sex Selection and Gender Balance

V Bhaskar

6875: Defying the 'Juncker Curse’: Can Reformist Governments Be Re-elected?

Pietro Biroli, Marco Buti, Alessandro Turrini and Paul van den Noord

6874: Big-Think Regionalism: a Critical Survey

Richard Baldwin

6873: Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski and Sergio Rebelo

6872: Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence

Mary Amiti and Donald R Davis

6871: Domestic Rivalry and Export Performance: Theory and Evidence from International Airline Markets

Joseph A. Clougherty and Anming Zhang

6870: Relative Factor Endowments and International Portfolio Choice

Alejandro Cuñat and Fons-Rosen, Christian

6869: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading Reserve Currency?

Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau

6868: Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility: How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?

Barry Eichengreen

6867: The Impact of Horizontal Mergers on Rivals: Gains to Being Left Outside a Merger

Joseph A. Clougherty and Tomaso Duso

6866: Tariff-Mediated Network Externalities: Is Regulatory Intervention Any Good?

Steffen Hoernig

6865: Sustaining Collusion in Growing Markets

Helder Vasconcelos

6864: Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital and Poverty

Omer Moav and Zvika Neeman

6863: European Economic Growth, 1950-2005: An Overview

Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo

6862: The Procyclical Effects of Basel II

Rafael Repullo and Javier Suárez

6861: Keeping Both Eyes Wide Open: The Life of a Competition Authority Among Sectoral Regulators

Steffen Hoernig, Tore Nilssen and Pedro Barros

6860: Estimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports

Ram C. Acharya and Wolfgang Keller

6859: In Search of a Theory of Debt Management

Elisa Faraglia, Albert Marcet and Andrew Scott

6858: Spatial Concentration and Firm-Level Productivity in France

Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer and Florian Mayneris

6857: Dynamic Moral Hazard and Project Completion

Robin Mason and Juuso Välimäki

6856: Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution

Gregory Clark, O''Rourke, Kevin H and Alan M. Taylor (Kevin H. O'Rourke)

6855: Network Structure and Strategic Investments: An Experimental Analysis

Stephanie Rosenkranz and Utz Weitzel

6854: Taboos: Considering the Unthinkable

Chaim Fershtman, Uri Gneezy and Moshe Hoffman

6853: Equity Aversion

Chaim Fershtman, Uri Gneezy and John List

6852: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

6851: Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Alessandra Casella, Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman and Jie Shen

6850: Can We Measure Hospital Quality from Physicians' Choices?

Matilde Pinto Machado, Ricardo Mora Villarrubia and Antonio Romero-Medina

6849: Testing a Model of the UK by the Method of Indirect Inference

David Meenagh, A. Patrick L. Minford and Konstantinos Theodoridis

6848: The Value of European Patents

Alfonso Gambardella, Dietmar Harhoff and Bart Verspagen

6847: Who is Against a Common Market?

Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa

6846: The Distribution of Firm Start-Up Size Across Geographic Space

David B Audretsch and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

6845: Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark Schaffer

6844: The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

6843: Tax Reform, Delocation and Heterogeneous Firms: Base Widening and Rate Lowering Reforms

Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

6842: How Differences in Property Taxes within Cities Affect Urban Sprawl?

Yan Song and Yves Zenou

6841: Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory

Stephen Ross and Yves Zenou

6840: Crime and Ethnicity in London

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

6839: Vicious and Virtuous Circles - The Political Economy of Unemployment in Interwar UK and USA

Kent Gerard Matthews, A. Patrick L. Minford and Ruthira Naraidoo

6837: Interviews and Adverse Selection

Jens Josephson and Joel Shapiro

6836: Patterns of Restructuring: The U.S. Class 1 Railroads from 1984 to 2004

Guido Friebel, Gerard McCullough and Laura Padilla Angulo

6835: From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and evidence

Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda

6834: Can the Facts of UK Inflation Persistence be Explained by Nominal Rigidity?

David Meenagh, A. Patrick L. Minford, Eric Nowell, Prakriti Sofat and Naveen Srinivasan

6833: From Baghdad to London: The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Europe and the Arab World, 800-1800

Maarten Bosker, Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten van Zanden

6832: Does Speed Signal Ability? The Impact of Grade Repetitions on Employment and Wages

Thomas Brodaty, Gary-Bobo, Robert J. and Ana Prieto

6831: Genuine Saving and the Voracity Effect

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

6830: Oil and the Macroeconomy: A Structural VAR Analysis with Sign Restrictions

Francesco Lippi and Andrea Nobili

6829: Asymmetric Cartels - a Theory of Ring Leaders

Mattias Ganslandt, Lars Persson and Helder Vasconcelos

6828: Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Gilles Saint-Paul

6827: Can Central Banks Go Broke?

Willem H Buiter

6826: Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty in an Estimated Model with Labour Market Frictions

Luca Sala, Ulf Söderström and Antonella Trigari

6825: Investing for the Old Age: Pensions, Children and Savings

Vincenzo Galasso, Roberta Gatti and Paola Profeta

6824: Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

6823: Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan and Lars Persson

6822: Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect

Astrid Hopfensitz, Michal Krawczyk and Frans A.A.M. van Winden

6821: Filing Strategies and Patent Value

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Nicolas van Zeebroeck

6820: The Economic Impact of European Integration

Andrea Boltho and Barry Eichengreen

6819: The Effect of Trade with Low-Income Countries on U.S. Industry

Raphael Auer and Andreas Fischer

6817: Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey

Ian Louis Dew-Becker and Robert J Gordon

6816: Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Karin Monstad, Carol Propper and Kjell G Salvanes

6815: Other-Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium

Martin Dufwenberg, Paul Heidhues, Georg Kirchsteiger, Frank Riedel and Joel Sobel

6814: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination when Bonds Provide Transactions Services

Matthew B Canzoneri, Robert Cumby, Behzad Diba and López-Salido, J David