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09-17: Fractional Integration and Cointegration: Testing the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Marco R Barassi and Dayong Zhang

09-16: Firm Heterogeneity, Origin of Ownership and Export Participation

Matthew A Cole, Robert J R Elliott and Supreeya Virakul

09-15: Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: Evidence From Chinese Cities

Matthew A Cole, Robert J R Elliott and Jing Zhang

09-14: Corruption, Governance and FDI Location in China: A Province-Level Analysis

Matthew A Cole, Robert J R Elliott and Jing Zhang

09-13: Dirty Money: Is there a Wage Premium for Working in a Pollution Intensive Industry

Matthew A Cole, Robert J R Elliott and Joanne K Lindley

09-11: Rational Defence: War and Peace in South Asia

Richard Barrett and Somnath Sen

09-10: Pre-Electoral Coalitions and Post-Election Bargaining

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Kalyan Chatterjee and Tomas Sjostrom

09-09: Income Convergence and R&D Intensity in OECD Manufacturing Industries: A Panel Study

Nicholas V. Vasilakos and Nikolay Zubanov

09-08: All Work and No Play: Pecuniary Versus Non-Pecuniary Factors in the Labour Supply of the Elderly

J L Ford, K Park and S Sen

09-07: Stable Sets in Three Agent Pillage Games

Manfred Kerber and Colin Rowat

09-06: Forecasting with Factor-Augmented Error Correction Models

Anindya Banerjee, Massimiliano Marcellino and Igor Masten

09-05: Sums and Extreme Values of Random Variables: Duality Properties

Ralph W. Bailey

09-04: Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

John Addison, Ralph W. Bailey and Stan Siebert

09-03: Government Information Transparency

Facundo Albornoz, Joan Esteban and Paolo Vanin

09-01: A Ramsey Bound on Jordan Stable Sets

Manfred Kerber and Colin Rowat

09-01r: A Ramsey Bound on Stable Sets in Jordan Pillage Games

Manfred Kerber and Colin Rowat

08-10: How We Might Model a Credit Squeeze, and Draw some Policy Implications for Responding to it

Peter Sinclair

08-09: The Whys and Wherefores of Controlling Inflation

Peter Sinclair

08-08: Market Behaviour with Large Amounts of Intermittent Generation

Richard John Green and Nicholas V. Vasilakos

08-07: Crime Reporting: Profiling and Neighbourhood Observation

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Kalyan Chatterjee

08-06: Corruption, Governance and FDI Location in China: A Province-Level Analysis

Matthew A. Cole, Robert J R Elliott and Jing Zhang

08-05: Bonuses, Credit Rating Agencies and the Credit Crunch

Peter Sinclair, Guy Spier and Tom Skinner

08-03: In Search of Environmental Spillovers

Facundo Albornoz, Matthew A. Cole, Robert J R Elliott and Marco Ercolani

08-02: Investment and Expropriation under Oligarchy and Democracy in a Heckscher-Ohlin World

Facundo Albornoz, Sebastian Galiani and Daniel Heymann

08-01: EU Regulation and Competition Policy among the Energy Utilities

Richard John Green

07-17: Learning by Exporting: Do Firm Characteristics Matter? Evidence from Argentinian Panel Data

Facundo Albornoz and Marco Ercolani

07-14: Public Sector Capital and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy

Christopher J. Ellis and John Fender

07-13: Cyclical Trends in Continuous Time Models

Joanne S. Ercolani

07-12: What do we really mean by monetary (or price) stability, and financial stability?

Peter Sinclair

07-11: Growth in Britain

Bill Allen, Esther Baroudy, Richard Batley, Bruno Paulson and Peter Sinclair

07-10: Pareto-Improving Income Tax Reform

Peter Sinclair

07-09: On the Measurement of Changes in Product Quality in Marginal Intra-Industry Trade

AKM Azhar and Robert J R Elliott

07-08: The Environmental Performance of Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership, Training, and Experience

Matthew A. Cole, Robert J R Elliott and Eric Albert Strobl

07-07: Asian Currency Crises: Do Fundamentals still Matter? A Markov-Switching Approach to Causes and Timing

J L Ford, Bagus Santoso and N J Horsewood

07-06: Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America

Facundo Albornoz and Jayasri Dutta

07-03: An Economic Theory of Political Institutions: Foreign Intervention and Overseas Investments

Toke S Aidt and Facundo Albornoz

07-02: Carbon Tax or Carbon Permits: The Impact on Generators' Risks

Richard John Green

07-01: Persistence and Nominal Inertia in a Generalized Taylor Economy: How Longer Contracts Dominate Shorter Contracts

Huw David Dixon and Engin Kara

06-11: Efficient Compromising

Peter Postl

06-11r: Efficient Compromising

Tilman Börgers and Peter Postl

06-10: Aggregative Games

Martin Kaae Jensen

06-09: The Predictability of KLSE CI Stock Index Futures Returns and The Conditional Multifactor APT Model

Wee Ching Pok and S. Poshakwale J. L. Ford

06-08: Dynamic vs. Static Stock Index Futures Hedging: A Case Study for Malaysia

Wee Ching Pok and S. Poshakwale J. L. Ford

06-07: Inefficient Procurement

Peter Postl

06-06: A Note on the Impossibility of Efficient N-Person Compromises

Peter Postl

06-05: Dominant Strategy Implementable Compromises

Peter Postl

06-04: Crime as a local public bad, neighbourhood observation and reporting

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Kalyan Chatterjee (Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay)

06-03: The Euro-changeoverand Euro-inflation: Evidence from Eurostat's HICP

Marco G. Ercolani and Jayasri Dutta (Marco Ercolani)

06-02: UK Employees' Sickness Absence: 1984-2005

Marco Ercolani

06-01: Who is Learning From Whom? A Study of Households Forming Expectations in the US and UK

Atanu Ghoshray and Marco Barassi Joshy Easaw (Marco R. Barassi and Atanu Ghoshray)