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1648: On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

Panu Poutvaara

1647: Extracting Leading Indicators of Bank Fragility from Market Prices – Estonia Focus

Yu-Fu Chen, Michael Funke and Kadri Männasoo

1646: Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of Government

J. Stephen Ferris, Soo-Bin Park and Stanley L Winer

1645: The Savings-Inflation Puzzle

Burkhard Heer and Bernd Süssmuth

1644: Rent-Seeking Competition from State Coffers: A Calibrated DSGE Model of the Euro Area

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Apostolis Philippopoulos and Vanghelis Vassilatos

1643: The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States

Naercio Menezes-Filho, Marc-Andreas Muendler and Garey Ramey

1642: Optimum Taxation of Life Annuities

Johann K. Brunner and Susanne Pech

1641: Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany

Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo and Viktor Steiner

1640: A Reappraisal of the Border Effect on Relative Price Volatility

Yin-Wong Cheung and Kon S. Lai

1639: Violent Groups and Police Tactics: Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?

Panu Poutvaara and Mikael Priks

1638: Optimal Stabilization Policy with Flexible Prices

Aleksander Berentsen and Christopher Waller

1637: Artificial Time Inconsistency as a Remedy for the Race to the Bottom (new title: Delayed Integration as a Possible Remedy for the Race to the Bottom)

Alfons J. Weichenrieder and Oliver Busch

1636: Explaining Conflict in Low-Income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future

Michael McBride and Stergios Skaperdas

1635: Do Consumers Buy Less of a Taxed Good?

Hans Jarle Kind, Marko Köthenbürger and Guttorm Schjelderup

1634: Health Values, Preference Inconsistency, and Insurance Demand

Matthias Wrede

1633: What Explains the Variation in Estimates of Labour Supply Elasticities?

Michiel Evers, Ruud Aloysius de Mooij and Daniel J. van Vuuren

1632: The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation

Alessandro Cigno

1631: The Evolution of Public Spending on Higher Education in a Democracy

Alexander Haupt

1630: International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Hartmut Egger, Peter H. Egger, Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

1629: Wage Bargaining and Political Strength in the Public Sector

Torberg Falch and Bjarne Strøm

1628: Do Institutions of Direct Democracy Tame the Leviathan? Swiss Evidence on the Structure of Expenditure for Public Education

Justina A. V. Fischer

1627: Income Taxation, Tuition Subsidies, and Choice of Occupation: Implications for Production Efficiency

Geir Haakon Bjertnæs

1626: To go or not to go: Emigration from Germany

Silke Uebelmesser

1625: Tax Competition when Firms Choose their Organizational Form: Should Tax Loopholes for Multinationals be Closed?

Sam Bucovetsky and Andreas Haufler

1624: Efficiency Potential and Efficiency Variation in Norwegian Lower Secondary Schools

Lars-Erik Borge and Linn Renée Naper

1623: Nordic Dual Income Taxation of Entrepreneurs

Vesa Kanniainen, Seppo Kari and Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja

1622: Tax Effects, Search Unemployment, and the Choice of Educational Type

Annette Alstadsæter, Ann-Sofie Kolm and Birthe Larsen

1621: On the Research Value of Large Games: Natural Experiments in Norrath and Camelot

Edward Castronova

1620: Concerns for Equity and the Optimal Co-Payments for Publicly Provided Health Care

Michael Hoel

1619: Severance Pay and the Shadow of the Law: Evidence for West Germany

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

1618: Savers, Spenders and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy

Egil Matsen, Tommy Sveen and Ragnar Torvik

1617: Money, Credit and Banking

Aleksander Berentsen, Gabriele Camera and Christopher Waller

1616: Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland

Andzelika Lorentowicz, Dalia Marin and Alexander Raubold

1615: New Evidence on Fiscal Decentralization and the Size of Government

Jon H. Fiva

1614: Visas and Work Permits: Possible Global Negotiating Initiatives

Chi-Yung Ng and John Whalley

1613: The Three Parties in the Race to the Bottom: Host Governments, Home Governments and Multinational Companies

Rosanne Altshuler and Harry Grubert

1612: Taxation and the Financial Structure of German Outbound FDI

Jack M. Mintz and Alfons J. Weichenrieder

1611: The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach

Alexander Wright Cappelen, Astri D. Hole, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden

1610: Should you Take a Lump-Sum or Annuitize? Results from Swiss Pension Funds

Monika Buetler and Federica Teppa

1609: The Generalized Stackelberg Equilibrium of the All-Pay Auction with Complete Information

Kai A. Konrad and Wolfgang Leininger

1608: Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD

Daniele Checchi and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

1607: Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Per Engström and Bertil Holmlund

1606: Is Monetary Policy in the Eurozone less Effective than in the US?

Paul De Grauwe and Cláudia Costa Storti

1605: Policy-induced Internal Migration: An Empirical Investigation of the Canadian Case

Kathleen M. Day and Stanley L Winer

1604: How Important is Discount Rate Heterogeneity for Wealth Inequality?

Lutz Hendricks

1603: Product Market Competition, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

1602: Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: On Revealed Comparative Advantage and Merger Waves

Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Charles van Marrewijk

1601: Fiscal Federalism and Economic Growth

Jan K. Brueckner

1600: The Different Extent of Privatisation Proceeds in EU Countries: A Preliminary Explanation Using a Public Choice Approach

Ansgar Belke, Frank Baumgärtner, Friedrich Georg Schneider and Ralph Setzer

1599: Survey Expectations

M Hashem Pesaran and Martin Robert Weale

1598: Gender and Ethnicity – Married Immigrants in Britain

Christian Dustmann and Francesca Fabbri

1597: Transparency of Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice

Petra Maria Geraats

1596: Survivor Benefits and the Gender Tax Gap in Public Pension Schemes: Observations from Germany

Martin Werding

1595: International Fragmentation: Boon or Bane for Domestic Employment?

Hartmut Egger and Udo Kreickemeier

1594: Sustainable Social Spending

Assar Lindbeck

1593: Electoral Uncertainty, Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Jim Malley, Apostolis Philippopoulos and Ulrich Woitek

1592: Optimal Tax Policy when Firms are Internationally Mobile

Johannes Becker and Clemens Fuest

1591: Advertising, Competition and Entry in Media Industries

Claude Crampes, Carole Haritchabalet and Bruno Jullien

1590: Diversification and Ownership Concentration

Bruno Maria Parigi and Loriana Pelizzon

1589: Bank Control and the Number of Bank Relations of Japanese Firms

Kazuo Ogawa, Elmer Sterken and Ichiro Tokutsu

1588: Transfers, Non-Traded Goods, and Unemployment: An Analysis of the Keynes – Ohlin Debate

Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk

1587: What Determines Differences in Foreign Bank Efficiency? Australian Evidence

Jan-Egbert Sturm and Barry Williams

1586: Centralized vs. De-centralized Multinationals and Taxes

Søren Bo Nielsen, Pascalis Raimondos-Møller and Guttorm Schjelderup

1585: On the Incentives to Experiment in Federations

Christos Kotsogiannis and Robert Schwager

1584: Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model

Sascha O. Becker

1583: Minorities and Storable Votes

Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey and Raymond G. Riezman

1582: State Visits and International Trade

Volker Nitsch

1581: Young Liberals and Old Conservatives - Inequality, Mobility and Redistribution

Astri Muren and Sten Nyberg

1580: Contracting Out Temporary Help Services in Germany

Elke Jutta Jahn and Wolfgang Ochel

1579: Gentrification and Neighborhood Housing Cycles: Will America's Future Downtowns be Rich?

Jan K. Brueckner and Stuart S. Rosenthal

1578: The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State

Kai A. Konrad and Stergios Skaperdas

1577: Social Security and Longevity

Torben Andersen

1576: Generalized Stochastic Gradient Learning

George William Evans, Seppo Mikko Sakari Honkapohja and Noah Williams

1575: How Fiscal Decentralization Flattens Progressive Taxes

Roland Hodler and Kurt Schmidheiny

1574: Social Health Insurance - the Major Driver of Unsustainable Fiscal Policy?

Christian Hagist, Norbert Klusen, Andreas Plate and Bernd Raffelhüschen

1573: Constant Savings Rates and Quasi-Arithmetic Population Growth under Exhaustible Resource Constraints

Geir B. Asheim, Wolfgang Buchholz, John M. Hartwick, Tapan Mitra and Cees Withagen

1572: Risk Management of Pension Systems from the Perspective of Loss Aversion

Johannes Binswanger

1571: Early Retirement and Social Security: A Long Term Perspective

J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta

1570: The Warsaw Stock Exchange Index WIG: Modelling and Forecasting

Piotr Wdowinski and Aneta Zglinska-Pietrzak

1569: Pension Design when Fertility Fluctuates: The Role of Capital Mobility and Education Financing

Jovan Zamac

1568: Risk Sharing and Efficiency Implications of Progressive Pension Arrangements

Hans Fehr and Christian Habermann

1567: Assessing the Maintenance of Savings Sufficiency Over the First Decade of Retirement

Robert H. Haveman, Karen Holden, Barbara L. Wolfe and Andrei Romanov

1566: Putting New Economic Geography to the Test: Free-ness of Trade and Agglomeration in the EU Regions

Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm

1565: Unit Roots and Cointegration in Panels

Joerg Breitung and M Hashem Pesaran

1564: Equilibrium and Efficiency in the Tug-of-War

Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

1563: Product Market Competition, Investment and Employment-Abundant versus Job-Poor Growth: A Real Options Perspective

Yu-Fu Chen and Michael Funke

1562: Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with two Elites

Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

1561: Non-Linearities in the Relation between the Exchange Rate and its Fundamentals

Carlo Altavilla and Paul De Grauwe

1560: Subsidizing Enjoyable Education

Robert Dur and Amihai Glazer

1559: Sharing Budgetary Austerity under Free Mobility and Asymmetric Information: An Optimal Regulation Approach to Fiscal Federalism

Marie-Laure Breuillé and Robert Jean Michel Gary-Bobo

1558: Small Sample Properties of Maximum Likelihood Versus Generalized Method of Moments Based Tests for Spatially Autocorrelated Errors

Peter H. Egger, Mario Larch, Michael Pfaffermayr and Janette Walde

1557: Financial Markets and Economic Growth in Poland: Simulations with an Econometric Model

Piotr Wdowinski

1556: Why is Fiscal Policy often Procyclical?

Alberto Alesina and Guido Tabellini

1555: Demographic Change and Public Education Spending: A Conflict between Young and Old?

Ueli Grob and Stefan C. Wolter

1554: Structural Separation and Access in Telecommunications Markets

Paul W.J. de Bijl

1553: Looking for Multiple Equilibria when Geography Matters: German City Growth and the WWII Shock

Maarten Bosker, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm

1552: Gatekeeping in Health Care

Kurt Richard Brekke, Robert Nuscheler and Odd Rune Straume

1551: Dual Income Taxation: Why and how?

Peter Birch Sørensen

1550: Turkish Delight for Some, Cold Turkey for Others?: The Effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Antonis Adam and Thomas Moutos

1549: Nonlinear Production, Abatement, Pollution and Materials Balance Reconsidered

Rüdiger Pethig