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85: Persuasive and Informative Advertising: A Classroom Experiment

Beth Freeborn and Jason Hulbert

84: Risk Aversion and Tacit Collusion in a Bertrand Duopoly Experiment

Lisa Anderson, Beth Freeborn and Jason Hulbert

83: International Water Contracts and Household Outcomes: Evidence from Albania

Justin May and Bacher-Hicks, Andrews

82: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Announcements on Public Goods Contributions

Lisa Anderson and Sarah Stafford

81: SOCIAL SECURITY AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL: AFTER ALL THAT HAS BEEN SAID AND DONE HOW MUCH HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED?

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz

80: Common Property, Information, and Cooperation: Commercial Fishing in the Bering Sea

Robert L. Hicks, Alan Haynie and Kurt Schnier

79: Is Fuel-Switching a No-Regrets Environmental Policy? VAR Evidence on Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Energy Consumption and Economic Performance in Portugal

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Rui Pereira

78: Causes and Consequences of Environmental Auditing: Evidence from Regulated Facilities in Michigan

Mary F. Evans, Lirong Liu and Sarah Stafford

77: Green Campus? An Analysis of the Factors that Drive Universities to Adopt Sustainable Practices

Sarah Stafford

76: How to Think About Changes in Higher Education Affordability

Robert Archibald and David H Feldman

75: Varying the Intensity of Competition in a Multiple Prize Rent Seeking Experiment

Lisa R. Anderson and Beth A. Freeborn

74: Are Risk Preferences Stable? Comparing an Experimental Measure with a Validated Survey-Based Measure

Lisa R. Anderson and Jennifer M. Mellor

73: Tacit Collusion in Price-Setting Duopoly Markets: Experimental Evidence

Lisa R. Anderson, Beth A. Freeborn and Charles A. Holt

72: The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

David Jaeger, Esteban Klor, Sami Miaari and M. Daniele Paserman

71: The Debate on Right-to-Carry Concealed Weapons Laws

Carlisle Moody and Thomas Marvell

70: On the Regional Incidence of Public Investment in Highways in the USA

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz

69: The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States

Randall Akee, David Jaeger and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

68: The Economics of Roadside Bombs

Matthew A. Hanson

67: The Speed of Structural Convergence in the Manufacturing Industries of Newly Industrializing Economies

Berhanu Abegaz

66: Substance Abuse Treatment and Motor Vehicle Fatalities

Beth A. Freeborn and Brian McManus

65: International Financial Volatility and Commodity Exports: Evidence from the Thai Agricultural Sector

Justin May

64: Trade and Migration in an Enlarged European Union: A Spatial Analysis

Justin May

63: Revisiting the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand

Alfredo Romero

62: A Note on the Use of R-squared in Model Selection

Alfredo Romero

61: Testing the Sticky Information Phillips Curve

Olivier Coibion

60: A Characterization of Strategy-Proof Rules over the Condorcet Domain with an Even Number of Individuals

Lauren Merrill

59: Predicting Health Behaviors with an Experimental Measure of Risk Preference

Lisa R. Anderson and Jennifer M. Mellor

58: One for Some or One for All? Taylor Rules and Interregional Heterogeneity

Olivier Coibion and Daniel Goldstein

57: Voting with the Crowd: Do Single Issues Drive Partisanship?

Martin B. Schmidt

56: The Impact of Coalition Offensive Operations on the Iraqi Insurgency

Matthew A. Hanson and Martin B. Schmidt

55: Structural Breaks in Public Infrastructure Investment in the U.S

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Martin B. Schmidt

54: The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

53: Avoiding Tunnel Vision in the Study of Higher Education Costs

Robert Archibald and David H Feldman

52: Competition and Crowding-Out among Public, Non-Profit and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment

Andrew Cohen, Beth A. Freeborn and Brian McManus

51: Organ Transplants, Hiring Committees, and Early Rounds of the Kappell Piano Competition

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

50: Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

David Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

49: Uniformly Bounded Information and Social Choice

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

48: Structural Policies and Growth: Time Series Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Theo Eicher and Till Schreiber

47: Institutional Change and Factor Movement: A Test of the Coase Theorem's Invariance Principle

Martin B. Schmidt

46: Public Infrastructures and Regional Asymmetries in Spain

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Oriol Roca Sagales

45: Public Investment in Transportation Infrastructures and Industry Performance in Portugal

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz

44: Location, Location, Location! A Classroom Demonstration of the Hotelling Model

Lisa R. Anderson, Beth A. Freeborn, Jessica Holmes, Mark Jeffreys, Dan Lass and Jack Soper

43: Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality: Countable Many Alternatives

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

42: Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs

Robert Archibald and David H Feldman

41: Public Investment and Budgetary Consolidation in Portugal

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Fatima Pinho

40: Public Investment, Economic Performance and Budgetary Consolidation: VAR Evidence for the 12 Euro Countries

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Fatima Pinho

39: Pareto, Anonymity, and Independence: Four Alternatives

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

38: Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality, but not IIA

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

37: Should the Portuguese Toll-Free Highways Remain Toll Free?

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz

36: Controlling the Public Wage Bill in Portugal: The Case of University Professors

Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Rui Pereira