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2009/34: Optimal country's policy towards multinationals when local regions can choose between firm-specific and non-firm-specific policies

Osiris Parcero

2009/33: Sharing the blame? Local electoral accountability and centralized school finance in California

Marcelin Joanis

2009/32: Inter-Regional redistribution through infrastructure investment: tactical or programmatic?

Albert Solé-Ollé, Albert

2009/31: Economic incongruities in the European patent system

Malwina Mejer and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

2009/30: Suggesting an alternative electoral proportional system. Blank votes count

Orestis Troumpounis

2009/29: Effects of fiscal decentralisation and electoral accountability efficiency evidence from the Italian health care sector

Francesco Porcelli

2009/28: Optimal taxes and pensions in a society with myopic agents

Kerstin Roeder

2009/27: Plurality versus proportional electoral rule: study of voters’ representativeness

Amedeo Stefano Piolatto

2009/26: Central command, local hazard and the race to the top

Edoardo Di Porto and Federico Revelli

2009/25: On the optimal design of disaster insurance in a federation

Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew F. Haughwout

2009/24: (Uncontrolled) Aggregate shocks or vertical tax interdependence? Evidence from gasoline and cigarettes

Esteller-Moré, Alejandro and Leonzio Rizzo

2009/23: Pension funding and individual accounts in economies with life-cyclers and myopes

Hans Fehr and Fabian Kindermann

2009/22: Voluntary pension savings: the effects of the finnish tax reform on savers’ behaviour

Jarkko Harju

2009/21: Optimal risk allocation in the provision of local public services: can a private insurer be better than a public mutual fund?

Gilberto Turati and Luigi Buzzacchi

2009/20: Soft budgets and local borrowing regulation in a dynamic decentralized leadership model with saving and free mobility

Nobuo Akai and Motohiro Sato

2009/19: Corporate tax competition between firms

Simon Loretz and Padraig J. Moorey

2009/18: Competition for FDI with vintage investment and agglomeration advantages

Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenoch (Dan Kovenock)

2009/17: Decentralization, Competition and the local tax mix: evidence from Flanders

Benny Geys and Federico Revelli

2009/16: Tax competition and equalization: the impact of voluntary cooperation on the efficiency goal

Petra Ens

2009/15: Partial tax coordination in a repeated game setting

Itaya, Jun-ichi, Makoto Okamuraz and Chikara Yamaguchix

2009/14: On the equivalence of location choice models: conditional logit, nested logit and poisson

Kurt Schmidheiny and Marius Brülhart

2009/13: The determinants of university patenting: Do incentives matter?

del Barrio-Castro, Tomás and Jose Garcia-Quevedo (Tomás del Barrio Castro)

2009/12: Bohemians, human capital and regional economic growth

Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch and Stephan Heblich

2009/11: Strategic tax collection and fiscal decentralization: the case of Russia

Alexander Libman and Lars P. Feld

2009/10: Evaluating the effects of decentralization on educational outcomes in Spain?

Paula Salinas and Solé-Ollé, Albert

2009/9: What does it take for and R&D tax incentive policy to be effective?

Pierre Mohnen and Boris Lokshin

2009/8: Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?

Esteban Sanroma, Raul Ramos and Hipolito Simon

2009/7: The dinamic adjustment of local government budgets: does Spain behave differently?

Solé-Ollé, Albert and Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar

2009/6: Risk selection in natural disaster insurance

Mario Jametti and von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas

2009/5: Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization

Matthias Wrede

2009/4: Regional Fiscal Flows: Measurement Tools

Giuseppe C. Ruggeri

2009/3: Federalism and Inter-Regional Redistribution

Jonathan Rodden

2009/2: Cheaper Child Care, More Children

Eva Mörk, Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

2009/1: Reciprocity and Competition: Is There a Connection?

Jonathan C. Rork and Gary A. Wagner

2008/9: The economic impact of the spanish public university system. An analysis for the period 1998 - 2004

Néstor Duch Brown, Javier García and Martí Parellada

2008/8: Regulatory federalism in network industries

Francesc Trillas

2008/7: Portabilidad del capital humano y asimilación de los inmigrantes. Evidencia para España

Esteban Sanroma, Raul Ramos and Hipolito Simon

2008/6: Does urban sprawl increase the costs of providing local public services? Evidence from Spanish municipalities

Solé-Ollé, Albert and Miriam Hortas Rico

2008/5: Assessing the assignation of public subsidies: Do the experts choose the most efficient R&D projects?

Duch-Brown, Néstor, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Daniel Montolio (Néstor Duch Brown)

2008/4: Which communities should be afraid of mobility? The effects of agglomeration economies on the sensitivity of firm location to local taxes

Jofre-Monseny, Jordi and Solé-Ollé, Albert

2008/3: Rethinking public auditing institutions: Empirical evidence from Swiss municipalities

Mark Schelker and Reiner Eichenberger

2008/2: Does partisan alignment affect the electoral reward of intergovernmental transfers?

Solé-Ollé, Albert and Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar

2008/1: Political parties and the economy: Macro convergence, micro partisanship?

Pau Castells and Francesc Trillas

2007/8: A comparison of the economic and environmental performances of conventional and organic farming: Evidence from financial statements

Josep Mª Argilés and Néstor Duch Brown

2007/7: Evaluación de servicios educativos: El rendimiento en los centros públicos y privados medido en PISA-2003

Jorge Calero and Josep-Oriol Escardibul

2007/6: Barriers to innovation and public policy in Catalonia

Segarra-Blasco, Agustí, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Teruel-Carrizosa, Mercedes

2007/5: Economic and political determinants of urban expansion: Exploring the local connection

Solé-Ollé, Albert and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2007/4: Influencia de la inmigración en la elección escolar

Adriana Sánchez Hugalde

2007/3: Evaluating the impact of public subsidies on a firm's performance: A quasi-experimental approach

Néstor Duch Brown, Daniel Montolio and Mauro Mediavilla

2007/2: Tax differentials and agglomeration economies in intraregional firm location

Jofre-Monseny, Jordi and Albert Solé-Ollé