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2008: British Manual Workers: From Producers to Consumers, c. 1950-2000

Avner Offer

2008: How Productive is Chinese Labour? The Contributions of Labour Market Reforms, Competition and Globalisation

Linda Yueh

2008: Is the WTO's Article XXIV Bad?

David Vines and Monika Mrazova

2008: Innovation and the Survival of New Firms Across British Regions

Christian Helmers and Mark Rogers

2008: Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change

John B Knight and Sai Ding

2008: Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation

Sai Ding and John Knight

2008: Bayesian inference based only on simulated likelihood: particle filter analysis of dynamic economic models

Neil Shephard and Thomas Flury

2008: Evading the 'Taint of Usury' Complex Contracts and Segmented Capital Markets

Mark Koyama

2008: Singular vector autoregressions with deterministic terms: Strong consistency and lag order determination

Bent Nielsen

2008: Modelling and measuring volatility

Neil Shephard and Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen

2008: Elections and Economic Policy in Developing Countries

Paul Collier and Lisa Chauvet

2008: Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programmes: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon and Bet Caeyers

2008: Is investment in Africa low despite high profits?

Jean-Louis Warnholz

2008: Does wealth inequality reduce the gains from trade?

Mauro Caselli

2008: Multi-sector inflation forecasting - quarterly models for South Africa

Janine Aron and John Muellbauer

2008: Status and egalitarianism in traditional communities: An analysis of funeral attendance in six Zimbabwean villages

Abigail Barr and Mattea Stein

2008: Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Accountability: Evidence from a Bribery Experiment

Danila Serra

2008: The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment

Abigail Barr and Danila Serra

2008: Corruption and culture: An Experimental Analysis

Abigail Barr and Danila Serra

2008: Gender patterns in household health expenditure allocation: A study of South Africa

Margaret Irving

2008: On the Sources and Value of Information: Public Announcements and Macroeconomic Performance

David Peter Myatt and Chris Wallace

2008: When does third-degree price discrimination reduce social welfare, and when does it raise it?

Simon GB Cowan and Simon Cowan

2008: The Long-Run Determinants of UK Wages, 1860-2004

Jennifer L. Castle and David F. Hendry

2008: Forecasting with Equilibrium-correction Models during Structural Breaks

Jennifer L. Castle, David F. Hendry and Nicholas W.P. Fawcett

2008: Model Selection when there are Multiple Breaks

Jennifer L. Castle, David F. Hendry and Jurgen A. Doornik

2008: New methods for forecasting inflation and its sub-components: application to the USA

Janine Aron and John Muellbauer

2008: Ergodic Equilibria in Stochastic Sequential Games

Jeremy Houston Large and Thomas W. L. Norman

2008: Cost pass-through under delegation

Robert A. Ritz

2008: Nonoptimality of the Friedman Rule with Capital Income Taxation

Alberto Rodolfo Petrucci

2008: Emissions Trading with Profit-Neutral Permit Allocations

Cameron Hepburn, John K.-H. Quah and Robert A. Ritz

2008: Institutions for Health Care Delivery A Formal Exploration of what Matters to Health Workers Evidence from Rwanda

Tomas Lievens and Pieter M. Serneels

2008: Monetary Policy and Inflation Modeling in a more Open Economy in South Africa

Janine Aron

2008: Bargaining for bribes under uncertainty

Danila Serra

2008: Fitting vast dimensional time-varying covariance models

Neil Shephard, Kevin Keith Sheppard and Robert F. Engle

2008: Intertemporal Poverty Measurement: Tradeoffs and Policy Options

Natalie Nairi Quinn and Catherine Porter

2008: Natural resources, export structure and investment

Steve Bond, Stephen R. Bond and Adeel Malik

2008: Why Doesn't Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience

Catia Batista

2008: Ordered Search and Equilibrium Obfuscation

Chris M. Wilson

2008: Need, Merit or Self-Interest - What Determines the Allocation of Aid?

Anke Hoeffler and Verity Outram

2008: Aid and Fiscal Instability

Christopher Adam and Stephen A. O'Connell

2008: Risk, inequality and time in the welfare economics of climate change: is the workhorse model underspecified?

Cameron J. Hepburn, Hakon Sælen and Giles Atkinson

2008: The historical place of the 'Friedman-Phelps' expectations critique

James Forder

2008: Friedman's Nobel Lecture reconsidered

James Forder

2008: Multivariate realised kernels: consistent positive semi-definite estimators of the covariation of equity prices with noise and non-synchronous trading

Neil Shephard, Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and Peter Reinhard Hansen

2008: Liquidity and Asset Prices

Raphael A. Espinoza and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos

2008: Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

Paul Collier and Pedro C. Vicente

2008: Charles Feinstein (1932-2005), and British Historical National Accounts

Avner Offer

2008: Unemployment duration, job search and labour market segmentation. Evidence from urban Ethiopia

Pieter M. Serneels

2008: Parameter estimation in nonlinear AR-GARCH models

Mika Meitz and Pentti Saikkonen

2008: Rating systems, procyclicalilty and Basel II: an evaluation in a general equilibrium framework

Chiara Pederzoli and Costanza Torricelli

2008: The Optimal Monetary Instrument for Prudential Purposes

C.A.E. Goodhard and P. Sunirand

2008: Some Child Cost Estimates for South Africa

Alex Sienaert

2008: Globalization, 1870-1914

Matthias Morys and Guillaume Daudin

2008: Cooperation in Multiple Spheres of Interaction

Heinrich Harald Nax

2008: Intrahousehold Allocation of Education Expenditure and Returns to Education: The Case of Sri Lanka

Rozana Himaz

2008: Forecasting with the age-period-cohort model and the extended chain-ladder model

Bent Nielsen, D. Kuang and B. Nielsen

2008: Learning While Voting: Determinants of Collective Experimentation

Bruno H. Strulovici

2008: Properties of estimated characteristic roots

Bent Nielsen and Heino Bohn Nielsen

2008: Unit Root Testing with Unstable Volatility

Brandan K. Beare

2008: Risk Sharing Relations and Enforcement Mechanisms

Abigail Barr and Marleen Dekker

2008: Logistics and Exports

Alberto Behar and Phil Manners

2008: Modeling Technology and Technological Change in Manufacturing: How do Countries Differ?

Francis Teal and Markus Eberhardt

2008: Contractual Institutions, Financial Development and Vertical Integration: Theory and Evidence

Rocco Macchiavello

2008: Employment effects of welfare reforms - Evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model

Victoria Liza Prowse and Peter Haan

2008: Pandering Judges

Clare Leaver and Jordi Blanes i Vidal

2008: An Econometric Analysis of Modulated Realised Covariance, Regression and Correlation in Noisy Diffusion Models

Silja Kinnebrock and Mark Podolskij

2008: Natural Resource Booms and Inequality: Theory and Evidence

Benedikt Goderis and Samuel W. Malone

2008: Stochastic Volatility: Origins and Overview

Neil Shephard and Torben G. Andersen

2008: Evaluating Volatility and Correlation Forecasts

Kevin Sheppard and Andrew J. Patton

2008: Copula-Based Models for Financial Time Series

Andrew J. Patton

2008: The Dynamics of Economic Functions: Modelling and Forecasting the Yield Curve

Clive G. Bowsher and Roland Meeks

2008: Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

Francis Teal and Simon Baptist

2008: Private sector development and income dynamics: A panel study of the Tanzanian labour market

Francis Teal and Simon Quinn

2008: Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana

Francis Teal, Courtney Monk and Justin Sandefur

2008: Bargaining Between Retailers and their Suppliers

Howard William Smith and John Ernest Thanassoulis

2008: Implications of Endogenous Group Formation for Efficient Risk-Sharing

Tessa Bold

2008: What rules in the 'deep' determinants of comparative development?

Alvar Kangur

2008: Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis

Ulf Axelson and Tim Jenkinson

2008: Public or private equity? How accelerated IPOs can increase competition in offerings

Tim Jenkinson

2008: The returns to vocational training and academic education: Evidence from Tanzania

Francis Teal and Godius Kahyarara

2008: Hurricane Mitch and consumption growth of Nicaraguan agricultural households

Patrick Premand

2008: Interactions between short- and long-term health of children: A case from rural Ethiopia

Bereket Kebede

2008: Towards an Objective Account of Nutrition and Health in Colonial Kenya: A Study of Stature in African Army Recruits and Civilians, 1880-190

Alexander Moradi

2008: The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China

John B Knight, Li Shi and Deng Quheng

2008: Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China

John B Knight, Li Shi and Deng Quheng

2008: Subjective well-being, disability and adaptation: A case study from rural Ethiopia

Marcel Fafchamps and Bereket Kebede

2008: Efficiency Gain from Ownership Deregulation: Estimates for the Radio Industry

Howard William Smith and Catherine O'Gorman

2008: Measuring downside risk - realised semivariance

Neil Shephard, Silja Kinnebrock and Ole E. Barndorff-Neilsen

2008: Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

John B Knight and Ramani Gunatilaka

2008: Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis

John B Knight and Sai Ding

2008: Prominence and Consumer Search

Mark Armstrong, John Vickers and Jidong Zhou

2008: Do Investors Value High Levels of Regulation?

Tim Jenkinson and Tarun Ramadorai

2008: The development and performance of European private equity

Tim Jenkinson

2008: Conformism, Public News and Market Efficiency

Gabriel Desgranges and Celine Rochon

2008: Board structures around the world: An experimental investigation

Ann B. Gillette and Thomas H. Noe

2008: Stock Market Liquidity and Firm Performance: Wall Street Rule or Wall Street Rules?

Vivian W. Fang and Thomas H. Noe

2008: Tunnel-proofing the executive suite: temptation, and the design of executive compensation

Thomas H. Noe

2008: Product market efficiency: The bright side of myopic, uninformed, and passive external finance

Thomas H. Noe and Michael J. Rebello

2008: Buying up the block: An experimental investigation of capturing economic rents through sequential negotiations

Gautam Goswami and Thomas H. Noe

2008: Good IPOs draw in bad: Inelastic banking capacity and hot markets

Naveen Khanna and Thomas H. Noe

2008: Activists, raiders, and directors: Opportunism and the balance of corporate power

Thomas H. Noe and Michael J. Rebello

2008: Hype and Dump Manipulation

Nevzat Eren and Han N. Ozsoylev

2008: Returns to Shareholder Activism Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes U.K. Focus Fund

Colin Mayer and Marco Becht

2008: How Do Firms Finance Large Cash Flow Requirements?

Colin Mayer, C and Zhangkai Huang

2008: Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investment

Colin Mayer and Wendy Carlin

2008: Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry

Colin Mayer and Marco Becht

2008: Can Good Events Lead to Bad Outcomes? Endogenous Banking Crises and Fiscal Policy Responses

Andrew Feltenstein and Celine Rochon

2008: Natural rate of unemployment and efficiency: A dynamic analysis with flexible prices and increasing returns

Gael Giraud and Celine Rochon

2008: An analysis of the indicator saturation estimator as a robust regression estimator

Bent Nielsen, Soren Johansen and Bent Nielsen