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151: The Donor Problem

Klaus Abbink and Matthew Ellman

150: Specificity Revisited: The Role of Cross-Investments

Matthew Ellman

148: Efficient and Stable Collective Choices under Crowding Preferences

Antonio Nicolo' and Jordi Masso

147: Incomplete Information and Small Cores in Matching Markets

Lars Ehlers and Jordi Masso

146: Auctions with asymmetric common-values: The first-price format

Maria-Angeles de Frutos and Xavier Jarque

145: Fair and Efficient Student Placement with Couples

Bettina Klaus and Flip Klijn

144: Downsizing, Job Insecurity, and Firm Reputation

Doh-Shin Jeon and Joel Shapiro

143: Observability and Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations. An Experimental Study

David Cooper and Jordi Brandts

142: Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model

Wouter J. Den Haan, Christian Haefke and Garey Ramey

141: Collusion and Fights in an Experiment with Price-Setting Firms and Production in Advance

Pablo Guillen and Jordi Brandts

139: Corporate Social Responsability and Managerial Entrenchment

Giacinta Cestone and Giovanni Cespa

138: Is Seniority-Based Pay used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones and Maia Güell

137: Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries

Ghazala Azmat, Alan Manning and Maia Güell

136: Aspirations, Habit Formation, and Bequest Motive

Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Xavier Raurich and Jordi Caballe

135: Strategic Delegation in Monetary Unions

Varadarajan Chari, Larry Jones and Ramon Marimon

132: Wage-Shifting Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia

Adriana Kugler

131: On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax Code

Dirk Krueger and Juan Carlos Conesa

126: Strike Outcomes and Wage Settlements in Spain

Sergi Jimenez-Martin

125: Welfare Implications of the Interaction between Habits and Consumption Externalities

Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Xavier Raurich and Jordi Caballe

124: Optimal Enforcement Policy and Firm's Emissions and Compliance with Environmental Taxes

David Perez-Castrillo and Ines Macho-Stadler

123: Forming Efficient Networks

David Wettstein and David Perez-Castrillo

122: Optimal procurement auction for a buyer with downward sloping demand: more simple economics

Roberto Burguet

121: Chaotic Dynamics in Credit Constrained Emerging Economies

Xavier Jarque, Elisabetta Michetti and Jordi Caballe

120: Competition and Well-Being

Arno Riedl, Frans van Winden and Jordi Brandts

119: Sharing the surplus: A just and efficient proposal for environments with externalities

David Wettstein, David Perez-Castrillo and Ines Macho-Stadler

117: Stable Matchings and Preferences of Couples

Bettina Klaus and Flip Klijn

115: A Change Would Do You Good… An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations

David Cooper and Jordi Brandts

114: Ambiguity Seeking as a Result of the Status Quo Bias

Mercè Roca and A. John Maule

113: The Validity of QALYs Under Non-Expected Utility

Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades and Han Bleichrodt

112: Ethical differentiation and market behavior: An experimental approach

Julian Rode

111: Mergers, Investment Decisions and Internal Organisation

Jo Seldeslachts, Ines Macho-Stadler and Albert Banal-Estanol

109: Partisan Competition, Growth and the Franchise

Robert Oxoby and Humberto Llavador

108: An evaluation of the life-cycle effects of minimum pensions on retirement behavior

Alfonso R. Sánchez-Martin and Sergi Jimenez-Martin

107: Ignorance Promotes Competition: an Auction Model with Endogenous Private Valuations

Juan-José Ganuza

106: Combating Corruption in International Business Transactions

Marco Celentani, Jose-Luis Peydro and Juan-José Ganuza

105: Fixed-term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment

Maia Güell

104: Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and the Design of Interest Rate Rules

David Lopez-Salido and Jordi Galí

103: Efficient Priority Rules

Bettina Klaus and Lars Ehlers

102: A Theory of Endogenous Sentiments

Laurence Kranich and Joan Esteban

101: Partnership in Open Innovation

Rosella Nicolini and Xavier Martinez-Giralt

100: A New Minimum Distance Estimation Procedure of ARFIMA Processes

Laura Mayoral

99: Equilibrium Limited Liability Contracts in a Landlord-Tenant Market

Kaniska Dam and David Perez-Castrillo

98: Human Capital in a global and knowledge-based economy, part II: assessment at the EU country level

Angel de La Fuente

96: How Tight Should One's Hands Be Tied? Fear of Floating and Credibility of Exchange Rate Regimes

Jesús Rodríguez-López and Hugo Rodriguez Mendizabal

95: Energy Tax Simulation in a Flexible CGE Model of Catalonia

Ferran Sancho

94: Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market

Joel Shapiro

93: Banking as an Emerging Technology: Hoares Bank 1702-1742

Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth

92: Honey, I Shrunk the Sample Covariance Matrix

Olivier Ledoit and Michael Wolf

91: Riding the South Sea Bubble

Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth

90: The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children

Ernesto Villanueva and Joseph Altonji