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08-09: The Whys and Wherefores of Controlling Inflation

Peter Sinclair

08-08: Market Behaviour with Large Amounts of Intermittent Generation

Richard Green and Nicholas Vasilakos

08-07: Crime Reporting: Profiling and Neighbourhood Observation

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Kalyan Chatterjee

08-06: Corruption, Governance and FDI Location in China: A Province-Level Analysis

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Jing Zhang

08-05: Bonuses, Credit Rating Agencies and the Credit Crunch

Peter Sinclair, Guy Spier and Tom Skinner

08-03: In Search of Environmental Spillovers

Facundo Albornoz, Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Marco Ercolani

08-02: Investment and Expropriation under Oligarchy and Democracy in a Heckscher-Ohlin World

Facundo Albornoz, Sebastian Galiani and Daniel Heymann

08-01: EU Regulation and Competition Policy among the Energy Utilities

Richard Green

07-17: Learning by Exporting: Do Firm Characteristics Matter? Evidence from Argentinian Panel Data

Facundo Albornoz and Marco Ercolani

07-14: Public Sector Capital and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy

Christopher J. Ellis and John Fender

07-13: Cyclical Trends in Continuous Time Models

Joanne S. Ercolani

07-12: What do we really mean by monetary (or price) stability, and financial stability?

Peter Sinclair

07-11: Growth in Britain

William Allen, Esther Baroudy, Richard Batley, Bruno Paulson and Peter Sinclair

07-10: Pareto-Improving Income Tax Reform

Peter Sinclair

07-09: On the Measurement of Changes in Product Quality in Marginal Intra-Industry Trade

Akm Azhar and Robert Elliott

07-08: The Environmental Performance of Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership, Training, and Experience

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Eric Strobl

07-07: Asian Currency Crises: Do Fundamentals still Matter? A Markov-Switching Approach to Causes and Timing

J L Ford, Bagus Santoso and N J Horsewood

07-06: Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America

Facundo Albornoz and Jayasri Dutta

07-03: An Economic Theory of Political Institutions: Foreign Intervention and Overseas Investments

Toke Aidt and Facundo Albornoz

07-02: Carbon Tax or Carbon Permits: The Impact on Generators' Risks

Richard Green

07-01: Persistence and Nominal Inertia in a Generalized Taylor Economy: How Longer Contracts Dominate Shorter Contracts

Huw Dixon and Engin Kara

06-11: Efficient Compromising

Tilman Börgers and Peter Postl

06-10: Aggregative Games

Martin Jensen

06-09: The Predictability of KLSE CI Stock Index Futures Returns and The Conditional Multifactor APT Model

J. L. Ford, Wee Ching Pok and S. Poshakwale

06-08: Dynamic vs. Static Stock Index Futures Hedging: A Case Study for Malaysia

J. L. Ford, Wee Ching Pok and S. Poshakwale

06-07: Inefficient Procurement

Peter Postl

06-06: A Note on the Impossibility of Efficient N-Person Compromises

Peter Postl

06-05: Dominant Strategy Implementable Compromises

Peter Postl

06-04r: Crime Reporting: Profiling and Neighbourhood Observation

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Kalan Chatterjee

06-04: Crime Reporting: Profiling and Neighbourhood Observation

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Kalan Chatterjee

06-03: The Euro-changeoverand Euro-inflation: Evidence from Eurostat's HICP

Marco Ercolani and Jayasri Dutta

06-02: UK Employees' Sickness Absence: 1984-2005

Marco Ercolani

06-01: Who is Learning From Whom? A Study of Households Forming Expectations in the US and UK

Joshy Easaw, Atanu Ghoshray and Marco Barassi

05-19: The road to extinction: Commons with Capital Markets

Colin Rowat and Jayasri Dutta

05-18: Multiple Equilibria as a Difficulty in Understanding Correlated Distributions

Anirban Kar, Indrajit Ray and Roberto Serrano

05-17: Globalization, Firm-Level Characteristics and Environmental Management: A Study of Japan

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott and Kenichi Shimamoto

05-16: Intermediation by aid agencies

Colin Rowat and Paul Seabright

05-15: Subsidy Competition and the Mode of FDI: Acquisition vs Greenfield

Facundo Albornoz, Gregory Corcos and Toby Kendall

05-14: Subsidy Competition in Integrating Economies

Facundo Albornoz and Gregory Corcos

05-13: Why Did British Electricity Prices Fall after 1998?

Joanne Evans and Richard Green

05-12: Trade Policy and Industrial Structure

Facundo Albornoz and Paolo Vanin

05-11: Ambiguity in Financial Markets: Herding and Contrarian Behaviour

J L Ford, David Kelsey and W Pang

05-10: Testing the Null of Co-integration in the Presence of Variance Breaks

Giuseppe Cavaliere and Robert Taylor

05-09: The Real Part of a Complex ARMA Process

Ralph Bailey

05-08: Simple Mediation in a Cheap-Talk Game

Chirantan Ganguly and Indrajit Ray

05-07: On Robust Trend Function Hypothesis Testing

David Harvey, Stephen Leybourne and Robert Taylor

05-06: Long Run Relationship and Structural Change Between the US and EU Wheat Export Prices

Marco Barassi and Atanu Ghoshray

05-05: Non-Linear Strategies in a Linear Quadratic Differential Game

Colin Rowat

05-04: Theoretical Foundations of the Gravity Trade Model

Richard Barrett, Somnath Sen and Anca Voicu

05-03: The Reform of Local Taxation in the United Kingdom in the Light of The Balance of Funding Review Report

John Fender

05-02: Endogenous Market Thickness, Prices and Honesty: Quality Demand Traps

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay

05-01: The commons with capital markets

Colin Rowat and Jayasri Dutta

04-23: Optimal Two Stage Committee Voting Rules

Ian Ayres, Colin Rowat and Nasser Zakariya

04-22: Intermediation by aid agencies

Colin Rowat and Paul Seabright

04-18: Coalition governments in a model of parliamentary democracy

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Mandar Oak

04-17: Delegated Search: Procedure Matters

Peter Postl

04-16: Leaving EMU: a real options perspective

Frank Strobel

04-15: Sunspots, Correlation and Competition

Herakles M. Polemarchakis and Indrajit Ray

04-14: Observable Implications of Nash and Subgame-Perfect Behavior in Extensive Games

Indrajit Ray and Susan Snyder

04-11: The Road to Extinction: Commons with Capital Markets

Jayasri Dutta and Colin Rowat

04-07: Party formation and coalitional bargaining in a model of proportional representation

Joanne S. McGarry and Marcus J. Chambers

04-04: Party formation and coalitional bargaining in a model of proportional representation

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Mandar Oak

04-03: Endogenous Market Thickness and Honesty: A Quality Trap Model

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay