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2019: Exchange rates and consumer prices: evidence from Brexit

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson

2019: Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity: evidence from China

Fabrice Defever, Michele Imbruno and Richard Kneller

2019: The innovation premium to soft skills in low-skilled occupations

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith

2019: The motivational cost of inequality: pay gaps reduce the willingness to pursue rewards

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Filip Gesiarz and Tali Sharot

2019: Technical change and superstar effects: evidence from the roll-out of television

Felix Koenig

2019: The intellectual spoils of war? Defense R&D, productivity and international spillovers

Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender and John van Reenen

2019: Measuring the gains from labor specialization

Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico

2019: Spillover effects from new housing supply

Nicolás González-Pampillón

2019: Economic insecurity and the rise of the right

Walter Bossert, Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

2019: A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government

Andrew Clark, Paul Frijters, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard

2019: The heterogeneous impact of market size on innovation: evidence from French firm-level exports

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Matthieu Lequien and Marc Melitz

2019: Measuring and explaining management in schools: new approaches using public data

Clare Leaver, Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur

2019: Does employee happiness have an impact on productivity?

Clément S. Bellet, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward

2019: Industry concentration in Europe and North America

Matěj Bajgar, Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis

2019: Should I stay or should I go? Neighbors' effects on university enrollment

Andres Barrios-Fernández

2019: Reopening Pandora's box in search of a WTO-compatible industrial policy? The Brazil-taxation dispute

Emanuel Ornelas and Laura Puccio

2019: When income effects are large: labor supply responses and the value of welfare transfers

Giulia Giupponi

2019: Understanding day care enrolment gaps

Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz and Sevrin Waights

2019: Trade shocks and credit reallocation

Stefano Federico, Fadi Hassan and Veronica Rappoport

2019: Does light touch cluster policy work? Evaluating the tech city programme

Max Nathan

2019: Inequalities in student to course match: evidence from linked administrative data

Stuart Campbell, Lindsey Macmillan, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

2019: Does e-commerce reduce traffic congestion? Evidence from Alibaba Single Day shopping event

Cong Peng

2019: The best versus the rest: divergence across firms during the global productivity slowdown

Dan Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo and Peter Gal

2019: Building a productive workforce: the role of structured management practices

Christopher Cornwell, Ian Schmutte and Daniela Scur

2019: Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data

Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Robert Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski and Nicolas Ziebarth

2019: What are the price effects of trade? Evidence from the US and implications for quantitative trade models

Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager

2019: Vertical integration and foreclosure: evidence from production network data

Johannes Boehm and Jan Sonntag

2019: Innovation union: costs and benefits of innovation policy coordination

Teodora Borota, Fabrice Defever and Giammario Impullitti

2019: Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

2019: Competition and pass-through: evidence from isolated markets

Christos Genakos and Mario Pagliero

2019: Voting with their money: Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson

2019: Retail shocks and city structure

Maria Sánchez-Vidal

2019: Dirty density: air quality and the density of American cities

Felipe Carozzi and Sefi Roth

2019: A toolkit of policies to promote innovation

Nicholas Bloom, John van Reenen and Heidi Williams

2019: Economic geography aspects of the Panama Canal

Stephan Maurer and Ferdinand Rauch

2019: Willing to pay for security: a discrete choice experiment to analyse labour supply preferences

Nikhil Datta

2019: Ease versus noise: long-run changes in the value of transport (dis)amenities

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Volker Nitsch and Nicolai Wendland

2019: Widening the high school curriculum to include soft skill training: impacts on health, behaviour, emotional wellbeing and occupational aspirations

Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire

2019: Individual consequences of occupational decline

Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs and Guy Michaels

2019: Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892-2015

Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet

2019: Technology gaps, trade and income

Thomas Sampson

2019: Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie

2019: Why unions: understanding how unions overcome the free-rider problem

Richard Murphy

2019: Vehicle currency pricing and exchange rate pass-through

Natalie Chen, Wanyu Chung and Dennis Novy

2019: Commuting, migration and local joblessness

Michael Amior and Alan Manning

2019: Trade and worker deskilling

Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin

2019: How to improve tax compliance? Evidence from population-wide experiments in Belgium

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Clément Imbert, Maarten Luts, Johannes Spinnewijn and Teodora Tsankova

2019: Trade blocs and trade wars during the interwar period

David Jacks and Dennis Novy

2019: Tales of the city: what do agglomeration cases tell us about agglomeration in general?

Giulia Faggio, Olmo Silva and William Strange

2019: Trainspotting: 'good jobs', training and skilled immigration

Andrew Mountford and Jonathan Wadsworth

2019: Parents, schools and human capital differences across countries

Marta De Philippis and Federico Rossi

2019: Education and geographical mobility: the role of the job surplus

Michael Amior

2019: Jihadi attacks, media and local hate crime

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin

2019: The comparative advantage of firms

Johannes Boehm, Swati Dhingra and John Morrow

2019: A tale of comprehensive labor market reforms: evidence from the Italian jobs act

Tito Boeri and Pietro Garibaldi

2019: Does evaluation distort teacher effort and decisions? Quasi-experimental evidence from a policy of retesting students

Esteban Aucejo, Teresa Romano and Eric S. Taylor

2019: Affordability, financial innovation and the start of the housing boom

Jane K. Dokko, Benjamin Keys and Lindsay E. Relihan

2019: Geography, competition and optimal multilateral trade policy

Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Matteo Salto

2019: Childhood circumstances and young adulthood outcomes: the role of mothers' financial problems

Marta Barazzetta, Andrew Clark and Conchita D'Ambrosio

2019: The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn, Alan Manning and Michael Oberfichtner

2019: Innovative events

Max Nathan and Anna Rosso

2019: Missing trade in tasks: employer outsourcing in the gig economy

Christopher T. Stanton and Catherine Thomas

2019: Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel and George Ward

2019: Valuing the environmental benefits of canals using house prices

Stephen Gibbons, Cong Peng and Cheng Tang

2019: The impact of the 2018 trade war on U.S. prices and welfare

Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

2019: Making smart meters smarter the smart way

Quentin Coutellier, Greer Gosnell, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Goran Strbac, Mingyang Sun and Simon Tindermans

2019: Searching for carbon leaks in multinational companies

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Caterina Gennaioli, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Thomas Stoerk

2019: New media and competition: printing and Europe's transformation after Gutenberg

Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold

2019: Discrimination, managers, and firm performance: evidence from “Aryanizations” in Nazi Germany

Kilian Huber, Volker Lindenthal and Fabian Waldinger

2019: International buyers' sourcing and suppliers' markups in Bangladeshi garments

Julia Cajal-Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello and Guillermo Noguera

2019: Do tax cuts produce more Einsteins? The impacts of financial incentives vs. exposure to innovation on the supply of inventors

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John van Reenen

2019: The public sector and the misallocation of labor: evidence from a policy experiment in India

Matthew Baird, Amalavoyal Chari, Shanthi Nataraj, Alexander Rothenberg, Shqiponja Telhaj and L. Winters

2019: Aggregation and the gravity equation

Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

2019: Skill biased management: evidence from manufacturing firms

Andy Feng and Anna Valero

2019: Globalization and state capitalism: assessing Vietnam's accession to the WTO

Leonardo Baccini, Giammario Impullitti and Edmund J. Malesky

2019: The origins of firm heterogeneity: a production network approach

Andrew Bernard, Emmanuel Dhyne, Glenn Magerman, Kalina Manova and Andreas Moxnes

2018: Where is the Land of Hope and Glory? The geography of intergenerational mobility in England and Wales

Brian Bell, Jack Blundell and Stephen Machin

2018: Monetary policy, product market competition and growth

Phillipe Aghion, Emmanuel Farhi and Enisse Kharroubi

2018: Innovation and trade policy in a globalized world

Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates and Giammario Impullitti

2018: The inverted-U relationship between credit access and productivity growth

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Rémy Lecat and Hélène Maghin

2018: Technology, market structure and the gains from trade

Giammario Impullitti, Omar Licandro and Pontus Rendahl

2018: The effect of the Brexit referendum result on subjective well-being

Georgios Kavetsos, Ichiro Kawachi, Ilias Kyriopoulos and Sotiris Vandoros

2018: Subsidizing labor hoarding in recessions: the employment and welfare effects of short time work

Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais

2018: Rent sharing and inclusive growth

Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin

2018: Organizing global supply chains: input-output linkages and vertical integration

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

2018: The contribution of foreign migration to local labor market adjustment

Michael Amior

2018: Preferential trade agreements and global sourcing

Grant Bickwit, Emanuel Ornelas and John Turner

2018: Labor specialization as a source of market frictions

Maria Molina-Domene

2018: In-house and arms length: productivity heterogeneity and variation in organizational form

Arturs Kalnins, Stephen F. Lin and Catherine Thomas

2018: The not-so-generalized effects of the generalized system of preferences

Emanuel Ornelas and Marcos Ritel

2018: Fiscal and education spillovers from charter school expansion

Matthew Ridley and Camille Terrier

2018: Increasing differences between firms: market power and the macro-economy

John van Reenen

2018: Incubators, accelerators and regional economic development

Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights

2018: Teacher effectiveness and classroom composition

Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate, Jane Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter

2018: The making of the modern metropolis: evidence from London

Stephan Heblich, Stephen Redding and Daniel M. Sturm

2018: Misallocation in the market for inputs: enforcement and the organization of production

Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield

2018: How do households value the future? Evidence from property taxes

Hans Koster and Edward Pinchbeck

2018: The economic effects of Brexit - evidence from the stock market

Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy, Thomas Sampson and Ahmed Usman

2018: Measuring urban economic density

J. Vernon Henderson, Sebastian Kriticos and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

2018: History dependence in the housing market

Philippe Bracke and Silvana Tenreyro

2018: Foreign expansion, competition and bank risk

Ester Faia, Sébastien Laffitte and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2018: Why does education reduce crime?

Brian Bell, Rui Costa and Stephen Machin

2018: Who teaches the teachers? A RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools

Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt and Gill Wyness

2018: The political economy of trade and migration: evidence from the US Congress

Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, Max Steinhardt and Maurizio Zanardi

2018: The spatial impacts of a massive rail disinvestment program: the Beeching axe

Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Heblich and Edward Pinchbeck

2018: Teaching assistants, computers and classroom management: evidence from a randomised control trial

Helen Johnson, Sandra McNally, Heather Rolfe, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Robert Savage, Janet Vousden and Clare Wood

2018: Quantifying wider economic impacts of agglomeration for transport appraisal: existing evidence and future directions

Stephen Gibbons and Daniel J. Graham

2018: Market potential and global growth over the long twentieth century

David Jacks and Dennis Novy

2018: Diffusion of social values through the lens of US newspapers

Alan Manning and Paolo Masella

2018: Of mice and merchants: trade and growth in the Iron Age

Jan David Bakker, Stephan Maurer, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch

2018: The productivity-wage premium: does size still matter in a service economy?

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo

2018: The economic impacts of constraining home investments

Christian Hilber and Olivier Schöni

2018: Financial markets and the allocation of capital: the role of productivity

Filippo di Mauro, Fadi Hassan and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2018: Geography, ties and knowledge flows: evidence from citations in mathematics

Keith Head, Yao Li and Asier Minondo

2018: Managing trade: evidence from China and the US

Nicholas Bloom, Kalina Manova, Stephen Teng Sun, John van Reenen and Zhihong Yu

2018: The generation gap in direct democracy

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Wolfgang Maennig and Steffen Mueller

2018: Brands in motion: how frictions shape multinational production

Keith Head and Thierry Mayer

2018: Currency unions, trade and heterogeneity

Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy

2018: The role of demand in land re-development

Felipe Carozzi

2018: Have R&D spillovers changed?

Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking and John van Reenen

2018: Come together: firm boundaries and delegation

Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

2018: Medical marijuana laws and mental health in the United States

Jörg Kalbfuß, Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer

2018: Specialization matters in the firm size-wage gap

Maria Molina-Domene

2018: Temperature, labor reallocation and industrial production: evidence from India

Jonathan Colmer

2018: Firm-to-firm connections in Colombian imports

Andrew Bernard, Esther Ann Bøler and Swati Dhingra

2018: The billion pound drop: the blitz and agglomeration economies in London

Gerard Dericks and Hans Koster

2018: Networks and trade

Andrew Bernard and Andreas Moxnes

2018: Does gentrification displace poor households? An 'identification-via-interaction' approach

Sevrin Waights

2018: Poorly measured confounders are more useful on the left than on the right

Zhuan Pei, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Hannes Schwandt

2018: Fast track to growth? Railway access, population growth and local displacement in 19th century Switzerland

Konstantin Büchel and Stephan Kyburz

2018: The bedroom tax

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Maria Sánchez-Vidal

2018: Changing the structure of minimum wages: firm adjustment and wage spillovers

Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin

2018: Pension shocks and wages

Pawel Adrjan and Brian Bell

2018: Prices, policing and policy: the dynamics of crime booms and busts

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi and Robert Witt

2018: Guns, environment and abortion: how single-minded voters shape politicians decisions

Laurent Bouton, Paola Conconi, Francisco Pino and Maurizio Zanardi

2018: Beyond tariff reductions: what extra boost from trade agreement provisions?

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Eleonora Mavroeidi

2018: The effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs: evidence from the United States using a bunching estimator

Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner and Ben Zipperer

2018: Teacher turnover: does it matter for pupil achievement?

Stephen Gibbons, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj

2018: Higher education funding reforms: a comprehensive analysis of educational and labour market outcomes in England

Ghazala Azmat and Stefania Simion

2018: All in the family? CEO choice and firm organization

Renata Lemos and Daniela Scur

2018: Autonomous schools and strategic pupil exclusion

Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi

2018: Oil discoveries and education spending in the Postbellum South

Stephan Maurer