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2012: Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding

2012: China's Pure Exporter Subsidies

Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

2012: Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

Wenya Cheng, John Morrow and Kitjawat Tacharoen

2012: Pride and Prejudice: Using Ethnic-Sounding Names and Inter-Ethnic Marriages to Identify Labor Market Discrimination

Dror Brenner and Yona Rubinstein

2012: Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service

Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler

2012: Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin and John van Reenen

2012: Minimum Wages and Wage Inequality: Some Theory and an Application to the UK

Tim Butcher, Richard Dickens and Alan Manning

2012: Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Andrew Oswald

2012: The Enduring Impact of Childhood Experience on Mental Health: Evidence Using Instrumented Co-Twin Data

Rachel Berner Shalem, Francesca Cornaglia and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

2012: Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms

Monika Mrazova and J. Peter Neary

2012: Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying

Nattavudh Powdthavee

2012: Optimal Policy for Macro-Financial Stability

Gianluca Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci and Eric Young

2012: The Careers of Immigrants

Ana Damas de Matos

2012: Policy Design in a Model with Swings in Risk Appetite

Bianca De Paoli and Pawel Zabczyk

2012: Exporters, Importers and Credit Constraints

Mirabelle Muûls

2012: Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Technology Diffusion and Learning On-the-job

Thomas Sampson

2012: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

2012: Musn't Grumble. Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany

Jonathan Wadsworth

2012: The Transferable Scars: A Longitudinal Evidence of Psychological Impact of Past Parental Unemployment on Adolescents in the United Kingdom

Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit

2012: On the Measurement of Trade Costs: Direct vs. Indirect Approaches to Quantifying Standards and Technical Regulations

Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy

2012: A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Hannes Schwandt

2012: Is the International Border Effect Larger than the Domestic Border Effect? Evidence from U.S. Trade

Cletus Coughlin and Dennis Novy

2012: Reserve Accumulation, Growth and Financial Crises

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro

2012: Capital Controls or Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

Gianluca Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci and Eric Young

2012: Happy Talk: Mode of Administration Effects on Subjective Well-Being

Paul Dolan and Georgios Kavetsos

2012: Steady-State Equilibrium in a Model of Short-Term Wage-Posting

Alan Manning

2012: Not all Incentives Wash out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited

Joan Costa-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Steven T. Yen

2012: Female Employment and Fertility - The Effects of Rising Female Wages

Christian Siegel

2012: The German Transfer Problem, 1920-1933: A Sovereign Debt Perspective

Albrecht Ritschl

2012: The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephen Redding, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf

2012: Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice?

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Yohanes Riyanto

2012: Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality

Thomas Sampson

2012: Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction

Tim Barmby, Alex Bryson and Barbara Eberth

2012: Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich Wagner and Laure de Preux

2012: Reparations, Deficits, and Debt Default: the Great Depression in Germany

Albrecht Ritschl

2012: The CEO Labour Market in China's Public Listed Companies

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

2012: Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg Wright

2012: Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

Thierry Mayer, Marc Melitz and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2012: What Do CEOs Do?

Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

2012: Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

2012: The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Effect on Sectoral Productivity

Michael Boehm and Martin Watzinger

2012: Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection

Johannes Spinnewijn

2012: Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market

Raphael Calel and Antoine Dechezleprêtre

2012: Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare

Stephen Redding

2012: Span of Control and Span of Activity

Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun and Julie Wulf

2012: Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc-Andreas Muendler and Stephen Redding

2012: Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export

Andrew Bernard, Marco Grazzi and Chiara Tomasi

2012: Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers

Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer

2012: CEO Bonding: Who Posts Performance Bonds and Why?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

2012: Why Are Migrants Paid More?

Alex Bryson, Giambattista Rossi and Rob Simmons

2012: Incentives for Quality over Time - The Case of Facebook Applications

Jörg Claussen, Tobias Kretschmer and Philip Mayrhofer

2012: Cyclical Risk Aversion, Precautionary Saving and Monetary Policy

Bianca De Paoli and Pawel Zabczyk

2012: Global Value Chains During the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect?

Carlo Altomonte, Filippo di Mauro, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Armando Rungi and Vincent Vicard

2012: The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Swati Dhingra and John Morrow

2012: Agglomeration, Trade and Selection

Gianmarco Ottaviano

2012: Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France

Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge and John van Reenen

2012: Genes, Economics and Happiness

Nicholas A. Christakis, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, James H. Fowler and Bruno Frey

2012: Happiness as a Driver of Risk-Avoiding Behavior

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Robert J. B. Goudie, Sach Mukherjee, Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu

2012: Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals' Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service

Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons, Simon Jones and Alistair McGuire

2012: Market Leadership Through Technology - Backward Compatibility in the U.S. Handheld Video Game Industry

Jörg Claussen, Tobias Kretschmer and Thomas Spengler

2012: A Model of Equilibrium Institutions

Bernardo Guimaraes and Kevin Sheedy

2012: Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Rules

Francesco Caselli, Tom Cunningham, Massimo Morelli and Ines Moreno de Barreda

2012: Why Has China Grown So Fast? The Role of International Technology Transfer

John van Reenen and Linda Yueh

2012: The Household Effects of Government Spending

Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon

2012: The Determinants of Intrafirm Trade: Evidence from French Firms

Gregory Corcos, Delphine Irac, Giordano Mion and Thierry Verdier

2012: Institutions and Export Dynamics

Luis Araujo, Giordano Mion and Emanuel Ornelas

2012: Preferential Trade Agreements and the Labor Market

Emanuel Ornelas

2012: The Provision of Relative Performance Feedback Information: An Experimental Analysis of Performance and Happiness

Ghazala Azmat and Nagore Iriberri

2012: Fiscal Multipliers over the Business Cycle

Pascal Michaillat

2012: Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data

Dennis Novy

2012: Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John van Reenen

2012: Paying for Performance: Incentive Pay Schemes and Employees' Financial Participation

Alex Bryson, Richard Freeman, Claudio Lucifora, Michele Pellizzari and Virginie Perotin

2012: Left, Right, Left: Income and Political Dynamics in Transition Economies

Michael Carter and John Morrow

2011: Assimilation in Multilingual Cities

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

2011: Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

2011: Spatial Frictions

Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Südekum

2011: Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation

Andrea Ariu and Giordano Mion

2011: Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Veronica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

2011: Assignment Reversals: Trade, Skill Allocation and Wage Inequality

Thomas Sampson

2011: Immigrant Enclaves and Crime

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

2011: Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands

Swati Dhingra

2011: A Note on Schooling in Development Accounting

Francesco Caselli and Antonio Ciccone

2011: How Local Are Labour Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

2011: Spatial Exporters

Fabrice Defever, Benedikt Heid and Mario Larch

2011: Change and Persistence in the German Model of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation

John Addison, Alex Bryson, André Pahnke and Paulino Teixeira

2011: Anorexia, Body Image and Peer Effects: Evidence from a Sample of European Women

Joan Costa-Font and Mireia Jofre-Bonet

2011: HRM and Workplace Motivation: Incremental and Threshold Effects

Alex Bryson and Michael White

2011: Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply

Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin and Barbara Petrongolo

2011: Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?

Alex Bryson, Petri Böckerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas

2011: Measuring the (Income) Effect of Disability Insurance Generosity on Labour Market Participation

Olivier Marie and Judit Vall Castello

2011: Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

2011: Wishful Thinking

Guy Mayraz

2011: Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability

Francesco Caselli and Andrea Tesei

2011: Factor Proportions and International Business Cycles

Keyu Jin and Nan Li

2011: Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?

Yu-Hsiang Lei and Guy Michaels

2011: Firm Performance and Wages: Evidence from Across the Corporate Hierarchy

Brian Bell and John van Reenen

2011: The Role of Educational Quality and Quantity in the Process of Economic Development

Amparo Castello-Climent and Ana Hidalgo-Cabrillana

2011: Mass Education or a Minority Well Educated Elite in the Process of Development: the Case of India

Amparo Castello-Climent and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

2011: Heterogeneous Firm-Level Responses to Trade Liberalisation: A Test Using Stock Price Reactions

Holger Breinlich

2011: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

2011: In Search of a Theory of Debt Management

Elisa Faraglia, Albert Marcet and Andrew Scott

2011: A Many-Country Model of Industrialization

Holger Breinlich and Alejandro Cunat

2011: Productivity, Wages and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball

Francesca Cornaglia and Naomi Feldman

2011: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: True PPPs for 141 Countries

Nicholas Oulton

2011: Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis

Gary Becker and Yona Rubinstein

2011: Optimal Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

2011: Stock Market Volatility and Learning

Klaus Adam, Albert Marcet and Juan Pablo Nicolini

2011: The Minimum Wage and Inequality - The Effects of Education and Technology

Zsofia Barany

2011: Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education

Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin

2011: First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

2011: Advertising Expenditure and Consumer Prices

Ferdinand Rauch

2011: Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman and Carlos Serrano

2011: A Model for the Delivery of Evidence-Based PSHE (Personal Wellbeing) in Secondary Schools

John Coleman, Daniel Hale and Richard Layard

2011: Individual Voice in Employment Relationships: A Comparison Under Different Forms of Workplace Representation

David Marsden

2011: Racial Discrimination and Competition

Ross Levine, Alexey Levkov and Yona Rubinstein

2011: Internal Rationality, Imperfect Market Knowledge and Asset Prices

Klaus Adam and Albert Marcet

2011: A Simple Theory of Managerial Talent, Pay Contracts and Wage Distribution

Yanhui Wu

2011: Managerial Incentives and Compensation in a Global Market

Yanhui Wu

2011: The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger and John van Reenen

2011: House Price Booms and the Current Account

Klaus Adam, Pei Kuang and Albert Marcet

2011: How Experts Decide: Identifying Preferences versus Signals from Policy Decisions

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

2011: A Step towards Valuing Utility the Marginal and Cardinal Way

Paul Dolan, Daniel Fujiwara and Robert Metcalfe

2011: Autoregressions in Small Samples, Priors about Observables and Initial Conditions

Marek Jarociński and Albert Marcet

2011: Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

Christos Genakos, Kai-Uwe Kuhn and John van Reenen

2011: Booms and Busts in Asset Prices

Klaus Adam and Albert Marcet

2011: The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment

Michael Elsby, Jennifer Smith and Jonathan Wadsworth

2011: Incomplete Contracts and the Impact of Globalization on Consumer Welfare

Fabrice Defever

2011: The Penn-Belassa-Samuelson Effect in Developing Countries: Price and Income Revisited

Fadi Hassan

2011: Recursive Contracts

Albert Marcet and Ramon Marimon

2011: Success and Failure of African Exporters

Olivier Cadot, Leonardo Iacovone, Martha Denisse Pierola and Ferdinand Rauch

2011: Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry

Björn Eriksson, Tobias Karlsson, Tim Leunig and Maria Stanfors

2011: The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

2011: Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2011: Spinning Welfare: the Gains from Process Innovation in Cotton and Car Production

Tim Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth

2011: Crime and Mental Wellbeing

Francesca Cornaglia and Andrew Leigh

2011: Portfolio Allocation and International Risk Sharing

Gianluca Benigno and Hande Kucuk

2011: Priors and Desires

Guy Mayraz

2011: Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

Alex Bryson, Petri Böckerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas

2011: Seesaw in the Air: Interconnection Regulation and the Structure of Mobile Tariffs

Christos Genakos and Tommaso Valletti

2011: Managers' Mobility, Trade Status and Wages

Giordano Mion and Luca David Opromolla

2011: Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: A Factor Proportions Approach

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

2011: Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts

2011: Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca and John van Reenen