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2009: On the Origins of Land Use Regulations: Theory and Evidence from US Metro Areas

Christian Hilber and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

2009: Wage Bargaining and the Boundaries of the Multinational Firm

Maria Bas and Juan Carluccio

2009: Welfare Policy and the Distribution of Hours of Work

L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

2009: Regional Trade Agreements

Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

2009: Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels

2009: Collective Agreements, Wages and Restructuring in Transition

Iga Magda, David Marsden and Simone Moriconi

2009: Recovering the Sunk Costs of R&D: the Moulds Industry Case

Carlos Santos

2009: Rates of Return and Alternative Measures of Capital Input: 14 Countries and 10 Branches, 1971-2005

Nicholas Oulton and Ana Rincon-Aznar

2009: Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749

Tim Leunig, Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis

2009: Can Family-Support Policies Help Explain Differences in Working Hours Across Countries?

Urban Sila

2009: The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

John Addison, Lutz Bellman, Alex Bryson, André Pahnke and Paulino Teixeira

2009: How Does Innovation Affect Worker Well-being?

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

2009: US Real Interest Rates and Default Risk in Emerging Economies

Nathan Foley-Fisher and Bernardo Guimaraes

2009: The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Yann Algan, Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Alan Manning

2009: The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

2009: How to Measure Living Standards and Productivity

Nicholas Oulton

2009: The Returns to Scarce Talent: Footedness and Player Remuneration in European Soccer

Alex Bryson, Bernd Frick and Robert Simmons

2009: Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?

Jonathan Wadsworth

2009: The Paradox of Performance Related Pay Systems: 'Why Do We Keep Adopting Them in the Face of Evidence that they Fail to Motivate?'

David Marsden

2009: Participation in Organisations: Economic Approaches

Almudena Cañibano and David Marsden

2009: One Nation Under a Groove? Identity and Multiculturalism in Britain

Andreas Georgiadis and Alan Manning

2009: Theory of Values

Andreas Georgiadis and Alan Manning

2009: Trade, Wages and Productivity

Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Südekum

2009: Institutions and the Management of Human Resources: Incentive Pay Systems in France and Great Britain

Richard Belfield and David Marsden

2009: Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding

2009: Educational Returns, Ability Composition and Cohort Effects: Theory and Evidence for Cohorts of Early-Career UK Graduates

Norman Ireland, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Shqiponja Telhaj

2009: Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence

Guy Mayraz, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

2009: The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

2009: Unemployment Insurance and Cultural Transmission: Theory and Application to European Unemployment

Jean-Baptiste Michau

2009: Trading Partners and Trading Volumes: Implementing the Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein Model Empirically

João Santos Silva and Silvana Tenreyro

2009: The Century of Education

Christian Morrisson and Fabrice Murtin

2009: Further Simulation Evidence on the Performance of the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimator

João Santos Silva and Silvana Tenreyro

2009: On the Existence of the Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Poisson Regression

João Santos Silva and Silvana Tenreyro

2009: What if Congress Doubled R&D Spending on the Physical Sciences?

Richard Freeman and John van Reenen

2009: The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: Impact on Trade Flows and External Trade Barriers

Hector Calvo-Pardo, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

2009: Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK

Dan Anderberg, Arnaud Chevalier and Jonathan Wadsworth

2009: Interim Rank, Risk Taking and Performance in Dynamic Tournaments

Christos Genakos and Mario Pagliero

2009: The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

2009: Long-Term Health Effects on the Next Generation of Ramadan Fasting During Pregnancy

Reyn Van Ewijk

2009: The Empirics of New Economic Geography

Stephen Redding

2009: Employee Voice and Private Sector Workplace Outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tobias Kretschmer and P Willman

2009: Monetary Policy Under Alterative Asset Market Structures: the Case of a Small Open Economy

Bianca De Paoli

2009: Hot and Cold Seasons in the Housing Market

L. Rachel Ngai and Silvana Tenreyro

2009: Capital Flows and Asset Prices

Kosuke Aoki, Gianluca Benigno and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

2009: Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Patrice Laroche

2009: 'The Value of Rude Health': Employees' Well Being, Absence and Workplace Performance

David Marsden and Simone Moriconi

2009: Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?

Richard Layard, Guy Mayraz and Stephen Nickell

2009: The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on business: Evidence from Microdata

Ralf Martin, Ulrich Wagner and Laure de Preux

2009: Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology and Competition: Evidence from France

Paul-Antoine Chevalier, Rémy Lecat and Nicholas Oulton

2009: The Importance of Relative Performance Feedback Information: Evidence from a Natural Experiment using High School Students

Ghazala Azmat and Nagore Iriberri

2009: Accounting for Research and Productivity Growth Across Industries

L. Rachel Ngai and Roberto Samaniego

2009: Leader Behavior and the Natural Resource Curse

Francesco Caselli and Thomas Cunningham

2009: Government Transfers and Political Support

Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

2009: Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Philippe Aghion, John van Reenen and Luigi Zingales

2009: Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany

Fabian Waldinger

2009: The Macroeconomic Role of Unemployment Compensation

Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar and Eran Yashiv

2009: International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach

Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy

2009: To Leave or Not to Leave? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Impact of Failing the High School Exit Exam

Dongshu Ou

2009: The Margins of US Trade

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

2009: On the International Dimension of Fiscal Policy

Gianluca Benigno and Bianca De Paoli

2009: Economic Geography: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature

Stephen Redding

2009: Change and Continuity Among Minority Communities in Britain

Andreas Georgiadis and Alan Manning

2008: Trade, Technology Adoption and Wage Inequalities: Theory and Evidence

Maria Bas

2008: Service Traders in the UK

Holger Breinlich and Chiara Criscuolo

2008: Protection and International Sourcing

Emanuel Ornelas and John Turner

2008: Central Bank's Two-Way Communication with the Public and Inflation Dynamics

Kosuke Aoki and Takeshi Kimura

2008: Understanding the Gender Pay Gap: What's Competition Got to Do with It?

Alan Manning and Farzad Saidi

2008: Improving Access to Psychological Therapy: Initial Evaluation of the Two Demonstration Sites

David M. Clark, Richard Layard and Rachel Smithies

2008: Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini and Alessandra Tucci

2008: Why Capital does not Migrate to the South: A New Economic Geography Perspective

Jang Ping Thia

2008: Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation

Kristian Behrens and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

2008: Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman

2008: Urbanisation and Structural Transformation

Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding

2008: Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?

Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun

2008: Comparing Willingness-to-Pay and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Non-Market Goods

Paul Dolan and Robert Metcalfe

2008: Patent Thickets and the Market for Innovation: Evidence from Settlement of Patent Disputes

Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman

2008: Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?

Raffaella Sadun

2008: Sales and Monetary Policy

Bernardo Guimaraes and Kevin Sheedy

2008: Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Andrew Clark, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

2008: How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?

Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman

2008: Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

2008: The Impact of Trade on Aggregate Productivity and Welfare with Heterogeneous Firms and Business Cycle Uncertainty

Jang Ping Thia

2008: When Workers Share in Profits: Effort and Responses to Shirking

Richard Freeman

2008: Organizational Commitment: Do Workplace Practices Matter?

Alex Bryson and Michael White

2008: Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico. Revisiting the Evidence

Mariano Bosch and Marco Manacorda

2008: Relative Factor Endowments and International Portfolio Choice

Alejandro Cunat and Christian Fons-Rosen

2008: The Cost of Grade Retention

Marco Manacorda

2008: A 'New Trade' Theory of GATT/WTO Negotiations

Ralph Ossa

2008: Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopoly Power, Unions and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s

Monique Ebell and Albrecht Ritschl

2008: Evolution of Locations, Specialisation and Factor Returns with Two Distinct Waves of Globalisation

Jang Ping Thia

2008: Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke

2008: Resurrecting the Participation Margin

Monique Ebell

2008: Wage Setting Patterns and Monetary Policy: International Evidence

Giovanni Olivei and Silvana Tenreyro

2008: Vulnerability of Currency Pegs: Evidence from Brazil

Bernardo Guimaraes

2008: Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885-1933

Nikolaus Wolf

2008: Mapping Prices into Productivity in Multisector Growth Models

L. Rachel Ngai and Roberto Samaniego

2008: Does Regionalism Affect Trade Liberalization Towards Non-Members?

Antoni Estevadeordal, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

2008: A Tale of Two Countries: Unions, Closures and Growth in Britain and Norway

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

2008: Multinational Firms, Monopolistic Competition and Foreign Investment Uncertainty

Arunish Chawla

2008: Labor Market Reforms, Job Instability, and the Flexibility of the Employment Relationship

Niko Matouschek, P Ramezzana and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

2008: Union Decline in Britain

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

2008: Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings

Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon

2008: Delayed Doves: MPC Voting Behaviour of Externals

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

2008: Private Sector Employment Growth, 1998-2004: A Panel Analysis of British Workplaces

Alex Bryson and Satu Nurmi

2008: Tax Cuts in Open Economies

Alejandro Cunat, Szabolcs Deak and Marco Maffezzoli

2008: Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke

2008: International Trade, Minimum Quality Standards and the Prisoners' Dilemma

Dimitra Petropoulou

2008: Efficiency Wages and the Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence from a Low-Wage Labour Market

Andreas Georgiadis

2008: Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State

L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides

2008: Talking Less and Moving the Market More: Is this the Recipe for Monetary Policy Effectiveness? Evidence from the ECB and the Fed

Carlo Rosa

2008: Competing for Contacts: Network Competition, Trade Intermediation and Fragmented Duopoly

Dimitra Petropoulou

2008: The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher Pissarides

2008: Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

2008: On the Relative Gains to Immigration: A Comparison of the Labour Market Position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

Jonathan Wadsworth and Augustin de Coulon

2008: HRM Practices and Knowledge Processes Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment on UK SMEs in the Tourism Hospitality and Leisure Sector

Andreas Georgiadis and Christos Pitelis

2008: A Swing-State Theory of Trade Protection in the Electoral College

Mirabelle Muûls and Dimitra Petropoulou

2008: Information Costs, Networks and Intermediation in International Trade

Dimitra Petropoulou

2008: Optimal External Debt and Default

Bernardo Guimaraes

2008: On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation

Javier Ortega and Laurence Rioux

2008: A Simple Model of the Juggernaut Effect of Trade Liberalisation

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

2008: Labor Market Institutions Around the World

Richard Freeman

2008: Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance

Emma Hall, Carol Propper and John van Reenen