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249: A Sealed-Bid Auction that Matches the English Auction

Motty Perry, Elmar Wolfstetter and Shmuel Zamir

248: Testing for Common Cyclical Features in Nonstationary Panel Data Models

Alain Hecq, Franz Palm and Jean-Pierre Urbain

247: Germany's Economic Unification. An Assessment after Ten Years

Hans-Werner Sinn

246: Happiness, Economy and Institutions

Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer

245: Motivation Crowding Theory: A Survey of Empirical Evidence

Bruno Frey and Reto Jegen

244: Privatization under Asymmetric Information

Dieter Bös

243: Investment Tax Credits

Bob Chirinko

242: Tax-Exempt Investors and the Asset Allocation Puzzle

Jack Mintz and Michael Smart

241: Merger in Contests

Steffen Huck, Kai Konrad and Wieland Müller

240: Hysteresis in West German Unemployment Reconsidered

Michael Reutter

239: Funded and Unfunded Pension Schemes: Risk, Return and Welfare

David Miles

238: Income Tax Competition at the State and Local Level in Switzerland

Lars Feld and Gebhard Kirchgässner

237: Population Aging and Fiscal Policy in Europe and the United States

Jagadeesh Gokhale and Bernd Raffelhüschen

236: Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: A Tale of Two "Continents"

Jim Malley and Thomas Moutos

235: Economic Growth and Endogenous Fiscal Policy: In Search of a Data Consistent General Equilibrium Model

Jim Malley and Apostolis Philippopoulos

234: Fair Pay and a Wagebill Argument for Wage Rigidity and Excessive Employment Variability

Jonathan Thomas

233: Estimating the Output Gap Using Business Survey Data - A Bivariate Structural Time Series Model for the German Economy

Gebhard Flaig and Claudia Plötscher

232: Tax Policy in a Model of Search with Training

Jan Boone and Ruud de Mooij

231: Unemployment in the United States and in Europe - A Contrast and the Reasons

Robert Solow

230: Product Market Regulation and Labor Market Outcomes: How can Deregulation Create Jobs?

Michael Burda

229: The Kyoto Protocol: An Economic and Game Theoretic Interpretation

Parkash Chander, Henry Tulkens, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele and Stephane Willems

228: Simulating with RICE Coalitionally Stable Burden Sharing Agreements for the Climate Change Problem

Johan Eyckmans and Henry Tulkens

227: International and Intranational Risk Sharing

Mario Crucini and Gregory D. Hess

226: Monetary Policy Committees: Individual and Collective Reputations

Anne Sibert and Anne C. Sibert

225: Social Assistance and Labour Supply

Louis Christofides

224: Imperfect Competition, General Equilibrium and Unemployment

Hans Gersbach and Achim Schniewind

223: Fiscal Constitutions

Hans Gersbach

222: Outcome, Process & Power in Direct Democracy

Bruno Frey, Marcel Kucher and Alois Stutzer

221: Wars and Markets: How Bond Values Reflect World War II

Bruno Frey and Marcel Kucher

220: Output Dynamics of the G7 Countries - Stochastic Trends and Cyclical Movements

Yin-Wong Cheung and Frank Westermann

219: Local Human Capital Externalities: An Overlapping Generation Model and Some Evidence on Experience Premia

Giovanni Peri

218: On Cross-Country Differences in the Persistence of Real Exchange Rates

Yin-Wong Cheung and Kon S. Lai

217: Convertible Securities and Venture Capital Finance

Klaus Schmidt

216: Entry and Exit Dynamics of 'Excessive Deficits' in the European Union

Ali Bayar

215: Welfare Effects of Immigration in a Dual Labor Market

Clemens Fuest and Marcel Thum

214: Immigration and Skill Formation in Unionised Labour Markets

Clemens Fuest and Marcel Thum

213: Costly Bargaining and Renegotiation

Luca Anderlini and Leonardo Felli

212: Property Rights, Finance, and Entrepreneurship

Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

211: Contract Enforcement in Transition

Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

210: Firm Performance, Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance in the Netherlands

Bob Chirinko, Hans van Ees, Harry Garretsen and Elmer Sterken

209: An Economic Rationale for Public Education: The Value of Commitment

Mark Gradstein

208: Inefficient R&D in Public Procurement: Negative Consequences of a Separation between Award and Actual Contract

Dieter Bös

207: Earmarked Taxation: Welfare versus Political Support

Dieter Bös

206: Growth and Convergence in a Two-Region Model of Unified Germany

Michael Funke and Holger Strulik

205: Exchange Rate Misalignments and Crises

Jerome L. Stein and Giovanna Paladino

204: A Stochastic Optimal Control Approach to International Finance and Foreign Debt

Wendell Fleming and Jerome L. Stein

203: Trade Shocks and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Africa

Ayhan Kose and Raymond Riezman

202: Why to Invest in your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment

Panu Poutvaara and Vesa Kanniainen

201: War and Democracy

Gregory D. Hess and Athanasios Orphanides

200: Real and Monetary Challenges to Wage Policy in Germany at the Turn of the Millennium: Technical Progress, Globalization and European Monetary Union

Wolfgang Franz

199: Preserving the Ocean Circulation: Implications for Climate Policy

Klaus Keller, Kelvin Tan, Francois M.M. Morel and David Bradford

198: Taxing Family Size and Subsidising Child-specific Commodities? Optimal Fiscal Treatment of Households with Endogenous Fertility

Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini

197: To what Extent are Public Pensions Pareto-improving? On the Interaction of Means Tested Basic Income and Public Pensions

Robert Fenge and Jakob von Weizsäcker

196: Shadow Economies Around the World - Size, Causes, and Consequences

Friedrich Schneider and Dominik Enste

195: Pension Reform and Demographic Crisis: Why a Funded System is Needed and why it is not Needed

Hans-Werner Sinn

194: Determinants of Tax Rates in Local Capital Income Taxation: A Theoretical Model and Evidence from Germany

Thiess Büttner

193: Ownership Concentration and Share Valuation: Evidence from Germany

Jeremy Edwards, Alfons J. Weichenrieder and Alfons Weichenrieder

192: The Competition between Competition Rules

Hans-Werner Sinn

191: The Crisis of Germany's Pension Insurance system and How it Can be Resolved

Hans-Werner Sinn

190: Does Conservatism Matter? A Time Series Approach to Central Banking

Helge Berger and Ulrich Woitek

189: Harassment, Corruption and Economic Policy

Sugata Marjit, Vivekananda Mukherjee and Arijit Mukherjee

188: A Dynamic Analysis of Licensing: The Boomerang Effect and Grant-Back Clauses

Jay Choi

187: Reexamining the Estimation of Simultaneous Equations Systems

Yoshio Kimura

186: How Efficient is a Contestable Natural Monopoly?

Alfons J. Weichenrieder and Alfons Weichenrieder

185: Workfare in Germany and the Problem of Vertical Fiscal Externalities

Holger Feist and Ronnie Schöb

184: Does Money Illusion Matter? An Experimental Approach

Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran

183: Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gaechter

182: EU Enlargement, Migration, and Lessons from German Unification

Hans-Werner Sinn

181: Direct and Indirect Taxation when Households Differ in Market and Non-market Abilities

Alessandro Balestrino, Alessandro Cigno and Anna Pettini

180: Corporate Governance in Germany: The Influence of Banks and Large Equity-holders

Jeremy Edwards and Marcus Nibler

179: Inflation and Welfare: Comment on Robert Lucas

Hans-Werner Sinn

178: When is a State Predatory?

James Robinson

177: Women and the "Second Serfdom": Evidence from Bohemia

Sheilagh Ogilvie and Jeremy Edwards

176: Green Tax Reform and Competitiveness

Erkki Koskela, Ronnie Schöb and Hans-Werner Sinn

175: Why Governments should Tax Mobile Capital in the resence of Unemployment

Erkki Koskela and Ronnie Schöb

174: Monetary Union and Precautionary Labour-market Reform

Lars Calmfors

173: Unemployment, Labour-market Reform and Monetary Union

Lars Calmfors

172: The Economics of Repeated Extortion

Jay Choi and Marcel Thum

171: Public Goods, Club Goods, and the Measurement of Crowding

Michael Reiter, Alfons J. Weichenrieder and Alfons Weichenrieder

170: Tying and Innovation: A Dynamic Analysis of Tying Arrangements

Jay Choi

169: Point Schemes

John G. Treble

168: Discounting an Uncertain Future

Christian Gollier and Jean Rochet

167: Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions; Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure

Ronnie Schöb and David Wildasin

166: Market Segmentation, Market Integration and Tacit Collusion

Constantin Colonescu and Nicolas Schmitt

165: The Value of Genetic Information in the Life Insurance Market

Michael Hoy and Mattias K Polborn

164: Trade Liberalization in Eastern European Countries and the Prospects of their Integration into the World Trading System

Jaleel Ahmad and Jing Yang

163: The Design of a Consumption Tax under Capital Risk

Syed Ahsan and Peter Tsigaris

162: Horizontal Inequity: Some New Perspectives

Peter Lambert

161: Expressive Law and Economics

Robert Cooter

160: Sequential Investments and Options to Own

Klaus Schmidt

159: The Scandal Matrix: The Use of Scandals in the Progress of Society

Manfred J. Holler and Bengt-Arne Wickström

158: Can Bilingualism be Dynamically Stable? A Simple Model of Language Choice

Bengt-Arne Wickström

157: Unit Roots, Change, and Decision Bounds

Robert Kunst

156: Green National Accounting: Why and How?

Geir Asheim

155: External Shocks and Economic Dynamics: The Case of African Countries

Ayhan Kose and Raymond Riezman

154: The Pay-as-you-go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device

Hans-Werner Sinn

153: European Integration and the Future of the Welfare State

Hans-Werner Sinn

152: Trade, Multinationals and Transfer Pricing Regulations

Guttorm Schjelderup, Alfons J. Weichenrieder and Alfons Weichenrieder

151: Pollution, Factor Taxation and Unemployment

Erkki Koskela, Ronnie Schöb and Hans-Werner Sinn

150: Ethnic Norms and their Transformation through Reputational Cascades

Timur Kuran