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2255: Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries. What can we Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?

Imed Drine and Christophe Rault

2254: Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised

Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie

2253: Development-Related Biases in Factor Productivities and the HOV Model of Trade

Keith Maskus and Shuichiro Nishioka

2252: Labor Turnover before Plant Closure: ‘Leaving the Sinking Ship’ vs. ‘Captain Throwing Ballast Overboard’

Guido Schwerdt

2251: The Stress of Having a Single Monetary Policy in Europe

Jan-Egbert Sturm and Timo Wollmershäuser

2250: Optimal Taxation of Human Capital and the Earnings Function

Bas Jacobs and Lans Bovenberg

2249: Socio-Political Conflict and Economic Performance in Bolivia

Jose-Luis Evia, Roberto Laserna and Stergios Skaperdas

2248: Why not in your Backyard? On the Location and Size of a Public Facility

Giorgio Bellettini and Hubert Kempf

2247: Tax Competition – Greenfield Investment versus Mergers and Acquisitions

Johannes Becker and Clemens Fuest

2246: Endogenous Borders? The Effects of New Borders on Trade in Central Europe 1885-1933

Hans-Christian Heinemeyer, Max-Stephan Schulze and Nikolaus Wolf

2245: Power over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians: Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator

Anne van Aaken, Lars Feld and Stefan Voigt

2244: Adjustment Costs, Inventories and Output

Leif Danziger

2243: Large-Scale Disasters and the Insurance Industry

Walter Kraemer and Sebastian Schich

2242: Entrepreneurship, Organization Capital and the Evolution of the Firm

Atsushi Oshima, B Ravikumar and Raymond Riezman

2241: Does Laboratory Trading Mirror Behavior in Real World Markets? Fair Bargaining and Competitive Bidding on EBay

Gary Bolton and Axel Ockenfels

2240: Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence

Hiroyuki Kasahara and Beverly Lapham

2239: Market Structure and Market Access

Joseph Francois and Ian Wooton

2238: Private Retirement Savings in Germany: The Structure of Tax Incentives and Annuitization

Hans Fehr and Christian Habermann

2237: Reputation, Price, and Death: An Empirical Analysis of Art Price Formation

Heinrich Ursprung and Christian Wiermann

2236: The Scope of Cooperation: Values and Incentives

Guido Tabellini

2235: Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes than other Estates?

Holger Strulik and Volker Grossmann

2234: ó: The Long And Short Of It

Bob Chirinko

2233: Effective Taxation of Top Incomes in Germany, 1992-2002

Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo and Viktor Steiner

2232: Offshoring: Why Do Stories Differ?

Wilhelm Kohler

2231: Model Averaging in Risk Management with an Application to Futures Markets

Mohammad Pesaran, Christoph Schleicher and Paolo Zaffaroni

2230: Discounting and Welfare Analysis Over Time: Choosing the ç

Jan Schumacher and Wolfgang Buchholz

2229: Geography and Insolation in 19th Century US African-American and White Statures

Scott A. Carson

2228: Fiscal Shocks and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics: Some Evidence for Latin America

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Davide Ciferri and Alessandro Girardi

2227: Market Structure, Technological Gap and Vertical Linkage Effects from Foreign Direct Investment

Sergey Kadochnikov and Igor Drapkin

2226: What do we really Know about Fiscal Sustainability in the EU? A Panel Data Diagnostic

Antonio Afonso and Christophe Rault

2225: Long Memory with Markov-Switching GARCH

Walter Kraemer

2224: Imitation and the Evolution of Walrasian Behavior: Theoretically Fragile but Behaviorally Robust

Jose Apesteguia, Steffen Huck, Jörg Oechssler and Simon Weidenholzer

2223: Young and Old Competing for Public Welfare Services

Lars-Erik Borge and Jorn Rattso

2222: Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis

Ping Wang and Raymond Riezman

2221: Automating Exchange Rate Target Zones: Intervention via an Electronic Limit Order Book

Michael Melvin, Lukas Menkhoff and Maik Schmeling

2220: A Tale of Two Debt Crises: A Stochastic Optimal Control Analysis

Jerome L. Stein

2219: Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective

Stephane Dees, Mohammad Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith and Ron P. Smith

2218: Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and its Implications for Long-Run Growth

Joerg Baten and Dorothee Crayen

2217: The Trade and Welfare Effects of Mergers in Space

Hartmut Egger and Peter Egger

2216: The Limits of Trust in Economic Transactions - Investigations of Perfect Reputation Systems

Gary Bolton and Axel Ockenfels

2215: Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Assar Lindbeck, Mårten Palme and Mats Persson

2214: Banking Permits: Economic Efficiency and Distributional Effects

Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro and Emanuele Massetti

2213: Price and Death

Jun-ichi Itaya and Heinrich Ursprung

2212: Tax Overpayments, Tax Evasion, and Book-Tax Differences

Laszlo Goerke

2211: The Design of Pension Pay Out Options when the Health Status during Retirement is Uncertain

Mathias Kifmann

2210: Liquidity Shortages and Monetary Policy

Jin Cao and Gerhard Illing

2209: Regulating National Firms in a Common Market

Sara Biancini

2208: Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World

Steven Poelhekke and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

2207: Ageing and Productivity Growth: Are there Macro-level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?

Martin Werding

2206: How Productive is Public Capital? A Meta-Analysis

Pedro Bom and Jenny Ligthart

2205: Equity Fund Ownership and the Cross-Regional Diversification of Household Risk

Sascha Becker, Mathias Hoffmann and Sascha O. Becker

2204: Financial Constraints and other Obstacles: Are they a Threat to Innovation Activity?

Sybrand Schim van der Loeff, Pierre Mohnen, Franz Palm and Amaresh K. Tiwari

2203: The Efficiency Loss of Capital Income Taxation under Imperfect Loss Offset Provisions

Syed Ahsan and Panagiotis Tsigaris

2202: On Comparing the Accuracy of Default Predictions in the Rating Industry

André Güttler and Walter Kraemer

2201: Anticipating Tax Change: Evidence from the Finnish Corporate Income Tax Reform of 2005

Seppo Kari, Hanna Karikallio and Jukka Pirttilä

2200: MIMIC Models, Cointegration and Error Correction: An Application to the French Shadow Economy

Andreas Bühn and Friedrich Schneider

2199: Term Limits: Do they really Affect Fiscal Policy Choices?

Chiara Dalle Nogare and Roberto Ricciuti

2198: Minority Voting and Long-term Decisions

Theresa Fahrenberger and Hans Gersbach

2197: Democratic Participation and the Size of Regions: An Empirical Study Using Data on German Counties

Helmut Seitz

2196: Inequality and the Import Demand Function

Antonis Adam, Margarita Katsimi and Thomas Moutos

2195: The Impact of Council’s Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Mika Widgrén

2194: Are Income and Consumption Taxes ever really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods

Tomer Blumkin, Bradley Ruffle and Yosef Ganun

2193: Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure

Mohammad Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith and Takashi Yamagata

2192: Price Discrimination Bans on Dominant Firms

Jan Bouckaert, Hans Degryse and Theon Van Dijk

2191: FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages: Do third Country Effects Matter for Dutch FDI?

Harry Garretsen and Jolanda Peeters

2190: A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Chris Klaveren, Bernard M.S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink and Bernard M.S. van Praag

2189: Trends of Children’s Height and Parental Unemployment: A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 – 2006

Joerg Baten and Andreas Böhm

2188: Foreign Takeovers and Wage Dispersion in Hungary

Sándor Csengődi and Dieter Urban

2187: The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect?

Wolfgang Leininger and Axel Ockenfels

2186: Rhineland Exit?

Lans Bovenberg and C. N. Teulings

2185: Intergenerational Risk Sharing, Pensions and Endogenous Labor Supply in General Equilibrium

Roel Beetsma, Ward Romp and Siert J. Vos

2184: Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien and Thierry Magnac

2183: Economic-Social Interaction in China

Assar Lindbeck

2182: The Actuarial Balance Sheet for Pay-As-You-Go Finance: Solvency Indicators for Spain and Sweden

Maria del Carmen Boado-Penas, Salvador Valdés and Carlos Vidal-Melia

2181: Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Harald Badinger and Peter Egger

2180: Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

2179: Creditor Passivity: The Effects of Bank Competition and Institutions on the Strategic Use of Bankruptcy Filings

Christa Hainz

2178: A Stochastic Multiple Players Multi-Issues Bargaining Model for the Piave River Basin

Alessandra Sgobbi and Carlo Carraro

2177: Do Markets Care about Central Bank Governor Changes? Evidence from Emerging Markets

Christoph Moser and Axel Dreher

2176: Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models

Alexander Chudik and Mohammad Pesaran

2175: Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth. An International Comparison

Gebhard Flaig and Horst Rottmann

2174: The Dark Side of International Cross-Listing: Effects on Rival Firms at Home

Michael Melvin and Magali Valero

2173: The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust – An Experimental Study

Ben Greiner, Axel Ockenfels and Peter Werner

2172: Household Models: An Historical Perspective

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

2171: American Idol: Should it be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest?

J. Atsu Amegashie

2170: Product Market Integration and Income Taxation: Distortions and Gains from Trade

Torben Andersen and Allan Sørensen

2169: Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism and Debt Policy

Egil Matsen and Øystein Thøgersen

2168: Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

2167: Federalism, Fertility and Growth

Rainald Borck

2166: Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain

Samuel Bentolila, Juan Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

2165: Lionel Robbins: A Methodological Reappraisal

Marcelo Resende and Rodrigo Zeidan

2164: Terms of Trade, Catch-up, and Home Market Effect: The Example of Japan

Dieter Urban

2163: Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment

Christian Jaag, Christian Keuschnigg and Mirela Keuschnigg

2162: Optimal Redistributive Tax and Education Policies in General Equilibrium

Bas Jacobs

2161: Arm’s Length Provision of Public Services

Morten Bennedsen and Christian Schultz

2160: Persuasion as a Contest

Stergios Skaperdas and Samarth Vaidya

2159: Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports

Betsey Stevenson

2158: Rent Taxation and its Intertemporal Welfare Effects in a Small Open Economy

Marko Köthenbürger and Panu Poutvaara

2157: Merger Policy and Tax Competition

Andreas Haufler and Christian Schulte

2156: Household Expenditures, Wages, Rents

Morris Davis and Francois Ortalo-Magne