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119: War and Inquisition: Repression in Early Modern Spain

Jordi Vidal-Robert

118: Does “Skin in the Game” Reduce Risk Taking? Leverage, Liability and the Long-Run Consequences of New Deal Financial Reforms

Kris James Mitchener and G Gary Richardson

117: From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China’s Economic Boom

Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas Rawski

116: What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

115: A Theory of Cooperation through Social Division, with Evidence from Nepal

James Choy

114: Unfavorable Land Endowment, Cooperation, and Reversal of Fortune

Anastasia Litina

113: The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

112: Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U.S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007

Nicholas Crafts and Alexander Klein

111: Discrimination or Social Networks? Industrial Investment in Colonial India

Bishnupriya Gupta

110: Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

109: Do entrepreneurs matter?

Sascha Becker and Hans V Hvide

108: Happiness and Productivity

Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

107: Characterizing Behavioral Decisions with Choice Data

Sayantan Ghosal and Patricio Dalton

106: Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Was There a ‘Free Lunch’ in 1930s’ Britain?

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C Mills

105: The Untold Standards of Living Story: The GDP value of Twentieth Century Health Improvements in Developed Economies

Kerry Hickson

104: UK Defence News, 1920-1938: Estimates Based on Contemporary Sources

Nicholas Crafts

103: Rearmament to the Rescue? New Estimates of the Impact of ‘Keynesian’ Policies in 1930s’ Britain

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C Mills

102: Fiscal Interactions Among European Countries: Does the EU Matter?

Michela Redoano

101: International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity

Dennis Novy

100: Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Andrew Oswald

99: Reciprocity towards groups: a laboratory experiment on the causes

David Hugh-Jones and Martin Leroch

98: Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

97: Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills

Sascha Becker, Karolina Ekholm and Marc-Andreas Muendler

96: iPEHD - The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Eric Hornung and Ludger Woessmann

95: Expanding School Resources and Increasing Time on Task: Effects of a Policy Experiment in Israel on Student Academic Achievement and Behaviour

Victor Lavy

94: A Reassessment of the Relationship Between GDP and Life Satisfaction

Eugenio Proto and Rustichini

93: Everyone Wants a Chance: Initial Positions and Fairness in Ultimatum Games

Gianluca Grimalday, Anirban Karz and Eugenio Proto

92: Communism and Economic Modernization

Mark Harrison

91: Creating Competitive Advantage: Policy Lessons from History

Nicholas Crafts

90: Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline

Amrita Dhillon, Vegard Iversen and Gaute Torsvik

89: Absorptive Capacity and the Growth and Investment Effects of Regional Transfers: Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Sascha Becker, Peter Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich

88: Productivity and Growth in UK Industries: An Intangible Investment Approach

Mariela Dal Borgo, Peter Goodridge and Annarosa Pesole

87: Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections: a Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Italian Data

Emanuele Bracco, Michela Redoano and Francesco Porcelli

86: Life Satisfaction, Household Income and Personality Traits

Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini

85: Strategic Budgeteering and Debt Allocation

Vera Troeger and Christina J. Schneider

84: De Facto Capital Mobility, Equality, and Tax Policy in Open Economies

Vera Troeger

83: Tax Competition and Income Inequality: Why did the Welfare State Survive?

Vera Troeger and Thomas Plumper

82: Monetary Policy Flixibility in floating Exchange Rate Regimes: Currency Denomination and Import Shares

Vera Troeger

81: INDIA AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: AN ANGLO-INDIAN COMPARISON OF GDP PER CAPITA, 1600-1871

Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta

80: Railroads and Micro-regional Growth in Prussia

Erik Hornung

79: Whither Capitalism? Financial Externalities and Crisis

Marcus Miller and Lei Zhang

78: Bombs, Brains, and Science: The Role of Human and Physical Capital for the Creation of Scientific Knowledge

Fabian Waldinger

77: Smithian Growth Through Creative Organization

Patrick Legros, Andrew F Newman and Eugenio Proto

76: Prudent Banks and Creative Mimics: Can we tell the difference?

Andrew Powell, Antonia Maier and Marcus Miller

75: Self Centred Beliefs: An Empircal Approach

Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

74: Russia’s Home Front, 1914-1922: The Economy

Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich

73: Borrowing from thy neighbour: a European perspective on sovereign debt

Marcus Miller, Neil Rankin and Lei Zhang

72: A Three-Stage Experimental Test of Revealed Preference

Peter Hammond and Stefan Traub

71: Western Europe’s Growth Prospects: an Historical Perspective

Nicholas Crafts

70: Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy

Sascha Becker, Peter Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich