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8777: Peer Effects, Risk Pooling, and Status Seeking: What Explains Gift Spending Escalation in Rural China?

Ravi Kanbur, Xiaobo Zhang and Xi Chen

8776: Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

8775: Evaporating Liquidity

Stefan Nagel

8774: Smart Buyers

Mike Burkart and Samuel Lee

8773: Why Do Institutional Investors Chase Return Trends?

Ron Kaniel, Aydogan Alt and Uzi Yoeli

8772: Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player?

Yves Zenou, ,, Eleonora Patacchini and Xiaodong Liu

8771: Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World

John Hassler

8770: The Diffusion of Microfinance

Abhijit Banerjee, Matthew Jackson, Esther Duflo and Arun Chandrasekhar

8769: Securitization Without Risk Transfer

Viral Acharya, Philipp Schnabl and Gustavo Suarez

8768: Trade and industrialisation after globalisation?s 2nd unbundling: How building and joining a supply chain are different and why

Richard Baldwin

8767: North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade

Olivier Cadot, Fontagné, Lionel and Anne-Célia Disdier

8766: Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct versus indirect modes of export

Andrew Bernard, Marco Grazzi and Chiara Tomasi

8765: Internalization, Clearing and Settlement, and Liquidity

Hans Degryse, Mark Van Achter and Gunther Wuyts

8764: Aggregate Investment Externalities and Macroprudential Regulation

Jean Rochet and Hans Gersbach

8763: Does dual employment protection affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Juan Dolado, Salvador Ortigueira and Rodolfo Stucchi

8762: Exclusive dealing as a barrier to entry? Evidence from automobiles

Frank Verboven and Laura Nurski

8761: Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation

Giordano Mion and Andrea Ariu

8760: Reconciling Trade and Climate Policies

Jaime de Melo and Nicole Mathys

8759: Efficient Cheap Talk in Directed Search: On the Non-essentiality of Commitment in Market Games

Philipp Kircher and Kyungmin Kim

8758: Italy?s Comparative Advantage: A Long-Run Perspective

Nikolaus Wolf and Giovanni Federico

8757: The Strategic Formation of Networks: Experimental Evidence

Juan D. Carrillo and Arya Gaduh

8756: The advertising mix for a search good

Simon Anderson and Régis Renault

8755: Prior Selection for Vector Autoregressions

Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio Primiceri

8754: Making a Voluntary Greek Debt Exchange Work

Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Mitu Gulati

8753: Capital Controls with International Reserve Accumulation: Can this Be Optimal?

Philippe Bacchetta, Kenza Benhima and Yannick Kalantzis

8752: Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition

Jacques Thisse, Hylke Vandenbussche and Francesco Di Comite

8751: The Risky Steady-State

Helene Rey, Nicolas Coeurdacier and Pablo Winant

8750: International Capital Flows with Limited Commitment and Incomplete Markets

Juergen von Hagen and Haiping Zhang

8749: Fiscal Policy as a Stabilization Tool

Fatás, Antonio and Ilian Mihov

8748: Multilateral economic cooperation and the international transmission of fiscal policy

Giancarlo Corsetti and Müller, Gernot

8747: Currency Momentum Strategies

Lukas Menkhoff, Lucio Sarno, Andreas Schrimpf and Maik Schmeling

8746: Home Bias in Open Economy Financial Macroeconomics

Helene Rey and Nicolas Coeurdacier

8745: Sources of Risk in Currency Returns

Mikhail Chernov, Jeremy Graveline and Irina Zviadadze

8744: Individual Investor Activity and Performance

Söderlind, Paul, Magnus Dahlquist and Jose Vicente Martinez

8743: Sovereign Debt Rating Changes and the Stock Market

Alexander Michaelides, George Nishiotis, Andreas Milidonis and Panayiotis Papakyriacou

8742: A Series of Unfortunate Events: Common Sequencing Patterns in Financial Crises

Carmen Reinhart

8741: Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda

Fabrizio Zilibotti and Dominic Rohner

8740: Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, Andrea Vigorito and Veronica Amarante

8739: Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion

Ahmed Mobarak, Gharad Bryan and Shyamal Chowdhury

8738: Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

Fabrizio Zilibotti, Kjetil Storesletten and Zheng Song

8737: Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Fr

Michael Zschille

8736: The Regulation of Land Markets: Evidence from Tenancy Reform in India

Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande, Vijayendra Rao and Jessica Leight

8735: Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Nezih Guner, Gustavo Ventura and Remzi Kaygusuz

8734: Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Esther Duflo

8733: Premise-Based versus Outcome-Based Information Aggregation

Kfir Eliaz and Geoffroy de Clippel

8732: Network Cognition

Dessí, Roberta, Sanjeev Goyal and Edoardo Gallo

8731: Innovation, Spillovers and Venture Capital Contracts

Dessí, Roberta

8730: Consumer Arbitrage Across a Porous Border

Keith Head, , and Mariano Tappata

8729: A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More Than Outsiders

Bart Lambrecht and Viral Acharya

8728: Institutions and Business Cycles

Sumru Altug, Bilin Neyapti and Mustafa Emin

8727: Trade, Wages, and Profits

Peter Egger, Udo Kreickemeier and Hartmut Egger

8726: The Dracula Effect: Voter Information and Trade Policy

Giacomo Ponzetto, Maria Petrova and Ruben Enikolopov

8725: Moving up the Quality ladder? EU-China Trade Dynamics in Clothing

Hylke Vandenbussche, Francesco Di Comite, Christian Viegelahn and Laura Rovegno

8724: On the Selection of Arbitrators

Kfir Eliaz, Geoffroy de Clippel and Brian Kinght

8723: When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems

Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta

8722: Self-Esteem, Shame and Personal Motivation

Dessí, Roberta and Xiaojian Zhao

8721: Fiscal Devaluations

Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki

8720: How Do Credit Supply Shocks Propagate Internationally? A GVAR approach

Sandra Eickmeier and Tim Ng

8719: Superstars and the Long Tail: The impact of technology on market structure in media industries

Helen Weeds

8718: How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children

Jan C. van Ours and Asako Ohinata

8717: Assessing the impact of Mali?s water privatization across stakeholders

Antonio Estache and Grifell-Tatjé, Emili

8716: Sub-field normalization in the multiplicative case: High- and low-impact citation indicators

Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Neus Herranz

8715: Sub-field normalization in the multiplicative case: Average-based citation indicators

Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Neus Herranz

8714: Scattered Trust - Did the 2007-08 financial crisis change risk perceptions?

Thomas Gehrig, Füss, Roland and Philipp B Rindler

8713: Hope, Change, and Financial Markets: Can Obama's Words Drive the Market?

Jose Tavares and Sharmin Sazedj

8712: Is the Financial Safety Net a Barrier to Cross-Border Banking?

Harry Huizinga, Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli and Ata Bertay

8711: The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

8710: Pricing Liquidity Risk with Heterogeneous Investment Horizons

Alessandro Beber, Joost Driessen and Patrick Tuijp

8709: Fiscal spending for economic growth in the presence of imperfect markets

López, Ramón and Asif Islam

8708: The economics of predation: What drives pricing when there is learning-by-doing?

David Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski and Yaroslav Kryukov

8707: The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Giorgio Brunello, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Nicole Schneeweis and Margherita Fort

8706: Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows during the 2007-2009 Crisis

Viral Acharya and Nada Mora

8705: A Model of Liquidity Hoarding and Term Premia in Inter-Bank Markets

Viral Acharya and David Skeie

8704: Procurement with specialized firms

Jan Boone and Schottmüller, Christoph

8703: The International Monetary System: Living with Asymmetry

Maurice Obstfeld

8702: Good rankings are bad - Why reliable rankings can hurt consumers

Georg Kirchsteiger and Laurent Bouton

8701: The wrong shape of insurance? What cross-sectional distributions tell us about models of consumption-smoothing

Tobias Broer

8700: Great Moderation or Great Mistake: Can rising confidence in low macro-risk explain the boom in asset prices?

Tobias Broer and Afroditi Kero

8699: State Capacity and Military Conflict

Hans-Joachim Voth and Nicola Gennaioli

8698: Real-Time Analysis of Oil Price Risks Using Forecast Scenarios

Lutz Kilian and Christiane Baumeister

8697: The Career Costs of Children

Christian Dustmann, Jerome Adda and Katrien Stevens

8696: Using Export Market Performance to Evaluate Regional Preferential Policies in China

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Annette Schminke

8695: Effects of Deregulation and Vertical Unbundling on the Performance of China's Electricity Generation Sector

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Hang Gao

8694: Natural resource wealth: the challenge of managing a windfall

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Anthony Venables

8693: The Impact of 'Rollover' Contracts on Switching Costs in the UK Voice Market: Evidence from Disaggregate Customer Billing Data

Gregory Crawford, Nicola Tosini and Keith Waehrer

8692: On the Non-Exclusivity of Loan Contracts: An Empirical Investigation

Hans Degryse, Vasso Ioannidou and Erik von Schedvin

8691: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience

Juan Dolado, Samuel Bentolila and Juan F Jimeno

8690: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Alison Booth, Patrick Nolen and Lina Cardona Sosa

8689: Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia

Pedro Carneiro, Nithin Umapathi, Michael Lokshin and Cristobal Ridao-Cano

8688: Apocalypse Then: The Evolution of the North Atlantic Economy and the Global Crisis

Tamim Bayoumi and Trung Bui

8687: Did WTO rules restrain protectionism during the recent systemic crisis?

Simon Evenett

8686: How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

8685: Climate Policy and Developing Countries

Hans Gersbach and Noemi Hummel

8684: Export dynamics and sales at home

Nicolas Berman, Antoine Berthou and Jérôme Héricourt

8683: The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound

Antonio Ciccone and Francesco Caselli

8682: Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Taryn Dinkelman and Vimal Ranchhod

8681: The Evaluation of Citation Distributions

Javier Ruiz-Castillo

8680: Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

Peter DeMarzo, Viral Acharya and Ilan Kremer

8679: A Pyrrhic Victory? Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk

Viral Acharya, Philipp Schnabl and Itamar Drechsler

8678: When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises

Alan Taylor, Moritz Schularick and Oscar Jorda