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9308: Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Stephen Redding, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

9307: Taxation and Development

Torsten Persson and Timothy Besley

9306: Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Oded Galor and Quamrul Ashraf

9305: The Future of International Liquidity and the Role of China

Alan Taylor

9304: The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

9303: Like Father like Sons? The Cost of Sovereign Defaults In Reduced Credit to the Private Sector

Rui Esteves and Joao Jalles

9302: Hospital competition with soft budgets

Kurt Brekke and Luigi Siciliani

9301: Uncertainty and Trade Agreements

Giovanni Maggi and Limão, Nuno

9300: Competing Bimetallic Ratios: Amsterdam, London and Bullion Arbitrage in the Mid-18th Century

Pilar Nogues-Marco

9299: Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Ludger Woessmann and Sascha Becker

9298: The engine immobilizer: a non-starter for car thieves

Jan C. van Ours and Ben Vollaard

9297: Quantifying the Speculative Component in the Real Price of Oil: The Role of Global Oil Inventories

Lutz Kilian and Thomas K Lee

9296: Labor Supply with Job Assignment under Balanced Growth

Claudio Michelacci and Josep Pijoan-Mas

9295: Do entrepreneurs matter?

Sascha Becker and Hans Hvide

9294: The effect of options on coordination

Bernardo Guimaraes and Luis Araujo

9293: Trade Reforms and Current Account Imbalances: When Does the General Equilibrium Effect Overturn a Partial Equilibrium Intuition

Shang-Jin Wei, Kang Shi and Jiandong Ju

9292: World Human Development: 1870-2007

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

9291: A Theory of Asset Prices based on Heterogeneous Information

Christian Hellwig, Aleh Tsyvinski and Elias Albagli

9290: Antitrust Fines in Times of Crisis

Massimo Motta and Natalia Fabra

9289: Tweaking and the Horndal effect

Yossi Spiegel and Igal E Hendel

9288: Selection Effects With Heterogeneous Firms

J. Peter Neary and Mrázová, Monika

9287: Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study

Patrick Schmitz and Eva Hoppe

9286: Agricultural Price Distortions: Trends and Volatility, Past and Prospective

Kym Anderson

9285: Notes for a New Guide to Keynes (I): Wages, Aggregate Demand, and Employment

Galí, Jordi

9284: Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence

Bernardo Guimaraes, Filipe Campante and Quoc-Anh Do

9283: The Inefficient Markets Hypothesis: Why Financial Markets Do Not Work Well in the Real World

Roger Farmer, Carine Nourry and Alain Venditti

9282: Regime Change, Democracy and Growth

Caroline Freund and Melise Jaud

9281: Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach

Patrick Schmitz

9280: The New Stylized Facts About Income and Subjective Well-Being

Justin Wolfers, Betsey Stevenson and Daniel Sacks

9279: Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy

Emanuel Ornelas and Xuepeng Liu

9278: Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

Nancy Qian, Padró i Miquel, Gerard and Yang Yao

9277: Conflict, Climate and Cells: A Disaggregated Analysis

Eliana La Ferrara and Mariaflavia Harari

9276: Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health

Kjell G Salvanes, Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

9275: Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence

Jakob Munch, Whitta-Jacobson, Hans-Jørgen and Claus Kreiner

9274: Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Rafael Lalive and Christina Felfe

9273: Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Was There a 'Free Lunch' in 1930s' Britain?

Nicholas Crafts and Terence Mills

9272: Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality: the key role of innovative procedures

Laurent Gobillon and Carine Milcent

9271: Trading and information diffusion in OTC markets

Péter Kondor and Ana Babus

9270: The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Maurizio Zanardi, Giovanni Facchini, Paola Conconi and Max Steinhardt

9269: The failure to predict the Great Recession. The failure of academic economics? A view focusing on the role of credit

Pérez-Quirós, Gabriel and María Gadea

9268: The Demand for Liquid Assets, Corporate Saving, and Global Imbalances

Philippe Bacchetta and Kenza Benhima

9267: Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Philippe Aghion, John van Reenen, Ralf Martin, Hémous, David and Antoine Dechezleprêtre

9266: How to use demand systems to evaluate risky projects, with an application to automobile production

Richard Friberg and Cristian Huse

9265: R&D, Socio-Economic Conditions and Regional Innovation in the United States

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés and Riccardo Crescenzi

9264: The Economic Value of Patent Portfolios

Dietmar Harhoff, Alfonso Gambardella and Bart Verspagen

9263: Economic Science and Political Influence

Gilles Saint-Paul

9262: Valuation Risk and Asset Pricing

Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo and Rui Albuquerque

9261: Non-linear Effects of Taxation on Growth

Sergio Rebelo and Nir Jaimovich

9260: Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect

Jozef Konings, Mary Amiti and Oleg Itskhoki

9259: Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Uwe Sunde, Matteo Cervellati, Florian Jung and Thomas Vischer

9258: Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women

Zvi Eckstein and Osnat Lifshitz

9257: The Impact of Debt Levels and Debt Maturity on Inflation

Albert Marcet, Andrew Scott, Elisa Faraglia and Rigas Oikonomou

9256: The Fossile Episode

Hans-Werner Sinn and John Hassler

9255: External Imbalances and Financial Crises

Alan Taylor

9254: Concording EU Trade and Production Data over Time

Andrew Bernard, Hylke Vandenbussche and Ilke Van Beveren

9253: Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting

Nancy Qian, David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll and Tommaso Porzio

9252: When Is There a Strong Transfer Risk from the Sovereigns to the Corporates? Property Rights Gaps and CDS Spreads

Shang-Jin Wei and Jennie Bai

9251: Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Crépon, Bruno, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand, Philippe Zamora and Roland Rathelot

9250: Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service

Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler

9249: The Pricing of Sovereign Risk and Contagion during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Marcel Fratzscher and John Beirne

9248: The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration

Oriana Bandiera, Imran Rasul and Martina Viarengo

9247: Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Daron Acemoglu, Fabrizio Zilibotti and Gino Gancia

9246: Trade liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Shang-Jin Wei, Peter Schott and ,

9245: Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports

Robert Koopman, Shang-Jin Wei and Zhi Wang

9244: An Analysis of Eurobonds

Roel Beetsma and Kostas(Konstantinos) Mavromatis

9243: Learning by working in big cities

Diego Puga and Jorge De la Roca

9242: Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

Alessandra Casella and Turban, Sébastien

9241: A Theory of Optimal Inheritance Taxation

Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

9240: The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities

Gilles Duranton, Pierre-Philippe Combes and Laurent Gobillon

9239: Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Co

Harold Cole, Dirk Krueger and Soojin Kim

9238: Household Debt and Social Interactions

Michael Haliassos, Dimitris Georgarakos and Giacomo Pasini

9237: The Making Of A Great Contraction With A Liquidity Trap and A Jobless Recovery

Martín Uribe and Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie

9236: Legalizing Bribe Giving

Giancarlo Spagnolo and Martin Dufwenberg

9235: Towards a Legal Theory of Finance

Katharina Pistor

9234: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Micael Castanheira, Laurent Bouton and Aniol Llorente-Saguer

9233: Has the Euro changed the Business Cycle?

Müller, Gernot, Zeno Enders and Philip Jung

9232: Globalization, Credence Goods and International Civil Society

Thierry Verdier and Sebastian Krautheim

9231: Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Klaus Schmidt, Ernst Fehr and Björn Bartling

9230: You Owe Me

Klaus Schmidt and Ulrike Malmendier

9229: Euro at Risk: The Impact of Member Countries? Credit Risk on the Stability of the Common Currency

Christian Wolff, Thorsten Lehnert, Xisong Jin, Lamia Bekkour and Fanou Rasmouki

9228: Monetary Shocks in a Model with Inattentive Producers

Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi and Luigi Paciello

9227: Empirical Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing

Stefan Nagel

9226: Adjustment Mechanisms in a Currency Area

Charles Goodhart and D J Lee

9225: Ethnic Inequality

Alberto Alesina, Elias Papaioannou and Stelios Michalopoulos

9224: Reserve Accumulation, Growth and Financial Crises

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro

9223: Optimal Policy for Macro-Financial Stability

Alessandro Rebucci, Gianluca Benigno, Christopher Otrok, Huigang Chen and Eric Young

9222: Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa

Torsten Persson, Strömberg, David and Masayuki Kudamatsu

9221: Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Kym Anderson, Gordon Rausser and Johan Swinnen

9220: On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

9219: Israel: The Start-Up Nation, and its Threat from Within

Dan Ben-David

9218: The Labor Market Consequences of Financial Crises With or Without Inflation: Jobless and Wageless Recoveries

Guillermo Calvo, Fabrizio Coricelli and Pablo Ottonello

9217: US Special Safeguard on Imports of Tires from China: Imposing Pain for Little Gain

Steve Charnovitz

9216: Trust, Values and False Consensus

Luigi Guiso, Paola Giuliano and Jeffrey Butler

9215: Mind the gap: capturing value from basic research: boundary crossing inventors and partnerships

Reinhilde Veugelers, Bruno Cassiman and Sam Arts

9214: The Empirical Implications of the Interest-Rate Lower Bound

López-Salido, J David, Christopher Gust and Matthew Smith

9213: The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice: A Reappraisal Using French Data

Fougère, Denis and Poulhès, Mathilde

9212: Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization

Giacomo Ponzetto

9211: Target2 Redux: The simple accountancy and slightly more complex economics of Bundesbank loss exposure through the Eurosystem

Willem Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari

9210: Subprime Consumer Credit Demand: Evidence from a Lender's Pricing Experiment

Lóránth, Gyöngyi and Sule Alan

9209: Managing and Harnessing Volatile Oil Windfalls

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and ,