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7072: Rules of Origin, Preferences and Diversification in Apparel: African Exports to the US and to the EU

Jaime de Melo and Alberto Portugal-Perez

7071: Legal Standards, Enforcement and Corruption

Marco Pagano and Giovanni Immordino

7070: Monetary Policy Trade-Offs in an Estimated Open-Economy DSGE Model

Lars Svensson, Jesper Lindé, Malin Adolfson and Stefan Laséen

7069: The U.S. Business Cycle, 1867-1995: A Dynamic Factor Approach

Albrecht Ritschl, Martin Uebele and Samad Sarferaz

7068: An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal

Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley

7067: The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform

Barbara Petrongolo

7066: Public goods, participation constraints, and democracy: A possibility theorem

Grüner, Hans Peter

7065: Dynamic Factor Price Equalization & International Convergence

Joseph Francois and Clinton R. Shiells

7064: Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances

Ricardo Caballero, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Emmanuel Farhi

7063: New Economic Geography: an appraisal on the occasion of Paul Krugman's 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics

Jacques Thisse and Masahisa Fujita

7062: Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in EMU: Evidence from an Estimated Model

Söderström, Ulf

7061: Car Ownership and the Labour Market of Ethnic Minorities

Yves Zenou and Pieter Gautier

7060: Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Yves Zenou, Calvó-Armengol, Antoni and Eleonora Patacchini

7059: Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure

Münich, Daniel and Stepan Jurajda

7058: Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals

Beata Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu

7057: Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch: Theory and Evidence

Oded Galor and Quamrul Ashraf

7056: Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks

Patrick Schmitz and Eva Hoppe

7055: Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Juan Dolado and Rodolfo Stucchi

7054: Repeated electoral competition over non-linear income tax schedules

Helmuth Cremer, Georges Casamatta and Philippe De Donder

7053: The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century

Kevin O'Rourke and Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

7052: Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns around the World

Stijn Claessens and Yishay Yafeh

7051: Bank Diversification and Incentives

Alan Morrison and Lóránth, Gyöngyi

7050: Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

Alessandra Casella

7049: Labour Markets in EMU - What has Changed and What Needs to Change

Giuseppe Bertola

7048: Openness, Financial Markets, and Policies: Cross-Country and Dynamic Patterns

Giuseppe Bertola and Anna Lo Prete

7047: International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions

Harry Huizinga, Salvador Barrios, Luc Laeven and Nicodème, Gaëtan

7046: Fundamentals at Odds? The US Current Account Deficit and The Dollar

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

7045: Luddites and the Demographic Transition

Kevin O'Rourke, Alan Taylor and Ahmed Rahman

7044: Fiscal Sustainability and Demographics - Should We Save or Work More?

Torben M Andersen

7043: Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Pascaline Dupas

7042: Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants

Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Claire Crawford, Jonathan Shaw and Barbara Sianesi

7041: Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

7040: Are Boys and Girls Affected Differently When the Household Head Leaves for Good? Evidence from School and Work Choices in Colom

Alice Mesnard and Emla Fitzsimons

7039: Labour Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care

Alessandra Casarico and Alessandro Sommacal

7038: The Design of the University System

Gianni De Fraja and Paola Valbonesi

7037: The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

7036: A Measure for Credibility: Tracking US Monetary Developments

Maria Demertzis, Nicola Viegi and Massimiliano Marcellino

7035: International Emission Permit Markets with Refunding

Hans Gersbach and Ralph Winkler

7034: The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration

Assaf Razin and Alon Cohen

7033: The London Agreement and the Cost of Patenting in Europe

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Malwina Mejer

7032: Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Jonathan Haskel, Eric Bartelsman and Ralf Martin

7031: Development and Growth in Mineral-Rich Countries

Thorvaldur Gylfason

7030: Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability

Charles Manski, Saul Lach and Asher Blass

7029: On the price elasticity of demand for patents

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Gaétan de Rassenfosse

7028: Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change

Andrew Newman and Paola Conconi

7027: Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?

Barry Eichengreen and Katharina Steiner

7026: The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War

Nancy Qian and David Yanagizawa-Drott

7025: Competitive Rational Expectations Equilibria Without Apology

Xavier Vives and Alexander Kovalenkov

7024: Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy

Torsten Persson and David von Below

7023: Information Acquisition During a Descending Auction

Achim Wambach

7022: A Theory of International Crisis Lending and IMF Conditionality

Jonathan Ostry, Olivier Jeanne and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

7021: Why Do Many Resource-Rich Countries Have Negative Genuine Saving? Anticipation of Better Times or Rapacious Rent Seeking

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

7020: Do Cultural Differences Between Contracting Parties Matter? Evidence from Syndicated Bank Loans

Yishay Yafeh and Mariassunta Giannetti

7019: Comparison of Solutions to the Incomplete Markets Model with Aggregate Uncertainty

Wouter Den Haan

7018: Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation

Frederic Robert-Nicoud and Kristian Behrens

7017: The Rise and Fall of Spatial Inequalities in France: a Long-Run Perspective

Jacques Thisse, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Miren Lafourcade and Jean-Claude Toutain

7016: Urbanization and Structural Transformation

Stephen Redding, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

7015: Do Energy Prices Respond to U.S. Macroeconomic News? A Test of the Hypothesis of Predetermined Energy Prices

Lutz Kilian and Clara Vega

7014: What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms

Vincenzo Galasso and Francesco Billari

7013: Free Flows, Limited Diversification: Explaining the Fall and Rise of Stock Market Correlations, 1890-2001

Hans-Joachim Voth and Dennis Quinn

7012: Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Mark Schankerman and Sharon Belenzon

7011: Learning and Microlending

Mikhail Drugov and Rocco Macchiavello

7010: What Drives International Financial Flows? Politics, Institutions and Other Determinants

Elias Papaioannou

7009: Path Forecast Evaluation

Massimiliano Marcellino and Oscar Jorda

7008: Forecasting Exchange Rates with a Large Bayesian VAR

Massimiliano Marcellino, George Kapetanios and Andrea Carriero

7007: A Monthly Indicator of the Euro Area GDP

Massimiliano Marcellino, Tommaso Proietti, Cecilia Frale and Gian Luigi Mazzi

7006: Fear of Floating and Pegging: A Simultaneous Choice Model of De Jure and De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes

Juergen von Hagen and Jizhong Zhou

7005: Complementary Patents and Market Structure

Klaus Schmidt

7004: Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)

Nauro Campos, Menelaos Karanasos and Bin Tan

7003: The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy

Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc

7002: FDI, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence

Jaime de Melo and Artjoms Ivlevs

7001: Inflation Targeting as the New Golden Standard

Nathan Sussman and Avia Spivak

7000: Offshoring, Relocation and the Speed of Convergence in the Enlarged European Union

Kari Alho, Mika Widgrén and Ville Kaitila

6999: Seasonality and the Effect of Advertising on Price

David Genesove and Avi Simhon

6998: Can Deunionization Lead to International Outsourcing?

Kjell Lommerud and Frode Meland

6997: Real Wage Inequality

Enrico Moretti

6996: Capital Flow Bonanzas: An Encompassing View of the Past and Present

Vincent Reinhart and Carmen Reinhart

6995: Modelling Economic Impacts of Alternative International Climate Policy Architectures: A Quantitative and Comparative Assessment

Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, Valentina Bosetti and Massimo Tavoni

6994: Media versus Special Interests

Luigi Zingales, Alexander Dyck and ,

6993: Voting on Parametric Reforms of the Pay-As-You-Go Pension System

Georges Casamatta and Brasil Gondim, João Luis

6992: Monetary Policy and Inflation Modeling in a More Open Economy in South Africa

John Muellbauer and Janine Aron

6991: Do Trade Costs in Goods Market Lead to Home Bias in Equities?

Nicolas Coeurdacier

6990: Optimally Combining Censored and Uncensored Datasets

Paul Devereux and Gautam Tripathi

6989: International Capital Flows under Dispersed Information: Theory and Evidence

Eric van Wincoop and Cédric Tille

6988: Information Gathering and the Hold-Up Problem in a Complete Contracting Framework

Patrick Schmitz

6987: Democratization and Growth

Elias Papaioannou and Gregorios Siourounis

6986: Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization

Elias Papaioannou and Gregorios Siourounis

6985: Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

Peter DeMarzo, Viral Acharya and Ilan Kremer

6984: Imperfect Competition in the Inter-Bank Market for Liquidity as a Rationale for Central Banking

Denis Gromb, Viral Acharya and Tanju Yorulmazer

6983: Negatively Correlated Bandits

Sven Rady and Nicolas Klein

6982: The International Diversification Puzzle is Not as Bad as You Think

Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri

6981: Long Term Persistence

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales and Paola Sapienza

6980: Poverty and Civil War: Revisiting the evidence

Simeon Djankov and Marta Reynal-Querol

6979: Endogenous Protection in General Equilibrium: Estimating Political Weights in the EU

Joseph Francois, Douglas Nelson and Annette Pelkmans-Balaoing

6978: The Spatial Selection of Heterogeneous Firms

Jacques Thisse, Pierre Picard and Toshihiro Okubo

6977: Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms

Marco Pagano, Fausto Panunzi and Andrew Ellul

6976: Economic Implications of Deeper Asian Integration

Joseph Francois and Ganeshan Wignaraja

6975: The Neglected Effects of Demand Characteristics on the Sustainability of Collusion

Andrea Gallice

6974: Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices

Holger Mueller and Xavier Giroud

6973: Delayed Action and Uncertain Targets. How Much Will Climate Policy Cost?

Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, Valentina Bosetti and Massimo Tavoni