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6471: Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle

Alison Booth and Jan C. van Ours

6470: Recursive Global Games

Flavio Toxvaerd and Chryssi Giannitsarou

6469: A New Core Inflation Indicator for New Zealand

Domenico Giannone and Troy Matheson

6468: Who is Afraid of Political Risk? Multinational Firms and their Choice of Capital Structure

Monika Schnitzer and Iris Kesternich

6467: Task Scheduling and Moral Hazard

Patrick Schmitz and Tymofiy Mylovanov

6466: Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behaviour

Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant

6465: Aid and Trade

Thierry Verdier and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

6464: FDI and Domestic Investment: An Industry-Level View

Monika Schnitzer, Claudia Buch and Christian Arndt

6463: The Sources of Long-term Economic Growth for Turkey, 1880-2005

Alpay Filiztekin, Sumru Altug and Sevket Pamuk

6462: Understanding Trust

Luigi Zingales, Paola Sapienza and Anna Toldra Simats

6461: Pooling Risk Among Countries

Jean Imbs and Paolo Mauro

6460: Intellectual Property Provisions in North-South Trade Agreements

Kamal Saggi

6459: Developing Countries and Enforcement of Trade Agreements: Why Dispute Settlement Is Not Enough

Chad Bown

6458: Multilateral Trade Cooperation: What Next?

David Vines

6457: The Political Economy of Services Trade Liberalization: A Case for International Regulatory Cooperation?

Andre Sapir and Aaditya Mattoo

6456: Convergence and Anchoring of Yield Curves in the Euro Area

Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Gürkaynak, Refet and Eric Swanson

6455: Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility

Raman Uppal, Bernard Dumas and Alexander Kurshev

6454: Interest Rate Signals and Central Bank Transparency

Charles Wyplosz, Pierre Gosselin and ,

6453: Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?

Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou, Alberto Bisin and Eleonora Patacchini

6452: Paying for Performance with Altruistic or Motivated Providers

Luigi Siciliani

6451: Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labour Force Participation Over a Century

Fernández, Raquel

6450: Rules versus Discretion in Loan Rate Setting

Hans Degryse, Steven Ongena and Geraldo Cerqueiro

6449: Why Parents Worry: Initiation into Cannabis Use by Youth and their Educational Attainment

Jan C. van Ours and Jenny Williams

6448: Globalization and Monetary Control

Michael Woodford

6447: Does a 'Two-Pillar Phillips Curve' Justify a Two-Pillar Monetary Policy Strategy?

Michael Woodford

6446: Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?

Holger Mueller and Xavier Giroud

6445: The Expectation Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Very Short-Term Rates: Statistical Tests and Economic Value

Lucio Sarno, Daniel Thornton and Pasquale Della Corte

6444: Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Oded Galor and Quamrul Ashraf

6443: Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

Kjell G Salvanes, Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

6442: Who Prices Locally? Survey Evidence of Swiss Exporters

Matthias Lutz, Andreas Fischer and Wälti, Manuel

6441: Central Bank Independence and Monetary Policymaking Institutions - Past Present and Future

Alex Cukierman

6440: Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Pieter Gautier, Moraga-González, José-Luis and Ronald Wolthoff

6439: The Dynamic Assignment of Heterogenous Objects: A Mechanism Design Approach

Benny Moldovanu and Alex Gershkov

6438: Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country

Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant

6437: Remedy for Now but Prohibit for Tomorrow: The Deterrence Effects of Merger Policy Tools

Jo Seldeslachts, Pedro Barros and Joseph Clougherty

6436: Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia Since World War II

Kym Anderson, Peter J Lloyd and Donald Maclaren

6435: Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations

John van Reenen and Rachel Griffith

6434: Mergers as Auctions

Marc Ivaldi and Jrissy Motis

6433: Pricing, Investments and Mergers with Intertemporal Capacity Constraints

Nikolaos Vettas, Rossitsa Kotseva and Charalambos Christou

6432: Economics of Literary Translation: A Simple Theory and Evidence

Victor Ginsburgh, Sheila Weyers and Shlomo Weber

6431: Competing in Taxes and Investment under Fiscal Equalization

Jean Hindriks, Susana Peralta and Shlomo Weber

6430: Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Pierre Yared

6429: Fiscal Policy, Labour Unions and Monetary Institutions: Their Long Run Impact on Unemployment, Inflation and Welfare

Alex Cukierman and Alberto Dalmazzo

6427: Multiple Growth Regimes ? Insights from Unified Growth Theory

Oded Galor

6426: International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization

Carlo Carraro, Valentina Bosetti, Emanuele Massetti and Massimo Tavoni

6425: Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

Eric Verhoogen and Miguel Urquiola

6424: Modelling Negotiated Decision Making: A Multilateral, Multiple Issues, Non-Cooperative Bargaining Model with Uncertainty

Carlo Carraro and Alessandra Sgobbi

6423: Strategic Complementarities and Optimal Monetary Policy

Andrew Levin, López-Salido, J David and Tack Yun

6422: Serial CEO Incentives and the Structure of Managerial Contracts

Mariassunta Giannetti

6421: Spatial Growth and Industry Age

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

6420: Bonds and Brands: Lessons from the 1820s

Marc Flandreau, Juan Flores Zendejas and Norbert Gaillard

6419: Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth

Gianmarco Ottaviano

6418: Developing Economies and International Investors: Do Investment Promotion Agencies Bring Them Together?

Beata Javorcik and Torfinn Harding

6417: On the Optimal Number of Representatives

Robert Gary-Bobo and Emmanuelle Auriol

6416: Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labour Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?

Guy Laroque and Pierre Cahuc

6415: Reforms, Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Performance in Germany

David Soskice and Wendy Carlin

6414: Institutional Traps and Economic Growth

Mark Gradstein

6413: Footloose Monopolies: Regulating a "National Champion"

Carlo Scarpa and Giacomo Calzolari

6412: The Impact of Organizational Structure and Lending Technology on Banking Competition

Hans Degryse, Steven Ongena and Luc Laeven

6411: Innovation and the Export-productivity Link

Bruno Cassiman and Elena Golovko

6410: Sectoral Agglomeration Economies in a Panel of European Regions

Brülhart, Marius and Nicole Mathys

6409: Labour Market Dynamics and the Business Cycle: Structural Evidence for the United States

Morten Ravn and Saverio Simonelli

6408: On the Long run Determinants of Industry TFP Growth Rates

L. Rachel Ngai and Roberto Samaniego

6407: Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

Jonathan Zinman and Dean Karlan

6406: Social Identity and Preferences over Redistribution

Esteban Klor and ,

6405: Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Fabrizio Zilibotti and Matthias Doepke

6404: Property Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Liam Brunt

6403: Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Pierre Cahuc and Yann Algan

6402: A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition

Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe and Karolina Ekholm

6401: The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova

6400: Earnings Effects of Training Programs

Michael Lechner and Blaise Melly

6399: Understanding the Forward Premium Puzzle: A Microstructure Approach

Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo and Craig Burnside

6398: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Uwe Sunde and David Huffman

6397: Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions and the Role of Trade Costs

Görg, Holger, Miriam Manchin and Alexander Hijzen

6396: The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Graziella Bertocchi

6395: Financial Development and Growth in Direct Firm-Level Comparisons

Stepan Jurajda and Jan Bena

6394: Optimal Portfolio Allocation for Corporate Pension Funds

David Miles and David McCarthy

6393: When are Auctions Best?

Jeremy Bulow and Paul Klemperer

6392: Which Firms Benefit More from Financial Development?

Stepan Jurajda and Jan Bena

6391: Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

6390: Caught On Tape: Institutional Trading, Stock Returns, and Earnings Announcements

John Campbell and Allie Schwartz

6389: A Test of Endogenous Trade Bloc Formation Theory on EU Data

Richard Baldwin and Roland Rieder

6388: Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Doris Weichselbaumer and Zweimüller, Martina

6387: Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Fersterer

6386: Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving

Emmanuel Saez

6385: Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Eric Verhoogen

6384: Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Uwe Sunde and Matteo Cervellati

6383: Exporting, Linkages and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Sourafel Girma, Görg, Holger and ,

6382: Mind the Break! Accounting for Changing Patterns of Growth during Transition

Jan Fidrmuc and Ariane Tichit

6381: Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Pande

6380: Freedom Fries

Guy Michaels and Xiaojia Zhi

6379: On the Design of Global Refunding and Climate Change

Hans Gersbach and Ralph Winkler

6378: Religion and Entrepreneurship

David Audretsch, Werner Bönte and Jagannadha Tamvada

6377: Practice Makes Perfect: On Professional Standards

Sällström, Susanna

6376: Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer

Sällström, Susanna

6375: Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men

Kjell G Salvanes, Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

6374: Institutional Trade Persistence and Long-Term Equity Returns

Andrea Prat, Amil Dasgupta and Michela Verardo

6373: Euro Area Inflation Persistence in an Estimated Nonlinear DSGE Model

Oreste Tristani and Gianni Amisano

6372: Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?

Mary Amiti and John Romalis

6371: Making Autocracy Work

Timothy Besley and Masayuki Kudamatsu