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8106: Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China?s Economic Geography

Harry Garretsen, Steven Brakman, Maarten Bosker and Marc Schramm

8105: Mergers, Diversification and Financial Intermediation

Flavio Toxvaerd

8104: Dynamic Limit Pricing

Flavio Toxvaerd

8103: Sequential Exporting

Hector Calvo Pardo, Emanuel Ornelas, Gregory Corcos and Facundo Albornoz

8102: Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization

Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen

8101: US Post-war Monetary Policy: What Caused the Great Moderation?

A. Patrick Minford and Zhirong Ou

8100: Animal Spirits, Persistent Unemployment and the Belief Function

Roger Farmer

8099: Monetary Policy Shocks and Portfolio Choice

Marcel Fratzscher, Roland Straub and Christian Saborowski

8098: Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Jose Tavares, Brück, Tilman and Fernanda Llussá

8097: Who Invests in Home Equity to Exempt Wealth from Bankruptcy?

Harry Huizinga, Reint Gropp, Luc Laeven and Stefano Corradin

8096: On the Welfare State Performance in the European Union

Pierre Pestieau, Sergio Perelman, Mathieu Lefebvre and Timothy Coelli

8095: Import Competition and Exit in Business Services Sectors

Farid Toubal, Pamela Bombarda and Fergal McCann

8094: Macroprudential policy and central bank communication

Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher and Benjamin Born

8093: Identifying the Global Transmission of the 2007-09 Financial Crisis in a GVAR Model

Marcel Fratzscher and Alexander Chudik

8091: Trading on Advice

Roman Inderst, Andreas Hackethal and Steffen Meyer

8090: U.S. Monetary Shocks and Global Stock Prices

Luc Laeven and Hui Tong

8089: Securitization and Compensation in Financial Institutions

Roman Inderst and Sebastian Pfeil

8088: Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

Elias Papaioannou and Stelios Michalopoulos

8087: Adjusting to Capital Account Liberalization

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Gianluca Benigno and Kosuke Aoki

8086: Absorbing A Windfall of Foreign Exchange: Dutch disease dynamics

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Anthony Venables

8085: Don?t Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Andrea Ichino, Nicola Persico and Decio Coviello

8084: Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience

Thierry Magnac, Harris Selod and Laurent Gobillon

8083: Investors' horizons and the Amplification of Market Shocks

Andrew Ellul, Mariassunta Giannetti and Cristina Cella

8082: What Anti-Corruption Policy Can Learn from Theories of Sector Regulation

Antonio Estache and Liam Wren-Lewis

8081: Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D

Görg, Holger, Roger Bandick and Patrik Karpaty

8080: Asset Prices, News Shocks and the Current Account

Marcel Fratzscher and Roland Straub

8079: Do Natural Resources Attract FDI? Evidence from Non-Stationary Sector-Level Data

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Steven Poelhekke

8078: Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg Wright

8077: Which Terror at Which Cost? On the Economic Consequences of Terrorist Attacks

Jose Tavares and Fernanda Llussá

8076: Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry: How do Quality Differences Shape Advertising Strategies?

Georges Siotis, Maria-Angeles de Frutos and Carmine Ornaghi

8075: Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Steffen Huck and Imran Rasul

8074: The Effect of Ethnic Violence on an Export-Oriented Industry

Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria and Christopher Ksoll

8073: Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

8072: Difference in Interim Performance and Risk Taking with Short-Sale Constraints

Suleyman Basak and Dmitry Makarov

8071: A Note on the Relationship between Top Income Shares and the Gini Coefficient

Facundo Alvaredo

8070: Protection and International Sourcing

Emanuel Ornelas and ,

8069: Optimal monetary policy in open economies

Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc

8068: Labor Immobility and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union

Isabel Correia and Adão, Bernardino

8067: Productivity in Cities: Self-Selection and Sorting

Anthony Venables

8066: City seeds. Geography and the origins of the European city system

Eltjo Buringh and Maarten Bosker

8065: Immigration and large banknotes

Andreas Fischer

8064: Government Debt and Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Klaus Adam

8063: The bond yield conundrum: alternative hypotheses and the state of the economy

Sylvester Eijffinger, Ronald Mahieu and Louis Raes

8062: Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions

Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger

8061: Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence

Saul Estrin, Nauro Campos and Eugenio Proto

8060: Competition Between Multiple Asymmetric Networks: Theory and Applications

Steffen Hoernig

8059: Exclusive Nightclubs and Lonely Hearts Columns: Non-monotone Participation in Optional Intermediation

Gianni De Fraja and Sákovics, József

8058: Regulatory Sanctions and Reputational Damage in Financial Markets

Colin Mayer, John Armour and Andrea Polo

8057: Lessons from the 1930s' Great Depression

Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon

8056: Estimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Models Using Benchmark Industry Characteristics

Antonio Ciccone and Elias Papaioannou

8055: Ethnicity and the spread of civil war

Maarten Bosker and Joppe de Ree

8054: Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou, Alberto Bisin and Eleonora Patacchini

8053: Contract Choice, Incentives, and Political Capture in the Public Sector

Marc Ivaldi and Philippe Gagnepain

8052: From Assortative to Dissortative Networks: The Role of Capacity Constraints

Yves Zenou, Michael Koenig and Claudio J. Tessone

8051: Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Mario Padula and Erich Battistin

8050: MODELLING TIME AND MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS

Chryssi Giannitsarou and Alexis Anagnostopoulos

8049: Is Quantity Theory Still Alive?

Pedro Teles and Harald Uhlig

8048: Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Justin Wolfers, Betsey Stevenson and Daniel Sacks

8047: R&D Efficiency and Barriers to Entry: A Two Stage Semi-Parametric DEA Approach

Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke, Astrid Cullmann and Petra Zloczysti

8046: Inflation Targeting and Inflation Persistence in Asia

Stefan Gerlach and Peter Tillmann

8045: The Predictive Information Content of External Imbalances for Exchange Rate Returns: How Much Is It Worth?

Lucio Sarno, Pasquale Della Corte and Giulia Sestieri

8044: The Great Diversification and its Undoing

Xavier Gabaix and Vasco Carvalho

8043: Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy

Sascha Becker, Peter Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich

8042: The cost of contract renegotiation: Evidence from the local public sector

David Martimort, Marc Ivaldi and Philippe Gagnepain

8041: The Impact of the Iraq War on US Consumer Goods Sales in Arab Countries

Peter Davis, Sofronis Clerides and Antonis Michis

8040: Measuring the Impact Factor of Agents within an Organization Using Communication Patterns

Andrea Prat and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta

8039: Labor-Market Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and the Lucas Critique

Yongsung Chang and Frank Schorfheide

8038: Theoretical Notes on Bubbles and the Current Crisis

Jaume Ventura and Martín, Alberto

8037: Fiscal Policy and Labor Markets at Times of Public Debt

Giuseppe Bertola

8036: Living Standards and Mortality since the Middle Ages

Gráda, Cormac Ó and Morgan Kelly

8035: Habit Formation and Fiscal Transmission in Open Economies

Müller, Gernot and Olivier Cardi

8034: The End of the Great Depression 1939-41: Policy Contributions and Fiscal Multipliers

Robert J. Gordon and Robert Krenn

8033: Inequality and Growth: The Neglected Time Dimension

Manuel Oechslin and David Halter

8032: Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead

Jaime de Melo and Nicole Mathys

8031: Corporate Control and Executive Selection

Francesco Lippi and Fabiano Schivardi

8030: Learning the Wealth of Nations

Francisco Buera, Giorgio Primiceri and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

8029: Non Linear Contracting and Endogenous Buyer Power between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Evidence on Food Retailing in

Pierre Dubois and Céline Bonnet

8028: Contingent Capital: The Case for COERCs

Christian Wolff and George G. Pennacch

8027: Are Central Banks' Projections Meaningful?

Galí, Jordi

8026: Does Trade Integration Alter Monetary Policy Transmission?

Müller, Gernot, Tobias Cwik and Maik Wolters

8025: Incentive and Insurance Effects of Tax Financed Unemployment Insurance

Torben M Andersen

8024: Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Zweimüller, Josef, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Andreas Kuhn

8023: Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Bozhong Li

8022: The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika

8021: Round-Robin Tournaments with Effort Constraints

Aner Sela and ,

8020: Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools

Eric Maurin, Marc Gurgand, Nina Guyon and Francesco Avvisati

8019: Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Armin Falk, Christian Zehnder and Stephan Meier

8018: Macroeconomics and the Term Structure

Jonathan Wright and Gürkaynak, Refet

8017: Differences in Portfolios across Countries: Economic Environment versus Household Characteristics

Michael Haliassos and Dimitris Georgarakos

8016: Splitting Tournaments

Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw and Edwin Leuven

8015: Managing Credit Booms and Busts: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach

Olivier Jeanne and Anton Korinek

8014: Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run: the Role of Macroeconomic Volatility

Luca Ricci, Pierpaolo Benigno and Paolo Surico

8013: Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of nations

Gérard Roland and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

8012: The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61

Pierre Yared, Nancy Qian and ,

8011: Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India

Aaditya Mattoo, Beata Javorcik, Jens Arnold and Molly Lipscomb

8010: Adjustment in the Euro Area and Regulation of Product and Labour Markets: An Empirical Assessment

Alessandro Turrini, Gilles Mourre and Pietro Biroli

8009: International Differences in Fiscal Policy During the Global Crisis

Philip Lane and ,

8008: Why the current account may matter in a monetary union: Lessons from the financial crisis in the Euro area

Luigi Spaventa and Francesco Giavazzi

8007: Indian GDP Before 1870: Some Preliminary Estimates and a Comparison with Britain

Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta

8006: The Effects of Foreign Shocks When Interest Rates Are at Zero

Christopher Erceg, Martin Bodenstein and Luca Guerrieri