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5870: Peers at Work

Enrico Moretti and Alexandre Mas

5869: Copayments in the German Health System - Does it Work?

Thomas Bauer, Boris Augurzky and Sandra Schaffner

5868: Money at Low Frequencies

Stefan Gerlach and Katrin Assenmacher

5867: The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Institutions, Human Capital or Constituencies

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

5866: A Common Pool Theory of Deficit Bias Correction

Charles Wyplosz and Signe Krogstrup

5865: Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation

Fougère, Denis, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille and Laurent Davezies

5864: The Cost of Banking Regulation

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales and Paola Sapienza

5863: US Banking Deregulation, Small Businesses and Interstate Insurance of Personal Income

Sørensen, Bent E, Charlotte Ostergaard and Yuliya Demyanyk

5862: Selling to Consumers with Endogenous Types

Jan Boone and Joel Shapiro

5860: New Rates from New Weights

Tamim Bayoumi, Jaewoo Lee and Sarma Jayanthi

5859: The Origin of Utility

Gianni De Fraja

5858: Exploring the Detailed Location Patters of UK Manufacturing Industries using Microgeographic Data

Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

5857: Terms of Trade Shocks in an Intertemporal Model: Should We Worry about the Dutch Disease or Excessive Borrowing?

David Vines and Karlygash Kuralbayeva

5856: Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data

Gilles Duranton, Henry Overman and Laurent Gobillon

5854: A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Bretton Woods, Reversed

Andrew Rose

5853: Productivity, External Balance and Exchange Rates: Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism among G7 Countries

Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc

5852: The International Financial Integration of China and India

Philip Lane and Sergio Schmukler

5851: Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Perceptions and Expectations - The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment

Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Uwe Sunde and David Huffman

5850: Gravity for Dummies and Dummies for Gravity Equations

Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni

5849: Product Market Reform and Innovation in the EU

Rachel Griffith, Helen Simpson and Rupert Harrison

5848: Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour

Thomas Bauer, Mathias Sinning and Göhlmann, Silja

5847: Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labour Markets

Tamim Bayoumi, Bennett Sutton and Andrew J. Swiston

5846: International Trade and Finance under the Two Hegemons: Complementarities in the United Kingdom (1870-1913) and the United Stat

Alan Taylor and Janine Wilson

5845: Learning in Sequential Auctions when Bidders May Acquire Multiple Objects

Ralph Siebert and Karthik Kannan

5844: Multi-Stage Contests with Stochastic Ability

Dan Kovenock and Kai Konrad

5843: The Allocation of European Union Allowances. Lessons, Unifying Themes and General Principles

Carlo Carraro, A Denny Ellerman and Barbara Buchner

5842: Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal

Kenneth Rogoff, Shang-Jin Wei, Eswar Prasad and Ayhan Kose

5841: Multinationals' Productivity Advantage: Scale or Technology

Sourafel Girma and Görg, Holger

5840: Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment

Ramon Marimon and Vincenzo Quadrini

5839: Mr Ricardo's Great Adventure: Estimating Fiscal Multipliers in a Truly Intertemporal Model

Tamim Bayoumi and Silvia Sgherri

5838: Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Sourafel Girma, Görg, Holger and Yundan Gong

5837: Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organization of Policing

Luis Garicano and Paul Heaton

5836: Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective

Emmanuel Saez and Facundo Alvaredo

5835: Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics

Pietro Garibaldi

5834: On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Return to Capital, and the Distribution of Wealth and Welfare

Dirk Krueger and Alexander Ludwig

5833: The 'Names Game': Harnessing Inventors Patent Data for Economic Research

Manuel Trajtenberg, Gil Shiff and Ran Melamed

5832: Housing Market Dynamics and Regional Migration in Britain

John Muellbauer, Anthony Murphy and Gavin Cameron

5831: Review of Monetary Policy in South Africa: 1994-2004

John Muellbauer and Janine Aron

5830: Fiscal Policy in Europe: The Past and Future of EMU Rules from the Perspective of Musgrave and Buchanan

Andre Sapir and Marco Buti

5829: Forecasting Using a Large Number of Predictors: Is Bayesian Regression a Valid Alternative to Principal Components?

Lucrezia Reichlin, Domenico Giannone and Christine De Mol

5828: Why So Many Local Entrepreneurs?

Claudio Michelacci and Olmo Silva

5827: Trading Costs in Early Securities Markets: The Case of the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1880-1910

Thomas Gehrig and Caroline Fohlin

5826: On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation

Laurence Rioux and Javier Ortega

5825: Bigger is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity and Resistance to Technology Adoption

Stephen Parente and Klaus Desmet

5824: Mass Consumption, Exclusion and Unemployment

Zweimüller, Josef and Reto Foellmi

5823: Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers

James Tybout, Wolfgang Keller and Beata Javorcik

5822: Prudence in Bargaining: The Effect of Uncertainty on Bargaining Outcomes

Lucy White

5821: Ex Ante Effects of Ex Post Managerial Ownership

Francesca Cornelli and David Li

5820: Globalization and Risk Sharing

Jaume Ventura and Fernando Broner

5819: Global Private Information in International Equity Markets

Martin Schneider, Rui Albuquerque and ,

5818: CEO Power, Compensation and Governance

Rui Albuquerque and Jianjun Miao

5817: (In)Transparency of Information Acquisition: A Bargaining Experiment

Thomas Gehrig, Güth, Werner and Levínsky, René

5816: Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Rafael Lalive and Alejandra Cattaneo

5815: Unravelling the World-Wide Pollution Haven Effect

Jaime de Melo, Jean-Marie Grether and Nicole Mathys

5814: Buyer Power and Quality Improvements

Michele Polo, Chiara Fumagalli and Pierpaolo Battigalli

5813: Computing Abuse Related Damages in the Case of New Entry: An Illustration for the Directory Enquiry Services Market

Georges Siotis and Maite Martinez Granado

5812: Flat Tax Reforms in the US: A Boon for the Income Poor

Díaz-Giménez, Javier and Josep Pijoan-Mas

5811: Failure to Meet the Reserve Price: The Impact on Returns to Art

Alan Beggs and Kathryn Graddy

5810: Export Promotion Agencies: What Works and What Doesn't

Marcelo Olarreaga, Daniel Lederman and Lucy Payton

5809: From Deficits to Debt and Back: Political Incentives under Numerical Fiscal Rules

Alessandro Turrini, Marco Buti and ,

5808: Does Inflation Targeting Anchor Long-Run Inflation Expectations? Evidence from Long-Term Bond Yields in the US, UK and Sweden

Andrew Levin, Gürkaynak, Refet and Eric Swanson

5807: Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances

Antonio Spilimbergo, Paola Giuliano and Giovanni Tonon

5806: Venture Capital Financing: The Role of Bargaining Power and the Evolution of Informational Asymmetry

Yrjö Koskinen, Michael Rebello and Jun Wang

5805: Crises, What Crises?

Nauro Campos, Cheng Hsiao and Jeffrey Nugent

5804: Multiplicity in General Financial Equilibrium with Portfolio Constraints

Suleyman Basak, Anna Pavlova, David Cass and Juan Manuel Licari

5803: Upstream Competition and Downstream Buyer Power

Howard Smith and John Thanassoulis

5802: When Does Coordination Require Centralization?

Niko Matouschek, Wouter Dessein and Ricardo Alonso

5801: Drift and Breaks in Labour Productivity

Luca Benati

5800: Services Trade Liberalization at the Regional Level: Does Southern and Eastern Africa Stand to Gain from EPA Negotiations?

Marion Jansen

5799: To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

David de la Croix and Matthias Doepke

5798: Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects

Paul Klemperer and Joseph Farrell

5797: On the Relevance of Exchange Rate Regimes for Stabilization Policy

Isabel Correia, Pedro Teles and Adão, Bernardino

5796: Tax Rate Variability and Public Spending as Sources of Inderterminacy

Leonor Modesto, Teresa Lloyd-Braga and Thomas Seegmuller

5795: General Equilibrium and the Emergence of (Non) Market Clearing Trading Institutions

Georg Kirchsteiger and Carlos Alós-Ferrer

5794: Leniency and Whistleblowers in Antitrust

Giancarlo Spagnolo

5793: Fiscal Policy and the Term Structure: Evidence from the Case of Italy in the EMS and the EMU Periods

Carlo Favero and Stefano Giglio

5792: Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia

Costas Meghir, Orazio Attanasio, Alice Mesnard, Emla Fitzsimons, , and Diana Lopez

5791: Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms

Julio Rotemberg

5790: Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Household Expectations of Inflation Based on Micro Consumption Data

Lutz Kilian, Atsushi Inoue and ,

5789: Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behaviour and Success

Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Uwe Sunde and David Huffman

5788: Evaluating the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using a Difference-in-Differences Matching Approach

Sourafel Girma and Görg, Holger

5787: Labour Adjustment: Disentangling Firing and Mobility Costs

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi

5786: The Performance of Italian Family Firms

Carlo Favero, Fausto Panunzi, Stefano Giglio and Maddalena Honorati

5785: Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Andrea Ichino and Enrico Moretti

5784: A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Ravi Kanbur, Nancy Chau and Arnab Basu

5783: Rules of Origin for Preferential Trading Arrangements: Implications for AFTA of EU and US Regimes

Jaime de Melo, Olivier Cadot and Alberto Portugal-Perez

5782: Steepest Ascent Tariff Reforms

Alan Woodland and Pascalis Raimondos

5781: When Anti-Dumping Measures Lead to Increased Market Power: A Case Study of the European Salmon Market

Frode Steen and Frank Asche

5780: Text and Voice: Complements, Substitutes or Both?

Frode Steen, Øystein Foros and Kjetil Andersson

5779: Parallel Imports and Price Controls

Gene Grossman and Edwin Lai

5778: How Progessive is the US Federal Tax System? An Historical and International Perspective

Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

5777: Postponing Retirement: the Political Push of Aging

Vincenzo Galasso

5776: Concentrated Ownership and Labour Relations

Holger Mueller and Thomas Philippon

5775: Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade

Richard Baldwin

5774: Procuring Innovation

Luis Cabral, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Guido Cozzi, Matteo Zanza and Vincenzo Denicolo'

5773: Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Luis Viceira and Jakub W Jurek

5772: How Robust is the New Conventional Wisdom? The Surprising Fragility of the Theoretical Foundations of Inflation Targeting and C

Willem Buiter

5771: The Renminbi's Dollar Peg at the Crossroads

Maurice Obstfeld

5770: Predictability in Financial Markets: What Do Survey Expectations Tell Us?

Philippe Bacchetta, Eric van Wincoop and Elmar Mertens

5769: Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Coporate Taxation

Christian Keuschnigg