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7958: Creditor Rights and Debt Allocation within Multinationals

Monika Schnitzer and ,

7957: Europe?s Great Depression: Coordination Failure after the First World War

Nikolaus Wolf

7956: Trade Crisis? What Trade Crisis?

Giordano Mion, Kristian Behrens and Gregory Corcos

7955: Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions

Nicola Gennaioli, Stefano Rossi and Martín, Alberto

7954: The Cross-Country Incidence of the Global Crisis

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Philip Lane

7953: Winners and Losers in Housing Markets

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Alexander Michaelides and Kalin Nikolov

7952: Foreign Currency Loans - Demand or Supply Driven?

Steven Ongena, Martin Brown and Karolin Kirschenmann

7951: Monetary transmission in low income countries

Peter Montiel, Antonio Spilimbergo and Prachi Mishra

7950: Hierarchical Growth: Basic and Applied Research

Hans Gersbach, Gerhard Sorger and Christian Amon

7949: Public and Private Learning from Prices, Strategic Substitutability and Complementarity, and Equilibrium Multiplicity

Xavier Vives and Carolina Manzano

7948: Endogenous Spatial Differentiation with Vertical Contracting

Nikolaos Vettas and Frago Kourandi

7947: Monopolistic Competition: Beyond the CES

Jacques Thisse, Evgeny Zhelobodko and Sergey Kokovin

7946: Terrorism Networks and Trade: Does the Neighbor Hurt?

Thierry Verdier, José De Sousa and Daniel Mirza

7945: Income Distribution and Housing Prices: An Assignment Model Approach

Määttänen, Niku and Terviö, Marko

7944: Central Banks and the Financial System

Francesco Giavazzi and Alberto Giovannini

7943: A Unifying Approach to the Empirical Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models

Enrique Sentana and Peñaranda, Francisco

7942: Insurance Search and Switching Behavior

Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw and Jonneke Bolhaar

7941: Quantifying the Distortionary Fiscal Cost of ?The Bailout?

Alexander Michaelides and Francisco Gomes

7940: How Deep is the Annuity Market Participation Puzzle?

Alexander Michaelides, Paula Lopes-Cocco and Joachim Inkmann

7939: Non-homothetic preferences, parallel imports and the extensive margin of international trade

Josef Zweimueller, Reto Foellmi and Christian Hepenstrick

7938: Signaling in Tender Offer Games

Mike Burkart and Samuel Lee

7937: Public Funding of Charities and Competitive Charity Selection

Kimberley Scharf

7936: Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain

Juan Dolado, Raquel Vegas and Sara De La Rica

7935: Short and Long Interest Rate Targets

Isabel Correia, Pedro Teles and Bernardino Adao

7934: Institutional Investors as Minority Shareholders: Do They Matter When Ownership Is Concentrated?

Yishay Yafeh and Assaf Hamdani

7933: The Zero Lower Bound, ECB Interest Rate Policy and the Financial Crisis

Stefan Gerlach and John Lewis

7932: Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data

Fougère, Denis, Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi and Erwan Gautier

7931: Fiscal Policy in an Expectations Driven Liquidity Trap

Morten Ravn and Karel Mertens

7930: A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of the Tax Multiplier

Martín Uribe, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Ryan Chahrour

7929: Interaction Effects in Econometrics

Sørensen, Bent E and Hatice Balli

7928: Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?

John van Reenen, Margaret Slade, Sergey Lychagin and Joris Pinkse

7927: Intra-firm Trade and Product Contractibility

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter Schott and J. Jensen

7926: Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions

Rodney Ludema, Anna Maria Mayda and Prachi Mishra

7925: Maternal Health and the Baby Boom

Claudia Olivetti and Stefania Albanesi

7924: Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

Jan C. van Ours and Bas van der Klaauw

7923: Product adjustments: A firm-level analysis of the impact of a real exchange rate shock

Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe and Andreas Moxnes

7922: Productive cities: Sorting, selection and agglomeration

Gilles Duranton, Frederic Robert-Nicoud and Kristian Behrens

7921: The quality factor in patent systems

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

7920: Self-Fulfilling Risk Panics

Philippe Bacchetta, Eric van Wincoop and Cédric Tille

7919: Employment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionised firms

Kjell Lommerud

7918: Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006

Alison Booth and Huong Thu Le

7917: The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?

Jose Tavares and Paulo Fernando Júlio

7916: Innovation, antidumping, and retaliation

Hylke Vandenbussche, Huasheng Song and ,

7915: Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: Relationship banking and conditionality lending in the London market for government debt, 1815-1913

Marc Flandreau and Juan Flores Zendejas

7914: Optimal Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard When the Agent is Free to Leave

Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider and Florian Englmaier

7913: Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Alison Booth, , and Elena Varganova

7912: Modes of Delivery in Services

Joseph Francois and Elisabeth Christen

7911: A Dynamic Model of Housing Demand: Estimation and Policy Implications

Patrick Bajari, Dirk Krueger, , and Daniel Miller

7910: Communication in Federal Politics: Universalism, Policy Uniformity, and the Optimal Allocation of Fiscal Authority

Anke Kessler

7909: The Spanish Crisis: Background and Policy Challenges

Javier Suarez

7908: The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities

Jonas Vlachos, Öckert, Björn and Grönqvist, Erik

7907: Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Sendhil Mullainathan, Jonathan Zinman, Dean Karlan and Margaret McConnell

7906: Bank Bailout Menus

Sudipto Bhattacharya and Kjell Nyborg

7905: Money and Liquidity in Financial Markets

Kjell Nyborg and Östberg, Per

7904: Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?

Richard Baldwin and Dany Jaimovich

7903: Are banks too big to fail or too big to save? International evidence from equity prices and CDS spreads

Harry Huizinga and Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli

7902: The Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis: Real Exchange Rates and their Long-Run Equilibrium

Alan Taylor, Oscar Jorda and Yanping Chong

7901: Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the Crisis: An Update

Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel

7900: Screening with an Approximate Type Space

Andrea Prat and Madarász, Kristóf

7899: Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries

Andrew Newman, Paola Conconi, Laura Alfaro and Harald Fadinger

7898: Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years

John van Reenen, Guy Michaels and Ashwini Natraj

7897: Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices

Pietro Veronesi and Pástor, Luboš

7896: Skewness in Stock Returns:Reconciling the Evidence on Firm versus Aggregate Returns

Rui Albuquerque

7895: Does aggregating forecasts by CPI component improve inflation forecast accuracy in South Africa?

John Muellbauer and Janine Aron

7894: House Prices and Risk Sharing

Sørensen, Bent E, Maria Luengo-Prado and Dmytro Hryshko

7893: Spot and Forward Volatility in Foreign Exchange

Lucio Sarno, Pasquale Della Corte and Ilias Tsiakas

7892: Monetary Policy Mistakes and the Evolution of Inflation Expectations

Athanasios Orphanides and John Williams

7891: Monetary Policy Lessons from the Crisis

Athanasios Orphanides

7890: School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania

Marco Manacorda and Florence Kondylis

7889: The Cost of Grade Retention

Marco Manacorda

7888: The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Alan Manning, Jonathan Wadsworth and Marco Manacorda

7887: Average-based versus High- and Low-Impact Indicators for the Evaluation of Scientific Distributions

Javier Ruiz-Castillo, Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio and Pedro Albarran

7886: High- and Low-Impact Citation Measures: Empirical Applications

Javier Ruiz-Castillo, Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio and Pedro Albarran

7885: Why is there a home bias? A case study of Wine

Richard Friberg, Robert W Paterson and Andrew D Richardson

7884: Market freedom and the global recession

Lucrezia Reichlin, Domenico Giannone and Michele Lenza

7883: Nowcasting

Lucrezia Reichlin, Domenico Giannone and Bańbura, Marta

7882: Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Marco Manacorda and Mariano Bosch

7881: Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training

Jan C. van Ours and Matteo Picchio

7880: The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

John van Reenen, Carol Propper, Nicholas Bloom and Stephan Seiler

7879: The role of fees in patent systems: Theory and evidence

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Gaétan de Rassenfosse

7878: Business Cycles With A Common Trend in Neutral and Investment-Specific Productivity

Martín Uribe and Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

7877: New methods for forecasting inflation, applied to the US

John Muellbauer and Janine Aron

7876: Credit, Housing Collateral and Consumption: Evidence from the UK, Japan and the US

John Muellbauer, Janine Aron, John Duca, Keiko Murata and Anthony Murphy

7875: Resource rents; when to spend and how to save

Anthony Venables

7874: Caps in Sequential Contests

Aner Sela and Reut Megidish

7873: Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying-seconds" of international football matches

Jan C. van Ours and Martin van Tuijl

7872: Revisiting Overborrowing and its Policy Implications

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

7871: Health insurance competition: the effect of group contracts

Jan Boone, Rudy Douven, , and Ilaria Mosca

7870: The Diversity of Forecasts from Macroeconomic Models of the U.S. Economy

Volker Wieland and Maik Wolters

7869: Multinationals, Technological Incompatibilities, and Spillovers

Thibault Fally and Juan Carluccio

7868: Global Sourcing under Imperfect Capital Markets

Thibault Fally and Juan Carluccio

7867: Wage Bargaining and the Boundaries of the Multinational Firm

Maria Bas and Juan Carluccio

7866: Foreign Entry and Spillovers with Technological Incompatibilities in the Supply Chain

Thibault Fally and Juan Carluccio

7865: Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data

Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke, Petra Zloczysti and Frauke Braun

7864: The Optimal Rate of Inflation

Martín Uribe and Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

7863: On the Strategic Use of Attention Grabbers

Ran Spiegler and Kfir Eliaz

7862: The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

John van Reenen, Carol Propper, Nicholas Bloom and Stephan Seiler

7861: Optimal price setting with observation and menu costs

Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi and Luigi Paciello

7860: Debt-sensitive Majority Rules

Hans Gersbach, Oliver Grimm and Johannes Gerd Becker

7859: Fiscal Policy and the Current Account

Fatás, Antonio, Paolo Mauro, S. M. Abbas, Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe and Ricardo Velloso