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5361: Forecast Combinations

Allan Timmermann

5360: The Impact of Terrorism Across Industries: An Empirical Study

Esteban Klor and Claude Berrebi

5359: The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children

Ian Walker, Colm Harmon and Orla Doyle

5358: The Evolution of Cooperative Norms: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

5357: Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias

Mark Schaffer, Gary Kleck and Tomislav Kovandzic

5356: Wars, Redistribution and Civilian Federal Expenditures in the US over the Twentieth Century

Alex Cukierman, Roel Beetsma and Massimo Giuliodori

5355: Reconciling the Return Predictability Evidenc: In-Sample Forecasts, Out-of-Sample Forecasts, and Parameter Instability

Martin Lettau and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

5354: Human Capital, the Structure of Production, and Growth

Antonio Ciccone and Elias Papaioannou

5353: Are loyalty-rewarding pricing schemes anti-competitive?

Ramon Caminal and Adina Claici

5352: Non-synchronous Trading and Testing for Market Integration in Central European Emerging Markets

Peter C Schotman and Ania Zalewska

5351: Oppositional Identities and the Labour Market

Yves Zenou, Harminder Battu and MacDonald Mwale

5350: Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect

Andrew Rose

5349: Ireland in EMU: More Shocks, Less Insulation?

Patrick Honohan and Anthony J Leddin

5348: Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of US Trade?

Marco Maffezzoli and Cuñat, Alejandro

5347: Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area

Linda Goldberg, Jose Campa and González Mìnguez, Jose Manuel

5346: The mechanisms of spatial mismatch

Yves Zenou, Harris Selod and Laurent Gobillon

5345: Property Tax and Urban Sprawl. Theory and Implications for U.S. Cities

Yves Zenou and Yan Song

5344: Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing?

Dalia Marin, Andzelika Lorentowicz and Alexander Raubold

5343: Eliciting Demand Information through Cheap Talk: An Argument in Favour of Price Regulations

Johan Lagerlof and Lars Frisell

5342: Renascent Men or Entrepreneurship as a One-Night Stand: Entrepreneurial Intentions Subsequent to Firm Exit

David Audretsch, Erik Stam and Joris Meijaard

5341: Term Structure Estimation with Survey Data on Interest Rate Forecasts

Athanasios Orphanides and Don H. Kim

5340: Jobs and Unemployment in Macroeconomic Theory: A Turbulence Laboratory

Thomas Sargent and Lars Ljungqvist

5339: Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Samuel Bentolila, Andrea Ichino, Ana Fernandes and Sascha Becker

5338: Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children

Samuel Bentolila, Andrea Ichino, Ana Fernandes and Sascha Becker

5337: Do Global Trade Distortions Still Harm Developing Country Farmers?

Kym Anderson and Ernesto Valenzuela

5335: Entrepreneurial Access and Absorption of Knowledge Spillovers: Strategic Board and Managerial Composition for Competitive Advan

David Audretsch and Erik Lehmann

5334: Skills, human capital and the plant productivity gap: UK evidence from matched plant, worker and workforce data

Jonathan Haskel, Denise Hawkes and Sonia Pereira

5333: The Price and Quantity of Residential Land in the United States

Jonathan Heathcote and Morris Davis

5332: Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Emmanuel Saez, Esther Duflo and ,

5331: Crime and Conformism

Yves Zenou and Eleonora Patacchini

5330: Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Performance in the EU and Japan

Juergen von Hagen

5329: Who?s Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player

Yves Zenou, Calvó-Armengol, Antoni and Coralio Ballester

5328: Extending Choice In English Health Care: The implications of the economic evidence

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson

5327: Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Bas Jacobs

5326: The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

David Audretsch, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Zoltan Acs and Bo Carlsson

5325: Dams

Rohini Pande and Esther Duflo

5324: Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Joshua Angrist and Adriana Kugler

5323: The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity

Richard Blundell, Peter Howitt, Philippe Aghion, Rachel Griffith and Susanne Prantl

5322: Precautionary Savings or Working Longer Hours?

Josep Pijoan-Mas

5321: A Political-Economy Theory of Trade Agreements

Rodríguez-Clare, Andres and Giovanni Maggi

5320: The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

5319: Does Information Increase Political Support for Pension Reform?

Guido Tabellini and Tito Boeri

5318: FDI, Allocation of Talents and Differences in Regulation

Rodríguez Mora, José V and Giovanni Pica

5317: The Political Economy of Financial Fragility

Enrico Perotti and Erik Feijen

5316: Should You Take a Lump-Sum or Annuitize? Results from Swiss Pension Funds

Monika Bütler and Federica Teppa

5315: Keeping the Board in the Dark: CEO Compensation and Entrenchment

Roman Inderst and Holger Mueller

5314: The Industrial Organization of Financial Market Information Production

William J Wilhelm and Zhaohui Chen

5313: New-Keynesian or RBC Transmission? The Effects of Fiscal Shocks in Labour Markets

Evi Pappa

5312: Measuring Fiscal Sustainability

Michael Wickens and Vito Polito

5311: The Log of Gravity

João Santos Silva and Silvana Tenreyro

5310: Herding With and Without Payoff Externalities - An Internet Experiment

Mathias Drehmann, Andreas Roider and Jörg Oechssler

5309: Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

5308: Black Sheep and Walls of Silence

Gerd Muehlheusser and Andreas Roider

5307: Volatility and Development

Miklós Koren and Silvana Tenreyro

5306: The Importance of Nontradeable Goods' Prices in Cyclical Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo and Ariel Burstein

5305: Real-Time Model Uncertainty in the United States: the Fed from 1996-2003

Robert Tetlow and Brian Ironside

5304: How Useful is Bagging in Forecasting Economic Time Series? A Case Study of US CPI Inflation

Lutz Kilian and Atsushi Inoue

5303: Identifying the Effects of Firing Restrictions Through Size-Contingent Differences in Regulation

Fabiano Schivardi and Roberto Torrini

5302: Short-Run Italian GDP Forecasting and Real-Time Data

Giuseppe Parigi and Roberto Golinelli

5301: Making A Difference

Patrick Francois

5300: Heterogeneity in Consumer Price Stickiness: A Microeconometric Investigation

Fougère, Denis, , and Patrick Sevestre

5296: The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don?t?) Matter

Hélène Turon and Fabien Postel-Vinay

5295: Pooling-based data interpolation and backdating

Massimiliano Marcellino

5294: Modelling and Forecasting Fiscal Variables for the euro Area

Carlo Favero and Massimiliano Marcellino

5293: Individual Protection Against Property Crime: Decomposing the Effects of Protection Observability

Tanguy van Ypersele and Louis Hotte

5292: Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced?

Patrick Schmitz

5291: Efficiency, Equity and Timing in Voting Mechanisms

Marco Battaglini, Thomas Palfrey and Rebecca Morton

5290: Learning to be an Entrepreneur

Luigi Guiso and Fabiano Schivardi

5289: Optimal Delegation

Niko Matouschek and Ricardo Alonso

5288: Trusting the Stock Market

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales and Paola Sapienza

5287: Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation

Richard Blundell, Costas Meghir, Pierre Chiappori and Thierry Magnac

5286: Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng: The Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries

Diego Puga and Daniel Trefler

5285: Labour Pooling in R&D Intensive Industries

Konrad Stahl, Heiko Gerlach and Rønde, Thomas

5284: Keynesian Economics, Monetary Policy and the Business Cycle - New and Old

Alex Cukierman

5283: Modelling the duration of patent examination at the European Patent Office

Dietmar Harhoff and Stefan Wagner

5282: Fiscal-Monetary Policy Interactions in the Presence of Unionized Labour Markets

Alex Cukierman and Alberto Dalmazzo

5281: Developing Rotten Institutions

Morgan Kelly

5280: Consumption Taxes and Redistribution

Isabel Correia

5279: Model Averaging and Value-at-Risk Based Evaluation of Large Multi-Asset Volatility Models for Risk Management

Mohammad Pesaran and Paolo Zaffaroni

5278: Minorities and Storable Votes

Alessandra Casella, Raymond Riezman and Thomas Palfrey

5277: The EU Deposit Insurance Directive: Does One Size Fit All?

Harry Huizinga

5276: Optimal Procurement When Both Price and Quality Matter

Estelle Cantillon and John Asker

5275: Effects of Acquisitions on Product and Process Innovation and R&D Performance

Stephanie Rosenkranz, Elena Cefis and Utz Weitzel

5274: A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

5273: Income and Democracy

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Pierre Yared

5272: Searching for Non-Monotonic Effects of Fiscal Policy: New Evidence

Francesco Giavazzi, Marco Pagano, Tullio Jappelli and Marina Benedetti

5271: Data Revisions Are Not Well-Behaved

S. Boragan Aruoba

5270: Where Are We Now? Real-Time Estimates of the Macro Economy

Martin Evans

5269: Internet Security, Vulnerability Disclosure and Software Provision

Chaim Fershtman, Neil Gandal and Jay Choi

5268: Forecast Combination and Model Averaging Using Predictive Measures

Jana Eklund and Sune Karlsson

5267: Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Adriana D. Kugler, Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger and Maurice Kugler

5266: Factor Analysis in a New-Keynesian Model

Roger Farmer, Jerome Henry, Massimiliano Marcellino and Andreas Beyer

5265: Russia's Regions: Income Volatility, Labour Mobility and Fiscal Policy

Antonio Spilimbergo and Goohoon Kwon

5264: How Much Market Access in FTAs? Textiles Under NAFTA

Jaime de Melo, Olivier Cadot, Carrère, Céline and Alberto Portugal-Perez

5263: Trade and the Skill-Bias - It's Not How Much, But With Whom You Trade

Traça, Daniel and Pushan Dutt

5262: Foreign Direct Investment and Exports Dynamics with Demand Learning

Nikolaos Vettas and Rossitsa Kotseva

5261: Rational Inattention: A Solution to the Forward Discount Puzzle

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

5260: Do Tariffs Matter for the Extensive Margin of International Trade? An Empirical Analysis

Peter Debaere and Shalah Mostashari

5259: The Empirical Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Bond Yields

Lucio Sarno, Daniel Thornton and Giorgio Valente

5258: Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence

Philippe Aghion, Daron Acemoglu, Fabrizio Zilibotti and Rachel Griffith