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7102: Public Support to Clusters: A Firm Level Study of French ?Local Productive Systems?

Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer and Florian Mayneris

7101: The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence

Torsten Persson and Timothy Besley

7100: Capital Structure and Regulation: Do Ownership and Regulatory Independence Matter?

Yossi Spiegel, Bernardo Bortolotti, Laura Rondi and Carlo Cambini

7099: Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects and Markups

Roberto Perotti and Tommaso Monacelli

7098: The Dynamic Effects of Monetary Policy: A Structural Factor Model Approach

Mario Forni and Luca Gambetti

7097: Employment Laws in Developing Countries

Simeon Djankov and Rita Ramalho

7096: Monetary Policy Regimes and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Mikhail Chernov and Ruslan Bikbov

7095: Does the Public Employment Service Affect Search Effort and Outcomes?

Fougère, Denis, Muriel Roger and Jacqueline Pradel

7094: Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Fougère, Denis, Julien Pouget and Sandra Cavaco

7093: Debt Maturity without Commitment

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7092: Naturalization and Employment of Immigrants in France (1968-1999)

Fougère, Denis and Mirna Safi

7091: Financial Market Integration Under EMU

Marco Pagano and Tullio Jappelli

7090: Venture Capital and Innovation: Which is First?

Masako Ueda and Masayuki Hirukawa

7089: Venture Capital and Industrial ''Innovation''

Masako Ueda and Masayuki Hirukawa

7088: Toc 'n' Roll: Bargaining, Service Quality and Specificity in the UK Railway Network

Gianni De Fraja, Piercarlo Zanchettin and Emanuela Michetti

7087: Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends Over a Quarter Century

Anthony Atkinson, John Micklewright, Peter G. Backus, Cathy Pharoah and Sylke Schnepf

7086: One Size Fits All? The Effects of Teacher Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities on Student Achievement

Jonas Vlachos and Grönqvist, Erik

7085: What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts?

Stijn Claessens, Ayhan Kose and Marco Terrones

7084: Tax Contracts and Government Formation

Hans Gersbach and Maik Schneider

7083: Firm Default and Aggregate Fluctuations

Jesper Lindé, Tor Jacobson, Kasper Roszbach and Rikard Kindell

7082: Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms

Riccardo Faini, Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Alessandra Tucci

7081: Transitory Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict

Antonio Ciccone

7080: The Regulation of Entry: A Survey

Simeon Djankov

7079: Agglomeration, Backward and Forward Linkages: Evidence from South Korean Investment in China

Peter Debaere, Joonhyung Lee and Myungho Paik

7078: When Can Central Banks Anchor Expectations? Policy communication and controllability

Andrew Hughes Hallett, Nicola Acocella and Giovanni Di Bartolomeo

7077: Dynamic Merger Review

Michael Whinston and Volker Nocke

7076: A Faith-based Initiative: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate Current Account Adjustment?

Shang-Jin Wei and Menzie Chinn

7075: Worker Replacement

Espen Moen and Guido Menzio

7074: Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services

Joseph Francois, Fillat Castejón, Carmen and Julia Woerz

7073: Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing

James Markusen, Ignatius Horstmann and Yongmin Chen

7072: Rules of Origin, Preferences and Diversification in Apparel: African Exports to the US and to the EU

Jaime de Melo and Alberto Portugal-Perez

7071: Legal Standards, Enforcement and Corruption

Marco Pagano and Giovanni Immordino

7070: Monetary Policy Trade-Offs in an Estimated Open-Economy DSGE Model

Lars Svensson, Jesper Lindé, Malin Adolfson and Stefan Laséen

7069: The U.S. Business Cycle, 1867-1995: A Dynamic Factor Approach

Albrecht Ritschl, Martin Uebele and Samad Sarferaz

7068: An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal

Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley

7067: The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform

Barbara Petrongolo

7066: Public goods, participation constraints, and democracy: A possibility theorem

Grüner, Hans Peter

7065: Dynamic Factor Price Equalization & International Convergence

Joseph Francois and Clinton R. Shiells

7064: Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances

Ricardo Caballero, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Emmanuel Farhi

7063: New Economic Geography: an appraisal on the occasion of Paul Krugman's 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics

Jacques Thisse and Masahisa Fujita

7062: Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in EMU: Evidence from an Estimated Model

Söderström, Ulf

7061: Car Ownership and the Labour Market of Ethnic Minorities

Yves Zenou and Pieter Gautier

7060: Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Yves Zenou, Calvó-Armengol, Antoni and Eleonora Patacchini

7059: Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure

Münich, Daniel and Stepan Jurajda

7058: Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals

Beata Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu

7057: Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch: Theory and Evidence

Oded Galor and Quamrul Ashraf

7056: Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks

Patrick Schmitz and Eva Hoppe

7055: Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Juan Dolado and Rodolfo Stucchi

7054: Repeated electoral competition over non-linear income tax schedules

Helmuth Cremer, Georges Casamatta and Philippe De Donder

7053: The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century

Kevin O'Rourke and Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

7052: Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns around the World

Stijn Claessens and Yishay Yafeh

7051: Bank Diversification and Incentives

Alan Morrison and Lóránth, Gyöngyi

7050: Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

Alessandra Casella

7049: Labour Markets in EMU - What has Changed and What Needs to Change

Giuseppe Bertola

7048: Openness, Financial Markets, and Policies: Cross-Country and Dynamic Patterns

Giuseppe Bertola and Anna Lo Prete

7047: International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions

Harry Huizinga, Salvador Barrios, Luc Laeven and Nicodème, Gaëtan

7046: Fundamentals at Odds? The US Current Account Deficit and The Dollar

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

7045: Luddites and the Demographic Transition

Kevin O'Rourke, Alan Taylor and Ahmed Rahman

7044: Fiscal Sustainability and Demographics - Should We Save or Work More?

Torben M Andersen

7043: Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Pascaline Dupas

7042: Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants

Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Claire Crawford, Jonathan Shaw and Barbara Sianesi

7041: Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

7040: Are Boys and Girls Affected Differently When the Household Head Leaves for Good? Evidence from School and Work Choices in Colom

Alice Mesnard and Emla Fitzsimons

7039: Labour Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care

Alessandra Casarico and Alessandro Sommacal

7038: The Design of the University System

Gianni De Fraja and Paola Valbonesi

7037: The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

7036: A Measure for Credibility: Tracking US Monetary Developments

Maria Demertzis, Nicola Viegi and Massimiliano Marcellino

7035: International Emission Permit Markets with Refunding

Hans Gersbach and Ralph Winkler

7034: The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration

Assaf Razin and Alon Cohen

7033: The London Agreement and the Cost of Patenting in Europe

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Malwina Mejer

7032: Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Jonathan Haskel, Eric Bartelsman and Ralf Martin

7031: Development and Growth in Mineral-Rich Countries

Thorvaldur Gylfason

7030: Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability

Charles Manski, Saul Lach and Asher Blass

7029: On the price elasticity of demand for patents

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Gaétan de Rassenfosse

7028: Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change

Andrew Newman and Paola Conconi

7027: Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?

Barry Eichengreen and Katharina Steiner

7026: The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War

Nancy Qian and David Yanagizawa-Drott

7025: Competitive Rational Expectations Equilibria Without Apology

Xavier Vives and Alexander Kovalenkov

7024: Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy

Torsten Persson and David von Below

7023: Information Acquisition During a Descending Auction

Achim Wambach

7022: A Theory of International Crisis Lending and IMF Conditionality

Jonathan Ostry, Olivier Jeanne and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

7021: Why Do Many Resource-Rich Countries Have Negative Genuine Saving? Anticipation of Better Times or Rapacious Rent Seeking

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

7020: Do Cultural Differences Between Contracting Parties Matter? Evidence from Syndicated Bank Loans

Yishay Yafeh and Mariassunta Giannetti

7019: Comparison of Solutions to the Incomplete Markets Model with Aggregate Uncertainty

Wouter Den Haan

7018: Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation

Frederic Robert-Nicoud and Kristian Behrens

7017: The Rise and Fall of Spatial Inequalities in France: a Long-Run Perspective

Jacques Thisse, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Miren Lafourcade and Jean-Claude Toutain

7016: Urbanization and Structural Transformation

Stephen Redding, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

7015: Do Energy Prices Respond to U.S. Macroeconomic News? A Test of the Hypothesis of Predetermined Energy Prices

Lutz Kilian and Clara Vega

7014: What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms

Vincenzo Galasso and Francesco Billari

7013: Free Flows, Limited Diversification: Explaining the Fall and Rise of Stock Market Correlations, 1890-2001

Hans-Joachim Voth and Dennis Quinn

7012: Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Mark Schankerman and Sharon Belenzon

7011: Learning and Microlending

Mikhail Drugov and Rocco Macchiavello

7010: What Drives International Financial Flows? Politics, Institutions and Other Determinants

Elias Papaioannou

7009: Path Forecast Evaluation

Massimiliano Marcellino and Oscar Jorda

7008: Forecasting Exchange Rates with a Large Bayesian VAR

Massimiliano Marcellino, George Kapetanios and Andrea Carriero

7007: A Monthly Indicator of the Euro Area GDP

Massimiliano Marcellino, Tommaso Proietti, Cecilia Frale and Gian Luigi Mazzi

7006: Fear of Floating and Pegging: A Simultaneous Choice Model of De Jure and De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes

Juergen von Hagen and Jizhong Zhou

7005: Complementary Patents and Market Structure

Klaus Schmidt

7004: Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)

Nauro Campos, Menelaos Karanasos and Bin Tan

7003: The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy

Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc