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6701: Consumer Confidence and Elections

Gikas Hardouvelis and Dimitrios Thomakos

6700: Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment

Paolo Pesenti, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir, Selim Elekdag and Rene Lalonde

6699: Efficiency Gain from Ownership Deregulation: Estimates for the Radio Industry

Howard Smith and Catherine O'Gorman

6698: Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth

Karin Thorburn and Karen Fisher-Vanden

6697: Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-taking

Viral Acharya, Yakov Amihud and Lubomir P. Litov

6696: Debt Stabilisation Bias and the Taylor Principle: Optimal Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Government Debt and Inflation Pe

David Vines and Sven Jari Stehn

6695: One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation

Micael Castanheira and Laurent Bouton

6694: Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns

Dimitri Vayanos and Robin Greenwood

6693: Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and International Reserves

Maurice Obstfeld, Alan Taylor and Jay Shambaugh

6692: Fiscal Adjustment to Cyclical Developments in the OECD: An Empirical Analysis Based on Real-Time Data

Roel Beetsma and Massimo Giuliodori

6691: Rain and the Democratic Window of Opportunity

Antonio Ciccone and Brückner, Markus

6690: Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Nauro Campos and Yuko Kinoshita

6689: Upcoding and Optimal Auditing in Health Care (or The economics of DRG creep)

Michael Kuhn and Luigi Siciliani

6688: How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children; Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan C. van Ours and Justus Veenman

6687: Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects

Luis Cabral

6686: The Intranational Business Cycle: Evidence from Japan

Michael Artis and Toshihiro Okubo

6685: Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe?s Exit from Gold, January 1928- December 1936

Nikolaus Wolf

6684: A Note on The Drivers of R&D Intensity

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Azèle Mathieu

6683: Credit Booms and Lending Standards: Evidence From The Subprime Mortgage Market

Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Luc Laeven

6682: Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna and Stephen Ryan

6681: The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Christopher Pissarides and Barbara Petrongolo

6680: Wealth inequality and household structure: US vs. Spain

Olympia Bover

6679: Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain

Robert Hart and Paul Devereux

6678: Trading Population for Productivity: Theory and Evidence

Oded Galor and Andrew Mountford

6677: Information Acquisition and Transparency in Committees

Hans Gersbach and Volker Hahn

6676: Does access to credit improve productivity? Evidence from Bulgarian firms

Inessa Love and Roberta Gatti

6675: Immigrant Selection in The OECD

Timothy Hatton and Michèle Belot

6674: Incomplete Cost Pass-Through Under Deep Habits

Morten Ravn, Martín Uribe and Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie

6673: The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated U.S. Tax Policy Shocks: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Morten Ravn and Karel Mertens

6672: Widening and Deepening: Reforming the European Union

Berglöf, Erik, Guido Friebel, Mike Burkart and Elena Paltseva

6671: Interest Group Politics in a Federation

Sergei Guriev, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Evgeny Yakovlev

6670: Incentives Versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw, Edwin Leuven and Joep Sonnemans

6669: Does Competition Reduce the Risk of Bank Failure?

Rafael Repullo and David Martinez-Miera

6668: Procrastination and Impatience

Luigi Zingales, Paola Sapienza and Ernesto Reuben

6667: More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan

Nancy Qian, Ming-Jen Lin and Jin-Tan Liu

6666: The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited

Shoshana Neuman, Brañas-Garza, Pablo and García-Muñoz, Teresa

6665: Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Klaus Zimmermann and Rolf Ketzler

6664: Advance-Purchase Discounts as a Price Discrimination Device

Volker Nocke and Martin Peitz

6663: Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies

Pascal Courty and Mario Pagliero

6662: Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks?

Pascal Courty and Mario Pagliero

6661: Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac and Pierre Dubois

6660: Varieties and the Transfer Problem: the Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment

Paolo Pesenti, Philippe Martin and Giancarlo Corsetti

6659: Civil Wars and International Trade

Philippe Martin and Thierry Mayer

6658: Creditor Protection, Contagion, and Stock Market Price Volatility

Assaf Razin, Galina Hale and Hui Tong

6657: Social Capital as Good Culture

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales and Paola Sapienza

6656: Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Klaus Zimmermann, Amelie Constant and Liliya Gataullina

6655: Where Did All The Borrowing Go? A Forensic Analysis of the U.S. External Position

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Philip Lane

6654: Should the Euro Area be Run as a Closed Economy?

Francesco Giavazzi and Carlo Favero

6653: Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures Under Asymmetric Information About Infection Risk

Paul Seabright and Alice Mesnard

6652: Banking Permits: Economic Efficiency and Distributional Effects

Carlo Carraro, Valentina Bosetti and Emanuele Massetti

6651: Migration and The Equilibrium Prevalence of Infectious Diseases

Paul Seabright and Alice Mesnard

6650: Monetary Factors and Inflation in Japan

Stefan Gerlach, Katrin Assenmacher and Toshitaka Sekine

6649: How Does Liquidity Affect Government Bond Yields?

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, Marco Pagano and Carlo Favero

6648: Higher Order Expectations in Asset Pricing

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

6647: The Role of Portfolio Constraints in the International Propagation of Shocks

Roberto Rigobon and Anna Pavlova

6646: Tax-Adjusted Discount Rates with Investor Taxes and Risky Debt

Ian Cooper and Kjell Nyborg

6645: Rhineland Exit?

C. N. Teulings and Lans Bovenberg

6644: Strikes as the 'Tip of the Iceberg' in a Theory of Firm-Union Cooperation

Robert Gary-Bobo and Touria Jaaidane

6643: Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labour Markets on Hospital Performance

John van Reenen, Carol Propper and ,

6642: Sui Generis EMU

Barry Eichengreen

6641: Robust Learning Stability with Operational Monetary Policy Rules

Seppo Honkapohja and George Evans

6640: Expectations, Learning and Monetary Policy: An Overview of Recent Rersearch

Seppo Honkapohja and George Evans

6639: Economic, Political, and Institutional Prerequisites for Monetary Union Among the Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council

Willem Buiter

6638: Exchange Rates and Fundamentals: Footloose or Evolving Relationship?

Lucio Sarno and Giorgio Valente

6637: Entry Barriers in Retail Trade

Fabiano Schivardi and Eliana Viviano

6636: R&D and Productivity: Estimating Production Functions when Productivity is Endogenous

Jordi Jaumandreu and Ulrich Doraszelski

6635: Does Interbank Borrowing Reduce Bank Risk?

Juergen von Hagen and Valeriya Dinger

6634: From Cities to Productivity and Growth in Developing Countries

Gilles Duranton

6633: Urban Growth and Transportation

Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner

6632: On the Sources of the Great Moderation

Galí, Jordi and Luca Gambetti

6631: The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks: Why are the 2000s so Different from the 1970s?

Olivier Blanchard and Galí, Jordi

6630: Moral Hazard, Collateral and Liquidity

Viral Acharya and S Viswanathan

6629: Unravelling Secularization: an International Study

Shoshana Neuman, Brañas-Garza, Pablo and García-Muñoz, Teresa

6628: The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Yishay Maoz, Moshe Hazan and Matthias Doepke

6627: Corporate Governance Externalities

Viral Acharya and Paolo Volpin

6626: Investment Incentives and Auction Design in Electricity Markets

Nils-Henrik von der Fehr, Natalia Fabra and Maria-Angeles de Frutos

6625: The Resistible Decline of European Science

Jacques Thisse, Luc Bauwens and Giordano Mion

6624: Consumer Networks and Firm Reputation: A First Experimental Investigation

Jean-Robert Tyran, Steffen Huck and ,

6623: Learning and Smooth Stopping

Robin Mason and Välimäki, Juuso

6622: More Insiders, More Insider Trading: Evidence from Private Equity Buyouts

Viral Acharya and Tim Johnson

6621: Punishment Without Crime? Prison as a Worker-Discipline Device

Marcus Miller and Jennifer Smith

6620: Constrained Monopoly Pricing with Random Participation

Eugenio Miravete and Gabriel Basaluzzo

6619: Liquidity Risk and Correlation Risk: A Clinical Study of the General Motors and Ford Downgrade of May 2005

Stephen Schaefer, Viral Acharya and Yili Zhang

6618: Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Ana Rute Cardoso

6617: Declining Home Bias and the Increase in International Risk Sharing: Lessons from European Integration

Michael Artis and Mathias Hoffmann

6616: Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment In the Health-Care Sector

Shoshana Neuman and Einat Neuman

6615: Optimal Taxation with Joint Production of Agriculture and Rural Amenities

Gordon Rausser, Leo Simon and Georges Casamatta

6614: What Makes a Successful Export?

Görg, Holger, Richard Kneller and Muraközy, Balázs

6613: What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

6612: Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?

Shoshana Neuman and Einat Neuman

6611: The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: A Reconstruction of Spain's Fiscal Position, 1560-1598

Hans-Joachim Voth and Mauricio Drelichman

6610: Deregulation of Business

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Evgeny Yakovlev

6609: Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration

Ana Rute Cardoso, Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman

6608: Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences for a Health-Care Service

Shoshana Neuman and Einat Neuman

6607: A Simple Model of The Juggernaut Effect of Trade Liberalisation

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

6606: Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?

Brülhart, Marius, Mario Jametti and Kurt Schmidheiny

6605: Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy

Christian Keuschnigg and Evelyn Ribi

6604: Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain

Juan Dolado, Samuel Bentolila and Juan F Jimeno

6603: Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries

Irina Denisova, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Timothy Frye and Markus Eller

6602: Private School Quality in Italy

Giuseppe Bertola, Daniele Checchi and Veruska Oppedisano