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4218: Optimal Policy with Low-Probability Extreme Events

Lars Svensson

4217: Aggregate Supply and Potential Output

Assaf Razin

4216: Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labour Market

Adriana Kugler and Giovanni Pica

4215: After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998)

Nauro Campos and Dean Jolliffe

4214: Working for God?

Jakob Svensson and Ritva Reinikka

4213: Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Helen Simpson and Peter Schott

4212: The Integration of EU Banking Markets

Jordi Gual

4211: Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

Rohini Pande

4210: Viable Taxation

Kimberley Scharf and Carlo Perroni

4209: Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses

Casper de Vries and C. N. Teulings

4208: Competitive Risk Sharing Contracts with One-Sided Commitment

Harald Uhlig and Dirk Krueger

4207: What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany

Klaus Zimmermann, Amelie Constant and Yochanan Shachmurove

4206: The U-Shaped Investment Curve: Theory and Evidence

Paul Povel, Michael Raith and Sean Cleary

4205: Codes in Organizations

Crémer, Jacques, Andrea Prat and Luis Garicano

4204: Which Countries Export FDI, and How Much?

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Yona Rubinstein

4203: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain: Glass Floors versus Glass Ceilings

Juan Dolado and Vanesa Llorens

4202: Helicopter Money: Irredeemable Fiat Money and the Liquidity Trap

Willem Buiter

4201: Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital and Optimal Education Policy

Pierre Pestieau and Helmuth Cremer

4200: Individual Mortality and Macroeconomic Conditions from Birth to Death

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

4199: Empirical Labour Search: A Survey

Zvi Eckstein and Gerard van den Berg

4198: Does the Market Provide Sufficient Employment Protection?

Ramon Caminal and Roberto Burguet

4197: Should Courts Always Enforce What Contracting Parties Write?

Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli and Andrew Postlewaite

4196: Will China's WTO Accession Worsen Rural Poverty?

Kym Anderson, Elena Ianchovichina and Jikun Huang

4195: Golden Rice and the Looming GMO Trade Debate: Implications for the Poor

Kym Anderson and Chantal Pohl Nielsen

4194: Enterprise Finance and Investment in Listed Hungarian Firms

Enrico Perotti and Luka Vesnaver

4193: Labour Market Frictions, Job Insecurity and the Flexibility of the Employment Relationship

Niko Matouschek, Paolo Ramezzana and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

4192: Do Shareholders vote Strategically? Evidence on the Advisory Role of Annual General Meetings

Kristian Rydqvist and Ernst Maug

4191: A Heliocentric Journey into Germany's Great Depression

Mark Weder

4190: Optimal Dynamic Taxation with Indivisible Labour

Renström, Thomas I, Laura Marsiliani and Parantap Basu

4189: Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence From a Field Experiment

Armin Falk

4188: Political Bargaining in a Federation: Buchanan meets Coase

Mark Gradstein

4187: Inequality, Democracy and the Emergence of Institutions

Mark Gradstein

4186: Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?

Volker Nocke and Lucy White

4185: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative R&D Policy in an Economic Union

Jan I. Haaland and Hans Jarle Kind

4184: Labour and the Market Value of the Firm

Eran Yashiv and Monika Merz

4183: European Unemployment and Turbulence Revisited in a Matching Model

Thomas Sargent and Lars Ljungqvist

4182: Awareness and Stock Market Participation

Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli

4181: Stakeholders, Transparency and Capital Structure

Javier Suarez, Sheridan Titman and Andres Almazan

4180: Confidence Building on Euro Conversion: Theory and Evidence from Currency Options

Enrico Perotti and Joost Driessen

4179: Speed and Quality of Collective Decision-Making, I: Imperfect Information Processing

Grüner, Hans Peter and Elisabeth Schulte

4178: Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Regina Riphahn and Axel Engellandt

4177: Independence and Heterogeneity in Games of Incomplete Information

Akos Valentinyi and Robin Mason

4176: Strategic Financial Innovation in Segmented Markets

Rohit Rahi and Jean-Pierre Zigrand

4175: Efficiency Gains and Myopic Antitrust Authority in a Dynamic Merger Game

Massimo Motta and Helder Vasconcelos

4174: Monopoly Practises and Competitive Behaviour in the French Satellite Pay-TV Market

Michele Cincera and Abdul Noury

4173: Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability

Thomas Cooley, Ramon Marimon and Vincenzo Quadrini

4172: Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Uwe Dulleck and Paul Frijters

4171: Absorptive Capacity, R&D Spillovers and Public Policy

J. Peter Neary and Dermot Leahy

4170: Global Sourcing

Elhanan Helpman and Pol Antrà s

4169: Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC(tm) and EVA

Josef Zechner and Neal Stoughton

4168: India's Trade Policy For Sale: How Much? Who Buys?

Olivier Cadot, Marcelo Olarreaga and Jean-Marie Grether

4167: Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does PSI Help?

Olivier Cadot, Marcelo Olarreaga and José Ansón

4166: Rules of Origin in North-South Preferential Trading Arrangements with an Application to NAFTA

Jaime de Melo, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Olivier Cadot, Antoni Estevadeordal, José Ansón and Bolormaa Tumurchudur

4165: On Model Selection and Markov Switching: A Empirical Examination of Term Structure Models with Regime Shifts

Edward Driffill, Martin Sola, Turalay Kenc and Fabio Spagnolo

4164: Cross-Border Tax Externalities: Are Budget Deficits too Small?

Willem Buiter and Anne Sibert

4163: Conflicts of Interest and Efficient Contracting in IPOs

Alexander Ljungqvist

4162: Competing for Securities Underwriting Mandates: Banking Relationships and Analyst Recommendations

Alexander Ljungqvist, William J Wilhelm and Felicia Marston

4161: How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?

Steven Kaplan, Strömberg, Per and Frederic Martel

4160: Strategic Asset Allocation in a Continuous Time VAR Model

John Campbell, Luis Viceira, Jorge Rodriguez and George Chacko

4159: Inequality and Political Consensus

Grüner, Hans Peter

4158: What Happened to Asian Exports During the Crisis?

Antonio Spilimbergo and Rupa Duttagupta

4157: Does Prestige Matter More than Profits? Evidence from Entrepreneurial Choice

Mariassunta Giannetti and Andrei Simonov

4156: Self-Selection of Migrant Workers: Migration Premium and (no) Returns to Skills

Eran Yashiv

4155: Price Discrimination in Markets for Experts' Services

Rudolf Kerschbamer and Uwe Dulleck

4154: Wage Bargaining with On-The-Job Search: Theory and Evidence

Pierre Cahuc, Jean-Marc Robin and Fabien Postel-Vinay

4153: Efficiency Wages, Urban Unemployment and Housing Consumption

Yves Zenou

4152: Globalization and the Evolution of the Supply Chain: Who Gains and Who Loses?

Jacques Thisse and Masahisa Fujita

4151: Signalling and Commitment: Monetary versus Inflation Targeting

Hans Gersbach and Volker Hahn

4150: Why the Apple Doesn't Fall: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Kjell G Salvanes, Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

4149: Does Responsive Pricing Increase Efficiency? Evidence from Pricing Experiments in an Internet Café

Pascal Courty and Mario Pagliero

4148: Multinational Bank Regulation with Deposit Insurance and Diversification Effects

Alan Morrison and Lóránth, Gyöngyi

4147: Job Tenure, Wages and Technology: A Reassessment Using Matched Worker-Firm Panel Data

Eric Maurin and Pauline Givord

4146: The Impact of Divorce on School Performance: Evidence from France, 1968-2002

Thomas Piketty

4145: Bottled Water - A Case of Pointless Trade?

Mattias Ganslandt and Richard Friberg

4144: Investment, Wages and Ownership During the Transition to a Market Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Firms

, and Jan Svejnar

4143: Ownership and Firm Performance After Large-Scale Privatization

Jan Svejnar and KoÄ enda, Evžen

4142: Objectives and Constraints of Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Small and Medium-Size Enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria

Jan Svejnar, Francesca Pissarides and Miroslav Singer

4141: Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement

Paul Segerstrom

4140: A Theory of North-South Trade and Globalization

Paul Segerstrom and Elias Dinopoulos

4139: Corporate Venture Capital: The Upside of Failure and Competition for Talent

Gilles Chemla and Jean-Etienne de Bettignies

4138: The Origins of Spatial Interaction

Wolfgang Keller and Carol Shiue

4137: Top Indian Incomes, 1956-2000

Thomas Piketty and Abhijit Banerjee

4136: Spatial Inequality in Education and Health Care in China

Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang

4135: The Learning Cost of Interest Rate Reversals

Martin Ellison

4134: Mark-ups, Gaps and the Welfare Costs of Business Fluctuations

Mark Gertler, Galí, Jordi and López-Salido, J David

4133: Opening the Black Box: Structural Factor Models versus Structural VARs

Marco Lippi, Lucrezia Reichlin and Mario Forni

4132: Credit Risk and Dynamic Capital Structure Choice

Josef Zechner and Thomas Dangl

4131: Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders

Winand Emons

4130: High-Tech Clusters, Technology Spillovers and Trade Secret Laws

Andrea Fosfuri and Rønde, Thomas

4129: Globalization and the Empowerment of Talent

Dalia Marin and Thierry Verdier

4128: Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Doris Weichselbaumer

4127: A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Doris Weichselbaumer

4126: Performance of Inflation Targeting Based on Constant Interest Rate Projections

Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra

4125: Information Variables for Monetary Policy in a Small Structural Model of the Euro Area

Francesco Lippi and Stefano Neri

4124: The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis

Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant

4123: A Strategic Interpretation of Legal Transplants

Nuno Garoupa and Anthony Ogus

4122: Monetary Union with Voluntary Participation

Francesco Lippi and William Fuchs

4121: Exchange Rate Policy and Endogenous Price Flexibility

Michael Devereux

4120: Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations

Jan van Ours, Gerard van den Berg and A Gijsbert C van Lomwel

4119: Is Economic Activity in the G7 Synchronized? Common Shocks versus Spillover Effects

Alain Monfort, Giovanni Vitale, Rüffer, Rasmus and Jean-Paul Renne