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6400: Earnings Effects of Training Programs

Michael Lechner and Blaise Melly

6399: Understanding the Forward Premium Puzzle: A Microstructure Approach

Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo and Craig Burnside

6398: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Uwe Sunde and David Huffman

6397: Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions and the Role of Trade Costs

Görg, Holger, Miriam Manchin and Alexander Hijzen

6396: The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Graziella Bertocchi

6395: Financial Development and Growth in Direct Firm-Level Comparisons

Stepan Jurajda and Jan Bena

6394: Optimal Portfolio Allocation for Corporate Pension Funds

David Miles and David McCarthy

6393: When are Auctions Best?

Jeremy Bulow and Paul Klemperer

6392: Which Firms Benefit More from Financial Development?

Stepan Jurajda and Jan Bena

6391: Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

6390: Caught On Tape: Institutional Trading, Stock Returns, and Earnings Announcements

John Campbell and Allie Schwartz

6389: A Test of Endogenous Trade Bloc Formation Theory on EU Data

Richard Baldwin and Roland Rieder

6388: Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Doris Weichselbaumer and Zweimüller, Martina

6387: Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Fersterer

6386: Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving

Emmanuel Saez

6385: Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Eric Verhoogen

6384: Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Uwe Sunde and Matteo Cervellati

6383: Exporting, Linkages and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Sourafel Girma, Görg, Holger and ,

6382: Mind the Break! Accounting for Changing Patterns of Growth during Transition

Jan Fidrmuc and Ariane Tichit

6381: Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Pande

6380: Freedom Fries

Guy Michaels and Xiaojia Zhi

6379: On the Design of Global Refunding and Climate Change

Hans Gersbach and Ralph Winkler

6378: Religion and Entrepreneurship

David Audretsch, Werner Bönte and Jagannadha Tamvada

6377: Practice Makes Perfect: On Professional Standards

Sällström, Susanna

6376: Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer

Sällström, Susanna

6375: Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men

Kjell G Salvanes, Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

6374: Institutional Trade Persistence and Long-Term Equity Returns

Andrea Prat, Amil Dasgupta and Michela Verardo

6373: Euro Area Inflation Persistence in an Estimated Nonlinear DSGE Model

Oreste Tristani and Gianni Amisano

6372: Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?

Mary Amiti and John Romalis

6371: Making Autocracy Work

Timothy Besley and Masayuki Kudamatsu

6370: The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

Torsten Persson and Timothy Besley

6369: Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

Justin Wolfers and Joseph Price

6368: Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence

Richard Baldwin and James Harrigan

6367: Ever Closer Union or Babylonian Discord? The Official-language Problem in the European Union

Victor Ginsburgh, Jan Fidrmuc and Shlomo Weber

6366: Why Are Capital Income Taxes So High?

Martin Flodén

6365: The Labour Market Effects of Technology Shocks

Fabio Canova, Claudio Michelacci and López-Salido, J David

6364: Unemployment Insurance Design: Inducing Moving and Retraining

John Hassler and Rodríguez Mora, José V

6363: The Returns from Reducing Corruption: Evidence from Education in Uganda

Jakob Svensson and Ritva Reinikka

6362: Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Ravi Kanbur and Indraneel Dasgupta

6361: Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant Level Data

Eric Strobl, Görg, Holger and Aoife Hanley

6360: On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Nauro Campos and Vitaliy Kuzeyev

6359: Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

Fabrizio Zilibotti, Kjetil Storesletten and Zheng Michael Song

6358: The Division of Labour, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing

Guy Michaels

6357: Protocol Design and (De-)Centralization

Grüner, Hans Peter

6356: Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Jeffrey Williamson, Kevin O'Rourke and Rosés, Joan R.

6355: Liquidity Traps, Learning and Stagnation

Seppo Honkapohja, George Evans and Eran Guse

6354: Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence

Kevin O'Rourke, Anna Maria Mayda and Richard Sinnott

6353: Sophistication in Risk Management, Bank Equity, and Stability

Hans Gersbach and Jan Wenzelburger

6352: Gender Roles and Technological Progress

Claudia Olivetti and Stefania Albanesi

6351: Why Are People More Pro-trade Than Pro-migration?

Anna Maria Mayda

6350: NGO Competition and the Markets for Development Donations

Thierry Verdier and Gani Aldashev

6349: Corporate Governance and Collusive Behaviour

Giancarlo Spagnolo and Paolo Buccirossi

6348: Privatization, Entry Regulation and the Decline of Labour's Share of GDP: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Network Industries

Alan Manning, John van Reenen and Ghazala Azmat

6347: Capital Controls and Foreign Investor Subsidies Implicit in South Africa's Dual Exchange Rate System

Eric Schaling, Harry Huizinga and ,

6346: Inflation Dynamics and Trade Openness

John Muellbauer and Janine Aron

6345: History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports

Stephen Redding, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf

6344: Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda

Jakob Svensson and Björkman Nyqvist, Martina

6343: Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization

Shang-Jin Wei and Jiandong Ju

6342: Competing in Organizations: Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Dalia Marin and Thierry Verdier

6341: Power in the Multinational Corporation in Industry Equilibrium

Dalia Marin and Thierry Verdier

6340: Detection of Local Interactions from the Spatial Pattern of Names in France

Thierry Mayer and Keith Head

6339: The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogeneous and How Can It Be Estimated?

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

6338: Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel?s Economists

Dan Ben-David

6337: Is the Euro Sustainable?

Michael Wickens

6336: Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms

Marcello Pagnini, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Massimo Del Gatto

6335: Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players

M. Daniele Paserman

6334: Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Dennis Snower, Christian Merkl and Alessio Brown

6333: Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans

Wolfgang Leininger and Kai Konrad

6332: The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Benjamin Olken and Patrick Barron

6331: Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution Forecast Targeting

Lars Svensson and Noah Williams

6330: Community and Class Antagonism

Ravi Kanbur and Indraneel Dasgupta

6329: Cartel Damages Claims and the Passing-on Defence

Frank Verboven and Theon Van Dijk

6328: Consensual and Conflictual Democratization, Rule of Law, and Development

Uwe Sunde, Piergiuseppe Fortunato and Matteo Cervellati

6327: On the Origins of Border Effects: Insights from the Habsburg Customs Union

Nikolaus Wolf and Max-Stephan Schulze

6326: Bayesian VARs with Large Panels

Lucrezia Reichlin, Domenico Giannone and Marta Banbura

6325: Optimising Indexation Arrangements under Calvo Contracts and their Implications for Monetary Policy

A. Patrick Minford and Vo Phuong Mai Le

6324: Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labour Force Dynamics

Laura Veldkamp and Alessandra Fogli

6323: If Winning Isn't Everything, Why Do They Keep Score? A Structural Empirical Analysis of Dutch Flower Auctions

Gerard van den Berg and Bas van der Klaauw

6322: Incomplete Contracts, the Hold-Up Problem and Asymmetric Information

Patrick Schmitz

6321: A Brief History of Space and Time: the Scope-Year Index as a Patent Value Indicator Based on Families and Renewals

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Nicolas van Zeebroeck

6320: China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies

Jan Svejnar

6319: Fire-sale FDI

Hyun Song Shin, Viral Acharya and Tanju Yorulmazer

6318: Stiglitz Versus the IMF on the Asian Debt Crisis: An Intertemporal Model with Real Exchange Rate Overshooting

David Vines, Tatiana Kirsanova and Gordon Menzies

6317: Safety Nets Within Banks

Grüner, Hans Peter and Mike Felgenhauer

6316: Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames

Güell, Maia, Rodríguez Mora, José V and Chris Telmer

6315: Unemployment in East and West Europe

Jan Svejnar and Münich, Daniel

6314: The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: the US-EU Experience

Claudio Michelacci and Josep Pijoan-Mas

6313: Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries

Marco Pagano, Tullio Jappelli and Martin Brown

6312: Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate

Andrew Rose and Saktiandi Supaat

6311: Welfare Effects of Financial Integration

Philipp Hartmann, Falko Fecht and Grüner, Hans Peter

6310: Credit Constraints and Stock Price Volatility

Assaf Razin, Galina Hale and Hui Tong

6309: Fire Sales, Foreign Entry and Bank Liquidity

Hyun Song Shin, Viral Acharya and Tanju Yorulmazer

6308: The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms

Thierry Mayer, Benjamin Nefussi and Isabelle Mejean

6307: Bankruptcy Codes and Innovation

Viral Acharya and Krishnamurthy Subramanian

6306: What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

6305: Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children

Olivier Jeanne, Marco Cipriani and Paola Giuliano

6304: The Ex Ante Auction Model for the Control of Market Power in Standard Setting Organizations

Jorge Padilla, Anna Layne-Farrar and Damien Geradin

6303: Oil Shocks and External Balances

Lutz Kilian, Alessandro Rebucci and Nikola Spatafora

6302: The Role of Immigration in Sustaining the Social Security System: A Political Economy Approach

Assaf Razin and Edith Sand

6301: International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility

Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel