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6100: The Political Origin of Pension Funding

Enrico Perotti and Armin Schwienbacher

6099: Is Numérairology the Future of Monetary Economics? Unbundling Numéraire and Medium of Exchange Through a Virtual Currency and

Willem Buiter

6098: Money in Monetary Policy Design under Uncertainty: The Two-Pillar Phillips Curve versus ECB-Style Cross-Checking

Volker Wieland and Guenter Beck

6097: Money in Monetary Policy Design: A Formal Characterization of ECB-Style Cross-Checking

Volker Wieland and Guenter Beck

6096: Endogenous Capacities and Price Competition: The Role of Demand Uncertainty

Natalia Fabra and Maria-Angeles de Frutos

6095: Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms

Francesco Caselli and Nicola Gennaioli

6094: A Generalized Portfolio Approach to Limited Risk Arbitrage: Evidence from the MSCI Global Index Change

Harald Hau

6093: Efficiency Gains and Structural Remedies in Merger Control

Helder Vasconcelos

6092: Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy

Francesco Giavazzi and Carlo Favero

6091: Royalty Stacking in High Tech Industries: Separating Myth from Reality

Jorge Padilla, Anna Layne-Farrar and Damien Geradin

6090: The Political Economy of Public Investment

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Roel Beetsma

6089: Pension systems, Intergenerational Risk Sharing and Inflation

Roel Beetsma and Lans Bovenberg

6088: On the Relationship between Fiscal Plans in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis Based on Real-Time Data

Roel Beetsma and Massimo Giuliodori

6087: Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training

Costas Meghir, Christian Dustmann, Jerome Adda and Jean-Marc Robin

6086: Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Klaus Zimmermann, Amelie Constant and Laura Zimmermann

6085: The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Klaus Zimmermann, Martin Kahanec and Amelie Constant

6084: Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Klaus Zimmermann, Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

6083: Combination Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions

Martin Pesendorfer and Estelle Cantillon

6082: Procurement when Price and Quality Matter

Estelle Cantillon and John Asker

6081: The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications

Dimitri Vayanos and Matthew Rabin

6080: Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

James Markusen and Bridget Strand

6079: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Firm's Life Cycle and Mergers as Efficient Reallocation

Masako Ueda and Kyriakos Frantzeskakis

6078: Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepôt Trade

Shang-Jin Wei, Raymond Fisman and Peter Moustakerski

6077: The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies

Thomas N. Hubbard and Luis Garicano

6076: Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors

Robert Stambaugh and Pástor, Luboš

6075: Research Cycles

Gilles Saint-Paul and Bramoullé, Yann

6074: Investigation of the Costly-Arbitrage Model of Price Formation Around the Ex-Dividend Day

Kristian Rydqvist and Qinglei Dai

6073: Competition vs. Regulation in Mobile Telecommunications

Johan Stennek and Tangerås, Thomas P.

6072: Exclusive Quality - Why Exclusive Distribution May Benefit the TV Viewers

Johan Stennek

6071: Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microfinance

Jonathan Zinman and Dean Karlan

6070: The Economic Impact of Central Bank Transparency: A Survey

Sylvester Eijffinger and Carin Cruijsen

6069: Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico

Alain de Janvry, Pierre Dubois and Elisabeth Sadoulet

6068: Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade

Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin

6067: Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with a Preference for Robustness

Söderström, Ulf, Kai Leitemo and ,

6066: The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Graziella Bertocchi and Chiara Strozzi

6065: On Globalization and the Growth of Governments

Gino Gancia and Paolo Epifani

6064: Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism

Nauro Campos and John Beirne

6063: Anticipated Growth and Business Cycles in Matching Models

Wouter Den Haan and Georg Kaltenbrunner

6062: Solving Heterogeneous-Agent Models with Parameterized Cross-Sectional Distributions

Wouter Den Haan, Yann Algan and Olivier Allais

6061: Entrepreneurial Learning, the IPO Decision, and the Post-IPO Drop in Firm Profitability

Pietro Veronesi, Pástor, Luboš and Lucian Taylor

6060: Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac and Pierre Dubois

6059: Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

Michael Kremer, Rachel Glennerster and Esther Duflo

6058: The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

6057: How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly; Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Jan C. van Ours and Brian Krogh Graversen

6056: The Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skill - Evidence from the Interstate Highway System

Guy Michaels

6055: Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets

Jaume Ventura, Fernando Broner and Martín, Alberto

6054: Grant Support and Exporting Activity

Eric Strobl, Görg, Holger and Michael Henry

6053: When are Supply and Demand Determined Recursively Rather than Simultaneously? Another look at the Fulton Fish Market Data

Kathryn Graddy and Peter Kennedy

6052: Can Production Subsidies Foster Export Activity? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data

Sourafel Girma, Görg, Holger, Yundan Gong and Zhihong Yu

6051: Consumption Smoothing and Income Redistribution

Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger

6050: The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Graziella Bertocchi and Chiara Strozzi

6049: Industry Reallocations in a Globalizing Economy

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giordano Mion and Kristian Behrens

6048: International Profit Shifting within European Multinationals

Harry Huizinga and Luc Laeven

6047: Genetic Tests and Intertemporal Screening in Competitive Insurance Markets

Winand Emons

6046: What Do Independent Directors Know? Evidence from Their Trading

Paola Sapienza and Enrichetta Ravina

6045: Political Connections and Preferential Access to Finance: The Role of Campaign Contributions

Stijn Claessens, Luc Laeven and Erik Feijen

6044: Liquidity and Capital Structure

Ronald Anderson and Andrew Carverhill

6043: A Two-Step Estimator for Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models Based on Kalman Filtering

Lucrezia Reichlin, Catherine Doz and Domenico Giannone

6042: Delegation and Incentives

Helmut Bester and Krähmer, Daniel

6041: Coarse Matching and Price Discrimination

Benny Moldovanu, Heidrun C. Hoppe-Wewetzer and Emre Ozdenoren

6040: Optimal Debt Contracts under Costly Enforcement

Hans Hvide and Tore Leite

6039: Management of Knowledge Workers

Hans Hvide and Eirik Kristiansen

6038: Dynamic Choice, Independence, and Emotions

Frans van Winden and Astrid Hopfensitz

6037: Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

Henrik Horn, Robert Staiger and Giovanni Maggi

6036: Bank Imputed Interest Rates: Unbiased Estimates of Offered Rates?

Evren Örs, and Tara Rice

6035: Optimal external debt and default

Bernardo Guimaraes

6034: Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey

Gerard van den Berg and Annette Bergemann

6033: Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing

Elhanan Helpman and Pol Antrà s

6032: The Geography of Asset Trade and the Euro: Insiders and Outsiders

Philippe Martin and Nicolas Coeurdacier

6031: The Central Banker as a Risk Manager: Estimating the Federal Reserve's Preferences under Greenspan

Lutz Kilian and Simone Manganelli

6030: Pricing to Habits and the Law of One Price

Morten Ravn, Martín Uribe and Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie

6029: Finance and Efficiency: Do Bank Branching Regulations Matter?

Jean Imbs, Viral Acharya and Jason Sturgess

6028: The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization

Guy Michaels

6027: Evaluating An Estimated New Keynesian Small Open Economy Model

Jesper Lindé, Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen and Mattias Villani

6026: The Impact of ISO 9000 Diffusion on Trade and FDI: A New Institutional Analysis

Joseph Clougherty and Michal Grajek

6025: Pricing Patents for Licensing in Standard Setting Organisations: Making Sense of FRAND Commitments

Jorge Padilla, Richard Schmalensee and Anna Layne-Farrar

6024: Loans or Grants

Daniel Cohen, Helmut Reisen and Pierre Jacquet

6023: Technological change and the demand for currency: An analysis with household data

Francesco Lippi and Alessandro Secchi

6022: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Process of Development

Oded Galor and Stelios Michalopoulos

6021: Risk-bearing and Entrepreneurship

Andrew Newman

6020: A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis

6019: Organizing for Synergies

Robert Gertner, Luis Garicano and Wouter Dessein

6018: Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries

Emmanuelle Auriol and Pierre Picard

6017: Family Firms, Paternalism and Labour Relations

Holger Mueller and Thomas Philippon

6016: Two-Part Tariffs versus Linear Pricing Between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Tests on Differentiated Products Markets

Pierre Dubois, Céline Bonnet and Michel Simioni

6015: National Labour Markets, International Factor Mobility and Macroeconomic Instability

Marta Aloi and Teresa Lloyd-Braga

6014: Dictators, Repression and the Median Citizen: An ?Eliminations Model? of Stalin?s Terror (Data from the NKVD Archives)

Paul Gregory, Konstantin Sonin and Philipp Schrôder

6013: Lucas and Anti-Lucas Paradoxes

Daniel Cohen, Marcelo Soto and Orsetta Causa

6012: A Simple Benchmark for Forecasts of Growth and Inflation

Massimiliano Marcellino

6011: Optimal Incentives under Moral Hazard and Heterogeneous Agents: Evidence from Production Contracts Data

Pierre Dubois and Tomislav Vukina

6010: The 'Great Moderation' and the US External Imbalance

Fabrizio Perri and Alessandra Fogli

6009: Competition Fosters Trust

Jean-Robert Tyran, Steffen Huck and Gabriele K. Ruchala

6008: Offshoring and Product Innovation

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Alireza Naghavi

6007: The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Developing Countries: An Application to 38 African Countries

Emmanuelle Auriol and Michael Warlters

6006: From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History

Zvi Eckstein and Maristella Botticini

6005: Direct Evidence of Dividend Tax Clienteles

Kristian Rydqvist, Magnus Dahlquist and Robertsson, Göran

6004: Heterogeneity of Preferences, Limited Commitment and Coalitions: Empirical Evidence on the Limits to Risk Sharing in Rural Paki

Pierre Dubois

6003: Wage Gaps and Job Sorting in African Manufacturing

Marcel Fafchamps, Najy Benhassine and Söderbom, Måns

6002: Subjective Welfare, Isolation and Relative Consumption

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

6001: Isolation and Subjective Welfare

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi