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5798: Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects

Paul Klemperer and Joseph Farrell

5797: On the Relevance of Exchange Rate Regimes for Stabilization Policy

Isabel Correia, Pedro Teles and Adão, Bernardino

5796: Tax Rate Variability and Public Spending as Sources of Inderterminacy

Leonor Modesto, Teresa Lloyd-Braga and Thomas Seegmuller

5795: General Equilibrium and the Emergence of (Non) Market Clearing Trading Institutions

Georg Kirchsteiger and Carlos Alós-Ferrer

5794: Leniency and Whistleblowers in Antitrust

Giancarlo Spagnolo

5793: Fiscal Policy and the Term Structure: Evidence from the Case of Italy in the EMS and the EMU Periods

Carlo Favero and Stefano Giglio

5792: Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia

Costas Meghir, Orazio Attanasio, Alice Mesnard, Emla Fitzsimons, , and Diana Lopez

5791: Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms

Julio Rotemberg

5790: Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Household Expectations of Inflation Based on Micro Consumption Data

Lutz Kilian, Atsushi Inoue and ,

5789: Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behaviour and Success

Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Uwe Sunde and David Huffman

5788: Evaluating the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using a Difference-in-Differences Matching Approach

Sourafel Girma and Görg, Holger

5787: Labour Adjustment: Disentangling Firing and Mobility Costs

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi

5786: The Performance of Italian Family Firms

Carlo Favero, Fausto Panunzi, Stefano Giglio and Maddalena Honorati

5785: Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Andrea Ichino and Enrico Moretti

5784: A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Ravi Kanbur, Nancy Chau and Arnab Basu

5783: Rules of Origin for Preferential Trading Arrangements: Implications for AFTA of EU and US Regimes

Jaime de Melo, Olivier Cadot and Alberto Portugal-Perez

5782: Steepest Ascent Tariff Reforms

Alan Woodland and Pascalis Raimondos

5781: When Anti-Dumping Measures Lead to Increased Market Power: A Case Study of the European Salmon Market

Frode Steen and Frank Asche

5780: Text and Voice: Complements, Substitutes or Both?

Frode Steen, Øystein Foros and Kjetil Andersson

5779: Parallel Imports and Price Controls

Gene Grossman and Edwin Lai

5778: How Progessive is the US Federal Tax System? An Historical and International Perspective

Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

5777: Postponing Retirement: the Political Push of Aging

Vincenzo Galasso

5776: Concentrated Ownership and Labour Relations

Holger Mueller and Thomas Philippon

5775: Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade

Richard Baldwin

5774: Procuring Innovation

Luis Cabral, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Guido Cozzi, Matteo Zanza and Vincenzo Denicolo'

5773: Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Luis Viceira and Jakub W Jurek

5772: How Robust is the New Conventional Wisdom? The Surprising Fragility of the Theoretical Foundations of Inflation Targeting and C

Willem Buiter

5771: The Renminbi's Dollar Peg at the Crossroads

Maurice Obstfeld

5770: Predictability in Financial Markets: What Do Survey Expectations Tell Us?

Philippe Bacchetta, Eric van Wincoop and Elmar Mertens

5769: Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Coporate Taxation

Christian Keuschnigg

5768: Pride and Prejudice: The Human Side of Incentive Theory

Tore Ellingsen and Magnus Johannesson

5767: Legal vs Ownership Unbundling in Network Industries

Crémer, Jacques, Helmuth Cremer and Philippe De Donder

5766: Foreign Direct Investment and R&D Offshoring

Hans Gersbach and Armin Schmutzler

5765: How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Anne-Célia Disdier and Davide Castellani

5764: Capital Markets, Ownership and Distance

Wendy Carlin, Andrew Charlton and Colin Mayer

5763: Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Guido Friebel and Michael Raith

5762: Do Credible Domestic Institutions Promote Credible International Agreements?

Carlo Perroni and Paola Conconi

5761: Is Partial Tax Harmonization Desirable?

Raymond Riezman, Carlo Perroni and Paola Conconi

5759: Bribes, Lobbying and Development

Jakob Svensson and Bard Harstad

5758: Conditional Allocation of Control Rights in Venture Capital Firms

Klaus Schmidt and Georg Gebhardt

5757: Rebate or Bait? A Model of Regret and Time Inconsistency in Consumer Behaviour

Francesco Drago and Dora Kadar

5756: The Brevity and Violence of Contractions and Expansions

Alisdair McKay

5755: When is FDI a Capital Flow?

Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer

5754: Estimation of Class-Size Effects, Using 'Maimonides' Rule': The Case of French Junior High Schools

Robert Gary-Bobo and Mohamed Badrane Mahjoub

5753: Jostling for Advantage: Licensing and Entry into Patent Portfolio Races

Ralph Siebert and Georg von Graevenitz

5752: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Dietmar Harhoff, Walter Garcia-Fontes, Alfonso Gambardella, Paola Giuri, Myriam Mariani, Alessandra Luzzi, Stefano Brusoni, ,, Dominique Francoz, Aldo Geuna, Raul Gonzales, Karin Hoisl, Christian LeBas, Laura Magazzini, Lionel Nesta, Nomaler, Önder, Neus Palomeras, Parimel Patel and Marzia Romanelli

5751: Legal Costs as Barriers to Trade

Tanguy van Ypersele and Alessandro Turrini

5750: Racial Segregation and Public School Expenditure

Eliana La Ferrara and Angelo Mele

5749: Menu Costs and Asymmetric Price Adjustment

Tore Ellingsen, John Hassler and Richard Friberg

5748: Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives and the Resource Curse

Sergei Guriev, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

5747: Optimal Selling Strategies When Buyers May Have Hard Information

Patrick Schmitz

5746: A Portfolio Theory of International Capital Flows

Michael Devereux and Makoto Saito

5745: Separation of Powers and the Budget Process

Elhanan Helpman and Gene Grossman

5744: Firms Merge in Response to Constraints

Jan Boone

5743: Expectations and Exchange Rate Policy

Charles Engel and Michael Devereux

5742: The Comparative Statics of Collusion Models

Kühn, Kai-Uwe and Michael S Rimler

5741: Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from

Jan C. van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

5740: Monetary Conservatism and Fiscal Policy

Klaus Adam and Roberto Billi

5739: Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Jan C. van Ours and Anne Gielen

5738: Openness, Inequality and Poverty: Endowments Matter

Jaime de Melo, Julien Gourdon and Nicolas Maystre

5737: Does Where You Go Matter? The Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Multinationals' Employment at Home

Peter Debaere, Hongshik Lee and Joonhyung Lee

5736: From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?

Andrea Ichino, Tommaso Nannicini and Fabrizia Mealli

5735: Cognitive Abilities and Portfolio Choice

Tullio Jappelli and Mario Padula

5734: Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves: The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar

Richard Portes, Elias Papaioannou and Gregorios Siourounis

5733: Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Abhinay Muthoo and Marco Francesconi

5732: Love thy Neighbour, Love thy Kin: Strategy and Bias in the Eurovision Song Contest

Thanasis Stengos and Sofronis Clerides

5731: Ranking Journals by Concentration of Author Affiliation: Thirty-Five Years of Finance Research

Kristian Rydqvist and Dennis Lasser

5730: Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giordano Mion and Massimo Del Gatto

5729: A Critical Appraisal of Recent Developments in the Analysis of Foreign Exchange Intervention

Paolo Vitale

5728: Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Michael Lechner and Fröhlich, Markus

5727: Financial Innovations and Macroeconomic Volatility

Vincenzo Quadrini and Urban Jermann

5726: The Effect of Introducing a Non-redundant Derivative on the Volatility of Stock-Market Returns

Raman Uppal and Harjoat Bhamra

5725: Does Information Help Recovering Structural Shocks from Past Observations?

Lucrezia Reichlin and Domenico Giannone

5724: A Quasi Maximum Likelihood Approach for Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models

Lucrezia Reichlin, Catherine Doz and Domenico Giannone

5723: Money Growth, Output Gaps and Inflation at Low and High Frequency: Spectral Estimates for Switzerland

Stefan Gerlach and Katrin Assenmacher

5722: Stock Price Informativeness, Cross-Listings and Investment Decisions

Thomas Gehrig and Thierry Foucault

5721: Foreign Aid and Fiscal Policy

Riccardo Faini

5720: Remittances and the Brain Drain

Riccardo Faini

5719: Where Are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries About the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Perform

Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright

5718: Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies

Luc Laeven and Thorsten Beck

5717: Elections, Contracts and Markets

Hans Gersbach and Müller, Markus

5716: The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks

Silvana Tenreyro and Giovanni Olivei

5715: Development, Democracy and Mass Killings

William Easterly, Roberta Gatti and Sergio Kurlat

5714: The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic

Hans Gersbach and Clive Bell

5713: CEO Compensation and Strategy Inertia

Roman Inderst and Holger Mueller

5712: Bargaining for Bribes: The Role of Institutions

Raymond Fisman and Roberta Gatti

5711: Financing a Portfolio of Projects

Roman Inderst, Holger Mueller and Felix Muennich

5710: Sovereign Debt Restructuring: the Judge, the Vultures and Creditor Rights

Marcus Miller and Dania Thomas

5708: Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

5706: Who Are China's Entrepreneurs?

Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, Simeon Djankov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

5705: Entrepreneurship in China and Russia Compared

Yingyi Qian, Simeon Djankov, Gérard Roland and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

5704: Optimal Choice of Characteristics for a Non-Excludable Good

Isabelle Brocas

5703: Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2015

Thomas Piketty and Nancy Qian

5702: Individual Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

Anna Maria Mayda and Giovanni Facchini

5701: Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation

Mark Schankerman and Michael Noel

5700: Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?

Luigi Zingales, Adair Morse and E Han Kim

5699: Can South-South Trade Liberalisation Stimulate North-South Trade?

Frederic Robert-Nicoud and Marco Fugazza

5698: Democracy and Protectionism

Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor

5697: Financial Structure and Macroeconomic Volatility: Theory and Evidence

Harry Huizinga and Dantao Zhu

5696: Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant