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2813: Loss Aversion and Seller Behaviour: Evidence from the Housing Market

David Genesove and Christopher Mayer

2812: Labour Market Efficiency, Wages and Employment when Search Frictions Interact with Intrafirm Bargaining

Pierre Cahuc and Etienne Wasmer

2811: Lending Booms: Latin America and the World

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Oscar Landerretche and Valdés, Rodrigo

2810: The European UMTS/IMT-2000 Licence Auctions

Philippe Jehiel and Benny Moldovanu

2809: After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800

Jeffrey Williamson and Kevin O'Rourke

2808: Central Bank Reform, Liberalization and Inflation in Transition Economies - An International Perspective

Alex Cukierman, Geoffrey Miller and Bilin Neyapti

2807: Monetary Policy Rules and the Exchange Rate

Pierpaolo Benigno and Gianluca Benigno

2806: Improving Nurse Retention in the National Health Service in England: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Melanie Ward-Warmedinger and Michael Shields

2805: Expectations and the Stability Problem for Optimal Monetary Policies

Seppo Honkapohja and George Evans

2804: Are Judges Biased by Labour Market Conditions? The Selection of Firing Litigations for Trial in an Italian Firm

Andrea Ichino, Michele Polo and Enrico Rettore

2803: First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think

Christoph Schmidt and Michael Fertig

2802: Essential Facility Financing and Market Structure

Jean Tirole and Bernard Caillaud

2801: The Comovements between Real Activity and Prices in the G7

Wouter Den Haan and Steven Sumner

2800: Location of Vertically Linked Industries: Agglomeration versus Comparative Advantage

Mary Amiti

2799: Delegation and Polarization of Platforms in Political Competition

Faulí-Oller, Ramon, Efe Ok and Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio

2798: Between-Group Competition In The Labour Market And The Rising Returns To Skill: US And France 1964-2000

Etienne Wasmer

2797: Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Yves Zenou and Calvó-Armengol, Antoni

2796: Intra-Household Transfers and the Part-Time Work of Children

John Micklewright and Christian Dustmann

2795: Micro-Modelling of Retirement in Belgium

Sergio Perelman, Alain Jousten and Arnaud Dellis

2794: Mutual Fund Tournament: Risk Taking Incentives Induced By Ranking Objectives

Frederic Palomino, Andrea Prat and Alexei Goriaev

2793: Insurance Within the Firm

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi

2792: Labour Mobility, Redistribution And Pensions Reform In Europe

Pierre Pestieau and Alain Jousten

2791: Greek Banking at the Dawn of the New Millennium

Barry Eichengreen and Heather Gibson

2790: Fairness, Incentives and Contractual Incompleteness

Klaus Schmidt, Ernst Fehr and Alexander Klein

2789: Universal Service and Entry: the Role of Uniform Pricing and Coverage Constraints

Pedro Barros, Tommaso Valletti and Steffen Hoernig

2788: On the Political Complementarity Between Health Care and Social Security

Vincenzo Galasso and Carlos Bethencourt

2787: Tax Incentives and the Demand for Life Insurance: Evidence from Italy

Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri

2786: Foreign Direct Investment and Exports with Growing Demand

Rafael Rob and Nikolaos Vettas

2785: Import Diversion under European Antidumping Policy

Hylke Vandenbussche, Jozef Konings and Linda Springael

2784: Corporate Borrowing and Financing Constraints

Roman Inderst and Holger Mueller

2783: The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

2782: The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

2781: A Multi-Task Theory of the State Enterprise Reform

David Li, Chong-En Bai, Zhigang Tao and Yijiang Wang

2780: The Political Feasibility of Increasing Retirement Age: Lessons from a Ballot on Female Retirement Age

Monika Bütler

2779: Risk Return and Portfolio Allocation under Alternative Pension Systems with Imperfect Financial Markets

David Miles and Ales Cerny

2778: Issue Linkage, Credible Delegation, and Policy Cooperation

Giancarlo Spagnolo

2777: Third Party Monitoring and Golden Parachutes

Elisabetta Iossa

2776: Evaluating An Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

2775: R&D and Technology Spillovers through FDI: Innovation and Absorptive Capacity

Yuko Kinoshita

2774: For Whom is MAI? A Theoretical Perspective on Multilateral Agreements on Investment

Alessandro Turrini and Dieter Urban

2773: Education, Social Cohesion and Economic Growth

Moshe Justman and Mark Gradstein

2772: Trade, FDI and Unions

David Collie and Hylke Vandenbussche

2771: Rivalry in Uncertain Export Markets: Commitment versus Flexibility

Dermot Leahy and Gerda Dewit

2770: The Distribution of Earnings in Spain During the 1980s: The Effects of Skill, Unemployment and Union Power

Manuel Arellano, Olympia Bover and Samuel Bentolila

2769: Electoral Rules and the Emergence of New Issue Dimensions

Estelle Cantillon

2768: Exchange Rate Systems and Macroeconomic Stability

Harris Dellas and Fabrice Collard

2767: European Regional Policies in Light of Recent Location Theories

Diego Puga

2766: Financial Development and the Sensitivity of Stock Markets to External Influences

Harris Dellas and Martin Hess

2765: Technological Acceleration, Skill Transferability and the Rise in Residual Inequality

Giovanni Violante

2764: Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality

Philippe Aghion, Daron Acemoglu and Giovanni Violante

2763: The Financing of Innovation: Learning and Stopping

Ulrich Hege and Dirk Bergemann

2762: New Extreme-Value Dependence Measures and Finance Applications

Michael Rockinger, Ser-Huang Poon and Jonathan Tawn

2761: Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Gilles Saint-Paul

2760: The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Consumption and Employment: Theory and Evidence

Fatás, Antonio and Ilian Mihov

2759: Economic Reform, Democracy and Growth during Post-Communist Transition

Jan Fidrmuc

2758: Privatization, Competition and Reform Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Russian Enterprise Panel Data

J. David Brown and John Earle

2757: Price Stability as a Nash Equilibrium in Monetary Open-Economy Models

Pierpaolo Benigno and Gianluca Benigno

2756: Monetary Policy for an Open Economy: An Alternative Framework with Optimizing Agents and Sticky Prices

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

2755: Optimal Monetary Policy in a Currency Area

Pierpaolo Benigno

2754: Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?

Dani Rodrik and Ethan Kaplan

2753: Corporate Taxation, Multinational Enterprise and Economic Integration

Guttorm Schjelderup, Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe and Hans Jarle Kind

2752: Timeless Perspective Vs Discretionary Monetary Policy in Forward-Looking Models

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

2751: 'Crony Capitalism', Bail Outs and Bank Runs

Gianluca Femminis and Luigi Ruggerone

2750: Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application

Gil Epstein and Tikva Lecker

2749: Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labour Market Frictions

Eran Yashiv

2748: Uncertainty on Monetary Policy and the Expectational Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Carlo Favero and Federico Mosca

2747: Tariff Peaks in the Quad and Least Developed Country Exports

Marcelo Olarreaga and Francis Ng

2746: Learning About Migration Decisions from the Migrants: Using Complementary Datasets to Model Intra-Regional Migrations in Spain

Manuel Arellano and Olympia Bover

2745: Economic Performance and Stabilization Policy in a Monetary Union with Imperfect Labour and Goods Markets

Alex Cukierman, Fabrizio Coricelli and Alberto Dalmazzo

2744: Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers

Wilbur Coleman and Francesco Caselli

2743: Natural Resources and Economic Growth: The Role of Investment

Thorvaldur Gylfason and Gylfi Zoega

2742: Electoral Rules and Public Spending

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Roberto Perotti and Massimo Rostagno

2741: Electoral Rules and Corruption

Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini and Francesco Trebbi

2740: To Merge or to License: Implications for Competition Policy

Faulí-Oller, Ramon and Sandonís, Joel

2739: Rules, Communication and Collusion: Narrative Evidence from the Sugar Institute Case

David Genesove and Wallace P Mullin

2738: Merger Profitability in Unionized Oligopoly

Sørgard, Lars and Kjell Lommerud

2737: The Empirical Importance of Precautionary Saving

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Jonathan Parker

2736: The Seven Percent Solution? An International Perspective On Underwriting Spreads

Alexander Ljungqvist and William J Wilhelm

2735: Privatization and Foreign Competition

Lars Persson and Norbäck, Pehr-Johan

2734: Predation and Mergers: Is Merger Law Counterproductive?

Lars Persson

2733: Outside Finance, Dominant Investors and Strategic Transparency

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden and Enrico Perotti

2732: Competition, Trade and Wages

J. Peter Neary

2731: Robust Rules for Industrial Policy in Open Economies

J. Peter Neary and Dermot Leahy

2730: Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants

Per-Anders Edin, Olof Åslund and Peter Fredriksson

2729: Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Per-Anders Edin, Olof Åslund and Peter Fredriksson

2728: Risk Aversion, Wealth and Background Risk

Luigi Guiso and Michaela Pagel

2727: Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth

Oded Galor and Omer Moav

2726: Inflation Targeting in a Small Open Economy

Alan Sutherland

2725: Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods

Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak

2724: How Risky is Financial Liberalization in the Developing Countries?

Charles Wyplosz

2723: Exchange Rate Regimes: Some Lessons from Postwar Europe

Charles Wyplosz

2722: Do We Know How Low Inflation Should Be?

Charles Wyplosz

2721: The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India

Timothy Besley

2720: Performance Incentives with Award Constraints

Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke

2719: Working in Public and Private Firms

Rafael Rob and Giacomo Corneo

2718: Equilibrium Exchange Rate Policies: Complicit Renegotiation-Proof Outcomes

Pierre Mella-Barral and Paolo Vitale

2717: Financial Market Imperfections and Home Ownership: A Comparative Study

Tullio Jappelli and Maria Chiuri

2716: Rackets, Regulation and the Rule of Law

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Timothy Frye

2715: Soft Budget Constraint Theories: From Centralization to the Market

Cheng-Gang Xu and Eric Maskin

2714: The Political Economy of International Migration in a Ricardo-Viner Model

Jaime de Melo, Müller, Tobias and Jean-Marie Grether