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4350: Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98

Nauro Campos and Dean Jolliffe

4349: The Other Side of the Moon: The Data Problem in Analysing Growth Determinants

Jan Hanousek, Randall Filer and Hájková, Dana

4348: Financial Institutions and the Wealth of Nations: Tales of Development

Cheng-Gang Xu and Jian Tong

4347: Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and the Design of Interest Rate Rules

Galí, Jordi, Vallés Liberal, Javier and López-Salido, J David

4346: The Impact of Globalization on the Equity Cost of Capital

Gikas Hardouvelis, Richard Priestley and Dimitrios Malliaropoulos

4345: The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay

Luis Cabral and Ali Hortacsu

4344: Manipulations in Contests

Aner Sela and Chen Cohen

4343: A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth

Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright

4342: To Purgatory and Beyond: When and How Should the Accession Countries from Central and Eastern Europe Become Full Members of EMU?

Willem Buiter

4341: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade

Andrew Rose

4340: Market Stress and Herding

Mark Salmon and Soosung Hwang

4339: Are Foreign Ownership and Good Institutions Substitutes? The Case of Non-Traded Equity

Harry Huizinga and Cécile Denis

4338: Fundamentals and Joint Currency Crises

Casper de Vries, Philipp Hartmann and Stefan Straetmans

4337: Money and the Natural Rate of Interest: Structural Estimates for the UK, the US and the euro area

Andrés, Javier, López-Salido, J David and Edward Nelson

4336: Tobin's Imperfect Asset Substitution in Optimizing General Equilibrium

Andrés, Javier, López-Salido, J David and Edward Nelson

4335: The Real Effects of Financial Integration

Jean Imbs

4334: Optimal Simple and Implementable Monetary and Fiscal Rules

Martín Uribe and Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie

4333: Bagging Time Series Models

Lutz Kilian and Atsushi Inoue

4332: The Impact of Location on Firm Growth

David Audretsch and Dirk Dohse

4331: Asymptotic Analysis of Large Auctions

Aner Sela, Arieh Gavious and Gadi Fibich

4330: A New Way to Measure Competition

Jan Boone

4329: The Determinants of Output Per Contributor in Open Source Projects: An Empirical Examination

Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal

4328: Why are European Countries Diverging in their Unemployment Experience?

Gilles Saint-Paul

4327: Did European Labour Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990's? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents

Gilles Saint-Paul

4326: The Structure of Simple 'New Economic Geography' Models

Frederic Robert-Nicoud

4325: Cross-Border Mergers as Instruments of Comparative Advantage

J. Peter Neary

4324: Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Micro-Simulation Analysis

Emmanuel Saez, Claus Kreiner, Henrik Kleven and Herwig Immervoll

4323: Location Choices under Quality Uncertainty

Nikolaos Vettas and Charalambos Christou

4322: Continuous Preferences Can Cause Discontinuous Choices: An Application to the Impact of Incentives on Altruism

Paul Seabright

4321: Regional Policy Design: An Analysis of Relocation, Efficiency and Equity

Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

4320: Spillover Effects, Bank Lending and Growth

Sumru Altug and Murat Usman

4319: Railway (De)Regulation: A European Efficiency Comparison

Marc Ivaldi, Guido Friebel and Catherine Vibes

4318: Regulation and Incentives in European Aviation

Marín Uribe, Pedro Luis and Philippe Gagnepain

4317: Global Monetary Policy Under a Dollar Standard

Michael Devereux, Kang Shi and Juanyi Xu

4315: Dynamic Price Competition with Capacity Constraints and Strategic Buyers

Nikolaos Vettas and Gary Biglaiser

4314: The Yield Spread as a Symmetric Predictor of Output and Inflation

Gikas Hardouvelis and Dimitrios Malliaropoulos

4313: Lobbying, Information Transmission and Unequal Representation

Johan Lagerlof and Lars Frisell

4312: Trade and Multinationals: The Effect of Economic Integration on Taxation and Tax Revenue

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

4311: International Vertical Specializations, Imperfect Competition and Welfare

Jacques Olivier and Ai Ting Goh

4310: Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long-Run Comparison

Wolfgang Keller and Carol Shiue

4309: International Trade and Child Labour: Cross-Country Evidence

Nina Pavcnik and Eric Edmonds

4308: Social Contacts and Occupational Choice

Samuel Bentolila, Javier Suarez and Claudio Michelacci

4307: Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries

Alan Manning, Güell, Maia and Ghazala Azmat

4306: Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye

Gil Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan

4305: Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration

Sergei Guriev and Guido Friebel

4304: Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Michael Lechner and Fröhlich, Markus

4303: Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

Barbara Petrongolo

4302: Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Aggregate Fluctuations

Claudio Michelacci

4301: Financial Factors, Macroeconomic Information and the Expectations Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Carlo Favero, Andrea Carriero and Iryna Kaminska

4300: The Expenditure Switching Effect and the Choice Between Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates

Alan Sutherland and Ozge Senay

4299: Emissions Trading Regimes and Incentives to Participate in International Climate Agreements

Carlo Carraro and Barbara Buchner

4298: Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behaviour

Jan van Ours, Jan Boone and Abdolkarim Sadrieh

4297: Political Influence in a New Anti-Dumping Regime: Evidence from Mexico

Joseph Francois and Gunnar Niels

4296: The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Kjetil Storesletten, Giovanni Violante and Jonathan Heathcote

4295: Aggregate Supply and Potential Output

Assaf Razin

4294: Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration

Anthony Venables and James Harrigan

4293: Public Debt Management in Brazil

Francesco Giavazzi and Alessandro Missale

4292: Private Donations for International Development

John Micklewright and Anna Wright

4291: Privatization Methods and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

Saul Estrin, John Bennett, James Maw and Giovanni Urga

4290: Investment Prices and Exchange Rates: Some Basic Facts

Sergio Rebelo, Joao C Neves and Ariel Burstein

4289: Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Alison Booth, Wiji Arulampalam and Mark Bryan

4288: Calvo Contracts: A Critique

A. Patrick Minford and David Peel

4287: Multiple Lenders and Corporate Distress: Evidence on Debt Restructuring

Jan Krahnen and Antje Brunner

4286: Universal Banks and Relationships with Firms

Jan-Pieter Krahnen and Ralf Elsas

4285: Trading European Sovereign Bonds: The Microstructure of the MTS Trading Platforms

Frank de Jong, Barbara Rindi and Yiu Chung Cheung

4284: Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Davide Castellani

4283: Money Illusion and Coordination Failure

Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran

4281: Endogenous Minimum Participation in International Environmental Treaties

Carlo Carraro, Carmen Marchiori and Sonia Oreffice

4280: Dealing with Destabilizing 'Market Discipline'

Daniel Cohen and Richard Portes

4279: Heterogenous Information About the Term Structure of Interest Rates, Least-Squares Learning and Optimal Interest Rate Rules

Eric Schaling, Sylvester Eijffinger and Mewael F. Tesfaselassie

4278: Multiple Creditors and Information Rights: Theory and Evidence from US Firms

Luigi Guiso and Raoul Minetti

4277: Structure and Returns to Scale of Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation

Timothy Van Zandt

4276: Balancedness of Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation

Timothy Van Zandt

4275: Ex Post Inefficiency in a Political Agency Model

Georges Casamatta and Caroline De Paoli

4274: The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Thomas Bauer and Astrid Kunze

4273: Who is in Favour of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in the Candidate Countries Referenda

Jan Fidrmuc and Orla Doyle

4272: Term Limits and Electoral Accountability

Daniel Sturm and Michael Smart

4271: Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Microdata

Thomas Bauer, Holger Bonin and Uwe Sunde

4270: When do 'Female' Occupations Pay More?

Stepan Jurajda and Heike Harmgart

4269: Deep Habits

Morten Ravn, Martín Uribe and Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie

4268: A Scapegoat Model of Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

4267: Federal Tax Arrears in Russia: Liquidity Problems, Federal Redistribution or Russian Resistance?

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Maria Ponomareva

4266: Extensive and Intensive Growth in a Neoclassical Framework

Andreas Irmen

4265: Credit Risk Transfer and Financial Sector Performance

Ian Marsh and Wolf Wagner

4264: Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points

Stephanie Rosenkranz and Patrick Schmitz

4263: Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation?

Stephanie Rosenkranz and Patrick Schmitz

4262: Specific Knowledge and Performance Measurement

Michael Raith

4261: Competition of Politicians for Wages and Office

Hans Gersbach

4260: Bank Mergers, Competition and Liquidity

Philipp Hartmann, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Elena Carletti

4259: The Geography of UK International Trade

L. Winters and Henry Overman

4258: Occupational Choice Across Generations

Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant

4257: Policy Instrument Choice and non-coordinated Monetary Policy in Interdependent Economies

Alan Sutherland and Giovanni Lombardo

4256: Asset Prices with Heterogenous Beliefs

Suleyman Basak

4255: How Often Should you Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

Andrea Ichino and Gerd Muehlheusser

4254: Fiscal Policy with Agents Differing in Altruism and in Ability

Philippe Michel and Pierre Pestieau

4253: Social Insurance and Redistribution with Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection

Pierre Pestieau, Maurice G. Marchand, Robin Boadway and Manuel Leite-Monteiro

4252: Bureaucrats or Politicians?

Guido Tabellini and Alberto Alesina

4251: International Monetary Policy Coordination and Financial Market Integration

Alan Sutherland

4250: Informational Efficiency of Credit Default Swap and Stock Markets: The Impact of Credit Rating Announcements

Martin Weber and Lars Norden

4249: Go For Broke or Play it Safe? Dynamic Competition with Choice of Variance

Luis Cabral and Axel Anderson