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2443: A Multi-Task Principal-Agent Approach to Organizational Form

Régibeau, Pierre, Katharine Rockett and David Besanko

2442: An Empirical Evaluation Of The Determinants Of Research Joint Venture Formation

Georges Siotis, Marín Uribe, Pedro Luis and Hernán, Roberto

2441: Asymmetries In Monetary Policy Rules: Evidence For Four Central Banks

Juan Dolado, María-Dolores, Ramón and Manuel Naveira Barrero

2440: The Evolution of Markets Under Entry and Standards Regulation - The Case of Global Mobile Telecommunications

Harald Gruber and Frank Verboven

2439: Collateral Vs. Project Screening: A Model Of Lazy Banks

Michael Manove, Jorge Padilla and Marco Pagano

2438: Evaluating The Persistence And Structuralist Theories Of Unemployment

Gylfi Zoega, Jerry Coakley and Ana-Maria Fuertes

2437: Agriculture, Developing Countries, And The WTO Millennium Round

Kym Anderson

2436: The Morning After: Explaining The Slowdown In Japanese Growth In The 1990s

Tamim Bayoumi

2435: A Peek Inside The Black Box: The Monetary Transmission Mechanism In Japan

Tamim Bayoumi and James Morsink

2434: Corruption And Competition In Public Market Auctions

Thierry Verdier, Olivier Compte and Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky

2433: Inequality And Group Participation: Theory And Evidence From Rural Tanzania

Eliana La Ferrara

2432: Barter In Transition Economies: Competing Explanations Confront Ukrainian Data

Dalia Marin, Daniel Kaufmann and Bogdan Gorochowskij

2431: Why Do People Still Live In East Germany?

Jennifer Hunt

2430: Immigrant Assimilation And Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into Or Out Of Welfare?

Jorgen Hansen and Löfström, Magnus

2429: Strategic Recruiting And The Chain Of Command

Guido Friebel and Michael Raith

2428: Continuous Training In Germany

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2427: The Bail-In Problem: Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Barry Eichengreen and Christoph Ruehl

2426: Natural Rate Doubts

Roger Farmer

2425: Size Distortions Of Tests Of The Null Hypothesis Of Stationarity: Evidence And Implications For The PPP Debate

Lutz Kilian and Mehmet Caner

2424: Measuring Predictability: Theory And Macroeconomic Applications

Francis Diebold and Lutz Kilian

2423: Will EMU Increase Eurosclerosis?

Samuel Bentolila and Gilles Saint-Paul

2422: Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia

Kaspar Richter

2421: Financial Contracting Theory Meets The Real World: An Empirical Analysis Of Venture Capital Contracts

Steven Kaplan and Strömberg, Per

2420: Regulation And Labour Market Performance

Tito Boeri, Stefano Scarpetta and Giuseppe Nicoletti

2419: Female Labour Supply, Flexibility Of Working Hours, And Job Mobility

Rob Euwals

2418: Unions And The Labour Market For Managers

Jorn-Steffen Pischke, John DiNardo and Kevin Hallock

2417: Collateral, Renegotiation And The Value Of Diffusely Held Debt

Pierre Mella-Barral and Ulrich Hege

2416: Strategic Trading And Learning About Liquidity

Sven Rady and Harrison Hong

2415: Do R&D Credits Work? Evidence From A Panel Of Countries 1979-97

John van Reenen, Rachel Griffith and Nicholas Bloom

2414: Social Harmony At The Boundaries Of The Welfare State: Immigrants And Social Transfers

Arye Hillman and Gil Epstein

2413: European Financial Markets After EMU: A First Assessment

Francesco Giavazzi, Jean-Pierre Danthine and Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

2412: Should Argentina Adopt The US Dollar?

Andrew Hughes Hallett and Myrvin L. Anthony

2411: On Regional Monetary Arrangements For ASEAN

Barry Eichengreen, Tamim Bayoumi and Paolo Mauro

2410: Hiring And Firing Costs, Adverse Selection And The Persistence Of Unemployment

Gilles Saint-Paul and Adriana Kugler

2409: Looking Into The Black Box: A Survey Of The Matching Function

Christopher Pissarides and Barbara Petrongolo

2408: Is There A Wage Premium for Returning Irish Migrants?

Alan Barrett and Philip O'Connell

2407: Monetary Institutions, Monopolistic Competition, Unionized Labour Markets And Economic Performance

Alex Cukierman, Fabrizio Coricelli and Alberto Dalmazzo

2406: Can Competition Replace Regulation for Small Utility Customers?

Richard Green

2405: Political Risk And Irreversible Investment: Theory And An Application To Quebec

Sumru Altug, Fanny Demers and Michel Demers

2404: Earnings, Unemployment, And Housing: Evidence From A Panel Of British Regions

John Muellbauer and Gavin Cameron

2403: A Simple Dynamic General Equilibrium Model Of The Tradeoff Between Fixed And Floating Exchange Rates

Michael Devereux

2402: Bad Politicians

Francesco Caselli and Massimo Morelli

2401: Trade Induced Technical Bias And Wage Inequalities: A Theory Of Defensive Innovations

Thierry Verdier

2400: Reference Cycles: The NBER Methodology Revisited

Marco Lippi, Lucrezia Reichlin, Marc Hallin and Mario Forni

2399: Telecommunications Infrastructure And Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach

Röller, Lars-Hendrik and Leonard Waverman

2398: Explaining Youth Labour Market Problems In Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, Or Technology Shifts?

Juan Dolado, Juan F Jimeno and Florentino Felgueroso

2397: Space And Unemployment: The Labour-Market Effects Of Spatial Mismatch

Yves Zenou and Jan Brueckner

2396: Monotone Matching In Perfect And Imperfect Worlds

Andrew Newman

2395: The Decision To Invest In A Low-Wage Country: Evidence From Italian Textiles And Clothing Multinationals

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Alessandro Turrini and Anna M Falzoni

2394: Youth Employment Policies In France

Thierry Magnac, Francis Kramarz and Fougère, Denis

2393: Monetary Policies In The Presence Of Asymmetries

Paul De Grauwe

2392: Risk Premia In The Term Structure Of Interest Rates: A Panel Data Approach

Christian Wolff and Dennis Bams

2391: Optimal Corporate Governance Structures

Javier Suarez and Andres Almazan

2390: Trade And The Rate Of Income Convergence

Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi

2389: A Monetary Explanation Of The Great Stagflation Of The 1970s

Robert Barsky and Lutz Kilian

2388: Evaluating Changes In The Bank Of Spain's Intervention: An Alternative Approach Using Marked Point Processes

Juan Dolado and María-Dolores, Ramón

2387: Work Environment And Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials In A Large Italian Firm

Andrea Ichino and Giovanni Maggi

2386: East Germany: Transition With Unification - Experiments and Experiences

Juergen von Hagen and Rolf Strauch

2384: Optimal Speed of Transition 10 Years After

Tito Boeri

2383: The Role of Social Capital In Financial Development

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Zingales and Paola Sapienza

2382: Trade, Trade Policy and Poverty: What Are The Links?

L. Winters

2381: Elected Versus Appointed Regulators: Theory And Evidence

Timothy Besley and Stephen Coate

2380: The First Year Of The Eurosystem: Inflation Targeting Or Not?

Lars Svensson

2379: Options For The Exchange Rate Policies Of The EU Accession Countries (And Other Emerging Market Economies)

Peter Bofinger and Wollmershäuser, Timo

2378: Mommy Tracks and Public Policy: On Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Gender Gaps in Promotion

Kjell Lommerud and Steinar Vagstad

2377: Trade in International Transport Services: The Role of Competition

Ian Wooton and Joseph Francois

2376: Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life-Cycle of Products

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

2375: The Term Structure of Interest Rates and Inflation Forecast Targeting

Eric Schaling, Sylvester Eijffinger and Willem Verhagen

2374: Searching for Non-Linear Effects of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Industrial and Developing Countries

Francesco Giavazzi, Marco Pagano and Tullio Jappelli

2373: Skills, Labour Costs and Vertically Differentiated Industries: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Stefan Lutz and Alessandro Turrini

2372: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model Between 1400 and 2000: When It Explained Factor Price Convergence, When It Did Not, and Why

Jeffrey Williamson and Kevin O'Rourke

2371: Social Europe: Dramatic Visions and Real Complexity

Tito Boeri

2370: Institutions For High-Quality Growth: What They Are And How To Acquire Them

Dani Rodrik

2369: Funded and Unfunded Pensions: Risk, Return and Welfare

David Miles

2368: Why Russian Workers Do Not Move: Attachment Of Workers Through In-Kind Payments

Sergei Guriev and Guido Friebel

2367: Iceland's Natural Experiment in Supply-Side Economics

Gylfi Zoega, Marco Bianchi and Gudmundsson, Björn R

2366: Optimal Currency Areas: Why Does The Exchange Rate Regime Matter?

Willem Buiter

2365: Monetary Misconceptions: New and Old Paradigmata and Other Sad Tales

Willem Buiter

2364: Three Symptoms And A Cure: A Contribution To The Economics Of The Dutch Disease

Gylfi Zoega, Tryggvi Herbertsson and Marta Skuladottir

2363: Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics

Jan van Ours and Geert Ridder

2362: Labour Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighbourhood Characteristics

Jan van Ours and Bas van der Klaauw

2361: Modelling Financial Incentives To Get Unemployed Back To Work

Jan van Ours and Jan Boone

2360: Noisy Financial Signals and Persistent Effects of Nominal Shocks in Open Economies

Torben M Andersen and Niels C Beier

2359: Conflict of Interest in Universal Banking: Bank Lending, Stock Underwriting, and Fund Management

Oved Yosha, Yishay Yafeh and Hedva Ber

2358: Employed 40 Hours or Not Employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek

Francis Kramarz and Crépon, Bruno

2357: Why Mergers Reduce Profits, and Raise Share-Prices

Johan Stennek and Sven-Olof Fridolfsson

2356: Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Economic Openness: Theory and Evidence

Harald Hau

2355: Optimal Monitoring in Hierarchical Relationships

Anke Kessler

2354: A Theory of Central Bank Accountability

Eric Schaling, Sylvester Eijffinger and Marco Hoeberichts

2353: Central Bank Independence: An Update of Theory and Evidence

Jakob de Haan, Sylvester Eijffinger and Helge Berger

2352: Sorting and Long-Run Inequality

Richard Rogerson and Fernández, Raquel

2351: Optimal Debt Contracts and Moral Hazard Along the Business Cycle

Pietro Reichlin and Paolo Siconolfi

2350: The Determinants of Host Country Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Blomström, Magnus, Ari Kokko and Steven Globerman

2349: Leniency Programs and Cartel Prosecution

Michele Polo and Massimo Motta

2348: Is Tax Policy Coordination Necessary?

Apostolis Philippopoulos, Tryphon Kollintzas and Vanghelis Vassilatos

2347: Determinants of Ownership Structure: A Comparative Analysis of Multinational Firms' Preferences in Greece and Portugal

Helen Louri and Natália Barbosa

2346: A Time Varying Parameter Model to Test for Predictability and Integration in Stock Markets of Transition Economies

Michael Rockinger and Giovanni Urga

2345: Consumption Over the Life-Cycle

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Jonathan Parker

2344: Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC And EVA

Neal Stoughton and Josef Zechner

2343: Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs?

Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody