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2108: Regional Aspects of Unemployment in Europe and in Italy

Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa

2107: Estimating the Effects of Tax Reform in Differentiated Product Oligopolistic Markets

Chaim Fershtman, Neil Gandal and Sarit Markovich

2106: Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

Jennifer Hunt

2105: Why do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity After Communism

Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

2104: Stochastic Shocks and Incentives for (Dis)Integration

Jan Fidrmuc

2103: Short-Termism as Optimal Investment Policy

Sandro Brusco

2102: Agglomeration with Human and Physical Capital: an Analytically Solvable Case

Rikard Forslid

2101: Cooperation Among Competitors: The Economics of Credit Card Associations

Jean Tirole and Jean Rochet

2100: Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis

Thomas Straubhaar and Stefan M. Golder

2099: Should Firms be Required to Pay for Vocational Training?

Margaret Stevens

2098: Returns to Mobility in the Transition to a Market Economy

Tito Boeri and Christopher Flinn

2097: Venture Capital Finance: A Security Design Approach

Rafael Repullo and Javier Suarez

2096: Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda

Kym Anderson

2095: Deep Integration, Non-Discrimination and Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade

Denise Konan

2094: The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Danny Quah

2093: Transmission Rights and Market Power on Electric Power Networks I: Financial Rights

Jean Tirole and Paul Joskow

2092: The Growth of Firms in Theory and in Practice

Paul Geroski

2091: Trade, Technology and UK Wage Inequality

Jonathan Haskel and Matthew Slaughter

2090: Equal Opportunities in Education: Market Equilibrium and Public Policy

Gianni De Fraja

2089: Green Tax Reform and Competitiveness

Erkki Koskela, Hans-Werner Sinn and Schöb, Ronnie

2088: Least Squares Predictions and Mean-Variance Analysis

Enrique Sentana

2087: Transmission Rights and Market Power on Electric Power Networks. II: Physical Rights

Jean Tirole and Paul Joskow

2086: Corporate Governance

Jean Tirole

2085: The Core-Periphery Model With Forward-Looking Expectations

Richard Baldwin

2084: Self-Employment and Windfall Gains in Britain: Evidence From Panel Data

Mark Taylor

2083: Capital Markets and the Instability of Open Economies

Philippe Bacchetta, Philippe Aghion and Abhijit Banerjee

2082: From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth

David Weil and Oded Galor

2081: Contract Enforcement in Transition

Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

2080: Output and Exports in Transition Economies: A Labour Management Model

John Bennett, Saul Estrin and Paul Hare

2079: Measuring Monetary Policy in Open Economies

Carlo Favero, Fabio Bagliano and Francesco Franco

2078: The Dynamics of Technological Adoption in Hardware/Software Systems: The Case of Compact Disc Players

Archy Kirkwood MP, Rafael Rob and Neil Gandal

2077: Wages, Experience and Seniority

Costas Meghir and Christian Dustmann

2076: Maximum Sustainable Government Debt in the Overlapping Generations Model

Neil Rankin and Barbara Roffia

2075: Coordination, Cooperation, Contagion and Currency Crises

Philippe Martin and Olivier Loisel

2074: Should Monetary Policy be Adjusted Frequently?

Sylvester Eijffinger and Harry Huizinga

2073: The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Break-up: Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch?

Robert Gordon

2072: What Determines the Economic Geography of Europe?

Jan I. Haaland, Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe and Hans Jarle Kind

2071: Fickle Investors: an Impediment to Growth?

Andrew Scott and Harald Uhlig

2070: Golden Cages for Showy Birds: Optimal Switching Costs in Labour Markets

Carmen Matutes, Ramon Caminal and Roberto Burguet

2069: The Markets for Gasoline and Diesel Cars in Europe

Frank Verboven

2068: EMU in Reality: The Effect of a Common Monetary Policy on Economies with Different Transmission Mechanisms

Andrew Hughes Hallett and Laura Piscitelli

2067: The European Central Bank: Decision Rules and Macroeconomic Performance

Paul De Grauwe, Hans Dewachter and Yunus Aksoy

2066: Risk Taking and Optimal Contracts for Money Managers

Frederic Palomino and Andrea Prat

2065: Time-series and Cross-section Information in Affine Term Structure Models

Frank de Jong

2064: Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan

John Micklewright, Aline Coudouel and Sheila Marnie

2063: The Informational Value of Job Search Data and the Dynamics of Search Behaviour: Evidence from Hungary

John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy

2062: Asymmetries in Housing and Financial Market Institutions and EMU

John Muellbauer, Duncan Maclennan and Mark Stephens

2061: Living Standards and Incentives in Transition: the Implications of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustion in Hungary

John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy

2060: Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard and Bank Monitoring: A Model of the Credit Channel

Rafael Repullo and Javier Suarez

2059: Active Labour Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning?

Christoph Schmidt, Jochen Kluve and Hartmut Lehmann

2058: EMU and the External Value of the Euro

Andrew Hughes Hallett and Maria Demertzis

2057: Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidence on German Labour Market Flows

Christoph Schmidt

2056: Does Science Make a Difference? Investment, Finance and Corporate Governance in German Industries

David Audretsch and Weigand, Jürgen G

2055: English-Language Dominance, Literature and Welfare

Jacques Melitz

2054: The Diffusion of Mobile Telecommunications Services in the European Union

Harald Gruber and Frank Verboven

2053: New Developments in Models of Search in the Labour Market

Christopher Pissarides and Dale Mortensen

2052: Competition, Entry, and the Social Returns to Infrastructure in Transition Economies

Philippe Aghion and Mark Schankerman

2051: The Size and Scope of Government: Comparative Politics With Rational Politicians

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

2050: Private Transfers, Borrowing Constraints and the Timing of Homeownership

Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli

2049: Inside versus Outside Financing and Product Market Competition

Monika Schnitzer and Achim Wambach

2048: Technology, Transfer and Spillovers: Does Local Participation With Multinationals Matter?

Blomström, Magnus and Sjöholm, Fredrik

2047: Portuguese Migrants in the German Labour Market: Performance and Self-Selection

Klaus Zimmermann, Pedro Pereira, Thomas Bauer and Michael Vogler

2046: Distributive Politics and the Costs of Centralization

Ben Lockwood

2045: Bank Competition and Enterprise restructuring in Transition Economies

Monika Schnitzer

2044: The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy

J. Peter Neary and James Anderson

2043: What Determines Earnings and Employment Risk

Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri

2042: Patent Suits: Do They Distort Research Incentives?

Mark Schankerman and Jean Lanjouw

2041: Product Differentiation and Price Competition Between a Safe and a Risky Seller

Winand Emons

2040: Crossing the Rio Grande: Migrations, Business Cycles and the Welfare State

Fabio Canova and Morten Ravn

2039: Ageing Gracefully? A Bootstrap Analysis of Poverty Among Pensioners Using Evidence from the PACO Databases

Georges Heinrich

2038: The Macroeconomic Effects of German Unification: Real Adjustments and the Welfare State

Fabio Canova and Morten Ravn

2037: Dynamic Adverse Selection and Debt

Gilles Chemla and Antoine Faure-Grimaud

2036: Inter-Firm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam

John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

2035: Understanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation: The Role of Differentiating Goods

Robert Feenstra, Andrew Rose and James Markusen

2034: Direct Estimation of the Risk Neutral Factor Dynamics of Affine Term Structure Models

Peter C Schotman and Dennis Bams

2033: Importing Jobs or Exporting Firms? A Close Look at the Labour Market Implications of Italy's Trade and Foreign Direct Investmen

Riccardo Faini, Rodolfo Helg, Marzio Galeotti, Alessandro Turrini and Anna Falzoni

2032: Strategic Pricing, Signalling and Costly Information Acquisition

Helmut Bester and Klaus Ritzberger

2031: Wages and Productivity Growth in a Competitive Industry

Helmut Bester and Emmanuel Petrakis

2030: Revenue Efficiency and Change of Control: The Case of Bankruptcy

Leonardo Felli and Francesca Cornelli

2029: The Evolution of Price Dispersion in the European Car Market

Pinelopi Goldberg and Frank Verboven

2028: Did You Know that Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Cycles Fluctuations? Evidence from the G-7 Countries

Fabio Canova and Gianni de Nicolò,

2027: A Theory of Haste with Applications to Construction of Nuclear Power Plants and Extinction of Endangered Species

Juan D. Carrillo and Isabelle Brocas

2026: Risk Arbitrage in Takeovers

Francesca Cornelli and David Li

2025: A Theory of the Onset of Currency Attacks

Hyun Song Shin and Stephen Morris

2024: Labour Supply in the Informal Economy in Russia during Transition

Alexandre Kolev

2023: The Pay-As You-Go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device

Hans-Werner Sinn

2022: What was the Market's View of UK Monetary Policy? Estimating Inflation Risk and Expected Inflation with Indexed Bonds

Michael Wickens, Eli Remolona and Frank F Gong

2021: Hold-Up, Industrial Relations and Takeover Threats

Gilles Chemla

2020: The Structure of Foreign Trade

Elhanan Helpman

2019: Information Aggregation, Strategic Behaviour and Efficiency in Cournot Markets

Xavier Vives

2018: Economic Convergence of the CEECs with the EU

Laurence Boone and Mathilde Maurel

2017: Self-Control, Moderate Consumption and Craving

Juan D. Carrillo

2016: An EMU with Different Transmission Mechanisms

Giorgia Giovannetti and Ramon Marimon

2015: Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crises

Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo and Craig Burnside

2014: Machiavellian Underpricing

Enrico Perotti and Bruno Biais

2013: On the Role of Bank Competition for Corporate Finance and Corporate Control in Transition Economies

Monika Schnitzer

2012: Language and the Earnings of Immigrants

Christian Dustmann and Arthur van Soest

2011: Can Short-Term Capital Controls Promote Capital Inflows

Tito Cordella

2010: Reading Interest Rate and Bond Futures Options' Smiles Around the 1997 French Snap Election

Michael Rockinger, Eric Jondeau and Sophie Coutant

2009: Reading the Smile: The Message Conveyed by Methods which Infer Risk Neutral Densities

Michael Rockinger and Eric Jondeau