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1642: Business Cycles and Long-run Growth

Gilles Saint-Paul

1641: Setting Standards: Information Accumulation in Development

Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti

1640: Exchange Rate Arrangements between the Ins and the Outs

Paul De Grauwe

1639: On the Japanese Yen-US Dollar Exchange Rate: A Structural Econometric Model Based on Real Interest Differentials

Ronald MacDonald

1638: Setting Conversion Rates for the Third Stage of EMU

Paul De Grauwe and Luigi Spaventa

1637: The Determining Factors of Foreign Direct Investment in Spain and the rest of the OECD: Lessons for CEECs

Carmela Martín and Francisco J. Velazquez

1636: Transition and the Output Fall

Gérard Roland and Thierry Verdier

1635: Attribute Dependence and the Provision of Quality

Hans Degryse and Andreas Irmen

1634: Returns to Regionalism: An Evaluation of Non-traditional Gains from RTAs

Raquel Fernandez

1633: The Great Depression as a Watershed: International Capital Mobility over the Long Run

Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor

1632: National Policies and Local Economies: Europe and the United States

Mario Forni and Lucrezia Reichlin

1631: Adverse Selection of Investment Projects and the Business Cycle

Pietro Reichlin and Paolo Siconolfi

1630: Money in a Real Business Cycle Model

Roger Farmer

1629: Putting Things in Order: Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Macroeconomics

Robert Feenstra and Andrew Rose

1628: Quantifying a Dangerous Obsession? Competitiveness and export performance in an OECD Panel of Industries

Wendy Carlin, Andrew Glyn and John van Reenen

1627: To Each According To...? Markets, Tournaments, and the Matching Problem with Borrowing Constraints

Raquel Fernandez and Jordi Galí

1626: Multiple Job Holding as a 'Hedge' Against Unemployment

David Bell, Robert Hart and Robert Wright

1625: Excess Capacity as an Incentive Device

Rudolf Kerschbamer and Yanni Tournas

1624: Interjurisdictional Competition and the Efficiency of the Public Sector: The Triumph of the Market over the State?

Michael Rauscher

1623: Optimal Determination of Bookmakers' Betting Odds: Theory and Tests

John Fingleton and Patrick Waldron

1622: Fast Track: Is it in the Genes? The Promotion Policy of a Large Japanese Firm

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello and Yasushi Ohkusa

1621: Intra-firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller

1620: Economic Developments in the Balkan Countries and the Role of Greece: From Bilateral Relations to the Challenge of Integration

Nicos Christodoulakis and George Petrakos

1619: Optimal Restructuring Under a Political Constraint: A General Equilibrium Approach

Vivek Dehejia

1618: Performance Measurement using Multiple Asset Class Portfolio Data

David Blake, Bruce N Lehmann and Allan Timmermann

1617: Using Subjective Income Expectations to Test for Excess Sensitivity of Consumption to Predicted Income Growth

Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri

1616: Convergence in Output in Transition Economies: Central and Eastern Europe, 1970-1995

Saul Estrin and Giovanni Urga

1615: Booms and Busts in the UK Housing Market

John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy

1614: Stock Returns, Term Structure, Inflation and Real Activity: An International Perspective

Fabio Canova and Gianni de Nicolò

1613: Advertising Bans

Massimo Motta

1612: Debt and Deficit Ceilings, and Sustainability of Fiscal Policies: An Intertemporal Analysis

Merih Uctum and Michael Wickens

1611: Preferential Trade Liberalization in the North Atlantic

Richard Baldwin and Joseph Francois

1610: Monetary Policy and the Fisher Effect

Paul Söderlind

1609: Employment Turnover and Unemployment Insurance

John Hassler and José Vicente Rodríguez Mora

1608: Debt vs. Foreign Direct Investment: The Impact of Sovereign Risk on the Structure of International Capital Flows

Monika Schnitzer

1607: Agglomeration in a Core-Periphery Model with Vertically and Horizontally Integrated Firms

Karolina Ekholm and Rikard Forslid

1606: International Leapfrogging and Subsidies

Stefan Lutz

1605: Economic Growth and Policy Reform in the APEC Region: Trade and Welfare Implications by 2005

Kym Anderson, Betina Dimaranan, Thomas Hertel and Will Martin

1604: Endogenous Cycles in a Stiglitz-Weiss Economy

Javier Suarez and Oren Sussman

1603: Long Term Debt and the Political Support of a Monetary Union

Harald Uhlig

1602: Equilibrium Unemployment

João Gomes, Jeremy Greenwood and Sergio Rebelo

1601: Enterprises in Transition: Macroeconomic Influences on Enterprise Decision-making and Performance

Willem Buiter, Ricardo Lago and Helene Rey

1600: The Development of the Division of Power among the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament

Annick Laruelle and Mika Widgrén

1599: The Causes of Regionalism

Richard Baldwin

1598: Common Ground Between Free-traders and Environmentalists

Larry Karp and Sandeep Sacheti

1597: Economic Integration, Factor Mobility, and Wage Convergence

Gilles Saint-Paul

1596: Shifts in US Relative Wages: The Role of Trade, Technology and Factor Endowments

Robert Baldwin and Glen Cain

1595: Pareto-Improving Economic Reforms through Dual-Track Liberalization

Lawrence J Lau, Yingyi Qian and Gérard Roland

1594: Volatility Clustering and Volatility Transmission: A Non-Parametric View of ERM Exchange Rates

Michael Artis and Wenda Zhang

1593: Performance-Related Pay

Alison Booth and Jeff Frank

1592: Can Relationship Banking Survive Competition?

Arnoud Boot and Anjan Thakor

1591: Family Matters

John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

1590: On the Effects of Anti-dumping Legislation

Pedro Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt

1589: Sequencing and the Size of the Budget: A Reconsideration

Mark Hallerberg and Juergen von Hagen

1588: Good Jobs versus Bad Jobs: Theory and Some Evidence

Daron Acemoglu

1587: TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia

Dani Rodrik

1586: Empirics for Growth and Distribution: Stratification, Polarization, and Convergence Clubs

Danny Quah

1585: Policy Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Labour Market Reform

David Coe and Dennis Snower

1584: Product Standards Coalitions in a Market without Borders

Alessandra Casella

1583: Tax Competition for Foreign Direct Investment

Andreas Haufler and Ian Wooton

1582: Modelling Work-Related Training and Training Effects Using Count Data Techniques

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison Booth and Peter Elias

1581: The Total Cost of Trading Belgian Shares: Brussels versus London

Hans Degryse

1580: The New Geography of Eastern European Trade

Guillaume Cheikbossian and Mathilde Maurel

1579: From Learning to Partnership. Multinational R&D Cooperation in Developing Countries

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Carlo Carraro

1578: South-North Refugee Migration: Lessons for Development Cooperation

Ralph Rotte, Michael Vogler and Klaus Zimmermann

1577: Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff

Prakash Loungani, Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen

1576: Domino Effects in Western European Trade, 1960-92

Andre Sapir

1575: The Rise and Fall of Regional Inequalities

Diego Puga

1574: Lobbying and the Structure of Protection

Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo and Marcelo Olarreaga

1573: Training and Unions

Alison Booth and Monojit Chatterji

1572: Efficient Wage Dispersion

Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer

1571: The Rise and Persistence of Rigidities

Gilles Saint-Paul

1570: The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96

David M Newbery and Tamas Revesz

1569: Trade in Nominal Assets and Net International Capital Flows

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

1568: Structural Change and International Trade

Dan Ben-David and David Papell

1567: Industrial Structure, Menu Costs and the Non-Neutrality of Money

Huw Dixon and Claus Thustrup Hansen

1566: Dual Labour Markets, Urban Unemployment and Multicentric Cities

Tony E Smith and Yves Zenou

1565: Strategic Behaviour under European Antidumping Rules

Wilfried Pauwels, Hylke Vandenbussche and Marcel Weverbergh

1564: The Generalized War of Attrition

Jeremy I. Bulow and Paul Klemperer

1563: Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives

Assar Lindbeck and Dennis Snower

1562: Inflation Targets and Contracts with Uncertain Central Banker Preferences

Roel Beetsma and Henrik Jensen

1561: Monetary Integration and Economic Convergence

Anne Sibert

1560: Population Growth, Trade Policy, and Migration Incentives

Joseph Francois and Douglas Nelson

1559: Applications to the US Disability Program: A Semiparametric Approach

Brent Kreider and Regina Riphahn

1558: EMU: Countries or Regions? Lessons from the EMS Experience

Antonio Fatas

1557: Income Persistence and Macro-Policy Feedbacks in the United States

John Muellbauer

1556: New Techniques to Extract Market Expectations from Financial Instruments

Paul Söderlind and Lars Svensson

1555: Electoral Institutions, Cabinet Negotiations, and Budget Deficits within the European Union

Mark Hallerberg and Juergen von Hagen

1554: Country Size and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Study

Johan Torstensson

1553: Has Work Sharing Worked in Germany?

Jennifer Hunt

1552: Will Gradualism Work When Shock Therapy Doesn't?

Vivek Dehejia

1551: Human Capital and Macroeconomic Growth: Austria and Germany 1960-1992

Reinhard Koman and Dalia Marin

1550: On the Strategic Community Development

J. Vernon Henderson and Jacques Thisse

1549: Strategic Trade Policy When Firms Have Different Efficiency Levels

Dermot Leahy and Catia Montagna

1548: A Portfolio Approach to a Cross-sectoral and Cross-National Investment Strategy in Transition Economies

Willem Buiter, Ricardo Lago and Helene Rey

1547: Out in the Sunshine? Outsiders, Insiders, and the United States in 1998

Fabio Ghironi and Francesco Giavazzi

1546: Competing for Endorsements

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

1545: Inventory Behaviour: A Comparative Study of UK and Japanese Firms

Jenny Corbett, Donald Hay and Helen Louri

1544: Endogenous Mergers in Concentrated Markets

Henrik Horn and Lars Persson

1543: On the Sources of Convergence: A Close Look at the Spanish Regions

Angel de La Fuente