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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

Dalia Marin and Reinhard Koman

1550: On the Strategic Community Development

Jacques Thisse and J. Vernon Henderson

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

Francesco Giavazzi and Fabio Ghironi

1546: Competing for Endorsements

Elhanan Helpman and Gene Grossman

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

Donald Hay, Jenny Corbett 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

1542: The Political Economy of Mass Privatization and the Risk of Expropriation

Klaus Schmidt

1541: Methods of Privatization: Auctions, Bargaining and Give-Aways

Klaus Schmidt and Monika Schnitzer

1540: Where do Migrants Go? Risk-Aversion, Mobility Costs and the Locational Choice of Migrants

Riccardo Faini and Francesco Daveri

1539: Competition between Intermediated and Direct Trade and the Timing of Disintermediation

John Fingleton

1538: Competition among Middlemen When Buyers and Sellers can Trade Directly

John Fingleton

1537: Manipulation of Metals Futures: Lessons from Sumitomo

Christopher L. Gilbert

1535: Aspects of Fiscal Performance in some Transition Economies under Fund-supported Programs

Willem Buiter

1533: The Multilateral Trade Agenda: Uruguay Round Implementation and Beyond

Joseph Francois and Brad McDonald

1531: Job Tenure: Does History Matter?

Alison Booth, Carlos García-Serrano and Marco Francesconi

1530: How to Fix Conversion Rates at the Start of EMU

Paul De Grauwe

1529: Growth and Agglomeration

Philippe Martin and Gianmarco Ottaviano

1528: Front-running by Mutual Fund Managers: It ain't that Bad

Jean-Pierre Danthine and Serge X Moresi

1527: To be (Unionized) or Not to be? A Case for Cost-raising Strategies

Jacques Bughin and Stefano Vannini

1526: The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reduction of Standard Hours in Germany

Jennifer Hunt

1525: Regionalism versus Multilateralism

L. Winters

1524: Minimum Wage Legislation, Work Conditions and Employment

Gianni De Fraja

1523: Growing Locations: Industry Location in a Model of Endogenous Growth

Philippe Martin and Gianmarco Ottaviano

1522: Minimum Quality Standards as Facilitating Devices: An Example with Leapfrogging and Exit

Stefan Lutz

1521: Benefit Duration and Unemployment Entry: Quasi-experimental Evidence for Austria

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

1520: Hedging and Gambling: Corporate Risk Choice when Informing the Market

Richard Zeckhauser, Francois Degeorge and Boaz Moselle

1519: Institutions and Labour Reallocation

Richard Rogerson and Giuseppe Bertola

1518: A Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Model for Greece

Tryphon Kollintzas and Vanghelis Vassilatos

1517: Mergers for Market Power in a Cournot Setting and Merger Guidelines

Faulí-Oller, Ramon

1516: Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany

Klaus Zimmermann, Ralph Rotte and Andreas Million

1515: Business Formation and Aggregate Investment

Christian Keuschnigg

1514: On the Foundations of Wage Bargaining

Dennis Snower and ,

1513: Hyperinflation and Stabilization: Cagan Revisited

Marcus Miller

1512: Unemployment and Wages of Ethnic Germans

Klaus Zimmermann and Thomas Bauer

1511: Inflation Forecast Targeting: Implementing and Monitoring Inflation Targets

Lars Svensson

1510: Price-level Targeting versus Inflation Targeting: A Free Lunch?

Lars Svensson

1509: Current Account Sustainability: Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences

Assaf Razin and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

1508: International Implications of German Unification

Hans-Werner Sinn

1507: Is the Natural Rate a Reference Point?

Dennis Snower and Marika Karanassou

1506: Trust and Search in Vietnam's Emerging Private Sector

Stephan Haggard, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

1505: Four Essays and a Funeral: Budgetary Arithmetic under the Maastricht Treaty

Andrew Hughes Hallett and Peter McAdam

1504: The Burden of Intervention: Externalities in Multilateral Exchange Rates Arrangements

Marc Flandreau

1503: Does Inflation Matter for Growth?

Thorvaldur Gylfason and Tryggvi Herbertsson

1502: Multilateral Disciplines on Government Procurement: What's In It For Developing Countries?

Bernard Hoekman

1501: Trade and Competition Policy in the WTO system

Bernard Hoekman

1500: International Migration, Welfare and the Provision of Public Goods

Konstantine Gatsios, Panos Hatzipanayotou and Mike Michael

1499: Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?

Galí, Jordi

1498: Do Exchange Rates Move to Address International Macroeconomic Imbalances?

Matthew Canzoneri, Viñals, José and Vallés Liberal, Javier

1497: Investment and Demand Uncertainty

Luigi Guiso and Giuseppe Parigi

1496: More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the United States

Aldo Rustichini, Daniele Checchi and Andrea Ichino

1495: The Rise and Fall of Elites: A Theory of Economic Development and Social Polarization in Rent-seeking Societies

Thierry Verdier

1494: Property Rights, Corruption and the Allocation of Talent: A General Equilibrium Approach

Thierry Verdier and Daron Acemoglu

1493: Macroeconomic Policy in the Presence of Structural Maladjustment

Robert Gordon

1492: The Time-varying NAIRU and its Implications for Economic Policy

Robert Gordon

1491: The Effect of Immigrant Admission Criteria on Immigrant Labour Market Characteristics

Alan Barrett

1490: Small Firms, Contracting-out, Computers and Wage Inequality: Evidence from UK Manufacturing

Jonathan Haskel

1489: Phases of Imitation and Innovation in a North-South Endogenous Growth Model

Jane Rapson, Paul Levine, Joseph Pearlman and Michael Chui

1488: Debt, Cash Flow and Inflation Incentives: A Swedish Example

Lars Svensson, Torsten Persson and Mats Persson

1487: Expertise, Contingent Fees, and Excessive Litigation

Winand Emons

1486: Toeholds and Takeovers

Jeremy Bulow, Paul Klemperer and Ming Huang

1485: Monetary Union and European Unemployment

Viñals, José and Juan F Jimeno

1484: Operationalizing the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas

Barry Eichengreen and Tamim Bayoumi

1483: Short- and Long-run Phillips Trade-offs and the Cost of Disinflationary Policies

Juan Dolado and López-Salido, J David

1482: Distribution of Export Price Risk in a Developing Country

François Bourguignon, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann and Sylvie Lambert

1481: Is a Two-speed System in Europe the Answer to the Conflict between the German and the Anglo-Saxon Models of Monetary Control?

Andrew Hughes Hallett and Maria Demertzis

1480: Is Technical Analysis in the Foreign Exchange Market Profitable? A Genetic Programming Approach

Paul Weller, Christopher Neely and Robert Dittmar

1479: Public Investment and Endogenous Growth in a Small Open Economy

George Alogoskoufis and Sarantis Kalyvitis

1478: Decentralized Trade, Entrepreneurial Investment and the Theory of Unemployment

Melvyn Coles

1477: On the Taxation of Human and Physical Capital in Models of Endogenous Growth

Nouriel Roubini and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

1476: The Effects of Migration on the Relative Demand of Skilled versus Unskilled Labour: Evidence from Spain

Juan Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

1475: Separation of Powers and Accountability: Towards a Formal Approach to Comparative Politics

Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini and Gérard Roland

1474: Asia-Pacific Food Markets and Trade in 2005: A Global, Economy-wide Perspective

Kym Anderson, Will Martin, Betina Dimaranan and Thomas Hertel

1473: The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

1472: Market Transparency, Competitive Pressure and Price Volatility

Kühn, Kai-Uwe and Martínez, Catalina B

1471: Incapacity Benefits versus Benefit Transfers

Dennis Snower and Mike Orszag

1470: Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain

Alison Booth and Wiji Arulampalam

1469: European Anti-dumping Policy and the Profitability of National and International Collusion

Reinhilde Veugelers and Hylke Vandenbussche

1468: Promoting an Effective Market Economy in a Changing World

Nicholas Stern, Willem Buiter and Ricardo Lago

1467: R&D Spillovers and Global Growth

Elhanan Helpman, David Coe and Tamim Bayoumi

1466: Interpreting the ERM Crisis: Country-Specific and Systemic Issues

Willem Buiter, Paolo Pesenti and Giancarlo Corsetti

1465: Growth Effects of European Integration

Magnus Henrekson and Rasha Torstensson

1464: Relative Labour Productivity and the Real Exchange Rate in the Long Run: Evidence for a Panel of OECD Countries

Matthew Canzoneri, Robert Cumby and Behzad Diba

1463: Fiscal Constraints on Central Bank Independence and Price Stability

Matthew Canzoneri and Behzad Diba

1462: Migration as Disaster Relief: Lessons from the Great Irish Famine

Gráda, Cormac Ó and Kevin O'Rourke

1461: Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Klaus Zimmermann and Ira Gang

1460: Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Daron Acemoglu

1459: Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence

Daron Acemoglu

1458: The Prospects of a Mini Currency Union in 1999

Paul De Grauwe

1457: Inflation Targeting to Achieve Inflation Convergence in the Transition Towards EMU

Paul De Grauwe

1456: Monetary Policy, Forward Rates and Long Rates: Does Germany Differ from the United States?

Carlo Favero, Marco Pifferi and Fabrizio Iacone

1455: Vertical Product Differentiation and Entry Deterrence

Stefan Lutz

1454: Arbitrage, Hedging and Financial Innovation

Malcolm Davidson

1453: Contagious Currency Crises

Charles Wyplosz, Barry Eichengreen and Andrew Rose

1452: Transition Dynamics and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries

Hakan Nordstrom, Joseph Francois and Clinton R. Shiells