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949: Some Political Aspects of Unemployment

Gilles Saint-Paul

948: The Financing of Industry, 1970-89: An International Comparison

Jenny Corbett and Tim Jenkinson

947: Differences in the Labour Market Behaviour Between Temporary and Permanent Migrant Women

Christian Dustmann

946: Tying Trade Flows: A Theory of Countertrade

Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer

945: The Political Economy of State Aids in the European Community: Some Econometric Evidence

Damien Neven

944: King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank and The East Asian Miracle

Dani Rodrik

943: The Role of Political Constraints in Transition Strategies

Gérard Roland

942: On the Speed and Sequencing of Privatization and Restructuring

Gérard Roland

941: Monetary Policy with Flexible Exchange Rates and Forward Interest Rates as Indicators

Lars Svensson

940: The Simplest Test of Inflation Target Credibility

Lars Svensson

939: Understanding the Matching Function: The Role of Newspapers and Job Agencies

Melvyn Coles

938: Strategic Bargaining and Competitive Bidding in a Dynamic Market Equilibrium

Melvyn Coles and Abhinay Muthoo

937: An Imperfectly Competitive Open Economy with Sequential Bargaining in the Labour Market

Huw Dixon and Michele Santoni

936: Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimueller

935: Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: An Analysis Based on Local Labour Markets

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Johannes Velling

934: Budget Incidence of Immigration into Switzerland: A Cross-Section Analysis of the Public Transfer System

Thomas Straubhaar and ,

933: Optimal Transportation Policy with Strategic Locational Choice

Jacques Thisse and David Wildasin

932: Characteristics of Economic Growth in the Netherlands During the Post-war Period

Bart van Ark, , and Jakob de Haan

931: Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Sweden

Blomström, Magnus and Ari Kokko

930: Converting Unemployment Benefits into Employment Subsidies

Dennis Snower

929: Exchange Rate Volatility, Monetary Policy, and Capital Mobility: Empirical Evidence on the Holy Trinity

Andrew Rose

928: Stage Two: Feasible Transitions to EMU

Michael Artis

927: Small Firms and R&D Spillovers: Evidence from Italy

David Audretsch and Marco Vivarelli

926: Competition, Market Niches, and Efficiency: A Structural Model of the European Airline Industry

Röller, Lars Hendrik and Robin Siekles

925: Macroeconomic Stabilization and Intervention Policy Under an Exchange Rate Band

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Roel Beetsma

924: Auctions vs. Negotiations

Jeremy Bulow and Paul Klemperer

923: The Role of Rents to Human Capital in Economic Development

Gilles Saint-Paul

922: Convergence Clubs and Diverging Economies

Dan Ben-David

921: Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Human Capital

Gilles Saint-Paul

920: Indian Public Finance in the 1990s: Challenges and Prospects

Willem Buiter and U Patel

919: Central Bank Constitutions for Monetary Unions

Juergen von Hagen and Süppel, Ralph

918: Relative Wage Effects of German Unions

Christoph Schmidt

917: Industrial Localization. An Empirical Test for Marshallian Localization Economies

Juergen von Hagen and George Hammond

916: Centralization, Renationalization, Redistribution. The Role of the Government in Changing the Ownership Structure in Hungary, 1

Eva Voszka

915: Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area?

Peter Bofinger and Barry Eichengreen

914: Regional Convergence in the European Community

Damien Neven and Claudine Gouyette

913: Gender, Poverty and the Intra-household Distribution of Resources

Ronald Findlay and Robert Wright

912: Job Creation and Job Destruction in Britain: 1980-90

David Blanchflower and Simon Burgess

911: Structural Adjustment, Efficiency, and Economic Growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason

910: Trade Effects of Regional Aid

Philippe Martin and Carol Rogers

909: Industrial Location and Public Infrastructure

Philippe Martin and Carol Rogers

908: The Politics of Free Trade Agreements

Elhanan Helpman and Gene Grossman

907: Choosing the Width of Exchange Rate Bands - Credibility vs. Flexibility

Alex Cukierman, Leonardo Leiderman and Yossi Spiegel

906: Return Intentions of Migrants: Theory and Evidence

Christian Dustmann

905: Speaking Fluency, Writing Fluency and Earnings of Migrants

Christian Dustmann

904: Interest Rates, Growth and External Debt: The Macroeconomic Impact of Mexico's Brady Deal

Sweder van Wijnbergen, Stijn Claessens and Daniel Oks

903: Labour Market Structure, Conservative Bankers and the Feasibility of Monetary Union

Paul Levine and Joseph Pearlman

902: International Capital Mobility in the 1990s

Maurice Obstfeld

901: Economic Growth and the Swedish Model

Lars Jonung, Magnus Henrekson and Joakim Stymne

900: Taking Trade Policy Seriously: Export Subsidization as a Case Study in Policy Effectiveness

Dani Rodrik

899: On the Optimal Structure of Local Governments

Jacques Thisse, David Pines and Oded Hochman

898: On the Role of Banks in Enterprise Restructuring: The Polish Example

Sweder van Wijnbergen

897: The EC and World Protectionism: Dimensions of the Political Economy

L. Winters

896: West German Growth and Institutions, 1945-90

Wendy Carlin

895: Comparative Productivity in East and West German Manufacturing Before Reunification

Bart van Ark

894: Interest Associations and Economic Growth. A Critique of Mancur Olson's `Rise and Decline of Nations'

Frans van Waarden and Brigitte Unger

893: Dynamic Behaviour of Wages and Employment: A Bargaining Model Introducing Adjustment Costs

Leonor Modesto

892: Privatization and Deindustrialization in East Germany

Wendy Carlin

891: Large Shareholders, Private Benefits of Control and Optimal Schemes for Privatization

Francesca Cornelli and David Li

890: Nominal Rigidity and Monetary Uncertainty

Neil Rankin

889: Accountability and Decentralization in Government: An Incomplete Contracts Model

Paul Seabright

888: Income Risk, Borrowing Constraints and Portfolio Choice

Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli and Daniele Terlizzese

887: Public Investment and Welfare: Theory and Empirical Implications

Tullio Jappelli and Andrea Ripa di Meana

886: Integration, Specialization and Adjustment

Anthony Venables and Paul Krugman

885: Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Sergio Rebelo and William Easterly

884: Union Membership and Wage Bargaining When Membership is Not Compulsory

Alison Booth and Monojit Chatterji

883: Why People Don't Find Work

Dennis Snower

882: Search, Concave Production, and Optimal Firm Size

Eric Smith

881: Getting a Fair Share of the Plunder? Technology, Skill and Wages in British Establishments

John van Reenen

880: Predicting Turning Points in the UK Inflation Cycle

Michael Artis

879: A Model of the ERM Crisis

Alan Sutherland and Gulcin Ozkan

878: The Economics of Bankruptcy and the Transition to a Market Economy

Konstantine Gatsios and Istvan Abel

877: Italy's Economic Performance 1945-92

Gianni Toniolo and Nicola Rossi

876: Competition, Competition Policy and the GATT

Petros C. Mavroidis

875: Immigration, Human Capital and Growth in the Host Country: Evidence from Pooled Country Data

Juan Dolado, Andrea Ichino and ,

874: Employment, Innovation and Union Bargaining Models: New Tests and Evidence from UK Manufacturing Firms

John van Reenen

873: One Business Cycle and One Trend from (Many) Many Disaggregates

Danny Quah

872: Fixed Exchange Rates as a Means to Price Stability: What Have We Learned?

Lars Svensson

871: Why Does the Self-Employment Rate Vary Across Countries and Over Time?

David Audretsch, David Evans and Zoltan Acs

870: Is Fixed Investment the Key to Economic Growth?

Robert Lipsey, Blomström, Magnus and Mario Zejan

869: Does a Tougher Environmental Policy Raise Unemployment? Optimal Taxation, Public Goods and Environmental Policy With Rationing

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Lans Bovenberg

868: Gross Worker and Job Flows in Europe

Charles Wyplosz and Michael Burda

867: Inequality and the Political Economy of Eurosclerosis

Paul Krugman

866: Computing Effective Tax Rates on Factor Incomes and Consumption: An International Macroeconomic Perspective

Assaf Razin, Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

865: Innovation and R&D Spillovers

David Audretsch, Maryann P Feldman and Acs, Zoltán J

864: New-Firm Start-ups in Italy

David Audretsch and Marco Vivarelli

863: Eastern Germany: Can't We Be More Optimistic?

Michael Burda and Michael Funke

862: Do Low-Income Countries Have a High-Wage Option?

Dani Rodrik

861: Growth in a Dual Economy

Blomström, Magnus and Edward Wolff

860: The Design of Reform Packages Under Uncertainty

Mathias Dewatripont and Gérard Roland

859: Skill Shortages, Productivity Growth and Wage Inflation in UK Manufacturing

Christopher Martin and Jonathan Haskel

858: Explaining Disparities in Unemployment Dynamics

Dennis Snower and Marika Karanassou

857: A Domino Theory of Regionalism

Richard Baldwin

856: Phasing in and Phasing Out Protectionism with Costly Adjustment of Labour

Larry Karp and Thierry Paul

855: Retirement of Spouses and Social Security Reform

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Falkinger and Josef Zweimueller

854: The Impact of Emigration on Real Wages in Ireland 1850-1914

Timothy Hatton, George Boyer and Kevin O'Rourke

853: The Potential for Trade Between the Countries of EFTA and Central and Eastern Europe

Richard Baldwin

852: European Exchange Rate Credibility Before the Fall

Lars Svensson and Andrew Rose

851: Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labour: A Random Effects Panel Analysis

Klaus Zimmermann

850: On the Historical Continuity of the Process of Economic Growth

Theo van de Klundert and Ton Schaik