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198: Job Search in Thick Markets: Evidence from Italy

Sabrina Di Addario

197: Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Plant Performance in Indonesia

Jens Arnold and Beata Javorcik

196: Je t'aime, moi non plus: Bilateral opinions and international trade

Anne-Célia Disdier and Thierry Mayer

195: Migration and Technological Change in Rural Households: Complements or Substitutes?

Mariapia Mendola

194: The pace and distribution of health improvements during the last 40 years: some preliminary results

Giovanni Cornia and Leonardo Menchini

193: Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara

192: Trade liberalization in a globalizing world

Riccardo Faini

191: Who runs the IFIs?

Riccardo Faini and Enzo Grilli

190: Wage Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual Micro Data 1991-1996

Anna M. Falzoni, Alessandra Venturini and Claudia Villosio

189: What does motivate lending and aid to the HIPCs?

Silvia Marchesi and Alessandro Missale

188: Foreign Direct Investment, Wage Inequality, and Skilled Labor Demand in EU Accession Countries

Giovanni Bruno, Rosario Crinò and Anna M. Falzoni

187: Who is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Anna Maria Mayda

186: The Puzzling Persistence of the Distance Effect on Bilateral Trade

Anne-Célia Disdier and Keith Head

185: A Price Based Approach To Estimate The Effects Of Monetary Arrangements On Trade Integration

David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

184: Export Behavior and Firm productivity in German Manufacturing. A Firm-Level Analysis

Jens Arnold and Katrin Hussinger

183: Location Choices of Multinational Firms in Europe: the Role of National Bourdaries and EU Policy

Roberto Basile and Davide Castellani

182: Cost-benefit Analysis and Rates of Return of Development Projects: An International Comparison

Massimo Florio

181: Cost-benefit analysis of Infrastructure Projects in an Enlarged European Union: an Incentive-Oriented Approach

Massimo Florio and Silvia Vignetti

180: Investments Abroad and Performance at Home Evidence from Italian Multinationals

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Davide Castellani

179: Agricultural Technology and Povertry Reduction: A Micro-Level Analysis of Causal Effects

Mariapia Mendola

178: Public Debt Management in Brazil

Alessandro Missale and Francesco Giavazzi

177: Working on the Train? The Role of Technical Progress and Trade in Explaining Wage Differentials in Italian Firms

Paolo Manasse and Luca Stanca

176: The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Enterprises in Small Backward Economies: The Case of Chad and Gabon

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini and Bernard Gauthier

175: GATT-Think with Asymmetric Countries

Paolo Epifani and Juliette Vitaloni

174: Globalization, Divergence and Stagnation

Gino Gancia

173: The Brain Drain: an Unmitigated Blessing?

Riccardo Faini

172: Trade Liberalization, Firm Performance and Labour Market Outcomes in the Developing World: What Can We Learn from Micro-LevelData?

Paolo Epifani

171: The Twin Effects of Globalization

Francesco Daveri, Paolo Manasse and Danila Serra

170: Do Not Get Trapped into Crossing: Indian Firms and Foreign Markets

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Marzio Galeotti and Alessandra Tucci

169: Foreign Direct Investment, Competitive Pressure and Spillovers. An Empirical Analysis on Spanish Firm Level Data

Alessandro Sembenelli and Georges Siotis

168: Adjusting Labour Demand: Multinationals vs. National Firms: A Cross-European Analysis

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Daniele Checchi and Alessandro Turrini

167: Vertical FDI Reviseted

Henrik Braconier, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Dieter Urban

166: Foreign Ownership and Productivity: is the Direction of Causality so Obvious?

Luigi Benfratello and Alessandro Sembenelli

165: Distance and FDI when Contracts are Incomplete

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Alessandro Turrini

164: The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany

Giovanni Peri and Dieter Urban

163: Self-Help Groups and Income Generation in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi

Eliana La Ferrara

162: Wage Premia and Skill Upgrading in Italy: Why Didn't the Hound Bark?

Paolo Manasse, Luca Stanca and Alessandro Turrini

161: Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Employment Effects in the EU

Henrik Braconier and Karolina Ekholm

160: Foreign Direct Investment and the Single Market

J. Peter Neary

159: Traders, Courts and the Home Bias Puzzle

Alessandro Turrini and Tanguy van Ypersele

158: Divergence. Is it Geography?

Thomas Straubhaar, Marc Suhrcke and Dieter Urban

157: The Dictator and the Parties A Study on Policy Co-operation in Mineral Economies

Pablo Astorga

156: Geography, Migrations and Equilibrium Unemployment

Paolo Epifani and Gino Gancia

155: Footloose Capital, Market Access, and the Geography of Regional State Aid

Gianmarco Ottaviano

154: Weightless Machines and Costless Knowledge An Empirical Analysis of Trade and Technology Diffusion

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Isidro Soloaga

153: Banks' Inefficiency and Economic Growth A Micro-Macro Approach

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti, Luca Papi and Alberto Zazzaro

152: Adoption of an IMF Programme and Debt Rescheduling. An Empirical Analysis

Silvia Marchesi

151: For Whom is MAI? A theoretical Perspective on Multilateral Agreements on Investments

Alessandro Turrini and Dieter Urban

150: Collective Action for Local-Level Effort Regulation: an Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries

Frédéric Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau

149: The Winner's Curse: Premature Monetary Integration in the NAFTA

Valpy FitzGerald

148: How Does the EU Agenda Influence Economies outside the EU? The Case of Tunisia

Luca Papi and Alberto Zazzaro

147: Collusion and Group Lending with Adverse Selection

Jean-Jacques Laffont

146: Why Doesn´t Development Always Succeed? The Role of a Work Ethic

Patrick Francois and Jan Zabojnik

145: Returns to Social Network Capital among Traders

Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten

144: Encroached Entitlements: Corruption and Appropriation of Irrigation Water in Southern Pun jab Pakistan)

Jean-Paul Azam and Jean-Daniel Rinaud

143: Dynamic Interactions between the Macro-Environment, Development Thinking and Group Behaviour

Frances Stewart

142: Currency Crisis and Multiple Equilibria: The Role of Co-ordination Failures among Heterogeneous Investors

Andrea Finicelli

141: Skills, Agglomeration and Segmentation

Tomoya Mori and Alessandro Turrini

140: Distortionary Effects of Depreciations and the Real Exchange Rate

Matteo Salto

139: Moving Skills from Hands to Heads: Import of Technology and Export Performance

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Marzio Galeotti and Andrea Mattozzi

138: Inequality and Group Participation: Theory and Evidence from Rural Tanzania

Eliana La Ferrara

137: Desperately Seeking Environmental Kuznets

Marzio Galeotti and Alessandro Lanza

136: Neoclassical Growth, Manufacturing Agglomeration and Terms of Trade

Dieter Urban

135: Globalization, Peripherality and Regional Unemployment Divergence

Paolo Epifani

134: Patterns and Determinants of International Fragmentation of Production. Evidence from Outward Processing Trade between the EU and the Countries of Central-Eastern Europe

Salvatore Baldone, Fabio Sdogati and Lucia Tajoli

133: Foreign Direct Investment in the Banking Sector: A Transitional Economy Perspective

Luca Papi and Debora Revoltella

132: The District Goes Global: Export vs. FDI

Giorgio Basevi and Gianmarco Ottaviano

131: Wealth Constraints, Sharecropping Contracts and Transition to a Modern Sector

Eugenio Proto

130: Multinational Corporations, Wages and Employment: Do Adjustment Costs Matter?

Giovanni Bruno and Anna M. Falzoni

129: Policy Issues in Market Based and Non Market Based Measures To Control the Volatility of Portfolio Investment

E.V.K. FitzGerald

128: Technology Support for Small Industries in Developing Countries: From Supply Push to Eightfold-C

Henny Romijn

127: Trade, Wages and Superstars

Paolo Manasse and Alessandro Turrini

126: Italian Multinationals and De-localisation of Production

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Anna M. Falzoni and Alessandro Turrini

125: Inequality in Incomes and Access to Education. A Cross-Country Analysis (1960-95)

Daniele Checchi