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118: The Relationship between Location Choice and Earnings Inequality

Peter McHenry

117: Do Environmental Audits Improve Long-term Compliance? Evidence from Manufacturing Facilities in Michigan

Sarah Stafford

116: On the Long-Term Impact of a Fiscal Devaluation: An Application to the Portuguese Case

Alfredo Pereira, Rui Pereira and Pedro Rodrigues

115: Fossil Fuel Prices and the Economic and Budgetary Challenges of a Small Energy-Importing Economy: The Case of Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Rui Pereira

114: Environmental Fiscal Reform and Fiscal Consolidation: The Quest for the Third Dividend in Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Rui Pereira

113: Political Parties in Business

Berhanu Abegaz

112: The Relationship between Location Choice and Earnings Inequality

Peter McHenry

111: Private Policing of Environmental Performance: Does it Further Public Goals?

Sarah Stafford

110: On the environmental, economic and budgetary impacts of fossil fuel prices: A dynamic general equilibrium analysis of the Portuguese case

Alfredo Pereira and Rui Pereira

109: Final energy demand in Portugal: How persistent it is and why it matters for environmental policy*

Alfredo Pereira and José Belbute

108: On the economic effects of public infrastructure investment:A survey of the international evidence

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

107: On the effects of highway investment on the regional concentration of economic activity in the USA

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

106: Why are target interest rate changes so persistent?

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

105: What is it going to take to achieve 2020 Emission Targets? Marginal abatement cost curves and the budgetary impact of CO2 taxation in Portugal (

Alfredo Pereira and Rui Pereira

104: Management of Hazardous Waste and Contaminated Land

Hilary Sigman and Sarah Stafford

103: Outsourcing Enforcement: Principles to Guide Self-Policing Regimes

Sarah Stafford

102: Information Rigidity and the Expectations Formation Process: A Simple Framework and New Facts

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

101: NEIGHBORS AND CO-WORKERS:THE IMPORTANCE OF RESIDENTIAL LABOR MARKET NETWORKS

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

100: SPATIAL MISMATCH, IMMIGRANT NETWORKS, AND HISPANIC EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

99: Are Gold Plated Room & Board Charges Important Drivers of College Cost?

Robert Archibald and David Feldman

98: Donor Policies, Industry Structure, and the Global Allocation of Electrification Aid, 1970-2001

William Hausman, John Neufeld and Till Schreiber

97: The Stability and Growth Pact: Past Performance and Future Reforms

Amy Filipek and Till Schreiber

96: ON THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF INVESTMENT IN RAILROAD INFRASTRUCTURES IN PORTUGAL

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

95: Savings and Economies of Marriage: Intra-Marriage Financial Distributions as Determinants of Savings

Shoshana Grossbard and Alfredo Pereira

94: Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation and the Great Moderation:An Alternative Interpretation

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

93: Strategic Interaction among Heterogeneous Price-Setters in an Estimated DSGE Model

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

92: The Geographic Distribution of Human Capital: Measurement of Contributing Mechanisms

Peter McHenry

91: The Optimal Inflation Rate in New Keynesian Models

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Johannes Wieland

90: Are the effects of monetary policy shocks big or small?

Olivier Coibion

89: The Predictive Content of Commodity Futures

Menzie Chinn and Olivier Coibion

88: Privatizing Public Services and Strategic Behavior: The Impact of Incentives to Reduce Workers’ Compensation Claim Duration

Melissa McInerney

87: Is Fuel-Switching a No-Regrets Environmental Policy? VAR Evidence on Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Energy Consumption and Economic Performance in Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Rui Pereira

86: Religious Participation and Risky Health Behaviors among Adolescents

Jennifer Mellor and Beth Freeborn

85: Persuasive and Informative Advertising: A Classroom Experiment

Beth Freeborn and Jason Hulbert

84: Risk Aversion and Tacit Collusion in a Bertrand Duopoly Experiment

Lisa Anderson, Beth Freeborn and Jason Hulbert

83: International Water Contracts and Household Outcomes: Evidence from Albania

Justin May and Andrews Bacher-Hicks

82: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Announcements on Public Goods Contributions

Lisa Anderson and Sarah Stafford

81: SOCIAL SECURITY AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL: AFTER ALL THAT HAS BEEN SAID AND DONE HOW MUCH HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED?

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

80: Common Property, Information, and Cooperation: Commercial Fishing in the Bering Sea

Robert Hicks, Alan Haynie and Kurt Schnier

79: On the Potential Economic Costs of Cutting Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Rui Pereira

78: Do Environmental Audits Improve Long-term Compliance? Evidence from Manufacturing Facilities in Michigan

Mary Evans, Lirong Liu and Sarah Stafford

77: How Green is Your Campus? An Analysis of the Factors that Drive Universities to Embrace Sustainability

Sarah Stafford

76: How to Think About Changes in Higher Education Affordability

Robert Archibald and David Feldman

75: Varying the Intensity of Competition in a Multiple Prize Rent Seeking Experiment

Lisa Anderson and Beth Freeborn

74: Are Risk Preferences Stable? Comparing an Experimental Measure with a Validated Survey-Based Measure

Lisa Anderson and Jennifer Mellor

73: Tacit Collusion in Price-Setting Duopoly Markets: Experimental Evidence

Lisa Anderson, Beth Freeborn and Charles Holt

72: The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

David Jaeger, Esteban Klor, Sami Miaari and M. Daniele Paserman

71: The Debate on Right-to-Carry Concealed Weapons Laws

Carlisle Moody and Thomas Marvell

70: On the Regional Incidence of Public Investment in Highways in the USA

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

69: The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States

Randall Akee, David Jaeger and Konstantinos Tatsiramos