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151: Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly

Dermot Leahy and Catia Montagna

150: Local Currency Pricing, Foreign Monetary Shocks and Exchange Rate Policy

Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland

149: Endogenous Price Flexibility and Optimal Monetary Policy

Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland

148: Moody choice

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

147: Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South

Julia Darby, Rodolphe Desbordes and Ian Wooton

146: Multi-agent contracting with countervailing incentives and limited liability

Daniel Danau and Annalisa Vinella

145: Who Ultimately Bears the Burden of Greater Non-Wage Labour costs?

Azémar, Céline and Rodolphe Desbordes

144: An investigation of customer order flow in the foreign exchange market

Mario Cerrato, Nicholas Sarantis and Alex Saunders

143: The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States

James Feyrer, Dimitra Politi and David Weil

142: Strong Hysteresis due to Age Effects

Yu-Fu Chen and Gylfi Zoega

141: Work Hours, Social Value of Leisure and Globalisation

Hansen, Jørgen Drud, Nielsen, Jørgen Ulff-Møller, Hassan Molana and Catia Montagna

140: Ocial Central Bank Interventions in the Foreign Exchange Markets: A DCC Approach with Exogenous Variables

Nikolaos Antonakakis

139: Modeling U.S. Inflation Dynamics: A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach

Markus Jochmann

138: On the FDI-attracting property of privatizatio

Oscar Amerighi and Giuseppe De Feo

137: IInflation and Globalisation: A Dynamic Factor Model with Stochastic Volatility

Joseph Byrne, Fatima Kaneez and Alexandros Kontonikas

136: Adaptation or Social Comparison? The effects of income on happiness

Luis Angeles

135: The Impact of Iodine Deficiency Eradication on Schooling: Evidence from the Introduction of Iodized Salt in Switzerland

Dimitra Politi

134: Adaptation and anticipation effects to life events in the United Kingdom

Luis Angeles

133: Industrial Structure, Trade and Regional Economics: Market Segmentation

Vito Amendolagine and Gabriel Talmain

132: The demand for intensity versus frequency of alcohol consumption: Evidence from rural Australia

Dennis Petrie, Christopher Doran, Anthony Shakeshaft and Rob Sanson-Fisher

131: Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix for lYBIA

Jamal Kerwat, John Dewhurst and Hassan Molana

130: Climbing to the top? Foreign Direct Investment and Property Rights

Fathi Ali, Norbert Fiess and Ronald MacDonald

129: The Estimation of Technical Efficiency Effects Models with an Example Applied to the Thai Manufacturing Sector

Suwanee Arunsawadiwong and Gavin Reid

128: Rebound and disinvestment effects in oil consumption and supply resulting from an increase in energy efficiency in the Scottish commercial transport sector

Sam Ansona and Karen Turner

127: Devolution & Entrenched Household Poverty: Is Scotland less mobile?

Carlo Morelli and Paul Seaman

126: 3-Regime symmetric STAR modeling and exchange rate reversion

Mario Cerrato, Hyunsok Kim and Ronald MacDonald

125: Electoral Uncertainty and the Deficit Bias in a New Keynesian Economy

Campbell Leith and Simon Wren-Lewis

124: Do political incentives matter for tax policies? Ideology, opportunism and the tax structure

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, George Economides and Pantelis Kammas

123: Exchange rate forecasters’ performance: evidence of skill?

Ronald MacDonald, Lukas Menkhoff and Rafael R. Rebitzky

122: A Model of Near-Rational Exuberance

George Evans, James Bullard and Seppo Honkapohja

121: Negative rebound and disinvestment effects in response to an improvement in energy efficiency in the UK economy

Karen Turner

120: The added value from adopting a CGE approach to analyse changes in environmental trade balances

Karen Turner, Michelle Gilmartin, Peter McGregor and John Swales

119: Hawtreyan Credit Deadlock or Keynesian Liquidity Trap? Lessons for Japan from the Great Depression

Roger Sandilands

118: Testing the TASP: An Experimental Investigation of Learning in Games with Unstable Equilibria

Timothy Cason, Daniel Friedman and Ed Hopkins

117: New Evidence on Allyn Young’s Style and Influence as a Teacher

Roger Sandilands

116: An Archival Case Study: Revisiting The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie

Roger Sandilands

115: Technology shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an estimated hybrid RBC model

Jim University of Glasgow Malley and Ulrich Woitek

114: Testing for Proportional Hazards with Unrestricted Univariate Unobserved Heterogeneity

Arnab Bhattacharjee

113: A New Test of the Real Interest Rate Parity Hypothesis: Bounds Approach and Structural Breaks

George Bagdatoglou and Alexandros Kontonikas

112: Do Productivity Improvements Move Us Along the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

Karen Turner, Nick Hanley and Janine De Fence

111: When is Monetary Policy All we Need?

Campbell Leith and Simon Wren-Lewis

110: Avoidance Policies – A New Conceptual Framework

David Ulph

109: Short-Run Strategies For Attracting Foreign Direct Investment

Celine Azemar and Rodolphe Desbordes

108: Shocks, Monetary Policy and Institutions: Explaining Unemployment Persistence in Persistence in

Ansgar Rannenberg

107: Analysing the impact of public capital stock using the NEG wage equation: a panel data approach

Gómez-Antonioa, Miguel and Bernard Fingleton

106: The Good, the Bad and the Populist: A Model of Political Agency with Emotional Voters

Colin Jennings

105: Booms, Recessions and Financial Turmoil: A Fresh Look at Investment Decisions under Cyclical Uncertainty

Yu-Fu Chen and Michael Funke

104: Are two tax rates better than one?

Felix FitzRoy and Jim Jin

103: Solovian and New Growth Theory from the Perspective of Allyn Young on Macroeconomic Increasing Returns

Roger Sandilands

102: Dynamic Option Adjusted Spread and the Value of Mortgage Backed Securities (Draft 2)

Mario Cerrato and Abdelmadjid Djennad