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101: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Intangible Assets and Firm Growth: the impact of ‘Spirit and Material’ on the growth of Chinese private firms

Gavin Reid and Zhibin Xu

100: Simulating Wages and House Prices Using the NEG

Bernard Fingleton

99: How do improvements in labour productivity in the Scottish economy affect the UK position on the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

Karen Turner and Nick Hanley

98: On Public Inefficiencies in a Mixed Duopoly

Carlo Capuano and Giuseppe De Feo

97: Measuring Avoidable Health Inequality with Realization of Conditional Potential Life Years (RCPLY)

Dennis Petrie, Kam Ki Tang and D.S. Prasada Rao

96: Technical Appendix-3-Regime asymmetric STAR modeling and exchange rate reversion

Mario Cerrato, Hyunsok Kim and Ronald MacDonald

95: Optimal Martingales and American Option Pricing

Mario Cerrato and Abdollah Abbasyan

94: Structural Interactions in Spatial Panels

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly

93: UK Macroeconomic Forecasting with Many Predictors: Which Models Forecast Best and When Do They Do So?

Gary Koop and Dimitris Korobilis

92: Expressive Political Behaviour: Foundations, Scope and Implications

Alan Hamlin and Colin Jennings

91: Optimal Climate Change Policies When Governments Cannot Commit

Alistair Ulph and David Ulph

90: An interregional input-output analysis of the pollution content of trade flows and environmental trade balances between five states in the US Mid-West

Soo Junga Ha, Karen Turner and Geoffrey Hewings

89: Stochastic Search Variable Selection in Vector Error Correction Models with an Application to a Model of the UK Macroeconomy

Markus Jochmann, Gary Koop, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Rodney Strachan

88: Harmful competition in the insurance markets

Giuseppe De Feo and Jean Hindriks

87: Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Deep Habits

Campbell Leith, Ioana Moldovan and Raffaele Rossi

86: The Taylor Principle and (In-) Determinacy in a New Keynesian Model with hiring Frictions and Skill Loss

Ansgar Rannenberg

85: Both Sides of the Story: Skill-biased Technological Change, Labour Market Frictions, and Endogenous Two-Sided Heterogeneity

Aricó, Fabio R.

84: Colonialism, European Descendants and Democracy

Luis Angeles

83: Institutions and the Scale Effect

Alex Trew

82: Understanding Interactions in Social Networks and Committees

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly

81: What Belongs Where? Variable Selection for Zero-Inflated Count Models with an Application to the Demand for Health Care

Markus Jochmann

80: Bargaining and Conflict with Incomplete Information

Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

79: Modern British Retailing in the Late 20th Century: Increasing Value?

Carlo Morelli

78: The Greying Church: The Impact of Life Expectancy on Religiosity

Elissaios Papyrakis and Geethanjali Selvaretnam

77: Responsibility for regional waste generation: A single region extended input-output analysis with uni-directional trade flows

Christa D. Jensen, Stuart McIntyre, Karen Turner and Max Munday

76: Growth and Survival Determinants of Chinese Private Firms: Fieldwork evidence and econometric estimates

Gavin Reid and Zhibin Xu

75: A Soft Edge Target Zone Model: Theory And Application To Hong Kong

Yu-Fu Chen, Michael Funke and Nicole Glanemann

74: The Rebound Effect with Energy Production: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis

Grant Allan, Peter McGregor, John Swales and Karen Turner

73: Bayesian Inference in the Time Varying Cointegration Model

Gary Koop, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Rodney Strachan

72: The Dynamics of UK and US Inflation Expectations

Deborah Gefang, Gary Koop and Simon Potter

71: Financial shocks and the US business cycle

Charles Nolan and Christoph Thoenissen

70: Do institutions matter for economic fluctuations? Weak property rights in a business cycle model for Mexico

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, George Economides and Vanghelis Vassilatos

69: Welfare Implications of Public Education Spending Rules

Jim Malley and Apostolis Philippopoulos

68: Optimal Monetary Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Habits in Consumption

Campbell Leith, Ioana Moldovan and Raffaele Rossi

67: Democratization as a cost-saving device

Luis Angeles

66: Productivity, Preferences and UIP deviations in an Open Economy Business Cycle Model

Arnab Bhattacharjee, Qi Sun and Jagjit Chadha

65: Structural Breaks in the Real Exchange Rate and Real Interest Rate Relationship

Joseph Byrne and Jun Nagayasu

64: China´s new labour contract law: no harm to employment?

Yu-Fu Chen and Michael Funke

63: The Relative Efficiency of Automatic and Discretionary Industrial Aid

John Swales

62: Common and Idiosyncratic Factors of the Exchange Risk Premium in Emerging European Markets

Joseph Byrne and Jun Nagayasu

61: On the characterisation and measurement of the welfare effects of income mobility from an ex-ante perspective

Paul Allanson

60: Recruitment and retention incentives in health labour markets: an analysis of participation in NHS Scotland following Dental Vocational

Martin Chalkley, Colin Tilley and J. S. Rennie

59: Is the consumption-income ratio stationary? Evidence from linear and nonlinear panel unit root tests for OECD and non-OECD countries

Mario Cerrato, Christian de Peretti and Chris Stewart

58: The Effect of Activity-Based Payment on Dentists’ Activity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the UK National Health Service

Debbie Bonnetti, Martin Chalkley, Jan Clarkson, Colin Tilley and Linda Young

57: Valuing American Derivatives by Least Squares Methods

Mario Cerrato

56: Choice of Contracts in the British National Health Service: An Empirical Study

Martin Chalkley

55: The Importance of Revenue Sharing for the Local Economic Impacts of a Renewable Energy Project: A Social Accounting Matrix Approach

Grant Allan, Graham Ault, Peter McGregor and John Swales

54: Firms in Scottish High Technology Clusters: software, life sciences, microelectronics, optoelectronics and digital media preliminary evidence and analysis on firm size, growth and optimality

Gavin Reid and Vandana Ujjual

53: International Corporate Taxation and U.S. Multinationals Behavior: an Integrated Approach

Celine Azemar

52: Outsourcing versus FDI in oligopoly equilibrium

Dermot Leahy and Catia Montagna