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591: Can Early Intervention Policies Improve Well-being? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Michael Daly, Liam Delaney, Orla Doyle, Nick Fitzpatrick and Christine O'Farrelly

590: Autonomy-enhancing paternalism

Martin Binder and Leonhard K Lades

589: The Emperor Has New Clothes: Empirical Tests of Mainstream Theories of Economic Growth

David Greasley, Nick Hanley, Eoin McLaughlin and Les Oxley

586: Model Uncertainty in Panel Vector Autoregressive Models

Gary Koop and Dimitris Korobilis

585: Optimal progressive taxation in a model with endogenous skill supply

Kostantinos Angelopoulos, Stylianos Asimakopoulos and Jim Malley

584: On the real effects of financial pressure: Evidence from euro area firm-level employment during the recent financial crisis

Filipa Fernandes, Alexandros Kontonikas and Serafeim Tsoukas

583: Monetary Policy in Times of Financial Stress

Alexandros Kontonikas, Charles Nolan and Zivile Zekaite

582: The Inflation Bias under Calvo and Rotemberg Pricing

Campbell Leith and Ding Liu

581: The Growth in Inter-connectedness in the Scottish Economy 1998-2007; a disaggregated analysis

John Dewhurst

580: Atomic Cournotian Traders May Be Walrasian

Giulio Codognato, Sayantan Ghosal and Simone Tonin

574: The rise and fall of piecework-timework wage differentials: market volatility, labor heterogeneity, and output pricing

Robert Hart and J Roberts

573: Genuine savings and future well-being in Germany, 1850-2000

Matthias Blum, Eoin McLaughlin and Nick Hanley

572: The Effects of Experience on Preference Uncertainty: Theory and Empirics for Public and Quasi-Public Environmental Goods

Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley and Jacob LaRiviere

571: Ecological-economic modelling of interactions between wild and commercial bees and pesticide use

Adam Kleczkowski, Ciaran Ellis, Dave Goulson, Frans de Vries and Nick Hanley

570: The Impact of Information Provision on Agglomeration Bonus Performance: An Experimental Study on Local Networks

Simanti Banerjee, Frans de Vries, Nick Hanley and Daan van Soest

569: Estimating the Price of ROCs

Jeff Bryan, Ian Lange and Alex MacDonald

568: Overtime Working and Contract Efficiency

Robert Hart and Yue Ma

567: Data-based priors for vector autoregressions with drifting coefficients

Dimitris Korobilis

566: Exchange Rate Predictability in a Changing World

Joseph Byrne, Dimitris Korobilis and Pinho J. Ribeiro

565: Noncooperative Oligopoly in Markets with a Continuum of Traders: A Limit Theorem µa la Cournot

Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato and Sayantan Ghosal

564: Self-Confidence, Overconfidence and Prenatal Testosterone Exposure: Evidence from the Lab

Patricio Dalton and Sayantan Ghosal

563: Fact And Fictions In FX Arbitrage Processes

Rod Cross and Victor Kozyakin

562: Determinants of public education expenditure: Evidence from Indian states

Monojit Chatterji, Sushil Mohan and Sayantan Ghosh Dastidar

561: Tax smoothing in a business cycle model with capital-skill complementarity

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Stylianos Asimakopoulos and Jim Malley

560: The Liberal Ethics of Non-Interference and the Pareto Principle

Marco Mariotti and Roberto Veneziani

559: Spatial Takeoff in the First Industrial Revolution

Alex Trew

558: Imperfect Attention and Menu Evaluation

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

556: Competing for Attention: Is the Showiest also the Best?

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

555: Coordination in Public Good Provision: How Individual Volunteering is Impacted by the Volunteering of Others

Theodoros Diasakos and Florence Neymotin

554: An investigation of the determinants of household demand for bushmeat in the Serengeti using an open-ended choice experiment

Mirko Moro, Anke Fischer, Ej Milner-Gulland, Asanterabi Lowassa, Loiruck C Naiman and Nick Hanley

553: What is the Causal Effect of Information and Learning about a Public Good on Willingness to Pay?

Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley, Jacob LaRiviere and Katherine Simpson

552: Effects of Experience, Knowledge and Signals on Willingness to Pay for a Public Good

Jacob LaRiviere, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley, Margrethe Aanesen, Jannike Falk-Peterson and Dugald Tinch

551: Empirical testing of genuine savings as an indicator of weak sustainability: a three-country analysis of long run trends

Les Oxley, Nick Hanley, David Greasley, Matthias Blum, Eoin McLaughlin, Jan Kunnas and Paul Warde

550: Effects of stress on economic decision-making: Evidence from laboratory experiments

Liam Delaney, Günther Fink and Colm Harmon

549: Policy Labels and Investment Decision-making

Ian Lange, Mirko Moro and Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman

548: How much does a single graduation cohort from further education colleges contribute to an open regional economy?

Kristinn Hermannsson, Patrizio Lecca and John Swales

547: Unemployment: natural rate epicycles or hysteresis?

Rod Cross

546: 'Right Back Where We Started From': From 'The Classics' To Keynes, And Back Again

Roy Grieve

544: Coordination in Public Good Provision: How Individual Volunteering is Impacted by the Volunteering of Others

Theodoros Diasakos and Florence Neymotin

543: Spatial Takeoff in the First Industrial Revolution

Alex Trew

542: News Shocks and Business Cycles: Bridging the Gap from Different Methodologies

Christoph Görtz and John D. Tsoukalas

541: Price Transmission and Effects of Exchange Rates on Domestic Commodity Prices via Offshore and Currency Hedging

Nongnuch Tantisantiwong

540: Arch and Structural Breaks in United States Inflation

Bill Russell

539: Macroeconomics: Science or Faith Based Discipline?

Bill Russell

538: Income stratification and between-group inequality

Paul Allanson

537: Partner Selection into Policy Relevant Field Experiments

Michèle Belot and Jonathan James

536: How private is private information? The ability to spot deception in an economic game

Michèle Belot and Jeroen van de Ven

535: The Spillover Effects of Monitoring: A Field Experiment

Michèle Belot and Marina Schroeder

534: Irish Land Bonds: 1891-1938

Eoin McLaughlin and Nathan Foley-Fisher

533: Tractable Consumer Choice

József Sákovics and Daniel Friedman