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482: Human capital, social mobility and the skill premium

Angelopoulos Konstantinos, Jim Malley and Philippopoulos Apostolis

481: Monetary Policy Delegation and Equilibrium Coordination

Andrew Blake, Tatiana Kirsanova and Anthony Yates

480: How Optimal is US Monetary Policy?

Tatiana Kirsanova, Campbell Leith and Xiaoshan Chen

479: Commitment vs. Discretion in the UK: An Empirical Investigation of the Monetary and Fiscal Policy Regime

Tatiana Kirsanova and Stephanus le Roux

478: Age, Life-satisfaction, and Relative Income – Insights from the UK and Germany

Felix FitzRoy, Nolan Michael and Max Steinhardt

477: Anticipation, Learning and Welfare: the Case of Distortionary Taxation

Emanuel Gasteiger and Zhang Shoujian

476: My Group Beats Your Group: Evaluating Non-Income Inequalities

Cuhadaroglu Tugce

475: A New Index of Financial Conditions

Gary Koop and Dimitris Korobilis

474: On the time-varying relationship between EMU sovereign spreads and their determinants

Antonio Afonso, Michael Arghyrou, George Bagdatoglou and Alexandros Kontonikas

473: Two Studies on the Interplay between Social Preferences and Individual Biological Features

Sanchez Pages S. and Tureigano E.

472: Rational Expectations Dynamics: A Methodological Critique

George Donald A. R. and Les Oxley

471: Changing Eating Habits - A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Michèle Belot, James Jonathan and Patrick Nolen

470: Confidence and Competence in Communication

Kawamura Kohei

469: Development Accounting Within Intermediate Goods

Grobovsek Jan

468: Lock-in, path dependence, and the Internationalization of QWERTY

Kay Neil M.

467: The Market for "Rough Diamonds": Information, Finance and Wage Inequality

Theodore Koutmeridis

466: Obesity and smoking: can we catch two birds with one tax?

Davide Dragone, Francesco Manaresi and Luca Savorelli

464: Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels

Felix FitzRoy, Nolan Michael, Max Steinhardt and Ulph David

463: Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

462: Relationship between trade openness and economic growth of India: A time series analysis

Chatterji Monojit, Mohan Sushil and Dastidar Sayantan Ghosh

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

John Dewhurst

460: A Behavioural Model of Choice in the Presence of Decision Conflict

Georgios Gerasimou

459: The Technological Specialization of Countries: An Analysis of Patent Data

Lucio Picci and Luca Savorelli

458: Monetary policy under the Labour government 1997- 2010: the first 13 years of the MPC

David Cobham

457: Caught Between Theory and Practice: Government, Market, and Regulatory Failure in Electricity Sector Reforms

Rabindra Nepal and Tooraj Jamasb

456: Aid and Development: Issues and Reflections

Michael Tribe

454: The added value from a general equilibrium analyses of increased efficiency in household energy use

Patrizio Lecca, Peter McGregor, John Swales and Karen Turner

453: An Investigation of Housing Affordability in the UK Regions

Alberto Montagnoli and Jun Nagayasu

452: No Good Deals - No Bad Models

Nina Boyarchenko, Mario Cerrato, Crosby John and Hodges Stewart

451: Beyond Intermediates: The Role of Consumption and Commuting in the Construction of Local Input-Output Tables

Kristinn Hermannsson

450: Aggregate and welfare effects of long run inflation risk under inflation and price-level targeting

Michael Hatcher

449: Expectations Traps and Coordination Failures with Discretionary Policymaking

Richard Dennis and Tatiana Kirsanova

448: Infrequent Fiscal Stabilization

Yuting Bai and Tatiana Kirsanova

447: Nearer to Sraffa than Marx: Adam Smith on Productive and Unproductive Labour

Roy Grieve

446: Expert Information and Majority Decisions

Kawamura Kohei and Vlaseros Vasileios

445: Spillovers of Equal Treatment in Wage Offers

Kawamura Kohei and József, Sákovics

444: Class-size Reduction Policies and the Quality of Entering Teachers

Steven Dieterle

443: Using VARs and TVP-VARs with Many Macroeconomic Variables

Gary Koop

442: Moral Hazard with Counterfeit Signals

Andrew Clausen

441: Local consumption and territorial based accounting for CO2 Emissions

Kristinn Hermannsson and Stuart McIntyre

440: Model Switching and Model Averaging in Time- Varying Parameter Regression Models

Belmonte Miguel and Gary Koop

439: Domestic Violence and Football in Glasgow: Are Reference Points Relevant?

Alex Dickson, Colin Jennings and Gary Koop

438: A balance of questions: what can we ask of climate change economics?

David Comerford

437: Still More On Why We Should Bury The Marginal Productivity Theory Of The Price Of Capital: A Supplementary Note

Roy Grieve

436: Evaluating the usefulness of forecasts of relative growth

Grant Allan

435: The relationship between public education expenditure and economic growth: The case of India

Sayantan Ghosh Dastidar, Sushil Mohan and Monojit Chatterji

434: Partial Equal Treatment in Wage Offers

Kohei Kawamura and Sákovics, József

432: The Distribution Dynamics of Output Multipliers in Scotland 1998–2007

John Dewhurst

431: Personal Indebtedness, Spatial Effects and Crime

Stuart McIntyre and Donald J. Lacombe

430: An Analysis of the Electoral Use of Policy on Law and Order by New Labour

Colin Jennings and Stephen Drinkwater