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429: Rebellion against Reason? A Study of Expressive Choice and Strikes

Colin Jennings, Christa Brunnschweiler and Ian MacKenzie

426: On the causes of the African Slave Trade

Luis Angeles

425: The Impact of Population Ageing on the Labour Market: Evidence from Overlapping Generations Computable General Equilibrium (OLG-CGE) Model of Scotland

Katerina Lisenkova, Mérette, Marcel and Robert Wright

424: A Framework for Analyzing Language and Welfare

Mélitz, Jacques

422: Rationalising ‘Irrational’ Support for Political Violence

Colin Jennings

421: Fact And Fiction In FX Arbitrage Processes

Rod Cross and Victor Kozyakin

420: North Sea Oil and Genuine Saving in the Scottish Economy

Greg Bremner and Rod Cross

419: Fiscal Sustainability in a New Keynesian Model

Campbell Leith and Simon Wren-Lewis

418: Personal Indebtedness, Spatial Effects and Crime

Stuart McIntyre and Donald J. Lacombe

416: Joint estimates of automatic and discretionary fiscal policy: the OECD 1981-2003

Julia Darby and Jacques Melitz

415: Bayesian forecasting with highly correlated predictors

Dimitris Korobilis

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

Colin Jennings and Stephen Drinkwater

411: EMU, EU, Market Integration and Consumption Smoothing

Atanas Christev and Jacques Melitz

408: Rebellion against Reason? A Study of Expressive Choice and Strikes

Colin Jennings, Ox Carre, Ian MacKenzie and Christa Brunnschweiler

407: Stock Market Reaction to Fed Funds Rate Surprises: State Dependence and the Financial Crisis

Alexandros Kontonikas, Ronald MacDonald and Aman Saggu

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

John Dewhurst

404: Time Variation in the Dynamics of Worker Flows: Evidence from the US and Canada

Gary Koop, Deborah Gefang and Michele Campolieti

403: Financial crisis and quantitative easing: can broad money tell us anything?

David Cobham and Yue Kang

402: Inequalities in Child Mortality in India: A District-Level Analysis

Prabir C. Bhattacharya and Cornilius Chikwama

401: Unionisation, International Integration and Selection

Catia Montagna and Antonella Nocco

399: Central banks and house prices in the run-up to the crisis

David Cobham

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

Gavin Reid and Zhibin Xu

396: When to Quit Under Uncertainty? A real options approach to smoking cessation

Yu-Fu Chen and Dennis Petrie

395: Horizontal Agreements and R&D Complementarities: Merger versus RJV

Joanna Poyago-Theotoky and Ben Ferrett

394: Social Housing Policies in Latin America and Singapore: Lessons for China

Roger Sandilands

393: Chasing Graduate Jobs?

Robert Wright and Irene Mosca

392: Extending contingency: the impact of strategy, technology, size and business environment on the organisational form of small Chinese firms

Gavin Reid, Xhibin Xu and Julia Smith

391: Financial health, exports, and rm survival: Evidence from UK and French firms

Marina-Eliza Spaliara and Holger Georg

390: Time Horizons And Smoothing In The Bank Of England’s Reaction Function: The Contrast Between The Standard GMM And Ex Ante Forecast Approaches

David Cobham and Yue Kang

389: Marx: From Hegel and Feuerbach to Adam Smith

Eric Rahim

388: Trade Costs, International Competition and Selection: The Effects of Unionisation on Market Size

Catia Montagna and Antonella Nocco

387: The determinants of sovereign bond yield spreads in the EMU

Alexandros Kontonikas, Michael Arghyrou and Antonio Afonso

386: Saving and Re-building Lives: an Analysis of the Determinants of Disaster Relief

David Ulph, Geethanjali Selvaretnam and Kannika Thampanishvong

385: Social capital formation across space: proximity and trust in European regions

Giorgio Fazio and Luciano Lavecchia

384: Pareto or log-normal? A recursive-truncation approach to the distribution of (all) cities

Giorgio Fazio and Marco Modica

383: The past, present and future of central banking

David Cobham

382: Separating Myth from Probability: the Origins and Evolution of QWERTY

Neil Kay

381: Native language, spoken language, translation and trade

Jacques Melitz and Farid Toubal

380: The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices: A Micro-simulation Approach

Robert Wright, Chris Leishman, Kenneth Gibb and Yu Chen

379: Lead Miners’ Earnings in 19th Century Allendale

Tim Barmby

377: The regional economic impacts of biofuels: A review of multisectoral modelling techniques and evaluation of applications

Grant Allan

376: Some Implications Of Capping The Inflation Indexation Of USS Pensions

Bill Russell

372: Firm size and trade secret intensity: evidence from the Economic Espionage Act

Nicola Searle and Gavin Reid

371: The Difference, System and ‘Double-D’ GMM Panel Estimators in the Presence of Structural Breaks

Rosen Azad Chowdhury and Bill Russell

370: The system-wide impacts of the external benefits to higher education on the Scottish economy: An exploratory micro-to-macro approach

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Patrizio Lecca, Peter McGregor and John Swales

369: The Signalling Channel of Central Bank Interventions: Modelling the Yen/US Dollar Exchange Rate

Yu-Fu Chen, Michael Funke and Nicole Glanemann

368: A Producer Theory with Business Risks

Seong-Hoon Kim and Seongman Moon

367: Forward Looking and Myopic Regional Computable General Equilibrium Models. How Significant is the Distinction?

Patrizio Lecca, Peter McGregor and John Swales

366: The Dynamics of UK and US Inflation Expectation

Deborah Gefang, Gary Koop and Simon Potter

365: Employment Protection, Flexibility and Firms’ Strategic Location Decisions under Uncertainty

Gerda Dewit, Dermot Leahy and Catia Montagna