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252: The Fair Trade movement: an economic perspective

Alexander Kadow

251: On Measuring the Efficiency of Monetary Policy

Walter Briec, Emmanuelle Gabillon and Laurence Lasselle

250: Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Development in Historical Perspective

Luis Angeles

249: The Expenditure Impacts of Individual Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their Students on the Northern Irish Economy: Homogeneity or Heterogeneity?

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova and Peter McGregor

248: The Stagnation Regime of the New Keynesian Model and Current US Policy

George Evans

247: Regional productivity variation and the impact of public capital stock: an analysis with spatial interaction, with reference to Spain

Gómez-Antonio, Miguel and Bernard Fingleton

246: Notes on Agents’ Behavioral Rules Under Adaptive Learning and Studies of Monetary Policy

Seppo Honkapohja, Kaushik Mitra and George Evans

245: International Capital Flows to Emerging and Developing Countries: National and Global Determinants

Joseph Byrne and Norbert Fiess

244: Where is the economics in spatial econometrics?

Luisa Corrado and Bernard Fingleton

243: Comparing the treatment provided by migrant and nonmigrant health professionals: dentists in Scotland

Martin Chalkley, Shaolin Wang and Colin Tilley

242: Forecasting Inflation Using Dynamic Model Averaging

Gary Koop and Dimitris Korobilis

241: Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference?

Sai Ding, Alessandra Guariglia and John Knight

240: Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms

Sai Ding, Alessandra Guariglia and John Knight

239: Minu, Startu and all that:- Pitfalls in estimating the sensitivity of a worker’s wage to aggregate unemployment

Pedro Martins, Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas

238: Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth

Sai Ding, Alessandra Guariglia and John Knight

237: Microstructure Order Flow: Statistical and Economic Evaluation of Nonlinear Forecasts

Mario Cerrato, Hyunsok Kim and Ronald MacDonald

236: The Expenditure Impacts of London-based Individual Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their Students on the Economy of England: Homogeneity or Heterogeneity?

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Peter McGregor and John Swales

235: Using Effluent Charges in Promoting Investment in Water Pollution Control Technology: A Model of Coordination Failure among Firms

Geethanjali Selvaretnam and Kannika Thampanishvong

234: The Rise and Fall of the ABS Market

Mario Cerrato

233: On monetary policy and stock market anomalies

Alexandros Kontonikas and Alexandros Kostakis

232: Optimism and commitment: An elementary theory of bargaining and war

Clara Ponsati and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

231: Delay and Haircuts in Sovereign Debt: Recovery and Sustainability

Sayantan Ghosal, Marcus Miller and Kannika Thampanishvong

230: First-and second-best allocations under economic and environmental uncertainty

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, George Economides and Apostolis Philippopoulos

229: Accounting for the dead in the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities

Dennis Petrie, Paul Allanson and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

228: Policy Scepticism and the Impact of London-based Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on the economy of England: Accounting for Alternative Uses of Public Expenditure

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Peter McGregor and John Swales

227: Subsidies as Optimal Fiscal Stimuli

Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna and Chang Yee Kwan

226: The effects of the generalized use of iodized salt on occupational patterns in Switzerland

Dimitra Politi

225: Inflation Uncertainty, Exchange Rate Depreciation and Volatility: Evidence from Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania

Hassan Molana and Kwame Osei-Assibey

224: Disaggregating the Household Sector in a 2004 UK Input Output Table and Social Accounting Matrix by Income Quintiles

Janine De Fence and Karen Turner

223: Growth Rate Estimation in the presence of Unit Roots

Monojit Chatterji and Homagni Choudhury

222: Corruption and the Military in Politics: Theory and Evidence from around the World

Muhammad Majeed and Ronald MacDonald

221: Competitive Altruism, Mentalizing and Signalling

Ed Hopkins

220: The Changing Inter-Industry Wage Structure of the Organised Manufacturing Sector in India, 1973-74 to 2003-04

Monojit Chatterji and Homagni Choudhury

219: The Expenditure Impacts of Individual Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their Students on the Welsh Economy: Homogeneity or Heterogeneity?

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Peter McGregor and John Swales

218: Non-cooperative incentives to share knowledge in competitive environments

Andrzej Kwiatkowski

217: Contracting Institutions and Development

Alex Trew

216: The Distributional Consequences of Supply-Side Reforms in General Equilibrium

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Bernardo Fernandez and Jim Malley

215: Exclusive Nightclubs and Lonely Hearts Columns: Nonmonotone Participation in Optional Intermediation

Gianni De Fraja and Sákovics, József

214: Affirmative Action Policy and Effort Levels. Sequential-Move Contest Game Argument

Andrzej Kwiatkowski

213: A Foundation System and a State System - Private-School Implications on Welfare and Education Expenditure

Andrzej Kwiatkowski

212: The EMU sovereign-debt crisis: Fundamentals, expectations and contagion

Michael Arghyrou and Alexandros Kontonikas

211: The Living Wage: Reducing inequality in the UK?

Carlo Morelli and Paul Seaman

210: Finance and Balanced Growth

Alex Trew

209: The Importance of Graduates for the Scottish Economy: A Micro-to-Macro Approach

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

208: Fear of model misspecifcation and the robustness premium

Konstantinos Angelopoulos and Jim Malley

207: Policy Scepticism and the Impact of Northern Irish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on their Host Region: Accounting for Regional Budget Constraints

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Peter McGregor and John Swales

206: Interprovincial disparities in China since the reforms: Convergence or divergence?

Farhad Noorbakhsh and Zhikai Wang

205: An HEI-Disaggregated Input-Output Table for Northern-Ireland

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova and Peter McGregor

204: Institutions and Economic Development. New tests and new doubts

Luis Angeles

203: Discretionary Policy in a Monetary Union with Sovereign Debt

Campbell Leith and Simon Wren-Lewis