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19794: Exploring the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries using microgeographic data

Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

19793: Fat city: the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity

Jean Eid, Henry Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew Turner

19789: The CEP-OECD institutions data set (1960-2004)

William Nickell

19785: Job creation and job destruction in the presence of informal labour markets

Mariano Bosch

19782: Search and matching frictions and optimal monetary policy

Carlos Thomas

19779: The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico

Benjamin Aleman-Castilla

19777: The impact of central bank announcements on asset prices in real time: testing the efficiency of the Euribor futures market

Carlo Rosa and Giovanni Verga

19775: American economic development since the civil war or the virtue of education

Fabrice Murtin

19774: Shifts in economic geography and their causes

Anthony Venables

19772: Accounting for collective action: resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions

Paul Willman and Alex Bryson

19771: Term limits and electoral accountability

Michael Smart and Daniel Sturm

19767: The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system

Guy Michaels

19765: The plant size-place effect: agglomeration and monopsony in labour markets

Alan Manning

19762: Union organization in Great Britain

Paul Willman and Alex Bryson

19759: Is numérairology the future of monetary economics?: unbundling numéraire and medium of exchange through a virtual currency and a shadow exchange rate

Willem Buiter

19754: Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States

Henry Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew Turner

19752: Monetary policy committees and interest rate smoothing

Carlos Montoro

19750: Inflation premium and oil price volatility

Paul Castillo, Carlos Montoro and Vicente Tuesta

19748: Information technology, organisational change and productivity growth: evidence from UK firms

Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Haskel

19745: The marginal utility of income

Richard Layard, Guy Mayraz and Stephen Nickell

19742: Why has the British national minimum wage had little or no impact on employment?

David Metcalf

19735: Productivity growth, knowledge flows and spillovers

Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Haskel and Matthew Slaughter

19733: Seigniorage

Willem Buiter

19731: Does the underground economy hold back financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market

Giorgio Gobbi and Roberta Zizza

19729: Culture clash or culture club? The identity and attitudes of immigrants in Britain

Alan Manning and Sanchari Roy

19726: Entry and asymmetric lobbying: why governments pick losers

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19724: Uncertainty and the dynamics of R&D

Nicholas Bloom

19722: Respect

Alan Manning

19720: Offshoring: general equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19718: Chain indices of the cost of living and the path-dependence problem: an empirical solution

Nicholas Oulton

19716: Job destruction, job creation and unemployment in transition countries: what can we learn?

Giulia Faggio

19714: Volatility, labor market flexibility, and the pattern of comparative advantage

Alejandro Cunat and Marc Melitz

19713: Protection for sale made easy

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19711: Imports and exports at the level of the firm: evidence from Belgium

Mirabelle Muûls and Mauro Pisu

19710: Jeremy Greenwood and Per Krusell, "growth accounting with investment-specific technological progress: a discussion of two approaches" a rejoinder

Nicholas Oulton

19707: Labor search and matching in macroeconomics

Eran Yashiv

19706: The returns to temporary migration to the United States: evidence from the Mexican urban employment survey

Benjamin Aleman-Castilla

19705: Economic linkages across space

Henry Overman, Patricia Rice and Anthony Venables

19703: The Beveridge curve

Eran Yashiv

19702: The Maastricht convergence criteria and optimal monetary policy for the EMU accession countries

Anna Lipinska

19701: Intergenerational mobility and the informative content of surnames

Maia Güell, Sevi Rodríguez Mora and Chris Telmer

19700: The effect of information and communication technologies on urban structure

Yannis Ioannides, Henry Overman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Kurt Schmidheiny

19699: Wage distributions by bargaining regime: linked employer-employee data evidence from Germany

Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke

19698: Trade liberalization, outsourcing, and firm productivity

Ralph Ossa

19697: Spend it like Beckham? Inequality and redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004

Andreas Georgiadis and Alan Manning

19696: Measuring organization capital in Japan: an empirical assessment using firm-level data

Tsutomu Miyagawa and YoungGak Kim

19695: Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations

Rachel Griffith, Sokbae (Simon) Lee and John van Reenen

19694: Productivity, aggregate demand and unemployment fluctuations

Régis Barnichon

19693: Trust-based trade

Luis Araujo and Emanuel Ornelas

19692: Search frictions, real rigidities and inflation dynamics

Carlos Thomas

19691: The Shimer puzzle and the correct identification of productivity shocks

Régis Barnichon

19690: Intra-industry foreign direct investment

Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton

19686: Information technology, organization, and productivity in the public sector: evidence from police departments

Luis Garicano and Paul Heaton

19680: Testing the "waterbed" effect in mobile telephony

Christos Genakos and Tommaso Valletti

19675: Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes

Emma Tominey

19673: Cost-benefit analysis of psychological therapy

Richard Layard, David Clark, Martin Knapp and Guy Mayraz

19670: Conflict-induced displacement and labour market outcomes: evidence from post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

Florence Kondylis

19666: Growth and the quality of foreign direct investment: is all FDI equal?

Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton

19665: U.S. labor market dynamics revisited

Eran Yashiv

19663: Incentives in competitive search equilibrium

Espen Moen and Asa Rosen

19661: Innovation in business groups

Sharon Belenzon and Tomer Berkovitz

19659: Scylla and Charybdis: the European economy and Poland's adherence to gold, 1928-1936

Nikolaus Wolf

19658: Creative destruction with on-the-job search

Jean-Baptiste Michau

19656: Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Andrew Clark, Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard E. Lucas

19655: Productivity and the sourcing modes of multinational firms: evidence from French firm-level data

Fabrice Defever and Farid Toubal

19647: Labor market institutions around the world

Richard Freeman

19645: A simple model of the juggernaut effect of trade liberalisation

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19644: On the extent of re-entitlement effects in unemployment compensation

Javier Ortega and Laurence Rioux

19640: Information costs, networks and intermediation in international trade

Dimitra Petropoulou

19638: A swing-state theory of trade protection in the electoral college

Mirabelle Muûls and Dimitra Petropoulou

19636: HRM practices and knowledge processes outcomes: empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment on UK SMEs in the tourism hospitality and leisure sector

Andreas Georgiadis and Christos Pitelis

19634: On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

Augustin de Coulon and Jonathan Wadsworth

19632: Panic on the streets of London: police, crime and the July 2005 terror attacks

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

19630: Competing for contacts: network competition, trade intermediation and fragmented duopoly

Dimitra Petropoulou

19629: Talking less and moving the market more: is this the recipe for monetary policy effectiveness?: evidence from the ECB and the Fed

Carlo Rosa

19628: Efficiency wages and the economic effects of the minimum wage: evidence from a low-wage labour market

Andreas Georgiadis

19626: International trade, minimum quality standards and the prisoners' dilemma

Dimitra Petropoulou

19622: Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke

19620: Tax cuts in open economies

Alejandro Cunat, Szabolcs Deak and Marco Maffezzoli

19619: Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces

Alex Bryson and Satu Nurmi

19611: Delayed doves: MPC voting behaviour of externals

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

19608: Policy uncertainty and precautionary savings

Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon

19603: Union decline in Britain

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

19599: Labor market reforms, job instability, and the flexibility of the employment relationship

Niko Matouschek, Paolo Ramezzana and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

19592: Multinational firms, monopolistic competition and foreign investment uncertainty

Arunish Chawla

19589: A tale of two countries: unions, closures and growth in Britain and Norway

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

19584: Does regionalism affect trade liberalization towards non-members?

Antoni Estevadeordal, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas

19579: Mapping prices into productivity in multisector growth models

L. Rachel Ngai and Roberto Samaniego

19576: Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885-1933

Nikolaus Wolf

19573: Productivity dispersion, competition and productivity measurement

Ralf Martin

19572: Wage setting patterns and monetary policy: international evidence

Giovanni Olivei and Silvana Tenreyro

19570: Resurrecting the participation margin

Monique Ebell

19569: Product market deregulation and the U.S. employment miracle

Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke

19567: Evolution of locations, specialisation and factor returns with two distinct waves of globalisation

Jang Ping Thia

19564: A 'new trade' theory of GATT/WTO negotiations

Ralph Ossa

19563: The cost of grade retention

Marco Manacorda

19562: Relative factor endowments and international portfolio choice

Alejandro Cunat and Christian Fons-Rosen

19561: Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico. Revisiting the evidence

Mariano Bosch and Marco Manacorda

19557: Measuring and assessing the impact of basic skills on labour market outcomes

Steven McIntosh and Anna Vignoles

19546: Over education in the graduate labour market: some evidence from alumni data

Peter Dolton and Mary Silles