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841: The politics of 'participation': civil society, the state and development assistance

James Putzel

840: Politics, the state and the impulse for social protection: the implications of Karl Polanyi's ideas for understanding development and crisis

James Putzel

803: Survey on competing in network industries: firm strategies, market outcomes, and policy implications

Heli Koski and Tobias Kretschmer

802: Upgrading and niche usage of PC operating systems

Tobias Kretschmer

784: Mapping the two faces of R&D: productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

783: Technological innovation and economic performance in the United Kingdom

Stephen Nickell and John van Reenen

782: Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

780: Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Nicholas Bloom, Mark Schankerman and John van Reenen

778: Technology, information and the decentralization of the firm

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Claire Lelarge, John van Reenen and Fabrizio Zilibotti

774: Minimum wages and firm profitability

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

773: Is there a market for work group servers? Evaluating market level demand elasticities using micro and macro models

John van Reenen

772: The growth of network computing: quality adjusted price changes for network servers

John van Reenen

771: Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany

Stephen Bond, Dietmar Harhoff and John van Reenen

770: Corporate R&D and productivity in Germany and the United Kingdom

Stephen Bond, Dietmar Harhoff and John van Reenen

769: The internationalisation of public welfare policy

James Banks, Richard Disney, Alan Duncan and John van Reenen

768: New survey evidence on recent changes in UK union recognition

Joanne Blanden, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

763: Ambiguous connections: entitlements and responsibilities of global networking

Robin Mansell

762: Political economy, power and new media

Robin Mansell

760: Collective action, institutionalism, and the internet

Robin Mansell

757: Trade union research and cross-national comparison

Richard Hyman

756: A small crisis in Germany?

Richard Hyman

755: Union renewal: a view from Europe

Richard Hyman

754: Striking a balance?: means, ends and ambiguities

Richard Hyman

753: Trade unions and the politics of the European social model

Richard Hyman

751: The Europeanisation – or the erosion – of industrial relations?

Richard Hyman

750: Embedded collectivism?: workplace representation in France and Germany

Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman

733: Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries

Nicholas Bloom and John van Reenen

717: How good is the Bank’s of England’s inflation targeting record?

Willem Buiter and Anne C. Sibert

713: What accounts for the bias in the inflation targeting performance of the Bank of England?

Willem Buiter

711: How special is the special relationship?: using the impact of R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison and John van Reenen

678: The influence of neighbourhood effects on education decisions in a nationally funded education system: the case of Australia

Henry Overman and Alex Heath

677: Comparative advantage and economic geography: estimating the determinants of industrial location in the EU

Karen Helene Midelfart-Knarvik, Henry Overman and Anthony Venables

676: Trade shocks and industrial location: the impact of EEC accession on the UK

Henry Overman and L. Winters

675: Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

646: The problem with party finance: theoretical perspectives on the funding of party politics

Jonathan Hopkin

643: 'Exit' in deeply divided societies: regimes of discrimination in Estonia and Latvia and the potential for Russophone migration

James Hughes

639: Development and its deadlock in Imperial China, 221 B.C.–1840 A.D

Kent Deng

638: A critical survey of recent research in Chinese economic history

Kent Deng

630: Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control

Per Fredriksson, Eric Neumayer, Richard Damania and Scott Gates

600: Spatial evolution of the US urban system

Yannis Ioannides and Henry Overman

599: Can we learn anything from economic geography proper?

Henry Overman

585: Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods

Henry Overman

584: Cross-sectional evolution of the U.S. city size distribution

Henry Overman and Yannis Ioannides

583: Zipf’s law for cities: an empirical examination

Yannis Ioannides and Henry Overman

582: Monetary union and the economic geography of Europe

Karen Helene Midelfart-Knarvik, Henry Overman and Anthony Venables

581: Testing for localization using micro-geographic data

Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman

571: The world trade regime and non-governmental organisations: addressing transnational environmental concerns

Michael Mason

570: Transnational compensation for oil pollution damage: examining changing spatialities of environmental liability

Michael Mason

569: The distinctive determinants of European urban growth: does one size fit all?

Paul Cheshire and Stefano Magrini

568: The introduction of price signals into land use planning decision-making: a proposal

Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

567: Capitalising the value of free schools: the impact of supply characteristics and uncertainty

Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

566: Land markets and land market regulation: progress towards understanding

Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

547: New economy and earnings inequalities: explaining social, spatial and gender divisions in the UK and London

Diane Perrons

545: On the limits of communication in multidimensional cheap talk

Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin

544: Diversity and redistribution

Raquel Fernández and Gilat Levy

543: Decision making in committees: transparency, reputation and voting rules

Gilat Levy

542: Robin Hood’s compromise: the economics of moderate land reforms

Oriana Bandiera and Gilat Levy

541: Anti-herding and strategic consultation

Gilat Levy

540: A model of political parties

Gilat Levy

539: It takes two: an explanation of the democratic peace

Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin

526: Does it cost to be virtuous? The macroeconomic effects of fiscal constraints

Fabio Canova and Evi Pappa

525: Gains from coordination in a multi-sector open economy: does it pay to be different?

Zheng Liu and Evi Pappa

524: New-keynesian or RBC transmission? The effects of fiscal shocks in labour markets

Evi Pappa

518: The elusive costs and the immaterial gains of fiscal constraints

Fabio Canova and Evi Pappa

513: Many roads to flexibility. How large firms built autarchic regional production systems in France

Bob Hancké

512: Do the ECB and the Fed really need to cooperate? Optimal monetary policy in a two-country world

Evi Pappa

511: The transition from national currencies to the Euro

Charles Goodhart and Evi Pappa

510: The unbearable tightness of being in a monetary union: fiscal restrictions and regional stability

Evi Pappa

507: Ignoring the rationality of others: evidence from experimental normal-form games

Georg Weizsäcker

500: Comment on Oxley’s "Seat of death and terror"

Tim Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth

497: Did smallpox reduce height?: stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873

Hans-Joachim Voth and Tim Leunig

496: Smallpox really did reduce height: a reply to Razzell

Tim Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth

495: Smallpox did reduce height: a reply to our critics

Tim Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth

494: A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago

Tim Leunig

493: New answers to old questions: explaining the slow adoption of ring spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913

Tim Leunig

484: 'Widening the radius of trust': ethnographic explorations of trust and Indian business

John Harriss

481: Decentralization and local government in Bolivia: an overview from the bottom up

Jean-Paul Faguet

480: The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Jean-Paul Faguet

475: Governance from below: a theory of local government with two empirical tests

Jean-Paul Faguet

459: A search-based theory of the on-the-run phenomenon

Dimitri Vayanos and Pierre-Olivier Weill

458: Strong-form efficiency with monopolistic insiders

Minh Chau and Dimitri Vayanos

456: Flight to quality, flight to liquidity, and the pricing of risk

Dimitri Vayanos

455: Search and endogenous concentration of liquidity in asset markets

Dimitri Vayanos and Tan Wang

454: Persuasion bias, social influence, and uni-dimensional opinions

Peter DeMarzo, Dimitri Vayanos and Jeffrey Zwiebel

453: Equilibrium interest rate and liquidity premium with transaction costs

Dimitri Vayanos and Jean-Luc Vila

452: The decentralization of information processing in the presence of interactions

Dimitri Vayanos

451: Transaction costs and asset prices: a dynamic equilibrium model

Dimitri Vayanos

449: Strategic trading and welfare in a dynamic market

Dimitri Vayanos

448: Equilibrium and welfare in markets with financially constrained arbitrageurs

Denis Gromb and Dimitri Vayanos

447: Strategic trading in a dynamic noisy market

Dimitri Vayanos

444: Patents vs trade secrets: knowledge licensing and spillover

Sudipto Bhattacharya and Sergei Guriev

382: Comparatively open: statutory information disclosure for consultation and bargaining in Germany, France and the UK

Howard Gospel and Paul Willman

379: The fiction of development: knowledge, authority and representation

David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

360: Why have workers stopped joining unions? The rise in never-membership in Britain

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

352: Precautionary bans or sacrificial lambs? Participative regulation and the reform of the UK food safety regime

Henry Rothstein

341: Working parenthood and parental obligation

Hartley Dean

339: Insecure families and low-paying labour markets: comments on the British experience

Hartley Dean and Ambreen Shah

338: Re-conceptualising welfare-to-work for people with multiple problems and needs

Hartley Dean

337: Business versus families: whose side is New Labour on?

Hartley Dean

336: Intellectual disability, challenging behaviour and cost in care accommodation: what are the links?

Martin Knapp, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Jack Astin, Jennifer Beecham and Claude Pendaries