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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

652: Great leaps backward: poverty under Mao

Kent Deng

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

536: Britannia ruled the waves

Tim Leunig

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

515: Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explain Britain’s continued preference for mule spinning?

Tim Leunig

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

334: Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Joanne Blanden and Stephen Machin

333: Family income and educational attainment: a review of approaches and evidence for Britain

Joanne Blanden and Paul Gregg

332: Local culture, globalisation and policy outcomes: an example from long term care

Gail Wilson

329: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the armed forces: health economic considerations

Paul R. McCrone, Martin Knapp and Paul Cawkill

326: Cost-utility analysis of intravenous immunoglobulin and prednisolone for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

Paul R. McCrone, Daniel Chisholm, Martin Knapp, Richard Hughes, Giancarlo Comi, Marinos C. Dalakas, Isabel Illa, Costas Kilindireas, Eduardo Nobile-Orazio, Anthony Victor Swan, Peter Van den Bergh and Hugh J. Willison

325: Routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice: service and non-service costs of psychiatric patients attending a community mental health centre in Italy

Mauro Percudani, Corrado Barbui, Jennifer Beecham and Martin Knapp

324: Measuring the parental, service and cost impacts of children with autistic spectrum disorder: a pilot study

Krister Järbrink, Eric Fombonne and Martin Knapp

323: Robust covariance matrix estimation: 'HAC' estimates with long memory/antipersistence correction

P. M. Robinson

322: Nonparametric inference for unbalanced time series data

Oliver Linton

321: The live method for generalized additive volatility models

Woocheol Kim and Oliver Linton

320: Nonparametric estimation with aggregated data

Oliver Linton and Yoon-Jae Whang

319: Estimating additive nonparametric models by partial Lq norm: the curse of fractionality

Oliver Linton

317: Second-order approximation for adaptive regression estimators

Oliver Linton and Zhijie Xiao

316: Whittle estimation of ARCH models

Liudas Giraitis and Peter M. Robinson

315: Edgeworth expansions for spectral density estimates and studentized sample mean

Carlos Velasco and Peter M. Robinson

314: Efficient estimation of generalized additive nonparametric regression models

Oliver Linton

304: Long and short memory conditional heteroskedasticity in estimating the memory parameter of levels

Peter M. Robinson and Marc Henry

303: Narrow-band analysis of nonstationary processes

D. Marinucci and Peter M. Robinson

302: Large-sample inference for nonparametric regression with dependent errors

Peter M. Robinson

301: On a semiparametric survival model with flexible covariate effect

Jens P. Nielsen, Oliver Linton and Peter J. Bickel

300: The existence and asymptotic properties of a backfitting projection algorithm under weak conditions

Oliver Linton, E. Mammen and J. Nielsen

299: A model for long memory conditional heteroscedasticity

Liudas Giraitis, Peter M. Robinson and Donatas Surgailis

298: Testing of seasonal fractional integration in UK and Japanese consumption and income

Luis Gil-Alana and Peter M. Robinson

297: Gaussian estimation of parametric spectral density with unknown pole

L Giraitis, J Hidalgo and Peter M. Robinson

294: LARCH, leverage, and long memory

Liudas Giraitis, Remigijus Leipus, Peter M. Robinson and Donatas Surgailis

292: Denis Sargan: some perspectives

Peter M. Robinson

291: Edgeworth expansions for semiparametric Whittle estimation of long memory

L. Giraitis and P.M. Robinson

289: Income transfers in Russia: problems and some policy directions

Nicholas Barr

288: Higher education funding

Nicholas Barr

287: Financing higher education: lessons from the UK debate

Nicholas Barr

286: Reforming pensions: myths, truths, and policy choices

Nicholas Barr

285: Higher education in Australia and Britain: what lessons?

Nicholas Barr

284: Towards a 'third way': rebalancing the role of the state

Nicholas Barr

283: The Dearing Report and the government's response: a critique

Nicholas Barr and Iain Crawford

282: Student loans: towards a new public/private mix

Nicholas Barr

281: Income transfers in transition: constraints and progress

Nicholas Barr

280: Alternative funding resources for higher education

Nicholas Barr

279: Economic theory and the welfare state: a survey and interpretation

Nicholas Barr

271: The regulation of electronic commerce: learning from the UK's RIP act

Ian Hosein and Edgar A. Whitley

247: The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia

Rebecca Sear, Fiona Steele, Ian A. McGregor and Ruth Mace

229: What determines monetary policy in the Franc zone?: estimating a reaction function for the BCEAO

Anja Shortland and David Stasavage

210: Specialization dynamics

Stephen Redding

209: R&D and absorptive capacity: theory and empirical evidence

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

208: Path dependence, endogenous innovation, and growth

Stephen Redding

207: Distance, skill deepening and development: will peripheral countries ever get rich?

Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

206: Evolving patterns of international trade

James Proudman and Stephen Redding

198: Estimating the rational expectations model of speculative storage: a Monte Carlo comparison of three simulation estimators

Alexander Michaelides and Serena Ng

197: New evidence on the effects of US monetary policy on exchange rates

Sarantis Kalyvitis and Alexander Michaelides

196: Portfolio choice with internal habit formation: a life-cycle model with uninsurable labor income risk

Francisco J. Gomes and Alexander Michaelides

195: International portfolio choice, liquidity constraints and the home equity bias puzzle

Alexander Michaelides

194: A reconciliation of two alternative approaches towards buffer stock saving

Alexander Michaelides

193: Optimal life cycle asset allocation: understanding the empirical evidence

Alexander Michaelides and Francisco J. Gomes

177: Damages and injunctions in protecting proprietary research tools

Mark Schankerman and Suzanne Scotchmer

176: Idiosyncratic and common shocks to investment decisions

Mark Schankerman

166: A viable project of solidarism? The neglected contributions of John Vincent's basic rights initiative

Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez and Barry Buzan

162: The social foundations of the bureaucratic order

Jannis Kallinikos

160: Health economic evaluation in Japan: a case study of one aspect of health technology assessment

Adam Oliver

159: The internal consistency of the standard gamble: tests after adjusting for prospect theory

Adam Oliver

157: Prioritizing health care: is “health” always an appropriate maximand?

Adam Oliver

155: A quantitative and qualitative test of the Allais paradox using health outcomes

Adam Oliver

154: Statistical tests for Lyapunov exponents of deterministic systems

Rodney C. Wolff, Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

20: Risk averse supervisors and the efficiency of collusion

Antoine Faure-Grimaud, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort