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2016-3: Climate Preferences, Obesity, and Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities

Anthony Yezer and Stephen Popick

2016-1: The Two Fragilities: Vulnerability to Conflict,Environmental Stress, and Their Interactions as Challenges to Ending Poverty

Stephen Smith

2015-21: Surge Pricing and Price Gouging: Public Misunderstanding as a Market Imperfection

Steven Suranovic

2015-20: Surge Pricing and Price Gouging: Public Misunderstanding as a Market Imperfection

Steven Suranovic

2015-19: Travel Time Use Over Five Decades

Chen Song and Chao Wei

2015-18: Long-Term Impacts of High Temperatures on Economic Productivity

Paul Carrillo, Ram Fishman and Jason Russ

2015-17: A State-Level Analysis of Okun's Law

Amy Guisinger, Ruben Hernandez-Murillo, Michael Owyang and Tara Sinclair

2015-16: Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment

Sarah Baird, Joan Hicks, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel

2015-15: The Energy Implications of City Size and Density

William Larson and Anthony Yezer

2015-14: Banking Unconditionally: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in Latin America

Stephen Kaplan

2015-13: Fighting Past Economic Wars: Crisis and Austerity in Latin America

Stephen Kaplan

2015-12: Amenity, Diversity and Obesity: Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities

Stephen Popick and Anthony Yezer

2015-11: Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

Yao Pan, Stephen Smith and Munshi Sulaiman

2015-10: Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty

Tony Castleman, James Foster and Stephen Smith

2015-9: Repression, civil conflict and leadership tenure; the Thai Case Study: 2006-2014

Susan Aaronson

2015-8: The Repeat Time-On-The-Market Index

Paul Carrillo and Benjamin Williams

2015-7: Urbanization without Growth in Historical Perspective

Remi Jedwab and Dietrich Vollrath

2015-6: The Mortality Transition, Malthusian Dynamics, and the Rise of Poor Mega-Cities

Remi Jedwab and Dietrich Vollrath

2015-5: Firm Learning and Growth

Costas Arkolakis, Theodore Papageorgiou and Olga Timoshenko

2015-4: Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma: Sources of monetary policy autonomy

Jay Shambaugh and Michael Klein

2015-3: International Currency Exposures, Valuation Effects, and the Global Financial Crisis

Jay Shambaugh

2015-2: The Meaning of Fair Trade

Steven Suranovic

2015-1: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt: Global Finance and Electoral Cycles

Stephen B. Kaplan and Kaj Thomsson

2014-22: When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Amrita Ahuja, Sarah Baird, Joan Hicks, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel and Shawn Powers

2014-21: Fiscal Discoveries and Yield Decouplings

Luis Catão, Ana Fostel and Romain Ranciere

2014-20: The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

2014-19: The China Boom in Latin America: An End to Austerity

Stephen Kaplan

2014-18: Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policymaking: Economic Crises and Technocratic Governance

Stephen B. Kaplan

2014-17: Evaluating Forecasts of a Vector of Variables: A German Forecasting Competition

Tara Sinclair, Hans Christian Müller-Dröge and Herman Stekler

2014-16: The Energy Implications of City Size and Density

Anthony Yezer and William Larson

2014-15: Why Does Skill Intensity Vary Across Cities? Housing Cost and True Human Capital

Anthony Yezer and Daniel Broxterman

2014-14: What Can We Learn From Revisions to the Greenbook Forecasts?

Tara Sinclair, Jeff Messina and Herman Stekler

2014-13: Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry

Cathy Bao and Maggie Chen

2014-12: The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs

Chao Wei and Shanjun Li

2014-11: Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover Effects

Sarah Baird, Aislinn Bohren, Berk Özler and Craig McIntosh

2014-10: The Political Economy of Sovereign Borrowing: Explaining the Policy Choices of Highly Indebted Governments

Stephen B. Kaplan and Kaj Thomsson

2014-08: Trade Imbalance: Juggling the Needs of Investors and the Public Interest in TTIP

Susan Aaronson and Rob Maxim

2014-07: Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?

Susan Aaronson and M. Rodwan Abouharb

2014-06: Putting the Blame on Governments: Why Firms and Governments have Failed to Advance the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Susan Aaronson and Ian Higham

2014-05: Counterfactual Spatial Distributions

Paul Carrillo and Jonathan Rothbaum

2014-04: Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries

Remi Jedwab, Luc Christiaensen and Marina Gindelsky

2014-03: Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa

Remi Jedwab and Alexander Moradi

2014-02: History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya

Remi Jedwab, Edward Kerby and Alexander Moradi

2014-01: Urbanization with and without Industrialization

Remi Jedwab, Douglas Gollin and Dietrich Vollrath

2013-18: Financial Innovation, Collateral and Investment

Ana Fostel and John Geanakoplos

2013-17: Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

2013-16: Leverage and Default in Binomial Economies: A Complete Characterization

Ana Fostel and John Geanakoplos

2013-15: Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Verena Dill, Uwe Jirjahn and Stephen Smith

2013-14: Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness: Policy Imperative and Corporate Opportunity

Steve Charnovitz and Daniel C. Esty

2013-13: Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen