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2016/8: Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)

Rafael González-Val

2016/7: Double toil and trouble: grade retention and academic performance

Álvaro Choi, María Gil, Mauro Mediavilla and Javier Valbuena

2016/6: On the private and social desirability of mixed bundling in complementary markets with cost savings

Christine Halmenschlager and Andrea Mantovani

2016/5: Returns to ICT skills

Oliver Falck, Alexandra Heimisch-Röcker and Simon Wiederhold

2016/4: The economic impact of electricity losses

Maria Costa-Campi, Daniel Daví-Arderius and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2016/3: Education, age and skills: an analysis using the PIAAC survey

Jorge Calero, Inés P. Murillo Huertas and Josep Raymond

2016/2: Analysing the potential economic value of energy storage

Lisa Flatley, Monica Giulietti, Luigi Grossi, Elisa Trujillo-Baute and Michael Waterson

2016/1: Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spillover effects: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy

Sergio Galletta

2015/42: Wage policies, employment, and redistributive efficiency

Erwin Ooghe

2015/41: Exposing politicians’ ties to criminal organizations: the effects of local government dissolutions on electoral outcomes in southern Italian municipalities

Gianmarco Daniele and Benny Geys

2015/40: Does educational management model matter? New evidence for Spain by a quasiexperimental approach

María-Jesús Mancebón, Domingo Ximénez-de-Embún, Mauro Mediavilla and Jose Gomez-Sancho

2015/39: ‘Hold that ghost’: using notches to identify manipulation of population-based grants

Dirk Foremny, Jordi Jofre-Monseny and Albert Solé-Ollé

2015/38: Regional unemployment, marriage, and divorce

Rafael González-Val and Miriam Marcén

2015/37: Strike one to educate one hundred: organized crime, political selection and politicians’ ability

Gianmarco Daniele

2015/36: Is there real freedom of school choice? An analysis from Chile

Mauro Mediavilla and Adrián Zancajo

2015/35: The distribution of skills among the European adult population and unemployment: a comparative approach

Jorge Calero and Álvaro Choi

2015/34: Divorce and the business cycle: a cross-country analysis

Rafael González-Val and Miriam Marcén

2015/33: Decentralisation and school autonomy impact on the quality of education: the case of two MENA countries

Josep-Oriol Escardibul and Nehal Helmy

2015/32: When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea

Hoon Choi and Álvaro Choi

2015/31: Bypassing progressive taxation: fraud and base erosion in the Spanish income tax (1970-2001)

Sara Torregrosa-Hetland

2015/30: Express delivery to the suburbs. The effects of transportation in Europe’s heterogeneous cities

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Ilias Pasidis and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2015/29: An analysis of wage differentials between full-and part-time workers in Spain

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanroma and Hipolito Simon

2015/28: Market structure, the functional form of demand and the sensitivity of the vertical reaction function

Agustin Redonda

2015/27: Capital taxation and imperfect competition: ACE vs. CBIT

Kurt Brekke, Armando Garcia Pires, Dirk Schindler and Guttorm Schjelderup

2015/26: Commodity taxation and regulatory competition

Simone Moriconi, Pierre Picard and Skerdilajda Zanaj

2015/25: Petty corruption and citizen feedback

Charles Angelucci and Antonio Russo

2015/24: A test of the ‘lose it or use it’ hypothesis in labour markets around the world

Karsten Albæk

2015/23: Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Toke Aidt, Zareh Asatryan, Lusine Badalyan and Friedrich Heinemann

2015/22: Determinants of doctorate holders’ job satisfaction. An analysis by employment sector and type of satisfaction in Spain

Josep-Oriol Escardibul and Sergio Afcha

2015/21: Fiscal equalization under political pressures

Alejandro Esteller-Moré, Umberto Galmarini and Leonzio Rizzo

2015/20: How does transportation shape Intrametropolitan growth? An answer from the regional express rail

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Camille Hemet and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2015/19: Big plant closures and agglomeration economies

Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Maria Sánchez-Vidal and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2015/18: Are energy market integrations a green light for FDI?

Maria Costa-Campi, Jordi Paniagua and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2015/17: Impacts of intermittent renewable generation on electricity system costs

Joan Batalla-Bejerano and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2015/16: Unexpected consequences of liberalisation: metering, losses, load profiles and cost settlement in Spain’s electricity system

Joan Batalla-Bejerano, Maria Costa-Campi and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2015/15: Measuring the negative externalities of a private leisure activity: hooligans and pickpockets around the stadium

Daniel Montolio and Simón Planells-Struse

2015/14: How inventor royalty shares affect patenting and income in Portugal and Spain

Pere Arqué-Castells, Rui M Cartaxo, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Manuel Godinho

2015/13: Tax administration and tax systems

Joel Slemrod

2015/12: Strategic investment in merchant transmission: the impact of capacity utilization rules

Federico Boffa, Viswanath Pingali and Francesca Sala

2015/11: Online booking and information: competition and welfare consequences of review aggregators

Amedeo Piolatto

2015/10: How time shapes crime: the temporal impacts of football matches on crime

Daniel Montolio and Simón Planells-Struse

2015/9: Does tax enforcement counteract the negative effects of terrorism? A case study of the Basque Country

Luca Salvadori

2015/8: Analysing the sensitivity of electricity system operational costs to deviations in supply and demand

Joan Batalla-Bejerano and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2015/7: Empirical evidence on tax cooperation between sub-central administrations

Jose M. Duran-Cabre, Alejandro Esteller-Moré and Luca Salvadori

2015/6: The use (and misuse) of Pisa in guiding policy reform: the case of Spain

Álvaro Choi and John Jerrim

2015/5: An axiomatization of difference-form contest success functions

Maria Cubel and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

2015/4: Diversity and employment prospects: neighbors matter!

Camille Hemet

2015/3: Barriers to innovation: can firm age help lower them?

Gabriele Pellegrino

2015/2: Optimality and distortionary lobbying: regulating tobacco consumption

Luca Colombo and Umberto Galmarini

2015/1: Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive

Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger and Mustafa Yeter