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2014/19: Voters’ responsiveness to public employment policies

Marta Curto-Grau

2014/18: Energy market liberalization and renewable energy policies in OECD countries

Francesco Vona and Francesco Nicolli

2014/17: Cross-sectional growth in US cities from 1990 to 2000

Rafael González-Val

2014/16: Beyond the R&D effects on innovation: the contribution of non-R&D activities to TFP growth in the EU

Jesus Lopez-Rodriguez and Diego Martínez

2014/15: Regulatory environment and firm performance in EU telecommunications services

Daniel Montolio, Francesc Trillas and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2014/14: Media competition and electoral politics

Amedeo Piolatto and Florian Schuett

2014/13: Gender differences and stereotypes in the beauty contest

Maria Cubel and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

2014/12: Barriers to non-formal professional training in Spain in periods of economic growth and crisis. An analysis with special attention to the effect of the previous human capital of workers

Jorge Calero and Josep-Oriol Escardibul

2014/11: Reviving demand-pull perspectives: the effect of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on R&D strategy

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino and Maria Savona

2014/10: Energy efficiency determinants: an empirical analysis of Spanish innovative firms

Maria Costa-Campi, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Agustí Segarra

2014/9: Itemised deductions: a device to reduce tax evasion

Amedeo Piolatto

2014/8: A fiscal revolution? Progressivity in the Spanish tax system, 1960-1990

Sara Torregrosa Hetland

2014/7: Choosing the type of income-contingent loan: risk-sharing versus risk-pooling

Elena Del Rey and Maria Racionero

2014/6: Difference-form group contests

Maria Cubel and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

2014/5: Tax professionals' view of the Spanish tax system: efficiency, equity and tax planning

Jose M. Duran-Cabre and Alejandro Esteller-Moré

2014/4: The effect of the Spanish Reconquest on Iberian cities

David Cuberes and Rafael González-Val

2014/3: Prospect theory and tax evasion: a reconsideration of the Yitzhaki puzzle

Amedeo Piolatto and Matthew Rablen

2014/2: Do land use policies follow road construction?

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2014/1: When police patrols matter. The effect of police proximity on citizens’ crime risk perception

Daniel Montolio and Simón Planells-Struse

2013/36: New venture survival and growth: does the fog lift?

Alex Coad, David J Storey, Richard G Storey and Julian S Frankish

2013/35: Sending the pork home: birth town bias in transfers to Italian municipalities

Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto

2013/34: Financing higher education: a contributory scheme

David Flacher, Hugo Harari-Kermadec and Leonard Moulin

2013/33: Are we wasting public money? No! The effects of grants on Italian university students’ performances

Tommaso Agasisti and Samuele Murtinu

2013/32: Local representation and strategic voting: evidence from electoral boundary reforms

Tuukka Saarimaa and Janne Tukiainen

2013/31: The fight against cartels: a transatlantic perspective

Emilie Dargaud, Andrea Mantovani and Carlo Reggiani

2013/30: Dress-up contest: a dark side of fiscal decentralization

Ruixin Wang and Wendun Wang

2013/29: Tax limits and local democracy

Federico Revelli

2013/28: The impact of supply constraints on house prices in England

Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen

2013/27: Sovereign bond market reactions to fiscal rules and no-bailout clauses – The Swiss experience

Lars Feld, Alexander Kalb, Marc-Daniel Moessinger and Steffen Osterloh

2013/26: Feedback equilibria in a dynamic renewable resource oligopoly: pre-emption, voracity and exhaustion

Luca Lambertini and Andrea Mantovani

2013/25: The fight against cartels: a transatlantic perspective

Emilie Dargaud, Andrea Mantovani and Carlo Reggiani

2013/24: Renewable energy and electricity prices: indirect empirical evidence from hydro power

Ronald Huisman, Victoria Stradnic and Sjur Westgaard

2013/23: R&D drivers and obstacles to innovation in the energy industry

Maria Costa-Campi, Néstor Duch-Brown and Jose Garcia-Quevedo

2013/22: Regional resilience

Jeffrey Lin

2013/21: Is money all? Financing versus knowledge and demand constraints to innovation

Gabriele Pellegrino and Maria Savona

2013/20: Do labor market networks have an important spatial dimension?

Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach and David Neumark

2013/19: Strategic voting and happiness

Francesca Acacia and Maria Cubel

2013/18: A political economy model of the vertical fiscal gap and vertical fiscal imbalances in a federation

Bev Dahlby and Jonathan Rodden

2013/17: Evolution of the school failure risk during the 2000 decade in Spain: analysis of Pisa results with a two-level logistic model

Juan Manuel Guío and Álvaro Choi

2013/16: Factors behind international relocation and changes in production geography in the European automobile components industry

Jesús Lampón and Santiago Lago-Peñas

2013/15: Homevoters vs. leasevoters: a spatial analysis of airport effects

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Wolfgang Maennig

2013/14: Is it worth it? On the returns to holding political office

Heléne Lundqvist

2013/13: Market potential and city growth: Spain 1860-1960

Rafael González-Val, Daniel Tirado-Fabregat and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2013/12: The mathematics skills of school children: how does England compare to the high performing east Asian jurisdictions?

John Jerrim and Álvaro Choi

2013/11: Financial constraints and the failure of innovation projects

Agustí Segarra, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Mercedes Teruel Carrizosa

2013/10: The effects of unemployment benefits on migration in lagging regions

Jordi Jofre-Monseny

2013/9: How effective are policies to reduce gasoline consumption? Evaluating a quasi-natural experiment in Spain

Javier Asensio, Andrés Gómez-Lobo and Anna Matas

2013/8: Banking towards development: Evidence from the Spanish banking expansion plan

Pere Arqué-Castells and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2013/7: Teacher gender and student performance in mathematics. Evidence from Catalonia

Josep-Oriol Escardibul and Toni Mora

2013/6: Should large Spanish municipalities be financially compensated? Costs and benefits of being a capital/central municipality

Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa and Daniel Montolio