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2013/5: Suburbanization and highways: when the romans, the bourbons and the first cars still shape Spanish cities

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Adelheid Holl and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2013/4: Does tourism boost criminal activity? Evidence from a top touristic country

Daniel Montolio and Simón Planells

2013/3: Why firms relocate their production overseas? The answer lies inside: corporate, logistic and technological determinants

Jesús Lampón, Pablo Cabanelas-Lorenzo and Santiago Lago-Peñas

2013/2: Sprawl, blight and the role of urban containment policies. Evidence from US cities

Miriam Hortas Rico

2013/1: Sequential city growth in the US: does age matter?

María Sánchez-Vidal, Rafael González-Val and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2012/39: Inequality in education: can Italian disadvantaged students close the gap? A focus on resilience in the Italian school system

Tommaso Agasisti and Sergio Longobardi

2012/38: Which firms are involved in foreign vertical integration?

Angels Pelegrín and Jose Garcia-Quevedo

2012/37: The influence of BMI, obesity and overweight on medical costs: a panel data approach

Toni Mora, Joan Gil and Antoni Sicras-Mainar

2012/36: The hidden dimensions of urbanity

Gabriel Ahlfeldt

2012/35: Teacher quality policy when supply matters

Jesse Rothstein

2012/34: Language use in education and primary schooling attainment: evidence from a natural experiment in Ethiopia

Rajesh Ramachandran

2012/33: Single vs double ballot and party coalitions: the impact on fiscal policy. Evidence from Italy

Leonzio Rizzo and Alberto Zanardi

2012/32: Does fiscal decentralization foster regional investment in productive infrastructure?

Andreas Kappeler, Albert Solé-Ollé, Andreas Stephan and Timo Valila

2012/31: Partisan targeting of inter-governmental transfers & state interference in local elections: evidence from Spain

Marta Curto-Grau, Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

2012/30: Evaluating a bilingual education program in Spain: the impact beyond foreign language learning

Brindusa Anghel, Antonio Cabrales and Jesus Carro

2012/29: Poor institutions, rich mines: resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia

Paolo Buonanno, Ruben Durante, Giovanni Prarolo and Paolo Vanin

2012/28: Do political parties matter for local land use policies?

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2012/27: Marshallian labor market pooling: evidence from Italy

Monica Andini, Guido de Blasio, Gilles Duranton and William Strange

2012/26: The effect of within-group inequality in a conflict against a unitary threat

Maria Cubel and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

2012/25: Vertical externalities with lump-sum taxes: how much difference does unemployment make?

Diego Martínez and Tomas Sjögren

2012/24: Diversity and local public goods: a natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation

Yann Algan, Camille Hemet and David Laitin

2012/23: Space, settlements, towns: the influence of geography and market access on settlement distribution and urbanization

Florian Ploeckl

2012/22: Neighborhood quality and labor market outcomes: evidence from quasi-random neighborhood assignment of immigrants

Anna Damm

2012/21: Trends in shotgun marriages: the pill, the will or the cost?

Ana Nuevo-Chiquero

2012/20: Regional inequality and decentralization – an empirical analysis

Christian Lessmann

2012/19: Job search methods in times of crisis: native and immigrant strategies in Spain

Javier Vázquez-Grenno

2012/18: New evidence on Gibrat’s law for cities

Rafael González-Val, Luis Lanaspa and Fernando Sanz

2012/17: The ins and outs of unemployment in a two-tier labor market

José Silva and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

2012/16: The contribution of the disabled to the attainment of the Europe 2020 strategy headline targets

Álvaro Choi and Jorge Calero

2012/15: Evidence from a UK supermarket chain

Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber and Ioannis Kaplanis

2012/14: Centralization and accountability: theory and evidence from the Clean Air Act

Federico Boffa, Amedeo Piolatto and Giacomo Ponzetto

2012/13: Sunk costs, extensive R&D subsidies and permanent inducement effects

Pere Arqué-Castells and Pierre Mohnen

2012/12: Business taxation and economic performance in hierarchical government structures

Federico Revelli

2012/11: Urban spatial structure, suburbanization and transportation in Barcelona

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

2012/10: The strategic interplay between bundling and merging in complementary markets

Andrea Mantovani and Jan Vandekerckhove

2012/9: What underlies localization and urbanization economies? Evidence from the location of new firms

Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Raquel Marín-López and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2012/8: Gibrat’s law and legacy for non-profit organisations: a non-parametric analysis

Peter G. Backus

2012/7: How does aid matter? The effect of financial aid on university enrolment decisions

Loris Vergolini and Nadir Zanini

2012/6: Ideology and the growth of US state government

Andrew Pickering and James Rockey

2012/5: Empirical evidence on horizontal competition in tax enforcement

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

2012/4: Student graduation: to what extent does university expenditure matter?

Javier García-Estévez and Néstor Duch-Brown

2012/3: Business taxes and the electoral cycle

Dirk Foremny and Nadine Riedel

2012/2: The size distribution across all “cities”: a unifying approach

Kristian Giesen and Jens Suedekum

2012/1: What drives investment in telecommunications? The role of regulation, firms’ internationalization and market knowledge

Daniel Montolio and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

2011/44: Fiscal decentralisation, private school funding, and students’ achievements. A tale from two roman catholic countries

Gilberto Turati, Daniel Montolio and Massimiliano Piacenza

2011/43: Decentralization of government and contracting with the private sector

Darwin Cortés

2011/42: Beaches, sunshine, and public-sector pay: theory and evidence on amenities and rent extraction by government workers

Jan Brueckner and David Neumark

2011/41: The effect of the l’Aquila earthquake on labour market outcomes

Giorgio Di Pietro and Toni Mora

2011/40: Voting under the threat of secession: accommodation vs. repression

Vincent Anesi and Philippe De Donder

2011/39: Growth in a cross-section of cities: location, increasing returns or random growth?

Rafael González-Val and Jose Olmo