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2011/38: Bottleneck co-ownership as a regulatory alternative

Federico Boffa and John Panzar

2011/37: Does grade retention affect achievement? Some evidence from Pisa

J. Ignacio García-Pérez, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo and J. Antonio Robles-Zurita

2011/36: Estimating the rivalness of state-level inward FDI

Marius Brülhart and Kurt Schmidheiny

2011/35: Tax competition among local governments: evidence from a property tax reform in Finland

Teemu Lyytikäinen

2011/34: Welfare spending and ethnic heterogeneity: evidence from a massive immigration wave

Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

2011/33: Analysis of alternative proposals to reform the Spanish intergovernmental transfer system for municipalities

Francisco Pedraja Chaparro and José Manuel Cordero Ferrera

2011/32: Corruption, accountability, and decentralization: theory and evidence from Mexico

Timothy Goodspeed

2011/31: The determinants of YICs’ R&D activity

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli

2011/30: Financing public education when altruistic agents have retirement concerns

Daniel Montolio and Amedeo Piolatto

2011/29: Optimal tax enforcement under prospect theory

Amedeo Piolatto and Gwenola Trotin

2011/28: Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy. The Spanish case

Hipolito Simon, Raul Ramos and Esteban Sanroma

2011/27: Local spending and the housing boom

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

2011/26: The probability of military rule in Africa, 1970-2007

Raul Caruso, Jacopo Costa and Roberto Ricciuti

2011/25: Tax competition with heterogeneous capital mobility

Steeve Mongrain and John D. Wilson

2011/24: In government we trust: the role of fiscal decentralization

Jenny Ligthart and Peter van Oudheusden

2011/23: Research output from university-industry collaborative projects

Albert Banal-Estañol, Ines Macho-Stadler and David Perez-Castrillo

2011/22: What type of innovative firms acquire knowledge intensive services and from which suppliers?

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Francisco Mas-Verdú and Daniel Montolio

2011/21: Mechanisms of peer interactions between native and non-native students: rejection or integration?

Marco Tonello

2011/20: The impact of R&D on employment in Europe: a firm-level analysis

Francesco Bogliacino, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

2011/19: Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the U.S. and Mexico

Joel López Real

2011/18: Green polities: urban environmental performance and government popularity

Laura Bianchini and Federico Revelli

2011/17: Give me your wired and your highly skilled: measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders

Carl Lin

2011/16: Offshoring and company characteristics: some evidence from the analysis of Spanish firm data

Angels Pelegrín and Catalina Bolancé

2011/15: Regulatory federalism and industrial policy in broadband telecommunications

Daniel Montolio and Francesc Trillas

2011/14: Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argiles

2011/13: To assemble to resemble? A study of tax disparities among French municipalities

Marie-Laure Breuillé, Pascale Duran-Vigneron and Anne-Laure Samson

2011/12: The link between public support and private r&d effort: what is the optimal subsidy?

Néstor Duch-Brown, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Daniel Montolio

2011/11: University patenting, licensing and technology transfer: how organizational context and available resources determine performance

Manuel Godinho and Rui Cartaxo

2011/10: Hell to touch the sky? Private tutoring and academic achievement in Korea

Álvaro Choi, Jorge Calero and Josep-Oriol Escardibul

2011/9: Corruption scandals, press reporting, and accountability. Evidence from Spanish mayors

Elena Costas-Pérez, Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

2011/8: Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects

Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk

2011/7: Do universities affect firms’ location decisions? Evidence from Spain

Néstor Néstor Duch-Brown and Javier García-Estévez

2011/6: Universities and regional economic growth in Spanish regions

Néstor Néstor Duch-Brown, Javier García-Estévez and Martí Parellada-Sabata

2011/5: A model of music piracy with popularity-dependent copying costs

Amedeo Piolatto and Florian Schuett

2011/4: On the determinants of local tax rates: new evidence from Spain

Francisco Delgado, Santiago Lago-Peñas and Matías Mayor

2011/3: Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help

Luciano Canova and Alessandro Vaglio

2011/2: Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Matz Dahlberg, Karin Edmark and Heléne Lundqvist

2011/1: What are the causes of educational inequalities and of their evolution over time in Europe? Evidence from Pisa

Veruska Oppedisano and Gilberto Turati

2010/56: Does fiscal discipline towards sub-national governments affect citizens’ well-being? evidence on health

Massimiliano Piacenza and Gilberto Turati

2010/55: The job creation effect of R&D expenditures

Francesco Bogliacino and Marco Vivarelli

2010/54: Do countries compensate firms for international wage differentials?

Ferdinand Mittermaier and Johannes Rincke

2010/53: Migration and social insurance

Helmuth Cremer and Catarina Goulão

2010/52: Can better governance increase university efficiency?

Néstor Duch-Brown and Montserrat Vilalta

2010/51: Economies of scale and scope of university research and technology transfer: a flexible multi-product approach

Néstor Duch-Brown, Martí Parellada-Sabata and Jose Polo

2010/50: Tax mix corners and other kinks

Federico Revelli

2010/49: The mechanisms of agglomeration: Evidence from the effect of inter-industry relations on the location of new firms

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

2010/48: Occupations at risk: explicit task content and job security

Ljubica Nedelkoska

2010/47: Neighborhood effects and parental involvement in the intergenerational transmission of education

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

2010/46: Why do small states receive more federal money? Us senate representation and the allocation of federal budget

Valentino Larcinese, Leonzio Rizzo and Cecilia Testa

2010/45: Lobbying, political competition, and local land supply: recent evidence from Spain

Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal