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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

2010/44: Electoral rules and incentive effects of fiscal transfers: evidence from Germany

Peter Egger, Marko Koethenbuerger and Michael Smart

2010/43: Urban sprawl and municipal budgets in Spain: a dynamic panel data analysis

Miriam Hortas-Rico

2010/42: Borders, market access and urban growth; the case of Saxon towns and the Zollverein

Florian Ploeckl

2010/41: Uneven landscapes and the city size distribution

Sanghoon Lee and Qiang Li

2010/40: A nonparametric test for industrial specialization

Stephen Billings and Erik B. Johnson

2010/39: First nature vs. second nature causes: industry location and growth in the presence of an open-access renewable resource

Rafael González-Val and Fernando Pueyo

2010/38: From periphery to core: economic adjustments to high speed rail

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Arne Feddersen

2010/37: Interregional transfers, group loyalty and the decentralization of redistribution

Sabine Flamand

2010/36: The effect of sub-national borrowing control on fiscal sustainability: How to regulate?

Violeta Vulovic

2010/35: Financial development and city growth: Evidence from Northeastern American cities, 1790-1870

Howard Bodenhorn and David Cuberes

2010/34: City with forward and backward linkages

Pierre Picard and Takatoshi Tabuchi

2010/33: On the origins of land use regulations: theory and evidence from us metro areas

Christian Hilber and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

2010/32: Capitalization of central government grants into local house prices: panel data evidence from England

Christian Hilber, Teemu Lyytikäinen and Wouter Vermeulen

2010/31: Policy competition and agglomeration: a local government view

Michiel Gerritse

2010/30: Productivity and the density of human capital

Jaison Abel, Ishita Dey and Todd Gabe

2010/29: How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? Tax vs. expenditure optimization

Marko Koethenbuerger

2010/28: The effect of gasoline prices on household location

Raven Molloy and Hui Shan

2010/27: Understanding the city size wage gap

Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Ronni Pavan

2010/26: Dialects, cultural identity and economic exchange

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli and Jens Südekum

2010/25: Shades of brown and green: Party effects in proportional election systems

Olle Folke

2010/24: Wage inequality in Spain: A regional perspective

Ismael Ahamdanech Zarco, Carmelo García Pérez and Hipolito Simon

2010/23: Citizens' control and the efficiency of local public services

Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa Queralt and Antoni Mora Corral

2010/22: The political economy of infrastructure construction: The Spanish “Parliamentary Roads” (1880-1914)

Marta Curto-Grau, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Albert Solé-Ollé

2010/21: Do governments tax agglomeration rents?

Hyun-Ju Koh and Nadine Riedel

2010/20: International industry migration and firm characteristics: some evidence from the analysis of firm data

Àngels Pelegrín Solé and Catalina Bolance Losilla

2010/19: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist

2010/18: The role of entrepreneurship education and regional context in forming entrepreneurial intentions

Dirk Dohse and Sascha G. SWalter

2010/17: Political economics of higher education finance

Rainald Borck and Martin Wimbersky

2010/16: Representation and regional redistribution in federations

Tiberiu Dragu and Jonathan Rodden

2010/15: Is agglomeration taxable?

Jordi Jofre-Monseny

2010/14: On the political economy of tax limits

Stephen Calabrese and Dennis Epple

2010/13: Which firms want PhDS? The effect of the university-industry relationship on the PhD labour market

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Francisco Mas-Verdú and Jose Polo

2010/12: Venture capital and innovation at the firm level

Pere Arqué Castells

2010/11: Fiscal federalism and electoral accountability

Toke Aidt and Jayasri Dutta

2010/10: Exploring educational mobility in Europe

Antonio Di Paolo, Josep Raymond and Jorge Calero

2010/9: Fiscal equalization and political conflict

Maria Cubel

2010/8: Should tax bases overlap in a federation with lobbying?

Alejandro Esteller-Moré, Umberto Galmarini and Leonzio Rizzo

2010/7: Determinants of fiscal decentralization: political economy aspects

Mario Jametti and Marcelin Joanis

2010/6: Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental grants: the European regional policy and Spanish autonomous regions

Juan González Alegre

2010/5: Efficiency and elusion: both sides of public enterprises in Spain

Roberto Fernández Llera and María A. García Valiñas

2010/4: Mobility and local income redistribution

Sigrid Roehrs and David Stadelmann

2010/3: Politics or mobility? Evidence from us excise taxation

Alejandro Esteller-Moré and Leonzio Rizzo