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2010/2: Can lower tax rates be bought? Business rent-seeking and tax competition among U.S.States

Bob Chirinko and Daniel Wilson

2010/1: A Nash bargaining solution to models of tax and investment competition: tolls and investment in serial transport corridors

Bruno De Borger and Wilfried Pauwels

2009/38: Can a knowledge-based cluster be created? The case of the Barcelona 22@district

Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal and Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod

2009/37: The role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition

Alexander Haupt and Tim Krieger

2009/36: Do re-election probabilities influence public investment?

Jon Fiva and Gisle Natvik

2009/35: Efficiency measurement in the Spanish cadastral units through DEA

José Manuel Cordero Ferrera, Francisco Pedraja Chaparro and Javier Salinas Jiménez

2009/34: Optimal country's policy towards multinationals when local regions can choose between firm-specific and non-firm-specific policies

Osiris Parcero

2009/33: Sharing the blame? Local electoral accountability and centralized school finance in California

Marcelin Joanis

2009/32: Inter-Regional redistribution through infrastructure investment: tactical or programmatic?

Albert Albert Solé-Ollé

2009/31: Economic incongruities in the European patent system

Malwina Mejer and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potter

2009/30: Suggesting an alternative electoral proportional system. Blank votes count

Orestis Troumpounis

2009/29: Effects of fiscal decentralisation and electoral accountability efficiency evidence from the Italian health care sector

Francesco Porcelli

2009/28: Optimal taxes and pensions in a society with myopic agents

Kerstin Roeder

2009/27: Plurality versus proportional electoral rule: which is most representative of voters?

Amedeo Piolatto

2009/26: Central command, local hazard and the race to the top

Edoardo Di Porto and Federico Revelli

2009/25: On the optimal design of disaster insurance in a federation

Timothy Goodspeed and Andrew F. Haughwout

2009/24: (Uncontrolled) Aggregate shocks or vertical tax interdependence? Evidence from gasoline and cigarettes

Alejandro Esteller-Moré and Leonzio Rizzo

2009/23: Pension funding and individual accounts in economies with life-cyclers and myopes

Hans Fehr and Fabian Kindermann

2009/22: Voluntary pension savings: the effects of the finnish tax reform on savers’ behaviour

Jarkko Harju

2009/21: Optimal risk allocation in the provision of local public services: can a private insurer be better than a public mutual fund?

Gilberto Turati and Luigi Buzzacchi

2009/20: Soft budgets and local borrowing regulation in a dynamic decentralized leadership model with saving and free mobility

Nobuo Akai and Motohiro Sato

2009/19: Corporate tax competition between firms

Simon Loretz and Padraig J. Moore

2009/18: Competition for FDI with vintage investment and agglomeration advantages

Kai Konrad and Dan Kovenoch

2009/17: Decentralization, Competition and the local tax mix: evidence from Flanders

Benny Geys and Federico Revelli

2009/16: Tax competition and equalization: the impact of voluntary cooperation on the efficiency goal

Petra Ens

2009/15: Partial tax coordination in a repeated game setting

Jun-ichi Itaya, Makoto Okamuraz and Chikara Yamaguchix

2009/14: On the equivalence of location choice models: conditional logit, nested logit and poisson

Kurt Schmidheiny and Marius Brülhart

2009/13: The determinants of university patenting: Do incentives matter?

Tomás del Barrio-Castro and Jose Garcia-Quevedo

2009/12: Bohemians, human capital and regional economic growth

Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch and Stephan Heblich

2009/11: Strategic tax collection and fiscal decentralization: the case of Russia

Alexander Libman and Lars Feld

2009/10: Evaluating the effects of decentralization on educational outcomes in Spain

Paula Salinas and Albert Solé-Ollé

2009/9: What does it take for and R&D tax incentive policy to be effective?

Pierre Mohnen and Boris Lokshin

2009/8: Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?

Esteban Sanroma, Raul Ramos and Hipolito Simon

2009/7: The dynamic adjustment of local government budgets: does Spain behave differently?

Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

2009/6: Risk selection in natural disaster insurance

Mario Jametti and Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg

2009/5: Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization

Matthias Wrede

2009/4: Regional Fiscal Flows: Measurement Tools

Giuseppe Ruggeri

2009/3: Federalism and Inter-Regional Redistribution

Jonathan Rodden

2009/2: Cheaper Child Care, More Children

Eva Mörk, Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

2009/1: Reciprocity and Competition: Is There a Connection?

Jonathan Rork and Gary A. Wagner

2008/9: The economic impact of the spanish public university system. An analysis for the period 1998 - 2004

Néstor Duch Brown, Javier García and Martí Parellada

2008/8: Regulatory federalism in network industries

Francesc Trillas

2008/7: Portabilidad del capital humano y asimilación de los inmigrantes. Evidencia para España

Esteban Sanroma, Raul Ramos and Hipolito Simon

2008/6: Does urban sprawl increase the costs of providing local public services? Evidence from Spanish municipalities

Albert Solé-Ollé and Miriam Hortas Rico

2008/5: Assessing the assignation of public subsidies: Do the experts choose the most efficient R&D projects?

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

2008/4: Which communities should be afraid of mobility? The effects of agglomeration economies on the sensitivity of firm location to local taxes

Jordi Jofre-Monseny and Albert Solé-Ollé

2008/3: Rethinking public auditing institutions: Empirical evidence from Swiss municipalities

Mark Schelker and Reiner Eichenberger

2008/2: Does partisan alignment affect the electoral reward of intergovernmental transfers?

Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

2008/1: Political parties and the economy: Macro convergence, micro partisanship?

Pau Castells and Francesc Trillas

2007/8: A comparison of the economic and environmental performances of conventional and organic farming: Evidence from financial statements

Josep Mª Argilés and Néstor Duch Brown