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W01/06: Limited financial market participation: a transaction cost-based explanation

Monica Paiella

W01/05: The dynamics of investment under uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Stephen Bond and John van Reenen

W01/04: The limits of social democracy? Tax and spend under Labour, 1974-79

Tom Clark

W01/03: R&D and absorptive capacity: from theory to data

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

W01/02: Criterion-based inference for GMM in autoregressive panel-data models

Stephen Bond, Clive Bowsher and Frank Windmeijer

W01/01: Wages, experience and seniority

Christian Dustmann and Costas Meghir

W00/22: The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Lorraine Dearden, Javier Ferri and Costas Meghir

W00/21: Patents, productivity and market value: evidence from a panel of UK firms

Nicholas Bloom and John van Reenen

W00/20: Wealth inequality in the United States and Great Britain

James Banks, Richard Blundell and James Smith

W00/19: A finite sample correction for the variance of linear two-step GMM estimators

Frank Windmeijer

W00/18: Progressivity comparisons

Valentino Dardoni and Peter Lambert,

W00/17: Crime and economic incentives

Stephen Machin and Costas Meghir

W00/16: Comparing in-work benefits and financial work incentives for low-income families in the US and the UK

Mike Brewer

W00/15: The dynamic effects of real options and irreversibility on investment and labour demand

Nicholas Bloom

W00/14: Household portfolios in the UK

James Banks and Tanner, Tanner

W00/13: The abolition of the earnings rule for UK pensioners

Richard Disney and Tanner, Tanner

W00/12: Estimation in dynamic panel data models: improving on the performance of the standard GMM estimator

Richard Blundell, Stephen Bond and Frank Windmeijer

W00/11: A recursive algorithm to generate piecewise linear budget contraints

Alan Duncan and Graham Stark

W00/10: What do we learn from recall consumption data?

Erich Battistin, Raffaele Miniaci and Guglielmo Weber

W00/09: Functional literacy, educational attainment and earnings - evidence from the international adult literacy survey

Kevin Denny, Colm Harmon and Sandra Redmond

W00/08: The impacts of education and training on the labour market experiences of young adults

Kevin Denny and Colm Harmon

W00/07: New methods for comparing literacy across populations: insights from the measurement of poverty

Kevin Denny

W00/06: Education policy reform and the return to schooling from instrumental variables

Kevin Denny and Colm Harmon

W00/05: Direct estimation of policy impacts

Hidehiko Ichimura and Christopher Taber

W00/04: Who gains when workers train? Training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

John van Reenen

W00/03: Identifying demand for health resources using waiting times information

Richard Blundell and Frank Windmeijer

W00/02: Mapping the two faces of R&D: productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

W00/01: Optimal taxation and risk sharing

Hamish Low and Daniel Maldoom

W99/28: Nonparametric tests of stochastic dominance in bivariate distributions, with an application to UK data

Ian Crawford

W99/27: Has technology hurt less skilled workers? A survey of the micro-econometric evidence

Lucy Chennells and John van Reenen

W99/26: The geographic distribution of production activity in the UK

Michael Devereux, Rachel Griffith and Helen Simpson

W99/25: Empirical patterns of firm growth and R&D investment: a quality ladder model interpretation

Zvi Griliches and Tor Klette

W99/24: Self-insurance and unemployment benefit in a life-cycle model of labour supply and savings

Hamish Low

W99/23: Organization, skill and technology: evidence from a panel of British and French establishments

Eve Caroli and John van Reenen

W99/22: Export Market Performance of OECD countries: an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness

Wendy Carlin, Andrew Glyn and John van Reenen

W99/21: Valuing quality

Laura Blow and Ian Crawford

W99/20: Wages and the demand for health - a life cycle analysis

Christian Dustmann and Frank Windmeijer

W99/19: Risk pooling, precautionary saving and consumption growth

James Banks, Richard Blundell and Agar Brugiavini

W99/18: Individual choice of pension arrangement as a pension reform strategy

Richard Disney, Robert Palacios and Edward Whitehouse

W99/17: What can we learn from retirement expectations data?

Richard Disney and Tanner, Tanner

W99/16: What can we learn about pension reform from Generational Accounts for the UK?

James Banks, Richard Disney and Zoe Oldfield

W99/15: A non-parametric bound on substitution bias in the UK retail prices index

Laura Blow and Ian Crawford

W99/14: Worker displacement in France and Germany

Stefan Bender, Christian Dustmann, David Margolis and Costas Meghir

W99/13: Interpreting aggregate wage growth

Richard Blundell, Howard Reed and Thomas M. Stoker

W99/12: Getting the unemployed back to work: the role of targeted wage subsidies

Brian Bell, Richard Blundell and John van Reenen

W99/11: Productivity and foreign ownership in the UK car industry

Rachel Griffith

W99/10: Assessing the effect of schooling on earnings using a social experiment

Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme

W99/09: Generalised R-based and S-based taxes under uncertainty

Stephen Bond and Michael Devereux

W99/08: Do R&D tax credits work? Evidence from an international panel of countries 1979-1994

Nicholas Bloom, Rachel Griffith and John van Reenen

W99/07: Qualifications and earnings in Britain: how reliable are conventional OLS estimates of the returns to education?

Lorraine Dearden