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10-262: Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence IMF Conditionality?

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and James Vreeland

10-261: Measuring Regional Inequality by Internet Car Price Advertisements: Evidence for Germany

Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-260: Why Don't People Pay Attention?

Lena Draeger

10-259: Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

Spyros Arvanitis, Christian Rammer and Martin Woerter

10-258: How Do Different Motives for R&D Investment in Foreign Locations Affect Domestic Firm Performance?

Spyros Arvanitis and Heinz Hollenstein

10-257: Factors Determining the Adoption of Energy-saving Technologies in Swiss Firms

Spyros Arvanitis and Marius Ley

10-256: Do Google Searches Help in Nowcasting Private Consumption?

Konstantin Kholodilin, Maximilian Podstawski and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-255: Are 'New' Donors Different?

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

10-254: The Euro Cash Changeover, Inflation Perceptions and the Media

Michael Lamla and Sarah Lein

10-253: Discretionary Fiscal Policy

Andres Frick, Michael Graff, Jochen Hartwig and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-252: Do Coup Leaders Matter?

Richard Jong-A-Pin and Shu Yu

10-251: Assessing the Real-Time Informational Content of Macroeconomic Data Releases for Now-/Forecasting GDP

Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-250: Baumol's Diseases

Jochen Hartwig

10-249: Assessing Predictive Content of the KOF Barometer in Real Time

Boriss Siliverstovs

10-248: Does the Law of One Price Hold in a High-Inflation Environment?

Sule Akkoyunlu and Boriss Siliverstovs

10-247: Aid Allocation by German NGOs

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Susann Thiel and Rainer Thiele

10-246: Are Turkish Migrants Altruistic?

Sule Akkoyunlu

09-245: On the Relation Between Income Inequality and Happiness: Do Fairness Perceptions Matter?

Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer and Jan Schnellenbach

09-244: From knowledge to added value

Stephen Roper and Spyros Arvanitis

09-243: D and Z in ROPE

Jochen Hartwig

09-242: Do Competitively Acquired Funds Induce Public Research Institutions to Behave Efficiently?

Thomas Bolli and Frank Somogyi

09-241: How long do external capital constraints matter?

Tobias Stucki

09-240: Tax competition and income sorting

Christoph Schaltegger, Frank Somogyi and Jan-Egbert Sturm

09-239: Capacity utilisation, constraints and price adjustments under the microscope

Sarah Lein and Eva Koeberl

09-238: Globalization and Protection of Employment

Justina A. V. Fischer and Frank Somogyi

09-237: Evaluating German business cycle forecasts under an asymmetric loss function

Joerg Doepke, Ulrich Fritsche and Boriss Siliverstovs

09-236: Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions?

Jan-Egbert Sturm and Jakob de Haan

09-235: The Persistence of Inflation in Switzerland

Simone Elmer and Thomas Maag

09-234: Employee education, information and communication technology, workplace organization and trade

Spyros Arvanitis and Euripidis N. Loukis

09-233: How do different motives for R&D cooperation affect firm performance?

Spyros Arvanitis

09-232: A comparison of firm-level innovation cooperation in five European countries

Spyros Arvanitis and Thomas Bolli

09-231: A panel Granger-causality test of endogenous vs. exogenous growth

Jochen Hartwig

09-230: On the accuracy of the probability method for quantifying beliefs about inflation

Thomas Maag

09-229: Trade, aid, remittances and migration

Sule Akkoyunlu

09-228: Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between the United States and Europe?

Sule Akkoyunlu, Ilja Neustadt and Peter Zweifel

09-227: Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function

Sule Akkoyunlu, Frank R. Lichtenberg, Boriss Silverstovs and Peter Zweifel

09-226: Evaluating short-run forecasting properties of the KOF employment indicator for Switzerland in real time

Boriss Siliverstovs

09-225: The impact of aid on growth revisited

Axel Dreher and Christopher Kilby

09-224: Extreme bounds of democracy

Martin Gassebner, Michael Lamla and James Vreeland

09-223: The role of media for inflation forecast disagreement of households and professional forecasters

Thomas Maag and Michael Lamla

09-222: Technology proximity between firms and universities and technology transfer

Martin Woerter

09-221: Technology diversification, product innovations, and technology transfer

Martin Woerter

09-220: International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect

Nauro Campos and Martin Gassebner

09-219: Acting autonomously of mimicking the state and peers?

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Oehler and Johannes Weisser

09-218: Agency and communicaton in IMF conditional lending: Theory and empirical evidence

Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani and Axel Dreher

09-217: Country or leader? Political change and UN general assembly voting

Axel Dreher and Nathan Jensen

09-216: The Russian regional convergence process

Konstantin Kholodilin, Aleksey Oshchepkov and Boriss Siliverstovs

09-215: Do forecasters inform or reassure?

Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

08-214: Does Aging Influence Sectoral Employment Shares? Evidence from Panel Data

Ulrich Thiessen, Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

08-213: Assessing the Impact of the ECB's Monetary Policy on the Stock Markets: A Sectoral View

Konstantin Kholodilin, Alberto Montagnoli, Boriss Siliverstovs and Oreste Napolitano