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08-212: Business Cycle Measurement with Semantic Filtering: A Micro Data Approach

Christian Mueller and Eva M. Koeberl

08-211: The ICU and the Phillips Curve - An Approach Based on Micro Data

Eva M. Koeberl and Sarah Lein

08-210: Openness and Innovation - Home and Export Demand Effects on Manufacturing Innovation: Panel Data Evidence for Ireland and Switzerland

Martin Woerter and Stephen Roper

08-209: Disaggregated Trade Flows and the "Missing Globalization Puzzle"

Boriss Siliverstovs and Dieter Schumacher

08-208: Fifty Years of Urban Accessibility: The Impact of Urban Railway Network on the Land Gradient in Industrializing Berlin

Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nicolai Wendeland

08-207: Economic Correlates of Suicide Rates in OECD Countries

Thomas Maag

08-206: Has Health Capital Formation Cured 'Baumol's Disease'? - Panel Granger Causality Evidence for OECD Countries

Jochen Hartwig

08-205: The Impact of ICT Usage, Workplace Organisation and Human Capital on the Provision of Apprenticeship Training: A firm-level analysis based on Swiss panel data

Heinz Hollenstein and Tobias Stucki

08-204: The Formation of Inflation Perceptions - Some Empirical Facts for European Countries

Sarah Lein and Thomas Maag

08-203: Measurement of Labor Quality Growth: Caused by Unobservable Characteristics

Mathias Zurlinden and Thomas Bolli

08-202: The information content of KOF indicators on Swiss current account data revisions

Jan Jacobs and Jan-Egbert Sturm

08-201: The Role of Media for Consumers' Inflation Expectation Formation

Michael Lamla and Sarah Lein

08-200: Do IMF and World Bank Programs Induce Government Crises? An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher and Martin Gassebner

08-199: Training Propensity of Start-ups in Switzerland - A Study Based on Data for the Start-up Cohort 1996-97

Spyros Arvanitis and Tobias Stucki

08-198: Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? - A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data

Spyros Arvanitis

08-197: Legal Origin and Financial Development: New Evidence for Old Claims? The Creditor Rights Index Revisited

Michael Graff

08-196: The Quantity Theory of Money in Historical Perspective

Michael Graff

08-195: Too Many Cooks? Committees in Monetary Policy

Helge Berger and Volker Nitsch

08-194: Demography, Financial Openness, National Savings and External Balance

Michael Graff, Kam Ki Tang and Jie Zhang

08-193: Does Membership in International Organizations Increase Governments' Credibility? Testing the Effects of Delegating Powers

Axel Dreher and Stefan Voigt

08-192: Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

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

08-191: Keeping a Low Profile: What Determines the Allocation of Aid by Non-Governmental Organizations?

Dirk-Jan Koch, Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

08-190: The Stress of Having a Single Monetary Policy in Europe

Jan-Egbert Sturm and Timo Wollmershäuser

08-189: Negative Volatility Spillovers in the Unrestricted ECCC-GARCH Model

Christian Conrad and Menelaos Karanasos

08-188: IMF Conditionality: Theory and Evidence

Axel Dreher

08-187: The Inverse Domino Effect: Are Economic Reforms Contagious?

Martin Gassebner, Noel Gaston and Michael Lamla

08-186: Does the IMF Help or Hurt? The Effect of IMF Programs on the Likelihood and Outcome of Currency Crises

Axel Dreher and Stefanie Walter

08-185: Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror?

Axel Dreher and Justina A. V. Fischer

07-184: Driving Forces for Research and Development Strategies: An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-level Panel Data

Martin Woerter

07-183: News and Sectoral Comovement

Michael Lamla, Sarah Lein and Jan-Egbert Sturm

07-182: Diesel price convergence and mineral oil taxation in Europe

Axel Dreher and Tim Krieger

07-181: Terrorism and Cabinet Duration: An Empirical Analysis

Martin Gassebner, Richard Jong-A-Pin and Jochen Mierau

07-180: Are NGOs the Better Donors? A Case Study of Aid Allocation for Sweden

Axel Dreher, Florian Moelders and Peter Nunnenkamp

07-179: The Devil Is in the Shadow. Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or Only Official Income and Official Productivity?

Axel Dreher, Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Friedrich Schneider

07-178: Can Baumol's Model of Unbalanced Growth Contribute to Explaining the Secular Rise in Health Care Expenditure?

Jochen Hartwig

07-177: Do Markets Care About Central Bank Governor Changes? Evidence from Emerging Markets

Christoph Moser and Axel Dreher

07-176: The Politics of IMF Forecasts

Axel Dreher, Silvia Marchesi and James Vreeland

07-175: Do Autocratic States Trade Less?

Toke Aidt and Martin Gassebner

07-174: The High-Frequency Response of the EUR-US Dollar Exchange Rate to ECB Monetary Policy Announcements

Christian Conrad and Michael Lamla

07-173: Trying to Assess the Quality of Macroeconomic Data - the Case of Swiss Labour Productivity Growth as an Example

Jochen Hartwig

07-172: Do Differences in Institutional and Legal Environments Explain Cross-Country Variations in IPO Underpricing?

Christian Hopp and Axel Dreher

07-171: Development Aid and International Politics: Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence World Bank Decisions?

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and James Vreeland

07-170: The Speed of Adjustment to Demand Shocks: A Markov-chain Measurement Using Micro Panel Data

Christian Mueller and Eva M. Koeberl

07-169: Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Survey Data

Rolf Schenker

07-168: A Note on the Carlson-Parkin Method of Quantifying Qualitative Data

Christian Mueller, Aniela Wirz and Nora Sydow

07-167: Does High Inflation Cause Central Bankers to Lose Their Job? Evidence Based on a New Data Set

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and Jakob de Haan

07-166: Greasing the Wheels of Entrepreneurship? The Impact of Regulations and Corruption on Firm Entry

Axel Dreher and Martin Gassebner

07-165: Industry Diversity and Its Impact on the Innovation Performance of Firms: An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-level Panel Data

Martin Woerter

07-164: Long-run Determinants of Pollution: A Robustness Analysis

Michael Lamla

07-163: Do Human Rights Offenders Oppose Human Rights Resolutions in the United Nations?

Axel Dreher and Bernhard Boockmann