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20/2008: Growth, Centrism and Semi-Presidentialism: Forecasting the Portuguese General Elections

Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Pedro C. Magalhães

19/2008: Are Central Banks following a linear or nonlinear (augmented) Taylor rule?

Vitor Castro

18/2008: The duration of economic expansions and recessions: More than duration dependence

Vitor Castro

17/2008: Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? The case of hospital bed-blocking

Tor Helge Holmås, Egil Kjerstad, Hilde Lurås and Odd Rune Straume

16/2008: Admission conditions and graduates' employability

Fernando Alexandre, Miguel Portela and Carla Sa

15/2008: Taylor-type rules versus optimal policy in a Markov-switching economy

Fernando Alexandre, Vasco Gabriel and Pedro Bação

14/2008: Firm heterogeneity and wages in unionised labour markets: Theory and evidence

Paulo Bastos, Natália Monteiro and Odd Rune Straume

12/2008: Price Discrimination with Partial Information: Does it pay off?

Rosa Esteves

11/2008: Portuguese quality wine and the region-of-origin effect: consumers' and retailers' perceptions

José Cadima Ribeiro and José de Freitas Santos

10/2008: Mergers and capital flight in unionised oligopolies: Is there scope for a 'national champion' policy?

Kjell Lommerud, Frode Meland and Odd Rune Straume

09/2008: How forward-looking is the Fed? Direct estimates from a ‘Calvo-type’ rule

Vasco Gabriel, Paul Levine and Christopher Spencer

08/2008: Competition and quality in regulated markets: a differential-game approach

Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

07/2008: Financial globalization, convergence and growth

Delfim Gomes Neto and Francisco Veiga

06/2008: Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

05/2008: Referendum Design, Quorum Rules and Turnout

Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Pedro C. Magalhães

04/2008: Young Employment, Job-Skill Composition and Minimum Wages: Evidence from a 'Natural Experiment'

João Cerejeira

03/2008: Modelling Conditional and Unconditional Heteroskedasticity with Smoothly Time-Varying Structure

Cristina Amado and Timo Teräsvirta

02/2008: Returns to Tenure or Seniority?

Ioan Sebastian Buhai, Miguel Portela, C. N. Teulings and Aico van Vuuren

01/2008: Regulation, generic competition and pharmaceutical prices: Theory and evidence from a natural experiment

Kurt Brekke, Tor Helge Holmås and Odd Rune Straume

29/2007: Expectations, Shocks, and Asset Returns

Ricardo Sousa

28/2007: Wealth Shocks and Risk Aversion

Ricardo Sousa

27/2007: Pricing with Customer Recognition

Rosa Esteves

26/2007: Optimal monetary policy with a regime-switching exchange rate in a forward-looking model

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação and Edward Driffill

25/2007: Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity

Kjell Lommerud and Odd Rune Straume

24/2007: Election Results and Opportunistic Policies: An Integrated Approach

Toke Aidt, Francisco Veiga and Linda Veiga

23/2007: The long road to EMU: The Economic and Political Reasoning behind Maastricht

Francisco Torres

22/2007: On the efficiency-legitimacy trade-off in EMU

Francisco Torres

21/2007: A convergência para a União Económica e Monetária: objectivo nacional ou constrangimento externo?

Francisco Torres

20/2007: Is the ‘European Model’ viable in a globalized world?

Francisco Torres and Annette Bongardt

19/2007: Institutions, Governance and Economic Growth in the EU: is there a role for the Lisbon Strategy

Francisco Torres and Annette Bongardt

18/2007: Rent-sharing in Portuguese Banking

Natália Monteiro and Miguel Portela

17/2007: Using Wavelets to decompose time-frequency economic relations

Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Maria Joana Soares and Nuno Azevedo

16/2007: Using cross-wavelets to decompose the time-frequency relation between oil and the macroeconomy

Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Maria Joana Soares

15/2007: The Consumption-Wealth Ratio Under Asymmetric Adjustment

Fernando Alexandre, Vasco Gabriel and Pedro Bação

14/2007: Living-arrangement and university decisions of Dutch young adults

Carla Sa, Raymond Florax and Piet Rietveld

13/2007: The Causes of Excessive Deficits in the European Union

Vitor Castro

12/2007: Customer Poaching and Advertising

Rosa Esteves

11/2007: Regulation and marketisation in the Portuguese higher education system

Miguel Portela, Nelson Areal, Carla Sa, Fernando Alexandre, João Cerjeira, Ana Carvalho and Artur Rodrigues

10/2007: The Impact of the European Union Fiscal Rules on Economic Growth

Vitor Castro

9/2007: Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

8/2007: Complementarities and Costly Investment in a One-Sector Growth Model

Maria Thompson

7/2007: Regulatory reform and labour earnings in Portuguese banking

Natália Monteiro

6/2007: A Panel Analysis of the FDI Impact on International Trade

Manuela Magalhães and Ana Africano

5/2007: A Note on the Stability Properties of Goodwin's Predator-Prey Model

Luís Aguiar-Conraria

4/2007: Demand for higher education programs: the impact of the Bologna process

Ana Rute Cardoso, Miguel Portela, Fernando Alexandre and Carla Sa

3/2007: Oil Dependence and Economic Instability

Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Yi Wen

2/2007: Exchange Rate Pass-Through in ASEAN: Implications for the Prospects of Monetary Integration in the Region

Carlos Cortinhas

1/2007: Exchange Rate Pass-Through in ASEAN: Identifying Supply-Side Constraints to Export Performance in Ecuador: An Exercise with Investment Climate Survey Data

Manuela Francisco, Paulo Correa and Mariam Dayoub

8/2006: Sobre a perda de ímpeto no processo de convergência da economia portuguesa: uma abordagem dogmática

Miguel de Freitas

7/2006: Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil and Home Country Risk

Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Mohamed Azzim Gulamhussen