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201306: An Exercise on Discrete-Time Intertemporal Optimization

Fidelina Natividad-Carlos

201305: Does economic empowerment protect women against domestic violence? Evidence from the Philippines

Stella Luz Quimbo and X. Javier

201304: Fiscal transfers and gerrymandering under decentralization in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno

201303: Deviant Behavior: A Century of Philippine Industrialization

Emmanuel de Dios and Jeffrey Williamson

201302: Skills, migration, and industrial structure in a dual economy

Emmanuel de Dios

201301: Stable Commitment in an Intertemporal Collusive Trade

Romeo Balanquit

201220: Consequences of withdrawal: Free condoms and birth rates in the Philippines

John Michael Ian Salas

201219: What Determines Trust? Human Capital vs. Social Institutions: Evidence from Manila and Moscow

John Nye, Grigory Androuschak, Desiree Desierto, Garett Jones and Maria Yudkevich

201218: Reforming Institutions and Building Trust To Achieve Sustained Economic Development

Desiree Desierto

201217: Why the Poor Have Many Children

Edita Tan and Katrina Dinglasan

201216: The Robust Nash Equilibrium and Equilibrium Selection in 2x2 Coordination Games

Raul Fabella and Vigile Marie Fabella

201215: The Peso Appreciation and Monetary-Fiscal Coordination

Gerardo Sicat

201214: Wipeout: Sangley Mercantile Dominance and Persistence in the Spanish Colonial Period in the Philippines

Raul Fabella

201213: Signaling and Contract Cost Under Weak Governance: Water Service Privatization in Metro-Manila, Philippines

Raul Fabella

201212: The Promise of the Science Commons and the Tragedy of Intellectual Property Rights: The University’s IPR Policy in Perspective

Niceto Poblador

201211: The Financial Crisis, Oil Price Hike, the Arab Spring and Foreign Demand for Filipino Workers

Edita Tan

201210: Business Fluctuations and Monetary Policy Rules in the Philippines: with Lessons from the 1984-1985 Contraction

Dante Canlas

201209: Are improved water supply and sanitation always safe for children? Implications for attaining the MDGs in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno and Carlos Antonio Tan, Jr.

201208: Perks and public provisions: Effects of yardstick competition on local government fiscal behavior in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno, Stella Luz Quimbo, Aleli Kraft, Carlos Antonio Tan, Jr. and Vigile Marie Fabella

201207: Banana Production and Cooperatives in the Philippines

Katsumi Nozawa

201206: Whose child is it anyway? Differential parental investments in education and children under kinship care in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno and Xylee Javier

201205: The Assignment of Functions and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Philippines Twenty Years after Decentralization

Gilberto Llanto

201204: Imitation Dynamics with Spatial Poisson-Distributed Review and Mutation Rates

Desiree Desierto

201203: 2D: 4D Asymmetry and Gender Differences in Academic Performance: Evidence from Moscow and Manila

John Nye, Grigory Androuschak, Desiree Desierto, Garett Jones and Maria Yudkevich

201202: Household decisions and child health: Estimating the links between water treatment and the incidence of diarrhea using non-recursive two-equation causal models

Carlos Antonio Tan, Jr. and Joseph Capuno

201201: The effects of term limits and yardstick competition on local government provision of health insurance and other public services: The Philippine case

Joseph Capuno, Stella Luz Quimbo, Aleli Kraft and Carlos Antonio Tan, Jr.

201115: Philippines Equity Report: Investment Case for Financing Equitable Progress towards MDGs 4 and 5 in the Asia-Pacific Region

Aleli Kraft, Paul Mariano, Samuel Kault, Eliana Jimenez-Soto and Kim-Huong Nguyen

201114: What Has Really Happened to Poverty in the Philippines? New Measures, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Arsenio Balisacan

201113: Oil Palm Production and Cooperatives in the Philippines

Katsumi Nozawa

201112: Why are Boys Falling Behind Girls in Schooling?

Edita Tan, Kristine Canales, Kevin Cruz and Jan Carlo Punongbayan

201111: The Economic Legacy of Marcos

Gerardo Sicat

201110: In Search of a Strategy for Making Growth More Pro-Poor in the Philippines

Nobuhiko Fuwa, Arsenio Balisacan and Fabrizio Bresciani

201109: CESAR VIRATA at Finance: Tax Collector and Reformer, 1970 to 1986

Gerardo Sicat

201108: Stimulating Investment and Growth in the Philippines: the Need for First-Order Market Reforms

Desiree Desierto and Geoffrey Ducanes

201107: Investment, institutions, and governance in Asia

Emmanuel de Dios and Geoffrey Ducanes

201106: Contagious Migration: Evidence from the Philippines

Michael Abrigo and Desiree Desierto

201105: The Strategy Dilemma: Why Big Business Moves Seldom Pan Out as Planned

Niceto Poblador

201104: Is Government Really Solving the Housing Problem?

Toby Monsod

201103: The Demand for Unfair Gambles: Why Illegal Lotteries Persist

Desiree Desierto, John Nye and Jema Pamintuan

201102: Trends in Grades, UP School of Economics

Gwendolyn Tecson

201101: Population, Poverty, Politics and the Reproductive Health Bill

Ernesto Pernia

201012: A Multi-Level Choice Theory

Raul Fabella

201011: Household choices, circumstances and equity of access to basic health and education services in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno and Aleli Kraft

201010: Leadership and Innovation under Decentralization: A Case Study of Selected Local Governments in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno

201009: MDG 1 in the Philippines: Setting the Scores Right and Achieving the Targets

Arsenio Balisacan

201008: The Philippine Economy and Poverty During the Global Economic Crisis

Arsenio Balisacan, Sharon Piza, Dennis Mapa, Carlos Abad Santos and Donna Odra

201007: Spotlighting on High Economic Growth, Employment of the Poor, and Poverty Reduction: A Three-Pronged Strategy

Gerardo Sicat

201006: Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in the Philippines

Rana Hasan and Karl Robert Jandoc

201005: Firm Characteristics as Determinants of Views on the Minimum Wage Policy

Gerardo Sicat

201004: The Case of the Missing Remittances in the FIES: Could it be causing us to mismeasure welfare changes?

Geoffrey Ducanes