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2012-008: A Simulation of Social Pensions in Europe

Frieda Vandeninden

2012-007: Foreign aid transaction costs

Frieda Vandeninden

2012-006: Cross-national trends in permanent earnings inequality and earnings instability in Europe 1994-2001

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

2012-005: The impact of malnutrition and post traumatic stress disorder on the performance of working memory in children

Elise De Neubourg and Chris De Neubourg

2012-004: Estimates of the value of patent rights in China

Can Huang

2012-003: Evaluating binary alignment methods in microsimulation models

Jinjing Li and Cathal O'Donoghue

2012-002: A methodological survey of dynamic microsimulation models

Jinjing Li and Cathal O'Donoghue

2012-001: Maastricht Reflections on Innovation

Luc Soete

2011-077: Shaping earnings instability: labour market policy and institutional factors

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

2011-076: Putting agricultural research into use: Lessons from contested visions of innovation

Andrew Hall

2011-075: The impact of sectoral heterogeneities in economic growth and catching up: Empirical evidence for Latin American manufacturing industries

Alejandro Lavopa

2011-074: Mobile banking: Innovation for the poor

Tashmia Ismail and Khumbula Masinge

2011-073: Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs from developing countries?

Rajneesh Narula

2011-072: Socio-economic transformations of Sardar Sarovar project-affected indigenous populations and post-colonial development state

Sutapa Chattopadhyay

2011-071: Catching up in the 21st century: Globalization, knowledge & capabilities in Latin America, a case for natural resource based activities

Michiko Iizuka and Luc Soete

2011-070: Earnings Mobility in Europe: 1994-2001: Do more flexible labour markets experience a higher earnings mobility?

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

2011-069: Manufacturing and Economic Growth in Developing Countries, 1950-2005

Adam Szirmai and Bart Verspagen

2011-068: Segregation in neighbourhoods and labour market outcomes of immigrants: Evidence from random assignment in the Netherlands

Pascal Beckers and Lex Borghans

2011-067: Neighbourhood spatial order and firm mobility in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods of the Netherlands

Pascal Beckers and Bart Sleutjes

2011-066: Immigrant entrepreneurship on the move: A longitudinal analysis of first and second generation immigrant entrepreneurship in the Netherlands

Pascal Beckers and Boris F. Blumberg

2011-065: Country terms of trade: Trends, unit roots, over-differencing, endogeneity, time dummies, and heterogeneity

Thomas Ziesemer

2011-064: Exploring the role of the neighbourhood in firm relocation: differences between stayers and movers

Bart Sleutjes and Pascal Beckers

2011-063: Business spaces between entrepreneurs and opportunities. The impact of the local built environment and zoning regulations on businesses in Dutch cities

Pascal Beckers and Robert C. Kloosterman

2011-062: User innovation in the business enterprise sector of Maputo Province in Mozambique

Júlia Eva Baltazar Zita and Avelino Hermíneo Lopes

2011-061: Innovation and firm-level productivity: econometric evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Abdul Waheed

2011-060: The Use and Economic Impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Sudan

Samia Nour

2011-059: The use and economic impacts of ICT at the macro-micro levels in the Arab Gulf countries

Samia Nour

2011-058: Arab regional systems of innovation: characteristics and implications

Samia Nour

2011-057: A renaissance for social mobility and its significance for the bridge towards postsecondary education

Jo Ritzen

2011-056: Research, higher education and innovation: redesigning multi-level governance within Europe in a period of crisis

Jo Ritzen and Luc Soete

2011-055: The effect of net immigration on economic growth in an ageing economy: transitory and permanent shocks

Joan Muysken and Thomas Ziesemer

2011-054: Global Framework for Differential Pricing of Pharmaceuticals

Rutger Daems, Edith Maes and Shyama Ramani

2011-053: What Changes Gini Coefficients of Education? On the dynamic interaction between education, its distribution and growth

Thomas Ziesemer

2011-052: Size, competition, and innovative activities: a developing world perspective

Abdul Waheed

2011-051: Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Evidence from African countries

Augustin Fosu, Yoseph Getachew and Thomas Ziesemer

2011-050: Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia

Sulaiman V. Rasheed, Andrew Hall and T.S. Vamsidhar Reddy

2011-049: The internationalization of R&D

Bronwyn Hall

2011-048: Complementarity between in-house R&D and technology purchasing: evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Jun Hou and Pierre Mohnen

2011-047: International migration and local employment: analysis of self-selection and earnings in Tajikistan

Aziz Atamanov and Marrit van den Berg

2011-046: Preferences for conditioning and being conditioned: Experimental and survey evidence from Zambia

Esther Schuring

2011-045: New insights on the role of location advantages in international innovation

Rajneesh Narula and Grazia Santangelo

2011-044: The power of the strong state: A comparative analysis of the diaspora engagement strategies of India and Ethiopia

Katie Kuschminder and Metka Hercog

2011-043: Innovation performance and embeddedness in networks: evidence from the Ethiopian footwear cluster

Mulu Gebreeyesus and Pierre Mohnen

2011-042: Protecting vulnerable families in Central Asia: Poverty, vulnerability and the impact of the economic crisis

Franziska Gassmann

2011-041: Engaging the diaspora in India

Metka Hercog and Melissa Siegel

2011-040: Understanding Ethiopian diaspora engagement policy

Katie Kuschminder and Melissa Siegel

2011-039: Understanding the changing role of the Turkish diaspora

Ozge Bilgili and Melissa Siegel

2011-038: The Development of Diaspora Engagement Policies in Burundi and Rwanda

Sonja Fransen and Melissa Siegel

2011-037: Immigration and growth in an ageing economy - version 2

Joan Muysken and Thomas Ziesemer

2011-036: Managerial ownership and urban water utilities efficiency in Uganda

Dorcas Mbuvi and Achraf Tarsim