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2018-037: Globalisation, structural change and innovation in emerging economies: The impact on employment and skills

Marco Vivarelli

2018-036: Improving the developmental impact of multinational enterprises: Policy and research challenges

Rajneesh Narula and André Pineli

2018-035: Domestic intellectual property rights protection and the margins of bilateral exports

Gideon Ndubuisi and Neil Foster-McGregor

2018-034: Left-behind men in Nicaragua: The rise of the Padre-Luchadores

Michael Stewart-Evans and Melissa Siegel

2018-033: Price opinion data in subsidized economies: Empirical evidence from Iraq

Tareq Abuelhaj, Franziska Gassmann and Cathal O'Donoghue

2018-032: The race for an artificial general intelligence: Implications for public policy

Wim Naudé and Nicola Dimitri

2018-031: A guide for the evaluation of programs of human capital training for science, technology and innovation

Diego Aboal, Marcelo Perera, Ezequiel Tacsir and Maren Vairo

2018-030: Informal sector innovation in Ghana: Data set and descriptive analysis

Elvis Avenyo

2018-029: The Eurasian customs union and the economic geography of Belarus: A panel convergence approach

Mehmet Celbis, Pui Hang Wong and Tatjana Guznajeva

2018-028: Modern industrial policy and public-private councils at the sub-national level: Mexico's experience in an international perspective

Robert Devlin and Carlo Pietrobelli

2018-027: Knowledge convergence in European regions: Towards cohesion?

Semih Akçomak, Erkan Erdil and Umut Yılmaz Cetinkaya

2018-026: Domestic quality certification and growth of Vietnamese MSMEs

Elisa Calza and Micheline Goedhuys

2018-025: Structural change, productivity growth and labour market turbulence in Africa

Emmanuel Mensah, Solomon Owusu, Neil Foster-McGregor and Adam Szirmai

2018-024: R&D, embodied technological change and employment: Evidence from Spain

Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

2018-023: Perpetual growth, distribution, and robots

Onder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2018-022: What more can we learn from R&D alliances?: A review and research agenda

Andrea Martinez-Noya and Rajneesh Narula

2018-021: Combatting corruption in higher education in Ukraine

Anna Vasylyeva and Ortrun Merkle

2018-020: Africa Sector Database (ASD): Expansion and update

Emmanuel Mensah and Adam Szirmai

2018-019: Drivers of growth in Tunisia: Young firms vs incumbents

Hassan Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Francesco Quatraro and Marco Vivarelli

2018-018: Towards a European full employment policy

Jo Ritzen and Klaus Zimmermann

2018-017: Institutional factors and people's preferences in the implementation of social protection: the case of Ethiopia

Vincenzo Vinci and Keetie Roelen

2018-016: Global Value Chains and Upgrading: What, When and How?

Padmashree Gehl Sampath and Bertha Vallejo

2018-015: What is the potential of natural resource based industrialisation in Latin America? An Input-Output analysis of the extractive sectors

Beatriz Calzada Olvera and Neil Foster-McGregor

2018-014: Fluctuations in renewable electricity supply: Gains from international trade through infrastructure?

Thomas Ziesemer

2018-013: Foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond its growth effect

Hassen Wako

2018-012: Chinese development assistance and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa

Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger and Marco Sanfilippo

2018-011: Sanctioning Regimes and Chief Quality: Evidence from Liberia

Gonne Beekman, Eleonora Nillesen and Maarten Voors

2018-010: Market integration and pro-social behaviour in rural Liberia

Stephan Dietrich, Gonne Beekman and Eleonora Nillesen

2018-009: Agricultural extension and input subsidies to reduce food insecurity. Evidence from a field experiment in the Congo

Koen Leuveld, Eleonora Nillesen, Janneke Pieters, Martha Ross, Maarten Voors and Elise Wang Sonne

2018-008: Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter and Klaus Zimmermann

2018-007: The effect of weather index insurance on social capital: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Halefom Nigus, Eleonora Nillesen and Pierre Mohnen

2018-005: Regulating the digital economy: Are we moving towards a 'win-win' or a 'lose-lose'?

Padmashree Gehl Sampath

2018-004: The relevance of local structures for economic multiplier effects of social pensions in Uganda

Maria Klara Kuss, Franziska Gassmann and Firminus Mugumya

2018-003: Natural, effective and BOP-constrained rates of growth: Adjustment mechanisms and closure equations

Gabriel Porcile and Danilo Spinola

2018-002: Instability constraints and development traps: An empirical analysis of growth cycles and economic volatility in Latin America

Danilo Spinola

2018-001: The serendipity theorem for an endogenous open economy growth model

Thomas Ziesemer

2017-051: Testing the growth links of emerging economies: Croatia in a growing world economy

Thomas Ziesemer

2017-050: Effects of health insurance on labour supply: Evidence from the health care fund for the poor in Viet Nam

Nga T.Q. Le, Wim Groot, Sonila Tomini and Florian Tomini

2017-049: Does publicly provided health care affect migration? Evidence from Mexico

Clotilde Mahé

2017-048: A profile of non-farm household enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paula Nagler

2017-047: Institutional diversity in the Euro area: Any evidence of convergence?

Salvador Pérez-Moreno, Elena Barcena-Martin and Jo Ritzen

2017-046: Emergent structures in faculty hiring networks, and the effects of mobility on academic performance

Robin Cowan and Giulia Rossello

2017-045: Stock-flow consistent data for the Dutch economy, 1995-2015

Joan Muysken, Bas Bonekamp and Huub Meijers

2017-044: The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Amelie Constant

2017-043: Ageing, human capital and demographic dividends with endogenous growth, labour supply and foreign capital

Anne Edle von Gaessler and Thomas Ziesemer

2017-042: Financial mechanism to invest in knowledge from natural resource revenues: Experiences from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Peru

Michiko Iizuka, Fernando Vargas and Jakob Baumann

2017-041: Multinational firms and the extractive sectors in the 21st century: Can they drive development?

Rajneesh Narula

2017-040: Rates of return to antipoverty transfers in Uganda

Stephan Dietrich, Daniele Malerba, Armando Barrientos and Franziska Gassmann

2017-039: Occupational choice of return migrants: Is there a 'Jack-of-all-trades' effect?

Clotilde Mahe

2017-038: On the relationship between the breadth of PTAs and trade flows

Rodney Falvey and Neil Foster-McGregor