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208: Employment and growth effects of tax reforms in a growth-matching model

Angela Birk and Jochen Michaelis

207: Interactions between national and regional development

Sara Davies and Martin Hallet

206: Yen or Yuan? China's role in the future of Asian monetary integration

Carsten Hefeker and Andreas Nabor

205: Strategies in financial services, the shareholders and the system: Is bigger and broader better?

Ingo Walter

204: Making corporate governance work

Roy C. Smith

203: Border effects and border regions: Lessons from the German unification

Volker Nitsch

202: Austrian border regions and eastern integration: A low competitiveness - high growth paradoxon

Peter Mayerhofer

201: Legal framework as a trade barrier - Evidence from transition countries: Hungarian, Romanian and Slovene examples

José de Sausa and Anne-Célia Disdier

200: Trade and investment effects of forced labour: An empirical assessment

Matthias Busse and Sebastian Braun

199: Estimating large-scale factor models for economic activity in Germany: Do they outperform simpler models?

Christian Dreger and Christian Schumacher

198: Sustainable forestry investment under the clean development mechanism: The Malaysian case

Michael Dutschke

197: The final frontier? Border effects and German regional wages

Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm

196: Exchange rate uncertainty and labour market adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates

Yu-Fu Chen and Michael Funke

195: Die Osterweiterung aus raumwirtschaftlicher Perspektive: Prognosen regionalökonomischer Erfahrungen aus der bisherigen Integration in Europa

Konrad Lammers

194: Unobserved firm heterogeneity and the size-exports nexus: Evidence from German panel data

Joachim Wagner

193: Lobbying and political polarization

Heinrich Ursprung

192: EU aid for ACP investment

Susanna Wolf

191: Benchmark yield undershooting in the E.M.U

Angelos Antzoulatos

190: Risk aversion - a necessary condition for limiting global environmental risks?

Cornelia Ohl

189: Protektion passé?

Rolf H. Hasse

188: Teacher job satisfaction, student achievement, and the cost of primary education in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Katharina Michaelowa

187: The market for used cars: A new test of the lemons model

Winand Emons and George Sheldon

186: Spatial dependence of regional unemployment in the European Union

Annekatrin Niebuhr

185: Dollarization, bailouts, and the stability of the banking system

Douglas Gale and Xavier Vives

184: Coordination failures and the lender of last resort: Was Bagehot right after all?

Jean Rochet and Xavier Vives

183: Competition intensity, potential competition and transaction cost economics

Matthias Busse

182: Do transnational corporations care about labour standards?

Matthias Busse

181: Divergence – Is it geography?

Thomas Straubhaar, Marc Suhrcke and Dieter Urban

180: Gravity approach for exploring Baltic Sea regional integration in the field of international trade

Tiiu Paas

179: Integration effects in border regions: A survey of economic theory and empirical studies

Annekatrin Niebuhr and Silvia Stiller

178: Die Real-Business-Cycle Theorie und ihre Relevanz für die Konjunkturanalyse

Bernd Lucke

177: Konjunkturtheorie und empirische Konjunkturanalyse

Bernd Schips

176: Sharing the climate policy burden in the EU

Toke Aidt and Sandra Greiner

175: Transaction costs of the Kyoto mechanisms

Axel Michaelowa and Marcus Stronzik

174: Globalisation and governance: Contradictions of neo-liberal migration management

Henk Overbeek

173: Joint implementation and EU accession countries

Mercedes Fernández Armenteros and Axel Michaelowa

172: New economic geography in Germany: Testing the Helpman-Hanson model

Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm

171: Long-term unemployment, technical progress and capital mobility in an open growth-matching model

Angela Birk

170: Modelling the fiscal effects of aid: An impulse response approach for Ghana

Oliver Morrissey, Robert Osei and Tim Lloyd

169: Why do countries form regions? The political economy of regional integration

Rasul Shams

168: The puzzle of the Swiss interest rate island: Stylized facts and a new interpretation

Peter Kugler and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

167: Is it time for a world currency?

Rasul Shams

166: Investment policies and telecommunications regimes

Zdenek Drabek

165: The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality

Axel Dreher

164: Deregulating and liberalizing the North-American telecommunications market: Explaining the US-approach

Peter F. Cowhey and John E. Richards

163: Liberalizing basic telecommunications: The Asian experience

Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo and Randeep Rathindran

162: Liberalization in telecommunications

Andreas Knorr

161: The political economy of the enhanced HIPC-initiative

Katharina Michaelowa

160: Non-Tariff Barriers and the Telecommunications Sector

Sherry M. Stephenson

159: Liberalizing and Re-Regulating Telecommunications in Europe: A Common Framework and Persistent Differences

Peter Holmes and Alasdair R. Young