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81: Trade and growth in an unequal global economy

Andreas Kohler

80: Reported happiness, fast and slow

Raphael Studer and Rainer Winkelmann

79: A new portfolio formation approach to mispricing of marketing performance indicators with an application to customer satisfaction

David R. Bell, Olivier Ledoit and Michael Wolf

78: Intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model with persistent leadership

Christian Kiedaisch

77: Structural change in developing countries: has it decreased gender inequality?

Michelle Petersen Rendall

76: Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes

Aderonke Osikominu

75: Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics

Timo Boppart and Kevin Staub

74: Communication and competition

Jacob Goeree and Jingjing Zhang

73: Expectations as reference points: field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Björn Bartling, Leif Brandes and Daniel Schunk

72: Inefficient markets

Jacob Goeree and Jingjing Zhang

71: Designing package markets to eliminate exposure risk

Jacob Goeree and Luke Lindsay

70: An investigation of individual preferences: consistency across incentives and stability over time

Emmanouil Mentzakis and Jingjing Zhang

69: Communication in asymmetric group competition over public goods

Jingjing Zhang

68: The incidence of Cash for Clunkers: an analysis of the 2009 car scrappage scheme in Germany

Ashok Kaul, Gregor Pfeifer and Stefan Witte

67: What makes voters turn out: the effects of polls and beliefs

Marina Agranov, Jacob Goeree, Julian Romero and Leeat Yariv

66: Mechanism design and intentions

Felix Bierbrauer and Nick Netzer

65: The French Great Depression: a business cycle accounting analysis

Slim Bridji

64: Bootstrap joint prediction regions

Michael Wolf and Dan Wunderli

63: Robust stochastic stability

Carlos Alós–Ferrer and Nick Netzer

62: Envelope theorems for non-smooth and non-concave optimization

Andrew Clausen and Carlo Strub

61: Modelling zero-inflated count data when exposure varies: with an application to sick leave

Gregori Baetschmann and Rainer Winkelmann

60: Controlling the danger of false discoveries in estimating multiple treatment effects

Dan Wunderli

59: Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision

Giovanna d’Adda

58: Overvalued: Swedish monetary policy in the 1930s

Alexander Rathke, Tobias Straumann and Ulrich Woitek

57: Emerging from the war: Gold Standard mentality, current accounts and the international business cycle 1885-1939

Mathias Hoffmann and Ulrich Woitek

56: A geometric approach to mechanism design

Jacob Goeree and Alexey Kushnir

55: Siesta: A theory of freelancing

Maria Saez-Marti

54: Seeds of distrust: Conflict in Uganda

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti

53: Does prospective payment increase hospital (in)efficiency? Evidence from the Swiss hospital sector

Philippe Widmer

52: Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of hospital performance

Philippe Widmer, Peter Zweifel and Mehdi Farsi

51: Wealth inequality and the optimal level of government debt

Sigrid Röhrs and Christoph Winter

50: Generosity across contexts

Alexander L. Davis, Nadja R. Jehli, John H. Miller and Roberto Weber

49: Does it matter how happiness is measured? Evidence from a randomized controlled experiment

Raphael Studer

48: Financial incentives, the timing of births, birth complications, and newborns' health: Evidence from the abolition of Austria's baby bonus

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

47: Heterogeneity in the relationship between happiness and age: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Gregori Baetschmann

46: Identification and estimation of thresholds in the fixed effects ordered logit model

Gregori Baetschmann

45: Optimal disclosure policy and undue diligence

David Andolfatto, Aleksander Berentsen and Christopher Waller

44: The redistributive effects of monetary policy

Olivier Ledoit

43: How do informal agreements and renegotiation shape contractual reference points?

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

42: Parental leave and mothers' careers: the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits

Rafael Lalive, Analia Schlosser, Andreas Steinhauer and Josef Zweimüller

41: The demand for social insurance: does culture matter?

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Andreas Steinhauer and Josef Zweimüller

40: Education and optimal dynamic taxation: The role of income-contingent student loans

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

39: Rankings games

Bruno Frey and Margit Osterloh

38: Choice Democracy

Olivier Ledoit

37: The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model

Lasse Steiner and Lucian Schneider

36: Knowledge is power: a theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Jo Lind and Dominic Rohner

35: Maintaining efficiency while integrating entrants from lower-performing groups: an experimental study

Tim Salmon and Roberto Weber

34: Pre-Play communication with forgone costly messages: experimental evidence on forward induction

Andreas Blume, Peter H. Kriss and Roberto Weber

33: Cointegrated VARMA models and forecasting US interest rates

Christian Kascha and Carsten Trenkler

32: Free-riding on liquidity

Aleksander Berentsen, Samuel Huber and Alessandro Marchesiani