CEPR Discussion Papers 2006

Week 24 December 2006

• DP6028 - The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization
  Guy Michaels DE
• DP6026 - The Impact of ISO 9000 Diffusion on Trade and FDI: A New Institutional Analysis
  Joseph A Clougherty, Michal Grajek IO IT
• DP6023 - Technological change and the demand for currency: An analysis with household data
  Francesco Lippi, Alessandro Secchi IM
• DP6022 - The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Process of Development
  Oded Galor, Stelios Michalopoulos IM
• DP6020 - A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
  Henrik Horn, Petros C Mavroidis IT
• DP6018 - Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries
  Emmanuelle Auriol, Pierre M Picard DE
• DP6015 - National Labour Markets, International Factor Mobility and Macroeconomic Instability
  Marta Aloi, Teresa Lloyd-Braga IM
• DP 6014 - Dictators, Repression and the Median Citizen: An "Eliminations Model" of Stalin's Terror (Data from the NKVD Archives)
  Paul Gregory, Philipp Schrôder, Konstantin Sonin PP
• DP6007 - The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Developing Countries: An Application to 38 African Countries
  Emmanuelle Auriol, Michael Warlters DE

Week 17 December 2006

• DP6017 - Family Firms, Paternalism and Labour Relations
  Holger M Mueller, Thomas Philippon FE
• DP6016 - Two-Part Tariffs versus Linear Pricing Between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Tests on Differentiated Products Markets
  Celine Bonnet, Pierre Dubois, Michel Simioni IO
• DP6013 - Lucas and Anti-Lucas Paradoxes
  Orsetta Causa, Daniel Cohen, Marcelo Soto IM
• DP6012 - A Simple Benchmark for Forecasts of Growth and Inflation
  Massimiliano Marcellino IM
• DP6011 - Optimal Incentives under Moral Hazard and Heterogeneous Agents: Evidence from Production Contracts Data
  Pierre Dubois, Tomislav Vukina IO
• DP6010 - The 'Great Moderation' and the US External Imbalance
  Alessandra Fogli, Fabrizio Perri IM
• DP6009 - Competition Fosters Trust
  Steffen Huck, Gabriele K. Ruchala, Jean-Robert Tyran IO
• DP6008 - Offshoring and Product Innovation
  Alireza Naghavi, Gianmarco I P Ottaviano IT
• DP6006 - From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
  Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein DE LE
• DP6005 - Direct Evidence of Dividend Tax Clienteles
  Magnus Dahlquist, Göran Robertsson, Kristian Rydqvist FE
• DP6004 - Heterogeneity of Preferences, Limited Commitment and Coalitions: Empirical Evidence on the Limits to Risk Sharing in Rural Pakistan
  Pierre Dubois DE
• DP5998 - Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Natural Bankruptcy Experiment
  Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Konstantin Sonin, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya DE PP
• DP5989 - The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China's Great Famine
  Xin Meng, Nancy Qian DE LE
• DP5984 -Tax Competition and the International Distribution of Firm Ownership: An Invariance Result
  Ben Ferrett, Ian Wooton IT
• DP5983 - Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
  Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F Zimmermann LE

Week 10 December 2006

• DP6003 - Wage Gaps and Job Sorting in African Manufacturing
  Najy Benhassine, Marcel Fafchamps, Måns Söderbom DE
• DP6002 - Subjective Welfare, Isolation and Relative Consumption
  Marcel Fafchamps, Forhad Shilpi DE
• DP6001 - Isolation and Subjective Welfare
  Marcel Fafchamps, Forhad Shilpi DE
• DP6000 - Fear and Market Failure: Global Imbalances and 'Self-insurance'
  Marcus Miller, Lei Zhang IM
• DP5999 - Insecurity and Welfare
  Marcel Fafchamps, Bart Minten DE
• DP5997 - Deflationary Shocks and Monetary Rules: An Open-Economy Scenario Analysis
  Doug Laxton, Papa N'Diaye, Paolo Pesenti IM
• DP5996 - Red Tape and Delayed Entry
  Antonio Ciccone, Elias Papaioannou IM
• DP5994 - Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike: Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market
  Lutz Kilian IM
• DP5993 - Would Protectionism Defuse Global Imbalances and Spur Economic Activity? A Scenario Analysis
  Hamid Faruqee, Doug Laxton, Dirk Muir, Paolo Pesenti IM
• DP5992 - The Social Assimilation of Immigrants
  Domenico de Palo, Riccardo Faini, Alessandra Venturini LE
• DP5991 - The Economics of Prozac (Do Employees Really Gain from Strong Employment Protection?)
  Etienne Wasmer IM
• DP5990 - Academic Journals as Two-Sided Platforms: Empirical Evidence from Data on French Libraries
  Pierre Dubois, Adriana Hernandez-Perez, Marc Ivaldi IO
• DP5988 - Structural Reforms and Growth: Product and Labor Market Deregulations
  Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Alberto Rossi IM

Week 3 December 2006

• DP5987 - Licensing Complementary Patents and Vertical Integration
  Klaus M. Schmidt IO
• DP5986 - Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
  Nancy Qian DE LE
• DP5985 - Businessman Candidates
  Scott Gehlbach, Konstantin Sonin, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya DE PP
• DP5982 - Measuring Competitiveness
  J Peter Neary IM IT
• DP5981 - A Solution to Two Paradoxes of International Capital Flows
  Jiandong Ju, Shang-Jin Wei DE IT
• DP5980 - Beyond Trade Costs: Firms' Endogenous Access to International Markets
  Armando José Garcia Pires IT
• DP5979 - Losers, Winners and Prisoner's Dilemma in International Subsidy Wars
  Armando José Garcia Pires IT
• DP5978 - The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples
  Henrik Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Emmanuel Saez PP
• DP5977 - Industry Concentration and Welfare - On the Use of Stock Market Evidence from Horizontal Mergers
  Sven-Olof Fridolfsson, Johan Stennek IO
• DP5976 - Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labour, Firm Size and Firm Performance
  Rita Almeida, Pedro Carneiro DE, LE
• DP5975 - Redistributive Politics with Distortionary Taxation
  Benoît SY Crutzen, Nicolas Sahuguet PP
• DP5974 - International Taxation and the Direction and Volume of Cross-Border M&As
  Harry Huizinga, Johannes Voget FE PP
• DP5973 - Euros and Zeros: The Common Currency Effect on Trade in New Goods
  Richard Baldwin, Virginia Di Nino IM IT
• DP5972 - Mortality Risks, Education and Child Labour
  Jean-Marie Baland, Fernanda Estevan PP
• DP5971 - Claiming More: The Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants
  Dominique Guellec, Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Nicolas van Zeebroeck IO
• DP5970 - When Small is Beautiful: Measuring the Evolution and Consequences of the Voluminosity of Patent Applications at the EPO
  Eugenio Archontopoulos, Dominique Guellec, Niels Stevnsborg, Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Nicolas van Zeebroeck IO
• DP5969 - Adjustment to Target Capital, Finance and Growth
  Antonio Ciccone, Elias Papaioannou IM
• DP5968 - The Economic Lives of the Poor
  Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo DE PP
• DP5964 - Linear-Quadratic Approximation of Optimal Policy Problems
  Pierpaolo Benigno, Michael Woodford IM
• DP5962 -Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee under Endogenous Supervision
  Dennis Dittrich, Martin Kocher LE

Week 27 November 2006

• DP5967 - Staying on the Dole
  Holger Strulik, Jean-Robert Tyran, Paolo Vanini LE PP
• DP5966 - Solving for Country Portfolios in Open Economy Macro Models
  Michael B Devereux, Alan Sutherland IM
• DP5965 - A Search-Based Theory of the On-the-Run Phenomenon
  Dimitri Vayanos, Pierre-Olivier Weill FE
• DP5963 - Longevity and Lifetime Labour Input: Data and Implications
  Moshe Hazan PP
• DP5961 - Inflation Implications of Rising Government Debt
  Chryssi Giannitsarou, Andrew Scott IM
• DP5960 - Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Areas
  George Deltas, Klaus Desmet, Giovanni Facchini IT
• DP5959 - Governance Reform in Legal Service Markets
  Paul A Grout, Ian Jewitt, Silvia Sonderegger PP
• DP5958 - Garbled Elections
  Patrick W. Schmitz, Thomas Tröger IO
• DP5957 - Euro-Dollar Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in an Estimated Two-Country Model: What is Important and What is Not
  Pau Rabanal, Vicente Tuesta Reátegui IM
• DP5956 - New-Keynesian Macroeconomics and the Term Structure
  Geert Bekaert, Seonghoon Cho, Antonio Moreno FE
• DP5955 - International Stock Return Comovements
  Geert Bekaert, Robert J Hodrick, Xiaoyan Zhang FE
• DP5950 - Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm
  Vicente Cuñat, Maria Guadalupe LE
• DP5948 - How Market Fragmentation Can Facilitate Collusion
  Kai-Uwe Kühn IO
• DP5945 - The Phillips Curve Under State-Dependent Pricing
  Hasan Bakhshi, Hashmat Khan, Barbara Rudolf IM
• DP5944 - The Cost Factor in Patent Systems
  Didier Francois, Bruno van Pottelsberghe IO
• DP5931 - Portfolio Manager Ownership and Fund Performance
  Ajay Khorana, Henri Servaes, Lei Wedge FE

Week 20 November 2006

• DP5954 - Entry of Foreign Banks and their Impact on Host Countries
  Maria Lehner, Monika Schnitzer DE IO
• DP5953 -Origins and Consequences of Child Labour Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective
  Matthias Doepke, Dirk Krüger IM PP
• DP5952 - Taxes and Decision Rights in Multinationals
  Soren Bo Nielsen, Pascalis Raimondos-Møller, Guttorm Schjelderup IT
• DP5951 - Stock and Bond Returns with Moody Investors
  Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom, Steve Grenadier FE
• DP5949 - Pension Systems and the Allocation of Macroeconomic Risk
  A Lans Bovenberg, Harald Uhlig IM
• DP5947 - Risk, Uncertainty and Asset Prices
  Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom, Yuhang Xing FE
• DP5946 - Liquidity and Expected Returns: Lessons from Emerging Markets
  Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey, Christian T. Lundblad FE
• DP5943 - Endogenous Mode of Competition in General Equilibrium
  J Peter Neary, Joe Thakaran IT
• DP5942 - Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties
  Andrew K Rose, Mark Spiegel IM IT
• DP5941 - Multi-Product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the Global Economy
  Carsten Eckel, J Peter Neary IT
• DP5940 - The Bell Jar: Commercial Interest Rates between Two Revolutions, 1688-1789
  Marc Flandreau, Christophe Galimard, Clemens Jobst, Maria Del Pilar, Nogués Marco IM
• DP5939 - Inflation as a Redistribution Shock: Effects on Aggregates and Welfare
  Matthias Doepke, Martin Schneider IM PP
• DP5938 - Too Many or Too Few Varieties? The Role of Multiproduct Firms
  Ramón Caminal IO
• DP5928 -Selection of Boundedly Rational Firms and the Allocation of Resources
  Gilles Saint-Paul IM
• DP5925 - Outsourcing, Complementary Innovations and Growth
  Alireza Naghavi, Gianmarco I P Ottaviano IT
• DP5924 - Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
  Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch LE

Week 13 November 2006

• DP5937 - Optimal Welfare-to-Work Programs
  Nicola Pavoni, Giovanni L Violante IM LE
• DP5936 - The Irrelevance of Market Incompleteness for the Price of Aggregate Risk
  Dirk Krüger, Hanno Lustig FE IM
• DP5935 - Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Approach
  Andreas Hornstein, Per Krusell, Giovanni L Violante IM LE
• DP5920 - Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
  Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch LE
• DP5913 - Politician Preferences and Caps on Political Lobbying
  Tuvana Pastine, Ivan Pastine IO
• DP5912 - Acquisition of Information and Share Prices: An Empirical Investigation of Cognitive Dissonance
  Elena Argentesi, Helmut Lütkepohl, Massimo Motta FE

Week 6 November 2006

• DP5934 - Democracy and Foreign Education
  Antonio Spilimbergo IM
• DP5933 - Trade Costs and Foreign Direct Investment
  J Peter Neary IT
• DP5932 - Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
  Robert H Bates, John H Coatsworth, Jeffrey G Williamson IT
• DP5930 - Rewriting History
  Alexander P Ljungqvist, Christopher Malloy, Felicia Marston FE
• DP5929 - Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!
  Juan Carlos Conesa, Sagiri Kitao, Dirk Krüger IM PP
• DP5927 - The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
  James Albrecht, Gerard J van den Berg, Susan Vroman LE
• DP5926 - Can Anyone be 'The One'? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
  Michèle Belot, Marco Francesconi LE
• DP5921 - Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002
  David Domeij, Lars Ljungqvist LE
• DP5918 - Nation Formation and Genetic Diversity
  Klaus Desmet, Michel Le Breton, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, Shlomo Weber PP
• DP5917 - Losing our Marbles in the New Century? The Great Rebalancing in Historical Perspective
  Christopher M Meissner, Alan M Taylor IM

Week 29 October 2006

• DP5923 - Voting Over Type and Generosity of a Pension System When Some Individuals are Myopic
  Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado, Pierre Pestieau PP
• DP5922 -Imposed Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution
  Alberto Chong, Mark Gradstein PP
• DP5919 -Indeterminacy in a Forward Looking Regime Switching Model
  Roger E A Farmer, Daniel F Waggoner, Tao Zha IM
• DP5916 - New Keynesian Models, Durable Goods and Collateral Constraints
  Tommaso Monacelli IM
• DP5915 - Strong Goal Independence and Inflation Targets
  Ernst Baltensperger, Andreas M Fischer, Thomas J. Jordan IM
• DP5914 - Designing a Linear Pension Scheme with Forced Savings and Wage Heterogeneity
  Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado, Pierre Pestieau PP
• DP5911 - Merger Negotiations and Ex-Post Regret
  Dennis Gärtner, Armin Schmutzler IO
• DP5905 - Supply Shocks and Currency Crises: The Policy Dilemma Reconsidered
  Javier García-Fronti, Marcus Miller, Lei Zhang IM
• DP5898 - Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement
  Laura Veldkamp, Justin Wolfers FE IM
• DP5890 - The Dye Famine and its Aftermath: Knowledge Diffusion and Entry
  David Genesove IO

Week 22 October 2006

• DP5910 - Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
  Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F Zimmermann, Laura Zimmermann LE
• DP5909 - Behavioural Theories of the Business Cycle
  Nir Jaimovich, Sérgio Rebelo IM
• DP5908 - A Theory of Tolerance
  Giacomo Corneo, Olivier Jeanne PP
• DP5907 - Understanding South Africa's Economic Puzzles
  Dani Rodrik IT PP
• DP5906 -Public Sector Motivation and Development Failures
  Rocco Macchiavello DE
• DP5904 - The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide
  Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F Zimmermann LE
• DP5903 - Contractual Institutions, Financial Development and Vertical Integration: Theory and Evidence
  Rocco Macchiavello DE
• DP5901 - Information Acquisition and Portfolio Performance
  Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli FE
• North-South Trade and Economic Growth
  Elias Dinopoulos, Paul Segerstrom IT

Week 15 October 2006

• DP5902 - Does Services Liberalization Benefit Manufacturing Firms?
  Jens Arnold, Aaditya Mattoo, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik IT
• DP5900 - Mixed Oligopoly Equilibria When Firms' Objectives Are Endogenous
  Philippe De Donde, John E Roemer IO PP
• DP5899 - The Scope of Punishment: An Economic Theory of Harm-Based vs. Act-Based Sanctions
  Nuno Garoupa, Marie Obidzinski PP
• DP5897 - Intangible Capital, Corporate Valuation and Asset Pricing
  Jean-Pierre Danthine, Xiangrong Jin FE
• DP5896 - Learning About the Term Structure and Optimal Rules for Inflation Targeting
  Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Eric Schaling, Mewael F. Tesfaselassie IM
• DP5895 - Swedish Labour Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment
  Katarina Richardson, Gerard J van den Berg LE
• DP5894 - Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth
  Peter Gustafsson, Paul Segerstrom IT
• DP5893 - A Theory of Rent Seeking with Informational Foundations
  Johan N.M. Lagerlöf IO PP
• DP5892 - Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History
  Jeffrey G Williamson IT
• DP5891 - Poverty Traps, Distance and Diversity: The Migration Connection
  Jeffrey G Williamson IT
• DP5889 - Tariff-Tax Reforms and Market Access
  Udo Kreickemeier Pascalis Raimondos-Møller IT
• DP5888 - Concertina Reforms with International Capital Mobility
  Udo Kreickemeier Pascalis Raimondos-Møller IT
• DP5886 - Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence
  Nauro F Campos, Francesco Giovannoni PP
• DP5885 - What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
  Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G Williamson LE
• DP5884 - Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
  Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F Zimmermann, Laura Zimmermann LE
• DP5883 - The Returns to Currency Speculation A Craig Burnside
  Martin Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski, Sérgio Rebelo IM

Week 8 October 2006

• DP5882 - Capital Structure and International Debt Shifting
  Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven, Gaetan Nicodeme FE PDF
• DP5881 - Heterogenous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality
  Giorgio E. Primiceri, Thijs van Rens IM
• DP5880 - The Discrete Choice Analytically Flexible (DCAF) Model of Demand for Differentiated Products
  Peter J Davis IO
• DP5879 - The Structural Dynamics of US Output and Inflation: What Explains the Changes?
  Fabio Canova, Luca Gambetti, Evi Pappa IM
• DP5878 - The Structural Dynamics of Output Growth and Inflation: Some International Evidence
  Fabio Canova, Luca Gambetti, Evi Pappa IM
• DP5877 - Can News About the Future Drive the Business Cycle?
  Nir Jaimovich, Sérgio Rebelo IM
• DP5876 - Discrete Devaluations and Multiple Equilibria in a First Generation Model of Currency Crises
  Fernando A Broner IM
• DP5875 - Where Do Firms Incorporate?
  Marco Becht, Colin Mayer, Hannes Wagner FE
• DP5874 - Wealth Effects on Consumption: Microeconometric Estimates from a New Survey of Household Finances
  Olympia Bover FE
• DP5873 - What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970
  E Han Kim, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales FE IM IO IT LE PP
• DP5872 - Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
  Arne Uhlendorff, Klaus F Zimmermann LE
• DP5871 - Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe
  Stepan Jurajda Teodora Paligorova LE
• DP5870 - Peers at Work
  Alexandre Mas Enrico Moretti LE
• DP5868 - Money at Low Frequencies
  Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche, Stefan Gerlach IM
• DP5867 - The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Institutions, Human Capital or Constituencies
  Raghuram G Rajan, Luigi Zingales FE IO LE PP

Week 2 October 2006

• DP5866 - A Common Pool Theory of Deficit Bias Correction
  Signe Krogstrup, Charles Wyplosz IM
• DP5865 - Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation
  Xavier D'Haultfeuille, Laurent Davezies, Denis Fougère LE
• DP5864 - The Cost of Banking Regulation
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales FE IM
• DP5863 - US Banking Deregulation, Small Businesses and Interstate Insurance of Personal Income
  Yuliya Demyanyk Charlotte Ostergaard Bent E Sorensen IM
• DP5862 - Selling to Consumers with Endogenous Types
  Jan Boone, Joel Shapiro IO
• DP5861 - Persistence, Performance and Prices in Foreign Exchange Markets
  Tarun Ramadorai FE
• DP5860 - New Rates from New Weights
  Tamim Bayoumi Sarma Jayanthi Jaewoo Lee IM
• DP5857 - Terms of Trade Shocks in an Intertemporal Model: Should We Worry about the Dutch Disease or Excessive Borrowing?
  Karlygash Kuralbayeva, David Vines IM
• DP5846 - International Trade and Finance under the Two Hegemons: Complementarities in the United Kingdom (1870-1913) and the United States (1920-30)
  Alan M Taylor Janine Wilson IM

Week 24 September 2006

• DP5859 - The Origin of Utility
  Gianni De Fraja PP
• DP5858 - Exploring the Detailed Location Patters of UK Manufacturing Industries using Microgeographic Data
  Gilles Duranton, Henry G. Overman IT
• DP5856 - Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data
  Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Henry G. Overman IT
• DP5855 - How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
  Jennifer Hunt IEP LE PP
• DP5854 - A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Bretton Woods, Reversed
  Andrew K Rose IM
• DP5853 - Productivity, External Balance and Exchange Rates: Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism among G7 Countries
  Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola, Sylvain Leduc IM
• DP5852 - The International Financial Integration of China and India
  Philip R. Lane, Sergio Schmukler IM
• DP5851 - Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Perceptions and Expectations - The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment
  Thomas J Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde IM
• DP5850 - Gravity for Dummies and Dummies for Gravity Equations
  Richard Baldwin, Daria Taglioni IM IT
• DP5849 - Product Market Reform and Innovation in the EU
  Rachel Susan Griffith, Rupert Harrison, Helen Simpson IO
• DP5848 - Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour
  Thomas Bauer, Silja Göhlmann, Mathias Sinning LE
• DP5847 - Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labour Markets
  Tamim Bayoumi, Bennett Sutton, Andrew J. Swiston IM
• DP5842 - Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal
  Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff, Shang-Jin Wei IM
• DP5835 - Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics
  Pietro Garibaldi LE

Week 17 September 2006

• DP5844 - Multi-Stage Contests with Stochastic Ability
  Kai A Konrad, Dan Kovenock PP
• DP5843 -The Allocation of European Union Allowances. Lessons, Unifying Themes and General Principles
  Barbara Buchner, Carlo Carraro, A Denny Ellerman IT
• DP5841 - Multinationals' Productivity Advantage: Scale or Technology
  Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg IT
• DP5840 - Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment
  Ramon Marimon, Vincenzo Quadrini IM
• DP5839 - Mr Ricardo's Great Adventure: Estimating Fiscal Multipliers in a Truly Intertemporal Model
  Tamim Bayoumi, Silvia Sgherri IM
• DP5838 - Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
  Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg IT
• DP5837 - Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organization of Policing
  Luis Garicano, Paul Heaton IO LE
• DP5836 - Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective
  Facundo Alvaredo, Emmanuel Saez PP
• DP5834 - On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Return to Capital, and the Distribution of Wealth and Welfare
  Dirk Krüger, Alexander Ludwig IM PP
• DP5833 - The 'Names Game': Harnessing Inventors Patent Data for Economic Research
  Ran Melamed, Gil Shiff, Manuel Trajtenberg IO
• DP5832 - Housing Market Dynamics and Regional Migration in Britain
  Gavin Cameron, John Muellbauer, Anthony Murphy LE
• DP5831 - Review of Monetary Policy in South Africa: 1994-2004
  Janine Aron, John Muellbauer IM
• DP5830 - Fiscal Policy in Europe: The Past and Future of EMU Rules from the Perspective of Musgrave and Buchanan
  Marco Buti, André Sapir IM
• DP5827 - Trading Costs in Early Securities Markets: The Case of the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1880-1910
  Caroline Fohlin, Thomas Gehrig FE
• DP5822 - Prudence in Bargaining: The Effect of Uncertainty on Bargaining Outcomes
  Lucy White IO
• DP5817 - (In)Transparency of Information Acquisition: A Bargaining Experiment
  Thomas Gehrig, Werner Güth, René Levínsky FE

Week 10 September 2006

• DP5829 - Forecasting Using a Large Number of Predictors: Is Bayesian Regression a Valid Alternative to Principal Components?
  Christine De Mol, Domenico Giannone, Lucrezia Reichlin IM
• DP5828 - Why So Many Local Entrepreneurs?
  Claudio Michelacci, Olmo Silva LE
• DP5826 - On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation
  Javier Ortega, Laurence Rioux LE
• DP5825 - Bigger is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity and Resistance to Technology Adoption
  Klaus Desmet, Stephen Parente IT
• DP5824 - Mass Consumption, Exclusion and Unemployment
  Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller LE
• DP5823 - Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers
  Wolfgang Keller, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, James R Tybout IO IT
• DP5821 - Ex Ante Effects of Ex Post Managerial Ownership
  Francesca Cornelli, David Daokui Li FE IEP
• DP5815 - Unravelling the World-Wide Pollution Haven Effect
  Jaime de Melo, Jean-Marie Grether, Nicole Andréa Mathys IT

Week 3 September 2006

• DP5807 - Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances
  Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo, Giovanni Tonon IM, IT
• DP5811 - Failure to Meet the Reserve Price: The Impact on Returns to Art
  Alan Beggs, Kathryn Graddy IO
• DP5812 -Flat Tax Reforms in the US: A Boon for the Income Poor
  Javier Díaz-Giménez, Josep Pijoan-Mas IM PP
• DP5813 - Computing Abuse Related Damages in the Case of New Entry: An Illustration for the Directory Enquiry Services Market
  Maite Martinez Granado, Georges Siotis IO
• DP5814 - Buyer Power and Quality Improvements
  Pierpaulo Battigalli, Chiara Fumagalli, Michele Polo IO
• DP5816 - Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
  Alejandra Cattaneo, Rafael Lalive LE
• DP5818 - CEO Power, Compensation and Governance
  Rui Albuquerque, Jianjun Miao FE
• DP5819 - Global Private Information in International Equity Markets
  Rui Albuquerque, Gregor H Bauer, Martin Schneider FE
• DP5820 - Globalization and Risk Sharing
  Fernando A Broner, Jaume Ventura IM

Week 27 August 2006

• DP5794 - Leniency and Whistleblowers in Antitrust
  Giancarlo Spagnolo IO
• DP5800 - Services Trade Liberalization at the Regional Level: Does Southern and Eastern Africa Stand to Gain from EPA Negotiations?
  Marion Jansen IT
• DP5802 - When Does Coordination Require Centralization?
  Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein, Niko Matouschek IO
• DP5804 - Multiplicity in General Financial Equilibrium with Portfolio Constraints
  Suleyman Basak, David Cass, Juan Manuel Licari, Anna Pavlova FE
• DP5809 - From Deficits to Debt and Back: Political Incentives under Numerical Fiscal Rules
  Marco Buti, Joao Nogueira Martins, Alessandro Antonio Turrini IM IT
• DP5810 - Export Promotion Agencies: What Works and What Doesn't
  Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga, Lucy Payton

Week 20 August 2006

• DP5791- Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms
  Julio Rotemberg IM
• DP5797 - On the Relevance of Exchange Rate Regimes for Stabilization Policy
  Bernardino Adao, Maria Isabel Horta Correia, Pedro Teles IM
• DP5798 - Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects
  Joseph Farrell, Paul Klemperer IO
• DP5799 - To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
  David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke PP
• DP5801 - Drift and Breaks in Labour Productivity
  Luca Benati IM
• DP5803 - Upstream Competition and Downstream Buyer Power
  Howard Smith, John Thanassoulis IO
• DP5805 - Crises, What Crises?
  Nauro F Campos, Cheng Hsiao, Jeffrey B Nugent IEP
• DO5806 - Venture Capital Financing: The Role of Bargaining Power and the Evolution of Informational Asymmetry
  Yrjö Koskinen, Michael Rebello, Jun Wang FE
• DP5808 - Does Inflation Targeting Anchor Long-Run Inflation Expectations? Evidence from Long-Term Bond Yields in the US, UK and Sweden
  Refet S. Gürkaynak, Andrew Levin, Eric T Swanson

Week 13 August 2006

• DP5771 - The Renminbi's Dollar Peg at the Crossroads
  Maurice Obstfeld IM
• DP5780 - Text and Voice: Complements, Substitutes or Both?
  Kjetil Andersson, Øystein Foros, Frode Steen IO
• DP5781 - When Anti-Dumping Measures Lead to Increased Market Power: A Case Study of the European Salmon Market
  Frank Asche, Frode Steen IO
• DP5787 - Labour Adjustment: Disentangling Firing and Mobility Costs
  Luigi Guiso, Luigi Pistaferri, Fabiano Schivardi IM
• DP5789 - Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behaviour and Success
  Thomas J Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde LE
• DP5790 - Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Household Expectations of Inflation Based on Micro Consumption Data
  Atsushi Inoue, Lutz Kilian, Fatma Burcu Kiraz IM
• DP5792 - Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia
  Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, Diana Lopez, Costas Meghir, Alice Mesnard PP
• DP5793 - Fiscal Policy and the Term Structure: Evidence from the Case of Italy in the EMS and the EMU Periods
  Carlo A Favero, Stefano W Giglio IM
• DP5796 - Tax Rate Variability and Public Spending as Sources of Inderterminacy
  Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto, Thomas Seegmuller

Week 6 August 2006

• DP5769 - Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and the Costs of Coporate Taxation
  Christian Keuschnigg PP
• DP5775 - Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade
  Richard Baldwin IT
• DP5777 - Postponing Retirement: the Political Push of Aging
  Vincenzo Galasso PP
• DP5779 - Parallel Imports and Price Controls
  Gene Grossman, Edwin Lai IO IT
• DP5782 - Steepest Ascent Tariff Reforms
  Pascalis Raimondos-Møller, Alan D Woodland IT
• DP5783 - Rules of Origin for Preferential Trading Arrangements: Implications for AFTA of EU and US Regimes
  Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo, Alberto Portugal-Pérez
• DP5784 - A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns
  Arnab K Basu. Nancy H Chau, Ravi Kanbur LE
• DP5785 - Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
  Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti LE PP
• DP5786 - The Performance of Italian Family Firms
  Carlo A Favero, Stefano W Giglio, Maddalena Honorati, Fausto Panunzi FE
• DP5788 - Evaluating the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using a Difference-in-Differences Matching Approach
  Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg IT PDF

Week 31 July 2006

• DP5764 - Capital Markets, Ownership and Distance
  Wendy Carlin, Andrew Charlton, Colin Mayer FE IEP
• DP5765 - How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy
  Davide Castellani, Anne-Célia Disdier, Giorgio Barba Navaretti IT LE
• DP5766 - Foreign Direct Investment and R&D Offshoring
  Hans Gersbach, Armin Schmutzler IO
• DP5767 - Legal vs Ownership Unbundling in Network Industries
  Helmuth Cremer, Jacques Crémer, Philippe De Donder IO
• DP5768 - Pride and Prejudice: The Human Side of Incentive Theory
  Tore Ellingsen, Magnus Johannesson IO
• DP5770 - Predictability in Financial Markets: What Do Survey Expectations Tell Us?
  Philippe Bacchetta, Elmar Mertens, Eric van Wincoop FE IM
• DP5772 - How Robust is the New Conventional Wisdom? The Surprising Fragility of the Theoretical Foundations of Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Independence
  Willem H Buiter IM
• DP5773 - Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios
  Jakub W Jurek, Luis M Viceira FE
• DP5774 - Procuring Innovation
  Luís M B Cabral, Guido Cozzi, Vincenzo Denicolo, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Matteo Zanza IO
• DP 5776 - Concentrated Ownership and Labour Relations
  Holger M Mueller, Thomas Philippon FE
• DP 5778 - How Progessive is the US Federal Tax System? An Historical and International Perspective
  Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez

Week 16 July 2006

• DP5744 - Firms Merge in Response to Constraints
  Jan Boone
• DP5750 - Racial Segregation and Public School Expenditure
  Eliana La Ferrara, Angelo Mele PP
• DP5751 - Legal Costs as Barriers to Trade
  Alessandro Antonio Turrini, Tanguy van Ypersele IT PP
• DP5752 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
  Stefano Brusoni, Gustavo Crespi, Dominique Francoz, Alfonso Gambardella, Walter Garcia-Fontes, Aldo Geuna
• DP5754 - Estimation of Class-Size Effects, Using 'Maimonides' Rule': The Case of French Junior High Schools
  Robert J. Gary-Bobo, Mohamed Badrane Mahjoub LE
• DP5755 - When is FDI a Capital Flow?
  Dalia Marin, Monika Schnitzer IEP, IM, IO
• DP5756 - The Brevity and Violence of Contractions and Expansions
  Alisdair McKay, Ricardo Reis IM
• DP5757 - Rebate or Bait? A Model of Regret and Time Inconsistency in Consumer Behaviour
  Francesco Drago, Dora Kadar IO
• DP5758 - Conditional Allocation of Control Rights in Venture Capital Firms
  Georg Gebhardt, Klaus M. Schmidt IO
• DP5759 - Bribes, Lobbying and Development
  Bård Harstad, Jakob Svensson PP
• DP5760 - Trade in Services, Trade Agreements and Economic Development: A Survey of the Literature
  Bernard Hoekman IT DP5760 PDF
• DP5761 - Is Capital Tax Centralization Desirable?
  Paola Conconi IT PP
• DP5762 - Do Credible Domestic Institutions Promote Credible International Agreements?
  Paola Conconi, Carlo Perroni IT
• DP5763 - Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
  Guido Friebel, Michael Raith

Week 9 July 2006

• DP5735 - Cognitive Abilities and Portfolio Choice
  Dimitris Christelis, Tullio Jappelli, Mario Padula IM
• DP5737 - Does Where You Go Matter? The Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Multinationals' Employment at Home
  Peter Debaere, Hongshik Lee, Joonhyung Lee IT
• DP5742 - The Comparative Statics of Collusion Models
  Kai-Uwe Kühn, Michael S Rimler IO
• DP5743 - Expectations and Exchange Rate Policy
  Michael B Devereux, Charles M Engel IM
• DP5745 - Separation of Powers and the Budget Process
  Gene Grossman, Elhanan Helpman PP
• DP5746 - A Portfolio Theory of International Capital Flows
  Michael B Devereux, Makoto Saito IM
• DP5747 - Optimal Selling Strategies When Buyers May Have Hard Information
  Patrick W. Schmitz IO
• DP5748 - Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives and the Resource Curse
  Georgy Egorov, Sergei Guriev, Konstantin Sonin IEP
• DP5749 - Menu Costs and Asymmetric Price Adjustment
  Tore Ellingsen, Richard Friberg, John Hassler IM
• DP5753 - Jostling for Advantage: Licensing and Entry into Patent Portfolio Races
  Ralph Siebert, Georg von Graevenitz IO

Week 2 July 2006

• DP5734 - Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves: The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar
  Elias Papaioannou, Richard Portes, Gregorios Siourounis IM
• DP5736 - From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?
  Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, Tommaso Nannicini LE
• DP5738 - Openness, Inequality and Poverty: Endowments Matter
  Jaime de Melo, Julien Gourdon, Nicolas Maystre IT
• DP5739 - Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?
  Anne Gielen, Jan C van Ours LE
• DP5740 - Monetary Conservatism and Fiscal Policy
  Klaus Adam, Roberto M Billi IM
• DP5741 - Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Jan C van Ours, Milan Vodopivec LE

Week 25 June 2006

• DP5709 - Smithian Growth through Creative Organization
  Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Eugenio Proto IEP IO
• DP5720 - Remittances and the Brain Drain
  Riccardo Faini IT LE
• DP5721 - Foreign Aid and Fiscal Policy
  Riccardo Faini IT
• DP5726 - The Effect of Introducing a Non-redundant Derivative on the Volatility of Stock-Market Returns
  Harjoat Singh Bhamra, Raman Uppal FE
• DP5727 - Financial Innovations and Macroeconomic Volatility
  Urban Jermann, Vincenzo Quadrini IM
• DP5728 - Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
  Markus Fröhlich, Michael Lechner LE
• DP5729 - A Critical Appraisal of Recent Developments in the Analysis of Foreign Exchange Intervention
  Paolo Vitale IM
• DP5730 - Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe
  Massimo Del Gatto, Giordano Mion, Gianmarco I P Ottaviano IT
• DP5731 - Ranking Journals by Concentration of Author Affiliation: Thirty-Five Years of Finance Research
  Dennis Lasser, Kristian Rydqvist FE
• DP5732 - Love thy Neighbour, Love thy Kin: Strategy and Bias in the Eurovision Song Contest
  Sofronis Clerides, Thanasis Stengos IO
• DP5733 - Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships
  Marco Francesconi, Aabhinay Muthoo LE

Week 19 June 2006

• DP5710 - Sovereign Debt Restructuring: the Judge, the Vultures and Creditor Rights
  Marcus Miller, Dania Thomas IM
• DP5714 - The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic
  Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach IM PP
• DP5717 - Elections, Contracts and Markets
  Hans Gersbach, Markus Muller PP
• DP5718 - Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies
  Thorsten Beck, Luc Laeven IEP
• DP5719 - Where are the Real Bottlenecks? A Lagrangian Approach to Identifying Constraints on Growth from Subjective Survey Data
  Wendy Carlin, Mark E Schaffer, Paul Seabright IEP
• DP5722 - Stock Price Informativeness, Cross-Listings and Investment Decisions
  Thierry Foucault, Thomas Gehrig FE
• DP5723 - Money Growth, Output Gaps and Inflation at Low and High Frequency: Spectral Estimates for Switzerland
  Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche, Stefan Gerlach IM
• DP5724 - A Quasi Maximum Likelihood Approach for Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models
  Catherine Doz, Domenico Giannone, Lucrezia Reichlin IM
• DP5725 - Does Information Help Recovering Structural Shocks from Past Observations?
  Domenico Giannone, Lucrezia Reichlin IM PDF

Week 12 June 2006

• DP5705 - Entrepreneurship in China and Russia Compared
  Simeon Djankov, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya IEP
• DP5706 - Who Are China's Entrepreneurs?
  Simeon Djankov, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya IEP
• DP5707 - Entrepreneurship: First Results from Russia
  Simeon Djankov, Edward Miguel, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya IEP
• DP5708 - Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching
  Andrew Bernard, Stephen J Redding, Peter Schott IT
• DP5711- Financing a Portfolio of Projects
  Roman Inderst, Holger M Mueller, Felix Muennich FE
• DP5712 - Bargaining for Bribes: The Role of Institutions
  Raymond Fisman, Roberta Gatti PP
• DP5713 - CEO Compensation and Strategy Inertia
  Roman Inderst, Holger M Mueller FE
• DP5715 - Development, Democracy and Mass Killings
  William Easterly, Roberta Gatti, Sergio Kurlat PP
• DP5716 - The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks
  Giovanni Olivei, Silvana Tenreyro

Week 4 June 2006

• DP5698 - Democracy and Protectionism
  Kevin H O'Rourke, Alan M Taylor IT
• DP5700 - Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?
  E Han Kim, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales FE IO LE
• DP5701 - Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation
  Michael D. Noel, Mark Schankerman
• DP5702 - Individual Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries
  Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda IT LE
• DP5703 - Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2015
  Thomas Piketty, Nancy Qian PP
• DP5704 - Optimal Choice of Characteristics for a Non-Excludable Good
  Isabelle Brocas IO

Week 28 May 2006

• DP5690 - Participation and Schooling in a Public System of Higher Education
  Stijn Kelchtermans, Frank Verboven IO
• DP5691 - The Home Bias and Capital Income Flows between Countries and Regions
  Michael J Artis, Mathias Hoffmann IM
• DP5692 - Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
  Alessio J G Brown, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower LE PP
• DP5693 - Last Minute Feedback
  Tobias Klein, Christian Lambertz, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Konrad O. Stahl IO
• DP5694 - Risk Aversion and Human Capital Investment: A structural Econometric Model
  Thomas Brodaty, Robert J. Gary-Bobo, Ana Prieto LE PP
• DP5695 - A Lender-Based Theory of Collateral Roman Inderst
  Holger M Mueller FE
• DP5696 - Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
  Amelie Constant, Klaus F Zimmermann LE
• DP5697 - Financial Structure and Macroeconomic Volatility: Theory and Evidence
  Harry Huizinga, Dantao Zhu IM
• DP5699 - Can South-South Trade Liberalisation Stimulate North-South Trade?
  Marco Fugazza, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud IT D

Week 21 May 2006

• DP5681 - Outsourcing, Contracts and Innovation Networks
  Alireza Naghavi, Gianmarco I P Ottaviano IT
• DP5682 - Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhodd Effects on Early Performance at School
  Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin LE
• DP5683 - Understanding the Link between Money Growth and Inflation in the Euro Area
  Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche, Stefan Gerlach IM
• DP5684 - The Economic Importance of Fiscal Rules
  Michael J Artis, Luca Onorante IM
• DP5685 - Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
  Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal, Bas van der Klaauw LE
• DP5686 - Investments into Education - Doing as the Parents Did
  Georg Kirchsteiger, Alexander Sebald PP
• DP5687 - Clubs and Households
  Hans Gersbach, Hans Haller IO
• DP5688 - Challenges and Opportunities for Resource Rich Economies
  Frederick van der Ploeg IM
• DP5689 - House Prices, Rents and Interest Rates Under Collateral Constraints
  Oscar Arce, J David López-Salido I

Week 14 May 2006

• DP5671 - Entry and Asymmetric Lobbying: Why Governments Pick Losers
  Richard Baldwin, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud IT
• DP5672 - Intellectual Property Rights and Entry into a Foreign Market: FDI vs Joint Ventures
  Dermot Leahy, Alireza Naghavi IT
• DP5674 - Exposure to Foreign Media and Changes in Cultural Traits: Evidence from Naming Patterns in France
  Anne-Célia Disdier, Keith Head, Thierry Mayer IT
• DP5676 - Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
  Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz FE LE PP
• DP5677 - What Do We Now Know About Currency Unions?
  Michael J Artis IM
• DP5678 - Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
  Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen, Fabrizio Zilibotti IO
• DP5679 - When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia
  Mario Chacón. James A Robinson, Ragnar Torvik PP
• DP5680 - Can Post-Grant Reviews Improve Patent System Design? A Twin Study of US and European Patents
  Stuart J.H. Graham, Dietmar Harhoff

Week 7 May 2006

• DP5654 - Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change
  Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini IM PP
• DP5663 - Agglomeration, Offshoring and Heterogenous Firms
  Richard Baldwin, Toshihiro Okubo IT
• DP5665 - Assessing the 'Engines of Liberation': Home Appliances and Female Labour Force Participation
  Tiago Cavalcanti, José Tavares PP
• DP5666 - How Much Information Should Interest Rate-Setting Central Banks Reveal?
  Pierre Gosselin, Aileen Gosselin-Lotz, Charles Wyplosz IM
• DP5667 - Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size
  Tiago Cavalcanti, José Tavares PP
• DP5668 - New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
  Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy, Analia Schlosser LE PP
• DP5669 - On Public Opinion Polls and Voters' Turnout
  Esteban F Klor, Eyal Winter PP
• DP5670 - The Consumption-Tightness Puzzle
  Morten O. Ravn IM
• DP5673 - Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
  Nauro F Campos Roman Horváth IEP
• DP5673 - Were American Parents Really Selfish? Child Labour in the 19th Century
  Venkataraman Bhaskar Bishnupriya Gupta

Week 30 April 2006

• DP5664 - Inflation Targeting under Imperfect Knowledge
  Athanasios Orphanides, John C Williams IM
• DP5662 - 'Bend It Like Beckham': Identity, Socialization and Assimilation
  Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou PP
• DP5661 - The Dynamics of the Racial Test Score Gap During the School Years in Britain
  Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou LE
• DP5660 - Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
  Andreas Ammermüller, Jörn-Steffen Pischke LE PP
• DP5659 - Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies
  Shoshana Neuman Einat Neuman LE
• DP5658 - Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition and Staggering Complementarities
  Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower, IM
• DP5657 - How Far Are We From the Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited
  Mathias Trabandt, Harald Uhlig IM PP
• DP5656 - The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labour Market after Reunification
  Christian Merkl Dennis J. Snower LE
• DP5655 - Dualism and Cross-Country Growth Regressions
  Jonathan Temple, Ludger Woessmann IM
• DP5653 - Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England and Wales: What Do We Know?
  Alan Manning, Jörn-Steffen Pischke LE
• DP5651 - Institutional Weakness and Stock Price Volatility
  Galina B Hale, Assaf Razin, Hui Tong, IM
• DP5649 - Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
  Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul PP PDF
• DP5648 - The Effect of Offshoring on Labour Demand: Evidence from Sweden
  Karolina Ekholm, Katariina Hakkala IT
• DP5646 - Political Budget Cycles and Fiscal Decentralization
  Paula Gonzalez, Jean J.G. Hindriks, Ben Lockwood, Nicolas Porteiro PP
• DP5642 - Macroeconomic Policy and the Distribution of Growth Rates
  Vatcharin Sirimaneetham, Jonathan Temple IM
• DP5639 - Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
  Iwan Barankay Ben Lockwood PP

Week 23 April 2006

• DP5610 - 'Build It or Not': Normative and Positive Theories of Public-Private Partnerships
  David Martimort, Jérôme Pouyet IO
• DP5618 - Risk Transfer with CDOs and Systemic Risk in Banking
  Jan Pieter Krahnen, Christian Wilde FE
• DP5622 - On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict
  Francesco Caselli, Wilbur John Coleman II IM
• DP5623 - Banking Crises, Financial Dependence and Growth
  Daniela Klingebiel, Randall S Kroszner, Luc Laeven FE
• DP5626 - Central Banking by Committee
  Anne Sibert IM
• DP5627 - Adaptive Learning in Practice
  Eva Carceles-Poveda, Chryssi Giannitsarou IM
• DP5633 - New Eurocoin: Tracking Economic Growth in Real Time
  Filippo Altissimo, Riccardo Cristadoro, Mario Forni, Marco Lippi, Giovanni Veronese IM
• DP5637 - Deflationary Bubbles
  Willem H Buiter, Anne Sibert IM
• DP5640 - Does Propitious Selection Explain Why Riskier People Buy Less Insurance?
  Philippe De Donder, Jean J.G. Hindriks PP
• DP5641 - Is Central Bank Transparency Desirable?
  Anne Sibert IM
• DP5643 - Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
  Emmanuelle Auriol, Pierre M Picard IO
• DP5644 - The External Wealth of Nations Mark II: Revised and Extended Estimates of Foreign Assets and Liabilities, 1970-2004
  Philip R. Lane, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti IM
• DP5645 - Multi-Battle Contests
  Kai A Konrad, Dan Kovenock PP
• DP5647 - Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information
  Stefania Albanesi IM PP
• DP5650 - Distribution Margins, Imported Inputs and the Insensitivity of the CPI to Exchange Rates
  José Manuel Campa, Linda S Goldberg IM
• DP5652 - Selecting Copulas for Risk Management
  Kees Koedijk, Erik Kole, Marno Verbeek

Week 16 April 2006

• DP5599 - Product Market Reforms, Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment
  Rachel Susan Griffith Rupert Harrison Gareth Macartney LE
• DP5624 - Services Policies in Transition Economies: On the EU and WTO as Commitment Mechanisms
  Felix Eschenbach Bernard Hoekman IT
• DP5625 - Services Policy Reform and Economic Growth in Transition Economies, 1990-2004
  Felix Eschenbach, Bernard Hoekman IT
• DP5628 - Services, Economic Development and the Doha Round: Exploiting the Comparative Advantage of the WTO
  Bernard Hoekman Aaditya Mattoo IT
• DP5629 - Exchange Rate Volatility and Productivity Growth: The Role of Financial Development
  Philippe Aghion, Philippe Bacchetta, Romain Ranci re, Kenneth Rogoff IM
• DP5630 - The Diffusion of Development
  Enrico Spolaore Romain Wacziarg IEP
• DP5631 - Trend Breaks, Long-Run Restrictions and the Contractionary Effects of Technology Improvements
  John Fernald IM
• DP5632 - Interpreting Euro Area Inflation at High and Low Frequencies
  Stefan Gerlach Katrin Wesche IM
• DP5634 - Lobbying and Agricultural Trade Policy in the United States
  Kishore Gawande Bernard Hoekman IT
• DP5635 - Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Ariell Reshef, Bent E Sorensen, Oved Yosha IM
• DP5636 - Ethnosizing Immigrants
  Amelie Constant Liliya Gataullina Klaus F Zimmermann LE
• DP5638 - Methods for Robust Control
  Richard Dennis Kai Leitemo Ulf Söderström

Week 9 April 2006

• DP5591 - Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
  Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz FE LE PP
• DP5595 - Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand
  Rob Euwals, Maurice Hogerbrugge LE
• DP5597 - The Global Chilling Effects of Antidumping Proliferation
  Hylke Vandenbussche, Maurizio Zanardi IT
• DP5600 - Youth Unemployment and Crime in France
  Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz, Julien Pouget LE
• DP5606 - Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia
  Sebastián L Mazzuca, James A Robinson PP
• DP5607 - Racial Identity and Education
  Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou, LE PP
• DP5608 - UK Inflation Persistence: Policy or Nature?
  Patrick Minford, Eric Nowell, Prakriti Sofat, Naveen Srinivasan IM
• DP5609 - Monetary Regimes: Is There a Trade-Off Between Consumption and Employment Variability?
  Kent Matthews, David Meenagh, Patrick Minford, Bruce Webb IM
• DP5611 - On the Equality of Real Interest Rates Across Borders in Integrated Capital Markets
  Patrick Minford, David Peel IM
• DP5612 - Openness and the Case for Flexible Exchange Rates
  Giancarlo Corsetti IM
• DP5613 - Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations
  Gilles Saint-Paul LE
• DP5614 - Simulating Stock Returns Under Switching Regimes - A New Test of Market Efficiency
  David Meenagh, Patrick Minford, David Peel IM
• DP5615 - Joining the European Monetary Union - Comparing First and Second Generation Open Economy Models
  Vo Phuong Mai Le, Patrick Minford IM
• DP5616 - Calvo Contracts - Optimal Indexation in General Equilibrium
  Vo Phuong Mai Le, Patrick Minford IM
• DP5617 - Off-Shoring of Business Services and Deindustrialization: Threat or Opportunity - and for Whom? Frédéric Robert-Nicoud IT
• DP5619 - Was There a British House Price Bubble? Evidence from a Regional Panel
  Gavin Cameron, John Muellbauer, Anthony Murphy IM
• DP5620 - A Parametric Estimation Method for Dynamic Factor Models of Large Dimensions
  George Kapetanios, Massimiliano Marcellino IM
• DP5621 - Impulse Response Functions from Structural Dynamic Factor Models: A Monte Carlo Evaluation
  George Kapetanios, Massimiliano Marcellino IM

Week 2 April 2006

• DP5570 - Price-Level Determination Under Dispersed Information and Monetary Policy
  Kosuke Aoki IM
• DP5577 - Tenure Profiles and Efficient Separation in a Stochastic Productivity Model
  Sebastian Buhai, Coen N Teulings LE
• DP5578 - Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice
  Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz FE, LE, PP
• DP5579 - Penalty Shoot-Outs: Before or After Extra Time?
  Juan D Carrillo PP
• DP5589 - Trade, FDI and the Organization of Firms
  Elhanan Helpman IT
• DP5593 - On-The-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process
  Fabien Postel-Vinay, Hélène Turon LE
• DP5594 - The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: Hours of Work versus Labor Force Participation
  Henrik Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner PP
• DP5596 - Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands - Evidence from a Policy Reform
  Rob Euwals, Daniel van Vuuren, Ronald Wolthoff LE
• DP5598 - Asymmetric Information in the Stock Market: Economic News and Co-movement
  Rui Albuquerque, Clara Vega FE, IM
• DP5601 - Cross-Border Merger Waves
  Eileen Fumagalli, Helder Vasconcelos IO
• DP5602 - Pricing Risk in Economies with Heterogenous Agents and Incomplete Markets
  Josep Pijoan-Mas FE IM
• DP5603 - Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions
  Daron Acemoglu, James A Robinson PP
• DP5604 - Marketwide Private Information in Stocks: Forecasting Currency Returns
  Rui Albuquerque, Eva de Francisco, Luis Marques FE
• DP5605 - Boosting Your Instruments: Estimation with Overidentifying Inequality Moment Conditions
  Hyungsik Roger Moon, Frank Schorfheide IM

Week 26 March 2006

• DP5558 - Allocative and Informational Externalities in Auctions and Related Mechanisms
  Philippe Jehiel, Benny Moldovanu IO
• DP5563 - Trade and Growth with Heterogenous Firms
  Richard Baldwin, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud IT
• DP5566 - Mixed Bundling Auctions
  Philippe Jehiel, Moritz Meyer-Ter-Vehn, Benny Moldovanu IO
• DP5567 - WTO's Doha Cotton Initative: A Tale of Two Issues Kym Anderson
  Ernesto Valenzuela IT
• DP5568 - GM Cotton Adoption, Recent and Prospective: A Global CGE Analysis of Economic Impacts
  Kym Anderson, Lee Ann Jackson, Ernesto Valenzuela IT
• DP5569 - The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access
  Kym Anderson, Will Martin, Ernesto Valenzuela IT
• DP5571 - From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
  Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein IEP LE
• DP5572 - Takeovers
  Mike Burkart, Fausto Panunzi FE PDF
• DP5573 - An Equilibrium Model of 'Global Imbalances' and Low Interest Rates
  Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas IM
• DP5574 - Trade and Economic Geography: The Impact of EEC Accession on the UK
  Henry G. Overman, L Alan Winters IT
• DP5575 - On-the-Job Search and Sorting
  Pieter A Gautier, Coen N Teulings, Aico van Vuuren LE
• DP5576 - Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices
  Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga IT
• DP5580 - Consumption and Real Exchange Rates with Incomplete Markets and Non-Traded Goods
  Gianluca Benigno, Christoph Thoenissen IM
• DP5581 - Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
  Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen LE
• DP5582 - R&D and Strategic Industrial Location in International Oligopolies
  Armando José Garcia Pires IT
• DP5583 - Strategic Complementarities in Multi-Stage Games
  Xavier Vives IO
• DP5584 - Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability Within a Currency Union
  Tatiana Kirsanova, David Vines, Simon Wren-Lewis IM
• DP5585 - Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter IEP LE
• DP5586 - How Important is Access to Jobs? Old Question - Improved Answer
  Olof Aslund, John Östh, Yves Zenou LE
• DP5587 - Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
  Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F Zimmermann LE
• DP5588 - On-Net and Off-Net Pricing on Asymmetric Telecommunications Networks
  Steffen Hoernig IO
• DP5590 - Debt, Deficits and Destabilizing Monetary Policy in Open Economies
  Andreas Schabert, Sweder van Wijnbergen IM
• DP5592 - Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure Christian Mugele
  Monika Schnitzer IEP IO IT

Week 19 March 2006

• DP5552 - Aggregate Implications of Wealth Redistribution: The Case of Inflation
  Matthias Doepke, Martin Schneider, IM, PP
• DP5553 - Pensions with Heterogenous Individuals and Endogenous Fertility
  Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari, Pierre Pestieau, PP
• DP5554 - Incentives in Competitive Search Equilibrium and Wage Rigidity
  Espen R Moen, Asa Rosen
• DP5555 - Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
  Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers, LE, PP
• DP5556 - Piracy Prevention and the Pricing of Information Goods
  Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau, PP
• DP5557 - Relating Output and Volatility in a Model of International Risk-Sharing with Limited Commitment
  Pietro Reichlin, IM
• DP5559 - Does Migration Empower Married Women?
  Natalie Chen, Paola Conconi, Carlo Perroni, IT, LE
• DP5560 - Tariff Retaliation versus Financial Compensation in the Enforcement of International Trade Agreements
  Nuno Limão, Kamal Saggi, IT
• DP5561 - Managing the Noodle Bowl: The Fragility of East Asian Regionalism
  Richard Baldwin, IT
• DP5562 - Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets
  Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz, LE, PP
• DP5564 - Screening Disability Insurance Applications
  Philip de Jong, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw, LE
• DP5565 - Hedge Funds: Performance, Risk and Capital Formation
  William Fung, David A Hsieh, Narayan Naik, Tarun Ramadorai, FE

Week 12 March 2006

• DP5529 - The Empirics of International Currencies: Historical Evidence
  Marc Flandreau, Clemens Jobst IM
• DP5541 - Indeterminacy with Small Externalities: The Role of Non-Separable Preferences
  Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Carine Nourry, Alain Venditti IM
• DP5542 - Social Security and Retirement Decision: A Positive and Normative Approach
  Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Pierre Pestieau PP
• DP5543 - The Theory of Assortative Matching Based on Costly Signals
  Heidrun C. Hoppe, Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela IO
• DP5545 - Inequality and Informality
  Alberto Chong, Mark Gradstein PP
• DP5546 - Disability Testing and Retirement
  Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Pierre Pestieau PP
• DP5547 - International Trade with Competitiveness Effects in R&D
  Armando José Garcia Pires IT
• DP5548 - The Elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, Ten Years On
  Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo, Laure Dutoit IT
• DP5549 - Industrial Productivity in 51 Countries, Rich and Poor
  Orsetta Causa, Daniel Cohen IM
• DP5550 - In Favour of a Fund to Stabilize Commodity Exporters' Income
  Daniel Cohen, Thibault Fally, Sebastien Villemot IM
• DP 5551 - Social Desirability of Earning Tests
  Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Pierre Pestieau

Week 5 March 2006

• DP5530 - Fear of Floating and Fear of Pegging: An Empirical Analysis of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Developing Countries
  Jürgen von Hagen, Jizhong Zhou IM
• DP5531 - Balanced Budget Rules and Aggregate Instability: The Role of Consumption Taxes
  Chryssi Giannitsarou IM
• DP5532 - Competition and Well-Being
  Jordi Brandts, Arno Riedl, Frans A.A.M. van Winden IO DP
• DP5533 - Optimal Fiscal Policy Rules in a Monetary Union
  Tatiana Kirsanova, Mathan Satchi, David Vines, Simon Wren-Lewis IM
• DP5534 - Inflation Bias with Dynamic Phillips Curves
  Tatiana Kirsanova, David Vines, Simon Wren-Lewis IM
• DP5535 - Sticky Prices and Indeterminacy
  Mark Weder IM
• DP5536 - The Real Effects of EMU
  Philip R. Lane IM
• DP5537 - The Interaction Between Capital Controls and Exchange Rate Regimes: Evidence from Developing Countries
  Jürgen von Hagen, Jizhong Zhou IM
• DP5538 - On the Evolution of Market Institutions: The Platform Design Paradox
  Carlos Alos-Ferrer, Georg Kirchsteiger, Markus Walzl IO
• DP5539 - Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data
  Susana Iranzo, Fabiano Schivardi, Elisa Tosetti IO
• DP5540 - Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence
  Christian Broda, Nuno Limão, David E Weinstein IT
• DP5544 - Scared by Foreigners and their Products? Survey Evidence from France
  Olivier Cadot, Pierre-Yves Geoffard, Akiko Suwa Eisenmann, Thierry Verdier

Week 26 February 2006

• DP5528 - Bloodshed or Reforms? The Determinants of Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870-1913 and Today
  Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, Yishay Yafeh FE
• DP5527 - Nonlinearity in Deviations from Uncovered Interest Parity: An Explanation of the Forward Bias Puzzle
  Hyginus Leon, Lucio Sarno, Giorgio Valente FE IM
• DP5526 - Does Central Bank Transparency Reduce Interest Rates?
  Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Petra M Geraats, Carin A B van der Cruijsen IM
• DP5525 - Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
  Elizabeth Brainerd IEP
• DP5524 - Optimal Asset Allocation and Risk Shifting in Money Management
  Suleyman Basak, Anna Pavlova, Alex Shapiro FE
• DP5523 - Competition for Order Flow and Smart Order Routing Systems
  Thierry Foucault, Albert J. Menkveld FE
• DP5522 - Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Home Bias
  Ester Faia, Tommaso Monacelli IM
• DP5521 - Pervasive Stickiness (Expanded Version)
  N Gregory Mankiw, Ricardo Reis IM
• DP5520 - Household Credit in the New Europe: Lending Boom or Sustainable Growth?
  Fabrizio Coricelli, Fabio Mucci, Debora Revoltella IEP IM
• DP5519 - The Declining Equity Premium: What Role Does Macroeconomic Risk Play?
  Martin Lettau, Sydney Ludvigson, Jessica Wachter FE IM
• DP5513 - Estimating Macroeconomic Models: A Likelihood Approach
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Juan F Rubio-Ramirez IM
• DP5504 - Pricing Behaviour and the Response of Hours to Productivity Shocks
  Domenico J. Marchetti, Francesco Nucci IM
• DP5495 - Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement
  Lucy White, Mark Williams IO
• DP5491 - Valuation in Over-the-Counter Markets
  Darrell Duffie, Nicolae B. Garleanu, Lasse Heje Pedersen

Week 19 February 2006

• DP5503 - Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labour Market Adjustment? Theory and an Application to the EU Enlargement
  Ana Lamo, Julian Messina, Etienne Wasmer, IM
• DP5505 - Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales, FE, IEP, IM, IT, LE, PP
• DP5509 - Growth in Euro Area Labour Quality
  Guido Schwerdt, Jarkko Turunen IM
• DP5512 - International Portfolio Equilibrium and the Current Account
  Robert Kollman, IM
• DP5514 - Birth Order and Sibship Sex Composition as Instruments in the Study of Education and Earnings
  Robert J. Gary-Bobo, Natalie Picard, Ana Prieto PP
• DP5515 - Growth and Labour Markets in Developing Countries
  Mathan Satchi, Jonathan Temple IEP, IM
• DP5516 - The Geography of Output Volatility
  Adeel Malik, Jonathan Temple, IEP, IM
• DP5517 - Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
  Thomas J Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Jürgen Schupp, Uwe Sunde, Gert Georg Wagner LE
• DP5518 - Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation
  Arnoud W A Boot, Matej Marinc

Week 12 February 2006

• DP5481 - Patents, Imitation and Licensing in an Asymmetric Dynamic R&D Race
  Chaim Fershtman, Sarit Markovich IO
• DP5493 - Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
  John J Donohue, Justin Wolfers LE
• DP5494 - Information in Mechanism Design
  Dirk Bergemann, Juuso Valimaki IO
• DP5496 - Social Networks in the Boardroom
  Francis Kramarz, David Thesmar FE
• DP5497 - Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations
  Stefan Haigner, Martin Kocher, Matthias Sutter IO
• DP5498 - Israel, the Palestinian Factions and the Cycle of Violence
  David A Jaeger, Marco Daniele Paserman LE PP
• DP5499 - Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details
  Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini IM PP
• DP5500 - Bottom-Up Corporate Governance
  Augustin Landier, David Sraer, David Thesmar FE
• DP5501 - Cyclical Productivity in Europe and the United States, Evaluating the Evidence on Returns to Scale and Input Utilization
  Robert Inklaar IM
• DP5502 - India's Public Finances: Excessive Budget Deficits, a Government-Abused Financial System and Fiscal Rules
  Willem H Buiter, Urjit R. Patel IM
• DP5506 - Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
  Claudia Olivetti, Barbara Petrongolo LE
• DP5507 - Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender
  Justin Wolfers FE, LE
• DP5508 - Markets: The Fulton Fish Market
  Kathryn Graddy IO
• DP5510 - Market Liquidity, Investor Participation and Managerial Autonomy: Why Do Firms Go Private?
  Arnoud W A Boot, Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Anjan Thakor FE
• DP5511 - Vying for Foreign Direct Investment: An EU-Type Model of Tax Competition
  Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka IM

Week 5 February 2006

• DP5477 - Rags in the High Rent District: The Evolution of Quota Rents in Textiles and Clothing
  Joseph Francois, Julia W rz IT
• DP5480 - Antitrust in Open Economies
  Joseph Francois, Henrik Horn, IO, IT
• DP5487 - Shadow Sorting
  Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi, LE
• DP5488 - Moral Hazard and the Demand for Health Services: A Matching Estimator Approach
  Anna Sanz de Galdeano, Matilde Machado, Pedro Luis Pita Barros, IO
• DP5489 - Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labour Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?
  Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, LE
• DP5490 - Trade and the Great Divergence: The Family Connection
  Oded Galor, Andrew Mountford, IM
• DP5492 - The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
  Philippe Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen J Redding, Fabrizio Zilibotti

Week 29 January 2006

• DP5397 - The Logic of Compromise: Monetary bargaining in Austria-Hungary 1867-1913
  Marc Flandreau IM
• DP5473 - Purchasing Power Parity and Heterogenous Mean Reversion
  Kees Koedijk, Ben Tims, Mathijs A Van Dijk , IM
• DP5474 - Individual vs. Parental Consent in Marriage: Implications for Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Growth
  Lena Cecilia Edlund, Nils-Petter Lagerl f PP
• DP5475 - Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the US
  Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei IT
• DP5476 - Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox
  Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers LE PP
• DP5478 - The European Commission - Appointment, Preferences and Institutional Relations
  Stefan Napel, Mika Widgr n IT
• DP5479 - Long-Term Public Debt and the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
  Gaetano Bloise, Pietro Reichlin IM
• DP5482 - Entry and Regulation - Evidence from Health Care Professions
  Catherine Schaumans, Frank Verboven IO
• DP5483 - The Social Cost of Foreign Exchange Reserves
  Dani Rodrik IM PP
• DP5484 - What's So Special About China's Exports?
  Dani Rodrik IT PP
• DP5485 - Forecasting Economic Aggregates by Disaggregates
  David F Hendry, Kirstin Hubrich IM
• DP5486 - The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why are They Lower than in the United States?)
  Magali Beffy Mosche Buchinsky Denis Foug re Thierry Kamionka Francis Kramarz

Week 22 January 2006

• DP5411 - Hot and Cold Housing Markets: International Evidence
  Jose A. Ceron, Javier Suarez FE
• DP5441 - Clientelism and Aid
  Georges Casamatta, Charles Vellutini PP PDF
• DP5446 - Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
  Abhijit Banerjee, Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo, Leigh Linden PP
• DP5453 - Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment
  Alison L Booth, Hiau Joo Kee LE
• DP5460 - Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock of Political Connections
  Mara Faccio, David Parsley FE
• DP5461 - The Role of Advertising in Commercial Banking
  Evren Örs FE
• DP5462 - Estimating the Intertemporal Risk-Return Tradeoff Using the Implied Cost of Capital
  Lubos Pástor, Meenakshi Sinha, Bhaskaran Swaminathan FE
• DP5463 - Has Monetary Policy Become More Effective?
  Jean Boivin, Marc Giannoni IM
• DP5464 - Five-Equation Macroeconomics: A Simple View of the Interactions Between Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy
  Tatiana Kirsanova, Sven Jari Stehn, David Vines IM
• DP5465 - Optimal Fines in the Era of Whistleblowers
  Paolo Buccirossi, Giancarlo Spagnolo IO
• DP5466 - Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
  Refet.S. Gürkaynak, Justin Wolfers FE LE
• DP5467 - Monetary Policy and the Evolution of the US Economy
  Fabio Canova, Luca Gambetti IM
• DP5468 - A Market Microstructure Analysis of Foreign Exchange Intervention
  Paolo Vitale FE IM
• DP5469 - The Circulation of Ideas: Firms Versus Markets
  Thomas F Hellmann, Enrico C Perotti IO
• DP5470 - Central Bank Independence, Accountability and Transparency: Complements or Strategic Substitutes?
  Andrew Hughes Hallett, Jan Libich IM
• DP5471 - Market and Public Provision in the Presence of Human Capital Externalities
  Gianni De Fraja PP
• DP5472 - Children Reading Fiction Books Because They Want To
  Jan C van Ours PP

Week 15 January 2006

• DP5459 - Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
  Eran Yashiv IM LE
• DP5458 - The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory
  Marco Battaglini, Rebecca Morton, Thomas R Palfrey PP
• DP5457 - Structural Changes in the US Economy: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?
  Fabio Canova, Luca Gambetti IM
• DP5456 - Minimum Wages and Firm Productivity
  Mirko Draca, Steve Machin, John Van Reenen LE
• DP5455 - Performance Related Pay and Labour Productivity
  Anne Gielen, Marcel J M Kerkhofs, Jan C van Ours LE
• DP5454 - Technological Progress and Regress in Pre-Industrial Times
  Shekhar Aiyar, Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Omer Moav IM
• DP5452 - Protection for Sale Made Easy
  Richard Baldwin, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud IT
• DP5451 - Global Risk, Investment and Emotions
  R.A.J Bosman, Frans A.A.M. van Winden IO
• DP5450 - National Treatment in the GATT
  Henrik Horn IT
• DP5449 - The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists
  Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson IO

Week 8 January 2006

• DP5403 - Rebalancing Growth in China: A Three-Handed Approach
  Olivier J Blanchard, Francesco Giavazzi IM
• DP5409 - Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Assessment
  Zoltán J Acs, David B Audretsch, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Bo Carlsson IO
• DP5410 - Consumer Lending When Lenders are More Sophisticated Than Households
  Roman Inderst FE
• DP5427 - Admission to Selective Schools, Alphabetically
  Stepan Jurajda, Daniel Münich LE, PP
• DP5430 - Stuck on Gold: Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard, 1870-1939
  Natasha Chernyshoff, David S. Jacks, Alan M Taylor IM
• DP5431 - Labour and Product Market Reforms in the Economy with Distortionary Taxation
  Nikola Bokan, Andrew Hughes Hallett IM
• DP5436 - How Licensing Resolves Hold-Up: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity
  Ralph Siebert, Georg von Graevenitz IO
• DP5437 - Mixing Media with Two-Part Tariffs
  Steffen Hoernig, Tommaso Valletti IO
• DP5443 - A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labour-Scarce Economies?
  Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G Williamson IT LE
• DP5444 - What You Export Matters
  Ricardo Hausmann, Jason Hwang, Dani Rodrik IT PP
• DP5445 - Price Setting Behaviour: Micro Evidence on Slovakia
  Fabrizio Coricelli, Roman Horváth IEP
• DP5447 - A New International Division of Labour in Europe: Outsourcing and Offshoring to Eastern Europe
  Dalia Marin IEP IT
• DP5448 - Strong and Weak Ties in Employment and Crime
  Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou LE PP