CEPR Discussion Papers 2008

Week 21 December 2008

• DP7107 - Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents
  Marco Francesconi, Helmut Rainer, Wilbert Van Der Klaauw, LE
• DP7106 - Funded Pensions and Intergenerational and International Risk Sharing in General Equilibrium
  Roel Beetsma, A Lans Bovenberg, Ward E Romp, IM
• DP7105 - Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity
  Marco Pagano, Paolo Volpin, FE
• DP7104 - Corporate Fraud, Governance and Auditing
  Giovanni Immordino, Marco Pagano, FE
• DP7103 - International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach
  Natalie Chen, Dennis Novy, IT
• DP7102 - Public Support to Clusters: A Firm Level Study of French “Local Productive Systems”
  Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer, Florian Mayneris, IT, PP
• DP7101 - The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence
  Timothy J. Besley, Torsten Persson, DE, IM, PP
• DP7100 - Capital Structure and Regulation: Do Ownership and Regulatory Independence Matter?
  Bernardo Bortolotti, Carlo Cambini, Laura Rondi, Yossi Spiegel, FE, IO
• DP7099 - Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects and Markups
  Tommaso Monacelli, Roberto Perotti, IM
• DP7098 - The Dynamic Effects of Monetary Policy: A Structural Factor Model Approach
  Mario Forni, Luca Gambetti, IM
• DP7088 - Toc 'n' Roll: Bargaining, Service Quality and Specificity in the UK Railway Network
  Gianni De Fraja, Emanuela Michetti, Piercarlo Zanchettin, IO
• DP7083 - Firm Default and Aggregate Fluctuations
  Tor Jacobson, Rikard Kindell, Jesper Lindé, Kasper F. Roszbach, IM
• DP7079 - Agglomeration, Backward and Forward Linkages: Evidence from South Korean Investment in China
  Peter Debaere, Joonhyung Lee, Myungho Paik, IT
  

Week 14 December 2008

• DP7097 - Employment Laws in Developing Countries
  Simeon Djankov, Rita Ramalho, DE
• DP7096 - Monetary Policy Regimes and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
  Ruslan Bikbov, Mikhail Chernov, FE
• DP7095 - Does the Public Employment Service Affect Search Effort and Outcomes?
  Denis Fougère, Jacqueline Pradel, Muriel Roger, LE
• DP7094 - Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
  Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougère, Julien Pouget, LE
• DP7093 - Debt Maturity without Commitment
  Dirk Niepelt, IM, PP
• DP7092 - Naturalization and Employment of Immigrants in France (1968-1999)
  Denis Fougère, Mirna Safi, LE
• DP7091 - Financial Market Integration Under EMU
  Tullio Jappelli, Marco Pagano, FE
• DP7090 - Venture Capital and Innovation: Which is First?
  Masayuki Hirukawa, Masako Ueda, FE
• DP7089 - Venture Capital and Industrial ''Innovation''
  Masayuki Hirukawa, Masako Ueda, FE
• DP7087 - Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends Over a Quarter Century
  Tony Atkinson, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright, Cathy Pharoah, Sylke Viola Schnepf, LE
• DP7086 - One Size Fits All? The Effects of Teacher Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities on Student Achievement
  Erik Grönqvist, Jonas Vlachos, LE, PP
• DP7085 - What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts?
  Stijn Claessens, Ayhan Kose, Marco E. Terrones, FE
• DP7078 - When Can Central Banks Anchor Expectations? Policy communication and controllability
  Nicola Acocella, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Andrew Hughes Hallett, IM

Week 7 December 2008

• DP7084 - Tax Contracts and Government Formation
  Hans Gersbach, Maik Schneider, PP
• DP7082 - Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms
  Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini, Alessandra Tucci, IT
• DP7081 - Transitory Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict
  Antonio Ciccone, IM
• DP7080 - The Regulation of Entry: A Survey
  Simeon Djankov, DE
• DP7077 - Dynamic Merger Review
  Volker Nocke, Michael Whinston, IO
• DP7076 - A Faith-based Initiative: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate Current Account Adjustment?
  Menzie David Chinn, Shang-Jin Wei, IM
• DP7075 - Worker Replacement
  Guido Menzio, Espen R. Moen, IM, LE
• DP7064 - Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances
  Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, IM
  

Week 30 November 2008

• DP7074 - Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services
  Carmen Fillat Castejón, Joseph Francois, Julia Woerz, IT
• DP7073 - Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing
  Yongmin Chen, Ignatius J Horstmann, James R. Markusen, IT
• DP7072 - Rules of Origin, Preferences and Diversification in Apparel: African Exports to the US and to the EU
  Jaime de Melo, Alberto Portugal-Pérez, IT
• DP7071 - Legal Standards, Enforcement and Corruption
  Giovanni Immordino, Marco Pagano, PP
• DP7070 - Monetary Policy Trade-Offs in an Estimated Open-Economy DSGE Model
  Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé, Lars E O Svensson, IM
• DP7069 - The U.S. Business Cycle, 1867-1995: A Dynamic Factor Approach
  Albrecht Ritschl, Samad Sarferaz, Martin Uebele, IM
• DP7068 - An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal
  Dimitri Vayanos, Paul Woolley, FE
• DP7067 - The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform
  Barbara Petrongolo, LE
• DP7066 - Public goods, participation constraints, and democracy: A possibility theorem
  Hans Peter Grüner, PP
• DP7065 - Dynamic Factor Price Equalization & International Convergence
  Joseph Francois, Clint R. Shiells, IT
• DP7063 - New Economic Geography: an appraisal on the occasion of Paul Krugman's 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics
  Masahisa Fujita, Jacques-François Thisse, IT
• DP7062 - Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in EMU: Evidence from an Estimated Model
  Ulf Söderström, IM
  

Week 23 November 2008

• DP7061 - Car Ownership and the Labour Market of Ethnic Minorities
  Pieter A Gautier, Yves Zenou, LE, PP
• DP7060 - Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education
  Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou, LE
• DP7059 - Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure
  Stepan Jurajda, Daniel Münich, LE
• DP7058 - Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals
  Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu, IT
• DP7057 - Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch: Theory and Evidence
  Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, IM
• DP7056 - Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks
  Eva I. Hoppe, Patrick W. Schmitz, IO
• DP7055 - Do Temprary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
  Juan J. Dolado, Rodolfo Stucchi, LE
  

Week 16 November 2008

• DP7054 - Repeated electoral competition over non-linear income tax schedules
  Georges Casamatta, Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, PP
• DP7053 - The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century
  Sibylle H. Lehmann, Kevin H. O'Rourke, IM, IT
• DP7052 - Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns around the World
  Stijn Claessens, Yishay Yafeh, FE
• DP7051 - Bank Diversification and Incentives
  Gyöngyi Lóránth, Alan Morrison, FE
• DP7050 - Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments
  Alessandra Casella, PP
• DP7049 - Labour Markets in EMU - What has Changed and What Needs to Change
  Giuseppe Bertola, IM, LE
• DP7048 - Openness, Financial Markets, and Policies: Cross-Country and Dynamic Patterns
  Giuseppe Bertola, Anna Lo Prete, IM
• DP7047 - International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions
  Salvador Barrios, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven, Gaetan Nicodeme, PP
• DP7046 - Fundamentals at Odds? The US Current Account Deficit and The Dollar
  Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, IM
• DP7045 - Luddites and the Demographic Transition
  Kevin H. O'Rourke, Ahmed Rahman, Alan M Taylor, IM
• DP7044 - Fiscal Sustainability and Demographics - Should We Save or Work More?
  Torben M. Andersen, IM
• DP7043 - Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
  Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer, DE
• DP7042 - Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants
  Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Jonathan Shaw, Barbara Sianesi, PP
• DP7041 - Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission
  Michael J. Artis, Toshihiro Okubo, IM
• DP7040 - Are Boys and Girls Affected Differently When the Household Head Leaves for Good? Evidence from School and Work Choices in Colombia
  Emla Fitzsimons, Alice Mesnard, DE
  

Week 9 November 2008

• DP7039 - Labour Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care
  Alessandra Casarico, Alessandro Sommacal, PP
• DP7038 - The Design of the University System
  Gianni De Fraja, Paola Valbonesi, PP
• DP7037 - The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
  Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, DE
• DP7036 - A Measure for Credibility: Tracking US Monetary Developments
  Maria Demertzis, Massimiliano Marcellino, Nicola Viegi, IM
• DP7035 - International Emission Permit Markets with Refunding
  Hans Gersbach, Ralph Winkler, PP
  

Week 2 November 2008

• DP7034 - The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
  Alon Cohen, Assaf Razin, IM
• DP7033 - The London Agreement and the Cost of Patenting in Europe
  Malwina Mejer, Bruno van Pottelsberghe, IO
• DP7032 - Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data
  Eric J Bartelsman, Jonathan Haskel, Ralf Martin, IM, IT
• DP7031 - Development and Growth in Mineral-Rich Countries
  Thorvaldur Gylfason, IM
• DP7030 - Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability
  Asher Blass, Saul Lach, Charles Manski, IO
• DP7029 - On the price elasticity of demand for patents
  Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Bruno van Pottelsberghe, IO
• DP7018 - Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation
  Kristian Behrens, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, DE, IT, LE
• DP6997 - Real Wage Inequality
  Enrico Moretti, LE, PP
  

Week 26 October 2008

• DP7028 - Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change
  Paola Conconi, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, IO, IT
• DP7027 - Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
  Barry Eichengreen, Katharina Steiner, FE, IM
• DP7026 - The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War
  Nancy Qian, David Yanagizawa, DE
• DP7025 - Competitive Rational Expectations Equilibria Without Apology
  Alex Kovalenkov, Xavier Vives, FE
• DP7024 - Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy
  Torsten Persson, David von Below, DE, IM, PP
• DP7023 - Information Acquisition During a Descending Auction
  Achim Wambach, IO
• DP7022 - A Theory of International Crisis Lending and IMF Conditionality
  Olivier Jeanne, Jonathan D Ostry, Jeronimo Zettelmeyer, IM
• DP7021 - Why Do Many Resource-Rich Countries Have Negative Genuine Saving? Anticipation of Better Times or Rapacious Rent Seeking
  Frederick van der Ploeg, IM
• DP7020 - Do Cultural Differences Between Contracting Parties Matter? Evidence from Syndicated Bank Loans
  Mariassunta Giannetti, Yishay Yafeh, FE
• DP7019 - Comparison of Solutions to the Incomplete Markets Model with Aggregate Uncertainty
  Wouter Den Haan, IM
• DP7017 - The Rise and Fall of Spatial Inequalities in France: a Long-Run Perspective
  Pierre-Philippe Combes, Miren Lafourcade, Jacques-François Thisse, Jean-Claude Toutain, IT
• DP6999 - Seasonality and the Effect of Advertising on Price
  David Genesove, Avi Simhon, IO
  

Week 19 October 2008

• DP7016 - Urbanization and Structural Transformation
  Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch, Stephen J. Redding, DE, IT, LE
• DP7015 - Do Energy Prices Respond to U.S. Macroeconomic News? A Test of the Hypothesis of Predetermined Energy Prices
  Lutz Kilian, Clara Vega, IM
• DP7014 - What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms
• Francesco C. Billari, Vincenzo Galasso, PP
• DP7013 - Free Flows, Limited Diversification: Explaining the Fall and Rise of Stock Market Correlations, 1890-2001
  Dennis Quinn, Hans-Joachim Voth, IM
• DP7012 - Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
  Sharon Belenzon, Mark Schankerman, IO
• DP7011 - Learning and Microlending
  Mikhail Drugov, Rocco Macchiavello, DE, FE
• DP7010 - What Drives International Financial Flows? Politics, Institutions and Other Determinants
  Elias Papaioannou, IM
• DP7009 - Path Forecast Evaluation
  Òscar Jordà, Massimiliano Marcellino, IM
• DP7008 - Forecasting Exchange Rates with a Large Bayesian VAR
  Andrea Carriero, George Kapetanios, Massimiliano Marcellino, IM
• DP7007 - A Monthly Indicator of the Euro Area GDP
  Cecilia Frale, Massimiliano Marcellino, Gian Luigi Mazzi, Tommaso Proietti, IM
• DP7003 - The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy
  Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola, Sylvain Leduc, IM
• DP7000 - Offshoring, Relocation and the Speed of Convergence in the Enlarged European Union
  Kari Alho, Ville Kaitila, Mika Widgrén, IT
  

Week 12 October 2008

• DP7006 - Fear of Floating and Pegging: A Simultaneous Choice Model of De Jure and De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes
  Jürgen von Hagen, Jizhong Zhou, IM
• DP7005 - Complementary Patents and Market Structure
  Klaus M. Schmidt, IO
• DP7004 - Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)
  Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos Karanasos, Bin Tan, PP
• DP7002 - FDI, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence
  Jaime de Melo, Artjoms Ivlevs, IT
• DP7001 - Inflation Targeting as the New Golden Standard
  Avia Spivak, Nathan Sussman, IM
• DP6998 - Can Deunionization Lead to International Outsourcing?
  Kjell Erik Lommerud, Frode Meland, Odd Rune Straume, IT, PP
  

Week 5 October 2008

• DP6996 - Capital Flow Bonanzas: An Encompassing View of the Past and Present
  Vincent Reinhart, Carmen Reinhart, IM
• DP6995 - Modelling Economic Impacts of Alternative International Climate Policy Architectures: A Quantitative and Comparative Assessment of Architectures for Agreement
  Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, Massimo Tavoni, IT
• DP6994 - Media versus Special Interests
  Alexander Dyck, David Moss, Luigi Zingales, PP
• DP6993 - Voting on Parametric Reforms of the Pay-As-You-Go Pension System
  João Luis Brasil Gondim, Georges Casamatta, PP
• DP6992 - Monetary Policy and Inflation Modeling in a More Open Economy in South Africa
  Janine Aron, John Muellbauer, IM
• DP6991 - Do Trade Costs in Goods Market Lead to Home Bias in Equities?
  Nicolas Coeurdacier, IM
• DP6990 - Optimally Combining Censored and Uncensored Datasets
  Paul J. Devereux, Gautam Tripathi, LE
• DP6989 - International Capital Flows under Dispersed Information: Theory and Evidence
  Cédric Tille, Eric van Wincoop, IM
• DP6988 - Information Gathering and the Hold-Up Problem in a Complete Contracting Framework
  Patrick W. Schmitz, IO
• DP6987 - Democratization and Growth
  Elias Papaioannou, Gregorios Siourounis, IM
• DP6986 - Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization
  Elias Papaioannou, Gregorios Siourounis, IM
• DP6985 - Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements
  Viral V. Acharya, Peter DeMarzo, Ilan Kremer, FE
• DP6984 - Imperfect Competition in the Inter-Bank Market for Liquidity as a Rationale for Central Banking
  Viral V Acharya, Denis Gromb, Tanju Yorulmazer, FE
• DP6983 - Negatively Correlated Bandits
  Nicolas Klein, Sven Rady, IO
• DP6982 - The International Diversification Puzzle is Not as Bad as You Think
  Jonathan Heathcote, Fabrizio Perri, IM
• DP6981 - Long Term Persistence
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales, DE, FE
• DP6980 - Poverty and Civil War: Revisiting the evidence
  Simeon Djankov, Marta Reynal-Querol, DE
• DP6979 - Endogenous Protection in General Equilibrium: Estimating Political Weights in the EU
  Joseph Francois, Douglas Nelson, Annette Pelkmans-Balaoing, IT
  

Week 28 September 2008

• DP6978 - The Spatial Selection of Heterogeneous Firms
  Toshihiro Okubo, Pierre M Picard, Jacques-François Thisse, IT
• DP6977 - Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms
  Andrew Ellul, Marco Pagano, Fausto Panunzi, FE
• DP6975 - The Neglected Effects of Demand Characteristics on the Sustainability of Collusion
  Andrea Gallice, IO
• DP6838 - Testing a DSGE Model of the EU Using Indirect Inference
  David Meenagh, Patrick Minford, Michael R. Wickens, IM
  

Week 21 September 2008

• DP6976 - Economic Implications of Deeper Asian Integration
  Joseph Francois, Ganeshan Wignarajan, IT
• DP6974 - Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices
  Xavier Giroud, Holger M. Mueller, FE
• DP6973 - Delayed Action and Uncertain Targets. How Much Will Climate Policy Cost?
  Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi, Massimo Tavoni, IT
• DP6972 - Political Intergenerational Risk Sharing
  Marcello D'Amato, Vincenzo Galasso, PP
• DP6971 - Assessing the Accuracy of the Aggregate Law of Motion in Models with Heterogeneous Agents
  Wouter Den Haan, IM
• DP6970 - Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight
  Emilia del Bono, John F Ermisch, Marco Francesconi, LE
• DP6969 - A Tale of Two Platforms: Dealer Intermediation in the European Sovereign Bond Market
  Peter Dunne, Harald Hau, Michael Moore, FE
  

Week 14 September 2008

• DP6968 - A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care
  Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw, PP
• DP6967 - Delayed Participation of Developing Countries to Climate Agreements: Should Action in the EU and US be Postponed?
  Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Massimo Tavoni, IT
• DP6966 - Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
  Pol Antràs, Robert Staiger, IT
• DP6965 - Organizations and Trade
  Pol Antràs, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, IO, IT
• DP6964 - Intra- and Inter-Format Competition Among Discounters and Supermarkets
  Kathleen Cleeren, Marnik G. Dekimpe, Katrijn Gielens, Frank Verboven, IO
• DP6963 - Solving the Incomplete Markets Model with Aggregate Uncertainty using Explicit Aggregation
  Wouter Den Haan, Pontus Rendahl, IM
• DP6962 - Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
  Nauro F. Campos, Francesco Giovannoni, PP
• DP6961 - On Implications of Micro Price Data for Macro Models
  Bartosz Adam Mackowiak, Frank Smets, IM
• DP6960 - Strategic Supply Function Competition with Private Information
  Xavier Vives, IO
• DP6959 - Sovereign Wealth Funds: Their Investment Strategies and Performance
  Vidhi Chhaochharia, Luc Laeven, FE
• DP6951 - The Erosion of Colonial Trade Linkages After Independence
  Keith Head, Thierry Mayer, John Ries, IT
  

Week 7 September 2008

• DP6958 - "Lending by Example": Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Banks in Emerging Markets
  Mariassunta Giannetti, Steven Ongena, FE
• DP6957 - Optimal Monetary Policy using a VAR
  Vito Polito, Michael R Wickens, IM
• DP6956 - Heterogeneous Firms, the Structure of Industry, and Trade under Oligopoly
  Eddy Bekkers, Joseph Francois, IT
• DP6955 - When is "Too Much" Inequality Not Enough? The Selection of Israeli Emigrants
  Eric D Gould, Omer Moav, LE, PP
• DP6954 - Harnessing Windfall Revenues in Developing Economies: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Optimal Tradeoffs Between Citizen Dividends, Public Infrastructure and Debt Reduction
  Frederick van der Ploeg, Anthony J. Venables, DE, IM
• DP6953 - Investment Banks as Insiders and the Market for Corporate Control
  Andriy Bodnaruk, Massimo Massa, Andrei Simonov, FE
• DP6952 - Quality Competition Versus Price Competition Goods: An Empirical Classification
  Richard Baldwin, Tadashi Ito, IT
• DP6917 - Inducement Prizes and Innovation
  Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, Tom Nicholas, IO
  

Week 31 August 2008

• DP6950 - On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties
  Richard Ridderinkhof, Mirre Stallen, Frans A.A.M. van Winden IO
• DP6949 - The Distribution of Harm in Price-Fixing Cases
  Jan Boone, Wieland Müller, IO
• DP6948 - Globalization and the Size Distribution of Multiproduct Firms
  Volker Nocke, Stephen R Yeaple, IT
• DP6947 - Central Bank Misperceptions and the Role of Money in Interest Rate Rules
  Günter Beck, Volker Wieland, IM
• DP6946 - Patent Thickets and the Market for Innovation: Evidence from Settlement of Patent Disputes
  Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman, IO
  

Week 24 August 2008

• DP6945 - Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis for Germany
  David B Audretsch, Dirk Dohse, Annekatrin Niebuhr, IO
• DP6944 - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
  Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers, DE, LE, PP
• DP6943 - Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
  Alberto F Alesina, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, DE, PP
• DP6942 - Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s
  Antoni Estevadeordal, Alan M. Taylor, IM
• DP6941 - Agglomeration and Growth: Cross-Country Evidence
  Marius Brülhart, Federica Sbergami, IT
• DP6940 - Sales and Monetary Policy
  Bernardo Guimarães, Kevin D. Sheedy, IM
  

Week 17 August 2008

• DP6939 - Buying Online: Sequential Decision Making by Shopbot Visitors
  Uwe Dulleck, Franz Hackl, Bernhard Weiss, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, IO
• DP6938 - Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
  Kurt Richard Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, IO
• DP6937 - Oil Prices, Profits, and Recessions: An Inquiry Using Terrorism as an Instrumental Variable
  Natalie Chen, Liam Graham, Andrew Oswald, IM
• DP6936 - Rhineland exit?
  A. Lans Bovenberg, Coen N. Teulings, LE
• DP6935 - Ranking Israel's Economists
  Dan Ben-David, LE
• DP6934 - Household External Finance and Consumption
  Timothy J. Besley, Neil Meads, Paolo Surico, FE
• DP6933 - Returns to Tenure or Seniority?
  Ioan Sebastian Buhai, Miguel Portela, Coen N. Teulings, Aico van Vuuren, LE
• DP6932 - Housing Bubbles
  Oscar Arce, J. David López-Salido, IM
• DP6930 - The Role of the Annuity's Value on the Decision (Not) to Annuitize: Evidence from a Large Policy Change
  Monika Bütler, Stefan Staubli, Maria Grazia Zito, PP
  

Week 3 August 2008

• DP6931 - Fiscal Conservatism in a New Democracy: 'Sophisticated' versus 'Naïve' Voters
  Paulo Arvate, George Avelino, José Tavares , IM, PP
• DP6929 - Happiness Inequality in the United States
  Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers , LE, PP PDF
• DP6928 - Dots to Boxes: Do the Size and Shape of Spatial Units Jeopardize Economic Geography Estimations?
  Anthony Briant, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Miren Lafourcade , IT PDF
• DP6927 - Control Rights over Intellectual Property: Corporate Venturing and Bankruptcy Regimes
  Sudipto Bhattacharya, Sergei Guriev , FE PDF
• DP6926 - Improved JIVE Estimators for Overidentified Linear Models with and without Heteroskedasticity
  Daniel Ackerberg, Paul J. Devereux , LE PDF
• DP6925 - 'Essential' Patents, FRAND Royalties and Technological Standards
  Mathias Dewatripont, Patrick Legros , IO PDF
  

Week 27 July 2008

• DP6924 - Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited
  Kym Anderson, Marianne Kurzweil, Will Martin, Damiano Sandri, Ernesto Valenzuela , IT
• DP6923 - Competition between Exchanges: Lessons from the Battle of the Bund
  Estelle Cantillon, Pai-Ling Yin , IO
• DP6922 - Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
  Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, Petia Topalova , DE
• DP6921 - Scale, Diversity and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe
  Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann , LE
• DP6920 - Housing Wealth isn't Wealth
  Willem H. Buiter , IM
• DP6919 - Why Does Gasoline Cost so Much? A Joint Model of the Global Crude Oil Market and the U.S. Retail Gasoline Market
  Lutz Kilian , IM
• DP6918 - Inference on Vertical Contracts between Manufacturers and Retailers Allowing for Non Linear Pricing and Resale Price Maintenance
  Céline Bonnet, Pierre Dubois, IO
  

Week 20 July 2008

• DP6916 - Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
  Gianmarco I P Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri , IT
• DP6915 - Individual Investors and Volatility
  Thierry Foucault, David Sraer, David Thesmar , FE
• DP6914 - Distorted Agricultural Incentives and Economic Development: Asia’s Experience
  Kym Anderson , IT
• DP6913 - Strategic Interactions between an Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt
  Sven Jari Stehn, David Vines , IM
• DP6912 - Statute Law or Case Law?
  Luca Anderlini, Leonardo Felli, Alessandro Riboni , IO
• DP6911 - Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance
  Oddvar Martin Kaarboe, Luigi Siciliani , IO
• DP6910 - Does Idiosyncratic Business Risk Matter?
  Claudio Michelacci, Fabiano Schivardi , FE, IM
• DP6909 - Endogenous Borders? Exploring a Natural Experiment on Border Effects
  Hans Christian Heinemeyer, Max Stephan Schulze, Nikolaus Wolf , IT
  

Week 13 July 2008

• DP6908 - Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability
  Paola Conconi, Nicolas Sahuguet, Maurizio Zanardi , IT, PP
• DP6907 - Optimal Monetary Policy in an Operational Medium-Sized DSGE Model
  Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé, Lars E O Svensson , IM
• DP6906 - Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their Implications for Romania
  Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Yue Li , IT
• DP6905 - Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products
  Rachel Griffith, Lars Nesheim , IO
• DP6904 - Manufacturing restructuring and the role of Real exchange rate shocks: A firm level analysis
  Karolina Ekholm, Andreas Moxnes, Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe , IT
• DP6903 - The Composition of Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate
  Vahagn A. Galstyan, Philip R. Lane , IM
• DP6902 - International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamics
  Author(s): Nicolas Coeurdacier, Robert Kollmann, Philippe Martin , IM
• DP6901 - Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope
  Harald Hau, Hélène Rey , FE, IM
  

Week 6 July 2008

• DP6900 - Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity
  Dietmar Harhoff, Georg von Graevenitz, Stefan Wagner , IO
• DP6899 - Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
  Martin Kahanec, Klaus F Zimmermann , LE
• DP6898 - Do Interest Groups Affect US Immigration Policy?
  Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra , IT, LE
• DP6897 - A Comparison of Debt and Primary-deficit Constraints
  Roel Beetsma, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro, Andreas Schabert , IM
• DP6896 - Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999
  Marco Daniele Paserman , LE
• DP6895 - The Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Johan N.M. Lagerlöf, Andrew J Seltzer , PP
  

Week 29 June 2008

• DP6894 - A Political Economy Model of Merger Policy in International Markets
  Massimo Motta, Michele Ruta , IO
• DP6893 - Time-Varying Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry
  Jacques Olivier, Anthony Tay , FE
• DP6892 - Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage
  Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Hervé Le Bihan , IM, LE
• DP6891 - Performance Gender-Gap: Does Competition Matter?
  Evren Örs, Frédéric Palomino, Eloïc Peyrache , LE
• DP6890 - Executive Compensation and Stock Options: An Inconvenient Truth
  Jean-Pierre Danthine, John B Donaldson , FE, IM
• DP6889 - Optimal Central Bank Transparency
  Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Lex Hoogduin, Carin A B van der Cruijsen , IM
• DP6888 - Governing the Governors: A Clinical Study of Central Banks
  Lars Frisell, Kasper F. Roszbach, Giancarlo Spagnolo , FE, IM
• DP6887 - The Long or Short of it: Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets
  Philip R. Lane, Jay C Shambaugh , IM
• DP6886 - Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
  Michael Lechner , LE
• DP6885 - Finance and Growth: When Does Credit Really Matter?
  Fabrizio Coricelli, Isabelle Roland , IM
• DP6884 - Foreign Influence and Welfare
  Pol Antràs, Gerard Padró i Miquel , IT, PP
  

Week 22 June 2008

• DP6883 On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations: Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence
  Sara de la Rica, Juan J. Dolado, Cecilia García-Peñalosa , LE
• DP6882 International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
  David T Coe, Elhanan Helpman, Alexander Hoffmaister , IT
• DP6881 Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India
  Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova , IT
• DP6880 Quality Assurance and the Home Market Effect
  Ai Ting Goh, Tomasz Michalski , IT
• DP6879 Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination
  Fredrik Heyman, Helena Svaleryd, Jonas Vlachos , IT, LE
• DP6878 Arbitrage in the Foreign Exchange Market: Turning on the Microscope
  Qaisar Farooq Akram, Dagfinn Rime, Lucio Sarno , FE, IM
• DP6877 The Secondary Market for Hedge Funds and the Closed-Hedge Fund Premium
  Tarun Ramadorai , FE
• DP6876 Parental Sex Selection and Gender Balance
  Venkataraman Bhaskar, DE, LE
• DP6875 Defying the 'Juncker Curse’: Can Reformist Governments Be Re-elected?
  Pietro Biroli, Marco Buti, Alessandro Antonio Turrini, Paul Van Den Noord , IM
• DP6874 Big-Think Regionalism: a Critical Survey
  Richard Baldwin , IT
• DP6873 Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?
  A Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski, Sérgio Rebelo , IM
• DP6872 Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
  Mary Amiti, Donald R Davis, IT
• DP6863 European Economic Growth, 1950-2005: An Overview
  Nicholas Crafts, Gianni Toniolo , IM
• DP6857 Dynamic Moral Hazard and Project Completion
  Robin Mason, Juuso Välimäki , IO
• DP6855 Network Structure and Strategic Investments: An Experimental Analysis
  Stephanie Rosenkranz, Utz Weitzel , IO
  

Week 15 June 2008

• DP6871 Domestic Rivalry and Export Performance: Theory and Evidence from International Airline Markets
  Joseph A Clougherty, Anming Zhang, IO, IT
• DP6870 Relative Factor Endowments and International Portfolio Choice
  Alejandro Cuñat, Christian Fons-Rosen , IT
• DP6869 The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading Reserve Currency?
  Barry Eichengreen, Marc Flandreau , IM
• DP6868 Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility: How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?
  Barry Eichengreen, IM
• DP6867 The Impact of Horizontal Mergers on Rivals: Gains to Being Left Outside a Merger
  Joseph A Clougherty, Tomaso Duso, IO
• DP6866 Tariff-Mediated Network Externalities: Is Regulatory Intervention Any Good?
  Steffen Hoernig , IO
• DP6865 Sustaining Collusion in Growing Markets
  Helder Vasconcelos , IO
• DP6864 Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital and Poverty
  Omer Moav, Zvika Neeman , DE, IM, PP
• DP6862 The Procyclical Effects of Basel II
  Rafael Repullo, Javier Suarez , FE, IM
• DP6861 Keeping Both Eyes Wide Open: The Life of a Competition Authority Among Sectoral Regulators
  Steffen Hoernig, Tore Nilssen, Pedro Luis Pita Barros , IO
• DP6860 Estimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports
  Ram C. Acharya, Wolfgang Keller , IT
• DP6859 In Search of a Theory of Debt Management
  Elisa Faraglia, Albert Marcet, Andrew Scott , IM
• DP6858 Spatial Concentration and Firm-Level Productivity in France
  Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer, Florian Mayneris , IT
• DP6856 Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
  Gregory Clark, Kevin H O''Rourke, Alan M Taylor, IT

Week 8 June 2008

• DP6854 Taboos: Considering the Unthinkable
  Chaim Fershtman, Uri Gneezy, Moshe Hoffman, IO
• DP6853 Equity Aversion
  Chaim Fershtman, Uri Gneezy, John List, IO
• DP6852 Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
  Thomas J Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, LE
• DP6851 Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data
  Alessandra Casella, Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman, Jie Shen, PP
• DP6850 Can We Measure Hospital Quality from Physicians' Choices?
  Matilde Pinto Machado, Ricardo Mora, Antonio Romero-Medina, IO
• DP6849 Testing a Model of the UK by the Method of Indirect Inference
  David Meenagh, Patrick Minford, Konstantinos Theodoridis, IM
• DP6848 The Value of European Patents
  Alfonso Gambardella, Dietmar Harhoff, Bart Verspagen, IO
• DP6847 Who is Against a Common Market?
  Giovanni Facchini, Cecilia Testa, IT
• DP6846 The Distribution of Firm Start-Up Size Across Geographic Space
  David B. Audretsch, Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, IO
  

Week 1 June 2008

• DP6845 Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002
  Thomas J. Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, Mark E. Schaffer , IO, LE
• DP6844 The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
  Thomas J. Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, LE
• DP6843 Tax Reform, Delocation and Heterogeneous Firms: Base Widening and Rate Lowering Reforms
  Richard Baldwin, Toshihiro Okubo, IT
• DP6842 How Differences in Property Taxes within Cities Affect Urban Sprawl?
  Yan Song, Yves Zenou, IT, PP
• DP6841 Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory
  Stephen L. Ross, Yves Zenou, IT, LE
• DP6840 Crime and Ethnicity in London
  Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou, PP
• DP6839 Vicious and Virtuous Circles - The Political Economy of Unemployment in Interwar UK and USA
  Kent Matthews, Patrick Minford, Ruthira Naraidoo, IM
  

Week 25 May 2008

• DP6837 Interviews and Adverse Selection
  Jens Josephson, Joel Shapiro, LE
• DP6836 Patterns of Restructuring: The U.S. Class 1 Railroads from 1984 to 2004
  Guido Friebel, Gerard McCullough, Laura Padilla Angulo, IO
• DP6835 From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and evidence
  Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda , IT
• DP6834 Can the Facts of UK Inflation Persistence be Explained by Nominal Rigidity?
  David Meenagh, Patrick Minford, Eric Nowell, Prakriti Sofat, Naveen Srinivasan, IM
• DP6833 From Baghdad to London: The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Europe and the Arab World, 800-1800
  Maarten Bosker, Eltjo Buringh, Jan Luiten van Zanden, DE
  

Week 18 May 2008

• DP6832 Does Speed Signal Ability? The Impact of Grade Repetitions on Employment and Wages
  Thomas Brodaty, Robert J. Gary-Bobo, Ana Prieto, LE, PP
• DP6831 Genuine Saving and the Voracity Effect
  Frederick van der Ploeg , IM
• DP6830 Oil and the Macroeconomy: A Structural VAR Analysis with Sign Restrictions
  Francesco Lippi, Andrea Nobili , IM
• DP6829 Asymmetric Cartels - a Theory of Ring Leaders
  Mattias Ganslandt, Lars Persson, Helder Vasconcelos , IO
• DP6828 Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
  Gilles Saint-Paul , IM, LE
• DP6827 Can Central Banks Go Broke?
  Willem H Buiter , IM
  

Week 11 May 2008

• DP6826 Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty in an Estimated Model with Labour Market Frictions
  Luca Sala, Ulf Söderström, Antonella Trigari, IM
• DP6825 Investing for the Old Age: Pensions, Children and Savings
  Vincenzo Galasso, Roberta Gatti, Paola Profeta, PP
• DP6824 Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development
  Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, IM
• DP6823 Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
  Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson, IO
• DP6822 Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect
  Astrid Hopfensitz, Michal Krawczyk, Frans A.A.M. van Winden, IO
• DP6821 Filing Strategies and Patent Value
  Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Nicolas van Zeebroeck, IO
  

Week 4 May 2008

• DP6820 The Economic Impact of European Integration
  Barry Eichengreen, Andrea Boltho, IM
• DP6819 The Effect of Trade with Low-Income Countries on U.S. Industry
  Raphael Auer, Andreas M. Fischer, IM
• DP6818 People I Know: Job Search and Social Networks
  Federico Cingano, Alfonso Rosolia, LE
• DP6817 Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
  Robert J Gordon, Ian Dew-Becker, IM
• DP6816 Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Karin Monstad, Carol Propper, Kjell G. Salvanes, PP
  

Week 27 April 2008

• DP6815 Other-Regarding Preferences in General Equilibrium
  Martin Dufwenberg, Paul Heidhues, Georg Kirchsteiger, Frank Riedel, Joel Sobel, IO
• DP6814 Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination when Bonds Provide Transactions Services
  Matthew B. Canzoneri, Robert Cumby, Behzad Diba, J. David López-Salido, IM
• DP6813 Monetary Aggregates and Liquidity in a Neo-Wicksellian Framework
  Matthew B. Canzoneri, Robert Cumby, Behzad Diba, J. David López-Salido, IM
• DP6812 Money and the Natural Rate of Interest: Structural Estimates for the United States and the Euro Area
  Javier Andrés, J. David López-Salido, Edward Nelson, IM
• DP6811 Black Man's Burden: Measured Philanthropy in the British Empire, 1880-1913
  Olivier Accominotti, Marc Flandreau, Riad Rezzik, Frédéric Zumer, IM
• DP6810 Inflation Dynamics with Search Frictions: A Structural Econometric Analysis
  Michael Krause, J. David López-Salido, Thomas Lubik, IM
• DP6809 The Term Structure of Inflation Expectations
  Mikhail Chernov, Philippe Mueller, FE
• DP6808 On the Optimal Production Capacity for Influenza Vaccine
  Rikard Forslid, Mathias Herzing, IO
• DP6807 Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work?
  Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Roider, Patrick W. Schmitz, IO, LE

Week 20 April 2008

• DP6806 Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions
  Renata Leite Barbosa, Nauro F. Campos, PP
• DP6805 A Theory of Regular Markov Perfect Equilibria in Dynamic Stochastic Games: Genericity, Stability, and Purification
  Ulrich Doraszelski, Juan Escobar, IO
• DP6804 Differentiated Products and Evasion of Import Tariffs
  Gaia Narciso, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, IT
• DP6803 Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting Among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?
  Juan José Dolado, , Florentino Felgueroso, LE
• DP6802 Aftermarket Power and Basic Market Competition
  Luís M. B. Cabral, IO
• DP6801 Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets: a Differential-Game Approach
  Kurt Richard Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani. Odd Rune Straume, IO
• DP6800 Labour Market Asymmetries in a Monetary Union
  Torben M. Andersen, Martin Seneca, IM
• DP6799 Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment
  Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Tommaso Valletti, PP
• DP6798 Market Potential and Development
  Thierry Mayer, IT
• DP6793 The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
  David A. Jaeger, Esteban F. Klor, Sami Miaari, Marco Daniele Paserman, PP

Week 13 April 2008

• DP6797 International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
  Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann, LE
• DP6796 Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885 -1933
  Nikolaus Wolf, IT
• DP6795 Long Run and Short Run Dynamics in Italian Manufacturing Labour Productivity
  Tatiana Cesaroni, Carmine Pappalardo, IM
• DP6794 Insiders-Outsiders, Transparency and the Value of the Ticker
  Giovanni Cespa, Thierry Foucault, FE
• DP6792 Israel 1983: A Bout of Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic
  Thomas J. Sargent, Joseph Zeira, IM
• DP6791 How much structure in empirical models?
  Fabio Canova, IM
• DP6790 Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations
  Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, Maurizio Zanardi, IT
• DP6789 Microstructure of Collaboration: The 'Social Network' of Open Source Software
  Chaim Fershtman, Neil Gandal, IO
• DP6788 Lumpy Capacity Investment and Disinvestment Dynamics
  David Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski, Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, Mark Satterthwaite, IO
• DP6787 Links and Architecture in Village Networks
  Pramila Krishnan, Emanuela Sciubba, DE
• DP6786 Economic Linkages Across Space
  Henry G. Overman, Patricia Rice, Anthony J. Venables, IT
• DP6785 Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
  Alberto Chong, Suzanne Duryea, Eliana La Ferrara, DE, PP
• DP6784 A Caseworker Like Me - Does the Similarity between unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
  Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner, LE
• DP6783 Gasoline prices jump up on Mondays: An outcome of aggressive competition?
  Øystein Foros, Frode Steen, IO
• DP6782 Housing, Credit and Consumer Expenditure
  John Muellbauer, IM
• DP6781 Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
  Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani, DE
• DP6780 Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
  Silja Göhlmann, Till Requate, Christoph M Schmidt, Harald Tauchmann, PP
• DP6779 Asset Prices, Debt Constraints and Inefficiency
  Gaetano Bloise, Pietro Reichlin, IM

Week 6 April 2008

• DP6778 Do Benevolent Aspects Have Room in Explaining EU Budget Receipts?
  Heikki Kauppi, Mika Widgrén, IT
• DP6777 Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care
  Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado, Pierre Pestieau, PP
• DP6776 Habit Formation and Labour Supply
  Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado, Pierre Pestieau, PP
• DP6775 Forced Saving, Redistribution and Nonlinear Social Security Schemes
  Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado, Pierre Pestieau, PP
• DP6774 Secondary Issues and Party Politics: An Application to Environmental Policy
  Vincent Anesi, Philippe De Donder, PP
• DP6773 Ensuring Financial Stability: Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices
  Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche, Stefan Gerlach, IM
• DP6772 Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
  Eric V. Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova, IT
• DP6771 Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?
  Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt, DE, IM, PP
• DP6770 Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests
  Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela, Xianwen Shi, IO
• DP6769 Sequential Two-Prize Contests
  Aner Sela, IO
• DP6768 Effective Political Contests
  Todd Kaplan, Aner Sela, IO
• DP6759 Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets
  Wolfgang Keller, Carol Hua Shiue, DE, IM, IT

Week 30 March 2008

• DP6767 Evolving International Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from a Time-varying Dynamic Factor Model
  Haroon Mumtaz, Paolo Surico, IM
• DP6766 Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings
  Francesco Giavazzi, Michael McMahon, IM
• DP6765 Labour Markets and Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment
  Olivier J. Blanchard, Jordi Galí, IM
• DP6764 Second-Best Institutions
  Dani Rodrik, DE, PP
• DP6763 Contractual Democracy
  Hans Gersbach, PP
• DP6762 Disentangling Market Access Effects for ASEAN Members Under an ASEAN-EU FTA
  Céline Carrère, Jaime de Melo, Bolormaa Tumurchudur, IT
• DP6761 Monetary Policy Inclinations
  Hans Gersbach, Volker Hahn, IM
• DP6760 The Challenge of Reducing International Trade and Migration Barriers
  Kym Anderson, Alan Winters, IT
• DP6758 Did Fiscal Policy Makers Know What They Were Doing? Reassessing Fiscal Policy with Real Time Data
  Kerstin Bernoth, Andrew Hughes Hallett, John Lewis, IM
• DP6746 Short-term Forecasts of Euro Area GDP Growth
  Elena Angelini, Gonzalo Camba-Mendez, Domenico Giannone, Lucrezia Reichlin, Gerhard Rünstler, IM
  

Week 23 March 2008

• DP6757 The Lifecycle of Regions
  David B Audretsch, Oliver Falck, Maryann P. Feldman, Stephan Heblich, IO
• DP6756 On the Impact of Forward Contract Obligations in Multi-Unit Auctions
  Maria-Angeles de Frutos, Natalia Fabra, IO
• DP6755 Determinants of Expropriation in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data
  Sergei Guriev, Anton Kolotilin, Konstantin Sonin, DE, PP
• DP6754 Ideology
  Roland Bénabou, DE, IM, IO, PP
• DP6753 Does FOMC News Increase Global FX Trading?
  Andreas M. Fischer, Angelo Ranaldo, IM
• DP6752 The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?
  Timothy J. Hatton, LE
• DP6751 Inequality in Land Ownership, the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions and the Great Divergence
  Oded Galor, Omer Moav, Dietrich Vollrath, IM
• DP6750 Capital Markets, Information Aggregation and Inequality: Theory and Experimental Evidence
  Hans Peter Grüner, FE, PP
• DP6749 Learning, Endogenous Indexation and Disinflation in the New-Keynesian Model
  Volker Wieland, IM
• DP6748 Economic Projections and Rules-of-Thumb for Monetary Policy
  Athanasios Orphanides, Volker Wieland, IM

Week 16 March 2008

• DP6745 International Competitiveness, Job Creation and Job Destruction - An Establishment Level Study of German Job Flows
  Christoph Moser, Dieter M Urban, Beatrice Weder di Mauro , IM
• DP6744 Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis
  Irina Khovanskaya, Konstantin Sonin, Maria Yudkevich, PP
• DP6743 Offshoring and Immigrant Employment: Firm-level Theory and Evidence
  Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Giuseppe Bertola, Alessandro Sembenelli, IT
• DP6742 Determinants of the Block Premium and of Private Benefits of Control
  Rui Albuquerque, Enrique Schroth, FE
• DP6741 The Alliance Formation Puzzle and Capacity Constraints
  Kai A Konrad, Dan Kovenock, PP
• DP6740 Competition for FDI with Vintage Investment and Agglomeration Advantages
  Kai A Konrad, Dan Kovenock, PP
• DP6739 Investment Shocks and Business Cycles
  Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, Andrea Tambalotti , IM
  

Week 9 March 2008

• DP6738 Dispersion of Beliefs in the Foreign Exchange Market
  Ron Jongen, Willem F. C. Verschoor, Christian C. Wolff, Remco C.J. Zwinkels, FE, IM
• DP6737 Investment and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark
  Janice Eberly, Sérgio Rebelo, Nicolas Vincent, IM
• DP6736 The Labour Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
  Francesco D'Amuri, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri, IT
• DP6735 Norms and Institution Formation
  Patrick Francois, DE, PP
• DP6734 Corporate Hierarchies and the Size of Nations: Theory and Evidence
  Dalia Marin, Thierry Verdier, IO, IT
• DP6733 A User's Guide to Solving Dynamic Stochastic Games Using the Homotopy Method RON
  N. Borkovsky, Ulrich Doraszelski, Yaroslav Kryukov, IO
• DP6732 Together but Apart: ICT and Productivity Growth in Israel
  Saul Lach, Gil Shiff, Manuel Trajtenberg, IO
• DP6731 Outsourcing and Technological Innovations: A Firm-Level Analysis
  Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach, Nachum Sicherman, IO, LE
• DP6721 Home Bias at the Fund Level
  Harald Hau, Hélène Rey, FE, IM
  

Week 2 March 2008

• DP6730 A Model of Vertical Oligopolistic Competition
  Markus Reisinger, Monika Schnitzer, IO
• DP6729 Illusory Revenues: Tariffs in Resource-Rich and Aid-Rich Economies
  Paul Collier, Anthony J. Venables, DE, IT
• DP6728 Estimating Agglomeration Economies with History, Geology, and Worker Effects
  Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux, IT
• DP6727 Are Capital Controls in the Foreign Exchange Market Effective?
  Stefan Straetmans, Roald Versteeg, Christian C. Wolff, FE, IM
• DP6726 The Role of Contracting Schemes for Assessing the Welfare Costs of Nominal Rigidities
  Matthias Paustian, Jürgen von Hagen, IM
• DP6725 Repeated Moral Hazard, Limited Liability, and Renegotiation
  Susanne Ohlendorf, Patrick W. Schmitz, IO
• DP6724 Heterogeneous Responses of Firms to Trade Protection
  Jozef Konings, Hylke Vandenbussche, IT
• DP6723 The Optimal Level of International Reserves For Emerging Market Countries: A New Formula and Some Applications
  Olivier Jeanne, Romain Rancière, IM
• DP6722 The Role of Labour Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
  Ian Dew-Becker, Robert J Gordon, IM
  

Week 24 February 2008

• DP6720 The Effects of Technology Shocks on Hours and Output: A Robustness Analysis
• Fabio Canova, J. David López-Salido, Claudio Michelacci, IM
• DP6719 Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
  Emilia del Bono, Andrea Weber, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, LE
• DP6718 Self-fulfilling and Self-enforcing Debt Crises
  Daniel Cohen, Sébastien Villemot, IM
• DP6717 Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries
  Dan Ben-David, IM, IT, LE, PP
• DP6716 A Policy Insight into the R&D-Patent Relationship
  Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, IO
• DP6715 Growth and Risk at the Industry Level: the Real Effects of Financial Liberalization
  Andrei A. Levchenko, Romain Rancière, Mathias Thoenig, IM
• DP6714 Why so Glum? The Meese-Rogoff Methodology Meets the Stock Market
  Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose, FE, IM
• DP6702 Taxation, Aggregates and the Household
  Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz, Gustavo Ventura, IM, PP
• DP6686 The Intranational Business Cycle: Evidence from Japan
  Michael J. Artis, Toshihiro Okubo, IM

Week 17 February 2008

• DP6713 Supermarkets and Planning Regulation
  Rachel Griffith, Heike Harmgart , IO
• DP6712 A Modern Reconsideration of the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas
  Giancarlo Corsetti , IM
• DP6711 Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial
  John Micklewright, Gyula Nagy , LE
• DP6710 Evidence on the Insurance Effect of Marginal Income Taxes
  Charles Grant, Christos Koulovatianos, Alexander Michaelides, Mario Padula , IM
• DP6709 Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities
  Martin Eichenbaum, Nir Jaimovich, Sérgio Rebelo , IM
• DP6708 Factor-MIDAS for now- and forecasting with ragged-edge data: A model comparison for German GDP
  Massimiliano Marcellino, Christian Schumacher , IM
• DP6707 Factor-augmented Error Correction Models
  Anindya Banerjee, Massimiliano Marcellino , IM
• DP6706 Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables Using Diffusion Indexes in Short Samples with Structural Change
  Anindya Banerjee, Massimiliano Marcellino, Igor Masten , IM
• DP6705 International Capital Flows
  Cédric Tille, Eric van Wincoop , IM
• DP6704 Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar
  Linda S Goldberg, Cédric Tille , IM
• DP6703 Love and Taxes - and Matching Institutions
  Kai A Konrad, Kjell Erik Lommerud , PP
• DP6701 Consumer Confidence and Elections
  Gikas A Hardouvelis, Dimitrios D Thomakos , IM, PP
  

Week 10 February 2008

• DP6700 Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment
  Selim Elekdag, Rene Lalonde, Doug Laxton, Dirk Muir, Paolo Pesenti, IM
• DP6699 Efficiency Gain from Ownership Deregulation: Estimates for the Radio Industry
  Catherine O'Gorman, Howard Smith, IO
• DP6698 Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth
  Karen Fisher-Vanden, Karin S. Thorburn, FE
• DP6697 Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-taking
  Viral V Acharya, Yakov Amihud, Lubomir P. Litov, FE
• DP6696 Debt Stabilisation Bias and the Taylor Principle: Optimal Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Government Debt and Inflation Persistence
  Sven Jari Stehn, David Vines, IM
• DP6695 One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation
  Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira, PP
• DP6694 Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns
  Robin Greenwood, Dimitri Vayanos, FE
• DP6693 Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and International Reserves
  Maurice Obstfeld, Jay C Shambaugh, Alan M. Taylor, IM
• DP6692 Fiscal Adjustment to Cyclical Developments in the OECD: An Empirical Analysis Based on Real-Time Data
  Roel Beetsma, Massimo Giuliodori, IM
• DP6691 Rain and the Democratic Window of Opportunity
  Markus Brückner, Antonio Ciccone, IM
• DP6690 Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
  Nauro F Campos, Yuko Kinoshita, PP
• DP6689 Upcoding and Optimal Auditing in Health Care (or The economics of DRG creep)
  Michael Kuhn, Luigi Siciliani , IO
• DP6688 How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children; Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman, LE
• DP6687 Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects
  Luís M. B. Cabral, IO
• DP6643 Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labour Markets on Hospital Performance
  Emma Hall, Carol Propper, John Van Reenen, PP
  

Week 3 February 2008

• DP6685 Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe's Exit from Gold, January 1928- December 1936
  Nikolaus Wolf, IM
• DP6684 A Note on The Drivers of R&D Intensity
  Azèle Mathieu, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, IO
• DP6683 Credit Booms and Lending Standards: Evidence From The Subprime Mortgage Market
  Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Deniz Igan, Luc Laeven, FE
• DP6682 Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
  Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna, Stephen Ryan, DE
• DP6681 The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment
  Barbara Petrongolo, Christopher Pissarides, LE
• DP6680 Wealth inequality and household structure: US vs. Spain
  Olympia Bover, FE
• DP6679 Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
  Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart, LE
• DP6678 Trading Population for Productivity: Theory and Evidence
  Oded Galor, Andrew Mountford, IT
• DP6677 Information Acquisition and Transparency in Committees
  Hans Gersbach, Volker Hahn, PP
• DP6676 Does access to credit improve productivity? Evidence from Bulgarian firms
  Roberta Gatti, Inessa Love, PP
• DP6675 Immigrant Selection in The OECD
  Michèle Belot, Timothy J. Hatton, LE
• DP6674 Incomplete Cost Pass-Through Under Deep Habits
  Morten O. Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe, IM
• DP6673 The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated U.S. Tax Policy Shocks: Theory and Empirical Evidence
  Karel Mertens, Morten O. Ravn, IM
• DP6672 Widening and Deepening: Reforming the European Union
  Erik Berglöf, Mike Burkart, Guido Friebel, Elena Paltseva, DE
• DP6671 Interest Group Politics in a Federation
  Sergei Guriev, Evgeny Yakovlev, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, DE, PP
  

Week 27 January 2008

• DP6670 Incentives Versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
  Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek, Joep Sonnemans, Bas van der Klaauw, LE
• DP6669 Does Competition Reduce the Risk of Bank Failure?
  David Martinez-Miera, Rafael Repullo, FE, IO
• DP6668 Procrastination and Impatience
  Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales, FE
• DP6667 More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan
  Ming-Jen Lin, Jin-Tan Liu, Nancy Qian, DE
• DP6666 The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
  Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, LE
• DP6665 Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track
  Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F Zimmermann, LE
• DP6664 Advance-Purchase Discounts as a Price Discrimination Device
  Volker Nocke, Martin Peitz, IO
• DP6663 Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies
  Pascal Courty, Mario Pagliero, IO
• DP6662 Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks?
  Pascal Courty, Mario Pagliero, IO
• DP6661 Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
  Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac, DE
• DP6660 Varieties and the Transfer Problem: the Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment
  Giancarlo Corsetti, Philippe Martin, Paolo Pesenti, IM
• DP6659 Civil Wars and International Trade
  Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer, Mathias Thoenig, IT
• DP6658 Creditor Protection, Contagion, and Stock Market Price Volatility
  Galina B Hale, Assaf Razin, Hui Tong, IM
• DP6657 Social Capital as Good Culture
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales, DE, IM
• DP6650 Monetary Factors and Inflation in Japan
  Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche, Stefan Gerlach, Toshitaka Sekine, IM
• DP6625 The Resistible Decline of European Science
  Luc Bauwens, Giordano Mion, Jacques-François Thisse, PP
  

Week 20 January 2008

• DP6656 Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
  Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F Zimmermann, LE
• DP6655 Where Did All The Borrowing Go? A Forensic Analysis of the U.S. External Position
  Philip R. Lane, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, IM
• DP6654 Should the Euro Area be Run as a Closed Economy?
  Carlo A. Favero, Francesco Giavazzi, IM
• DP6653 Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures Under Asymmetric Information About Infection Risk.
  Alice Mesnard, Paul Seabright, DE
• DP6652 Banking Permits: Economic Efficiency and Distributional Effects
  Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Emanuele Massetti, IT
• DP6651 Migration and The Equilibrium Prevalence of Infectious Diseases
  Alice Mesnard, Paul Seabright, DE
• DP6649 How Does Liquidity Affect Government Bond Yields?
  Carlo A. Favero, Marco Pagano, Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, FE
• DP6648 Higher Order Expectations in Asset Pricing
  Philippe Bacchetta, Eric van Wincoop, FE, IM
• DP6647 The Role of Portfolio Constraints in the International Propagation of Shocks
  Anna Pavlova, Roberto Rigobon, FE, IM
• DP6646 Tax-Adjusted Discount Rates with Investor Taxes and Risky Debt
  Ian Cooper, Kjell G Nyborg, FE
• DP6645 Rhineland Exit?
  A. Lans Bovenberg, Coen N. Teulings, LE, PP
• DP6644 Strikes as the 'Tip of the Iceberg' in a Theory of Firm-Union Cooperation
  Robert J. Gary-Bobo, Touria Jaaidane, IO, LE
  

Week 13 January 2008

• DP6642 Sui Generis EMU
  Barry Eichengreen, IM
• DP6641 Robust Learning Stability with Operational Monetary Policy Rules
  George W Evans, Seppo Honkapohja, IM
• DP6640 Expectations, Learning and Monetary Policy: An Overview of Recent Rersearch
  George W Evans, Seppo Honkapohja, IM
• DP6639 Economic, Political, and Institutional Prerequisites for Monetary Union Among the Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council
  Willem H Buiter, IM
• DP6638 Exchange Rates and Fundamentals: Footloose or Evolving Relationship?
  Lucio Sarno, Giorgio Valente, IM
• DP6637 Entry Barriers in Retail Trade
  Fabiano Schivardi, Eliana Viviano, IO
• DP6636 R&D and Productivity: Estimating Production Functions when Productivity is Endogenous
  Ulrich Doraszelski, Jordi Jaumandreu, IO
• DP6635 Does Interbank Borrowing Reduce Bank Risk?
  Valeriya Dinger, Jürgen von Hagen, IM
• DP6634 From Cities to Productivity and Growth in Developing Countries
  Gilles Duranton, IT
• DP6633 Urban Growth and Transportation
  Gilles Duranton, Matthew A Turner, IT
• DP6632 On the Sources of the Great Moderation
  Jordi Galí, Luca Gambetti, IM
• DP6631 The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks: Why are the 2000s so Different from the 1970s?
  Olivier J Blanchard, Jordi Galí, IM
• DP6630 Moral Hazard, Collateral and Liquidity
  Viral V Acharya, S Viswanathan, FE
• DP6629 Unravelling Secularization: an International Study
  Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, LE
• DP6624 Consumer Networks and Firm Reputation: A First Experimental Investigation
  Steffen Huck, Gabriele Lünser, Jean-Robert Tyran, IO
  

Week 6 January 2008

• DP6628 The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
  Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan, Yishay D Maoz, IM, PP
• DP6627 Corporate Governance Externalities
  Viral V Acharya, Paolo Volpin, FE
• DP6626 Investment Incentives and Auction Design in Electricity Markets
  Maria-Angeles de Frutos, Natalia Fabra, Nils-Henrik M Von der Fehr, IO
• DP6623 Learning and Smooth Stopping
  Robin Mason, Juuso Välimäki, IO, LE
• DP6596 Lessons from the 2007 Financial Crisis
  Willem H Buiter, IM