| DP6663 | Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies
Author(s): Pascal Courty, Mario Pagliero
Published January 2007 |
| DP6622 | More Insiders, More Insider Trading: Evidence from Private Equity Buyouts
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Tim Johnson
Published December 2007 |
| DP6621 | Punishment Without Crime? Prison as a Worker-Discipline Device
Author(s): Marcus Miller, Jennifer C Smith
Published December 2007 |
| DP6620 | Constrained Monopoly Pricing with Random Participation
Author(s): Gabriel Basaluzzo, Eugenio J Miravete
Published December 2007 |
| DP6619 | Liquidity Risk and Correlation Risk: A Clinical Study of the General Motors and Ford Downgrade of May 2005
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Stephen M Schaefer, Yili Zhang
Published December 2007 |
| DP6618 | Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies
Author(s): Ana Rute Cardoso, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Published December 2007 |
| DP6617 | Declining Home Bias and the Increase in International Risk Sharing: Lessons from European Integration
Author(s): Michael J Artis, Mathias Hoffmann
Published December 2007 |
| DP6616 | Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment In the Health-Care Sector
Author(s): Shoshana Neuman, Einat Neuman
Published December 2007 |
| DP6615 | Optimal Taxation with Joint Production of Agriculture and Rural Amenities
Author(s): Georges Casamatta, Gordon Rausser, Leo K Simon
Published December 2007 |
| DP6614 | What Makes a Successful Export?
Author(s): Holger Görg, Richard Kneller, Balázs Muraközy
Published December 2007 |
| DP6613 | What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
Author(s): Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Published December 2007 |
| DP6612 | Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?
Author(s): Shoshana Neuman, Einat Neuman
Published December 2007 |
| DP6611 | The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: A Reconstruction of Spain's Fiscal Position, 1560-1598
Author(s): Mauricio Drelichman, Hans-Joachim Voth
Published December 2007 |
| DP6610 | Deregulation of Business
Author(s): Evgeny Yakovlev, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Published December 2007 |
| DP6609 | Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration
Author(s): Ana Rute Cardoso, Shoshana Neuman, Adrian Ziderman
Published December 2007 |
| DP6608 | Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences for a Health-Care Service
Author(s): Shoshana Neuman, Einat Neuman
Published December 2007 |
| DP6607 | A Simple Model of The Juggernaut Effect of Trade Liberalisation
Author(s): Richard Baldwin, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
Published December 2007 |
| DP6606 | Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?
Author(s): Marius Brülhart, Mario Jametti, Kurt Schmidheiny
Published December 2007 |
| DP6605 | Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Author(s): Christian Keuschnigg, Evelyn Ribi
Published December 2007 |
| DP6604 | Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain
Author(s): Samuel Bentolila, Juan J. Dolado, Juan F Jimeno
Published December 2007 |
| DP6603 | Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries
Author(s): Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, Timothy Frye, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Published December 2007 |
| DP6602 | Private School Quality in Italy
Author(s): Giuseppe Bertola, Daniele Checchi, Veruska Oppedisano
Published December 2007 |
| DP6601 | Umbrella Branding and External Certification
Author(s): Hendrik Hakenes, Martin Peitz
Published December 2007 |
| DP6600 | Explaining The Great Moderation: It Is Not The Shocks
Author(s): Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Lucrezia Reichlin
Published December 2007 |
| DP6599 | Are Trade Blocs Building or Stumbling Blocks? New Evidence
Author(s): Richard Baldwin, Elena Seghezza
Published December 2007 |
| DP6598 | An Economic Evaluation of Empirical Exchange Rate Models
Author(s): Pasquale Della Corte, Lucio Sarno, Ilias Tsiakas
Published December 2007 |
| DP6597 | Informality among Formal Firms: Firm-level, Cross-country Evidence on Tax Compliance and Access to Credit
Author(s): Roberta Gatti, Maddalena Honorati
Published December 2007 |
| DP6596 | Lessons from the 2007 Financial Crisis
Author(s): Willem H. Buiter
Published December 2007 |
| DP6595 | Nominal Debt as a Burden on Monetary Policy
Author(s): Javier Díaz-Giménez, Giorgia Giovannetti, Ramon Marimon, Pedro Teles
Published December 2007 |
| DP6594 | (Un)Predictability and Macroeconomic Stability
Author(s): Antonello D'Agostino, Domenico Giannone, Paolo Surico
Published December 2007 |
| DP6593 | Relative Goods? Prices and Pure Inflation
Author(s): Ricardo Reis, Mark W Watson
Published December 2007 |
| DP6592 | Investment and Usage of New Technologies: Evidence from a Shared ATM Network
Author(s): Hans Degryse, Stijn Ferrari, Frank Verboven
Published December 2007 |
| DP6591 | Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Author(s): Alberto F Alesina, Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis
Published December 2007 |
| DP6590 | Export Diversification: What?s behind the Hump?
Author(s): Olivier Cadot, Céline Carrère, Vanessa Strauss-Kahn
Published November 2007 |
| DP6589 | Culture and Institutions
Author(s): Guido Tabellini
Published November 2007 |
| DP6588 | Advance Information and Asset Prices
Author(s): Rui Albuquerque, Jianjun Miao
Published November 2007 |
| DP6587 | The Business Cycle Implications of Reciprocity in Labour Relations
Author(s): Jean-Pierre Danthine, André Kurmann
Published November 2007 |
| DP6586 | Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction with Various Degrees and Types of Commitment
Author(s): Andrew Hughes Hallett, Jan Libich, Petr Stehlík
Published November 2007 |
| DP6585 | A Stochastic Multiple Players Multi-Issues Bargaining Model for the Piave River Basin
Author(s): Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi
Published November 2007 |
| DP6583 | Fiddling with Value: Violins as an Investment?
Author(s): Kathryn Graddy, Philip Margolis
Published November 2007 |
| DP6582 | Against 'Gender-based taxation'
Author(s): Gilles Saint-Paul
Published December 2007 |
| DP6581 | Population Ageing, Government Budgets, and Productivity Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium
Author(s): Martin Gonzalez-Eiras, Dirk Niepelt
Published November 2007 |
| DP6580 | Commodity Taxation and Parallel Imports
Author(s): Pascalis Raimondos, Nicolas Schmitt
Published November 2007 |
| DP6579 | Government Risk Premiums in the Bond Market: EMU and Canada
Author(s): Ludger Schuknecht, Jürgen von Hagen, Guido Wolswijk
Published November 2007 |
| DP6578 | New Open Economy Macroeconomics
Author(s): Giancarlo Corsetti
Published November 2007 |
| DP6577 | Intertemporal Distortions in the Second Best
Author(s): Stefania Albanesi, Roc Armenter
Published November 2007 |
| DP6576 | A Direct Test of the Buffer Stock Model of Saving
Author(s): Tullio Jappelli, Mario Padula, Luigi Pistaferri
Published November 2007 |
| DP6575 | Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
Author(s): Guido Friebel, Wendelin Schnedler
Published November 2007 |
| DP6574 | The Transmission of Domestic Shocks in Open Economies
Author(s): Christopher Erceg, Christopher Gust, J David López-Salido
Published November 2007 |
| DP6573 | FDI Spillovers in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector: Evidence of firm heterogeneity
Author(s): Filip Abraham, Jozef Konings, Veerle Slootmaekers
Published November 2007 |
| DP6572 | Some Social Welfare Implications of Behavioural Preferences
Author(s): Andrea Gallice
Published November 2007 |
| DP6571 | Market Dominance and Behaviour-Based Pricing under Horizontal and Vertical Differentiation
Author(s): Thomas Gehrig, Oz Shy, Rune Stenbacka
Published November 2007 |
| DP6570 | Inertia in Taylor Rules
Author(s): John Driffill, Zeno Rotondi
Published November 2007 |
| DP6569 | Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Author(s): Stepan Jurajda, Katherine Terrell
Published November 2007 |
| DP6568 | Growth, Democracy, and Civil War
Author(s): Markus Brückner, Antonio Ciccone
Published November 2007 |
| DP6567 | Trade and Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Workers
Author(s): Daisuke Oyama, Yasuhiro Sato, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Jacques-François Thisse
Published November 2007 |
| DP6566 | Duality in Mean-Variance Frontiers with Conditioning Information
Author(s): Francisco Peñaranda, Enrique Sentana
Published November 2007 |
| DP6565 | Patent Validation at the Country Level - The Role of Fees and Translation costs
Author(s): Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Bettina Reichl, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
Published November 2007 |
| DP6564 | Comparing Alternative Predictors Based on Large-Panel Factor Models
Author(s): Antonello D'Agostino, Domenico Giannone
Published November 2007 |
| DP6563 | Communicating Policy Options at the Zero Bound
Author(s): Lucas Burkhart, Andreas M Fischer
Published November 2007 |
| DP6562 | Sequential Contracting with Multiple Principals
Author(s): Giacomo Calzolari, Alessandro Pavan
Published November 2007 |
| DP6561 | Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle
Author(s): Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Olivier Jeanne
Published November 2007 |
| DP6560 | Taxes, Benefits, and Careers: Complete Versus Incomplete Markets
Author(s): Lars Ljungqvist, Thomas J Sargent
Published November 2007 |
| DP6559 | The Economic Effects of Energy Price Shocks
Author(s): Lutz Kilian
Published November 2007 |
| DP6558 | Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?
Author(s): Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
Published November 2007 |
| DP6557 | Optimal Monetary Policy and the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability
Author(s): Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola, Sylvain Leduc
Published November 2007 |
| DP6556 | When is Bargaining Successful? Negotiated Division of Tournament Prizes
Author(s): David Goldreich, Lukasz Pomorski
Published November 2007 |
| DP6555 | Executive Compensation: The View from General Equilibrium
Author(s): Jean-Pierre Danthine, John B Donaldson
Published November 2007 |
| DP6554 | No Trade
Author(s): Juan D Carrillo, Thomas R Palfrey
Published November 2007 |
| DP6553 | Optimal Informed Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market
Author(s): Paolo Vitale
Published November 2007 |
| DP6552 | School Tracking Across the Baltic Sea
Author(s): Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi, Lorenzo Rocco
Published November 2007 |
| DP6551 | The Effects of Immigration on US Wages and Rents: A General Equilibrium Approach
Author(s): Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri
Published November 2007 |
| DP6550 | Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco
Author(s): Eric D Gould, Todd Kaplan
Published November 2007 |
| DP6549 | Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations
Author(s): Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Emanuele Massetti, Massimo Tavoni
Published November 2007 |
| DP6548 | What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?
Author(s): Ron Alquist, Lutz Kilian
Published November 2007 |
| DP6547 | The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel
Author(s): Artyom Durnev, Sergei Guriev
Published October 2007 |
| DP6546 | When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
Author(s): Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
Published October 2007 |
| DP6545 | Country Size, Productivity and Trade Share Convergence: An Analysis of Heterogenous Firms and Country Size Dependent Beachhead Costs
Author(s): Anders Akerman, Rikard Forslid
Published October 2007 |
| DP6544 | Determinants of Economic Growth: Will Data Tell?
Author(s): Antonio Ciccone, Marek Jarocinski
Published October 2007 |
| DP6543 | House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence
Author(s): Olympia Bover, Juan F Jimeno
Published October 2007 |
| DP6542 | How Remote is the Offshoring Threat?
Author(s): Keith Head, Thierry Mayer, John Ries
Published October 2007 |
| DP6541 | Explaining the Effects of Government Spending Shocks on Consumption and the Real Exchange Rate
Author(s): Morten O Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe
Published October 2007 |
| DP6540 | Creditor Protection and Stock Price Volatility
Author(s): Galina B Hale, Assaf Razin, Hui Tong
Published October 2007 |
| DP6539 | Fiscal Insurance and Debt Management in OECD Economies
Author(s): Elisa Faraglia, Albert Marcet, Andrew Scott
Published October 2007 |
| DP6538 | The Risk-Return Paradox for Strategic Management: Disentangling True and Spurious Effects
Author(s): Joachim Henkel
Published October 2007 |
| DP6537 | Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from A Randomised Experiment
Author(s): Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
Published October 2007 |
| DP6536 | Are Long-Run Inflation Expectations Anchored More Firmly in the Euro Area than in the United States?
Author(s): Meredith J Beechey, Benjamin K Johannsen, Andrew Levin
Published October 2007 |
| DP6535 | Reason, Emotion and Information Processing in the Brain
Author(s): Isabelle Brocas, Juan D Carrillo
Published October 2007 |
| DP6534 | The Scope of Cooperation: Values and incentives
Author(s): Guido Tabellini
Published October 2007 |
| DP6533 | Do Consumers Care About How Prices Are Set?
Author(s): Pascal Courty, Mario Pagliero
Published October 2007 |
| DP6532 | Preferred Risk Habitat of Individual Investors
Author(s): Daniel Dorn, Gur Huberman
Published October 2007 |
| DP6531 | Is the Price of Money Managers Too Low?
Author(s): Gur Huberman
Published October 2007 |
| DP6530 | Correlated Trading and Returns
Author(s): Daniel Dorn, Gur Huberman, Paul Sengmüller
Published October 2007 |
| DP6529 | Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes
Author(s): Ilian Mihov, Andrew K Rose
Published October 2007 |
| DP6528 | The Simplest Unified Growth Theory
Author(s): Holger Strulik, Jacob Weisdorf
Published October 2007 |
| DP6527 | Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball
Author(s): Eric D Gould, Eyal Winter
Published October 2007 |
| DP6526 | Learning in Real Time: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the Term Structure of Survey Forecasts
Author(s): Andrew J Patton, Allan Timmermann
Published October 2007 |
| DP6525 | Actual Versus Perceived Central Bank Transparency: The case of the European Central Bank
Author(s): Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Carin A B van der Cruijsen
Published October 2007 |
| DP6524 | Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896-2000
Author(s): Nauro F. Campos, Menelaos Karanasos
Published October 2007 |
| DP6523 | Technological Diversification
Author(s): Miklós Koren, Silvana Tenreyro
Published October 2007 |
| DP6522 | Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?
Author(s): Jaime de Melo, Jean-Marie Grether, Nicole Andréa Mathys
Published October 2007 |
| DP6521 | Does the Order and Timing of Active Labour Market Programmes Matter?
Author(s): Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler
Published October 2007 |
| DP6520 | News and Business Cycles in Open Economies
Author(s): Nir Jaimovich, Sérgio Rebelo
Published October 2007 |
| DP6519 | Economic Integration and the Co-movement of Stock Returns
Author(s): Pedro Morgado, José Tavares
Published October 2007 |
| DP6518 | Stock Market Volatility and Learning
Author(s): Klaus Adam, Albert Marcet, Juan Pablo Nicolini
Published October 2007 |
| DP6517 | Analyzing Strongly Periodic Series in the Frequency Domain: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches with Applications
Author(s): Michael J Artis, Jose Garcia Clavel, Mathias Hoffmann, Dilip M Nachane
Published October 2007 |
| DP6516 | Testing Uncovered Interest Parity: A Continuous-Time Approach
Author(s): Antonio Diez de los Rios, Enrique Sentana
Published October 2007 |
| DP6515 | Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives
Author(s): Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel, Pietro Veronesi
Published October 2007 |
| DP6514 | Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What Do Twenty-Three Million Bank Loans Say About the Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk?
Author(s): Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena, José Luis Peydró, Jesús Saurina
Published October 2007 |
| DP6513 | Volatility, Financial Development
and the Natural Resource Curse
Author(s): Steven Poelhekke, Frederick van der Ploeg
Published October 2007 |
| DP6512 | Does Tax Competition Tame the Leviathan?
Author(s): Marius Brülhart, Mario Jametti
Published October 2007 |
| DP6511 | Internationalization of NGOs and Competition on Markets for
Development Donations
Author(s): Gani Aldashev, Thierry Verdier
Published October 2007 |
| DP6510 | Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
Author(s): Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller
Published October 2007 |
| DP6509 | Economics and Terrorism:
What We Know, What We Should Know and the Data We Need
Author(s): Fernanda Llussá, José Tavares
Published October 2007 |
| DP6508 | Reducing Product Diversity in Higher Education
Author(s): Stijn Kelchtermans, Frank Verboven
Published October 2007 |
| DP6507 | The Response of Business Fixed Investment to Changes in Energy Prices: A Test of Some Hypotheses About the Transmission of Energy Price Shocks
Author(s): Paul Edelstein, Lutz Kilian
Published October 2007 |
| DP6506 | Knowing What Others Know: Coordination Motives in Information Acquisition
Author(s): Christian Hellwig, Laura Veldkamp
Published October 2007 |
| DP6505 | Maternal Education, Home Environments and the
Development of Children and Adolescents
Author(s): Pedro Carneiro, Costas Meghir, Matthias Parey
Published October 2007 |
| DP6504 | Prices and Market Shares in a Menu Cost Model
Author(s): Ariel Tomas Burstein, Christian Hellwig
Published October 2007 |
| DP6503 | On Seller Estimates and Buyer Returns
Author(s): Alex Gershkov, Flavio Toxvaerd
Published October 2007 |
| DP6502 | Anti-Dumping Sunset Reviews:
The Uneven Reach of WTO Disciplines
Author(s): Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo, Bolormaa Tumurchudur
Published September 2007 |
| DP6501 | Monetary Policy, Default Risk and the Exchange Rate
Author(s): Bernardo Guimarães, Carlos Eduardo Soares Gonçalves
Published September 2007 |
| DP6500 | Trade Liberalization, Competition and Growth
Author(s): Omar Licandro, Antonio Navas-Ruiz
Published September 2007 |
| DP6499 | Per un Pugno di Dollari: A first Look at the Price Elasticity of Patents
Author(s): Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
Published September 2007 |
| DP6498 | Enforcement Problems and Secondary Markets
Author(s): Fernando A Broner, Alberto Martín, Jaume Ventura
Published September 2007 |
| DP6497 | Vote-share Contracts and Democracy
Author(s): Hans Gersbach
Published September 2007 |
| DP6496 | Risk Sharing, Finance and Institutions in International Portfolios
Author(s): Marcel Fratzscher, Jean Imbs
Published September 2007 |
| DP6495 | Liquidity Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Author(s): Hans K Hvide, Jarle Møen
Published September 2007 |
| DP6494 | How to Save Globalization from its Cheerleaders
Author(s): Dani Rodrik
Published September 2007 |
| DP6493 | ?The Child is Father of the Man:?
Implications for the Demographic Transition
Author(s): David de la Croix, Omar Licandro
Published September 2007 |
| DP6492 | Twin Deficits, Openness and the Business Cycle
Author(s): Giancarlo Corsetti, Gernot Müller
Published September 2007 |
| DP6491 | Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Author(s): Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published September 2007 |
| DP6490 | Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Author(s): Amelie Constant, Rowan Roberts, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published September 2007 |
| DP6489 | Pension Reform, Ownership Structure, and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Sweden
Author(s): Mariassunta Giannetti, Luc Laeven
Published September 2007 |
| DP6488 | Can Openness Deter Corruption? The Role of Foreign Direct Investment
Author(s): Felipe Larrain B., José Tavares
Published September 2007 |
| DP6487 | Currency Crisis Triggers: Sunspots or Thresholds?
Author(s): Bernardo Guimarães
Published September 2007 |
| DP6486 | Did US Safeguards Affect Mark-ups of EU Steel Producers?
Author(s): Hylke Vandenbussche, Ziga Zarnic
Published September 2007 |
| DP6485 | Wealth Inequality and Credit Markets: Evidence from Three Industrialized Countries
Author(s): Markus Brückner, Kerstin Gerling, Hans Peter Grüner
Published September 2007 |
| DP6484 | Winners and losers: A Micro-level Analysis of International Outsourcing and Wages
Author(s): Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg
Published September 2007 |
| DP6483 | Escaping Nash and Volatile Inflation
Author(s): Martin Ellison, Tony Yates
Published September 2007 |
| DP6482 | International Portfolios with Supply, Demand and Redistributive Shocks
Author(s): Nicolas Coeurdacier, Robert Kollmann, Philippe Martin
Published September 2007 |
| DP6481 | U.S. Labour Market Dynamics Revisited
Author(s): Eran Yashiv
Published September 2007 |
| DP6480 | Finance and Welfare States in Globalizing Markets
Author(s): Giuseppe Bertola
Published September 2007 |
| DP6479 | Multilateral Subsidy Games
Author(s): Dermot Leahy, J Peter Neary
Published September 2007 |
| DP6478 | Joint Ownership and the Hold-up Problem Under Asymmetric Information
Author(s): Patrick W. Schmitz
Published September 2007 |
| DP6477 | The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate
Author(s): Tiago Cavalcanti, José Tavares
Published September 2007 |
| DP6476 | Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices
Author(s): Andreas Roider, Patrick W. Schmitz
Published September 2007 |
| DP6475 | The Limits of Transparency
Author(s): Alex Cukierman
Published September 2007 |
| DP6474 | Sparse and Stable Markowitz Portfolios
Author(s): Joshua Brodie, Ingrid Daubechies, Christine De Mol, Domenico Giannone
Published September 2007 |
| DP6473 | Financial Exchange Rates and International Currency Exposures
Author(s): Philip R. Lane, Jay C Shambaugh
Published September 2007 |
| DP6472 | Financial Innovation and the Transactions Demand for Cash
Author(s): Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi
Published September 2007 |
| DP6471 | Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Author(s): Alison L Booth, Jan C. van Ours
Published September 2007 |
| DP6470 | Recursive Global Games
Author(s): Chryssi Giannitsarou, Flavio Toxvaerd
Published September 2007 |
| DP6469 | A New Core Inflation Indicator for New Zealand
Author(s): Domenico Giannone, Troy Matheson
Published September 2007 |
| DP6468 | Who is Afraid of Political Risk? Multinational Firms and their Choice of Capital Structure
Author(s): Iris Kesternich, Monika Schnitzer
Published September 2007 |
| DP6467 | Task Scheduling and Moral Hazard
Author(s): Tymofiy Mylovanov, Patrick W. Schmitz
Published September 2007 |
| DP6466 | Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behaviour
Author(s): Amelie Constant, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published September 2007 |
| DP6465 | Aid and Trade
Author(s): Akiko Suwa Eisenmann, Thierry Verdier
Published September 2007 |
| DP6464 | FDI and Domestic Investment: An Industry-Level View
Author(s): Christian Arndt, Claudia M. Buch, Monika Schnitzer
Published September 2007 |
| DP6463 | The Sources of Long-term Economic Growth for Turkey, 1880-2005
Author(s): Sumru G. Altug, Alpay Filiztekin, Sevket Pamuk
Published September 2007 |
| DP6462 | Understanding Trust
Author(s): Paola Sapienza, Anna Toldra Simats, Luigi Zingales
Published September 2007 |
| DP6461 | Pooling Risk Among Countries
Author(s): Jean Imbs, Paolo Mauro
Published September 2007 |
| DP6460 | Intellectual Property Provisions in North-South Trade Agreements
Author(s): Bernard Hoekman, Kamal Saggi
Published September 2007 |
| DP6459 | Developing Countries and Enforcement of Trade Agreements: Why Dispute Settlement Is Not Enough
Author(s): Chad P. Bown, Bernard Hoekman
Published September 2007 |
| DP6458 | Multilateral Trade Cooperation: What Next?
Author(s): Bernard Hoekman, David Vines
Published September 2007 |
| DP6457 | The Political Economy of Services Trade Liberalization: A Case for International Regulatory Cooperation?
Author(s): Bernard Hoekman, Aaditya Mattoo, André Sapir
Published September 2007 |
| DP6456 | Convergence and Anchoring of Yield Curves in the Euro Area
Author(s): Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Refet S. Gürkaynak, Eric T Swanson
Published September 2007 |
| DP6455 | Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility
Author(s): Bernard J Dumas, Alexander Kurshev, Raman Uppal
Published September 2007 |
| DP6454 | Interest Rate Signals and Central Bank Transparency
Author(s): Pierre Gosselin, Aileen Lotz, Charles Wyplosz
Published September 2007 |
| DP6453 | Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?
Author(s): Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
Published September 2007 |
| DP6452 | Paying for Performance with Altruistic or Motivated Providers
Author(s): Luigi Siciliani
Published September 2007 |
| DP6451 | Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labour Force Participation Over a Century
Author(s): Raquel Fernández
Published September 2007 |
| DP6450 | Rules versus Discretion in Loan Rate Setting
Author(s): Geraldo Cerqueiro, Hans Degryse, Steven Ongena
Published September 2007 |
| DP6449 | Why Parents Worry: Initiation into Cannabis Use by Youth and their Educational Attainment
Author(s): Jan C. van Ours, Jenny Williams
Published September 2007 |
| DP6448 | Globalization and Monetary Control
Author(s): Michael Woodford
Published September 2007 |
| DP6447 | Does a 'Two-Pillar Phillips Curve' Justify a Two-Pillar Monetary Policy Strategy?
Author(s): Michael Woodford
Published September 2007 |
| DP6446 | Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?
Author(s): Xavier Giroud, Holger M Mueller
Published September 2007 |
| DP6445 | The Expectation Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Very Short-Term Rates: Statistical Tests and Economic Value
Author(s): Pasquale Della Corte, Lucio Sarno, Daniel L Thornton
Published September 2007 |
| DP6444 | Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Author(s): Quamrul H. Ashraf, Oded Galor
Published August 2007 |
| DP6443 | Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men
Author(s): Sandra Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G Salvanes
Published August 2007 |
| DP6442 | Who Prices Locally? Survey Evidence of Swiss Exporters
Author(s): Andreas M Fischer, Matthias Lutz, Manuel Wälti
Published September 2007 |
| DP6441 | Central Bank Independence and Monetary Policymaking Institutions - Past Present and Future
Author(s): Alex Cukierman
Published August 2007 |
| DP6440 | Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Author(s): Pieter A. Gautier, José-Luis Moraga-González, Ronald Wolthoff
Published September 2007 |
| DP6439 | The Dynamic Assignment of Heterogenous Objects: A Mechanism Design Approach
Author(s): Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu
Published August 2007 |
| DP6438 | Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
Author(s): Amelie Constant, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published August 2007 |
| DP6437 | Remedy for Now but Prohibit for Tomorrow: The Deterrence Effects of Merger Policy Tools
Author(s): Pedro Pita Barros, Joseph A. Clougherty, Jo Seldeslachts
Published August 2007 |
| DP6436 | Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia Since World War II
Author(s): Kym Anderson, Peter J Lloyd, Donald Maclaren
Published August 2007 |
| DP6435 | Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations
Author(s): Rachel Griffith, Sokbae Lee, John Van Reenen
Published September 2007 |
| DP6434 | Mergers as Auctions
Author(s): Marc Ivaldi, Jrissy Motis
Published August 2007 |
| DP6433 | Pricing, Investments and Mergers with Intertemporal Capacity Constraints
Author(s): Charalambos Christou, Rossitsa Kotseva, Nikolaos Vettas
Published August 2007 |
| DP6432 | Economics of Literary Translation: A Simple Theory and Evidence
Author(s): Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber, Sheila Weyers
Published August 2007 |
| DP6431 | Competing in Taxes and Investment under Fiscal Equalization
Author(s): Jean J.G. Hindriks, Susana Peralta, Shlomo Weber
Published August 2007 |
| DP6430 | Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A Robinson, Pierre Yared
Published August 2007 |
| DP6429 | Fiscal Policy, Labour Unions and Monetary Institutions: Their Long Run Impact on Unemployment, Inflation and Welfare
Author(s): Alex Cukierman, Alberto Dalmazzo
Published August 2007 |
| DP6428 | Non Linear Taylor Rules and Asymmetric Preferences in Central Banking - Evidence from the UK and the US
Author(s): Alex Cukierman, Vito Antonio Muscatelli
Published August 2007 |
| DP6427 | Multiple Growth Regimes ? Insights from Unified Growth Theory
Author(s): Oded Galor
Published August 2007 |
| DP6426 | International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization
Author(s): Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Emanuele Massetti, Massimo Tavoni
Published August 2007 |
| DP6425 | Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Author(s): Miguel Urquiola, Eric A Verhoogen
Published August 2007 |
| DP6424 | Modelling Negotiated Decision Making: A Multilateral, Multiple Issues, Non-Cooperative Bargaining Model with Uncertainty
Author(s): Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Sgobbi
Published August 2007 |
| DP6423 | Strategic Complementarities and Optimal Monetary Policy
Author(s): Andrew Levin, J David López-Salido, Tack Yun
Published August 2007 |
| DP6422 | Serial CEO Incentives and the Structure of Managerial Contracts
Author(s): Mariassunta Giannetti
Published August 2007 |
| DP6421 | Spatial Growth and Industry Age
Author(s): Klaus Desmet, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Published August 2007 |
| DP6420 | Bonds and Brands: Lessons from the 1820s
Author(s): Marc Flandreau, Juan Huitzilihuitl Flores Zendejas, Norbert Gaillard
Published August 2007 |
| DP6419 | Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth
Author(s): Gianmarco Ottaviano
Published August 2007 |
| DP6418 | Developing Economies and International Investors:
Do Investment Promotion Agencies Bring Them Together?
Author(s): Torfinn Harding, Beata Javorcik
Published August 2007 |
| DP6417 | On the Optimal Number of Representatives
Author(s): Emmanuelle Auriol, Robert J. Gary-Bobo
Published August 2007 |
| DP6416 | Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labour Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
Author(s): Pierre Cahuc, Guy Laroque
Published August 2007 |
| DP6415 | Reforms, Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Performance in
Germany
Author(s): Wendy Carlin, David Soskice
Published August 2007 |
| DP6414 | Institutional Traps and Economic Growth
Author(s): Mark Gradstein
Published August 2007 |
| DP6413 | Footloose Monopolies:
Regulating a "National Champion"
Author(s): Giacomo Calzolari, Carlo Scarpa
Published August 2007 |
| DP6412 | The Impact of Organizational Structure and Lending Technology on Banking Competition
Author(s): Hans Degryse, Luc Laeven, Steven Ongena
Published August 2007 |
| DP6411 | Innovation and the Export-productivity Link
Author(s): Bruno Cassiman, Elena Golovko
Published August 2007 |
| DP6410 | Sectoral Agglomeration Economies in a Panel of European Regions
Author(s): Marius Brülhart, Nicole Andréa Mathys
Published August 2007 |
| DP6409 | Labour Market Dynamics and the Business Cycle: Structural Evidence for the United States
Author(s): Morten O Ravn, Saverio Simonelli
Published August 2007 |
| DP6408 | On the Long run Determinants of Industry TFP Growth Rates
Author(s): Liwa Rachel Ngai, Roberto Samaniego
Published July 2007 |
| DP6407 | Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts
Author(s): Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Published July 2007 |
| DP6406 | Social Identity and Preferences over Redistribution
Author(s): Esteban F Klor, Moses Shayo
Published July 2007 |
| DP6405 | Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Author(s): Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
Published July 2007 |
| DP6404 | Property Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Author(s): Liam Brunt
Published September 2007 |
| DP6403 | Social Attitudes and Economic Development:
An Epidemiological Approach
Author(s): Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc
Published July 2007 |
| DP6402 | A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition
Author(s): Karolina Ekholm, Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe
Published July 2007 |
| DP6401 | The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Author(s): Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati, Pietro Vertova
Published July 2007 |
| DP6400 | Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Author(s): Michael Lechner, Blaise Melly
Published July 2007 |
| DP6399 | Understanding the Forward Premium Puzzle: A Microstructure Approach
Author(s): Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Sérgio Rebelo
Published July 2007 |
| DP6398 | Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Author(s): Thomas J Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde
Published July 2007 |
| DP6397 | Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions and the Role of Trade Costs
Author(s): Holger Görg, Alexander Hijzen, Miriam Manchin
Published July 2007 |
| DP6396 | The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
Author(s): Graziella Bertocchi
Published July 2007 |
| DP6395 | Financial Development and Growth in Direct Firm-Level Comparisons
Author(s): Jan Bena, Stepan Jurajda
Published July 2007 |
| DP6394 | Optimal Portfolio Allocation for Corporate Pension Funds
Author(s): David McCarthy, David Miles
Published July 2007 |
| DP6393 | When are Auctions Best?
Author(s): Jeremy I. Bulow, Paul Klemperer
Published July 2007 |
| DP6392 | Which Firms Benefit More from Financial Development?
Author(s): Jan Bena, Stepan Jurajda
Published July 2007 |
| DP6391 | Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of
Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Author(s): Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner
Published July 2007 |
| DP6390 | Caught On Tape: Institutional Trading, Stock Returns, and Earnings Announcements
Author(s): John Y Campbell, Tarun Ramadorai, Allie Schwartz
Published July 2007 |
| DP6389 | A Test of Endogenous Trade Bloc Formation Theory on EU Data
Author(s): Richard Baldwin, Roland Rieder
Published July 2007 |
| DP6388 | Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps:
An International Study
Author(s): Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Martina Zweimüller
Published July 2007 |
| DP6387 | Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Author(s): Josef Fersterer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Published July 2007 |
| DP6386 | Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving
Author(s): Emmanuel Saez
Published July 2007 |
| DP6385 | Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
Author(s): Eric A Verhoogen
Published July 2007 |
| DP6384 | Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Author(s): Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde
Published July 2007 |
| DP6383 | Exporting, Linkages and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment
Author(s): Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Mauro Pisu
Published July 2007 |
| DP6382 | Mind the Break! Accounting for Changing Patterns of Growth during Transition
Author(s): Jan Fidrmuc, Ariane Tichit
Published July 2007 |
| DP6381 | Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
Author(s): Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande
Published July 2007 |
| DP6380 | Freedom Fries
Author(s): Guy Michaels, Xiaojia Zhi
Published July 2007 |
| DP6379 | On the Design of Global Refunding and Climate Change
Author(s): Hans Gersbach, Ralph Winkler
Published July 2007 |
| DP6378 | Religion and Entrepreneurship
Author(s): David B Audretsch, Werner Bönte, Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada
Published July 2007 |
| DP6377 | Practice Makes Perfect: On Professional Standards
Author(s): Susanna Sällström
Published July 2007 |
| DP6376 | Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer
Author(s): Susanna Sällström
Published July 2007 |
| DP6375 | Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men
Author(s): Sandra Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G Salvanes
Published July 2007 |
| DP6374 | Institutional Trade Persistence and Long-Term Equity Returns
Author(s): Amil Dasgupta, Andrea Prat, Michela Verardo
Published July 2007 |
| DP6373 | Euro Area Inflation Persistence in an Estimated
Nonlinear DSGE Model
Author(s): Giovanni Amisano, Oreste Tristani
Published June 2007 |
| DP6372 | Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
Author(s): Mary Amiti, John Romalis
Published June 2007 |
| DP6371 | Making Autocracy Work
Author(s): Timothy J. Besley, Masayuki Kudamatsu
Published June 2007 |
| DP6370 | The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
Author(s): Timothy J. Besley, Torsten Persson
Published June 2007 |
| DP6369 | Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
Author(s): Joseph Price, Justin Wolfers
Published June 2007 |
| DP6368 | Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence
Author(s): Richard Baldwin, James Harrigan
Published June 2007 |
| DP6367 | Ever Closer Union or Babylonian Discord? The Official-language Problem in the European Union
Author(s): Jan Fidrmuc, Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber
Published June 2007 |
| DP6366 | Why Are Capital Income Taxes So High?
Author(s): Martin Flodén
Published June 2007 |
| DP6365 | The Labour Market Effects of Technology Shocks
Author(s): Fabio Canova, Jose David Lopez-Salido, Claudio Michelacci
Published June 2007 |
| DP6364 | Unemployment Insurance Design: Inducing Moving and Retraining
Author(s): John Hassler, José Vicente Rodríguez Mora
Published June 2007 |
| DP6363 | The Returns from Reducing Corruption: Evidence from Education in Uganda
Author(s): Ritva Reinikka, Jakob Svensson
Published June 2007 |
| DP6362 | Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?
Author(s): Indraneel Dasgupta, Ravi Kanbur
Published June 2007 |
| DP6361 | Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing:
Evidence from Plant Level Data
Author(s): Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley, Eric Strobl
Published June 2007 |
| DP6360 | On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization
Author(s): Nauro F. Campos, Vitaliy Kuzeyev
Published June 2007 |
| DP6358 | The Division of Labour, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing
Author(s): Guy Michaels
Published June 2007 |
| DP6357 | Protocol Design and (De-)Centralization
Author(s): Hans Peter Grüner
Published June 2007 |
| DP6356 | Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913
Author(s): Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, Joan R. Rosés, Jeffrey G Williamson
Published June 2007 |
| DP6355 | Liquidity Traps, Learning and Stagnation
Author(s): George W. Evans, Eran Guse, Seppo Honkapohja
Published June 2007 |
| DP6354 | Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence
Author(s): Anna Maria Mayda, Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, Richard Sinnott
Published June 2007 |
| DP6353 | Sophistication in Risk Management, Bank Equity, and Stability
Author(s): Hans Gersbach, Jan Wenzelburger
Published June 2007 |
| DP6352 | Gender Roles and Technological Progress
Author(s): Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti
Published June 2007 |
| DP6351 | Why Are People More Pro-trade Than Pro-migration?
Author(s): Anna Maria Mayda
Published June 2007 |
| DP6350 | NGO Competition and the Markets for Development Donations
Author(s): Gani Aldashev, Thierry Verdier
Published June 2007 |
| DP6349 | Corporate Governance and Collusive Behaviour
Author(s): Paolo Buccirossi, Giancarlo Spagnolo
Published June 2007 |
| DP6348 | Privatization, Entry Regulation and the Decline of Labour's Share of GDP: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Network Industries
Author(s): Ghazala Y. Azmat, Alan Manning, John Van Reenen
Published June 2007 |
| DP6347 | Capital Controls and Foreign Investor Subsidies Implicit in South Africa's Dual Exchange Rate System
Author(s): Harry Huizinga, Eric Schaling, Peter C van der Windt
Published June 2007 |
| DP6346 | Inflation Dynamics and Trade Openness
Author(s): Janine Aron, John Muellbauer
Published June 2007 |
| DP6345 | History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports
Author(s): Stephen J. Redding, Daniel M Sturm, Nikolaus Wolf
Published June 2007 |
| DP6344 | Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda
Author(s): Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Jakob Svensson
Published June 2007 |
| DP6343 | Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
Author(s): Jiandong Ju, Shang-Jin Wei
Published June 2007 |
| DP6342 | Competing in Organizations: Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Author(s): Dalia Marin, Thierry Verdier
Published June 2007 |
| DP6341 | Power in the Multinational Corporation in Industry Equilibrium
Author(s): Dalia Marin, Thierry Verdier
Published June 2007 |
| DP6340 | Detection of Local Interactions from the Spatial Pattern of Names in France
Author(s): Keith Head, Thierry Mayer
Published June 2007 |
| DP6339 | The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogeneous and How Can It Be Estimated?
Author(s): Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini
Published June 2007 |
| DP6338 | Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel?s Economists
Author(s): Dan Ben-David
Published June 2007 |
| DP6337 | Is the Euro Sustainable?
Author(s): Michael R. Wickens
Published June 2007 |
| DP6336 | Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms
Author(s): Massimo Del Gatto, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Marcello Pagnini
Published June 2007 |
| DP6335 | Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players
Author(s): M. Daniele Paserman
Published June 2007 |
| DP6334 | Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Author(s): Alessio J G Brown, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower
Published June 2007 |
| DP6333 | Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans
Author(s): Kai A. Konrad, Wolfgang Leininger
Published June 2007 |
| DP6332 | The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
Author(s): Patrick Barron, Benjamin Olken
Published June 2007 |
| DP6331 | Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution Forecast Targeting
Author(s): Lars E.O. Svensson, Noah Williams
Published June 2007 |
| DP6330 | Community and Class Antagonism
Author(s): Indraneel Dasgupta, Ravi Kanbur
Published June 2007 |
| DP6329 | Cartel Damages Claims and the Passing-on Defence
Author(s): Theon Van Dijk, Frank Verboven
Published June 2007 |
| DP6328 | Consensual and Conflictual Democratization, Rule of Law, and Development
Author(s): Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Uwe Sunde
Published June 2007 |
| DP6327 | On the Origins of Border Effects: Insights from the Habsburg Customs Union
Author(s): Max Stephan Schulze, Nikolaus Wolf
Published June 2007 |
| DP6326 | Bayesian VARs with Large Panels
Author(s): Marta Banbura, Domenico Giannone, Lucrezia Reichlin
Published June 2007 |
| DP6325 | Optimising Indexation Arrangements under Calvo Contracts and their Implications for Monetary Policy
Author(s): Vo Phuong Mai Le, Patrick Minford
Published June 2007 |
| DP6324 | Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labour Force Dynamics
Author(s): Alessandra Fogli, Laura Veldkamp
Published June 2007 |
| DP6323 | If Winning Isn't Everything, Why Do They Keep Score? A Structural Empirical Analysis of Dutch Flower Auctions
Author(s): Gerard van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
Published June 2007 |
| DP6322 | Incomplete Contracts, the Hold-Up Problem and Asymmetric Information
Author(s): Patrick W. Schmitz
Published June 2007 |
| DP6321 | A Brief History of Space and Time: the Scope-Year Index as a Patent Value Indicator Based on Families and Renewals
Author(s): Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Nicolas van Zeebroeck
Published June 2007 |
| DP6319 | Fire-sale FDI
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Hyun Song Shin, Tanju Yorulmazer
Published May 2007 |
| DP6318 | Stiglitz Versus the IMF on the Asian Debt Crisis: An Intertemporal Model with Real Exchange Rate Overshooting
Author(s): Tatiana Kirsanova, Gordon Menzies, David Vines
Published May 2007 |
| DP6317 | Safety Nets Within Banks
Author(s): Mike Felgenhauer, Hans Peter Grüner
Published May 2007 |
| DP6316 | Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames
Author(s): Maia Güell, José V Rodríguez Mora, Chris Telmer
Published June 2007 |
| DP6315 | Unemployment in East and West Europe
Author(s): Daniel Münich, Jan Svejnar
Published June 2007 |
| DP6314 | The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: the US-EU Experience
Author(s): Claudio Michelacci, Josep Pijoan-Mas
Published May 2007 |
| DP6313 | Information Sharing and Credit:
Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries
Author(s): Martin Brown, Tullio Jappelli, Marco Pagano
Published May 2007 |
| DP6312 | Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate
Author(s): Andrew K Rose, Saktiandi Supaat
Published May 2007 |
| DP6311 | Welfare Effects of Financial Integration
Author(s): Falko Fecht, Hans Peter Grüner, Philipp Hartmann
Published May 2007 |
| DP6310 | Credit Constraints and Stock Price Volatility
Author(s): Galina B Hale, Assaf Razin, Hui Tong
Published May 2007 |
| DP6309 | Fire Sales, Foreign Entry and Bank Liquidity
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Hyun Song Shin, Tanju Yorulmazer
Published May 2007 |
| DP6308 | The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms
Author(s): Thierry Mayer, Isabelle Mejean, Benjamin Nefussi
Published May 2007 |
| DP6307 | Bankruptcy Codes and Innovation
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Published May 2007 |
| DP6306 | What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes
Author(s): Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
Published May 2007 |
| DP6305 | Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children
Author(s): Marco Cipriani, Paola Giuliano, Olivier Jeanne
Published May 2007 |
| DP6304 | The Ex Ante Auction Model for the Control of Market Power in Standard Setting Organizations
Author(s): Damien Geradin, Anna Layne-Farrar, Atilano Jorge Padilla
Published May 2007 |
| DP6303 | Oil Shocks and External Balances
Author(s): Lutz Kilian, Alessandro Rebucci, Nikola Spatafora
Published May 2007 |
| DP6302 | The Role of Immigration in Sustaining the
Social Security System: A
Political Economy Approach
Author(s): Assaf Razin, Edith Sand
Published May 2007 |
| DP6301 | International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility
Author(s): Andrew K Rose, Mark Spiegel
Published May 2007 |
| DP6300 | Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Author(s): Aurora Gómez Galvarriato, Rafael Dobado Gonzales, Jeffrey G Williamson
Published May 2007 |
| DP6299 | Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI
Author(s): Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka
Published May 2007 |
| DP6298 | Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Author(s): Benjamin Jones, Benjamin Olken
Published May 2007 |
| DP6297 | Volatility, Labour Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage
Author(s): Alejandro Cuñat, Marc J Melitz
Published May 2007 |
| DP6296 | Technology Transfer through Imports
Author(s): Ram C. Acharya, Wolfgang Keller
Published May 2007 |
| DP6295 | The Doubtful Profitability of Foggy Pricing
Author(s): Eugenio J Miravete
Published May 2007 |
| DP6294 | Irving Fisher, Expectational Errors, and the UIP Puzzle
Author(s): Rachel Campbell, Kees Koedijk, James R Lothian, Ronald J Mahieu
Published May 2007 |
| DP6293 | Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
Author(s): Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, Ahmed Rahman, Alan M. Taylor
Published May 2007 |
| DP6292 | Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages
Author(s): Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, James R. Markusen, Bertel Schjerning
Published May 2007 |
| DP6291 | Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Author(s): Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
Published May 2007 |
| DP6290 | Specialization Patterns and the Factor Bias of Technology
Author(s): Alejandro Cuñat, Marco Maffezzoli
Published May 2007 |
| DP6289 | International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of the Determinants of Bilateral Flows
Author(s): Anna Maria Mayda
Published May 2007 |
| DP6288 | Growth and relative living standards - testing Barriers to Riches on post-war panel data
Author(s): David Meenagh, Patrick Minford, Jiang Wang
Published May 2007 |
| DP6287 | How Much Does the UK Invest in Intangible Assets?
Author(s): Mauro Giorgio Marrano, Jonathan Haskel
Published May 2007 |
| DP6286 | Search, Wage Posting and Urban Spatial Structure
Author(s): Yves Zenou
Published May 2007 |
| DP6285 | Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets
Author(s): Kurt Richard Brekke, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume
Published May 2007 |
| DP6284 | EU Commercial Policy in a Multipolar Trading System
Author(s): Simon J Evenett
Published May 2007 |
| DP6283 | The Trade Strategy of the European Union: Time for a Rethink?
Author(s): Simon J Evenett
Published May 2007 |
| DP6282 | What Can Researchers Learn from the Suspension of the Doha Round Negotiations in 2006?
Author(s): Simon J Evenett
Published May 2007 |
| DP6281 | Party Formation and Racism
Author(s): Vincent Anesi, Philippe De Donder
Published May 2007 |
| DP6280 | Consumption and Labour Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework
Author(s): Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, Giovanni L. Violante
Published May 2007 |
| DP6279 | Competing with Menus of Tariff Options
Author(s): Eugenio J Miravete
Published May 2007 |
| DP6278 | The Distributional Consequences of Diversity-Enhancing University Admissions Rules
Author(s): Jimmy Chan, Erik Eyster
Published May 2007 |
| DP6277 | Firms in International Trade
Author(s): Andrew B. Bernard, J Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, Peter K. Schott
Published April 2007 |
| DP6276 | Insidious Discrimination? Disentangling the Beauty Premium on a Game Show
Author(s): Michèle Belot, Venkataraman Bhaskar, Jeroen Van de Ven
Published April 2007 |
| DP6275 | How (not) to measure competition
Author(s): Jan Boone, Henry van der Wiel, Jan C. van Ours
Published May 2007 |
| DP6274 | Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Author(s): Jennifer Hunt
Published April 2007 |
| DP6273 | Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries
Author(s): Rohini Pande
Published April 2007 |
| DP6272 | Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality
Author(s): Benjamin Olken
Published April 2007 |
| DP6271 | Measuring Factor Income Shares at the Sector Level - A Primer
Author(s): Berthold Herrendorf, Akos Valentinyi
Published April 2007 |
| DP6270 | Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Author(s): David W Johnston, Carol Propper, Michael Shields
Published April 2007 |
| DP6269 | Women's Earning Power and the 'Double Burden' of Market and Household Work
Author(s): Natalie Chen, Paola Conconi, Carlo Perroni
Published May 2007 |
| DP6268 | Unlocking Value: Equity Carve outs as Strategic Real Options
Author(s): Enrico C Perotti, Silvia Rossetto
Published April 2007 |
| DP6267 | Kids or Courses?
Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labour Market Policies
Author(s): Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler
Published April 2007 |
| DP6266 | Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence
Author(s): Alison L Booth, Melvyn G Coles, Xiaodong Gong
Published April 2007 |
| DP6265 | The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Labour Supply and Education in an Economy with Household and Market Production
Author(s): Alison L Booth, Melvyn G Coles
Published April 2007 |
| DP6264 | Assessing China?s Exchange Rate Regime
Author(s): Jeffrey A Frankel, Shang-Jin Wei
Published April 2007 |
| DP6263 | Choosing the Legal Retirement Age in Presence of Unemployment
Author(s): Georges Casamatta, Caroline De Paoli
Published April 2007 |
| DP6262 | Rethinking Trade Preferences: How Africa Can Diversify its Exports
Author(s): Paul Collier, Anthony Venables
Published April 2007 |
| DP6261 | Performance Indicators for Quality with Adverse Selection, Gaming and Inequality Aversion
Author(s): Michael Kuhn, Luigi Siciliani
Published April 2007 |
| DP6260 | Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level
Author(s): Neil Gandal, Charles King III, Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Published April 2007 |
| DP6259 | Are Fair Trade Labels Effective Against Child Labour?
Author(s): Jean-Marie Baland, Cédric Duprez
Published May 2007 |
| DP6258 | Exclusionary Pricing and Rebates When Scale Matters
Author(s): Liliane Karlinger, Massimo Motta
Published April 2007 |
| DP6257 | Unbundling Ownership and Control
Author(s): Daniel Ferreira, Emanuel Ornelas, John L. Turner
Published May 2007 |
| DP6256 | The Invisible Hand in Corporate Governance
Author(s): Vidhi Chhaochharia, Luc Laeven
Published April 2007 |
| DP6255 | Retail Energy Prices and Consumer Expenditures
Author(s): Paul Edelstein, Lutz Kilian
Published April 2007 |
| DP6254 | Checking Out: Exits from Currency Unions
Author(s): Andrew K Rose
Published April 2007 |
| DP6253 | Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
Author(s): Nathan Nunn, Diego Puga
Published April 2007 |
| DP6252 | Pillars of Globalization: A history of monetary policy targets, 1797-1997
Author(s): Marc Flandreau
Published April 2007 |
| DP6251 | From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Author(s): Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
Published April 2007 |
| DP6250 | Learning and the Great Inflation
Author(s): Giacomo Carboni, Martin Ellison
Published April 2007 |
| DP6249 | Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow Short Term?
Author(s): Fernando A Broner, Guido Lorenzoni, Sergio Schmukler
Published April 2007 |
| DP6248 | Two Tales on Resale
Author(s): Felix Höeffler, Klaus M. Schmidt
Published April 2007 |
| DP6247 | Globalization and the Rise of the Entrepreneurial Economy
Author(s): David B Audretsch, Mark Sanders
Published April 2007 |
| DP6246 | And Then There Were Four... How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labour Market Policy Do We Still Need?
Author(s): Werner Eichhorst, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published April 2007 |
| DP6245 | The Future of Social Security
Author(s): Martin Gonzalez-Eiras, Dirk Niepelt
Published April 2007 |
| DP6244 | The Dog that Did Not Bark: Insider Trading and Crashes
Author(s): José Maria Marín Vigueras, Jacques Olivier
Published April 2007 |
| DP6243 | Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention
Author(s): Bartosz Adam Mackowiak, Mirko Wiederholt
Published April 2007 |
| DP6242 | Entrepreneurship, State Economic Development Policy,
and the Entrepreneurial University
Author(s): David B Audretsch, Ronnie Phillips
Published April 2007 |
| DP6241 | Security-Voting Structure and Bidder Screening
Author(s): Christian At, Mike Burkart, Samuel Lee
Published March 2007 |
| DP6240 | Legislative Process with Open Rules
Author(s): Theresa Fahrenberger, Hans Gersbach
Published April 2007 |
| DP6239 | Understanding Index Option Returns
Author(s): Mark Broadie, Mikhail Chernov, Michael Johannes
Published May 2007 |
| DP6238 | Regulating a Multi-Utility Firm
Author(s): Giacomo Calzolari, Carlo Scarpa
Published May 2007 |
| DP6237 | Which Factors Determine Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Spanish Evidence
Author(s): Juan J. Dolado, Eduardo Morales
Published March 2007 |
| DP6236 | The Beveridge Curve
Author(s): Eran Yashiv
Published April 2007 |
| DP6233 | Should We Really Expect More from Our Friends?
Author(s): Didier Laussel, Tanguy van Ypersele
Published April 2007 |
| DP6232 | Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Author(s): Michael C Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil
Published March 2007 |
| DP6231 | Mortgage Markets, Collateral Constraints, and Monetary Policy: Do Institutional Factors Matter?
Author(s): Alessandro Calza, Tommaso Monacelli, Livio Stracca
Published April 2007 |
| DP6230 | Labour Market Adjustment, Social Spending and the Automatic Stabilizers in the OECD
Author(s): Julia Darby, Jacques Melitz
Published March 2007 |
| DP6229 | Price Competition in Markets with Customer Testing: The Captive Customer Effect
Author(s): Heidrun C. Hoppe-Wewetzer, Ulrich Lehmann-Grube
Published April 2007 |
| DP6228 | The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children
Author(s): Elizabeth O. Ananat, Guy Michaels
Published March 2007 |
| DP6227 | Evidence from Surveys of Price-Setting Managers: Policy Lessons and Directions for Ongoing Research
Author(s): Vítor Gaspar, Andrew Levin, Fernando Manuel Martins, Frank Smets
Published March 2007 |
| DP6226 | Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labour Market Dynamics in Germany
Author(s): Ronald Bachmann, Michael C Burda
Published March 2007 |
| DP6225 | Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions
Author(s): Rabah Arezki, Frederick van der Ploeg
Published March 2007 |
| DP6224 | Wholesale Markets in Telecommunications
Author(s): Marc Bourreau, Johan Hombert, Jérôme Pouyet, Nicolas Schutz
Published March 2007 |
| DP6223 | Asset Pricing with Adaptive Learning
Author(s): Eva Carceles-Poveda, Chryssi Giannitsarou
Published April 2007 |
| DP6222 | Does Globalization Create Superstars?
Author(s): Hans Gersbach, Armin Schmutzler
Published March 2007 |
| DP6219 | The Unobserved Heterogeneity Distribution in Duration Analysis
Author(s): Jaap H Abbring, Gerard van den Berg
Published March 2007 |
| DP6218 | Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade
Author(s): Richard Baldwin, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
Published April 2007 |
| DP6217 | The Effect of Monetary Policy on Exchange Rates During Currency Crises: The Role of Debt, Institutions and Financial Openness
Author(s): Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Benedikt Goderis
Published March 2007 |
| DP6216 | Anticipated Fiscal Policy and Adaptive Learning
Author(s): George W. Evans, Seppo Honkapohja, Kaushik Mitra
Published March 2007 |
| DP6215 | Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle
Author(s): Ian Babetskii, Nauro F. Campos
Published March 2007 |
| DP6214 | Intermediation and Investment Incentives
Author(s): Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz
Published March 2007 |
| DP6213 | Early Warning or Just Wise After the Event? The Problem of Using Cyclically Adjusted Budget Deficits for Fiscal Surveillance
Author(s): Andrew Hughes Hallett, Rasmus Kattai, John Lewis
Published March 2007 |
| DP6212 | Computable Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics: Existence, Purification, and Multiplicity
Author(s): Ulrich Doraszelski, Mark Satterthwaite
Published March 2007 |
| DP6211 | How Important is Money in the Conduct of Monetary Policy?
Author(s): Michael Woodford
Published March 2007 |
| DP6210 | Bargaining in Mergers and Termination Fees
Author(s): Stephanie Rosenkranz, Utz Weitzel
Published March 2007 |
| DP6209 | The Race for Polluting Permits
Author(s): Thierry Brechet, Susana Peralta
Published March 2007 |
| DP6208 | Country Portfolio Dynamics
Author(s): Michael B Devereux, Alan Sutherland
Published March 2007 |
| DP6207 | Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard
Author(s): Patrick W. Schmitz
Published March 2007 |
| DP6206 | Term Structure Forecasting: No-Arbitrage Restrictions vs Large Information Set
Author(s): Carlo A. Favero, Linlin Niu, Luca Sala
Published March 2007 |
| DP6205 | Dollarization and Exchange Rate Fluctuations
Author(s): Patrick Honohan
Published March 2007 |
| DP6204 | Is Lisbon far from Maastricht? Trade-offs and Complementarities between Fiscal Discipline and Structural Reforms
Author(s): Marco Buti, Werner Röger, Alessandro Antonio Turrini
Published March 2007 |
| DP6203 | The Race for Telecoms Infrastructure Investment with Bypass: Can Access Regulation Achieve the First-best?
Author(s): João Miguel Bastos Vareda, Steffen Hoernig
Published March 2007 |
| DP6202 | Finance and Efficiency: Do Bank Branching Regulations Matter?
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Jean Imbs, Jason Sturgess
Published March 2007 |
| DP6201 | A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Author(s): Yael Hochberg, Paola Sapienza, Annette Vissing-Jørgensen
Published March 2007 |
| DP6200 | Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence From a Natural Voting Experiment
Author(s): Monika Bütler, Michel André Maréchal
Published March 2007 |
| DP6199 | The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Paris Region
Author(s): Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac, Harris Selod
Published March 2007 |
| DP6198 | The Effect of Segregation and Spatial Mismatch on Unemployment: Evidence from France
Author(s): Laurent Gobillon, Harris Selod
Published March 2007 |
| DP6197 | Search in Cities
Author(s): Yves Zenou
Published March 2007 |
| DP6196 | Do Taxes Explain European Employment? Indivisible Labour, Human Capital, Lotteries and Savings
Author(s): Lars Ljungqvist, Thomas J Sargent
Published March 2007 |
| DP6195 | Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Author(s): Nava Ashraf, Dean S. Karlan, Wesley Yin
Published March 2007 |
| DP6194 | Social Connections and Group Banking
Author(s): Dean S. Karlan
Published March 2007 |
| DP6193 | Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines
Author(s): Xavier Giné, Dean S. Karlan
Published March 2007 |
| DP6192 | Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates
Author(s): Narayana Kocherlakota, Luigi Pistaferri
Published March 2007 |
| DP6191 | Fat City: Questioning the Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity
Author(s): Jean Eid, Henry G Overman, Diego Puga, Matthew A Turner
Published March 2007 |
| DP6190 | Decomposing the Growth in Residential Land in the United States
Author(s): Henry G Overman, Diego Puga, Matthew A Turner
Published March 2007 |
| DP6189 | The Sources of Long-run Growth in Spain 1850-2000
Author(s): Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Joan R. Rosés
Published March 2007 |
| DP6188 | Forecasts of US Short-term Interest Rates: A Flexible Forecast Combination Approach
Author(s): Massimo Guidolin, Allan Timmermann
Published March 2007 |
| DP6187 | Wage Risk and Employment Risk Over the Life Cycle
Author(s): Hamish Low, Costas Meghir, Luigi Pistaferri
Published March 2007 |
| DP6186 | Competing for Capital When Labour is Heterogeneous
Author(s): Yasuhiro Sato, Jacques-François Thisse
Published March 2007 |
| DP6185 | Is the Regulation of the Transport Sector Always Detrimental to Consumers?
Author(s): Kristian Behrens, Carl Gaigné, Jacques-François Thisse
Published March 2007 |
| DP6184 | Aggregating Phillips Curves
Author(s): Jean Imbs, Eric Jondeau, Florian Pelgrin
Published March 2007 |
| DP6183 | Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies
Author(s): Markus K Brunnermeier, Christian Julliard
Published March 2007 |
| DP6182 | Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment
Author(s): Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Published March 2007 |
| DP6181 | Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices and the Preference for Skewed Returns
Author(s): Markus K Brunnermeier, Christian Gollier, Jonathan A Parker
Published March 2007 |
| DP6180 | Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions To Estimate the Impacts
Author(s): Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Published March 2007 |
| DP6179 | Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity
Author(s): Markus K Brunnermeier, Lasse Heje Pedersen
Published March 2007 |
| DP6178 | Are More Important Patents Approved More Slowly and Should They Be?
Author(s): Pierre Régibeau, Katharine Rockett
Published March 2007 |
| DP6177 | A Test of Profit Maximization
Author(s): Björn Marcus Asplund
Published March 2007 |
| DP6176 | The Effect of EU Antitrust Investigations and Fines on a Firm?s Valuation
Author(s): Gregor Langus, Massimo Motta
Published March 2007 |
| DP6175 | The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Author(s): Pieter A. Gautier, Arjen Siegmann, Aico van Vuuren
Published March 2007 |
| DP6174 | International Trade, Security and Transnational Terrorism: Theory and Empirics
Author(s): Daniel Mirza, Thierry Verdier
Published March 2007 |
| DP6173 | Are Lives a Substitute for Livelihoods? Terrorism, Security and US Bilateral Imports
Author(s): Daniel Mirza, Thierry Verdier
Published March 2007 |
| DP6172 | Why OECD Countries should Reform Rules of Origin
Author(s): Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo
Published March 2007 |
| DP6171 | Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training
Author(s): Holger Görg, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
Published March 2007 |
| DP6170 | Sin City?
Author(s): Pieter A. Gautier, Michael Svarer, Coen N Teulings
Published March 2007 |
| DP6169 | Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
Author(s): Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald Wolthoff
Published March 2007 |
| DP6168 | Why a Group Needs a Leader: Decision-making and Debate in Committees.
Author(s): Wouter Dessein
Published March 2007 |
| DP6167 | Improved Errors-in-Variables Estimators for Grouped Data
Author(s): Paul J. Devereux
Published March 2007 |
| DP6166 | The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on the U.S. Stock Market
Author(s): Lutz Kilian, Cheolbeom Park
Published March 2007 |
| DP6165 | Do Voters Vote Sincerely?
Author(s): Arianna Degan, Antonio Merlo
Published March 2007 |
| DP6164 | Political Careers or Career Politicians?
Author(s): Andrea Mattozzi, Antonio Merlo
Published March 2007 |
| DP6163 | Mediocracy
Author(s): Andrea Mattozzi, Antonio Merlo
Published March 2007 |
| DP6162 | Are Sunk Costs a Barrier to Entry?
Author(s): Luís M B Cabral, Thomas Ross
Published March 2007 |
| DP6161 | Robust Portfolio Optimisation with Multiple Experts
Author(s): Frank Lutgens, Peter C Schotman
Published March 2007 |
| DP6160 | Learning-by-Doing, Organizational Forgetting and Industry Dynamics
Author(s): David Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski, Yaroslav Kryukov, Mark Satterthwaite
Published March 2007 |
| DP6159 | Strategic Merger Waves: A Theory of Musical Chairs
Author(s): Flavio Toxvaerd
Published March 2007 |
| DP6158 | Economic Forecasting
Author(s): Graham Elliott, Allan Timmermann
Published March 2007 |
| DP6157 | An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation
Author(s): Gerard van den Berg
Published March 2007 |
| DP6156 | The Great Inflation and Early Disinflation in Japan and Germany
Author(s): Edward Nelson
Published March 2007 |
| DP6155 | Why do Black Workers Search Less? A Transport-Mode Based Theory
Author(s): Yves Zenou
Published March 2007 |
| DP6154 | Public Action for Public Goods
Author(s): Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, Rohini Somanathan
Published March 2007 |
| DP6153 | Women, Work and Culture
Author(s): Raquel Fernández
Published February 2007 |
| DP6152 | Seigniorage
Author(s): Willem H. Buiter
Published February 2007 |
| DP6150 | Accuracy versus Falsification Costs: The Optimal Amount of Evidence under Different Procedures
Author(s): Winand Emons, Claude Fluet
Published February 2007 |
| DP6149 | Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances
Author(s): Enrique G Mendoza, Vincenzo Quadrini, José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Published February 2007 |
| DP6148 | The Returns to Currency Speculation in Emerging Markets
Author(s): Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Sérgio Rebelo
Published February 2007 |
| DP6147 | Financial Globalization and Monetary Policy
Author(s): Michael B Devereux, Alan Sutherland
Published February 2007 |
| DP6146 | Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s
Author(s): Monique Ebell, Albrecht Ritschl
Published February 2007 |
| DP6145 | The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle
Author(s): Francisco Covas, Wouter Den Haan
Published February 2007 |
| DP6144 | Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Author(s): Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
Published February 2007 |
| DP6143 | Political Institutions and Economic Growth
Author(s): Laura Marsiliani, Thomas I Renström
Published February 2007 |
| DP6142 | The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings: Lessons to be Learned from the US Residential Market for Natural Gas
Author(s): Lucas W Davis, Lutz Kilian
Published February 2007 |
| DP6141 | The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis
Author(s): Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner, Jean Tirole
Published February 2007 |
| DP6140 | Long Run Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France
Author(s): Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Tim Watts
Published February 2007 |
| DP6139 | Public investment: a remedy or a curse? Examining the Role of Public Investment for Macroeconomic Performance
Author(s): Mustafa Ismihan, F Gulcin Ozkan
Published February 2007 |
| DP6138 | Macroeconomic Implications of Size-Dependent Policies
Author(s): Nezih Guner, Gustavo Ventura, Yi (Daniel) Xu
Published February 2007 |
| DP6137 | International Financial Integration through Equity Markets: Which Firms from Which Countries Go Global?
Author(s): Stijn Claessens, Sergio Schmukler
Published February 2007 |
| DP6136 | Asset Pricing with Limited Risk Sharing and Heterogeneous Agents
Author(s): Francisco J Gomes, Alexander Michaelides
Published February 2007 |
| DP6135 | Pricing and Trust
Author(s): Steffen Huck, Gabriele K. Ruchala, Jean-Robert Tyran
Published February 2007 |
| DP6134 | Network Security: Vulnerabilities and Disclosure Policy
Author(s): Jay-Pil Choi, Chaim Fershtman, Neil Gandal
Published February 2007 |
| DP6133 | Why are Buyouts Leveraged? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Firms
Author(s): Ulf Axelson, Per Johan Strömberg, Michael Weisbach
Published February 2007 |
| DP6132 | Tying-in Two-Sided Markets and the Honour All Cards Rule
Author(s): Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole
Published February 2007 |
| DP6131 | The Farm, the City and the Emergence of Social Security
Author(s): Elizabeth Caucutt, Thomas F Cooley, Nezih Guner
Published February 2007 |
| DP6130 | Ethnicity and Spatial Externalities in Crime
Author(s): Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
Published February 2007 |
| DP6129 | Social Interactions and Labour Market Outcomes in Cities
Author(s): Yves Zenou
Published February 2007 |
| DP6128 | Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory
Author(s): Stephen L. Ross, Yves Zenou
Published February 2007 |
| DP6127 | The Joint Design of Unemployment Insurance and Employment Protection. A First Pass
Author(s): Olivier J Blanchard, Jean Tirole
Published February 2007 |
| DP6126 | Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Author(s): Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales
Published February 2007 |
| DP6125 | Social Change
Author(s): Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner
Published February 2007 |
| DP6124 | Favouritism or Markets in Capital Allocation?
Author(s): Mariassunta Giannetti, Xiaoyun Yu
Published February 2007 |
| DP6123 | Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets
Author(s): Roland Bénabou, Jean Tirole
Published February 2007 |
| DP6122 | Random Walk Expectations and the Forward Discount Puzzle
Author(s): Philippe Bacchetta, Eric van Wincoop
Published February 2007 |
| DP6121 | Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets
Author(s): Paul L Joskow, Jean Tirole
Published February 2007 |
| DP6120 | Harnessing Success: Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance
Author(s): Sharon Belenzon, Mark Schankerman
Published February 2007 |
| DP6119 | Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How It Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)
Author(s): Marco Del Negro, Frank Schorfheide
Published February 2007 |
| DP6118 | Teaching locals new tricks: foreign experts as a channel of knowledge transfer
Author(s): James R. Markusen, Natalia Trofimenko
Published February 2007 |
| DP6117 | Slow Moving Capital
Author(s): Mark Mitchell, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Todd Pulvino
Published February 2007 |
| DP6116 | Dollarization and Financial Integration
Author(s): Cristina Arellano, Jonathan Heathcote
Published February 2007 |
| DP6115 | The Vanishing Bequest Tax: The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective
Author(s): Graziella Bertocchi
Published February 2007 |
| DP6114 | Privatisation in Poland: What Was the Government Trying to Achieve?
Author(s): Gianni De Fraja, Barbara M Roberts
Published February 2007 |
| DP6113 | Vintage Capital and Expectations Driven Business Cycles
Author(s): Martin Flodén
Published February 2007 |
| DP6112 | Shocks and Frictions in US Business Cycles: A Bayesian DSGE Approach
Author(s): Frank Smets, Rafael Wouters
Published February 2007 |
| DP6111 | Descent Rules and Strategic Transfers. Evidence from Matrilineal Groups in Ghana
Author(s): Eliana La Ferrara
Published February 2007 |
| DP6110 | US Imbalances: The Role of Technology and Policy
Author(s): Rudolfs Bems, Luca Dedola, Frank Smets
Published February 2007 |
| DP6109 | Information Technology, Efficient Restructuring and the Productivity Puzzle
Author(s): Hans Peter Grüner
Published February 2007 |
| DP6108 | Corporate Governance and Regulation: Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing?
Author(s): Valentina G. Bruno, Stijn Claessens
Published February 2007 |
| DP6107 | Incentives and Managerial Experience in Multi-Task Teams: Evidence from Within a Firm
Author(s): Rachel Griffith, Andrew Neely
Published February 2007 |
| DP6106 | College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Author(s): Pietro Garibaldi, Francesco Giavazzi, Andrea Ichino, Enrico Rettore
Published February 2007 |
| DP6105 | Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity
Author(s): Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Haskel
Published February 2007 |
| DP6104 | Financial Constraints and the Costs and Benefits of Vertical Integration
Author(s): Rocco Macchiavello
Published February 2007 |
| DP6103 | The Compromise Game: Two-sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory
Author(s): Juan D Carrillo, Thomas R Palfrey
Published February 2007 |
| DP6102 | Globalization and Profitability of Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions
Author(s): Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson
Published February 2007 |
| DP6101 | Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data
Author(s): Jean Boivin, Marc Giannoni, Ilian Mihov
Published February 2007 |
| DP6100 | The Political Origin of Pension Funding
Author(s): Enrico C Perotti, Armin Schwienbacher
Published February 2007 |
| DP6099 | Is Numérairology the Future of Monetary Economics? Unbundling Numéraire and Medium of Exchange Through a Virtual Currency and a Shadow Exchange Rate
Author(s): Willem H. Buiter
Published February 2007 |
| DP6098 | Money in Monetary Policy Design under Uncertainty: The Two-Pillar Phillips Curve versus ECB-Style Cross-Checking
Author(s): Günter Beck, Volker Wieland
Published February 2007 |
| DP6097 | Money in Monetary Policy Design: A Formal Characterization of ECB-Style Cross-Checking
Author(s): Günter Beck, Volker Wieland
Published February 2007 |
| DP6096 | Endogenous Capacities and Price Competition: The Role of Demand Uncertainty
Author(s): Maria-Angeles de Frutos, Natalia Fabra
Published February 2007 |
| DP6095 | Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms
Author(s): Francesco Caselli, Nicola Gennaioli
Published February 2007 |
| DP6094 | A Generalized Portfolio Approach to Limited Risk Arbitrage: Evidence from the MSCI Global Index Change
Author(s): Harald Hau
Published February 2007 |
| DP6093 | Efficiency Gains and Structural Remedies in Merger Control
Author(s): Helder Vasconcelos
Published February 2007 |
| DP6092 | Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy
Author(s): Carlo A. Favero, Francesco Giavazzi
Published February 2007 |
| DP6091 | Royalty Stacking in High Tech Industries: Separating Myth from Reality
Author(s): Damien Geradin, Anna Layne-Farrar, Atilano Jorge Padilla
Published February 2007 |
| DP6090 | The Political Economy of Public Investment
Author(s): Roel Beetsma, Frederick van der Ploeg
Published February 2007 |
| DP6089 | Pension systems, Intergenerational Risk Sharing and Inflation
Author(s): Roel Beetsma, A Lans Bovenberg
Published February 2007 |
| DP6088 | On the Relationship between Fiscal Plans in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis Based on Real-Time Data
Author(s): Roel Beetsma, Massimo Giuliodori
Published February 2007 |
| DP6087 | Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training
Author(s): Jérôme Adda, Christian Dustmann, Costas Meghir, Jean-Marc Robin
Published February 2007 |
| DP6086 | Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
Author(s): Amelie Constant, Laura V. Zimmermann, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published February 2007 |
| DP6085 | The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
Author(s): Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published February 2007 |
| DP6084 | Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Author(s): Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F Zimmermann
Published February 2007 |
| DP6083 | Combination Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions
Author(s): Estelle Cantillon, Martin Pesendorfer
Published February 2007 |
| DP6082 | Procurement when Price and Quality Matter
Author(s): John Asker, Estelle Cantillon
Published February 2007 |
| DP6081 | The Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies: Theory and Applications
Author(s): Matthew Rabin, Dimitri Vayanos
Published February 2007 |
| DP6080 | Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Author(s): James R. Markusen, Bridget Strand
Published February 2007 |
| DP6079 | A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Firm's Life Cycle and Mergers as Efficient Reallocation
Author(s): Kyriakos Frantzeskakis, Masako Ueda
Published February 2007 |
| DP6078 | Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepôt Trade
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Peter Moustakerski, Shang-Jin Wei
Published February 2007 |
| DP6077 | The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Author(s): Luis Garicano, Thomas Hubbard
Published February 2007 |
| DP6076 | Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors
Author(s): Lubos Pástor, Robert F. Stambaugh
Published February 2007 |
| DP6075 | Research Cycles
Author(s): Yann Bramoullé, Gilles Saint-Paul
Published February 2007 |
| DP6074 | Investigation of the Costly-Arbitrage Model of Price Formation Around the Ex-Dividend Day
Author(s): Qinglei Dai, Kristian Rydqvist
Published February 2007 |
| DP6073 | Competition vs. Regulation in Mobile Telecommunications
Author(s): Johan Stennek, Thomas P. Tangerås
Published February 2007 |
| DP6072 | Exclusive Quality - Why Exclusive Distribution May Benefit the TV Viewers
Author(s): Johan Stennek
Published January 2007 |
| DP6071 | Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microfinance
Author(s): Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Published January 2007 |
| DP6070 | The Economic Impact of Central Bank Transparency: A Survey
Author(s): Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Carin A B van der Cruijsen
Published January 2007 |
| DP6069 | Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico
Author(s): Alain de Janvry, Pierre Dubois, Elisabeth Sadoulet
Published January 2007 |
| DP6068 | Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade
Author(s): Joseph Francois, Miriam Manchin
Published January 2007 |
| DP6067 | Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with a Preference for Robustness
Author(s): Richard Dennis, Kai Leitemo, Ulf Söderström
Published January 2007 |
| DP6066 | The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Author(s): Graziella Bertocchi, Chiara Strozzi
Published January 2007 |
| DP6065 | On Globalization and the Growth of Governments
Author(s): Paolo Epifani, Gino Gancia
Published January 2007 |
| DP6064 | Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
Author(s): John Beirne, Nauro F. Campos
Published January 2007 |
| DP6063 | Anticipated Growth and Business Cycles in Matching Models
Author(s): Wouter Den Haan, Georg Kaltenbrunner
Published January 2007 |
| DP6062 | Solving Heterogeneous-Agent Models with Parameterized Cross-Sectional Distributions
Author(s): Yann Algan, Olivier Allais, Wouter Den Haan
Published January 2007 |
| DP6061 | Entrepreneurial Learning, the IPO Decision, and the Post-IPO Drop in Firm Profitability
Author(s): Lubos Pástor, Lucian Taylor, Pietro Veronesi
Published January 2007 |
| DP6060 | Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Author(s): Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac
Published January 2007 |
| DP6059 | Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit
Author(s): Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer
Published January 2007 |
| DP6058 | The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Author(s): Alan Manning, Barbara Petrongolo
Published January 2007 |
| DP6057 | How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly; Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
Author(s): Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours
Published January 2007 |
| DP6056 | The Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skill - Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
Author(s): Guy Michaels
Published January 2007 |
| DP6055 | Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets
Author(s): Fernando A Broner, Alberto Martín, Jaume Ventura
Published January 2007 |
| DP6054 | Grant Support and Exporting Activity
Author(s): Holger Görg, Michael Henry, Eric Strobl
Published January 2007 |
| DP6053 | When are Supply and Demand Determined Recursively Rather than Simultaneously? Another look at the Fulton Fish Market Data
Author(s): Kathryn Graddy, Peter E Kennedy
Published January 2007 |
| DP6052 | Can Production Subsidies Foster Export Activity? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data
Author(s): Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Zhihong Yu
Published January 2007 |
| DP6051 | Consumption Smoothing and Income Redistribution
Author(s): Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger
Published January 2007 |
| DP6050 | The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Author(s): Graziella Bertocchi, Chiara Strozzi
Published January 2007 |
| DP6049 | Industry Reallocations in a Globalizing Economy
Author(s): Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Gianmarco Ottaviano
Published January 2007 |
| DP6048 | International Profit Shifting within European Multinationals
Author(s): Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven
Published January 2007 |
| DP6047 | Genetic Tests and Intertemporal Screening in Competitive Insurance Markets
Author(s): Winand Emons
Published January 2007 |
| DP6046 | What Do Independent Directors Know? Evidence from Their Trading
Author(s): Enrichetta Ravina, Paola Sapienza
Published January 2007 |
| DP6045 | Political Connections and Preferential Access to Finance: The Role of Campaign Contributions
Author(s): Stijn Claessens, Erik Feijen, Luc Laeven
Published January 2007 |
| DP6044 | Liquidity and Capital Structure
Author(s): Ronald W. Anderson, Andrew Carverhill
Published January 2007 |
| DP6043 | A Two-Step Estimator for Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models Based on Kalman Filtering
Author(s): Catherine Doz, Domenico Giannone, Lucrezia Reichlin
Published January 2007 |
| DP6042 | Delegation and Incentives
Author(s): Helmut Bester, Daniel Krähmer
Published January 2007 |
| DP6041 | Coarse Matching and Price Discrimination
Author(s): Heidrun C. Hoppe-Wewetzer, Benny Moldovanu, Emre Ozdenoren
Published January 2007 |
| DP6040 | Optimal Debt Contracts under Costly Enforcement
Author(s): Hans K Hvide, Tore Leite
Published January 2007 |
| DP6039 | Management of Knowledge Workers
Author(s): Hans K Hvide, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen
Published January 2007 |
| DP6038 | Dynamic Choice, Independence, and Emotions
Author(s): Astrid Hopfensitz, Frans A.A.M. van Winden
Published January 2007 |
| DP6037 | Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
Author(s): Henrik Horn, Giovanni Maggi, Robert W. Staiger
Published January 2007 |
| DP6036 | Bank Imputed Interest Rates: Unbiased Estimates of Offered Rates?
Author(s): Evren Örs, Tara Rice
Published January 2007 |
| DP6035 | Optimal external debt and default
Author(s): Bernardo Guimarães
Published January 2007 |
| DP6034 | Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Author(s): Annette Bergemann, Gerard van den Berg
Published January 2007 |
| DP6033 | Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing
Author(s): Pol Antràs, Elhanan Helpman
Published January 2007 |
| DP6032 | The Geography of Asset Trade and the Euro: Insiders and Outsiders
Author(s): Nicolas Coeurdacier, Philippe Martin
Published January 2007 |
| DP6031 | The Central Banker as a Risk Manager: Estimating the Federal Reserve's Preferences under Greenspan
Author(s): Lutz Kilian, Simone Manganelli
Published January 2007 |
| DP6030 | Pricing to Habits and the Law of One Price
Author(s): Morten O Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe
Published January 2007 |
| DP6029 | Finance and Efficiency: Do Bank Branching Regulations Matter?
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Jean Imbs, Jason Sturgess
Published January 2007 |
| DP6027 | Evaluating An Estimated New Keynesian Small Open Economy Model
Author(s): Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé, Mattias Villani
Published January 2007 |
| DP6025 | Pricing Patents for Licensing in Standard Setting Organisations: Making Sense of FRAND Commitments
Author(s): Anna Layne-Farrar, Atilano Jorge Padilla, Richard Schmalensee
Published January 2007 |
| DP6024 | Loans or Grants
Author(s): Daniel Cohen, Pierre Jacquet, Helmut Reisen
Published January 2007 |
| DP6021 | Risk-bearing and Entrepreneurship
Author(s): Andrew Newman
Published January 2007 |
| DP6019 | Organizing for Synergies
Author(s): Wouter Dessein, Luis Garicano, Robert Gertner
Published January 2007 |
