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2008 Publications

 Number

Title

Author

884 Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators

Wiji Arulampalam and
Mark B. Stewart

883 Income Rank and Upward Comparisons Christopher J. Boyce and
Gordon D. A. Brown
882 Happiness and Productivity Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi
881 Intellectual Property Disclosure as 'Threat' Scott Baker, Pak Yee Lee and Claudio Mezzetti
880 Trust-Based Mechanisms for Robust and Efficient Task Allocation in the Presence of Execution Uncertainty Rajdeep K Dash,
Andrea Giovannucci,
Nicholas R. Jennings, Claudio Mezzetti, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
879 The Frequency of Wars Mark Harrison
878 On Risk Aversion in the Rubinstein Bargaining Game Emanuel Kohlscheen and Stephen O’Connell
877 The Optimal Choice of Pre-launch Reviewer: How Best to Transmit Information using Tests and Conditional Pricing

David Gill and Daniel Sgroi

876 Testing for Smooth Transition Nonlinearity in Adjustments of Cointegrating Systems Milan Nedeljkovic
875 Family Labor Supply and Aggregate Saving Paulo Santos Monteiro
874 Testing Full Consumption Insurance in the Frequency Domain Paulo Santos Monteiro
873 Cash Breeds Success : The Role of Financing Constraints in Patent Races Enrique Schroth and Dezsö Szalay
872 Are Central Banks following a linear or nonlinear (augmented) Taylor rule? Vítor Castro
871 Was Germany ever united? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885 – 1933 Nikolaus Wolf
870 Explanations of the inconsistencies in survey respondents'forecasts Michael P Clements
869 Rounding of probability forecasts : The SPF forecast probabilities of negative output growth Michael P Clements
868 Herding and Contrarianism in a Financial Trading Experiment with Endogenous Timing Andreas Park and Daniel Sgroi
867 The Celtic Tiger In Historical And International Perspective

Nicholas Crafts

866 Noncooperative Oligopoly in Markets with a Continuum of Traders Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato and Sayantan Ghosal
865 Testing for seasonal unit roots in heterogeneous panels using monthly data in the presence of cross sectional dependence Jesús Otero,
Jeremy Smith and Monica Giulietti
864 Sequential Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights Frederic Payot and Dezsö Szalay
863 Monopoly, Non-linear Pricing, and Imperfect Information : A Reconsideration of the Insurance Market Dezsö Szalay
862 Debt Bailouts and Constitutions Emanuel Kohlscheen
861 Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data (updated 2009) Dennis Novy
860 The duration of economic expansions and recessions: More than duration dependence Vítor Castro
859 How Good was the Profitability of British Railways, 1870-1912?
(revised August 2009)
Brian Mitchell,
David Chambers and Nicholas Crafts
858 Regulating a Monopolist with unknown costs and unknown quality capacity Charles Blackorby and Dezsö Szalay
857 Aversion to Price Risk and the Afternoon Effect Claudio Mezzetti
856 Financial Systems, Micro-Systemic Risks and Central Bank Policy : An Analytical Taxonomy of the Literature Ashwin Moheeput
855 Issues on the choice of Exchange Rate Regimes and Currency Boards –An Analytical Survey Ashwin Moheeput
854 When Herding and Contrarianism Foster Market Efficiency: A Financial Trading Experiment

Andreas Park and Daniel Sgroi

853 Financial Fragility, Systemic Risks and Informational Spillovers: Modelling Banking Contagion as State-Contingent Change in Cross-Bank Correlation Ashwin Moheeput
852 Commercialisation, Factor Prices and Technological Progress in the Transition to Modern Economic Growth Stephen Broadberry, Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto
851 Fertility Response to Financial Incentives - Evidence from the Working Families Tax Credit in the UK Asako Ohinata
850 The Debt-Adjusted Exchange Rate for China Jan Frait and Luboš Komárek
849 Financial Integration of Stock Markets among New EU Member States and the Euro Area Jan Babecký, Luboš Komárek and Zlatuše Komárková
848 Resolving the Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Response to Professor Ritschl Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop
847 Did the Single Market Cause Competition in Excise Taxes? Evidence from EU Countries Ben Lockwood and Giuseppe Migali
846 The Effect of the Exchange Rates on Investment in Mexican Manufacturing Industry Mustafa Caglayan and Rebeca Muñoz Torres
845 Auctions in which Losers Set the Price Claudio Mezzetti and Ilia Tsetlin
844 Democracy, Collective Action and Intra-elite Conflict Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto
843

The Impact of (In)Equality of Opportunities on Wealth Distribution: Evidence from Ultimatum Games

Gianluca Grimalda, Anirban Kar and Eugenio Proto

842

Isolation, Assurance and Rules: Can Rational Folly Supplant Foolish Rationality? (updated)

Peter J. Hammond

841 Some Evidence on the Future of Economics Andrew J Oswald and Hilda Ralsmark 
840

Chain-Store Competition: Customized vs. Uniform Pricing

Paul W. Dobson and Michael Waterson

839 On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings?

Andrew J Oswald

838

Are immigrants so stuck to the floor that the ceiling is irrelevant?

Priscillia Hunt

837 Cournot-Walras Equilibrium as a Subgame Perfect Equilibrium Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, and Sayantan Ghosal
836

Moral hazard, bank runs and contagion

Shurojit Chatterji and
Sayantan Ghosal
835 Beyond Normal Form Invariance: First Mover Advantage in Two-Stage Games with or without Predictable Cheap Talk Peter Hammond
834 Behavioural Decisions and Welfare Patricio Dalton and Sayantan Ghosal 

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