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Accepted Papers for General Sessions

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Few bad apples or plenty of lemons: which makes it harder to market plums?

Adriani, F and LG Deidda

Pension reform and savings

Aguila, E

The political economy of job protection and income redistribution

Amable, B and D Gatti

Sequential Information Flow and Real-Time Diagnosis of Swiss Inflation: IntraMonthly DCF Estimates for a Low-Inflation Environment

Amstad, M and AM Fischer

Self-enforcing exchange among generations: implications for consumption and mobility

Anderberg, D

Monetary policy and fiscul rules

Annicchiarico, B, G Marini and A Piergallini

Doctor who? Who gets admissoin offers in UK medical schools

Arulampalam, W, RA Naylor and J Smith

Intra and inter-household externalities in children's schooling in a developing country

Asadullah, MN

Gender and household education expenditure in Pakistan

Aslam, M

Credit rationing in high-tech firms and sample selection

Atzeni, G and C Piga

How to measure allocative efficiency at the firm level? A new approach with empirical application

Badunenko, O, M Fritsch and A Stephan

What moves equity prices in the UK and the US? How far can consumption of durable goods improve our understanding?

Banerjee, R and I Contractor

Tax distortion, coutervailing subsidies and income redistribution

Barbaro, S

On modeling household labor supply with taxation

Bargain, O

Inequality and industrialization

Basu, P and A Guariglia

Financing unemployment benefits: dismissal taxes versus employment taxes

Baumann, F and N Stähler

University funding systems and their impact on research and teaching

Beath, J, J Poyago-Theotoky and D Ulph

The determinants of high-tech versus low-tech R&D investment: evidence from testing the pool assumption

Becker, B and SG Hall

Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Becker, SO, K Ekholm, R Jackle and M-A Mundler

Credit shocks in the financial deregulatory era: not the usual suspects

Benk, S, M Gillman and M Kejak

A comparison of exchange economies within a monetary business cycle

Benk, S, M Gillman and M Kejak

R&D and M&A: Are cross-border M&A different? An investigation on OECD countries

Bertrand, O and P Zuniga

Inflation targeting, committee decision making and uncertainty: the case of the Bank of England's MPC

Bhattacharjee, A and S Holly

Evolution of a labour market through crisis and transition: evidence from the Bulgarian Market for Off-Farm Employment

Bhaumik, SK, R Dimova and JB Nugent

Monetary policy transparency: lessons from Germany and the Eurozone

Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal, I and P Howells

International evidence of intergenerational mobility

Blanden, J

Exporting vs. outsourcing by MNC Subsidiaries: which determines FDI spillovers?

Blyde, J, M Kugler and E Stein

Income and happiness: new results from generalized threshold and sequential models

Boes, S and R Winkelmann

The trade-off between monetary and fiscal stability: international lenders and political instability

Bohn, F

Adjustment costs and the identification of Cobb Douglas production functions

Bond, S and M Söderbom

Aging pension reform and capital flows: a multi-country simulation model

Börsch-Supan, A, A Ludwig and J Winter

Job raiding raises human capital investments

Boschmans, K and J Bouckaert

Has increased competition really pushed down manufacturing markups

Boulhol, H

A model of delegation in contests

Brandauer, S and F Englmaier

Economic geography and demand-driven industrialisation

Breinlich, H

Did working families' tax credit work? Analysing the impact of in-work support on labour supply and programme participation

Brewer, M, A Duncan, A Shephard and M José Suárez

Attitudes on mixed lotteries: a simple experiment

Brooks, P and H Zank

Religion and education: evidence from the National Child Development Study

Brown, S and K Taylor

Riding the wave: monetary responses to aid surges in low-income countries

Buffie, E, C Adam, S O'Connell and C Pattillo

The impact of choice on educational outcomes: sorting by ability across English secondary schools

Burgess, S, B McConnell, C Propper and D Wilson

Resolving questions about bias in real and hypothetical referenda

Burton, AC, KS Carson, SM Chilton, WG Hutchinson

US imports and exchange rate votatility: a real sectoral bilateral analysis

Byrne, J, K Darby and R MacDonald

Information creation and competition in telecommunications networks

Cambini, C and TM Valletti

Trade liberalisation, labour market reform and political instability the world around: a panel data approach

Campos, NF, C Hsiao and JB Nugent

Price setting general equilibrium with intermediate goods

Canning, D and J Jin

Courage to capital? A model of the effects of rating agencies on sovereign debt roll-over

Carlson, M and G Hale

Divide to conquer

Chen, Z

The causal effect of education on depression

Chevalier, A and L Feinstein

Public policy and saving for retirement: evidence from the introduction of stakeholder pensions in the UK

Chung, W, R Disney, C Emmerson and M Wakefield

Endogenous redistributive cycles

Clemens, C and M Heinemann

Women in politics. Evidence from the Indian states

Clots-Figueras, I

Anti-dumping duties and the Byrd amendment

Collie, DR and H Vandenbusche

Habit formation and interest-rate smoothing

Corrado, L and S Holly

Is the child health/family income gradient universal? Evidence from England

Currie, A, MA Shields and S Wheatley Price

The behaviour of HEGY tests for quarterly time series with seasonal mean shifts

da Silva Lopes, ACB and A Montañés

The new deal for young peole (NDYP) five years on

De Giorgi, G

Exclusive contracts foster relationship-specific investment

de Meza, D and M Selvaggi

Nominal and real wage rigidity: an assessment using Italian microdata

Devicienti, F, A Maida and P Sestito

How to measure the unobservable: a panel technique for the analysis of TFP convergence

Di Liberto, A, R Mura and F Pigliaru

Use IT or lose IT? The impact of computers on earnings

Dolton, P, G Makepeace, H Robinson

Racial harassment, ethnic concentration and economic conditions

Dustmann, C, F Fabbri and I Preston

The road to extinction: commons with capital markets

Dutta, J and C Rowat

Outsourcing and trade in a spatial world

Egger, H and P Egger

The implications of tax evasion for economic growth

Eichhorn, C

Strong contagion with weak spillovers

Ellison, M, L Graham and J Vilmunen

Intellectual property rights, creditor protection and input allocation

Fabbri, D and AMC Menichini

Money- and exchange-rate-based disinflation in a redux model with staggered wage setting

Fender, J and N Rankin

The impact of the Barnett formula on the Scottish economy: a general equilibrium analysis

Ferguson, L, D Learmonth, PG McGregor, JK Swales and K Turner

intra- and inter-firm technoogy transfer in an international oligopoly

Ferrett, B

Price discrimination in oligopolies with best-response asymmetry

Feuerstein, S

The impact of competition on the resilience of payment systems

Fish, S and M Willison

To teach or not to teach? Panel data evidence on the quitting decision

Frijters, P, MA Shields and S Wheatley Price

The distribution and heterogeneity of technical efficiency within industries: an empirical assessment

Fritsch, M and A Stephan

Peer effects and school textbooks: elementary school education in Franophone Africa

Frölich, M and K Michaelowa

Exchange rate regimes in central and eastern european countries: deeds vs. words

Frömmel, M and F Schobert

What accounts for international differences in student performance? A re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, T and L Woessmann

The international effects of government spending composition

Ganelli, G

Bargaining, coordination and sovereign debt crisis

Ghosal, S and K Thampanishvong

The impact of simple fiscal rules in growth models with public goods and congestion

Ghosh, S and C Nolan

The political economy of financial development

Girma, S and A Shortland

Exporting, linkages and productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment

Girma, S, H Görg and M Pisu

Outsourcing, foreign ownership, exporting and productivity: An empirical investigation with plant level data

Görg, H, A Hanley and E Strobl

Are oligarchs productive?

Gorodnichenko, Y and Y Grygorenko

Nominal dept dynamics and monetary policy

Graham, L and S Wright

Debt and taxes in a developing economy: a study of Indian quoted and unquoted companies

Green, CJ and V Murinde

Size of the R&D sector and level of growth in a model with endogenous fertility

Grimaud, A and F Touremaine

Misspecification tests for GARCH models

Halunga, AG and CD Orme

Sabotage and the endogenous design of tournaments

Harbring, C and B Irlenbusch

Partial equilibrium analysis in a market game: the strategic marshallian cross

Hartley, R and A Dickson

Strategic R&D investments and strategic debt

Hauenschild, N

The evolution of public spending on higher education in a democracy

Haupt, A

The socio-economic consequences of early child bearing: evidence from a sample of UK female

Hawkes, D

Fly me to the moon - the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK

Heineck, G

The chicken or the egg? Endogeneity in labour market participation of informal carers in England

Heitmueller, A

We ran one regression

Hendry, DF and H-M Krolzig

Time variation and asymmetry in the world price of covariance risk: the implications for international diversification

Henry, ÓT, N Olekalns and KK Shields

The curse of natural resources in fractionalized countries

Hodler, R

Workfare, monitoring, and efficiency wages

Holzner, C, V Meier and M Werding

National uncertainty aversion and sectoral growth pattern

Huang, RR

Modelling interest rate pass-through with endogenous switching regimes in Argentina

Humala, A

Nondurables consumer demand and the role of labour supply and durables

Hussain, I

The Russian flat tax reform: an assessment

Ivanova, A, M Keen and A Klemm

Risk shifting, technology policy and sales contingent claims

Kaivanto, K and P Stoneman

Log quadratic stochastic volatility models

Kawakatsu, H

Company dividends and ownership structure: evidence from UK panel data

Khan, T

Optimal fiscal feedback in an economy with inflation persistence

Kirsanova, T and S Wren-Lewis

Sovereign risk: constitutions rule

Kochlscheen, E

Why are more redistributive social security systems smaller? A median voter approach

Kothenburger, M, P Poutvaara and P Profeta

Does innovation cause exports? Evidence from exogenous innovation impulses and obstacles using German micro data

Lachenmaier, S and L Woessmann

Social interactions and schooling decisions

Lalive, R and J Cattaneo

An alternative approach to testing dual labour market theory

Launov, A

To send or not to send? Dropout schooling as a result of a rational household optimization: simulating a transfer program based on survival analysis in Peru

Lavado, P and J Gallegos

Capital inflows, trade openness and financial development in developing countries

Law, SH and P Demetriades

Overcoming measurement error problems in the use of survey data on expectations

Lee, K and K Shields

Indicating financial distress using probability forecasts: an application to the UK unsecured credit market

Lee, K and P Mizen

The Taylor principle in a New Keynesian model with capital accumulation, government debt dynamics and non-Ricardian consumers

Leith, C and L von Thadden

Public debt, debt maturity and currency crises

Levine, P, A Mandilaras and J Wang

Loss aversion and preference uncertainty

Loomes, G, S Orr and R Sugden

What drives home bias? Evidence from fund managers' views

Lütje, T and L Menkhoff

Lone motherhood and secondary school choice in Germany

Mahler, P

Mother's age at birth, health inputs and child mortality: recent evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, P and S Pal

Sectoral exchange rate pass-through: testing the impact of India's 1990s policy reforms

Mallick, S and H Marques

Globalisation and the empowerment of talent

Marin, D and T Verdier

Sectoral impact of free intra-EU migration in the presence of unemployment benefits

Marques, H and H Metcalf

Firm-level social returns to education

Martins, PS

A critique of rule-of-thumb/indexing microfoundations for inflation persistence

Mash, R

Demand for education and labour market outcomes: lessons from the abolition of compulsory conscription in France

Maurin, E and T Xenogiani

Overeducation and the graduate labour market: a quantile regression approach

McGuinness, S and J Doyle

The role of ICT in the global investment cycle

McMahon, M, G Sterne and J Thompson

Smooth-transition dynamics in UK price-dividend ratio: the present value model, market sentiment and do prices revert to fundamental value?

McMillan, DG

Profits and speculation in intra-day foreign exchange trading

Mende, A and L Menkhoff

The wealth effect on new business startups in a developing economy

Mesnard, A and M Ravallion

A collective retirement model: identification and estimation in the presence of externalities

Michaud, P-C and F Vermeulen

Credit crunch and Keynesian contraction: Argentina in crisis

Miller, M, JG Fronti and L Zhang

World finance and US "New Economy": welfare efficiency and moral hazard

Miller, M, O Castrén and L Zhang

Planned fertility and family background. A quantile regression for counts analysis

Miranda, A

Aggregate scale economies, market integration and optimal welfare state policy

Molana, H and C Montagna

Causality between agricultural exports, productivity and subsidies in the European union

Morgan, W and B Morley

Simultaneous inter-and intra-group conflicts

Munster, J

Oranges and steel - a swing-state theory of trade protection in the electoral college

Muuls, M and D Petropoulou

Multilateral environmental agreements and trade obligations: a theoretical analysis of the Doha proposal

Naghavi, A

Can private intermediaries assure contracts? Experimental evidence

Neugebauer, T

The influence of a heterogeneous banking sector on the interbank market rate in the euro area

Neyer, U and J Wiemers

Creditor Protection and the Dynamics of the Distribution in Oligarchin Societies

Oechslin, M

Testing the effects of holding forward contracts on the behaviour of suppliers in an electricity auction

Oh, H and T Mount

Testing for adverse selection in a national health service

Olivella, P and M Vera-Hernandez

Private funding of public goods through competition - an experimental study

Orzen, H

Market efficiency in person-to-person betting

Paton, D, MA Smith and LV Williams

Can wage and price stickiness account for sizeable costs of business cycle fluctuations?

Paustian, M

A model of Veblenian growth

Peng, B

Job competition, product market competition and welfare

Pompermaier, A

Endogenous volatility, welfare and taxation

Posch, O and K Walde

Evolutionary stability of constant consistent conjectures

Possajennikov, A

Testing for utility interdependence in marriage: evidence from panel data

Powdthavee, N

Returns to equity, investment and Q: evidence from the UK

Price, S and C Schleicher

Trade and strategic regulatory bias in monopolitic industries

Regner, T

The productivity impact of e-commerce in the UK, 2001: evidence from microdata

Rincon, A, C Robinson and M Vecchi

The economic impact of health care provision: a general equilibrium assessment of policy options in the UK's NHS

Rutten, M, A Blake and G Reed

Hierarchic contracting

Sanchez Villalba, MA and R Hortala-Vallve

Deviations from purchasing power parity under different exchange rate regimes: do they revert and, if so, how?

Sarno, L and G Valente

Private provision of a complementary public good

Schmidtke, R

On the prudence of rewarding A, while hoping for B: Performance Measures and Effort Allocation Between Tasks

Schnedler, W

Optimal taxation with commitment in a two-sector neoclassical economy

Selim, ST

Dynamic prudential regulation: is prompt corrective action optimal?

Shim, I

Can the retirement-consumption puzzle be resolved? Evidence from UK panel data

Smith, S

An arbitrage-free macroeconomic model of the UK gilt-edged bond market 1979-2004

Spencer, P

The targeted negative income tax (TNIT) in practice - evidence from the first field experiments in Germany

Spermann, A and H Strotmann

The other margin: do minimum wages cause working hours adjustments for low-wage workers?

Stewart, MB and JK Swaffield

Wage dispersion and equilibrium search models: some evidence from Italy

Sulis, G

Communication, co-operation and collusion in team tournaments - an experimental study

Sutter, M and DR Strassmair

Tilting the playing field: why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance

Szymanski, S

Bank loans versus bond finance: implications for sovereign debtors

Tanaka, M

Dualism and cross-country growth regressions

Temple, J and L Wossmann

Disclosure standards and market efficiency: evidence from analysts' forecasts

Tong, H

Contagion, corporate pensions and leverage: simulation and empirical evidence from the UK

Trivedi, K and G Young

Recruitment policy when firms observe workers' employment status: an equilibrium search approach

Tudela, CC

Earnings management, venture capital and IPOs on the neuer market

Tykvova, T

The impact of the national minimum wage in low wage sectors: does the earnings top-up evaluation study add to our understanding?

Urwin, P, G Jack and S Lissenburgh

Public versus private provision of daycare: an experimental evaluation

Viitanen, TK

A perfect marriage: child-related pensions and public education

Voigtländer, M

Child support liability and partnership dissolution

Walker, I and Y Zhu

Seniority, experience, and wages in the UK

Williams, N

Economies of scope and patterns of global outsourcing

Yu, Z

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