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Daniel Aaronson

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  • Spending, income, and debt responses to minimum-wage hikes

Susan Ariel Aaronson

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  • Trade agreements as global internet governance
  • Remake trade through a US-EU partnership
  • How disciplining China could save the WTO

Arnelyn Abdon

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  • China and India: Those two big outliers
  • A new measure of national “opportunities” for development

Abdul Abiad

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  • What are the costs of reducing a large current-account surplus?

Ran Abramitzky

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  • Productivity and migration: New insights from the 19th century

Laura Abramovsky

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  • Offshoring of high-skilled workers is not a zero-sum game

Leo Abruzzese

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  • The 2010 Women’s Economic Opportunity Index

Antonio Accetturo

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  • Being in a global value chain: Hell or heaven?

Olivier Accominotti

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  • China’s “dollar trap”: Lessons from France’s 1920s “sterling trap”

Antonio Acconcia

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  • What is the size of the fiscal multiplier? An estimate you can’t refuse

Daron Acemoglu

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  • Cuddly or cut-throat capitalism: Choosing models in a globalised world
  • How cooperation evolves: History, expectations, and leadership
  • The political limits to globalisation

Viral Acharya

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  • A better way to design global financial regulation
  • Banking union in Europe and other reforms
  • A tale of two overhangs: The nexus of financial sector and sovereign credit risks

Graeme Acheson

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  • Has equity always earned a premium? Evidence from nineteenth-century Britain

Matthew Adler

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  • Why did US trade grow? The role of trade liberalisation
  • Why large American gains from globalisation are plausible

Malin Adolfson

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  • Monetary policy and the models

Gara Afonso

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  • What happened to US interbank lending in the financial crisis?

Pierre-Richard Agénor

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  • Gender equality and economic growth: A framework for policy analysis
  • Avoiding middle-income growth traps

Philippe Aghion

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  • Green innovation
  • Kick-starting the green innovation machine
  • Innovation and institutional ownership

Ernesto Aguayo-Téllez

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  • Does trade liberalisation empower women? Evidence from 1990s Mexico

Mark Aguiar

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  • How are unemployed persons spending their newfound time?

Itai Agur

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  • Financial stability is a task for central banks

Alan Ahearne

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  • How to prick housing bubbles in a monetary union: taxes and regulation
  • More EU influence at the IMF with fewer chairs

Raman Ahmed

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  • Why do the Chinese save so much?

Dukgeun Ahn

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  • Is the Chinese exchange-rate regime "WTO-legal"?

Rahel Aichele

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  • Kyoto and the carbon content of trade

Toke S. Aidt

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  • Political regimes and international trade

Karl Aiginger

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  • The inefficiency of industrial and innovation policy in France

David Aikman

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  • Curbing the credit cycle

Jim Airola

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  • Does trade liberalisation empower women? Evidence from 1990s Mexico

Ari Aisen

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  • Bank credit during the global crisis: A cross-country comparison
  • Global imbalances: Are emerging markets the new guest at the party?

Yacine Aït-Sahalia

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  • Global financial crisis: What policy responses do markets favour?

Shekhar Aiyar

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  • Can governments control the supply of credit? Evidence from a UK policy experiment
  • From financial crisis to Great Recession: Where do the banks fit in?
  • How big is India’s demographic dividend?

Joshua Aizenman

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  • Why do emerging markets liberalise capital-outflow controls? Fiscal versus net capital flow concerns
  • Macroeconomic adjustment and the history of crises in open economies
  • US Banking over two centuries: Lessons for the Eurozone crisis

Randall Akee

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  • Parents’ incomes and children’s outcomes

George A. Akerlof

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  • The cat in the tree and further observations: Rethinking macroeconomic policy

Farooq Akram

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  • Resolving the “arbitrage paradox” in foreign exchange markets

M. Ataman Aksoy

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  • Why reforms fail: Political-economy forces and agriculture in Africa
  • The evolution of agricultural trade flows

Stefania Albanesi

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  • Gender, medicine and papa leave

Ronald Albers

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  • Cooking up trouble: Soaring food and fuel prices in North Africa and the Middle East

Ugo Albertazzi

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  • Securitisation: Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater

Cinzia Alcidi

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  • What's wrong with Spain?
  • The European experience with large fiscal adjustments
  • Is Greece different? Adjustment difficulties in southern Europe

Gani Aldashev

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  • NGO competition, a double-edged sword

Mariya Aleksynska

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  • South-South investment, institutional quality, and natural resources

Alberto Alesina

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  • Ethnic inequality
  • Cut deficits by cutting spending
  • A tale of two divergences

Pietro Alessandrini

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  • The Eurozone crisis: Fiscal fragility, external imbalances, or both?

Dony Alex

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  • The Great Recession and India’s trade collapse

Fernando Alexandre

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  • Implementing the Bologna process: Do students support a shorter first degree?

Alan S. Alexandroff

Michelle Alexopoulos

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  • Uncertainty and the credit crisis: The worst may be over

Laura Alfaro

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  • Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care
  • Upstream sovereigns
  • Multinational firms, agglomeration, and global networks

Roger Alford

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  • Should we break up Britain’s banks? An appeal to rationale over dogma

Yann Algan

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  • France: The price of suspicion
  • Trust and economic development

Kari EO Alho

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  • Should the Eurozone enlarge?

Shimelse Ali

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  • Club Med and the Sun Belt: Lessons from adjustment within a monetary union
  • A new measure of the global middle class
  • Is protectionism dying?

S. M. Ali Abbas

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  • A century of public debt and what have we learned?
  • Fiscal policy and global imbalances

Peter Allen

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  • A Trichet Plan for the Eurozone

Robert C. Allen

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  • Why was the Industrial Revolution British?

Franklin Allen

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  • The financial implications of a banking union
  • Cross-border banking in Europe

Douglas Almond

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  • The long-term impact of life before birth
  • The effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy

Miguel Almunia

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  • The effectiveness of fiscal and monetary stimulus in depressions

Ron Alquist

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  • Fire-sale FDI: All smoke and no fire?

Carlo Altomonte

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  • Triggering competitiveness: A 'decalogue' from new firm-level evidence
  • Global value chains are not all born identical: Evidence from France
  • Trading ain’t easy: How complex is it to trade goods?

Joseph G. Altonji

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  • The anemic response of skill investment to skill premium growth

Giuliano Amato

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  • A new deal for Eurozone growth and stability: An open letter to the President of the European Council

Mary Amiti

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  • The exchange rate disconnect and international supply chains: Firm-level evidence
  • Exports and financial shocks: New evidence from Japan
  • Doha Round will benefit poor nations

Rahul Anand

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  • Structural transformation and the sophistication of production
  • Service export sophistication and economic growth

Luca Anderlini

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  • Layovers may be riskier than you think

Torben M. Andersen

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  • Flexicurity: The Danish labour-market model in the Great Recession
  • How should governments finance the demographic shift?

Kym Anderson

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  • Price distortions slow economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Export restrictions and food market instability
  • Would freeing up world agricultural trade reduce or increase poverty?

Warren Anderson

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  • From the persecuting to the protective state? Jewish expulsions and weather shocks from 1100 to 1800

James Anderson

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  • Good news on free trade agreements

Fredrik Andersson

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  • Temp jobs: dead end or stepping stone?

Mitsuyo Ando

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  • Job-creating offshoring?

Jorge Andrade da Silva

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  • The trade effects of natural disasters: New evidence from developing countries

James Andreoni

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  • Cooperation and the beneficial race for second-worst
  • Do they know it's Christmas? New insights on communication, empathy, and altruism

Javier Andrés

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  • Budget balance, structural unemployment and fiscal adjustments: The Spanish case
  • Back from the future: A solution to the Eurozone crisis
  • The arithmetic of (excessive?) fiscal consolidation in Spain

Svetlana Andrianova

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  • Why do African banks lend so little?
  • Don’t rush to privatise government owned banks

Jochen Andritzky

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  • Government bonds and their investors: What are the facts and do they matter?
  • Global financial crisis: What policy responses do markets favour?

Massimo Anelli

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  • The long-run gains of not mixing genders in high-school classes

Madhav Aney

Andrew Ang

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  • Are Michigan and Illinois like Greece and Ireland?

Viola Angelini

Paolo Angelini

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  • Monetary and macroprudential policies
  • What explains the 2007 interbank market shock?

Chiara Angeloni

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  • Sovereign debt and bank risk: New evidence

Marco Annunziata

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  • Cyprus is different
  • Misplaced concerns about central-bank independence
  • The next productivity revolution: the ‘Industrial internet’

David Anthoff

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  • How should governments evaluate climate change impacts on foreigners?

Pablo Antolin

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  • Private pensions and policy responses to the crisis

Pol Antràs

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  • Poultry in motion: Trade finance in the frozen-food industry

Tommaso Aquilante

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  • Triggering competitiveness: A 'decalogue' from new firm-level evidence

Sónia Araújo

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  • The Great Synchronisation: Tracking the trade collapse with high-frequency data
  • The Great Synchronisation: The trade crisis of 2008-2009

Jean-Louis Arcand

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  • Has finance gone too far?

Rabah Arezki

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  • Spillover effects in a fiscal union: Evidence from the US
  • Policies to harness the power of natural resources
  • Commodity windfalls help reduce debt… in democracies

Mohamed Ariff

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  • The China syndrome on exchange rates

Andrea Ariu

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  • Are services traded differently?
  • What drives services trade? Evidence from Belgian firms

Ragnar Arnason

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  • Iceland and the IMF: Why the capital controls are entirely wrong

Jens Matthias Arnold

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  • Does services liberalisation benefit manufacturing firms? Evidence from the Czech Republic
  • Services sector reform and the Indian manufacturing miracle

Janine Aron

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  • Don’t worry about inflation, worry about deflation
  • Trade openness and inflation

Ashish Arora

Dayanand Arora

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  • Capital inflows in India
  • Over-the-counter derivatives regulation in India

Alfonso Arpaia

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  • Policy-related uncertainty: At the root of the lost resilience of Eurozone labour markets?

Michael J. Artis

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  • Globalisation and business cycle transmission

Jean-François Arvis

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  • Trade costs in the developing world: 1995-2010

Orley Ashenfelter

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  • Wine tasting: Is 'terroir' a joke and/or are wine experts incompetent?
  • Cross-country comparisons of wage rates: the Big Mac index
  • The effect of mergers on consumer prices

Quamrul Ashraf

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  • The “Out of Africa” hypothesis: Human genetic diversity and comparative economic development
  • Why did Europe’s growth take-off happen first?

Nava Ashraf

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  • No margin, no mission? Motivating agents in the social sector

Jonathan Ashworth

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  • Monetary targetry: Might Carney make a difference?

Anders Åslund

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  • Why a collapse of the Eurozone must be avoided – at almost any cost

Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche

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  • Why monetary policy cannot stabilise asset prices

Muhammad Ather Elahi

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  • Banking system fragility: A regional perspective

Atif Mian

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  • Political constraints in the aftermath of financial crises
  • Foreclosures, house prices, and the real economy
  • The political economy of the subprime crisis

Tony Atkinson

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  • UK development assistance: Government versus charitable contributions

Paul E Atkinson

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  • Rethinking Basel, Part II
  • Rethinking Basel, Part I

Orazio Attanasio

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  • Microfinance: Is it time to write off group loans?

Maria Grazia Attinasi

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  • How the financial crisis raised euro-area bond spreads

Marc Auboin

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  • Why does finance matter for trade? Evidence from new data
  • Currencies and trade: Looking at the recent literature
  • Fixing trade finance for low-income nations: The G20 mandate

David B Audretsch

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  • How exports matter: No one-size-fits-all
  • Entrepreneurship, growth and public policy
  • The lifecycle of regions

Peter Auer

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  • Assessing the impact of the financial crisis on the US labour market

Raphael Auer

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  • Rapid current-account rebalancing in the southern Eurozone
  • International liquidity provision during the financial crisis: A view from Switzerland
  • What the renminbi means for US inflation

Alan J Auerbach

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  • Output spillovers from fiscal policy
  • Too much focus on the yuan?
  • Measuring the output responses to fiscal policy

Britta Augsburg

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  • Microfinance: Is it time to write off group loans?

Robert Aumann

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  • Rationality, games and conflict

Emmanuelle Auriol

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  • Sale of visas: A smuggler’s final song?
  • The benefits of government outsourcing
  • The optimal number of representatives for democracy

David Autor

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  • This job is ‘getting old’
  • The economics of labour market intermediation

Rolando Avendaño

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  • Small and medium enterprise financing and growth: Evidence from Latin America
  • Are sovereign wealth fund investments politically biased?

Susan L. Averett

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  • Overweight adolescents and risky sexual behaviour

Rym Ayadi

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  • Countercyclical regulation in Solvency II: Merits and flaws

Mehtabul Azam

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