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Philippe Bacchetta

• The appreciating renminbi
• Risk panics: When markets crash for no apparent reason

Marc Bacchetta

• Trade barriers beyond tariffs: Facts and challenges

Stefan Bach

• Eurozone crisis: Time to tax the rich?
• Taxing the rich: The case of Germany

Peter G. Backus

• UK development assistance: Government versus charitable contributions

David Backus

• Clear thinking about economic policy

Nitika Bagaria

• The alternatives to austerity: The effect on jobs and incomes in the UK

Angelo Baglioni

• Euro bonds without cross-country subsidisation? Yes, we can
• Leveraged buyback: How to deal with the Greek debt overhang
• Bank bailout guarantees and public debt

Manuel F. Bagues

• It’s not what you know, but who: The role of connections in academia
• Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidence from a randomised natural experiment
• Political competition and gender quotas

Patrick Bajari

• What’s triggering subprime mortgage defaults?

Scott Baker

• Economic recovery and policy uncertainty in the US
• The Rocky Balboa recovery: Is policy uncertainty holding it back?
• Falling policy uncertainty is igniting the US recovery

Melanie Baker

• Monetary targetry: Might Carney make a difference?

Bas Bakker

• Emerging Europe: Lessons from the boom-bust cycle

Ravi Balakrishnan

• How financial stress spreads

Friðrik Már Baldursson

• Iceland’s programme with the IMF 2008–11
• Icesave: Groundhog Day?
• Icesave: The big ultimatum

Richard Baldwin

• Augmented inflation targeting: Le roi est mort, vive le roi
• Is inflation targeting dead? Central banking after the Crisis
• WTO 2.0: Thinking ahead on global trade governance

Robert E. Baldwin

• The world trading system without US leadership
• The Doha Round: Not breathing but still alive
• How to get the Doha Round back on track

Gaëlle Balineau

• The stalemate at the negotiations on environmental goods: Can it be broken?

Laurence Ball

• Jobs and growth are still linked (that is, Okun’s Law still holds)
• Bernanke in theory versus Bernanke in practice

Badi H Baltagi

• Why do African banks lend so little?

Roger Bandick

• Does foreign ownership of multinationals damage R&D?

Oriana Bandiera

• No margin, no mission? Motivating agents in the social sector
• How do CEOs spend their time?
• The impact of class size on the performance of university students

Ryan Banerjee

• Quantitative easing: What effect on yields?

James Banks

• Healthy child, healthy adult? Evidence from the US and England

Spencer Banzhaf

• Which level of government should regulate air pollution?

Edward B. Barbier

• Urgently needed: A global green New Deal

Pranab Bardhan

• China and India: awakening giants, feet of clay

Claude Barfield

• Trans-Pacific Partnership enlarged: A trade agreement that may remake world trade governance
• The Doha Round: No more delays
• Congress and Chinese currency legislation

Gadi Barlevy

• A different approach to assessment-based accountability

Guglielmo Barone

• The Mafia and public spending
• Boosting growth with service deregulation

Scott Barrett

• Disease eradication and the economics of global public goods

Christopher Barrington-Leigh

• New evidence on the social context of wellbeing

Salvador Barrios

• EU fiscal consolidation after the global crisis: Lessons from past experiences

Robert Barro

• Disasters, recoveries, and the equity premium
• Educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010
• Design and effectiveness of fiscal-stimulus programmes

Lisa Barrow

• Can computers help teachers teach math?

Eric Bartelsman

• Employment protection and technological choices

Giorgio Basevi

• Reducing the frequency of electoral cycles in the EU: A proposal for synchronising national and European elections

Syed Basher

• The economic consequences of hosting the 2022 World Cup
• Local currency bond markets in the Gulf Cooperation and lessons from East Asia

Muhammad Chatib Basri

• Asia Pacific and the Doha Round

Arnab K Basu

Matthias Bauer

• After the “Seoul Consensus”: Ways to help sub-Saharan Africa return to pre-crisis economic performance
• The “Seoul Consensus” on development: Substantial progress for sub-Saharan Africa or paperwork again?

Luc Bauwens

• Europe’s poor research performance

Jaromír Baxa

• How does monetary policy respond to financial stress?

Lori Beaman

• Can political affirmative action reduce gender bias?

Alessandro Beber

• Distilling the macroeconomic news flow
• Short-selling bans in the crisis: A misguided policy

Thorsten Beck

• Is more finance better? Disentangling intermediation and size effects of financial systems
• Cyprus: What are the alternatives?
• Why the rush? Short-term crisis resolution and long-term bank stability

Roland Beck

• Should larger reserve holdings be more diversified?

Sascha O Becker

• Do entrepreneurs matter?
• Religion matters, in life and death
• Education and economic development: Evidence from the Industrial Revolution

Bo Becker

• Measuring the 'reach for yield'

Roel Beetsma

• Eurobonds: The design is crucial
• Europe’s fiscal policy credibility problem
• Improving the credibility of fiscal planning in Europe

Patrick Behr

• Sex and credit: Is there a gender bias in lending?
• Are women better loan officers?

Kristian Behrens

• Spatial frictions
• Trade collapse or trade crisis?

Geert Bekaert

• Global crises and equity market contagion: Lessons from 2007-2009

Gábor Békés

• Why hit-and-run exporting can be optimal
• Still standing: Global crisis and European firms
• Trading ain’t easy: How complex is it to trade goods?

Sharon Belenzon

• Cumulative innovation and market value: Evidence from patent citations

Nazim Belhocine

• A century of public debt and what have we learned?

Adrian R. Bell

• The credit crunch of 1294: Causes, consequences and the aftermath

Brian Bell

• Bankers’ bonuses: Claw-back clauses are critical

Philippe Belley

• Does university financial aid matter?

Rudolfs Bems

• Value-added exchange rates
• The collapse of global trade: Update on the role of vertical linkages

Dan Ben-David

• Why are Israeli academics moving to America?
• An academic exodus

Yonatan Ben-Shalom

• Is the US welfare state growing or declining?

Roland Bénabou

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré

• Short-run ignorance, long-run prescience: Forecasting exchange rates

Agustín S. Bénétrix

• How housing slumps end
• The effectiveness of fiscal and monetary stimulus in depressions

Kenza Benhima

• The appreciating renminbi

Gianluca Benigno

• Are macro-prudential policies really that prudent?

Hugo Benítez-Silva

• Do you know how much your home is worth?

Evangelos Benos

• Bank behaviour and risks in an interbank payment system after a major credit event

Samuel Bentolila

• Jobless in Spain: What can be done about the insider-outsider divide
• Why is Spain’s unemployment so high?
• Ending the scourge of dual labour markets in Europe

Sophie Béreau

• Short-run ignorance, long-run prescience: Forecasting exchange rates

Andrew Berg

• The global crisis in low-income countries

Helge Berger

• Redressing global imbalances: Evidence from the Eurozone
• Unobservables, uncertainty, and exit: European fiscal and monetary policy
• Enough is enough: How many people should decide about monetary policy?

Paul Bergin

• Exchange rates fixed or flexible? Does it matter?

Paul R Bergin

Erik Berglöf

• Banking union: The view from emerging Europe
• Declare victory – and fight on
• What EU leaders must do to avoid banking crisis in Eastern Europe

Fred Bergsten

• The coming resolution of the Eurozone crisis
• US trade policy and the Doha Round: An alternative view
• China’s currency and the US economy

Jeffrey H. Bergstrand

• European economic integration and trade: how big was the boost?

Enrico Berkes

• Has finance gone too far?

S. Pelin Berkmen

• The global crisis: Why were some countries hit harder?

Nicolas Berman

• Time to ship during financial crises
• How foreign demand affects sales at home: Evidence from French firms
• Sub-Saharan Africa and the great trade collapse

Kerstin Bernoth

• Do fiscal policymakers know what they are doing?

Ata Can Bertay

• Is lending by state banks more stable over the business cycle?

Antoine Berthou

• How foreign demand affects sales at home: Evidence from French firms
• The trade collapse: The role of product quality
• The microeconomic impacts of the euro: Evidence from French firms

Graziella Bertocchi

• Girls’ education and medieval commerce
• The historical roots of inequality: Evidence from slavery in the US
• The determinants of state fragility

Giuseppe Bertola

• What determines the optimal mix of public and private insurance?
• Does trade openness foster financial development?
• Labour markets on the verge of a regulation crisis

Simone Bertoli

• Visa policies and multilateral resistance to migration

Olivier Bertrand

• A new supranational competition organisation?

Tim Besley

• The welfare cost of lawlessness: Evidence from Somali piracy
• The LSE ‘manifesto for growth’
• Incentive pay and bailouts

Leon Bettendorf

• EU corporate tax reform: Weighing the pros and cons

Pieter Bevelander

Cosimo Beverelli

• Trade barriers beyond tariffs: Facts and challenges

Dirk Bezemer

• 'No one saw this coming' – or did they?

Jagdish Bhagwati

• Multilateral free trade: The Obama letdown
• WTO deadlock: the US’ fault and opportunity

Prashant Bharadwaj

• The anemic response of skill investment to skill premium growth

V. Bhaskar

Ujal Singh Bhatia

• Can the WTO be decoupled from the Doha round?
• Next Steps: Getting past the Doha Round crisis
• Sources of the WTO’s impasse

Sudipto Bhattacharya

• Do stronger patents limit the circulation of ideas?

Debopam Bhattacharya

• Do elite universities admit the academically best students?

Sambit Bhattacharyya

• Must natural resources be a curse?

Amar Bhidé

• Sensible finance for a dynamic economy
• The venturesome economy

Gilberto Biacuana

• Africa and the trade crisis

Bruno Biais

• Rent capture through financial innovation

David Bicchetti

• Are commodity derivatives good or bad? New evidence from high-frequency data

Michael Biggs

• How central banks contributed to the financial crisis
• The myth of the “Phoenix Miracle”

Michiel Bijlsma

• Measuring the credit crunch

Francesco C. Billari

• Lower pensions, more children: Evidence from Italy

Ariel Binder

• A modern history of fiscal prudence and profligacy

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Urs Birchler

• EU banking union disunites German economists

Nancy Birdsall

• Identifying a fair deal on climate change

Alberto Bisin

• Muslim immigrants’ integration in the UK

Paolo Bisio

• A short guide to the EBA’s recapitalisation results

David Bjerk

• What will it take to shatter the glass ceiling? Maybe re-modelling the basement

Sandra E. Black

• The effects of school-starting age
• Evolving tasks and the narrowing gender wage gap

Stanley W Black

• Fixing the flaws in the Eurozone

Olivier Blanchard

• Rethinking macroeconomic policy
• Fiscal consolidation: At what speed?
• The world economy: Cliffs avoided, mountains ahead

Jordi Blanes i Vidal

• Political scandal and the value of connections: Insights from Britain and the US

Geoffrey Blanford

• Breaking the climate stalemate?

Rebecca M. Blank

• Welfare reform: has it been a success?

Francine D. Blau

• Do female immigrants assimilate into the US labour market?

Evan Blecher

• Do higher cigarette prices deter smoking?

Mario I. Blejer

• Leaving the euro: Lessons from Argentina

Alan S. Blinder

• Twenty-five percent of US jobs are offshorable
• Why the recent oil shock wasn’t very shocking
• Central bank communication

Jasper Blom

• Democratic legitimacy of the Eurozone

Bruce Blonigen

• Tax evasion: Why the crackdown comes at a cost
• Reviving the WTO: Doha’s woes and structural challenges
• Market power and trade policy

Nicholas Bloom

• Economic recovery and policy uncertainty in the US
• The Rocky Balboa recovery: Is policy uncertainty holding it back?
• Falling policy uncertainty is igniting the US recovery

John C Bluedorn

• Do equity price drops foreshadow recessions?
• Three centuries of climatic variation and the world income distribution

Benjamin Bluhm

• Europe’s fiscal policy credibility problem

Adrian Blundell-Wignall

• Rethinking Basel, Part II
• Rethinking Basel, Part I
• EU stress tests and sovereign debt exposures

Romina Boarini

• Policies to improve individual investments in higher education

Nicolas Boccard

• Voting theory and Papal conclave

Martin Bodenstein

Niels Boehm

• Small and medium enterprise financing and growth: Evidence from Latin America

Tito Boeri

• A no-further-bailouts principle
• Papi’s tax: How Berlusconi increases Italy’s bond spread
• Italy's confidence crisis: Bad policies from bad politicians

Peter Bofinger

• From the internal market to a banking union: A proposal by the German Council of Economic Experts
• A Redemption Pact for Europe: Time to act now
• A European Redemption Pact

Philipp Böhler

• Turkey’s 15th year as a candidate for EU membership

Christoph Böhringer

• Unilateral climate policy: Combat leakage or beggar-thy-neighbour?
• The large welfare costs of second-best EU climate policies

Jean Boivin

• Consumer reactions to exchange rate and trade price shifts: New evidence from online book retailing

Andrea Boltho

• The problems with the Eurozone
• Germany needs high wage settlements and a serious fiscal stimulus

Patrick Bolton

Alessandra Bonfiglioli

• Why are reforms so politically difficult?

Clemens Bonner

• Impact of Basel liquidity rules on interbank money markets

Werner Bönte

Peter Boone

• The doomsday cycle turns: Who’s next?
• Risk taking, regulatory capture and bailouts: The doomsday cycle

Jan Boone

Laurence Boone

• Eurozone: Looking for growth

Arnoud Boot

• The risks of trading by banks
• Destabilising market forces and the structure of banks going forward

Alison Booth

• Why aren’t there more women in top jobs?
• Do employers discriminate in female-dominated occupations?
• Gender, risk, and competition: Experimental evidence on environmental influences

Roger Bootle

Ingo Borchert

• Landlocked or policy-locked?
• The first global services trade restrictions database
• Services trade – The collapse that wasn’t

Michael Bordo

• Notes for currency wars: The trilemma of international finance
• Does inequality lead to a financial crisis?
• Currency wars: Lessons from the US experience

Eduardo Borensztein

• What will happen if Greece defaults? Insights from theory and reality
• Why don’t commodity exporters hedge against price fluctuations?

Claudio Borio

• Measuring potential output: Eye on the financial cycle
• Macroeconomics and the financial cycle: Hamlet without the Prince?
• Did global imbalances cause the financial crisis?

Benjamin Born

• Macroprudential supervision: Can central bank communication be an effective policy tool?

Fabian Bornhorst

• TARGET imbalances: Financing the capital-account reversal in Europe
• Current-account imbalances: Can structural policies make a difference in Germany?

Fernando Borraz

• Water nationalisation: Is it such a bad idea?

Nicola Borri

• Is Italy going to make it?

Frits Bos

Frits Bos

• What can be learned from the world’s oldest fiscal watchdog?

Nicole Bosch

• Flexicurity: The Danish labour-market model in the Great Recession
• Why Dutch women work part-time

Valentina Bosetti

• Working together for a better planet: The best is the enemy of the good
• How to agree on emissions targets and a successor to Kyoto
• Breaking the climate stalemate?

Maarten Bosker

• The spread of civil war
• 1000 years of urban history: the rise and fall of European and Arab cities

Biagio Bossone

• Time for the Eurozone to shift gear: Issuing euros to finance new spending
• The 'Good Global Citizen' remit for the international community: A novel responsibility for the IMF
• Putting time and space back into finance

Laura Bottazzi

• The European venture capital industry

Renata Bottazzi

• The portfolio effects of pension reforms: Evidence from Italy

Jan Bouckaert

• How does access regulation affect broadband penetration?

Antoine Bouët

• The Doha Round: A safety net in stormy weather

Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe

• Fiscal policy and global imbalances

Leah Boustan

• Black and white housing: Race, suburbanisation, and homeownership in the US
• Productivity and migration: New insights from the 19th century

Lans Bovenberg

• Private pensions for Europe
• A programme for European action on the financial crisis
• Why the EU should auction carbon permits

Maurizio Bovi

• Realism, austerity or demagogy? Evidence from Italy
• Is the crisis 'decoupling' the Greeks from Greece?
• Public-debt crises and bad equilibria

Uwe Böwer

• Boom and bust in the Baltics

Chad P Bown

• Trade policy and macroeconomic shocks: New evidence from emerging economies
• Import protection update: Antidumping, safeguards, and temporary trade barriers through 2011
• Antidumping as cooperation

Monica Bozzano

• Girls’ education and medieval commerce

Marek Brabec

• 100 years of US obesity

David Brackfield

• Did a productivity slowdown cause the financial crisis?

Daniel D. Bradlow

• Reformers in need of reform? A critical assessment of global financial governance
• Reforming global economic governance: A strategy for middle powers in the G20
• Reconciliation financing

Serguey Braguinsky

• The incredible shrinking Portuguese firm

Milan Brahmbhatt

• Dealing with Dutch disease
• Natural resources and development strategy after the crisis

Michael W Brandt

• Distilling the macroeconomic news flow

Lee Branstetter

• The incredible shrinking Portuguese firm
• Facts and fallacies about US FDI in China

Holger Breinlich

• International trade in services: A portrait of importers and exporters

Anton Brender

• The Eurozone: Choked by an accounting identity
• “Low for long”: A risky but necessary interest rate policy
• The euro-dollar exchange rate during the crisis

Paul Brenton

• Africa can help feed Africa: Removing barriers to regional trade in food staples
• De-fragmenting Africa
• Can carbon labelling be development friendly?

Paul Brenton

Shaun Breslin

• Great expectations: (Competing) domestic drivers of Chinese policy deliberations

Friedrich Breyer

• Does ageing really affect health expenditures? If so, why?

Jean-Charles Bricongne

• A win-win strategy for investors in Greece
• How French exporters were hit by the global crisis

Timothy C. Brightbill

• China’s currency regime is legitimately challengeable as a subsidy

Stefanie Brilon

Leon Brittan

Stephen Broadberry

• The historical roots of India’s booming service economy

Isabelle Brocas

• Neuroeconomics, neuroscience, and the bounds of rationality

Christian Broda

• Why the US dollar may strengthen in 2010
• Financial de-globalisation, savings drain, and the US dollar
• Did the 2008 US tax rebates work?

Fernanda Brollo

• The political resource curse

Fernando A Broner

• International capital flows during crises: Gross matters

Fernando Broner

Martin Brookes

• Disaster economics and bond yields

Chris Brooks

• The credit crunch of 1294: Causes, consequences and the aftermath

Nzinga Broussard

Alessio J G Brown

Martin Brown

• Financing start-ups: The impact of credit scoring and bank concentration
• Finance for all? Banking structure reform may not be the way
• Foreign-currency loans in Eastern Europe: Borrower pull or bank push?

Max Bruche

• Money market freezes and central banks
• European banks: Distinguishing the walking wounded from the living dead

Markus Brückner

• Income and schooling
• Commodity windfalls help reduce debt… in democracies
• Openness to international trade causes growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Agar Brugiavini

• Italy’s Pension Reform

Marius Brülhart

• Is the new economic geography passé?
• Helpful tax competition: new empirical evidence

Jim Brumby

• Roads to nowhere or bridges to growth? Public investment efficiency in developing countries

Giorgio Brunello

• Should the government intervene to reduce obesity?

Marianna Brunetti

• Why are married women less risk-averse investors?

Markus K Brunnermeier

• True independence for the ECB: Triggering power - no more, no less
• Banks and cross-border capital flows: Policy challenges and regulatory responses

Christa Brunnschweiler

• Institutional reform and the so-called resource curse

Liam Brunt

• Which institutions matter for economic growth?

Sandro Brusco

• Paulson Plan: What is a reverse auction?

László Bruszt

• Political protest and reform: Lessons from communism’s demise

Alex Bryson

• Are migrants paid more? Evidence from Italian football
• Does engaging workers more fully in their jobs increase their wellbeing?
• Upping their game? The impact of new contracts on football referees’ performance

Claudia M. Buch

• From the internal market to a banking union: A proposal by the German Council of Economic Experts
• Legacy problems in transition to a banking union
• A Redemption Pact for Europe: Time to act now

Tabea Bucher-Koenen

• Financial illiteracy: New evidence from Germany

Lee C. Buchheit

• Walking back from Cyprus

John W. Budd

• Shared capitalism and employee ignorance

Max Büge

• State-owned enterprises in the global economy: Reason for concern?

Willem Buiter

• Greece and the Eurozone: Political leaders should get off their high horses
• Making sense of TARGET imbalances
• The ‘strong-dollar’ policy of the US

Aleš Bulíř

• Measuring the clarity of central-bank communication

Jeremy Bulow

• A new way to understand consumer surplus
• Reorganise the banks by focusing on the liabilities, not the assets

Erwin Bulte

• Institutional reform and the so-called resource curse
• From commodity boom to financial and political crisis

Babatunde Buraimo

• Upping their game? The impact of new contracts on football referees’ performance

Michael Burda

• Manifesto for a banking union by economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Hume on hold? Consequences of not abolishing Eurozone national central banks
• Should we believe the German labour-market miracle?

Robin Burgess

Simon Burgess

• On the use of high-powered incentives in the public sector

Eltjo Buringh

• 1000 years of urban history: the rise and fall of European and Arab cities

Leonard Burman

• US budget fight: The role of tax expenditures?

Oliver Bush

• Reform of the global financial system: More is needed

Matthieu Bussière

• Understanding the Great Trade Collapse of 2009

Marco Buti

• Fiscal policy in Europe: Searching for the right balance
• Slow but steady? External adjustment within the Eurozone starts working
• Fiscal austerity and policy credibility

Monika Bütler

• EU banking union disunites German economists
• Have social security reforms shifted too much risk to individuals?

Jeffrey V. Butler

• Just enough trust, from one generation to the next
• To trust or not to trust

Thiess Büttner

• The debt hanging over Berlin

Berrak Buyukkarabacak

• Disaggregating financial development: The effects of lending to households and firms

Esther Ann Bøler

• Why trade policy matters for firms’ R&D investment