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Arjan Kadareja

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  • New evidence on the effect of bank loans and credit standards on Eurozone output

Leo Kahane

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  • Abortion and crime: a new hypothesis

Lawrence M. Kahn

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  • Do female immigrants assimilate into the US labour market?

Matthew E. Kahn

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  • Congressional influence as a determinant of subprime lending
  • Climate adaptation through migration: A role for charter cities
  • Climate change: incentives to mitigate and incentives to adapt

Daniel Kahneman

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  • Understanding happiness: the distinction between living – and thinking about it

Yannick Kalantzis

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  • The appreciating renminbi

Alexander Kalb

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  • Declining populations and tipping points for small European cities

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

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  • Banking integration: Friend or foe?
  • Capital gains on international portfolios: New evidence from the Eurozone
  • Upstream sovereigns

Herman Kamil

Steven B. Kamin

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  • Are US assets special in the eyes of global investors?

Ravi Kanbur

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  • Poor countries or poor people? The new geography of global poverty

Tonia Kandiero

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  • Africa, the trade crisis and WTO negotiations

Edward J Kane

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  • The inadequacy of capital adequacy regulations and a public equity alternative
  • The benefits of being too big to fail and how to regulate them
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Moonsung Kang

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  • South Korea’s temporary trade barriers before and during the crisis

Prakash Kannan

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  • Why did the crisis go global?
  • How credit conditions will shape the economic recovery
  • IMF recession research: Unusually severe, followed by a weaker-than-average recovery

R.V. Kanoria

Todd Kaplan

Noah Kaplan

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  • Voting as a rational decision

Loukas Karabarbounis

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  • A “one dollar, one vote” explanation of the welfare state
  • Gender-based taxation: A response to critics

Baybars Karacaovali

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Dean Karlan

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  • Development research as if extreme poverty mattered

George Andrew Karolyi

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  • Why are foreign firms leaving US equity markets?

Patrik Karpaty

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  • Does foreign ownership of multinationals damage R&D?

Anil K Kashyap

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  • What next?

Sonja C Kassenboehmer

Lawrence F. Katz

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  • Education and technology: Supply, demand, and income inequality
  • The race between education and technology

Daiji Kawaguchi

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Noboru Kawahama

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  • Innovation and competition policy: A new type of policy

Masahiro Kawai

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  • The “noodle bowl” of free trade agreements in East Asia

Remzi Kaygusuz

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  • Income taxation of US households: Facts and parametric estimates

Melissa S. Kearney

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  • Time with the kids: Parental education and child care

Con Keating

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  • Valuing insurers' liabilities during crises: What EU policymakers should not do
  • Hubris, nemesis, and catharsis
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Alexander Keck

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  • Japan's earthquake and tsunami: Global supply chain impacts

Hiau Looi Kee

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  • Trade preferences: A win-win-win policy
  • Did protectionist policy cause the trade collapse?
  • Estimating trade restrictiveness

Drew Keeling

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  • Self-limited international migration: Insights from the pre-1914 North Atlantic
  • Why legal barriers are not critical to deterring immigrants

Michael Keen

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  • Fiscal devaluation as a cure for Eurozone ills – Could it work?

Roman Keeney

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  • Agricultural Trade Reforms

Filip Keereman

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  • From EU-15 to EU-27: The impact of enlargement

Timothy Kehoe

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  • Does openness generate growth? Reconciling the experiences of Mexico and China

Stijn Kelchtermans

Wolfgang Keller

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  • The two faces of Wal-Mart in Mexico
  • China’s soaring foreign trade: Made in Britain, c. 1840?
  • International business travel and innovation: Face-to-face is crucial

Morgan Kelly

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  • Whatever happened to Ireland?

Hubert Kempf

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  • Deposit insurance without commitment: Wall Street vs. Main Street

Peter B. Kenen

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  • Regional monetary integration
  • IMF reform: a marathon, not a sprint

William Kerr

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  • Cuddly or not, the design of worker insurance is critically important
  • What explains gender differences in India? What can be done to promote shared prosperity?
  • Caution to place makers: Greater firm density does not always promote incumbent firm health

Martin Kessler

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  • The renminbi bloc is here: Asia down, the rest of the world to go?
  • Europe’s fiscal union: Lessons from US federalism

Anke Kessler

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  • Misinformation and elections: Insights from Canada

Gábor Kézdi

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  • Beliefs and the stock market

Shuheb Khan

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  • Capital inflows in India

Mohsin Khan

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  • What economic model is Egypt going to adopt?

Amit Khandelwal

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  • The hidden gains from trade liberalisation
  • Imported inputs and domestic product growth in India

Homi Kharas

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  • Can services be the next growth escalator?
  • Service with a smile: A new growth engine for poor countries

Thomas Kick

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  • Bank ownership and stability: Evidence from Germany

John Kiff

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  • European securitisation and the possible revival of financial innovation

Andrea Kiguel

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  • Fear of appreciation in emerging economies

Miguel Kiguel

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  • Argentine lessons for Europe: Sovereign debt and banking crises

Lutz Kilian

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  • Do oil prices help forecast real GDP?
  • Speculation in oil markets? What have we learned?
  • Forecasting oil prices in real time

Jisun Kim

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  • Competitiveness concerns: Should US climate policy include border measures?

Fukunari Kimura

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  • Job-creating offshoring?

Charles King

Michael R King

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  • The $4 trillion question: What explains FX growth?

Yuko Kinoshita

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  • Reforming to attract foreign investors

Stephen Kinsella

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  • Deleveraging in the Eurozone

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

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  • Youth unemployment in Europe: It’s actually worse in the US
  • Eurozone rage: Turning point or business as usual?
  • Financial repression: Then and now

Alan Kirman

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  • Economic theory and the crisis

Karolin Kirschenmann

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  • Foreign-currency loans in Eastern Europe: Borrower pull or bank push?

Nils-Hendrik Klann

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  • The “Dalai Lama Effect” and China’s potential trade response to the Nobel Peace Prize

Stephan Klasen

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  • Finishing the WTO trade negotiations would help the world economy
  • Journalism and science: Hepatitis B and missing women
  • Missing women: It’s discrimination, not Hepatitis

Michael W Klein

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  • Capital controls: Gates versus walls

Paul Klemperer

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

Kenneth Kletzer

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Henrik Kleven

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Bolormaa Tumurchudur Klok

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  • How preferential are preferential trade agreements?

Esteban F Klor

Ulrich Klüh

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  • Three birds with one stone: The G20 and systemic externalities
  • Reforming global governance: How to make the IMF more independent

Andreas Knabe

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  • How retiring makes the unemployed happier
  • Unemployment and happiness: A new take on an old problem

Christiane Kneer

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  • Is more finance better? Disentangling intermediation and size effects of financial systems

Keiichiro Kobayashi

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  • Things we must consider in shaping Japanese economic policy for the future
  • Why we need a new macroeconomic paradigm
  • Fiscal policy again? A rebuttal to Mr Krugman

Dirk-Jan Koch

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Martin Kocher

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  • Should governments teach self-control?
  • Games young people play: experimental evidence of children’s attitudes to risk, time and trust

Laura Kodres

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  • Not making the grade: Report card on global financial reform

Kees Koedijk

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Friederike (Fritzi) Koehler-Geib

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Pamina Koenig

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Winfried Koeniger

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  • Employment protection legislation: new evidence

Petya Koeva-Brooks

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  • A banking union for the Eurozone

Marion Kohler

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  • Financial crises are different!

Satoshi Koibuchi

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Tuuli Koivu

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  • The impact of China’s exchange-rate policy on trade in Asia

Anton Kolotilin

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  • High oil prices and the return of “resource nationalism”

Charles Kolstad

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John Komlos

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Jozef Konings

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  • The exchange rate disconnect and international supply chains: Firm-level evidence
  • ‘No gain without pain’: Antidumping protection hurts exports

Yoko Konishi

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  • Localisation, urbanisation, and productivity: Evidence from Japan

Kai A Konrad

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  • The future of the Eurozone

Panagiotis Th. Konstantinou

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  • Does a $2 trillion decrease in net international investments threaten US consumption?

Robert B. Koopman

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  • What share of Chinese exports is really made in China?

Gert Jan Koopman

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  • EU reforms to increase potential output

Karen Kopecky

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Miklós Koren

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  • Still standing: Global crisis and European firms

Anton Korinek

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  • Going against the flow: Dealing with capital flows to emerging markets
  • Managing credit booms and busts
  • Exchange rate undervaluation: Can neo-mercantilism work?

Sixten Korkman

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  • The Nordics in the global crisis

Yevgeniya Korniyenko

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  • Financial stability in emerging Europe: The Vienna Initiative

Samuel S. Kortum

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  • Trade accounting in the recent recession
  • What must happen to fully rebalance the US current account?

M Ayhan Kose

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  • Why is this global recovery different?
  • Financial crises: Questions and lessons
  • Uncertainty weighing on the global recovery

Deliana Kostova

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  • Do higher cigarette prices deter smoking?

Matthew J. Kotchen

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  • Why we shouldn’t always trust expert ratings
  • Is concern for the environment a luxury good? Evidence from Google searches
  • Does daylight saving time save electricity?

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

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  • The hysterical economy
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  • Shattering the American dream: The US government’s Ponzi scheme

Hans‐Helmut Kotz

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  • Manifesto for a banking union by economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Hans‐Helmut Kotz

Christos Koulovatianos

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Anna Kovner

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Przemyslaw Kowalski

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Mark Koyama

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

Sébastien Kraenzlin

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  • International liquidity provision during the financial crisis: A view from Switzerland
  • The effectiveness of central bank swap agreement as a crisis-fighting tool

Jan Pieter Krahnen

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  • Manifesto for a banking union by economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Tom Krebs

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Michael Kremer

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  • Promoting innovation to solve global challenges: opportunities for R&D in health and agriculture
  • Many children left behind? Textbooks and test scores in Kenya

Peter Kretzmer

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  • Greece’s predicament: Lessons from Argentina

Christiane Krieger-Boden

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  • Multinationals assist domestic suppliers? Perhaps think again
  • Old wine in new bottles? Non-traditional sources of FDI
  • Services offshoring increases wage inequality

Kala Krishna

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  • Can competition pull along the public sector? Evidence from Indian railways
  • Trade preferences: A win-win-win policy
  • Denial, bargaining, and acceptance: Evaluating journal publication performance

Pravin Krishna

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  • Globalisation and jobs: Nuanced findings from Brazil
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  • Trade and the labour market in the US: A new insight on potential costs

Arvind Krishnamurthy

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  • A consensus view on liquidity risk

Alan B. Krueger

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Anne Krueger

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  • Struggling with success: challenges facing the international economy
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Paul Krugman

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  • Mr Keynes and the moderns
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  • Paul Samuelson: The incomparable economist

Per Krusell

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Christopher Ksoll

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  • Do civil conflicts cost firms? Evidence from post-election Kenya

Roger M. Kubarych

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Megumi Kubota

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Theresa Kuchler

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Maria Kuecken

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Britta Kuhn

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Andreas Kuhn

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Rajiv Kumar

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  • The Great Recession and India’s trade collapse
  • The G20 summit must address immediate concerns

Utsav Kumar

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  • Internal devaluations in the Eurozone: A mismeasured and misguided argument
  • China and India: Those two big outliers
  • A new measure of national “opportunities” for development

Michael Kumhof

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  • Inequality, leverage and crises

Kazuhiro Kumo

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  • Explaining fertility trends in Russia

Howard Kunreuther

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Jennifer Kurkoski

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Sebastian Kurpas

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  • A ‘Warsaw compromise’ on EU voting
  • What should be in the new Treaty?

Olga Kuzmina

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  • Innovation and foreign ownership: New evidence from Spain

Myron Kwast

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  • Towards the integrated measurement and management of market and credit risk

Annette Kyobe

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

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