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Pierella Paci

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  • Coping with crises: Policies to protect employment and earnings

Riccardo Pacini

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  • European Redemption Fund: Getting the incentives right

Howard Pack

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  • The Arab unemployment challenge

Pier Carlo Padoan

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  • The euro’s future begins now
  • From a vicious to a virtuous circle in the Eurozone
  • The growth effect of current-account reversals

Mario Padula

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  • Investment in financial literacy and saving decisions
  • Estate taxation and intergenerational transfers: New evidence from Italy
  • The portfolio effects of pension reforms: Evidence from Italy

Marco Pagano

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  • Understanding the Eurozone crisis
  • Short-selling bans in the crisis: A misguided policy
  • The European response to the crisis: Not quite there yet

Patrizio Pagano

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  • New risk-adjusted forecasts of oil prices

Mario Pagliero

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  • Musicians are leaving money on the concert floor

Myungho Paik

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  • Clustering together abroad: South Korean multinationals in China

Michaël Pajot

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  • Assembled in Europe: The role of processing trade in EU export performance

Frédéric Palomino

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  • Gender and performance under pressure: new evidence

Sergey Paltsev

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  • The distributional burden of cap and trade

Arvind Panagariya

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  • Why India lags behind China
  • WTO deadlock: the US’ fault and opportunity

Cosimo Pancaro

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  • Can real exchange rate undervaluation boost exports?

Rohini Pande

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  • Lifting the curtain on corruption in developing countries
  • Can political affirmative action reduce gender bias?

Fabio Panetta

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  • How does sovereign risk affect bank funding conditions? What can policymakers do?
  • Monetary and macroprudential policies
  • It takes less than a sovereign default to cause instability

Mari Pangestu

Mari Pangestu

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  • There is no Plan B – only Plan A: Towards completing Doha

Antu Panini Murshid

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  • International capital flows and the role of volatility regimes

Ugo Panizza

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  • Public debt and economic growth, one more time
  • Incentives for avoiding delayed sovereign defaults
  • Sovereign default and the rules of engineering

Markus Pannenberg

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  • Unemployment policy: carrots and sticks

Rosaria Vega Pansini

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  • Governments, central bankers, and banking supervision reforms: Does independence matter?

Fausto Panunzi

Demetrios Papademetriou

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  • Making migration work after the crisis

Lucas Papademos

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  • Greek debt restructuring: Perils and promises

Chris Papageorgiou

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  • Roads to nowhere or bridges to growth? Public investment efficiency in developing countries
  • Is newer better? The Penn World Table growth estimates

Elias Papaioannou

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  • Ethnic inequality
  • Banking integration: Friend or foe?
  • The long-run effects of the Scramble for Africa

Michael G. Papaioannou

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  • Restructuring sovereign debt, 1950–2010: From process to outcomes

Luca Papi

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  • IMF lending and banking crises

Evi Pappa

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  • Olympic Games: Hopes, expectations, and the economy

Kerry L. Papps

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  • Do female immigrants assimilate into the US labour market?

Daniel Paravisini

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  • Credit constraints and the great trade collapse

Stephen L. Parente

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  • Unleashing growth: The decline of innovation-blocking institutions

Matthias Parey

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  • Does studying abroad increase international labour mobility?
  • Intergenerational payoffs from mothers’ education

Bruno M. Parigi

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  • The lender of last resort of the 21st century

David Park

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  • The opiate of the elites

Yung Chul Park

Minjung Park

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  • What’s triggering subprime mortgage defaults?

Donghyun Park

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  • Growth slowdowns redux: Avoiding the middle-income trap
  • Developing country and emerging market vulnerability to the Eurozone crisis
  • Capital flows and growth: 1990–2010

Soonchan Park

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

Albert Park

Donghyun Park

Jonathan A. Parker

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  • Evaluating fiscal stimulus measures
  • Did the 2008 US tax rebates work?

Kay Parplies

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  • Chinese foreign direct investment: What's happening behind the headlines?

Ian Parry

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  • Reforming energy subsidies globally

Christopher Parsons

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  • Where on earth is everybody? Global migration 1960-2000

M Daniele Paserman

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  • Palestinian-Israeli violence: new evidence
  • Tennis, pressure and the gender wage-gap

Konstantin Pashev

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  • Dashed expectations: Individual reactions to the global crisis

Gurnain Kaur Pasricha

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  • Why do emerging markets liberalise capital-outflow controls? Fiscal versus net capital flow concerns
  • Fiscal fragility: What the past may say about the future
  • The US fiscal stimulus: Less than what you might think

Francesco Passarelli

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  • Is a European Tobin tax likely to be efficient?

Eleonora Patacchini

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  • Social multiplier versus social norms: What matters most for outcomes?
  • Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Italy
  • With a little help from my friends: Peer effects in education

Ila Patnaik

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  • Did the Indian capital controls work as a tool of macroeconomic policy?

David Paton

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  • Abortion and crime: a new hypothesis

Andrew Patton

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  • Should hedge funds be more open?

Paul Milgrom

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  • Designing internet auctions

Nina Pavcnik

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  • Imported inputs and domestic product growth in India
  • Schooling costs: The link between tariff reform, poverty, and educational attainment
  • Trade and child labour

Stephen Pavelin

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  • Women in the boardroom

Anna Pavlova

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  • International macro-finance

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

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  • Crisis management and resolution policies: Early lessons from the financial crisis

Richard M Peck

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  • Tobacco taxes: New evidence on the implications for public health

Lasse Heje Pedersen

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  • Understanding liquidity risk and its role in the crisis

Marga Peeters

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  • Wages and productivity in the Eurozone
  • Demographic pressure versus labour market space: A global view
  • Egypt’s demographic pressure – Where and how to create jobs?

Gernot Pehnelt

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  • Against network neutrality: Crowding out in a neutral Internet
  • After the crisis is before the crisis: The political economy of debt relief

Andreas Peichl

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  • Automatic stabilisers and the global crisis

Udara Peiris

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  • Outright Monetary Transactions sterilised?
  • Dividend restrictions as macroprudential regulation

Jacques Pelkmans

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  • Turkey’s 15th year as a candidate for EU membership
  • Business "Angst” and EU Climate Strategy

Antoon Pelsser

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  • Countercyclical regulation in Solvency II: Merits and flaws

Lucio R Pench

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  • Fiscal austerity and policy credibility
  • EU fiscal consolidation after the global crisis: Lessons from past experiences

Ravi Pendakur

Sergio Perelman

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  • The changing face of disability insurance

Javier J. Pérez

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  • Fiscal forecasts: Governments vs independent agencies
  • The credibility of fiscal policies
  • Is there a signalling role for public wages?

Carlos Eduardo Perez

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  • Why WTO members should not give up the Doha Round: The case of agricultural trade

Gabriel Pérez-Quirós

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  • Real-time forecasting for the Eurozone

Giovanni Peri

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  • The long-run gains of not mixing genders in high-school classes
  • Immigration, offshoring and US jobs: New evidence
  • How immigration can benefit native workers

Enrico Perotti

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  • A blueprint for macroprudential policy in the banking union
  • Countercyclical regulation in Solvency II: Merits and flaws
  • The roots of shadow banking

Roberto Perotti

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  • Germany spending is not the cure
  • The political resource curse

Fabrizio Perri

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  • Economic inequality during recessions

Carlo Perroni

Maria Perrotta

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  • Development after the Arab Spring
  • Poorer without aid

Guillermo Perry

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  • Does Chinese growth threaten Latin America?

Motty Perry

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  • On the origin of the family

Avinash Persaud

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  • Notes on a scandal: Libor
  • Greek exit from the Eurozone: Neither inevitable nor desirable
  • The Eurozone needs less Europe, not more

Nicola Persico

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  • Enlisting moral hazard in the war on drugs
  • Intra-party factions and excessive public spending

Torsten Persson

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  • Uncertainty, climate change, and the global economy
  • Civil war in poor countries: The threat from rising commodity prices

Hashem Pesaran

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  • Beyond fiscal federalism: What will it take to save to euro?
  • Renminbi revaluation and Latin America: The ugly truth

Paolo Pesenti

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  • Current-account rebalancing and international transfers (immaculate or not)

Marcel Peter

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  • Will the crisis wipe out small carry traders in Central and Eastern Europe?

Barbara Petrongolo

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  • How local are labour markets? A look at the London Olympics
  • The Diamond, Mortensen and Pissarides Nobel: Search and market frictions

Michael Pettis

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  • Don’t count on enhanced global governance

José-Luis Peydró

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  • Loose monetary policy and excessive credit and liquidity risk-taking by banks
  • Contagion through interbank markets: Evidence from India
  • The euro’s financial integration of Europe

Eloïc Peyrache

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  • Gender and performance under pressure: new evidence

Cathy Pharoah

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  • UK development assistance: Government versus charitable contributions

Marvin Phaup

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  • US budget fight: The role of tax expenditures?

Thomas Philippon

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  • Where is Wal-Mart when we need it?
  • Eurobills, not euro Bonds
  • Proposals to fix the financial system: A stocktaking

Tomas Philipson

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  • An economic evaluation of the war on cancer
  • Safety & efficacy of prescription drug regulation

Shannon Phillips

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  • New evidence on international trade, offshoring, and US wages

Kerk L. Phillips

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

Giovanni Pica

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  • Employment protection legislation and the financial crisis
  • Estate taxation and intergenerational transfers: New evidence from Italy

Pierre M. Picard

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  • The benefits of government outsourcing

Andreas Pick

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  • The myth of the “Phoenix Miracle”

Roberta Piermartini

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  • WTO-consistent protection in times of crisis

Josep Pijoan-Mas

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  • Who lives longer and why
  • Americans do work more than Europeans, but please don’t think that Europeans are lazy

Andy Pike

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  • Income inequality, decentralisation, and regional development in Western Europe

Thomas Piketty

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  • Taxing the 1%: Why the top tax rate could be over 80%

Huw Pill

Steven CA Pincus

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  • An historical view on government defaults: Lessons from the 17th century

Jonathan Pinder

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  • A briefing on the US economy and presidential election promises

Maxim Pinkovskiy

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  • African poverty: Falling faster than you think
  • Parametric estimations of the world distribution of income

Joris Pinkse

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  • Location, location, location: Why geography matters for R&D

Paolo Pinotti

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  • Firm profitability and political connections in Italy

Brian Pinto

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  • Managing financial integration and capital mobility: Lessons from emerging markets

Matilde Pinto Machado

Patrizio Piraino

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  • Educational inequality persistence: Evidence from 29 nations over 50 years

Florence Pisani

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  • 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

Massimiliano Pisani

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  • Raising the competition: The case of Italy
  • New risk-adjusted forecasts of oil prices

Jean Pisani-Ferry

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  • LTRO: Quantitative easing in disguise?
  • Public capital flows replacing private flows in the Eurozone: What it means for policy
  • IMF surveillance of the Eurozone: Quo Vadis?

Jörn-Steffen Pischke

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  • Can money buy happiness? Evidence from industrial wage dispersion

Christopher Pissarides

Luigi Pistaferri

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  • Fiscal policy and consumption
  • The consumption response to income changes

Mauro Pisu

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  • How did the euro boost trade? Microeconomic evidence

Alexander Pivovarsky

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  • Financial stability in emerging Europe: The Vienna Initiative

Alexander Plekhanov

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  • Diversifying Russia

Dmitry Plotnikov

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  • Does fiscal policy matter? Is there a better way to reduce unemployment?

Jiří Podpiera

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  • What’s causing higher inflation in Europe’s converging economies?

Tigran Poghosyan

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  • Anatomy of distress: New insight on the probability of bank turmoil
  • Oil prices and bank profitability

Ganna Pogrebna

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  • Leaders need industry experience: Evidence from Formula One

Hélène Poirson

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  • Can Germany be Europe’s engine of growth?

Hélène Poirson

Momtchil Pojarliev

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  • Measuring crowded trades in financial markets
  • Alpha and style persistence for currency managers
  • Do professional currency traders earn their fees?

Herakles Polemarchakis

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  • Outright Monetary Transactions sterilised?

Michael Pomerleano

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  • The devil is in the details: Financial information and systemic problems

Richard Pomfret

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  • The age of equality
  • Asian regionalism: threat or progress?

Jorge Ponce

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  • Who should decide on emergency liquidity assistance?

Pilar Poncela

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  • Real-time forecasting for the Eurozone

Sandra Poncet

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  • When exchange-rate volatility affects trade
  • Agglomeration and spillovers in Japanese FDI choices

Jacopo Ponticelli

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  • Unrest and budget cuts over the long run

Victor Pontines

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  • Fear of appreciation: Asian exchange rate asymmetry

Jennifer P. Poole

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  • Globalisation and jobs: Nuanced findings from Brazil

Priya Nandita Pooran

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  • Mind the gap: Moving towards federal insurance regulation

Cristian Pop-Eleches

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  • The effect of home computer use on children’s outcomes

Alexander Popov

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  • On the tradeoff between growth and stability

David Popp

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  • Where does energy R&D come from?

Miguel Portela

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

Nathan Porter

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  • Are China’s market-determined interest rates influenced by regulation?

Richard Portes

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  • Credit default swaps: Useful, misleading, dangerous?
  • Greece: The way forward
  • Restructure Ireland’s debt

Jonathan Portes

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  • Self-defeating austerity?
  • The alternatives to austerity: The effect on jobs and incomes in the UK
  • What does ‘Keynesian’ really mean?

Guido Porto

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  • Competition and cash crops in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Trade adjustment costs in developing countries

Alberto Portugal-Perez

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  • Trade preferences that do not deny market access

Markus Poschke

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  • Entry regulation: Still costly

Peter Potapov

James Poterba

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  • Tax deductions and tax reform

Matthew Potoski

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  • Why we shouldn’t always trust expert ratings

Mathilde Poulhès

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  • Does homeownership influence stockholding?

Nattavudh Powdthavee

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  • A New Approach to Awarding Compensation in Courts

William M. Powers

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  • Did trade credit problems deepen the great trade collapse?

Zoltan Pozsar

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  • Shadow banking: Economics and policy priorities
  • Shadow banking: What to do?

Alberto Franco Pozzolo

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  • Too big to fail or too small to maintain stability?
  • Multinational banks and European financial integration

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

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  • Human development in Africa: A long-run perspective
  • Improving human development: A long-run view
  • Stabilisation and growth under dictatorships: New lessons from Franco’s Spain

Peter Praet

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  • Which banking resolution authority for Europe?
  • Towards the integrated measurement and management of market and credit risk

Nishith Prakash

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  • Indian politics: The redistributive effects of political reservation for minorities
  • It pays to speak English

Giovanni Prarolo

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  • Trade, geography, and the unifying force of Islam

Eswar Prasad

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  • Global economy: A fragile and fickle recovery
  • The renminbi will become a reserve currency within the next decade
  • Rethinking central banking

Naren Prasad

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  • Social policy in times of crisis

Julien Prat

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  • Employment protection legislation: new evidence

Andrea Prat

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  • How do CEOs spend their time?
  • The political economy of financial reform: Effective regulations require effective regulators

Patrick Premand

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  • Helping poor farmers help themselves against drought

Andrea F Presbitero

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  • Public debt and economic growth, one more time
  • IMF lending and banking crises
  • The IMF response to the crisis: Crisis prevention and political influence

Joseph Price

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  • Do attitudes towards competition explain the gender gap?

Robert Prilmeier

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  • This time is the same: Do banks learn from crises?

Lant Pritchett

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  • Producing superstars for the economic World Cup: New evidence from Mexico
  • Send lawyers, guns, and money: Deals versus rules in Africa

Paola Profeta

Carol Propper

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  • Free to choose?
  • On the use of high-powered incentives in the public sector
  • Competition, commissioning and the quality of healthcare: The evidence on Britain’s NHS reforms

Eugenio Proto

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  • Corruption as a barrier to entry

Marco Protopapa

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

Gerald J. Pruckner

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  • How the state influences volunteering

Thomas Prusa

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  • Straight out of Mad Men: US markets import protection as export promotion
  • Do free-trade agreements increase protectionism towards non-members?

Vicky Pryce

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  • Greekonomics
  • The London Summit: Open markets and trade finance

Stefano Puddu

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  • The Term Auction Facility effect on liquidity risk exposure

Stephen Pudney

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  • What should we do about cannabis?

Juan Manuel Puerta

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  • Why is child labour so difficult to eradicate?

Diego Puga

Riccardo Puglisi

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  • Fair and balanced after all? The bias of the US press

Claus Puhr

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  • Room for manoeuvre among Eurozone banks
  • Next-generation system-wide liquidity stress testing

Manju Puri

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  • The impact of venture capital financing

Louis Putterman

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  • Ancestors and incomes: More on the roots of world inequality
  • Post-Columbian population movements and the roots of world inequality

Laura Puzzello

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  • Dirty trade: How important are greenhouse-gas emissions from international transport?

Loriane Py

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  • The (re)location effects of enterprise zones

Ju Hyun Pyun

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  • Globalisation promotes peace

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