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Claudio Raddatz

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  • Do mutual funds make crises worse?
  • How bank credit-market funding helped spread the global crisis

Louis Raes

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  • Policy preferences of central bankers and the design of a monetary-policy committee

Andrea Raffo

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  • New measures of hours worked and implications for OECD business cycles

Giuseppe Ragusa

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  • Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Italy
  • Is Italy going to make it?

Sjamsu Rahardja

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  • Service-sector reforms enhance manufacturing productivity: Evidence from Indonesia

Ebrahim Rahbari

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  • Making sense of TARGET imbalances
  • The ‘strong-dollar’ policy of the US
  • Global growth generators: Moving beyond emerging markets and BRICs

Sahil Raina

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  • Distorted beliefs and the financial sector

Martin Raiser

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  • Europe’s growth model

Ramkishen S. Rajan

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  • Fear of appreciation: Asian exchange rate asymmetry

Raghuram Rajan

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  • Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector
  • Rethinking central banking
  • Fault lines: how hidden fractures still threaten the world economy

Tarun Ramadorai

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  • Should hedge funds be more open?

Pradumna B. Rana

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  • The need for a second round of ‘look east’ policies in south Asia
  • Misdiagnosing the Eurozone crisis: Perspectives from Asia
  • A free trade agreement for Asia

Angelo Ranaldo

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  • The foreign exchange market: Not as liquid as you may think

Romain Rancière

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  • Did the mortgage credit boom contribute to the decline in US racial segregation?
  • Inequality, leverage and crises
  • In defence of credit crises: No reward without risk

Justin M Rao

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  • Do they know it's Christmas? New insights on communication, empathy, and altruism

Veronica E Rappoport

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  • Credit constraints and the great trade collapse

Tobias Rasmussen

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  • Oil shocks around the world: Are they really that bad?

Imran Rasul

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  • Decriminalizing cannabis: the impact on crime
  • The impact of class size on the performance of university students

Dilip Ratha

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  • Shadow sovereign ratings

Roland Rathelot

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  • Job placement and displacement: Evidence from a randomised experiment

Francis Xavier Rathinam

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  • India’s expectations from the G20
  • Capital inflows in India
  • Over-the-counter derivatives regulation in India

Lev Ratnovski

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  • Shadow banking: Economics and policy priorities
  • The risks of trading by banks
  • Macroprudential policy: Economic rationale and optimal tools

Marisa Ratto

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

Ferdinand Rauch

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  • Advertising and consumer prices
  • Rethinking urbanisation

Joshua Rauh

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  • GM solution: Chapter 11 with government restructuring finance

Sebastian Rausch

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  • Distributional impacts of carbon pricing
  • The distributional burden of cap and trade

Martin Ravallion

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  • Poverty Enlightenment: Awareness of poverty over three centuries
  • Valuing longevity in the Human Development Index
  • Your new composite index has arrived: Please handle with care

Morten O. Ravn

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  • Eliminating a known unknown: Firm evidence on tax multipliers
  • The timing of fiscal interventions

Assaf Razin

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  • Theories of financial crises
  • Migration and the welfare state
  • Immigration and the welfare state: New evidence from the EU

J James Reade

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  • Chinese inflation, monetary policy and the dollar peg
  • Why Sweden should join the Eurozone
  • How should we make economic forecasts?

Vincent Rebeyrol

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  • Exporting to insecure markets

Alessandro Rebucci

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  • Is the Federal Reserve breeding the next financial crisis?
  • Are macro-prudential policies really that prudent?
  • Renminbi revaluation and Latin America: The ugly truth

Laura Recuero Virto

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  • The privatisation of infrastructure: One size does not fit all

Stephen Redding

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  • Trade and inequality: New insights from Brazil
  • Rethinking urbanisation

Charles Redlick

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  • Design and effectiveness of fiscal-stimulus programmes

André Regateiro

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  • The incredible shrinking Portuguese firm

Lucrezia Reichlin

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  • Helicopter money as a policy option
  • Is inflation targeting dead? Central banking after the Crisis
  • The decoupling of the US and European economies: Evidence from nowcasting

Nancy E. Reichman

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  • Overweight adolescents and risky sexual behaviour

John Reilly

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  • Distributional impacts of carbon pricing
  • The distributional burden of cap and trade

Vincent Reinhart

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  • The eternal capital-inflow dilemma
  • The decade after the fall: Diminished expectations, double dips, and external shocks
  • Is the US too big to fail?

Carmen M Reinhart

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  • This time is different, again? The US five years after the onset of subprime
  • Financial repression: Then and now
  • Capital inflows, exchange-rate flexibility, and credit booms

Ritva Reinikka

José Guilherme Reis

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  • The Brazilian competitiveness cliff

Ricardo Reis

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  • The fiscal expansion of 2007-09: All about transfers
  • Is neoclassical economics right about pure inflation?

Helmut Reisen

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  • China’s exchange rate and poor-country growth
  • How emerging donors are creating policy space for Africa
  • Do currency appreciations reduce imbalances? Half a century of evidence

Pontus Rendahl

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  • A time to spend: New insights into the multiplier effect

Robert Rennhack

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

Céline Renucci

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  • Eurozone: Looking for growth

Rafael Repullo

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  • Mitigating the procyclical effects of bank capital regulation
  • The procyclical effects of Basel II

Till Requate

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  • Switching vices: Do smoking bans encourage drinking?

Francisco Requena-Silvente

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  • Do immigrants create exports? New evidence from Spain

Andrea Resti

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  • In defence of the European Banking Authority

Ernesto Reuben

Mieke Reuser

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  • Aid and AIDS: A delicate cocktail

Ana Revenga

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  • Coping with crises: Policies to protect employment and earnings

Hélène Rey

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  • Banks and cross-border capital flows: Policy challenges and regulatory responses
  • Reforming the international monetary system: Introducing a new eReport
  • The dollar’s long run value: Micro-econometric evidence on US current account sustainability

Carolina Reyes

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  • An economic evaluation of the war on cancer

Gonzalo Reyes

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  • Effects of unemployment insurance savings accounts: New insights from Chile

Marta Reynal-Querol

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  • Poverty does not breed civil war

Alejandro Riaño

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  • China’s pure exporter subsidies: Protectionism by exporting

Alessandro Riboni

Matthew Richardson

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  • Capital shortfall: A new approach to ranking and regulating systemic risks
  • The Dodd-Frank Act, systemic risk and capital requirements
  • Dodd-Frank: One year on…

Richard Richels

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  • Breaking the climate stalemate?

Wolfram F Richter

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  • The plenum of German economists on the European debt crisis

K. Richard Ridderinkhof

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  • Why don’t we trust a stranger? Ties that bind

Stefan Ried

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  • Fixing Europe: A ‘European Consolidation Pact’ proposal

Daniel Riera-Crichton

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  • How much do international reserves buffer terms-of-trade shocks?

John Ries

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  • Offshoring service sector jobs: the role of distance

Raymond Riezman

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  • International trade and the feasibility of global climate change agreements

Marianna Riggi

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  • The price of oil and the macroeconomy

Roberto Rigobon

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  • Some pitfalls in global investing
  • International macro-finance

Bob Rijkers

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  • Coping with crises: Policies to protect employment and earnings

Dagfinn Rime

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  • The $4 trillion question: What explains FX growth?
  • Resolving the “arbitrage paradox” in foreign exchange markets

Felix Rioja

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

Víctor Ríos-Rull

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  • Who lives longer and why

Regina T. Riphahn

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  • Temporary employment: The trade-off between efficiency and fairness

John Rizzo

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  • Jobs and kids: Female employment and fertility in rural China

Frédéric Robert-Nicoud

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  • On the causes and consequences of land use regulations

Andrew Roberts

John Roberts

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  • “The Office” goes to India: How bad management keeps India poor

Raymond Robertson

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  • Mexico and the great trade collapse

James A Robinson

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  • Colonialism and development in Africa
  • Cuddly or cut-throat capitalism: Choosing models in a globalised world
  • An historical view on government defaults: Lessons from the 17th century

Nadia Rocha

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  • World food prices and protectionism
  • Trade agreements and 21st century trade: A new Policy Insight
  • Preferential trade agreements and the WTO

Jean-Charles Rochet

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  • Rent capture through financial innovation
  • How to make financial regulation macro-prudential

Guillaume Rocheteau

Guillaume Rocheteau

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  • Liquidity in the financial crisis: New insights on the lender of last resort

Francisco Rodríguez

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  • Developing countries and the global crisis

Marta Rodríguez

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  • The credibility of fiscal policies

Francisco Rodríguez Fernández

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  • The benefits of being too big to fail and how to regulate them

Andres Rodríguez-Clare

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  • From hard to soft industrial policies in developing countries

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

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

Dani Rodrik

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  • Don’t count on enhanced global governance
  • Manufacturing is special
  • Growth-reducing structural change

Barbara Roffia

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  • The Fed, the Eurosystem, and the Bank of Japan: Similarities and differences

Mark Rogers

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  • The impact of university research on corporate patenting: New evidence from the UK

Kenneth Rogoff

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  • This time is different, again? The US five years after the onset of subprime
  • Capital controls: A meta-analysis approach
  • Do countries “graduate” from crises? An historical perspective

Agustin Roitman

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  • Oil shocks around the world: Are they really that bad?

Gérard Roland

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  • Currency wars: China should impose green taxes on its exports
  • Culture can determine long-run growth
  • Political protest and reform: Lessons from communism’s demise

Lars-Hendrik Röller

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  • A new European framework for addressing foreign investment

Jim Rollo

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  • EU-India free trade agreement?

John Romalis

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  • Trade accounting in the recent recession
  • Doha Round will benefit poor nations

Paul Romer

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  • Charter cities
  • Cutting the corruption tax: A way out for Greece

David Romer

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  • Preventing the next catastrophe: Where do we stand?

Antonio Romero-Medina

Rafael Romeu

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  • A modern history of fiscal prudence and profligacy

John Romley

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  • What hospital patients want

Stephanie Rosch

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  • Climate change and the world’s poorest

Andrew K Rose

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  • Why do trade negotiations take so long?
  • Protectionism isn’t countercyclical (anymore)
  • What stock markets say about regional trade agreements

Howard Rosenthal

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  • Paulson package: Not the end of capitalism

Joan R. Rosés

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  • Stabilisation and growth under dictatorships: New lessons from Franco’s Spain

Bridget Rosewell

Alfonso Rosolia

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  • I get a job with a little help from my friends

Hana Ross

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  • Do higher cigarette prices deter smoking?

Michael L. Ross

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  • The oil curse: How petroleum wealth shapes the development of nations

Giambattista Rossi

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  • Are migrants paid more? Evidence from Italian football

Salvatore Rossi

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  • Being in a global value chain: Hell or heaven?
  • Buying assets, recapitalising banks, and getting incentives right
  • Finance, market, globalisation: a plot against mankind?

Barbara Rossi

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  • Exchange rates that forecast commodity prices

Stefano Rossi

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  • Sovereign defaults, banks and financial institutions

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

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  • Moving to Greenland in the face of global warming
  • Heavy technology: The process of technological diffusion over time and space
  • How firms reorganise to grow

Felix Roth

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  • Crisis and public support for the euro
  • The crisis and citizens’ trust in central banks

Alvin E. Roth

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  • Market design: An interview with Nobel laureate Alvin Roth

Thomas Rothe

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  • The German labour market: Low worker flows and large volatilities

Philipp Rother

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  • Major public debt reductions: Lessons from the past, lessons for the future

Lorenzo Rotunno

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  • The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports
  • Chinese networks and tariff evasion

Cecilia Elena Rouse

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  • Can computers help teachers teach math?

Linda Rousová

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  • The growth effect of current-account reversals
  • Monitoring and managing global imbalances

Peter L Rousseau

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  • The finance-trade-growth nexus and lessons from the past

Charles Roxburgh

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  • Myths about emerging markets, trade, and jobs

Kareen Rozen

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  • Does conflict lead to cooperation – and corporate consolidation?

Gisela Rua

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  • The effectiveness of fiscal and monetary stimulus in depressions

Jared Rubin

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  • Religion and economic outcomes in the long, long run

Luca Rubini

Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

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  • Supply-side policies and the zero lower bound

Jeremy Rudd

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  • Why the recent oil shock wasn’t very shocking

Kim Ruhl

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

Christopher J. Ruhm

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  • Obesity: the links with age and socioeconomic status
  • Why are disadvantaged adults more likely to be obese?

Rui Albuquerque

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  • Should the EU strengthen its takeover regulation?

Armando Rungi

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  • Global value chains are not all born identical: Evidence from France

Eric Ruscher

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  • Corporate balance-sheet adjustment: New stylised facts and their relevance for the Eurozone

Aldo Rustichini

Michele Ruta

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  • Global imbalances: What role for the WTO?
  • World food prices and protectionism
  • Resource trade: Policy and policy reform

Thomas F. Rutherford

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

Daniela Rützler

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  • Should governments teach self-control?

William Ryan

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  • Memory and the dollar: New evidence on international demand
  • Timelines of policy responses to the global financial crisis

Kristian Rydqvist

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  • How tax policy drives the structure of stock ownership

Øistein Røisland

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  • The influence of the Taylor rule on US monetary policy

Thomas Rønde

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