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Romesh Vaitilingam

Renos Vakis

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  • Helping poor farmers help themselves against drought

Fabian Valencia

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  • The interaction between monetary and macroprudential policies
  • The curse of advanced economies in resolving banking crises

Akos Valentinyi

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  • European imbalances
  • The Hungarian crisis
  • Three centuries of climatic variation and the world income distribution

Neven Valev

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  • Dashed expectations: Individual reactions to the global crisis
  • Disaggregating financial development: The effects of lending to households and firms

Marie-Anne Valfort

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  • Are education policies reaching the marginalised in Africa?

Natacha Valla

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  • Output revisions and the stimulus debate

Shahin Vallee

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  • Making sense of Eurobond proposals

Tommaso Valletti

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  • Unbundling the incumbent: Evidence from UK broadband
  • Mobile regulation and the “waterbed effect”

Marshall Van Alstyne

Ari Van Assche

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  • Geography and offshoring to China

Arthur van Benthem

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  • Oil price risk, expropriation and bilateral investment treaties

Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

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  • Do economic sanctions make sense?
  • This isn't your grandfather's global trade collapse

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

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  • The automotive industry in developing countries: Ready to move up a gear?
  • Canadian auto subsidies: Money for nothing?
  • How to help the auto sector: Looking beyond bailouts

Hendrik P van Dalen

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  • Seven billion people, so why do some fear population decline?
  • Why are the Dutch leaving the Netherlands?
  • Aid and AIDS: A delicate cocktail

Ton van den Bremer

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  • Managing and harnessing volatile oil windfalls

Paul van den Noord

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  • The euro’s future begins now
  • Diverging trends in money demand and housing across the Eurozone
  • Economic crisis in Europe: Cause, consequences, and responses

Carin van der Cruijsen

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  • Are OECD central banks too transparent?

Albert van der Horst

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  • EU corporate tax reform: Weighing the pros and cons
  • European jobs in 2040: Thinking ahead in the Netherlands

Bas van der Klaauw

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  • Why micro success doesn’t guarantee macro success
  • Welfare to work: Sticks rather than carrots
  • Why Dutch women work part-time

Erik van der Marel

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  • Transatlantic trade negotiations in services

Rick van der Ploeg

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  • Managing and harnessing volatile oil windfalls
  • Harnessing windfall revenues in developing economies
  • Towards evidence-based reform of European universities

Edwin van der Werf

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  • Imperfect climate policy unlikely to increase domestic emissions

Theon van Dijk

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  • How does access regulation affect broadband penetration?
  • EC competition law: private enforcement

Casper van Ewijk

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  • Private pensions for Europe
  • Why the EU should abolish transfer taxes on residential property

Neeltje van Horen

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  • Foreign banks and the global financial crisis: Investment and lending behaviour
  • Foreign banks: New data on trends and effects
  • The changing role of emerging-market banks

Vincent van Kervel

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  • Dark trading, visible fragmentation and market quality

Iman van Lelyveld

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  • How did multinational banks weather the previous perfect storm?
  • Coordinating bank failure costs and financial stability: Lessons for the EZ

Michiel van Leuvensteijn

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  • Why the EU should abolish transfer taxes on residential property

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

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  • A proposal to reform the US mortgage finance
  • A race to the bottom: Understanding the US housing boom

Jan van Ours

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  • Time to legalise cannabis
  • Reducing the invitation to crime
  • Welfare to work: Sticks rather than carrots

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

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  • EU patent: Good for innovation and revenue, bad for lawyers
  • Europe’s costly, fragmented patent system
  • European patent filing strategies: Coping mechanisms or strategic abuses?

John Van Reenen

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  • Mrs Thatcher’s economic legacy
  • The LSE ‘manifesto for growth’
  • Inequality and the US election: The elephant in the room

Caroline Van Rijckeghem

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  • Learning from past crises: Into the safety zone

Martin van Tuijl

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  • They think it’s all over: National identity, scoring in the last minute, and penalty shootouts

Sander van Veldhuizen

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  • Another reason for the EU patent: Declining validation rates

Eric van Wincoop

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  • Risk panics: When markets crash for no apparent reason

Frans van Winden

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

Tanguy van Ypersele

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  • Markets and values: Competition builds trust

Jan Luiten van Zanden

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  • Why China missed the industrial revolution
  • 1000 years of urban history: the rise and fall of European and Arab cities

Timothy Van Zandt

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  • Does the WTO matter?

Nicolas van Zeebroeck

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  • European patent filing strategies: Coping mechanisms or strategic abuses?

Guillaume Vandenbroucke

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  • A demographic consequence of the First World War

Hylke Vandenbussche

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  • ‘No gain without pain’: Antidumping protection hurts exports
  • Has EU import protection gone up during the crisis?
  • Antidumping: Much ado about nothing?

Andrea Vaona

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  • Have Chinese innovators (and banks) finally grown-up?

Alexandros Vardoulakis

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  • Dividend restrictions as macroprudential regulation

Gonzalo Varela

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

Hal R. Varian

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  • Doing economics at Google

Nebibe Varol

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  • Does price regulation affect the adoption of new pharmaceuticals?

Bořek Vašíček

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  • How does monetary policy respond to financial stress?

Ryan K Vaughn

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  • Congressional influence as a determinant of subprime lending

Dimitri Vayanos

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  • Choosing an investment strategy for an inefficient world
  • Greece: The way forward
  • Greece – where next?

Raquel Vegas

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  • Gender gaps in performance pay

Carlos A. Vegh

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  • Graduation from monetary policy procyclicality
  • How developing nations escaped procyclical fiscal policy
  • Determining the size of the fiscal multiplier

Laura Veldkamp

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  • The origin of bias in credit ratings

Ricardo Cicchelli Velloso

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  • Fiscal policy and global imbalances

Anthony Venables

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  • Resource trade: Policy and policy reform
  • Harnessing windfall revenues in developing economies

Alain Venditti

Jaume Ventura

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  • Understanding bubbly episodes
  • Asset bubbles: Origins and implications

Gustavo Ventura

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  • Income taxation of US households: Facts and parametric estimates

Alina Verashchagina

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

Frank Verboven

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  • Unbundling the incumbent: Evidence from UK broadband
  • The university as an internal labour market
  • How does access regulation affect broadband penetration?

Thierry Verdier

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  • Cuddly or cut-throat capitalism: Choosing models in a globalised world
  • Aid-for-trade: the details matter
  • Muslim immigrants’ integration in the UK

Geneviève Verdier

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  • Can I trust the government? New evidence on democracies and financial development

David Veredas

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  • Googling systemically important insurers
  • Mutualising Eurozone sovereign bonds? First of all, tame the tails

Stijn Verhelst

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  • What will the golden rule mean for the Eurozone?

Nicolas Véron

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  • Europe’s Cyprus blunder and its consequences
  • Basel III: Europe’s interest is to comply
  • Europe takes an important step towards a European banking union

Giovanni Veronese

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  • €-coin indicator and the looming recession
  • Monitoring the euro area economy in real-time

Pietro Vertova

Esteban R Vesperoni

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  • Capital inflows, exchange-rate flexibility, and credit booms

Reinhilde Veugelers

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  • Kick-starting the green innovation machine
  • Towards evidence-based reform of European universities

Pierre-Louis Vézina

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  • The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports
  • Put your money where your mouse is: How e-commerce can foster development
  • Chinese networks and tariff evasion

Martina Viarengo

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  • The expansion and convergence of compulsory schooling: Lessons for developing countries
  • Making the grade: Equity and efficiency in education
  • Producing superstars for the economic World Cup: New evidence from Mexico

Vincent Vicard

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  • Tradable sectors in the Eurozone periphery
  • Global value chains are not all born identical: Evidence from France
  • How French exporters were hit by the global crisis

Luis M Viceira

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  • Is there a bubble in the bond market?

Pedro C. Vicente

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  • Votes and violence

Jade Vichyanond

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  • Asia’s supply chain: Implications for rebalancing

Christian Viegelahn

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  • Has EU import protection gone up during the crisis?

Martin Vieiro

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  • Trade facilitation matters!

Jacob Vigdor

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  • Hurricane Hysteresis: Katrina

Vesa Vihriälä

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  • Nordic innovation: Is ‘cuddly capitalism’ really less innovative?
  • The Nordics in the global crisis

Carolina Villegas-Sanchez

Nicolas Vincent

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

Andrea Vindigni

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  • Democracy and the military

David Vines

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  • The leaderless global economy: Can economic history suggest lessons?
  • The Eurozone crisis: Greek recovery and the challenges of asymmetric monetary union
  • How to rescue the Eurozone: Lessons from Southeast Asia

Gianluca Violante

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  • Economic inequality during recessions

Arvind Virmani

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  • Quota formula reform is about IMF credibility

Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

Xavier Vives

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  • Expectations and asset prices: Keynes meets Hayek
  • Banking union and the financial architecture of the Eurozone: A retrospective
  • Seven principles for better banking regulation

Eliana Viviano

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  • Talking shop: The costs of entry restrictions in retail trade

Razvan Vlahu

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  • Strategic default and “borrower runs”
  • More bank capital is not enough

Michael Vlassopoulos

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  • Do social incentives matter? Evidence from an online experiment
  • Are workers motivated by the greater good?
  • Three centuries of climatic variation and the world income distribution

Milan Vodopivec

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

Johannes Voget

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  • Capital gains taxation and the cost of capital
  • Why banks are under-taxed and what to do about it

Tom Vogl

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  • Lasting effects of childhood health in developing countries

Nico Voigtländer

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  • Hatred transformed: How Germans changed their minds about Jews, 1890-2006
  • How anti-Semitism in interwar Germany was influenced by the medieval mass murder of Jews
  • Wars, plagues, and Europe’s rise to riches

Sebastian Voll

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  • Emerging economies should liberalise now to become major players in global economic policymaking

Ben Vollaard

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  • How to cut prison numbers
  • Reducing the invitation to crime
  • Car thieves: Not too bright, please!

Herman Vollebergh

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  • Why the EU should auction carbon permits

Vadym Volosovych

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  • Upstream sovereigns

Ulrich Volz

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  • The Trans-Pacific Partnership and implications for Europe
  • Chinese inflation, monetary policy and the dollar peg
  • Why Sweden should join the Eurozone

David von Below

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  • Uncertainty, climate change, and the global economy

Viola von Berlepsch

Jürgen von Hagen

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  • European government bond spreads in the current crisis

Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder

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

Erik von Uexkull

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  • How do trade and labour market institutions affect employment during crises?

Jakob von Weizsäcker

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  • How to prick housing bubbles in a monetary union: taxes and regulation

Natalja von Westernhagen

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  • Bank ownership and stability: Evidence from Germany

Ekaterina Vostroknutova

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  • Dealing with Dutch disease

Hans-Joachim Voth

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  • Hatred transformed: How Germans changed their minds about Jews, 1890-2006
  • Unrest and budget cuts over the long run
  • How anti-Semitism in interwar Germany was influenced by the medieval mass murder of Jews

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  • Vox's Holiday Break

James Raymond Vreeland

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  • The extreme bounds of democracy: What this means for the Arab world

Guillermo Vuletin

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  • Graduation from monetary policy procyclicality
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