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• The Doha Round: A safety net in stormy weather

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• How driving a mile could cost you $200
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• Resegregation in US schools: unintended consequences of parental choice

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• Countercyclical regulation in Solvency II: Merits and flaws
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• The curse of advanced economies in resolving banking crises
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• Educated in America: College graduates and high school dropouts

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• Long-run spatial inequality in France: Evolution and determinants

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

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• How does the stock market respond to petrochemical disasters?

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• Understanding and quantifying contagion

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• The psychology of savings and investment

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• An economic evaluation of the war on cancer

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• Can passenger railways curb road-traffic externalities? Empirical evidence

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• Making time for friends

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• Swiss National Bank under attack
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• Domestic financial regulation and external borrowing

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• Taxation and international migration of football’s superstars

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• Macroprudential rebalancing

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• Three debts: A view from emerging Europe
• The crisis in Eastern Europe: What is to be done?

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• Evaluating restructuring plans for systemically important banks

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• Banks and cross-border capital flows: Policy challenges and regulatory responses
• EZ crisis: Ireland’s recovery, European Safe Bonds and a reform agenda for the Eurozone
• Cross-border banking in Europe

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• Temp jobs: dead end or stepping stone?

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• The anemic response of skill investment to skill premium growth

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• Imperfect climate policy unlikely to increase domestic emissions

Andreas Lange

• Unilateral climate policy: Combat leakage or beggar-thy-neighbour?

Sven Langedijk

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

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• Fading Reciprocity: Challenges to Global Rules

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• Stronger EU economic governance: A response to the critics
• Stronger economic governance in the EU

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• The spillovers of labour market reforms

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• The impact of class size on the performance of university students

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• Foreigners vs. natives: Bank lending and loan pricing

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• Transmission of the global recession through US trade
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• Is newer better? The Penn World Table growth estimates

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• Monetary policy and the models

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• Eurozone crisis: What do the economists think?

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• Quantitative easing: What effect on yields?

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• Market discipline, disclosure, and transparency
• A prudential regulatory issue at the heart of Solvency II

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• In case of fire, break the glass: Argentina’s border emergency-kit in times of global crisis

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• The good, the bad, and the average: Ability peer effects in schools

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• Credit demand, supply, and conditions: A tale of three crises

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• Let’s do a Doha deal
• The globalisation paradox: more trade less inequality

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• The tragic error of excessive austerity
• The Manifesto for Economic Sense

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• Europe’s Lehman moment?
• Lessons for economic growth in developed countries

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• Why is Spain’s unemployment so high?

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• How to get good public services through choice and competition

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• ‘Neurofacturing’: the impact on inequality and the implications for education

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• The electoral consequences of large fiscal adjustments

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• Does sport make your kids smarter? New evidence from Germany

Wolfgang Lechthaler

• Monetary policy and firing costs
• The spillovers of labour market reforms

Daniel Lederman

• Openness to international trade causes growth in sub-Saharan Africa
• Foreign investment in southern Africa: Why so little?
• Does Chinese growth threaten Latin America?

Sokbae Lee

• Is distance dying at last?

Jaewoo Lee

• From the Great Moderation to the global crisis: Ten years of exchange-market pressure

Minsoo Lee

• Developing country and emerging market vulnerability to the Eurozone crisis

Yoonsoo Lee

• Cleansing effects of recessions: new evidence

Hongshik Lee

• Venturing abroad at the cost of domestic employment?

Joon H. Lee

• Clustering together abroad: South Korean multinationals in China
• Venturing abroad at the cost of domestic employment?

Jong-Wha Lee

• Educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010
• Globalisation promotes peace

Mathieu Lefebvre

• The changing face of disability insurance

Philippe Legrain

• The US economic policy mix is a threat to the world

Patrick Legros

• Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care
• Nobel Prize: What is mechanism design and why does it matter?

Yu-Hsiang Lei

• Do giant oil field discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?

Daniel Leigh

• Fiscal consolidation: At what speed?
• Jobs and growth are still linked (that is, Okun’s Law still holds)
• What are the costs of reducing a large current-account surplus?

Andrew Leigh

• Do employers discriminate in female-dominated occupations?

Axel Leijonhufvud

• 21st century shell game: How bankers play and taxpayers pay
• A modest proposal: Double liability for bankers
• Stabilities and instabilities in the macroeconomy

Françoise Lemoine

• China’s strong domestic demand has reduced its trade surplus

Andreas Lendle

• Put your money where your mouse is: How e-commerce can foster development
• How preferential is world trade?

Julia Lendvai

• Boom and bust in the Baltics

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• Debating core inflation
• Phasing out monetary policy in the Eurozone
• The euro hasn’t changed European business cycles

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• Employment protection legislation and the financial crisis

Ossi Leppänen

• Restructuring Eurozone banks to address Eurosystem imbalances

Josh Lerner

• The architecture of innovation
• Collective cooperation: The phenomenon of open source
• Policies to encourage entrepreneurship

Simon Lester

• How much global trade governance should there be?

Simon Lester

Andrei Levchenko

• The role of firms in aggregate fluctuations
• Is China’s growth bad news for western countries?
• The collapse of US trade: In search of the smoking gun

Micol Levi

Micol Levi

• Too big to fail or too small to maintain stability?

Richard M. Levich

• Measuring crowded trades in financial markets
• The clearinghouse that saved foreign exchange trading from the crisis
• Alpha and style persistence for currency managers

Jonathan Levin

• Exploiting the internet data trove

Andrew Levin

• Monetary policy at the zero bound

Phillip B. Levine

• The crisis will force workers to retire

Ross Levine

• Measuring financial development
• Finance, long-run growth, and economic opportunity
• An autopsy of the US financial system: Accident, suicide, or negligent homicide?

Arik Levinson

• Valuing public goods using happiness surveys
• The clean-up of US manufacturing

Oren Levintal

• Toxic assets in the 18th century

Frank Levy

• Twentieth century American inequality

Philip Levy

• Doha Round: Keep moving forward or fall down
• Alternatives to consensus at the WTO
• US policy approaches to China’s currency

Mickey Levy

• Greece’s predicament: Lessons from Argentina
• How to restore competitiveness in the EU

Aviram Levy

• Should governments extend bank guarantees?

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

• Financial recoupling in emerging markets
• The uncoupling of decoupling: Latin America’s experience
• Argentina's latest looming crisis

John Lewis

• ECB interest rate policy and the “zero lower bound”
• Do fiscal policymakers know what they are doing?

Logan Lewis

• The collapse of US trade: In search of the smoking gun

Chunding Li

• China and antidumping
• Global imbalances: Are we measuring the right thing?

Yue Li

• The implications of retail-sector liberalisation: Evidence from Romania

Yao Li

• China’s higher education transformation

Ben Li

• China’s soaring foreign trade: Made in Britain, c. 1840?

Hao Li

• Why are sports organised as winner-take-all tournaments?

Chao Li

• Rising regional inequality in China: Fact or artefact?

Wenli Li

• How US personal bankruptcy reform exacerbated the US housing crisis

Guanmin Liao

• Brain drain or brain gain? Evidence from corporate boards

Massimo Libertucci

• A proposal for countercyclical contingent capital instruments
• Rules vs discretion in macroprudential policies

Frank R. Lichtenberg

• The cost of medical innovation
• Genuine innovation: New drugs save lives

Jeffrey Liebman

Cheng Hoon Lim

• Macroprudential policy: What instruments and how to use them?

Linda Lim

• Global Rebalancing 2.0

Jamus Lim

• Does openness really increase volatility?

Justin Yifu Lin

Chen Lin

• Financial innovation: The good and the bad
• Can financial reform reduce tax evasion?

William Lincoln

• The dynamics of firm lobbying
• Immigrants and US Innovation

Jesper Lindé

• Monetary policy and the models

Leigh Linden

• Do teachers discriminate against minorities in India?

Peter H. Lindert

• America’s Revolution: Economic disaster, development, and equality
• Ancient income inequality

Matthew Lindquist

• Can education policy be used to fight crime?

Susanne Link

• Independent schools: A luxury for the developed world?

Francesco Lippi

• Oil prices: risks and opportunities

Molly Lipscomb

• Services sector reform and the Indian manufacturing miracle

Maurizio Lisciandra

• A bonus seat system for European Parliament elections

John List

• Simple rules for designing economic experiments
• The economics of open-air markets
• Field experiments in economic research

Jin-Tan Liu

• Education fosters health

Wei Liu

• Trade finance in emerging Asian economies

Xuepeng Liu

• Free trade agreements and the consolidation of democracy

Wan-Hsin Liu

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

Kai Liu

• The puzzle of China’s rising household saving rate

Xiaodong Liu

• Social multiplier versus social norms: What matters most for outcomes?

Gerard Llobet

• European banks: Distinguishing the walking wounded from the living dead

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• Do we know enough about terrorism?

Anna Lo Prete

• Does trade openness foster financial development?
• Finance, redistribution, globalisation

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• The wide-ranging benefits of education
• Does university financial aid matter?

Ben Lockwood

• Carbon-motivated tariffs: Old wine in green bottles?

Trevon D. Logan

• Information and illegal market mechanisms

Stanley D. Longhofer

• The (mythical?) housing wealth effect

Francis A. Longstaff

• Are Michigan and Illinois like Greece and Ireland?

Rudy Loo-Kung

• US recovery: A new “Phoenix Miracle”?
• How bad are bubbles for welfare?
• Needed: Rapid and large liquidity funding for emerging markets

Jose Ernesto López Córdova

Javier López González

• How much difference will the EU’s new approach to preferential trade make?

Luis Lopez-Calva

• Declining Latin American inequality: Market forces or state action?

Simon Loretz

• EU corporate tax reform: Weighing the pros and cons

Thomas Losse-Müller

• Financial sector taxation: Balancing fairness, efficiency, and stability

Elena Loukoianova

• Financial stability in emerging Europe: The Vienna Initiative

Prakash Loungani

• Why is this global recovery different?
• Jobs and growth are still linked (that is, Okun’s Law still holds)
• Divergence of fortunes in recoveries

Inessa Love

• Stocks and shocks: New evidence on global equity returns

Mary E. Lovely

• Chinese trade and environmental degradation

Patrick Low

• World Trade Organization decision-making for the future

Richard E. Lucas

• Hedonic adaptation: Does happiness last?

Matteo Luciani

• Googling systemically important insurers

Matteo Luciani

Bernd Lucke

• The plenum of German economists on the European debt crisis

Jens Ludwig

• Evidence-based policy through mechanism experiments

Simon Luechinger

• Can passenger railways curb road-traffic externalities? Empirical evidence
• The value of the revolving door: Political appointees and the stock market

Haydée Lugo

Maurizio Luisi

• Distilling the macroeconomic news flow

Susan Lund

• Jobs: The next piece of Africa’s growth jigsaw

Susanna Lundstrom Gable

• Service export sophistication and economic growth

Jaime Luque

• The euro and economic uncertainty in debt crises

Annamaria Lusardi

• Financial illiteracy: New evidence from Germany

Nora Lustig

• Declining Latin American inequality: Market forces or state action?
• How to protect the poor from food price shocks
• Thought for food: the challenges of coping with soaring food prices

Matthew N Luzzetti

• Macroeconomic paradigm shifts and Keynes’s General Theory

Sergey Lychagin

• Can competition pull along the public sector? Evidence from Indian railways
• Location, location, location: Why geography matters for R&D

Lisa M. Lynch

• US productivity growth and organizational innovations

Seán Lyons

• Green growth? Evidence from energy taxes in Europe