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The Economic Journal 2003

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NOVEMBER 2003
 
Combating Corruption: The Value of Economic Analysis

UK Courts Fail to Compensate People Adequately for Loss of Earnings Following Personal Injury

Emerging Markets: The Significance of Competition and Corporate Governance for Future Economic Growth

Competition is More Intense in Emerging Markets than in Developed Countries

Firms’ Investment Performance: The Impact of Corporate Governance
Contrasting Asian Success Stories: ‘Creative Destruction’ in Taiwan and Korea
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OCTOBER 2003
 
Unconventional Monetary Policy: Fight Deflation by Taxing Currency
Wage Flexibility and the Rate of Inflation in the UK
Regional Economic Integration: Winners and Losers
Globalisation Means Job Losses for Unionised Labour
The European Central Bank’s Open Market Operations
Minimum Wages: American Evidence of Their Impact on Wage Inequality
Corporate Earnings and Corporate Leverage: Are Managers Getting it Right?
Decision Skills and Social Learning: Lessons from Experimental Savings Games
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JULY 2003
 
"Survival of the Fittest" - The main driver of productivity growth in UK manufacturing
Language proficiency and Labour Market performance - the experience of Immigrants to the UK
Auction versus dealer Markets: Which Deliver the Lowest trading costs for institutional investors?
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JUNE 2003
 
Assessing the Government’s Record on Child Poverty

British Success in Cutting Child Poverty Compared with the United States

Inflexible Labour Markets Not Only Fail to Protect Europeans from Competing Immigrant Workers – They May Make Things Worse
Environmental Optimists and Environmental Pessimists: What’s the Real State of the World?
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APRIL 2003
 
How Far towards a Cashless Society?
A New Macroeconomic Model of the UK Economy
Managing Exchange Rates: Official Intervention Works
The Fragility of Fixed Exchange Rates: Lessons from the Gold Standard
Raising Growth and Reducing Inequality: Can Policy Pursue Both Objectives?
Tackling Financial Crises: The Advantages of Sovereign Bankruptcy Procedures
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MARCH 2003
 
Let the Bank of England choose the inflation target
Consumers don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Competing non-profit and for-profit firms in the 'caring sectors'
Measuring vulnerability: The impact of uncertainty on human well-being
 
Media briefings on these research reports are available. The journal also features:
 
  • Public-private partnerships - two reports by Oliver Hart (Harvard University) and Paul Grout (Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Bristol University)
  • The road to ruin? Sequences of initiation to drugs and crime in Britain - by Stephen Pudney (Leicester University)
  • Foreign currency for long-term investors - by John Campbell (Harvard University)
  • The laws and limits of econometrics - by Peter Phillips (Yale University)

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FEBRUARY 2003
 
Pupils taught in smaller classes stay in education longer and improve their earning power

Improving the quality of schools: The failure of "input-based" policies

What drives children's achievement?

Why has inequality in the UK and the United States grown so much more than in Continential Europe?

Funding higher education in the UK: The case for fees and loands

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JANUARY 2003
 
The Risks and Rewards for Independent Inventors
Large Shareholders can Limite Management Excess
Do unemployment benefits slow down job search?
The Emergence of a "world business cycle"
Reversing the drift towards indexation:
The benefits of monetary policy that targets
the level of prices rather than inflation
Why government policies are a constant
source of frustration for economists