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| NOVEMBER 2004 |
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Buying Into The Best Neighbourhoods: House Prices
And Social Inequality |
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House Prices: New Estimates Of The Impact Of Local
School Quality |
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Urban Property Crime Erodes The Value Of Your Home |
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School Segregation And Housing Markets: Lessons From Connecticut |
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New Evidence That Education Does Raise Productivity |
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Sticking To The Status Quo: A New Perspective On Consumer Behaviour |
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| OCTOBER 2004 |
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Insider trading raises stock market volatility |
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Evaluating the Bank of England’s inflation
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Monetary policy: How financial markets influence
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Helping the poor in developing countries: How 'social safety
nets' are financed is as important as how they're spent |
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Agreeing to disagree: The value of 'joint outside options'
in negotiations |
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Moving people out of poverty: The psychological challenge for
economic policy |
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| JULY 2004 |
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New Estimates of the Black Economy |
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Happiness: The Effects of Health, Wealth, Children and a Steady Relationship |
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Stockpiling Foreign Exchange Reserves: A Precaution Against Financial Crises |
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'No News is Bad News': How Experts Should Communicate in Anxious Times |
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Minimum Wages: Experimental Evidence of the Impact on Productivity |
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| FEBRUARY
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Tax Increases Cost You Less than You Think
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Workplace Innovation is Boosting Productivity
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| Trade Liberalisation and Economic Performance
in Developing Countries |
| Trade liberalisation has been a major characteristic
of the world economy since 1950 resulting in a 16 times increase
in the volume of trade. But it is not clear that all countries
have benefited equally from the freeing of trade. An Economic
Journal symposium explores the consequences of trade liberalisation
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Trade Liberalisation Stimulates Growth
For a Time
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Globalisation: Good News for Growth and Poverty
Reduction
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Developing Countries Should Liberalise Exports
First Or Risk a Crisis
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Trade Liberalisation in Developing Countries:
What Impact on Wage Inequality? |
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| JANUARY
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Young, Selfish and Male: New Evidence on Age
and Generosity |
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Is Monetary Policy Too Tough on People with Mortgages? |
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The Economical Control of Infectious Diseases |
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Winning Strategies for Buying and Selling in Auctions |
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Does Microsoft's Bundling Promote or Deter Innovation?
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Do European Consumers Really Refuse to Buy GM
Foods?
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Inverse Campaigning: The Benefits of Saying
Dont Vote for Me
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Trade Beats Aid as a Way to Help Poor Countries
Expand their Exports
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Does the 'Samaritan's Dilemma' Justify the Welfare
State?
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