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NOVEMBER 2004
	Buying Into The Best Neighbourhoods: House Prices And Social Inequality
	House Prices: New Estimates Of The Impact Of Local School Quality
	Urban Property Crime Erodes The Value Of Your Home
	School Segregation And Housing Markets: Lessons From Connecticut
	New Evidence That Education Does Raise Productivity
	Sticking To The Status Quo: A New Perspective On Consumer Behaviour

OCTOBER 2004
	Insider trading raises stock market volatility
	Evaluating the Bank of England’s inflation forecasts
	Monetary policy: How financial markets influence its effectiveness
	Helping the poor in developing countries: How 'social safety nets' are financed is as important as how they're spent
	Agreeing to disagree: The value of 'joint outside options' in negotiations
	Moving people out of poverty: The psychological challenge for economic policy

JULY 2004
	New Estimates of the Black Economy
	Happiness: The Effects of Health, Wealth, Children and a Steady Relationship
	Stockpiling Foreign Exchange Reserves: A Precaution Against Financial Crises
	‘No News is Bad News': How Experts Should Communicate in Anxious Times
	Minimum Wages: Experimental Evidence of the Impact on Productivity

JUNE 2004
	Patient Compensation: Costing England's Clinical Negligence System
	Encouraging European R&D Investment
	Using Aid to Reduce Poverty in the Developing World
	Aid Should Target Not Just Poor Countries but their Poorest Inhabitants
	Foreign Aid is Far Less Effective in the Tropics

APRIL 2004
	Splitting a Restaurant Bill Equally Leads to Selfish Behaviour
	Growing Inequality will Lead to Deeper Recessions and Bigger Booms
	Bias Begets Bias – Why it's so Difficult to Reach a Consensus on Big Issues
	Steam Power versus Computer Power: Comparing the Impact on Economic Growth
	Unskilled Workers in America Lose Out from their Abundant Numbers
	Access Charges in Network Industries: Getting Price Cap Regulation Right
	Innovation by Leaders: How Leadership by Monopolists can be Good for Society
	Measuring Innovation: A New Index of Patent Quality

MARCH 2004
	Tackling Poverty and Worklessness in Britain: The Importance of Skills
	The Impact of the UK Minimum Wage on Pay, Employment and Training
	Outsourcing can be a Friend rather than an Enemy to Home Workers
	The Impact of Labour Market Flexibility on Innovation and Productivity

FEBRUARY 2004
	Tax Increases Cost You Less than You Think
	Workplace Innovation is Boosting Productivity
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 for poor countries:
	Trade Liberalisation Stimulates Growth – For a Time
	Globalisation: Good News for Growth and Poverty Reduction
	Developing Countries Should Liberalise Exports First – Or Risk a Crisis
	Trade Liberalisation in Developing Countries: What Impact on Wage Inequality?

JANUARY 2004
	Young, Selfish and Male: New Evidence on Age and Generosity
	Is Monetary Policy Too Tough on People with Mortgages?
	The Economical Control of Infectious Diseases
	Winning Strategies for Buying and Selling in Auctions
	Does Microsoft's Bundling Promote or Deter Innovation?
	Do European Consumers Really Refuse to Buy GM Foods?
	Inverse Campaigning’: The Benefits of Saying Don’t Vote for Me
	Trade Beats Aid as a Way to Help Poor Countries Expand their Exports
	Does the 'Samaritan's Dilemma' Justify the Welfare State?