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1997
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| NOVEMBER
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Booms and Busts in the UK Housing
Market: Implications for EMU by Professor John Muellbauer and
Dr Anthony Murphy |
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The ‘January, April and December
Effect’ in the UK Stock Market by Richard Priestley |
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Mad Cows and Englishmen: Public Overreaction
to High Profile Risks by Professor Kip Viscusi |
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Guessing What Other People Will Do:
The ‘Beauty Contest’ Game by Professor John Duffy
and Rosemarie Nagel |
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| The Economics of Happiness:
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Does Economic Progress Make Us Any
Happier? by Professor Andrew Oswald |
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A Progressive Consumption Tax Would
Make Us All Happier by Professor Robert Frank |
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Increasing Public Spending to Promote
Happiness by Professor Yew-Kwang Ng |
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| Investment by Foreign Companies:
The Impact on Growth and Jobs |
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Overvalued Sterling Threatens UK
Gains from Foreign Investment by Rayl Barrell and Nigel Pain |
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High-Tech Multinationals and the
Rise of the Celtic Tiger by Dr Frank Barry and Professor John
Bradley |
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The Effects of Foreign Investment
on Jobs Back at Home by Professor Magnus Blomström, Gunnar
Fors and Dr Robert Lipsey |
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| SEPTEMBER
1997: |
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The Economics of Carrots and Sticks:
James Mirrlees’ Nobel Prize Lecture |
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Macroeconomic Forecasting and Policy:
How to Get it Right by David Hendry |
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Encouraging Lone Mothers to Work:
The Incentives of Family Credit by Ian Walker and Paul Bingley |
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How Firms Set Prices: New UK Evidence
by Chris Martin |
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Global Gains from Trade: The Huge
Benefits of the Uruguay Round by Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford
and David Tarr |
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| Policy Forum: Competitiveness
and Competitiveness Policy |
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Falling Behind Our Competitors: The
Need for Active UK Competitiveness Policy by Christine Oughton |
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The Myths of Japanese Industrial
Policy by Ali El-Agraa |
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| Controversy Section:
The Source and Measurement of Technical Change |
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What Really Drives Technological
Change, the Motor of Economic Growth? by Vernon Ruttan, Gavin
Wright, Giovanni Dosi and William Nordhaus |
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Are We Seriously Overestimating Increases
in the Cost of Living? by William Nordhaus |
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| JULY
1997: |
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The Spread on German Interest Rates:
Why Some Bonds Pay More than ‘Bunds’ - by Carlo Favero,
Francesco Giavazzi and Luigi Spavanta |
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Undervaluing Future Dividends: Short-Termism
in the UK Stock Market - by Simon Hayes, Keith Cuthbertson and
Dirk Nitzsche |
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National Champions and Corruption:
The Unpleasant Side-Effects of Intervention - by Alberto Ades
and Rafael Di Tella |
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Trust Pays: How Direct Democracy
Can Discourage Tax Cheats - by Bruno Frey |
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The Future Tax-Raising Potential
of North Sea Oil Revenues - by Lei Zhuang |
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| Policy Forum: UK
Macroeconomic Policy after Black Wednesday |
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Serious Flaws in the Post-ERM Monetary
Policy Arrangements - by David Cobham |
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The Problem of UK Fiscal Policy:
Spending has Swollen the Budget Deficit - by Nigel Pain, Martin
Weale and Garry Young |
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Exchange Rate Policy: Sterling’s
Value Matters But Not Above Everything Else - by Simon Wren-Lewis |
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| Controversy: The
Foundations of Monetary Policy-Making |
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The Demand for Money: A Re-Established
Policy Guide? - by David Laidler, Keith Cuthbertson and Paul
Mizen |
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The Failure of Central Banks to Adopt
Modern Measures of Money - by William Barnett |
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| MAY
1997: |
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Efficiency in UK Manufacturing Companies:
The Difference Competition Makes |
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Global Warming: Why a ‘Wait-and-See’
Policy May be Better than Action Today |
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The Changing Impact of Trade Unions
on Corporate Profitability |
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Putting Boulders Not Just Grains
of Sand in the Wheels of International Finance |
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| Policy Forum: The
Economics of Higher Education: |
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UK Higher Education Meets the Market |
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How to Make Significant Cost Savings
in UK Universities |
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Income Contingent Charges for Higher
Education: Lessons from Australia |
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| Controversy: What’s
the Link Between Financial Markets and Economic Growth?: |
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The Growth Benefits of Financial
Liberalisation and Fiscal Reform |
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Stock Markets: Why Capitalism May
Flourish Without Their Dominance |
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Growth: The Effects of Banking Crises,
Volatility and Financial Repression |
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| MARCH
1997: |
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Dramatically Rising Inequality in
the UK: Causes and Consequences |
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The Wages of Black and White Immigrants
in the UK |
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Corporate Earnings Forecasts: The
Poor Performance of City Analysts |
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The Strange Relationship between
Price and Quality in Bordeaux Wine |
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The Growth of Self-Employment and
its Impact on Income Inequality |
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Chain Formation in the Owner-Occupied
Housing MarketJob Insecurity and the Length of the Working Week |
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Job Insecurity and the Length of
the Working Week |
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| JANUARY
1997: |
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The Impact of Income Insecurity on
Household Saving and Spending |
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The Persistence of Poverty and Affluence
Across Generations in the UK |
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Job Responsibility, Pay and Promotion:
An Idea for Effective Packages |
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R&D Spillovers: Benefits to the
South from Knowledge in the North |
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Racetrack Betting: How the Average
Punter Loses Out to Insider Traders |
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