01-08: ARE OPTIMAL PUNISHMENTS ALWAYS OPTIMAL?, Luca Colombo, Paola Labrecciosa and Luca Lambertini

02-08: THE EFFECT OF MINIMUM WAGES ON LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES: COUNTY-LEVEL ESTIMATES FROM THE RESTAURANT-AND-BAR SECTOR, John T. Addison, McKinley L. Blackburn and Chad D. Cotti

03-08: ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LOCAL NETWORK EFFECTS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, Nicoletta Corrocher, Lorenzo Zirulia

04-08: SMOOTH TRANSITION MODELS IN PRICE TRANSMISSION, Szymon Wlazlowski, Monica Giulietti, Jane Binner, Costas Milas

05-08: THRET: THRESHOLD REGRESSION WITH ENDOGENOUS THRESHOLD VARIABLES , Andros Kourtellos, Thanasis Stengos, Chih Ming Tan

06-08: THE CONTRIBUTION OF POLLUTION TO PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH , Pantelis Kalaitzidakis, Theofanis P. Mamuneas, Thanasis Stengos

07-08: TOURISM INVESTMENTS UNDER UNCERTAINTY: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF “ECO-MONSTERS” , Guido Candela, Massimiliano Castellani, Maurizio Mussoni

08-08: IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS SOCIAL POLICY: DEVELOPMENTS IN SOCIAL POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION FROM 1972 THROUGH 2008, John T. Addison (see also Professional Reports)

09-08: DEMAND DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: THE MARKET FOR BOOKS IN ITALY, Edoardo Gaffeo, Antonello E. Scorcu, Laura Vici

10-08: THE NON-LINEAR COURNOT MODEL AS A BEST-RESPONSE POTENTIAL GAME, Davide Dragone, Luca Lambertini

11-08: GERMAN WORKS COUNCILS AND THE ANATOMY OF WAGES, John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Thomas Zwick

12-08: ATYPICAL WORK AND EMPLOYMENT CONTINUITY, John T. Addison, Christopher J. Surfield

13-08: THE FINITE-SAMPLE E ECTS OF VAR DIMENSIONS ON OLS BIAS, OLS VARIANCE, AND MINIMUM MSE ESTIMATORS, Steve Lawford, Michalis P. Stamatogiannis

14-08: OPTIMAL LINEAR FILTERING, SMOOTHING AND TREND EXTRACTION FOR PROCESSESWITH UNIT ROOTS AND COINTEGRATION, Dimitrios D. Thomakos

15-08: CONVERGENCE OF SHOCKS AND TRADE IN THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION, Athina Zervoyianni

16-08: THE CIRCULAR CITY WITH HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS, Claudio A. Piga, Marco Alderighi

17-08: MACRO AND FINANCIAL MARKETS: THE MEMORY OF AN ELEPHANT?, Karim M. Abadir, Gabriel Talmain

18-08: NELSON-PLOSSER REVISITED: THE ACF APPROACH, Karim M. Abadir, Gabriel Talmain, Giovanni Caggiano

19-08: BAYESIAN FORECASTING USING STOCHASTIC SEARCH VARIABLE SELECTION IN A VAR SUBJECT TO BREAKS, Gary Koop, Markus Jochmann, Rodney W. Strachan

20-08: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, HUMAN CAPITAL AND NONLINEARITIES IN ECONOMIC GROWTH, Thanasis Stengos, Constantina Kottaridi

21-08: THE MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD OF STRUCTURAL TIME SERIES MODELS, WITH APPLICATION TO THE EURO AREA AND US NAIRU, Gabriele Fiorentini, Chrispophe Planas, Alessandro Rossi

22-08: OPTIMAL PREDICTION POOLS, Gianni Amisano, John Geweke

23-08: BAYESIAN INFERENCE IN THE TIME VARYING COINTEGRATION MODEL, Gary Koop, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez, Rodney W. Strachan

24-08: ON THE EVOLUTION OF MONETARY POLICY, Gary Koop, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez, Rodney W. Strachan

25-08: THE GLOBAL JOINT DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND HEALTH, Ximing Wu,  Andreas Savvides, Thanasis Stengos

26-08: DYNAMIC PROBABILITIES OF RESTRICTIONS IN STATE SPACE MODELS: AN APPLICATION TO THE PHILLIPS CURVE, Gary Koop, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez, Rodney W. Strachan

27-08: AGGREGATE SHOCKS VS REALLOCATION SHOCKS: AN APPRAISAL OF THE APPLIED LITERATURE, Giovanni Gallipoli, Gianluigi Pelloni

28-08: THE EFFECTS OF LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS ON WORKING TIME: THE US-EU EXPERIENCE, Claudio Michelacci, Josep Pijoan-Mas

29-08: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN NANOMATERIALS: AN APPLICATION OF SPATIAL FILTERING TO REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION, Roberto Patuelli, Christoph Grimpe

30-08: RETURNS TO EDUCATION AND INCREASING WAGE INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA, Chiara Binelli

31-08: THE SUB-PRIME CRISIS AND UK MONETARY POLICY, Christopher Martin, Costas Milas

32-08: VOLATILITY, GROWTH AND LABOUR ELASTICITY, Barbara Annicchiarico, Luisa Corrado, Alessandra Pelloni

33-08: A THEORY OF FIRM DECLINE, Gian Luca Clementi, Thomas Cooley, Sonia Di Giannatale

34-08: REAL WAGE INEQUALITY, Enrico Moretti

35-08: LUMP-SUM TAXES IN A R&D MODEL, Xin Long, Alessandra Pelloni, Robert Waldmann

36-08: IDENTIFYING AGGLOMERATION SPILLOVERS: EVIDENCE FROM MILLION DOLLAR PLANTS, Michael Greenstone, Richard Hornbeck, Enrico Moretti

37-08: IS VOLATILITY GOOD FOR GROWTH? EVIDENCE FROM THE G7, Elena Andreou, Alessandra Pelloni, Marianne Sensier

38-08: SPATIAL CHOW-LIN METHODS: BAYESIAN AND ML FORECAST COMPARISONS, Wolfgang Polasek, Richard Sellner

39-08: CONTINUOUS-TIME MODELLING WITH SPATIAL DEPENDENCE, Johan H.L. Oud, Henk Folmer, Roberto Patuelli, Peter Nijkamp

40-08: THE GERMAN EAST-WEST DIVIDE IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: AN APPLICATION TO NANOMATERIAL PATENTING, Roberto Patuelli, Andrea Vaona, Christoph Grimpe