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María Fabiana Penas

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  • Financing start-ups: The impact of credit scoring and bank concentration
  • Banking system fragility: A regional perspective

Stefania Fabrizio

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  • Reforming energy subsidies globally

Giovanni Facchini

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  • US votes on trade and migration
  • The rhetoric of closed borders: Why illegal immigration thrives
  • Public opinion and immigration policy

Harald Fadinger

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  • Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care

Giulia Faggio

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  • Do firm-level productivity differences explain wage inequality?

Ruediger Fahlenbrach

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  • This time is the same: Do banks learn from crises?

Christian Fahrholz

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  • The Eurozone needs exit rules

Ester Faia

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  • Monetary policy and firing costs

Oliver Falck

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  • Caution to place makers: Greater firm density does not always promote incumbent firm health
  • The lifecycle of regions

Armin Falk

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  • Social comparisons, perceptions of fairness and wellbeing
  • The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Thibault Fally

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  • Has production become more fragmented? International vs domestic perspectives

Jingwen Fan

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  • A fiscal theory of the price level

Hai Fang

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  • Jobs and kids: Female employment and fertility in rural China

Vivian W Fang

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  • Stock market turnover and corporate governance

Emmanuel Farhi

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  • Reforming the international monetary system: Introducing a new eReport

Roger E. A. Farmer

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  • Why financial markets are inefficient
  • Does fiscal policy matter? Is there a better way to reduce unemployment?
  • Market psychology, high unemployment, and rational bubbles

Thomas Farole

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  • Special economic zones: What have we learned?
  • Fixing the trade finance gap

Katie Farrant

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  • Reform of the global financial system: More is needed

Antonio Fatás

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  • Fiscal policy and global imbalances
  • Fiscal policy at a crossroads: The need for constrained discretion

Bassam Fattouh

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  • Financialisation in oil markets: Lessons for policy

Dario Fauceglia

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  • 'Natural hedging' of exchange-rate risk

Jon Faust

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  • Forecast foibles: Can the Fed foresee stormy times?

Giovanni Favara

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  • Macroprudential policy: Economic rationale and optimal tools

Carlo Favero

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  • Output effects of fiscal consolidations
  • One Eurozone interest rate, many economic outcomes
  • Demographics and stock market fluctuations

Marianne Fay

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  • From growth to green growth

Peter Fearon

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  • A recession to remember: Lessons from the US, 1937–1938

John Feddersen

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  • The costs of Hurricane Sandy: Life satisfaction as an alternative to GDP

Geza Feketekuty

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  • Needed: A new approach to reduce regulatory barriers to trade

Gabriel Felbermayr

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  • The spillovers of labour market reforms
  • Kyoto and the carbon content of trade
  • Cultural proximity and trade: Evidence from Eurovision

Lars P Feld

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  • From the internal market to a banking union: A proposal by the German Council of Economic Experts
  • A Redemption Pact for Europe: Time to act now
  • A European Redemption Pact

Stefan Felder

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  • Does ageing really affect health expenditures? If so, why?

Maryann P. Feldman

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  • The lifecycle of regions

Robert Feldman

Christina Felfe

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  • Does sport make your kids smarter? New evidence from Germany

Jesus Felipe

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  • Internal devaluations in the Eurozone: A mismeasured and misguided argument
  • China and India: Those two big outliers
  • A new measure of national “opportunities” for development

Alison Felix

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  • Who will bear corporate income tax increases?

Leonardo Felli

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  • Layovers may be riskier than you think

Andrew Felton

John Fender

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  • Riots and revolutions in the digital age

Roger W. Ferguson. Jr.

Ana M Fernandes

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  • Impact evaluation in trade: Time for a cultural revolution?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

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  • Coping with financial crises: Latin American answers to European questions

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

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  • Visa policies and multilateral resistance to migration

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

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  • Did the euro kill governance in the periphery?
  • Shame, peer effects, and sexual behaviour
  • Supply-side policies and the zero lower bound

Ricardo Fernholz

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  • What would the wealth distribution look like without redistribution?

Robert Fernholz

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  • What would the wealth distribution look like without redistribution?

Michael J Ferrantino

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  • Africa gets hit by Eurozone crisis
  • Why non-tariff measures matter more in a world of sliced-up supply chains
  • Can the US raise employment with more exports?

Guido Ferrarini

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  • Multinational banks and European financial integration

Lucas Ferraz

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  • Why the WTO should care about exchange rates

Fernando Ferreira

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  • Has pop music trade displaced local culture?

Chaim Fershtman

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  • Cloud computing: Economic issues

Thiemo Fetzer

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  • The welfare cost of lawlessness: Evidence from Somali piracy

Erik Feyen

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  • European bank deleveraging and global credit conditions
  • Measuring financial development

James Feyrer

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  • The 1967-75 Suez Canal closure: Lessons for trade

Jan Fidrmuc

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  • Political protest and reform: Lessons from communism’s demise

David Fielding

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  • Why do African banks lend so little?

Ronald Findlay

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  • Lessons of 1000 years of trade history

David Fine

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  • Jobs: The next piece of Africa’s growth jigsaw

Andreas Fischer

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  • Globalisation’s impact on inflation in the European Union
  • Will the crisis wipe out small carry traders in Central and Eastern Europe?
  • How much do cheap imports dampen US inflation?

Price Fishback

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  • US monetary and fiscal policy in the 1930s – and now

Raymond Fisman

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  • Conflicts cause poverty, or is it vice-versa?
  • Economic gangsters

Emla Fitzsimons

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  • Microfinance: Is it time to write off group loans?

Marc Flandreau

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  • Britain's hacking scandal: Readers and shareholders unite!
  • From lender of last resort to global currency? Sterling lessons for the dollar
  • Bankers' conflicts of interest in the interwar years: New lessons for today

Mark Flannery

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  • CoCo bonds as a way of preventing risk

Martin Flodén

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  • Fiscal consolidation in Sweden: A role model?

Max Floetotto

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  • Good news at last? The recession will be over sooner than you think

Robert Flood

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  • Financial globalisation has improved international risk sharing

Juan H. Flores

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  • Emerging market debts: Why don’t investment banks pay attention?

Karim Foda

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  • Global economy: A fragile and fickle recovery
  • A silver lining lurks behind the dark clouds

Alessandra Fogli

Fritz Foley

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  • Do inefficient stock markets drive bad corporate governance?
  • Welfare payments and crime
  • Facts and fallacies about US FDI in China

Christian Fons-Rosen

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  • Political scandal and the value of connections: Insights from Britain and the US

João Fonseca

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  • Euro-coupons: Mutualise the interest payments, not the principal

Lionel Fontagné

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  • Ten years of Doha: What to show and what to look forward to
  • French exporters and the global crisis
  • How French exporters were hit by the global crisis

Kristin Forbes

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  • Subprime regulatory reaction and the value of the dollar

Lorenzo Forni

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  • Raising the competition: The case of Italy

Kristin Forster

Katrin Forster

Margherita Fort

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  • Is more schooling really reducing fertility?

Piergiuseppe Fortunato

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  • Democracy, quality of government, and the average voter
  • Arab awakening, violence, and future prospects: Some historical lessons

Andrea Fosfuri

Denis Fougère

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  • Does homeownership influence stockholding?

Marco Francesconi

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  • On the origin of the family

Patrick Francois

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  • Markets and values: Competition builds trust

Joseph Francois

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  • Will Chinese revaluation create American jobs?
  • Deconstructing Sino-US codependence: Revaluation, tariffs, exports, and jobs
  • Follow the bouncing ball – trade and the great recession redux

Robert H. Frank

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  • The Darwin economy

Nathaniel Frank

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  • Transmission of liquidity shocks: Evidence from the 2007 subprime crisis

Jeffrey Frankel

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  • Monetary alchemy, fiscal science
  • Central banks can phase in nominal GDP targets without damaging the inflation anchor
  • Which of the 50 states practise personal responsibility?

Michael Franken

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  • Bank credit during the global crisis: A cross-country comparison

Julian Franks

Philip Hans Franses

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  • Real money in China; Money illusion in America

Wolfgang Franz

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  • From the internal market to a banking union: A proposal by the German Council of Economic Experts
  • A Redemption Pact for Europe: Time to act now
  • A European Redemption Pact

Michele Fratianni

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  • The Eurozone crisis: Fiscal fragility, external imbalances, or both?

Tommaso Frattini

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  • The fiscal effects of A8 migration to the UK

Marcel Fratzscher

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  • Do we have a tripolar monetary system?
  • Drivers of global capital flows: Pushes or pulls?
  • Global crises and equity market contagion: Lessons from 2007-2009

Garth Frazer

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  • Helping Africa export

Richard B. Freeman

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  • Making the grade: Equity and efficiency in education
  • Does shared capitalism work in the United Kingdom?
  • From fair-go to rip-off: Australia’s new labour code

Xavier Freixas

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  • Bank resolution: from Cinderella to centre stage
  • Towards a new framework for bank resolution
  • Market discipline, disclosure, and transparency

Eric French

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  • Spending, income, and debt responses to minimum-wage hikes
  • Life expectancy, medical expenses, and old age saving

Marc Frenette

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  • Does university financial aid matter?

Caroline Freund

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  • The growth effects of democratisation: New evidence
  • Regional trade agreements: Blessing or burden?
  • What is holding back African exports?

Bruno S Frey

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  • Shiny happy people
  • Europe without euro and EU
  • What a wonderful world? Picking UNESCO World Heritage sites

Andreas Freytag

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  • After the “Seoul Consensus”: Ways to help sub-Saharan Africa return to pre-crisis economic performance
  • The “Seoul Consensus” on development: Substantial progress for sub-Saharan Africa or paperwork again?
  • Gold standard or political discipline?

Andres Frick

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  • Eurozone crisis: What do the economists think?

Bernd Frick

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  • The wage premium of ambidextrous footballers

Jeffry A. Frieden

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  • Don’t count on enhanced global governance
  • Global trade in the aftermath of the global crisis
  • Global governance and domestic political economy

Benjamin M. Friedman

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  • The moral consequences of economic growth

Lars Frisell

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  • Why supervisors should continue measuring financial risks – the fallacy of simple rules

David E. Frisvold

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  • Physical education and childhood obesity

C Fritz Foley

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  • Poultry in motion: Trade finance in the frozen-food industry

Emmanuel Frot

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  • Development after the Arab Spring
  • Poorer without aid
  • The cost of democratic elections in financial markets

Ning Fu

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  • Lender regulation and the mortgage crisis

Andreas Fuchs

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  • Rogue aid: Should we fear China’s aid programme?
  • The “Dalai Lama Effect” and China’s potential trade response to the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Finishing the WTO trade negotiations would help the world economy

Michael Fuchs

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  • Finance in Africa – Achievements and challenges

Clemens Fuest

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  • Automatic stabilisers and the global crisis

Marco Fugazza

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  • Preferential trade, beneficial outcomes?

Eiji Fujii

Eiji Fujii

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  • Estimating RMB misalignment: Lessons in humility

Thomas Fujiwara

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  • Markets and values: Competition builds trust

Kyoji Fukao

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  • Why has Japan been so hard hit by the global crisis?

Brandon Fuller

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  • Climate adaptation through migration: A role for charter cities

Victor K. Fung

Victor K. Fung

Patricia Funk

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  • Direct democracy as a way to limit public spending: Evidence from Switzerland
  • Does direct democracy reduce the size of government?

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