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Carla Sá

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  • Implementing the Bologna process: Do students support a shorter first degree?

Filipa Sá

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  • Housing booms, capital inflows, and low interest rates

Klara Sabirianova Peter

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  • The effects of Russia’s flat tax

Christian Saborowski

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  • Does openness really increase volatility?
  • Export credit agencies to the rescue

Bruce Sacerdote

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  • Hurricane Katrina: benefits for student evacuees
  • Getting more young people to go to university

Jeffrey Sachs

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  • Moyo's confused attack on aid for Africa
  • The G20 Summit: Accomplishments beyond expectation
  • Geithner plan: A massive taxpayer transfer to bank shareholders

Daniel W Sacks

Efraim Sadka

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  • Tax competition vs. tax coordination: Revisiting the debate

Sally Sadoff

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  • Simple rules for designing economic experiments

Raffaella Sadun

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  • How do CEOs spend their time?
  • Why good practices really matter in healthcare
  • Can European firms close their ‘management gap’ with the US?

Emmanuel Saez

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  • Taxing the 1%: Why the top tax rate could be over 80%
  • Taxation and international migration of football’s superstars

Henry Saffer

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  • Making time for friends

Aysegul Sahin

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  • How high will the unemployment rate rise?

Nicolas Sahuguet

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  • Democracy and accountability: The perverse effects of term limits

Gilles Saint-Paul

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  • Can Greece pull it off?
  • A crisis mechanism for the euro: The European Stability Mechanism
  • Is the euro a failure?

Yukiko Umeno Saito

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  • Localisation, urbanisation, and productivity: Evidence from Japan

Yukiko Umeno Saito

Luca Sala

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  • Monetary policy must respond to the housing market

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

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  • African poverty: Falling faster than you think
  • Parametric estimations of the world distribution of income

José Manuel Salazar

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  • Challenges in the coming phase of globalisation: A sense of déjà vu

Jumana Saleheen

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  • Labour productivity and the global crisis: A historical perspective

Carmelo Salleo

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  • Securitisation: Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater
  • Contingent Liquidity: a proposal to reduce liquidity risk
  • Financial sector pro-cyclicality: Lessons from the crisis, Part II

Razeen Sally

Kjell G. Salvanes

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  • The effects of school-starting age
  • Do firm-level productivity differences explain wage inequality?

Cézanne Samuel

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  • South Africa and the Pittsburgh G20 summit

A. Jesús Sánchez

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  • Is there a signalling role for public wages?

Santiago Sanchez-Pages

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  • War is bargaining by other means

Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

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  • The impact of the financial crisis on poverty and income distributions

Mark Sanders

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  • How exports matter: No one-size-fits-all

Damiano Sandri

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  • Precautionary savings in the Great Recession
  • Sovereign spreads and banks’ fragility
  • Why don’t commodity exporters hedge against price fluctuations?

Marco Sanfilippo

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  • Social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from experiences

Pedro Santa-Clara

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

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut

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  • Language matters: Gender grammar and observed gender discrimination

Javier Santiso

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  • The cost of democratic elections in financial markets
  • Brazil: A power of the present
  • The rise of “euro-emerging” multinationals

Georgina Santos

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  • Urban traffic pricing

Indhira Santos

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  • Qu’ils mangent de la brioche: Europe and the eclipsed food crisis

Tano Santos

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  • Did the euro kill governance in the periphery?

Isabel Sanz Villarroya

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  • Stabilisation and growth under dictatorships: New lessons from Franco’s Spain

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

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  • Should the government intervene to reduce obesity?

Paola Sapienza

André Sapir

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  • IMF surveillance of the Eurozone: Quo Vadis?
  • A three-part plan to tackle the Eurozone debt crisis
  • Series of columns on Europe’s fragmented power

George Saravelos

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  • Early warning indicators and the 2008-09 crisis: New evidence

Thomas J. Sargent

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  • Fiscal prioritisation: Lessons from three wars
  • Net interest payments on the federal debt: A flawed measure
  • A defence of the FOMC: Bad forecasters can be good policymakers

Lucio Sarno

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  • Limits to currency momentum trading
  • The risk in carry trades
  • The new carry trade

Mare Sarr

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  • From commodity boom to financial and political crisis

Kiyotaka Sato

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  • Why don’t Japanese exporters use the yen?

Saurabh Mishra

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  • Structural transformation and the sophistication of production
  • Is decentralisation helping the poorest regions? Evidence from India
  • Service export sophistication and economic growth

Philip Sauré

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  • Why the retirement age varies across countries

Jesús Saurina

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  • Mitigating the procyclical effects of bank capital regulation

Jehan Sauvage

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  • Counting thy numbers: Defining and measuring fossil fuel subsidies
  • Globalisation’s final frontier: Lowering trade costs in services

Stefano Scalera

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  • European Redemption Fund: Getting the incentives right

Carlos Scartascini

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  • What matters for financial development?

Andreas Schabert

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  • Manifesto for a banking union by economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Dorothea Schäfer

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  • Bad bank(s) and recapitalisation of the banking sector

Thorsten Schank

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  • Collective bargain and downward wage rigidity: Unexpected results from German data

Mark Schankerman

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  • Do patent rights impede follow-on innovation?
  • Improving efficiency in the 'market for innovation'

Diane W. Schanzenbach

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  • Grading test-scores: Are children left behind by design?

Todd Schatzki

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  • Free greenhouse gas cuts: too good to be true?

Glenn Schepens

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  • Bank competition and stability: Cross-country heterogeneity

Harald Scheule

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  • The devil is in the details: Financial information and systemic problems

Mark Schieritz

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  • German savers should applaud the growing TARGET balances

Maurice Schiff

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  • Where on earth is everybody? Global migration 1960-2000

Fabiano Schivardi

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  • Talking shop: The costs of entry restrictions in retail trade

Richard Schmalensee

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  • The sordid history of Congressional acceptance and rejection of cap-and-trade: Implications for climate policy

Maik Schmeling

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  • Limits to currency momentum trading
  • The risk in carry trades

Christoph M Schmidt

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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

Christian Schmieder

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  • Ringfencing and consolidated bank stress tests
  • Next-generation system-wide liquidity stress testing

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

Stefan W Schmitz

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  • The neglected part of international financial reform: Liquidity regulation
  • Room for manoeuvre among Eurozone banks
  • Next-generation system-wide liquidity stress testing

Sergio Schmukler

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  • Finance and growth in China and India: Have firms benefited from the capital-market expansion?
  • International capital flows during crises: Gross matters
  • Some pitfalls in global investing

Armin Schmutzler

Armin Schmutzler

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  • Can passenger railways curb road-traffic externalities? Empirical evidence

Isabel Schnabel

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  • Manifesto for a banking union by economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Claus Schnabel

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  • Temporary employment: The trade-off between efficiency and fairness
  • Collective bargain and downward wage rigidity: Unexpected results from German data

Claus Schnabel

Philipp Schnabl

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  • A tale of two overhangs: The nexus of financial sector and sovereign credit risks
  • Credit constraints and the great trade collapse

Nicole Schneeweis

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  • Is more schooling really reducing fertility?

Sylke V. Schnepf

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  • UK development assistance: Government versus charitable contributions

Monika Schnitzer

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  • Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up

Antoinette Schoar

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  • What happened to US interbank lending in the financial crisis?

Ronnie Schöb

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  • How retiring makes the unemployed happier
  • Unemployment and happiness: A new take on an old problem

Dirk Schoenmaker

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  • Fighting financial protectionism
  • Winners of a European banking union
  • Macroprudential supervision in banking union

John Karl Scholz

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  • Is the US welfare state growing or declining?

Peter K. Schott

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  • The hidden gains from trade liberalisation
  • US trade margins during the 2008 crisis
  • Chinese manufacturing: fears and fantasies

Jeffrey J. Schott

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  • Figuring out the Doha Round
  • Buy American is bad for America (and everyone else)
  • A 5-step program for Doha rehabilitation

Andreas Schrimpf

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  • Limits to currency momentum trading
  • The risk in carry trades

Simon Schropp

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  • Put your money where your mouse is: How e-commerce can foster development

Enrique Schroth

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  • Should the EU strengthen its takeover regulation?

Ludger Schuknecht

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  • European government bond spreads in the current crisis

Moritz Schularick

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  • Fact-checking financial recessions: US-UK update
  • Manifesto for a banking union by economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Do currency appreciations reduce imbalances? Half a century of evidence

Max-Stephan Schulze

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  • The Habsburgs and future European integration

Susan C Schwab

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  • Acknowledge Doha’s demise and move on to save the WTO

Anna J Schwartz

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  • Notes for currency wars: The trilemma of international finance

Gerd Schwartz

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  • Confronting the jobs crisis under tight fiscal constraints

Guido Schwerdt

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  • Too old to work, too young to retire?

Alasdair Scott

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  • IMF recession research: Unusually severe, followed by a weaker-than-average recovery

Andrew Scott

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  • The long wave of government debt
  • Time for independent fiscal policy committees

Paul Seabright

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  • The war of the sexes
  • Social trust, social fragility and the financial crisis
  • Bailing out the banks: reconciling stability and competition

Alessandro Secchi

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  • €-coin indicator and the looming recession

Miguel Segoviano

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  • Methods to identify systemic financial risks

Ruben Segura-Cayuela

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  • Eurozone: Looking for growth

Stephan Seiler

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  • Free to choose?

Sibel Selcuk

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  • Educational inequality persistence: Evidence from 29 nations over 50 years

Can Selçuki

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  • Turkey’s 15th year as a candidate for EU membership

Jo Seldeslachts

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  • Where merger policy deters

Harris Selod

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  • The employment effects of enterprise zones: New evidence from France

Andrew Seltzer

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  • Do remedial mathematics courses help economics students?

Rajeswari Sengupta

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  • The trilemma in China and India
  • Is Germany the new China? A sceptical view

Claudia Senik

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  • Market liberalisation and democracy: do we have to wait for the “end of history”

Mine Zeynap Senses

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  • Globalisation and jobs: Nuanced findings from Brazil
  • Trade and the labour market in the US: A new insight on potential costs

Victoria Serra-Sastre

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  • Health insurance, innovation, and technology adoption

Luis Servén

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  • Is the current account or the capital account driving global imbalances?
  • Exchange rate undervaluation: Can neo-mercantilism work?

Giulia Sestieri

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  • Understanding the Great Trade Collapse of 2009

Rajiv Sethi

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  • Economic consequences of speculative side bets: The case of naked CDS

Brad Setser

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  • Global roots of the current crisis

Ralph Setzer

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  • Diverging trends in money demand and housing across the Eurozone

Battista Severgnini

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  • Corruption in Italian soccer

Silvia Sgherri

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  • Euro-area sovereign risk during the crisis

Alessandra Sgobbi

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  • No free lunch: The costs and benefits of post-2012 climate policies
  • Hedging our bets on climate change
  • How simulations can improve negotiations in practice

Daniel Sgroi

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  • Does happiness affect productivity?

Manisha Shah

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  • Information and illegal market mechanisms

Ajay Shah

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  • Did the Indian capital controls work as a tool of macroeconomic policy?

Jay C. Shambaugh

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  • Reserve accumulation and financial stability
  • A Financial Perspective on Exchange Rates

Joel Shapiro

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  • The impact of corporate governance in financial institutions
  • Troubles in the credit rating industry

Paul Sharp

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  • Eighteenth-century “proto-globalisation”

Rajiv Shastri

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  • Beyond the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates

William Shaw

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  • Competitiveness: The Great American Distraction

Kevin D Sheedy

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  • Power sharing and institutional stability

Andrew Sheng

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  • The devil is in the details: Financial information and systemic problems

Neil Shephard

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  • How to finance higher education with deferred fees

Ben Shepherd

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  • Trade costs in the developing world: 1995-2010
  • Export-led growth: Still a viable strategy after the crisis?
  • Globalisation’s final frontier: Lowering trade costs in services

Robert Shiller

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  • Finance and the good society
  • Animal spirits

Ben Shiller

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  • Music for a song: The revenue potential of non-uniform pricing

Junko Shimizu

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  • What to do about Japan’s current exchange rate?
  • Why don’t Japanese exporters use the yen?

Hyun Song Shin

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  • Banks and cross-border capital flows: Policy challenges and regulatory responses
  • Global savings glut or global banking glut?
  • Basel III: ‘The only game in town’

Kwanho Shin

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  • Growth slowdowns redux: Avoiding the middle-income trap

Anirudh Shingal

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  • 'Natural hedging' of exchange-rate risk

Carol H Shiue

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  • China’s soaring foreign trade: Made in Britain, c. 1840?

Andrei Shleifer

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  • Seven things I learned about the transition from communism

Amir Shoham

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  • Language matters: Gender grammar and observed gender discrimination

Parthasarathi Shome

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  • India’s expectations from the G20

Boris Shor

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  • The opiate of the elites

Anja Shortland

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  • Don’t rush to privatise government owned banks

Jeffrey Shrader

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  • Timelines of policy responses to the global financial crisis

Venkatachalam Shunmugam

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  • Diverse regulatory tools and practices in markets
  • Mapping the two-way risks in exchange-traded platforms
  • Currency war or currency tango?

Anne Sibert

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  • Deposit insurance after Iceland and Cyprus
  • The damaged ECB legitimacy
  • Love letters from Iceland: Accountability of the Eurosystem

John Sides

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  • The 2012 US presidential election: a Moneyball approach

Stefanie Sieber

Horst Siebert

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  • The cat-and-mouse between national governments and their banks

Arjen Siegmann

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  • Winners of a European banking union

Urban Sila

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  • The euro’s future begins now

Olmo Silva

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  • The good, the bad, and the average: Ability peer effects in schools
  • Computers in schools

Dan Silverman

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  • Intra-party factions and excessive public spending

Avi Simhon

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  • The price of children and the value of none: New evidence from Israel

Rob Simmons

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  • Own goal: Is UEFA’s Financial Fair Play initiative misguided?
  • Are migrants paid more? Evidence from Italian football
  • Upping their game? The impact of new contracts on football referees’ performance

Simon Wehrmüller

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  • How big are the Eastern European losses?
  • Assessing the impact of the financial crisis on the US labour market

Saverio Simonelli

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  • The decoupling of the US and European economies: Evidence from nowcasting
  • Have the US and European economies parted company?
  • What is the size of the fiscal multiplier? An estimate you can’t refuse

Andrei Simonov

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  • The real effects of bank bailouts: Evidence from Japan

Christopher Sims

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  • The path to sustainable recovery for the Eurozone

Kavaljit Singh

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  • Should India set up a sovereign wealth fund?
  • Capital controls and the crisis in emerging markets
  • Europe doesn’t need sovereign wealth funds

Manmohan Singh

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  • Shadow banking: Economics and policy priorities
  • The (other) deleveraging: What economists need to know about the modern money creation process
  • US debt issuance since 1951 and the fallacy of issuing floating rate notes

Abhijeet Singh

Hans-Werner Sinn

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  • European imbalances
  • Mutualisation and constitutionalisation
  • TARGET losses in case of a euro breakup

Gerlinde Sinn

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  • Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall

Gregorios Siourounis

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  • Democratisation and growth: A within-country comparison approach

Aloysius Siow

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  • A theory of menopause

Henry Siu

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  • Jobless recoveries and the disappearance of routine occupations

Martin Skala

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  • A new IMF reserve currency

Robert Skidelsky

Jonathan S Skinner

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  • The promise and challenge of comparative effectiveness research

Vasiliki Skreta

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  • The origin of bias in credit ratings

Margaret E Slade

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  • Location, location, location: Why geography matters for R&D

Patrick Slovik

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  • EU stress tests and sovereign debt exposures

Nicholas Sly

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  • Tax evasion: Why the crackdown comes at a cost

Andrew Small

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  • Beijing blinks first – the currency debate in diplomatic context

Roger Smeets

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  • Intellectual property rights and FDI knowledge diffusion

Frank Smets

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  • On the tradeoff between growth and stability

Kateřina Šmídková

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  • Central banks’ voting records and future policy

Jennifer Smith

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  • Unemployment ins and outs: Evidence from the UK
  • Stalin’s ‘no shirking condition’

Nicole Smith

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  • Educational inequality persistence: Evidence from 29 nations over 50 years

James P Smith

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  • The long-lasting effects of public-health interventions
  • Healthy child, healthy adult? Evidence from the US and England

Kenneth A. Snowden

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  • Is this your grandfather’s mortgage crisis? Lessons from the 1930s

Dennis J Snower

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  • Manifesto for a banking union by economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Global citizenship and global economic solutions
  • Global economic solutions

James M. Snyder, Jr.

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  • Fair and balanced after all? The bias of the US press

Hans Tson Söderström

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  • The Nordics in the global crisis

Hadi Soesastro

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  • East Asia and the new world economic order
  • East Asia, the G20, and global economic governance

Juan Solé

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  • Addressing the too connected to fail problem
  • Quo vadis Islamic finance?

Robert Solow

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  • Fiscal policy and growth in light of the crisis

Rohini Somanathan

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  • Can competition pull along the public sector? Evidence from Indian railways

Zheng Song

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  • The “real” causes of China’s trade surplus

Fenghua Song

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  • Banks and capital markets as a coevolving financial system

Frank Song

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  • Financial innovation: The good and the bad

Konstantin Sonin

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  • Persistence of bad governments
  • Stalin as a rational dictator
  • Stalin, mass murder and elections

Sebastián Sosa

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  • Why worry about real exchange rates? The missing link between Dutch disease and growth

Maximiliano Sosa Andrés

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  • Old wine in new bottles? Non-traditional sources of FDI

David Soskice

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  • How should macroeconomics be taught to undergraduates in the post-crisis era? A concrete proposal
  • German recovery – it's not the government reforms

Nuno Sousa

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  • New insights on the impact of protectionism on trade: The “Russian doll” effect
  • Market monitoring: A new tool for the Single Market

Rhiannon Sowerbutts

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  • The implicit subsidy of banks

Carolyne Spackman

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  • European securitisation and the possible revival of financial innovation

Giancarlo Spagnolo

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  • Criminal sanctions: How to save banks without rewarding bankers
  • Competition

Roland Spahr

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  • Globalisation and risks: Trends and crises

Marco Spaltro

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  • Coordinating bank failure costs and financial stability: Lessons for the EZ

Nikola Spatafora

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  • Structural transformation and the sophistication of production
  • The global crisis in low-income countries
  • Commodity terms of trade: New data on the history of booms and busts

Luigi Spaventa

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  • The European Commission’s proposals: Empty and useless
  • Economists, economics, and the crisis
  • Reforms of the world financial system: Can the G20 deliver?

William Speller

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  • International capital flows in 2050

Michael Spence

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  • Preventing a Eurozone bank and bond run
  • Global prospects for growth
  • Climate change and developing country growth

Thomas Spencer

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  • Greasing the wheel: Oil’s role in the global crisis

Mark M. Spiegel

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  • What do we know about the causes of the crisis?
  • Searching for international contagion in the 2008 financial crisis
  • Could an early warning system have predicted the crisis?

Antonio Spilimbergo

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  • Structural reforms and regional convergence: Pointers for the Eurozone
  • The long-lasting socio-political effects of the economic crisis
  • Fiscal Policy for the Crisis

Beia Spiller

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  • Property prices and groundwater contamination

Alexandra Spitz-Oener

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  • Evolving tasks and the narrowing gender wage gap

Ralph Spitzer

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  • Room for manoeuvre among Eurozone banks

Joshua Spizman

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  • How tax policy drives the structure of stock ownership

Enrico Spolaore

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  • Kinship and conflict

Mark Stabile

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  • Can income transfers to poor families help children?

Robert W. Staiger

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  • Currency “manipulation” and world trade: Three reasons for caution

Mirre Stallen

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  • Why don’t we trust a stranger? Ties that bind

Bennett Stancil

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  • Italy: Call in the G20?
  • The capital flow conundrum
  • Why are reserves so big? And who is to blame?

Stefanie Stantcheva

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  • Taxing the 1%: Why the top tax rate could be over 80%

David Stasavage

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  • The cost of central bank transparency: Closed doors, open minds?

Meir Statman

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  • There’s more to life than money (for some)

Robert N. Stavins

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  • The sordid history of Congressional acceptance and rejection of cap-and-trade: Implications for climate policy
  • Lessons for climate policy: The US sulphur dioxide cap and trade programme
  • Why cap-and-trade should (and does) have appeal to politicians

Emil Stavrev

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  • Eurozone monetary policy in uncharted waters
  • Unobservables, uncertainty, and exit: European fiscal and monetary policy

Hilary Steedman

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  • Apprenticeships in England: Raising skills or boosting job prospects?

Frode Steen

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  • Catching cartels: A new toolkit

Ronald Steenblik

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  • Counting thy numbers: Defining and measuring fossil fuel subsidies

Sascha Steffen

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  • How much capital do European banks need?
  • Measuring systemic risk of the European banking sector

Sven Jari Stehn

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  • A responsible approach to fiscal sustainability

Benn Steil

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  • The Battle of Bretton Woods

Luke C.D. Stein

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  • Race, discrimination, and iPods: Experimental evidence from online markets

Johannes Steinbrecher

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  • Board (in)competence and the subprime crisis

Viktor Steiner

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  • Taxing the rich: The case of Germany

Katharina Steiner

Lasse Steiner

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  • What a wonderful world? Picking UNESCO World Heritage sites

Max Steinhardt

Max Friedrich Steinhardt

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  • US votes on trade and migration

Sven Steinkamp

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  • What explains high interest rates in Europe?

Andreas Steinmayr

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

Jón Steinsson

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  • Does fiscal stimulus work in a monetary union? Evidence from US regions
  • Disasters, recoveries, and the equity premium

Peter Stella

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  • The (other) deleveraging: What economists need to know about the modern money creation process
  • US debt issuance since 1951 and the fallacy of issuing floating rate notes
  • Central Bank reserve creation in the era of negative money multipliers

Serhiy Stepanchuk

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