Working Papers 2008

01_08: ARE OPTIMAL PUNISHMENTS ALWAYS OPTIMAL?, Luca Colombo, Paola Labrecciosa and Luca Lambertini

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

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