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School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper Series
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| 1105 | Felix F. FitzRoy, Michael Nolan and Max F. Steinhardt | 'Age, Life-satisfaction, and Relative Income-Insights from the UK and Germany' |
| 1104 | Alistair Ulph and David Ulph | 'Optimal Climate Change Policies When Governments Cannot Commit' |
| 1102 | Tatiana Damjanovic, Vladislav Damjanovic and Charles Nolan | 'Ordering policy rules with an unconditional welfare measure' |
| 1005 | Fabio Aricò, Laurence Lasselle and Kannika Thampanishvong | 'Improving Students’ Learning Aspirations Beyond Post-Primary Education: A First Account of Two Non-Formal Education Programmes in Middle-Income' |
| 1004 | Sayantan Ghosal, Marcus Miller and Kannika Thampanishvong | 'Delay and Haircuts in Sovereign Debt: Recovery and Sustainability' |
| 1003 | Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti | 'A Salience Theory of Choice Errors' |
| 0912 | Elissaios Papyrakis and Geethanjali Selvaretnam | 'The Greying Church: The Impact of Life Expectancy on Religiosity' |
| 0909 | Alistair Ulph and David Ulph | 'Optimal Climate Change Policies When Governments Cannot Commit' |
| 0904 | Arnab Bhattacharjee | 'Testing for Proportional Hazards with Unrestricted Univariate Unobserved Heterogeneity' |
| 0809 | Helmut Rainer and Ian Smith | 'Staying Together for the Sake of the Home? House Price Shocks and Partnership Dissolution in the UK ' |
| 0808 | Geethanjali Selvaretnam and Kannika Thampanishvong | 'Future of the Clean Development Mechanism in Tackling Climate Change' |
| 0807 | Arnab Bhattacharjee | 'Partial Orders with Respect to Continuous Covariates and Tests for the Proportional Hazards Model' |
| 0801 | Helmut Rainer, Geetha Selvaretnam and David Ulph | 'Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in a Model of Fertility Choice' |
| 0715 | Marco Faravelli and Luca Stanca | 'Single versus Multiple Prize Contests to Finance Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence' |
| 0712 | Tatiana Damjanovic and David Ulph | 'Tax Progressivity, Income Distribution and Tax Non-Compliance' |
| 0708 | Arnab Bhattacharjee | 'A Simple Test for the Absence of Covariate Dependence in Hazard Regression Models' |
| 0707 | Arnab Bhattacharjee and Madhuchhanda Bhattacharjee | 'Bayesian Analysis of Hazard Regression Models under Order Restrictions on Covariate Effects and Ageing' |
| 0705 | Geethanjali Selvaretnam and Kannika Thampanishvong | 'Carbon Tax and Investment in Low-Carbon Technology in a Model of Co-ordination Failure' |
| 0704 | Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler | 'Subjective Income and Employment Expecations and Preferences for Redistribution' |
| 0611 | Manfredi M.A. La Manna | 'The Surprising Benefits of a Parellel Universe' |
| 0604 | John Beath and Felix FitzRoy | 'Status, Happiness and Relative Income' |
| 0602 | Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler (University of Essex) | Does democracy foster trust?' |
| 0518 | Jennifer Franz and Felix Fitzroy | 'Child mortaility, poverty and environment in developing countries' |
| 0515 | Felix Fitzroy and Michael Nolan (Hull Univ. Business School) | 'Value of Work: Bargaining, job-satisfaction, and taxation in a simple GE model' |
| 0514 | Helmut Rainer | 'Should We Write Prenuptial Contracts?' |
| 0501 | Kenichiro Suzuki and David Cobham | 'Recent trends in the sources of finance for Japanese firms: has Japan become a "high internal finance" country.' |
| 0408 | Arne Risa Hole, Chris Jensen-Butler, Bjarne Madsen (AKF Copenhagen) and Lasse Møller (University of Copenhagen) | 'Teleworking and Transport: a study of the determinates of the propensity to telework and its intensity.' |
| 0407 | David Canning (Harvard) and Jim Jin | 'Price Setting General Equilibrium with Intermediate Goods' |
| 0405 | Pedro S Martins | 'Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill.' |
| 0313 | Maria Gil Molto and Arne Risa Hole | 'Tests for the consistency of three-level nested logit models with utility maximization' |
| 0309 | Joanna Poyago-Theotoky | 'Optimal environmental taxation, R&D subsidization and the role of market conduct' |
| 0308 | Laurence Lasselle, Serge Svizzero (Réunion) and Clem Tisdell (Queensland) | 'Heterogeneous Expectations, Dynamics and Stability of Markets' |
| 0305 | Moawia Alghalith | 'Hedging Output Price and Cost Uncertainty' |
| 0304 | Moawia Alghalith | 'Input Demand under Multiple Uncertainty' |
| 0301 | Moawia Alghalith | 'Empirical Analysis under Additive/Multiplicitave Output Uncertainty' |
| 0212 | Alan Sutherland | 'Incomplete Pass-Through and the Welfare Effects of Exchange Rate Variability' |
| 0211 | Alan Sutherland | 'A Simple Second-Order Solution Method for Dynamic General Equilibrium Models' |
| 0204 | Felix FitzRoy and Ian Smith | 'Welfare, Growth and Environment: A Sceptical Review of The Skeptical Environmentalist(Bjørn Lomborg, Cambridge University Press, 2001)', Forthcoming as a review article in the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. |
| 0201 | Joanna Poyago-Theotoky (Nottingham), John Beath and Donald S. Siegel (Nottingham) | 'Universities and Fundamental Research: Reflections on the Growth of University-Industry Partnership' |
| 0116 | Christopher Adam (Oxford), David Cobham, Eric Girardin (Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille II) | 'External Influences and Institutional Constraints on UK Monetary Policy, 1985-2000' |
| 0114 | David Cobham, Athanasios Papadopoulos (Crete) and George Zis (Manchester Metropolitan) | 'The Cost of Political Intervention in Monetary Policy' |
| 0112 | Felix R. FitzRoy, Michael Funke (Hamburg) and Michael A. Nolan | 'Taxation, Unemployment and Working Time in Models of Economic Growth' (revised) |
| 0111 | Laurence Lasselle, Serge Svizzero (Réunion) and Clem Tisdell (Queensland) | 'Heterogeneous Beliefs and Instability' |
| 0110 | Walter Briec (Perpignan) and Laurence Lasselle | 'Renormalization Method and its Economic Applications' |
| 0109 | Marta Aloi (Nottingham) and Laurence Lasselle | 'Growing through subsidies' |
| 0102 | David G. McMillan | 'Non-Linear Predictability of Stock Market Returns: Evidence from Non-Parametric and Threshold Models' |
| 0101 | Laurence Lasselle, Serge Svizzero (Réunion) and Clem Tisdell (Queensland) | 'Diversity, Globalisation and Market Stability' |
| 0021 | Dipak Ghosh (Stirling), Eric J. Levin (Stirling), Peter Macmillan and Robert E. Wright (Stirling) | 'Gold as an Inflation Hedge?' |
| 0109 | Clevo Wilson (Queensland) | 'Ill Health from Exposure to Pesticides in Sri Lanka: Estimating the Cost and Determining the Relationships' |
| 0102 | Osvaldo Terzi | 'Menu Costs and Strategic Interaction' |
| 0101 | David Cobham, Stefania Cosci (Molise), Fabrizio Mattesini (Roma , tor Vergata) and Jean Marin Serre (Auvergne) | 'Diversity, 'The Nature and Relevance of Central Bank Independence:an Analysis of Three European Countries' |
| 0016 | Berhard F. Walter and Felix R. FitzRoy | 'Air Pollution and Mortality in a Sample of British Cities' |
| 0015 | Peter Macmillan and Ian Smith | 'Explaining Post-War Cinema Attendance in the UK' |
| 0014 | Michael A. Nolan, Felix R. FitzRoy and Andrew E. Burke (Edinburgh) | 'Employment and Earnings of the Less Qualified' |
| 0013 | Marta Aloi (Nottingham), Laurence Lasselle and David G McMillan | 'On the Persistence of Output Fluctuations in High Technology Sectors' |
| 0010 | Angela J. Black (Aberdeen) and David G. McMillan | 'Long Run Trends, Business Cycle Components and Volatility Spillovers in Daily Exchange Rates: Evidence for G7 Exchange Rates' |
| 0007 | John Beath, Robert Owen (Nantes), Joanna Poyago-Theotoky (Nottingham) and David Ulph (University College London) | 'Optimal Incentives for Income-Generation within Universities' |
| 0005 | Johnathan P. Thomas and Tim Worral (Keele) | 'Gift-giving, Quasi-Credit and Reciprocity' |
| 0004 | Angela Black (Aberdeen) and Felix R. FitzRoy | 'Earnings Curves and Wage Curves' |
| 0001 | John Beath | 'Comparing Tax Yields Under Oligopoly' |
| 9919 | Jonathan P. Thomas | 'Fair Pay and a Wagebill Arguement for Wage Rigidity and Excessive Employment Variability' |
| 9914 | David G.MacMillan and Alan E. H.Speight (Wales, Swansea) | 'Non-Linear Dependence in Inter-War Exchange Rates: Some Further Evidence' |
| 9909 | Ben Lockwood (Warwick) and Jonathan Thomas | 'Gradualism and Irreversibility' |
| 9902 | Chris Jensen-Butler, Bjarne Madsen (Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark)and Søren Caspersen (Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark) | 'Rural areas in crisis? The role of the welfare state in income creation, the case of Denmark' |
| 9901 | Felix FitzRoy, Michael Funke (Hamburg), and Michael Nolan | 'Working Time, Taxation and Unemployment' |


