LICOS DP 293: SPS Capitalization into Land Value: Generalized Propensity Score Evidence from the EU
Pavel Ciaian, d'Artis Kancs and Jerzy Michalek

LICOS DP 292: Food, Energy and Environment: is Bioenergy the Missing Link?
Pavel Ciaian and d'Artis Kancs

LICOS DP 291: Leave None to Claim the Land. A Malthusian Catastrophe in Rwanda?
Marijke Verpoorten

LICOS DP 290: Revisiting the "cotton problem" : A comparative analysis of cotton reforms in sub-Saharan Africa
Claire Delpeuch, Anneleen Vandeplas and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 289: Food quality in domestic markets of developing economies: A comparative study of two countries
Anneleen Vandeplas and Bart Minten

LICOS DP 288: Regulations, brokers and interlinkages: The institutional organization of wholesale markets in India
Bart Minten, Anneleen Vandeplas and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 287: Using proxy variables to control for unobservables when estimating productivity: A sensitivity analysis
Carmine Ornaghi and Ilke Van Beveren

LICOS DP 286: Political Institutions and Public Policy:The Co-Decision Procedure in the European Union and the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
Christophe Crombez and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 285: No Protectionist Surprises: EU Antidumping Policy Before and During the Great Recession
Hylke Vandenbussche and Christian Viegelahn

LICOS DP 284: The Impact of Information on the Willingness-to-Pay for Labeled Organic Food Products
Sandra Rousseau and Liesbet Vranken

LICOS DP 283: School Dropouts and Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural China's Junior High Schools
Di Mo, Linxiu Zhang, Hongmei Yi, Renfu Luo, Scott Rozelle and Carl Brinton

LICOS DP 282: Transfer Paths and Academic Performance: The Primary School Merger Program in China
Di Mo, Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, Yaojiang Shi, Scott Rozelle and Alexis Medina

LICOS DP 281: Standard, Reputation and Trade: Evidence from US horticultural imports refusals
Marie-Agnès Jouanjean

LICOS DP 280: Censored Demand System Estimation with Endogenous Expenditures in Clustered Samples:an Application to Food Demand in Mozambique
Mikkel Barslund

LICOS DP 279: The Political Economy of Policy Instrument Choice: Theory and Evidence from Agricultural Policies
Johan F.M. Swinnen, Alessandro Olper and Thijs Vandemoortele

LICOS DP 278: Firms' Pattern of Trade and Access to Finance

Jože P. Damijan and Črt Kostevc

LICOS DP 277: Export Strategies of New Exporters: Why is Export Expansion Along the Extensive Margins so Sluggish?
Jože P. Damijan, Črt Kostevc and Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 276: On Butterflies and Frankenstein: A Dynamic Theory of Regulation
Johan F.M. Swinnen and Thijs Vandemoortele

LICOS DP 275: Measure for Measure:How Well Do We Measure Micro-level Conflict Intensity?
Marijke Verpoorten

LICOS DP 274: College Major Choice and Ability:Why is General Ability not Enough?
Tjaša Loga and Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 273: Market Dynamics in Supply Chains: The impact of globalization and consolidation on food companies' mark-ups
Eleni A.Kaditi

2010

LICOS DP 272: The Market for Policy Communication
Johan F.M.Swinnen, Thijs Vandemoortele and Mara Squicciarini

LICOS DP 271: Belgian Beers: Where History Meets Globalization
Damiaan Persyn, Johan F.M. Swinnen and Stijn Vanormelingen

LICOS DP 270: Beer Drinking Nations. The Determinants of Global Beer Consumption
Liesbeth Colen and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 269: Impact of the Global Crisis on Spatial Relationships in Russia
Konstantin Glusckenko

LICOS DP 268: How the East Was Won:The Foreign Take-Over of the Eastern European Brewing Industry
Johan F.M. Swinnen and Kristine Van Herck

LICOS DP 267: FDI Spillovers and the Timing of Foreign Entry
Bruno Merlevede, Koen Schoors and Mariana Spatareanu

LICOS DP 266: Competitive Microcredit Markets: Differentiation and ex-ante Incentives for Multiple Borrowing
Paolo Casini

LICOS DP 265: When Drains and Gains Coincide: Migration and International Football Performance
Ruxanda Berlinschi, Jeroen Schokkaert and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 264: Learning from trade through innovation: Causal link between imports, exports and innovation in Spanish microdata
Joze.P.Damijan and Crt.Kostevc

LICOS DP 263: Food Standards and Welfare: A General Equilibrium Model with Market Imperfections
Tao Xiang, Jikun Huang, d'Artis Kancs, Scott Rozelle and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 262: European Electricity market Reforms: Any Signs of Efficiency Improvements?
Ziga Zarnic

LICOS DP 261: From Liberalization Towards Integration: Have Mark-ups of EU Electricity Firms Changed?
Ziga Zarnic

LICOS DP 260: Foreign Investments and Institutional Convergence in South eastern Europe
Eleni A.Kaditi

LICOS DP 259: The Right Price of Food
Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 258: Variety Gains of Trade Integration in a Heterogeneous Firm Model
d'Artis Kancs

LICOS DP 257: Global Production Networks in Electronics and Intra-Asian Trade
Byron Gangnes and Ari Van Assche

LICOS DP 256: The Intensity of the Rwandan Genocide: Fine Measures from the Gacaca Records
Marijke Verpoorten

LICOS DP 255: GMO Regulations, International Trade and the Imperialism of Standards
Mauro Vigani, Valentina Raimondi and Alessandro Olper

LICOS DP 254: Detecting Hidden Violence: The Spatial Distribution of Excess Mortality in Rwanda
Marijke Verpoorten

LICOS DP 253: Why Does the WTO Have an Antidumping Agreement?
James C. Hartigan and Hylke Vandenbussche

2009

LICOS DP 252: Exporting, Capital Investment and Financial Constraints

Vlad Manole and Mariana Spatareanu

LICOS DP 251: Political Reforms and Public Policies: Evidence from Agricultural Protection
Alessandro Olper, Jan Falkowski and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 250: State Aid and Competition in banking: the Case of China in the Late Nineties
Xiaoqiang Cheng and Patrick Van Cayseele

LICOS DP 249: Tough Love: Do Czech Suppliers Learn from Their Relationships with Multinationals?
Beata S. Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu

LICOS DP 248: Trade with China and Skill Upgrading: Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Data
Giordano Mion, Hylke Vandenbussche and Linke Zhu

LICOS DP 247: Product and Process Innovation and the Decision to Export: Firm-level Evidence for Belgium
Ilke Van Beveren and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 246: Quality and Inclusion of Producers in Value Chains: A Theoretical Note
Thijs Vandemoortele, Scott Rozelle, Johan F.M. Swinnen and Tao Xiang

LICOS DP 245: Growth in high-value export markets in Sub-Saharan Africa and its development implications
Miet Maertens, Bart Minten and Jo Swinnen

LICOS DP 244: The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
Jozef Konings and Stijn Vanormelingen

LICOS DP 243: Trade openness and income – a re-examination
Vlad Manole and Mariana Spatareanu

LICOS DP 242: Multinational Ownership and R&D Intensity: The Role of External Knowledge Sources and Spillovers
Filip de Beule and Ilke Van Beveren

LICOS DP 241: Antidumping Protection hurts Exporters: Firm-level evidence from France
Jozef Konings and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 240: Reducing Corruption in Public Education Programs in Africa: Instruments and Capture in Madagascar
Nathalie Francken

LICOS DP 239: Financial Constraints and the Cyclicality of R&D Investment: Evidence from Slovenia
Simona Bovha-Padilla, Joze P. Damijan and Jozef Konings

LICOS DP 238: Factor Content of Bilateral Trade: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity and Transaction Costs
d'Artis Kancs and Pavel Ciaian

LICOS DP 237: The Political Economy of Relief Aid Allocation: Evidence from Madagascar
Nathalie Francken, Bart Minten and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 236: Trade, Development, and the Political Economy of Public Standards
Johan F.M. Swinnen and Thijs Vandemoortele

LICOS DP 235: Revisiting Ricardo: Can productivity differences explain the pattern of trade between EU countries?
Wilfried Altzinger and Jože P. Damijan

LICOS DP 234: Trade, Institutions and Export Specialization

Karen Crabbé and Michel Beine

LICOS DP 233: Liberalization with Endogenous Institutions: A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Reform in Africa, Asia and Europe
Johan F.M. Swinnen, Anneleen Vandeplas and Miet Maertens

LICOS DP 232: Mass Media and Public Policy: Global Evidence from Agricultural Policies
Alessandro Olper and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 231: Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries
Miet Maertens and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 230: Does Innovation Help the Good or the Poor Performing Firms?
Jože P. Damijan, Črt Kostevc, Matija Rojec

LICOS DP 229: Globalisation, Concentration and Footloose Firms: In Search of the Main Cause of the Declining Labour Share
John Hutchinson and Damiaan Persyn

LICOS DP 228: Union Wage Demands with Footloose Firms

Damiaan Persyn

LICOS DP 227: Product Innovation and Renewal: Foreign Firms and Clusters in Belgium
Filip De Beule, Ilke van Beveren

2008

LICOS DP 226: Financial Constraints in China: Firm-level Evidence
Sandra Poncet, Walter Steingress, Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 225: Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals
Beata S. Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu

LICOS DP 224: How Do Heterogeneous Social Interactions Affect the Peer Effect in Rural–Urban Migration?: Empirical Evidence from China
Zhao Chen, Shiqing Jiang, Ming Lu, Hiroshi Sato

LICOS DP 223: Happiness in the Dual Society of Urban China: Hukou Identity, Horizontal Inequality and Heterogeneous Reference
Shiqing Jiang, Ming Lu, Hiroshi Sato

LICOS DP 222: Trade Liberalization and Economic Geography in Transition Countries: Can FDI Explain the Adjustment Pattern of Regional Wages?
Jože P. Damijan, Črt Kostevc

LICOS DP 221: Social Security and Retirement During Transition: Microeconometric Evidence from Slovenia
Aleš Ahčan, Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 220: Pay Me Right: Reference Values and Executive Compensation
Aleksandra Gregorič, Sašo Polanec, Sergeja Slapničar

LICOS DP 219: Does International Openness Affect Productivity of Local Firms? Evidence from Southeastern Europe
Jože P. Damijan, Jose de Sousa, Olivier Lamotte

LICOS DP 218: Impact of Firm Heterogeneity on Direct and Spillover Effects of FDI: Micro Evidence from Ten Transition Countries
Jože P. Damijan, Matija Rojec, Boris Majcen, Mark Knell

LICOS DP 217: Globalization and Poverty in Senegal: A Worst Case Scenario?
Miet Maertens, Liesbeth Colen, and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 216: Are Your Firm’s Taxes Set in Warsaw? Spatial Tax Competition in Europe
Karen Crabbé and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 215: The Political Economy of the 2003 Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 214: Horticulture Exports, Agro-industrialization and Farm-nonfarm Linkages with the Smallholder Farm Sector: Evidence from Senegal
Miet Maertens

LICOS DP 213: Human Well-Being over the Life Cycle: Longitudinal Evidence from a 20-Year Panel

Bert G.M. Van Landeghem

LICOS DP 212: Zin of Onzin van structurele lastenverminderingen?
Jozef Konings and Damiaan Persyn

LICOS DP 211: Anatomy of Russia’s Market Segmentation
Konstantin Gluschenko

LICOS DP 210: Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device
Damiaan Persyn

LICOS DP 209: New Dimensions of Adjustment to Globalization
Marialuz Moreno Badia, Veerle Slootmaekers and Ilke Van Beveren

LICOS DP 208: The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity
Marialuz Moreno Badia and Veerle Slootmaekers

LICOS DP 207: Static and Dynamic Distributional Effects of Decoupled Payments: Single Farm Payments in the European Union
Pavel Ciaian, d’Artis Kancs and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 206: Labour Mobility During Transition: Evidence from Georgia
Sabine Bernabè and Marco Stampini

LICOS DP 205: China’s International Competitiveness: Reassessing the Evidence
Ari Van Assche, Chang Hong and Veerle Slootmaekers

LICOS DP 204: From Innovation to Exporting or vice versa? Causal Link Between Innovation Activity and Exporting in Slovenian Microdata
Jože P. Damijan, Črt Kostevc and Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 203: Innovation and Firms' Productivity Growth in Slovenia: Sensitivity of Results to Sectoral Heterogeneity and to Estimation Method
Jože P. Damijan, Črt Kostevc and Matija Rojec

LICOS DP 202: Growing Export Performance of Transition Economies: EU Market Access Versus Supply Capacity Factors
Jože P. Damijan, Matija Rojec and Maja Ferjančič

LICOS DP 201: Innovation Cooperation and Innovation Activity of Slovenian Enterprises
Andreja Jaklič, Jože P. Damijan and Matija Rojec

LICOS DP 200: Trade Policy and Innovation
Huasheng Song and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 199: A Theory of Standards-Driven Rural Development

(This discussion paper is no longer available. See LICOS DP 246 for a new version of this paper)
Johan F.M. Swinnen, Scott Rozelle, Tao Xiang and Thijs Vandemoortele

LICOS DP 198: Chinese Competition and Skill-Upgrading in European Textiles: Firm-level Evidence
Ph. Monfort, H. Vandenbussche and E. Forlani

LICOS DP 197: The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages. Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Panel Data

Jozef Konings

2007

LICOS DP 196: Antidumping Protection and Productivity of Domestic Firms: A Firm Level Analysis

Jozef Konings and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 195: Does Economic Integration Affect the Structure of Industries? Empirical Evidence from the CEE

d'Artis Kancs

LICOS DP 194:     Blue Cards, Blue Prospects?
                                d'Artis Kancs and Pavel Ciaian

LICOS DP 193:     Infrastructure Endowment and Corporate Income Taxes as Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central- and Eastern European Countries
                                Christian Bellak, Markus Leibrecht and Joze P. Damijan

LICOS DP 192:     Exports and Productivity – Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries
                                International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, Joachim Wagner, corresponding author

LICOS DP 191:     Rational Ignorance and Negative News in the Information Market
                                Jill McCluskey and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 190:     Media and Humanitarian Aid: Empirical Evidence from Belgium (Currently not available, under revision)
                                Thijs Vandemoortele, Nathalie Francken and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 189:     Household Coping in War- and Peacetime: Cattle Sales in Rwanda, 1991-2001
                                Marijke Verpoorten

LICOS DP 188:     Patterns and Determinants of International Trade Costs in the Food Industry
                                Alessandro Olper and Valentina Raimondi

LICOS DP 187:     Market Access Asymmetry in Food Trade
                                Alessandro Olper and Valentina Raimondi

LICOS DP 186:     Complementary Platforms
                                Jo Reynaerts and Patrick Van Cayseele

LICOS DP 185:     The Rise of Obesity in Transition Economies: Theory and Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
                                Sonya K. Huffman and Marian Rizov

LICOS DP 184:     Quality, Efficiency Premia, and Development
                                Johan F.M. Swinnen and Anneleen Vandeplas

LICOS DP 183:     Credit Market Imperfections and the Distribution of Policy Rents: The Common Agricultural Policy in the New EU Member States
                                Pavel Ciaian and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 182:     Total Factor Productivity Estimation: A Practical Review
                                Ilke Van Beveren

LICOS DP 181:     The Effect of Globalization on Union Bargaining and Price-Cost Margins of Firms
                                Filip Abraham, Jozef Konings, Stijn Vanormelingen

LICOS DP 180:     Property Rights Imperfections, Asset Allocation, and Welfare: Co-Ownership in Bulgaria
                                Liesbet Vranken, Karen Macours, Nivelin Noev and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 179:     Patterns of Land Market Developments in Transition
                                Johan F.M. Swinnen and Liesbet Vranken

LICOS DP 178:     The Impact of Payroll Tax Reductions on Employment and Wages: A Natural Experiment using Firm Level Data
                                Maarten Goos and Jozef Konings

2006

LICOS DP 177: Trade, Standards and Poverty:Evidence from Senegal
Miet Maertens and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 176:     Did US Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel Producers?
                                Hylke Vandenbussche and Ziga Zarnic

LICOS DP 175:     Skating on Thin Ice :Rule Changes and Team Strategies in the NHL
                                Anurag N. Banerjee, Johan F.M. Swinnen and Alfons Weersink

LICOS DP 174:     An Overview of Anti-Dumping Practices in the World and in the Framework of EU-Turkey Relations
                                Burak Serkan Yaşar

LICOS DP 173:     Trade and Race-to-the-bottom Wage Competition
                                Damiaan Persyn

LICOS DP 172:     Causes of Efficiency Change in Transition: Theory and Cross-Country Survey Evidence from Agriculture
                                Johan F.M. Swinnen and Liesbet Vranken

LICOS DP 171:     The Impact of Bank and Non-Bank Financial Institutions on Local Economic Growth in China
                                Xiaoqiang Cheng and Hans Degryse

LICOS DP 170:     In Search of True Productivity Differences
                                Anže Burger and Črt Kostevc

LICOS DP 169:     Rural Poverty in Transition Countries
                                Karen Macours and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 168:     Footloose Multinationals in Belgium?
                                Ilke Van Beveren

LICOS DP 167:     The Global Chilling Effects of Antidumping Proliferation
                                Hylke Vandenbussche and Maurizio Zanardi

LICOS DP 166:     Profitability of Foreign and Domestic Banks in Central and Eastern Europe: Does the Mode of Entry Matter?
                                Olena Havrylchyk and Emilia Jurzyk

LICOS DP 165:     Foreign Investment, Supermarkets, and the Restructuring of Supply Chains: Evidence from Eastern European Dairy Sectors
                                Johan F.M. Swinnen, Liesbeth Dries, Nivelin Noev and Etleva Germenji

LICOS DP 164:     Global Retail Chains and Poor Farmers: Evidence from Madagascar
                                Bart Minten, Lalaina Randrianarison and Johan F.M. Swinnen

2005

LICOS DP 163:     Performance on Exports: Continuous Productivity Improvements or Capacity Utilization
                                Jože P. Damijan and Črt Kostevc

LICOS DP 162:     Share Issuing Privatization in China: Determinants of Public Share Allocation and Underpricing
                                Qi Quan and Nancy Huyghebaert

LICOS DP 161:     Firm Heterogeneity and Endogenous Regional Disparities
                                Carlo Altomonte and Italo Colantone

LICOS DP 160:     The Taxation of Multinationals: Firm Level Evidence for Belgium
                                Hylke Vandenbussche and Chang Tan

LICOS DP 159:     Performance of exporters: scale effects or continuous productivity improvements
                                Ćrt Kostevc

LICOS DP 158:     Land Market Imperfections and Agricultural Policy Impacts in the New EU Member States: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis
                                Pavel Ciaian and Johan F. M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 157:     Human Capital, Market Imperfections, Poverty and Migration: Evidence from Albania
                                Etleva Germenji and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 156:     Do External Knowledge Spillovers Induce Firms' Innovations? Evidence from Slovenia
                                Jože P. Damijan, Andreja Jaklic and Matija Rojec

LICOS DP 155:     The Impact of Media and Monitoring on Corruption in Decentralized Public Programs: Evidence from Madagascar
                                Nathalie Francken, Bart Minten and Johan F. M. Swinnen

2004

LICOS DP 154:     On the Evolution of Size and Productivity in Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing Firms
                                Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 153:     Price Liberalization and Output Decline in Transition
                                Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 152:     The Law of One Price in the Russian Economy
                                Konstantin Gluschenko

LICOS DP 151:     Do Exports Generate Higher Productivity? Evidence from Slovenia
                                Jan De Loecker

LICOS DP 150:     Comparing the Impact of Credit Constraints on the Growth of SMEs in a Transition Country with an Established Market Economy
                                John Hutchinson and Ana Xavier

LICOS DP 149:     Anti-dumping Duties and the Byrd Amendment
                                David R. Collie and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 148:     Self-selection, Export Market Heterogeneity and Productivity Improvements: Firm Level Evidence from Slovenia
                                Jože P. Damijan, Sašo Polanec and Janez Prašnikar

LICOS DP 147:     Export vs. FDI Behavior of Heterogenous Firms in Heterogenous Markets: Evidence from Slovenia
                                Jože P. Damijan, Marko Glažnar, Janez Prašnikar and Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 146:     How to Seize a Window of Opportunity: The Entry Strategy of retail Firms into Transition Economies
                                Katrijn Gielens and Marnik G. Dekimpe

LICOS DP 145:     Is there Regional Tax Competition in Belgium?
                                Hylke Vandenbussche, Boudewijn Janssen and Karen Crabbé

LICOS DP 144:     Convergence at Last? Evidence from Transition Countries.
                                Sašo Polanec

LICOS DP 143:     Case-by-case versus Mass Privatization in Transition Economies: Owner and Seller Effects on Performance of Firms in Slovenia
                                Marko Simoneti, Jože P. Damijan, Matija Rojec and Boris Majcen

LICOS DP 142:     Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance in Slovenia
                                Jože P. Damijan, Aleksandra Gregorič and Janez Prašnikar

LICOS DP 141:     Antidumping Protection and Markups of Domestic Firms: Evidence from Firm Level Data
                                Jozef Konings and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 140: Are Patients in the Transition World Paying Unofficially to Stay Longer in Hospital? Some Evidence from Kazakhstan
Robin Thompson and Ana Xavier

2003

LICOS DP 139:     Job Creation, Job Destruction and Voting Behavior in Poland
                                Valérie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski

LICOS DP 138:     Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy. Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing
                                Jan De Loecker and Jozef Konings

LICOS DP 137:     Technology Adoption under Price Undertakings
                                Greetje Everaert

LICOS DP 136:     Has International Trade Affected Workers’ Bargaining Power?
                                Ellen Brock and Sabien Dobbelaere

LICOS DP 135:     Is there a Lower Bound to the Firm Size Distribution Comparing Transition Economies with an Established Market Economy
                                John Hutchinson

LICOS DP 134:     Are Wage Cost Differentials Driving Delocalisation? A Comparative Analysis between High Income and Low Income Countries using Firm Level Data
                                Jozef Konings

LICOS DP 133:     Price Cost Margins and Exporting Behaviour: Evidence from Firm Level Data
                                Holger Görg and Frederic Warzynski

LICOS DP 132:     The Impact of Structural Reforms on Employment Growth and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
                                Ralitza Dimova

LICOS DP 131:     Do Multinational Enterprises Relocate Employment to Low Wage Regions? Evidence from European Multinationals
                                Jozef Konings and Alan Patrick Murphy

LICOS DP 130:     The Political Economy of Restructuring and Subsidisation: An International Perspective
                                Greetje Everaert

LICOS DP 129:     Land Markets and Household Farms in Transition: Theory and Evidenc from Hungary
                                Johan F.M. Swinnen and Liesbet Vranken

LICOS DP 128:     The Impact of Aid on Economic Growth in Transition Economies: An Empirical Study
                                Azeta Cungu and Johan F.M. Swinnen

LICOS DP 127:     DP 127 is no longer available

2002

LICOS DP 126:     Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
                                Jozef Konings, Olga Kupets and Hartmut Lehmann

LICOS DP 125:     The Effects of Privatization and Competitive Pressure on Firms' Price-cost Margins: Micro Evidence from Emerging Economies
                                Jozef Konings, Patrick Van Cayseele and Frederic Warzynski

LICOS DP 124:     Unofficial Payments for Acute State Hospital Care in Kazakhstan. A Model of Physician Bahaviour with Price Discrimination and Vertical Service Differentiation
                                Robin Thompson and Ana Xavier

LICOS DP 123:     Comparing Performance of Firms in EU Accession Countries with and EU Benchmark
                                Jan De Loecker

LICOS DP 122:     Does Antidumping Protection raise Market Power of Domestic Firms? Evidence from Firm Level Data
                                Jozef Konings and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 121:     Joint Estimation of Mark-up and Bargaining Power Parameters for Belgian Manufacturing
                                Sabien Dobbelaere

LICOS DP 120:     Do Schumpeterian Waves of Creative Destruction Lead to Higher Productivity? Panel Data Evidence from Poland
                                Frederic Warzynski

LICOS DP 119:     EU Antidumping Cases against China: An Overview and Future Prospects with Respect to China's WTO Membership
                                Xiang Liu and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 118:     The Impact of European Integration on Adjustment Pattern of Regional Wages in Transition Countries: Testing Competitive Economic Geography Models
                                Joze P. Damijan and Crt Kostevc

LICOS DP 117:     Time-Dependent Efficiency of Free Trade Agreements: The Case of Slovenia and the CEFTA Agreement
                                Joze P. Damijan and Igor Masten

LICOS DP 116:     Budget Constraints and Profitability: Evidence from a Transition Economy
                                Marian Rizov

LICOS DP 115:     On the Political Economy of Land Reforms in the Former Soviet Union
                                Johan F.M. Swinnen and Ayo Heinegg

LICOS DP 114:     Firm Growth and Survival in a Transition Country: Micro Evidence from Slovenia
                                Jozef Konings and Ana Xavier

LICOS DP 113:     Implications of the Changes in the System of National Accounts for Measured Growth and the Business Cycle
                                Patrick Vanhoudt

LICOS DP 112:     Investment and Credit Constraints in Transition Economies: Micro Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania
                                Jozef Konings, Marian Rizov and Hylke Vandenbussche

2001

LICOS DP 111:     Insider Power and Wage Determination in Bulgaria :An Econometric Investigation
                                Sabien Dobbelaere

LICOS DP 110:     Market Power, Competition and Ownership in Emerging Economies
                                Jozef Konings, Patrick Van Cayseele and Frederic Warzynski

LICOS DP 109:     On the Causes of Soft Budget Constraints: Firm-Level Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
                                Greetje Everaert and Antje Hildebrandt

LICOS DP 108:     Competing Locations? Market Potential and FDI in Central and Eastern Europe vs the Meditarranean
                                Carlo Altomonte and Claudia Guagliano

LICOS DP 107:     Fiscal Decentralisation and Regional Development in Transition Countries
                                Marvin Jackson

LICOS DP 106:     The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria, Intraindustry Trade, and EMU Enlargment
                                Jarko Fidrmuc

LICOS DP 105:     Economic Integration between the EU and the CEEC's: A Sectoral Study
                                Francesca Di Mauro

LICOS DP 104:     The Effect of Ownership and Competitive Pressure on Firm Performance in Transition Countries. Micro Evidence from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland
                                Saul Estrin, Jozef Konings, Zbigniew Zolkiewski and Manuela Angelucci

LICOS DP 103:     Policy Options for Joining the Euro
                                Alain de Crombrugghe

LICOS DP 102:     Global and European Labor Costs
                                Filip Abraham

LICOS DP 101:     Survival and Growth of Individual Farm Enterprises in Transition Economies: Empirical Evidence from Hungary
                                Marian Rizov and Erik Mathijs

LICOS DP 100:     Do Multinational Enterprises Substitute parent Jobs for Foreign Ones? Evidence from Firm level Panel Data
                                Jozef Konings and Alan Murphy

LICOS DP 99:     Disintegration and Trade
                               Jan Fidrmuc and Jarko Fidrmuc

LICOS DP 98:      Does Protection Harden Soft Budget Constraints?
                              Greetje Everaert and Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 97:      Multinational corporations as catalyst for industrial development: the case of Poland
                              Carlo Altomonte and Laura Resmini

LICOS DP 96:      How to Reduce Inflation: An Independent Central Bank or a Currency Board? The Experience of the Baltic Countries
                               Jakob de Haan, Helge Berger and Erik van Fraassen

2000

LICOS DP 95:      Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
                               Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworh

LICOS DP 94:      A Note on Reform Reversals and Output Growth in Transition Economies
                               Bruno Merlevede

LICOS DP 93:      Growth in transition countries. A review of the literature
                               Bruno Merlevede

LICOS DP 92:      Albanian Political-Economics : Consequences of a Clan Culture
                               Klarita Gërxhani and Arthur Schram

LICOS DP 91:      Regional Unemployment in Poland. A Legacy of Central Planning
                               Patrick Paul Walsh

LICOS DP 90:      Accession Games : A Dynamic per-member partition function approach
                               Laszlo A. Koczy

LICOS DP 89:      Poland’s Membership In the European Union : An Analysis with a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model

                               Daniel Piazolo

LICOS DP 88:      The Causes and Consequences of Managerial Change in Ukraine and the Complementarity of Reforms
                               Frederic Warzynski

LICOS DP 87:      A Regional Analysis of Wage Determination in Poland

Fiona Duffy and Patrick P. Walsh

1999

LICOS DP 86:      The Effect of Direct Foreign Investment on Domestic Firms: Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data in Emerging Economies
                              Jozef Konings

LICOS DP 85:      Firm Performance and the Political Economy of Corporate Governance: Survey Evidence for Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia
                               Patrick Paul Walsh and Ciara Whelan

LICOS DP 84:      Job Creation and Job Destruction in Russia: Some Preliminary Evidence from Enterprise-level Data
                               Alessandro Acquisti and Hartmut Lehmann

LICOS DP 83:      The Determinant of Foreign Direct Investment into the CEECs: New Evidence from Sectoral Patterns
                               Laura Resmini

LICOS DP 82:      The Determinants of Export Performance of China’s Township-Village Enterprises
                               C. Wu and L.K. Cheng

LICOS DP 81:      Employment Dynamics of Newly Established and Traditional Firms: A Comparison of Russia and the Ukraine
                               P.P. Walsh and J. Konings

LICOS DP 80:      Active Labor Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning
                              J. Kluve, H. Lehmann and C. Schmidt

LICOS DP 79:      Grime and Punishment : Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation
                               H Lehmann, J. Wadsworth and A. Acquisti

LICOS DP 78:      Gradual Restructuring and Structural Unemployment in Poland : A Legacy of Central Planning
                               H Lehmann and P. Walsh

1998

LICOS DP 77:      Gross Job Flows in Transition Countries: Results for Bulgaria, Estonia and Romania
                               G Faggio and J. Konings

LICOS DP 76:      FDI in the CEEC’s and the Theory of Real Options :An Empirical Assessment
                               C. Altomonte

LICOS DP 75:      The Integration of Central and Eastern Europe in the European Union:Trade and Labour Market Adjustment
                               Erik Faucompret, Jozef Konings, Hylke Vandenbussche

LICOS DP 74:      Job Creation, Job Destruction and Labour Demand in Slovenia
                               S. Bojnec and J. Konings

LICOS DP 73:      European Trade and Foreign Direct Investment - U-Shaping Industrial Output in Central and Eastern Europe : Theory and Evidence
                               A. Repkine and P. P. Walsh

LICOS DP 72:      Characteristics and Trends of Regional Labour Markets in Transition Economies: Empirical Evidence from Romania
                               E. Kallai and I. Traistaru

LICOS DP 71:      Disorganisation in the Transition Process : Firm Level Evidence from Ukraïne
                              J. Konings and P. P. Walsh

LICOS DP 70:      Company Restructuring and Privatisation in Ukraine
                               S. Estrin, P. Hare and A. Rosevear

LICOS DP 69:      Explaining the Rise in Earnings Inequality in China : The Case of Liaoning Province, 1986-1990
                               D. P. Coady and L. Wang

LICOS DP 68:      Incentives, Allocation and Labour-Market Reforms during Transition : The Case of Urban China, 1986-1990
                               D. P. Coady and L. Wang

1997

LICOS DP 67:      Excess demand, repressed inflation , and forced saving in the Soviet Union
                               N van der Lijn and M. Verbeek

LICOS DP 66:      How Efficient are Firms in Transition countries? Firm level evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
                               J. Konings and A. Repkin

LICOS DP 65:      The Effects of Product Market Competition, Globalisation and Unions on Productivity - Survey Evidence from Belgian Firms exporting to Central- and Eastern Europe
                               S. Janssens

LICOS DP 64:      A Comparison of Structural Changes among the Branches of Industry in seven Transition Countries
                               M. Jackson and A. Repkin

LICOS DP 63:      Restructuring or Structural Change in Industry of Transition Countries : A Review of Issues
                               M. Jackson

LICOS DP 62:      Intra Balkan Trade sand Economic Cooperation : Past Lessons for the Future
                               M. Jackson

LICOS DP 61:      Globalisation, Wages and Employment in Industrialized Countries : An overview
                               S. Janssens

1996

LICOS DP 60:      How Do Western Companies Respond to the Opening of Central and East European Economies? Survey Evidence from a small open economy-Belgium
                               J. Konings and S. Janssens

LICOS DP 59:      Job Creation, Job Destruction and Growth of Newly Established Private Firms in Transition Economies : Survey Evidence from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
                               J. Konings and V. Bilsen

LICOS DP 58:      Labor Markets and Income Maintenance : a Survey of Transition
                               M. Jackson

LICOS DP 57:      Mortgage Model in Transition Countries
                               S. Jasinskaite

LICOS DP 56:      Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Economies
                               J. Konings

LICOS DP 55:      The Pattern of Agricultural Protection in Central Europe
                               S. Bojnec and J. Swinnen

LICOS DP 54:      The Importance of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Restructuring with an Application to Poland
                               W. Biesbrouck and V. Bilsen

1995

LICOS DP 53:      Determinant of the Sources of Financing Enterprises in Transition: the Case of Hungary
                               I. Abel

LICOS DP 52:      The Problems of Company Management in Hungary with Regard to Ownership Form
                               B. Galgoczi

LICOS DP 51:      Long Term Investment, Stable Governance and Financial Issues of Privatization in Transition Economies
                               S. Thomadakis

LICOS DP 50:      Mass Privatization Methods and their Effects on Capital Market Institutions, Agency Relationships, and Managerial Monitoring
                               N. Milonas

LICOS DP 49:      Corporate Management, Capital Market and Foreign Direct Investments in the Slovak Republic
                               E. Mikelka and D. Brzica

LICOS DP 48:      Company Restructuring : The Czech Experience
                               J. Klacek and V. Flek

LICOS DP 47:      The Impact of Foreign Capital on the Private Enterprise Development in Poland : a Survey
                               V. Bilsen and W. Lagae

LICOS DP 46:      Patterns of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Transition vs; OECD Economies
                               B. Fakin and A. de Crombrugghe

LICOS DP 45:      Endogenous Price and Trade Policy Developments in Central European Agriculture
                               J. Swinnen

LICOS DP 44:      Financial Institutions, Enterprise Investment Behavior and Industrial Restructuring in Transition Economies
                               B. Fakin

LICOS DP 43:      Does Compensation for Disruptions Stimulate Reforms. The Case of Agrarian Reform in Central Europe
                               J. Swinnen

LICOS DP 42:      Company Management and Privatization in Slovenia
                               S. Bojnec

LICOS DP 41:      Types of Micro Regions Dispersion of Unemployment and Local Employment Development in Hungary
                               K. Fazekas

LICOS DP 40:     The Regional Dimension of Transition in Eastern and Central European Countries : An Assessment
                              G. Petrakos

LICOS DP 39:      Small Enterprise Development and Regional Policy : Comparative Analysis and Implications for Eastern and Central European Countries
                               G. Petrakos

LICOS DP 38:      Employment Growth, Job Creation and Job Destruction in Polish Industry : 1988-1991
                               J. Konings, H. Lehmann and M. Shaffer

LICOS DP 37:      How Does Increased Foreign Competition Affect UK Employment and Wages? An Empirical Exploration
                               J. Konings and H. Vandenbussche

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