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 Political Economy
 
*Category placement is based on papers actually online rather than the author's research interests.
 
 
Dilip Abreu
Princeton University.  Titles include
"Bubbles and crashes" (2003);
"Synchronization Risk and Delayed Arbitrage" (2002);
"A behavioral model of bargaining with endogenous types" (2000);  and
"Bargaining, reputation and equilibrium selection in repeated games" (2000).
 
Jennifer Amyx
University of Pennsylvania. Titles include
"What Motivates Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia Today?" (2005);
"A Bond Market for East Asia? The Evolving Political Dynamics of Regional Financial Cooperation" (2004);
"A New Face for Japanese Finance? Assessing the Impact of Recent Reforms" (2003);
"Moving Beyond Bilateralism? Japan and the Asian Monetary Fund" (2002);  and
"Political Impediments to Far-Reaching Banking Reforms in Japan: Implications for Asia" (2000).
 
Lisa Anderson
William and Mary University. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Titles include
"Inequality and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis";
"An Experimental Study of Trust on the Effects of Inequality and Relative Deprivation on Trusting Behavior";
"Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology";
"Yes, Wall Street, There is a January Effect! Evidence from Laboratory Auctions";  and
"Does Crime Pay: A Classroom Demonstration of Monitoring and Enforcement."
 
Tony Atkinson
University of Oxford. Titles include
"Top Incomes in the United Kingdom over the Twentieth Century";
"The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand"; and
"How Basic Income is Moving up the Policy Agenda: News from the Future" (2002).
 
Alberto Behar
University of Oxford.  Titles include
"Trade liberalization and labor demand within South African Manufacturing firms";
"Who earns the most hamburgers per hour?";
"Estimates of labor demand elasticities and elasticities of substitution using firm-level manufacturing data" (2004);  and
"Estimating Elasticities of Demand and Supply for South African Manufactured Exports Using a Vector Error Correction Model" (2004).
 
Colin Bennett
University of Victoria.   Titles include
"What Happens When You make a 911 Call: Privacy and the Regulation of Cellular Technology in Canada and the United States" (2002);
"What Government Should Know about Privacy: A Foundation Paper" (2001);
"Globalization and Access to Information Regimes: A Report to the Canadian Access to Information Review Task Force" (2001);
"Application of a Methodology Designed to Assess the Adequacy of the Level of Protection of Individuals with Regard to Processing Personal Data" (1998);
"The Political Economy of Privacy: A review of the Literature" (1995);
"Regulating Privacy in Canada: An Analysis of Oversight and Enforcement in the Private Sector" (1996);
"Pick a Card: Surveillance, Smart Identification and the Structure of Advanced Industrial States" (1997);   and
"The Protection of Personal Financial Information: An Evaluation of the Privacy Codes of the Canadian Bankers Association and the Canadian Standards Association" (1997).
 
Heather Berry
University of Pennsylvania.   Titles include
"When Does Multinationality Increase Firm Value? Evidence from US and Japanese Firms, 1974-1997";  and
"The Influence of Location and Multinational Network Effects on Firm Value: Evidence from US Manufacturing Firms, 1981-2000."
 
William Berry
Florida State University.  Data include
"A cost of living index for the American states measured annually between 1960 and 2000";
"A cost of living index for the American states measured annually between 1960 and 2000";
"Annual measures of tax capacity and tax effort for the American states";
"Legislative Professionalism and Incumbent Reelection: The Development of Institutional Boundaries" (2000);  and
"The Politics of Tax Increases in the States" (1994).
 
Jagdish Bhagwati (economics)
Columbia University.   Title include
"Why Free Capital Mobility May be Hazardous to Your Health: Lessons from the Latest Financial Crisis";
"The Post-Nuclear Deterrent";
"Mr. Bush's Immigration Blunder";
"Wanted: Jubilee 2010 Against Protectionism";
"Economic Freedom: Prosperity and Social Progress";
"Clinton in India: A Convergence but not Quite Yet";  and
"High Noon on China and the WTO." 
 
Gordon Bodnar
Johns Hopkins University.  Titles include
"The Value Relevance of Foreign Income: An Australian, Canadian, and British Comparison" (2002);
"Estimating Exchange Rate Exposures: Some Weighty Issues" (2002);
"Exchange Rate Exposure: A Simple Model" (2002);  and
"Both Sides of Corporate Diversification: The value impacts of geographic and industrial diversification" (1999).
 
Fernando Broner
University of Pompeu Fabra.  Titles include
"Sovereign Risk, Anonymous Markets, and the Effects of Globalization" (2005);
"Why do Emerging Economies Borrow Short Term?" (2003);
"Discrete Devaluations and Multiple Equilibria in a First Generation Model of Currency Crises" (2003);  and
"On the Timing of Balance of Payment Crises: Disaggregated Information and Interest Rate Policy" (2002).
 
Jeffrey Carpenter
Middlebury College. Titles include
"Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity";
"Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation";
"Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity?";
"They Come to Play: Supply effects in an economic experiment";
"The Determinants of Sunk Cost Sensitivity in Students"
"An Inter-Cultural Examination of Cooperation in the Commons";
"Crying Over Spilt Milk: Sunk Costs, Fairness Norms, and the Hold-Up Problem, with Peter Matthews";
"Social Preferences";
"Space, Trust and Communal Action: Empirical Differences across Southeast Asian Cities";  and
"Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods, Games and Economic Behavior."
 
George Clarke
Titles include
"Bank Lending to Small Businesses in Latin America: Does Bank Origin Matter?" (2002);
"Foreign Bank Entry: Experience, Implications for Developing Countries, and Agenda for Further Research" (2001);
"Does Foreign Bank Penetration Reduce Access to Credit in Developing Countries? Evidence from Asking Borrowers" (2001);
"Bank Privatization in Argentina: A Model of Political Constraints and Differential Outcomes" (2001);
"Provincial Bank Privatization in Argentina: The Why, How, and So What?" (2000);
"Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers" (2002); and
"Refor ming the Water Supply in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Mild Reform in a Turbulent Environment" (2000).
 
Harry Cleaver
University of Texas. Titles include
"Deep Currents Rising: Notes on the Global Threat to Capitalism" (2006);  and
"Computer-linked Social Movements and the Global Threat to Capitalism" (1999).
 
Mike Clements
Warwick University.  Titles include
"Can regime-switching models reproduce the business cycle features of US aggregate consumption, investment and output?" (2001);
"Why forecast performance does not help us choose a model" (2002); 
"An evaluation of the Survey of Professional Forecasters probability distributions of expected inflation and output growth" (2002);  and
"Evaluating the Bank of England density forecasts of inflation" (2002).
 
David Collie
Cardiff University.  Titles include
"Welfare in the Nash Equilibrium in Export Taxes under Bertrand Duopoly" (2006);
"Export Taxes under Bertrand Duopoly" (2006);
"State Aid to Investment and R&D" (2005);
"Collusion in differentiated duopolies with quadratic costs" (2004);
"Tariffs and Subsidies under Asymmetric Oligopoly: Ad Valorem versus Specific Instruments" (2004);
"Optimum-Welfare and Maximum-Revenue Tariffs under Bertrand Duopoly" (2004);
"Anti-Dumping Regulations: Anti-Competitive and Anti-Export" (2004);
"Anti-Dumping Duties and the Byrd Amendment" (2004);
"Sustaining Collusion with Asymmetric Costs" (2004);  and
"Can Import Tariffs Deter Outward FDI" (2003).
 
Kevin Corder
Western Michigan University. Titles include
"Representative Control of Monetary Policy: Do Hearings Matter?" (1999);
"Monetary Policy and Central Bank Autonomy: Global Ideas and Local Politics";
"What Can The Taylor Rule Tell Us About Monetary Politics?";
"Women and the Vote, 1916-36";
"Using Prior Information To Aid Ecological Inference: A Bayesian approach"; and
"Managing Uncertainty: The Bias and Efficiency of Federal Macroeconomic Forecasts" (2003).
 
Partha Dasgupta
University of Cambridge.  Titles include
"Sustainable Economic Development in the World of Today's Poor" (2002);
"Social Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics" (2001);
"Economic Development, Environmental Degradation, and the Persistence of Deprivation in Poor Countries" (2002);  and
"Modern Economics and its Critics" (1998).
 
Thomas DeLeire
University of Chicago.  Titles include
"The Unintended Consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act" (2000);
"Labor Market Costs of Illness: An Economic Perspective" (2002);
"The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work" (2000);
"Worker Sorting and the Risk of Death on the Job" (2002);
"Parental Job Loss and Early Adolescent Adjustment in Black and White Families" (2002);  and
"Racial and Ethnic Differences in Living Arrangements: The Experiences of Children in Single Mother Families" (2002).
 
Michael Devereux
University of Warwick.  Titles include
"Taxing risky investment";
"Do countries compete over corporate tax rates?";
"Capital account liberalization and capital taxes";
"Cash flow taxes in an open economy";
"Agglomeration, regional grants and firm location";  and
"Horizontal and vertical indirect tax competition: theory and some evidence from the USA."
 
Amrita Dhillon
University of Warwick.  Titles include
"The Political Economy of Centre-State resource Transfer in India" (2001);  and
"Profit-Sharing, Bertrand Competition and Monopoly Unions: A Note" (2001).
 
Kathryn Dominguez
University of Michigan.   Titles include
"Cross-Border Trading as a Mechanism for Capital Flight: ADRs and the Argentine Crisis" (2002);
"Exchange Rate Exposure" (2001);
"A Re-Examination of Exchange Rate Exposure" (2001);
"Trade and Exposure" (2001);  and
"Foreign Exchange Intervention: Did it Work in the 1990s?" in Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy, eds. C. Fred Bergsten and John Williamson (Institute for International Economics, Special Report 16, February 2003).
 
John Duffy
University of Pittsburgh.  Titles include
"Anarchy in the Laboratory (and the Role of the State)";
"Comment on Adaptive Learning and Monetary Policy Design";
"Cooperative Behavior and the Frequency of Social Interaction";
"Experiments with Network Economies";
"Learning to Detrend Macroeconomic Data";
"Learning, Information and Sorting in Market Entry Games: Theory and Evidence";
"Multiple Regimes in U.S. Monetary Policy? A Nonparametric Approach";
"Sunspots in the Laboratory";
"Trust Among Strangers";  and
"Words, Deeds and Lies."
 
John Duggan
University of Rochester.  Titles include
"Equilibrium Non-existence in a Model of Representative Democracy";
"Existence of Equilibria on Convex Sets";
"Collective Choice with Linear Utilities";
"Dominance-based Solutions for Strategic Form Games";
"Electoral Competition with Policy-Motivated Candidates";
"Electoral Competition with Privately Informed Candidates";
"Endogenous Voting Agendas";
"Equilibrium Equivalence Under Expected Plurality and Probability of Winning Maximization";
"A Bargaining Model of Legislative Policy-making";
"Bargaining Foundations of the Median Voter Theorem";
"Candidate Objectives and Electoral Equilibrium";
"Mixed Refinements of Shapley's Saddles and Weak Tournaments";
"A Social Choice Lemma on Voting Over Lotteries";  and
"Social Choice and Electoral Competition in the General Spatial Model."
 
Steven Fazzari
Washington University. Titles include
"Cash Flow, Investment, and Keynes-Minsky Cycles" (2003).
 
Vincent Ferraro
Mount Holyoke College.  Titles include
 "Global Debt and Third World Development" in World Security: Challenges for a New Century, eds. Michael Klare and Daniel Thomas (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
 
Robert Franzese
University of Michigan.  Titles include
"Electoral and Partisan Cycles in Economic Policies and Outcomes" (2002);
"Comparative Institutional Advantage: The Scope for Divergence within European Economic Integration" (2002);
"Strategic Interactions of Monetary Policymakers and Wage/Price Bargainers: A Review with Implications for the European Common-Currency Area" (2001);
"Partially Independent Central Banks, Politically Responsive Governments, and Inflation" (1999);
"Political Participation, Income Distribution, and Public Transfers in Developed Democracies" (1998);  and
"The Political Economy of Public Debt: An Empirical Examination of the OECD Postwar Experience through the 1990s.”
 
John Freeman
University of Minnesota. Dr. Freeman examines the relationships between democratic institutions and markets.
 
Bruno Frey
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics.  Titles include
"Political Economists are Neither Selfish Nor Indoctrinated" (2000);
"Why Economists Disregard Economic Methodology" (2000);  and
"A Proposal for a Flexible Europe" (2000).
 
Timothy Frye
Ohio State University.  Titles include
"Credible Commitment and Property Rights: Evidence from Russia" (2004);
"State Spending and Globalizations in the Postcommunist World" (2003);  and
"Governing the Banking Sector in Russia" (2003).
 
Jordi Galí
University of Pompeu Fabra. Titles include
"Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union" (October 2005);
"New Evidence on Inflation Persistence and Price Stickiness in the Euro Area: Implications for Macro Modeling" (September 2005);
"Real Wage Rigidities and the New Keynesian Model" (October 2005);
"Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption" (September 2002);  and
"Markups, Gaps, and the Welfare Costs of Economic Fluctuations" (May 2001).
 
Kevin Grier
University of Oklahoma.  Titles include
"Elections, Exchange Rates, and Central Bank Reform in Latin America" (2004);
"The Aymmetric Effects of Uncertainty on Inflation and Output Growth" (2003);
"Presidential Elections and Real GDP Growth in the US" (2000);
"How Smart is my Dummy? Time Series Tests for the Influence of Politics" (2002);
"Real appreciation and Exchange Rate Predictability";
"Conditional Heteroskedasticity and Cross-Sectional Dependence in Panel Data: Monte Carlo Simulations and Examples";
"External Influences on Economic Reform, Or Reform as a Regional Public Good";  and
"On the Real Effects of Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in Mexico."
 
Bishnupriya Gupta
University of Warwick.  Titles include
"The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800" (2003);
"Participation and Enforcement in Collusion: Evidence from the Indian Jute Cartel" (2001);
"Bargaining Conflicts in the International Tea Cartel: Some Evidence from the Inter-war Years" (2001);  and
"Privatization, Yardstick Competition and the Dynamics of Public Sector Employment: Evidence from the Jute Industry in Bangladesh" (2001).
 
Jude Hays
University of Michigan.  Titles include
"Globalization and Capital Taxation in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies" (2003);
"The Electoral Information Hypothesis Revisited" (2002);
"The Effect of Monetary Union on Public Support for European Integration" (2002);
"Globalization in the Study of Comparative and International Political Economy" (2003);  and
"Modeling Spatial Relationships in International and Comparative Political Economy" (2003).
 
Randall Kroszner
University of Chicago. Dr. Kroszner has written in the following areas: International and domestic banking and financial institutions and their regulation; political economy; organization design; corporate governance; law and economics; and monetary economics.
 
Dennis Leech
University of Warwick.  Titles include
"The Utility of the Voting Power Approach" (2003);
"Incentives to Corporate Governance Activism" (2003);
"Power Indices as an Aid to Institutional Design: the Generalized Apportionment Problem" (2003);  and
"The Use of Coleman's Power Indices to Inform the Choice of Voting Rule with Reference to the IMF Governing Body and the EU Council of Ministers" (2002).
 
Phillip Lipscy
Harvard University.  Titles include
"Interests, Institutions, and the Structure of Delegation: Reassessing the Effect of Divided Government on U.S. Trade Policy" (2004).
 
Kathleen McNamara
Princeton University. One paper in the Articles section deals with the delegation of political authority to independent and central banks in Western Europe. Another paper in the Papers section deals with fiscal policy adjustment in the European Union. The link above goes to several book chapters.
 
Roy Meyers
University of Maryland. Varied political economy papers, some of which have a narrow focus on legislative budgeting in Mexico and regulatory budgeting in America.
 
Marcus Miller
University of Warwick.  Titles include
"Moral Hazard and the US Stock Market: Analyzing the Greenspan Put" (2002);
"The End of History and the Stock Market Boom : a cautionary tale of capitalist triumphalism" (2001);
"Creditor panic, asset bubbles and sharks: three view of the Asian crisis" (2000);  and
"Financial Crisis in East Asia: Bank Runs, Asset Bubbles and Antidotes" (1998).
 
Bruce Moon
Lehigh University.  The following articles are available:  "Reconsidering Outward-Oriented Development After the Asian Financial Crisis";  "The Politics of U.S. Export Flows";  "The Diffusion of Democracy";  and "Exports, Outward-oriented Development, and Economic Growth."
 Also, the following book chapters are available: "Ideas and Policies," in Trade Politics: Actors, Issues and Processes, Brian Hocking and Steven McGuire, eds., 1999, Routledge.
"The United States and Globalization," in Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R. D. Underhill, eds., second edition, 1999, Oxford University Press.
 
Jonathan Nagler
New York University. The gist of these papers revolves around economic voting.
Bent Nielsen
University of Oxford.  Titles include
"Money Demand in the Yugoslavian hyperinflation 1991-1994" (2004);
"Two sided analysis of variance with a latent time series" (2004);
"Simulating properties of the likelihood ratio test for a unit root in an explosive second order autoregression" (2004);  and
"Power of tests for unit roots in the presence of a linear trend" (2003).
 
Irfan Nooruddin
Ohio State University.  Titles include
"Creative Destruction: The Political Determinants of Post-Conflict Economic Recovery";
"The Political Economy of Hard Choices";
"The Effective Constituency in Distributive Politics: Geographic Versus Partisan Bases of Representation" (2002);
"Credible Constraints: An Institutional Theory of Growth Rate Volatility";
"Decentralization, Delegation, and Development: The Effect of Federalism and Central Bank Independence on Growth Rate Volatility";
"Domestic Politics, Trade Policy, and Economic Sanctions: A Public Choice Model with Application to United States-Chinese Relations";
"Must See TV? A Non-Random Assignment Model of Membership"; and
"The Deleterious Impact of Television Viewership on Membership in Voluntary Associations: A Cross-National Analysis."
 
Luca Nunziata
University of Padova.  Titles include
"Labour Market Institutions and Wage Differentials" (2004);
"Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study";
"Short Term Contracts Regulations and Dynamic Labour Demand: Theory and Evidence";
"Employment Patterns in OECD Countries";
"Forecasting (and explaining) US Business Cycles" (2004);  and
"Unemployment, Labour Market Institutions and Shocks" (2002).
 
Joseph Pomykala
Towson University. Scroll to the middle of the page to find myriad papers on bankruptcy and to find a book chapter, Financial Deregulation, taken from “Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 107th Congress.”
 
James Raymond
Yale University. All papers deal with programs of the International Monetary Fund and their users.
 
Kevin Roberts
University of Oxford. Titles include
"Does Competition Solve the Hold-up Problem?" (2000);
"Dynamic Voting in Clubs";
"Competition and Hold-Ups" (1999);
"Voting in Organizations and Endogenous Hysteresis";  and
"A Reconsideration of the Optimal Income Tax."
 
Adam Resnick
Western Washington University.  Titles include
"Reversal of Fortunes: Democracy, Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Developing Countries";
"Investors, Turbulence and Transitions: Democratic Transition and Foreign Direct Investment in Nineteen Developing Countries";
"Good Medicine or Snake Oil? Foreign Direct Investment's Effects on Less Developed Countries";
"All Politics is Local: Student Activism and Fair Trade Coffee at Western Washington University";
"Think Globally, Drink Coffee Locally: Fair Trade Coffee and Student Activism";
"Investors and Autocrats: Democratization and Foreign Direct Investment in 55 Less Developed Countries";  and
"No-show at the Race to the Bottom: Post-NAFTA FDI and Environmental Enforcement in Mexico."
 
John Roemer
Yale University. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find various political economy papers.
 
Howard Rosenthal
Princeton University. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Located on this site are papers dealing with political intervention, such as a bailout or moratorium, in the situation of poor farmers borrowing money from rich farmers. Also, papers are available in which income inequality is explored.
Hyun Song Shin
University of Oxford.  Titles include
"Catalytic Finance: When Does It Work?" (2005);
"Marking to Market: Panacea or Pandora's Box?";
"The Analytics of Sovereign Debt Restructuring";
"Beauty Contests and Iterated Expectations in Asset Markets";
"Positive feedback trading under stress: Evidence from the US Treasury securities market" (2003);  and
"Skewness of Earnings and the Believability Hypothesis: How Does the Financial Market Discount Accounting Earnings Disclosures?"
Jeremy Smith
Warwick University.  Titles include
"Occupational earnings: Evidence for the 1993 UK university graduate population from the USSR" (1998).
 
Konstantin Sonin
New Economic School and Center for Economic and Financial Research, Russia. Titles include
"Market Sharing in Procurement" (2003);
"Information Revelation and Efficiency in Auctions" (2002);
"The Variable Value Environment: Auctions and Actions" (2002);
"Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Russian Evidence" (2003);
"Why May the Rich Favor Poor Protection of Property Rights" (2002);
"Passive Creditors" (2002);  and
"Provincial Protectionism" (2003).
 
Sven Steinmo
University of Colorado. Scroll to the middle of the page.  Dr. Steinmo has published online several taxation papers and papers relevant to the economics of social democracy.
 
Michael Tierney
William and Mary College.  Titles include
"States, International Organizations, and Principal Agent Theory" (2004);
"Cooperation or Collusion: Explaining Bilateral and Multilateral Environmental Aid to Developing Countries" (2004);
"Principals and Interests: Common Agency and Multilateral Development Bank Lending" (2004);
"Trends in IR Pedagogy and Scholarship: An Introduction to the Project on Teaching and Research in International Politics (TRIP)" (2004);
"Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide, Engineering Change at the World Bank" (2004);  and
"A Problem of Principals: Common Agency and Social Lending at the Multilateral Development Banks" (2003).
 
Thomas Toatley
University of North Carolina. Dr. Toatley's research deals mostly with the international financial cooperation and conflict among OECD governments.
 
Chris Udry
Yale University. Political Economy papers focusing specifically on Africa.
Jaume Ventura
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Titles include
"The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the US Current Account" (2005);
"A Global View of Economic Growth" (2005);
"Managing Financial Integration" (2005);
"Bubbles and Capital Flows" (2004);
"Some Thoughts on the Role of Large Investors in Currency Crises: A Comment to Corsetti et al." (2001);  and
"Comparative Advantage and the Cross-section of Business Cycles" (2001).
 
Pietro Veronesi
University of Chicago.  Dr. Veronesi’s current works include asset pricing, equilibrium models of stock volatility, information asymmetries in rational expectations equilibrium models, decision theory, and game theory.
 
Rob Wassmer
California State University. Among some of the titles present are "An Economic View of Some Causes of Urban Spatial Segregation and its Benefits and Costs";  "Policy Lessons from California Public School Schools that Achieve Higher than Expected";  "A Regional View of Social Disparities";  "The Influence of Local Fiscal Structure and Growth Control Choices on "Big-Box" Urban Sprawl in the American West";  and  "County Fiscal Stress: Cause and Consequence in California After Proposition 13."
 
Barry Weingast
Stanford University.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  Titles include
"The Theory of Comparative Federalism and The Emergence of Economic Liberalization in Mexico, China, and India."
Ivo Welch
Brown University. Titles include
"The Equity Premium Consensus Forecast Revisited" (2001);
"The Equity Size Puzzle" (1999);
"Who should pay for bankruptcy costs?" (2003);  and
"A Note on Predicting Returns with Financial Ratios" (2003).
 

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