ECONOMIC POLICY 52

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The Managing Editors of Economic Policy:

Giuseppe Bertola is Professore Ordinario di Economica Politica, Facolta di Scienze Politiche, Universita di Torino.

Philippe Martin is Professor at the Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne and CERASENPC and a Research Fellow at CEPR.

Paul Seabright is Professor of Economics at Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, a Director of Research at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle and a Research Fellow at CEPR.

The Senior Editors of Economic Policy:

Georges de Menil works at the Delta Ens, France.

Richard Portes lectures in the Department of Economics, London Business School.

Hans-Werner Sinn is based at the Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich.

Editors' Introduction.

1. Are Aid Agencies Improving?: William Easterly.

2. Do Patents Over-compensate Innovators?: Vincenzo Denicoló.

3. Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-entry Growth of Firms: Phillipe Aghion, Thibault Fally and Stefano Scarpetta.

4. Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Oppurtunity? New International Evidence: Giorgio Brunello and Daniele Checchi