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11373: Productivity, Efficiency, Scale Economies and Technical Change: A New Decomposition Analysis

Jiro Nemoto and Mika Goto

11372: The Microeconomic Evidence on Capital Controls: No Free Lunch

Kristin Forbes

11371: Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy

Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna and Marcelo Olarreaga

11370: What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions

Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

11369: Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility: Singapore's Experience

Basant K. Kapur

11368: A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups

Heitor Almeida and Daniel Wolfenzon

11367: Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles

Harrison Hong, Jose Alexandre Scheinkman and Wei Xiong

11366: International Reserves: Precautionary versus Mercantilist Views, Theory and Evidence

Joshua Aizenman and Jaewoo Lee

11365: The International Exposure of U.S. Banks

Linda S. Goldberg

11364: Eat or Be Eaten: A Theory of Mergers and Merger Waves

Gary Gorton, Matthias Kahl and Richard Rosen

11363: Bank Credit Cycles

Gary Gorton and Ping He

11362: Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia

Jianping Mei, Jose Alexandre Scheinkman and Wei Xiong

11361: Optimism and Economic Choice

Manju Puri and David T. Robinson

11360: The Burden of Knowledge and the 'Death of the Renaissance Man': Is Innovation Getting Harder?

Benjamin F. Jones

11359: Age and Great Invention

Benjamin F. Jones

11358: A Proposed Method for Monitoring U.S. Population Health: Linking Symptoms, Impairments, and Health Ratings

Susan T. Stewart, Rebecca M. Woodward, Allison B. Rosen and David M. Cutler

11357: Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets

Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

11356: Contracts and the Division of Labor

Daron Acemoglu, Pol Antras and Elhanan Helpman

11355: The Opium Wars, Opium Legalization, and Opium Consumption in China

Jeffrey A Miron and Chris Feige

11354: The Sources of the Productivity Rebound and the Manufacturing Employment Puzzle

William D. Nordhaus

11353: International Borrowing and Macroeconomic Performance in Argentina

Kathryn Mary Elizabeth Dominguez and Linda L. Tesar

11352: Studying Texts: A Gemara of the Israeli Economy

Michael W. Klein

11351: Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston

Charles W. Calomiris and Thanavut Pornrojnangkool

11350: Venture Capital as Human Resource Management

Antonio Geldson de Carvalho, Charles W. Calomiris and João Amaro de Matos

11349: Volatility and Growth: Credit Constraints and Productivity-Enhancing Investment

Philippe Aghion, George-Marios Angeletos, Abhijit Banerjee and Kalina Manova

11348: The Determinants of Faculty Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities?

Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding and Toby Stuart

11347: School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices: The Impacts of school Desegregation

Thomas J. Kane, Doug Staiger and Stephanie K. Riegg

11346: What Remains from the Volcker Experiment?

Benjamin M. Friedman

11345: Adjustment in Property Space Markets: Estimates from the Stockholm Office Market

Peter Englund, Ake Gunnelin, Patric H. Hendershott and Bo Soderberg

11344: The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

O'Rourke, Kevin H.

11343: Gender, Body Mass and Economic Status

Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber

11342: The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns

Scott Adams and David Neumark

11341: The Simple Geometry of Transmission and Stabilization in Closed and Open Economies

Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo A. Pesenti

11340: New-Keynesian Macroeconomics and the Term Structure

Geert Bekaert, Seonghoon Cho and Antonio Moreno

11339: Trade Responses to Geographic Frictions: A Decomposition Using Micro-Data

Russell Hillberry and David L. Hummels

11338: The Wage Curve Reloaded

David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald

11337: Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout

Pinka Chatterji and Jeffrey S DeSimone

11336: Sterling's Past, Dollar's Future: Historical Perspectives on Reserve Currency Competition

Barry Julian Eichengreen

11335: Is China's FDI Coming at the Expense of Other Countries?

Barry Julian Eichengreen and Hui Tong

11334: An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Roland Gerhard Fryer and Paul Torelli

11333: Banker Fees and Acquisition Premia for Targets in Cash Tender Offers: Challenges to the Popular Wisdom on Banker Conflicts

Charles W. Calomiris and Donna M. Hitscherich

11332: Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

Jonathan Gruber and Daniel M. Hungerman

11331: Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy V. Masterov

11330: The Role of Collateralized Household Debt in Macroeconomic Stabilization

Jeffrey R. Campbell and Zvi Hercowitz

11329: Evidence on Rationality in Commercial Property Markets: An Interpretation and Critique

Patric H. Hendershott, Robert J. Hendershott and Bryan D. MacGregor

11328: Early Teen Marriage and Future Poverty

Gordon B. Dahl

11327: Forsaking All Others? The Effects of "Gay Marriage" on Risky Sex

Thomas Dee

11326: The Value Spread as a Predictor of Returns

Naiping Lu and Lu Zhang

11325: Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared Students in Higher Education: Does College Remediation Work?

Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long

11324: The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the U.S. Since 1850

Joseph P. Ferrie

11323: Expected Returns, Yield Spreads, and Asset Pricing Tests

Murillo Campello, Long Chen and Lu Zhang

11322: Anomalies

Lu Zhang

11321: Patents, Price Controls, and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry

Jean O. Lanjouw

11320: Sibling Similarity and Difference in Socioeconomic Status: Life Course and Family Resource Effects

Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber

11319: Volatility in an Era of Reduced Uncertainty: Lessons from Pax Britannica

William O. Brown, Richard Burdekin and Marc Weidenmier

11318: Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine

Roland Gerhard Fryer, Paul Scott Heaton, Steven Levitt and Kevin M. Murphy

11317: Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation

Matias Iaryczower, Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi

11316: The Determinants of the Willingness to be an Organ Donor

Naci H. Mocan and Erdal Tekin

11315: Employee Cost-Sharing and the Welfare Effects of Flexible Spending Accounts

William Jack, Arik Levinson and Sjamsu Rahardja

11314: Has US Monetary Policy Changed? Evidence from Drifting Coefficients and Real-Time Data

Jean Boivin

11313: Measuring and Interpreting Expectations of Equity Returns

Jeff Dominitz and Charles F. Manski

11312: Real-Time Price Discovery in Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets

Torben G. Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis X. Diebold and Clara Vega

11311: The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Taxes

Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel

11310: Rare Events and the Equity Premium

Robert J. Barro

11309: Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election

David E. Card and Enrico Moretti

11308: The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'

Angus S. Deaton

11307: Measuring the Implications of Sales and Consumer Inventory Behavior

Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo

11306: The Chinese Approach to Capital Inflows: Patterns and Possible Explanations

Eswar Prasad and Shang-Jin Wei

11305: Crises in Emerging Market Economies: A Global Perspective

Guillermo A. Calvo

11304: Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo and Heather L. Bednarek

11303: The Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

Jay Bhattacharya and M. Kate Bundorf

11302: Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility

Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber

11301: Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Ariell Reshef, Bent E. Sorensen and Oved Yosha

11300: The Life-Cycle Personal Accounts Proposal for Social Security: A Review

Robert J. Shiller

11299: A Review of the Empirical Literature on FDI Determinants

Bruce A. Blonigen

11298: From the Webbs to the Web: The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes

Richard B. Freeman

11297: The Time-Series Properties of Aggregate Consumption: Implications for the Costs of Fluctuation

Ricardo Reis

11296: A Global View of Economic Growth

Jaume Ventura

11295: Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

David M. Cutler, Edward Ludwig Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor

11294: Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Securities?

Armando Gomes and Gordon M. Phillips

11293: A Quantitative Model of Sudden Stops and External Liquidity Management

Ricardo J. Caballero and Stavros Panageas

11292: Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements

Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier

11291: Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability

Mark A. Carlson and Kris James Mitchener

11290: Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications, Introduction and Summary

Jonathan Gruber and David Wise

11289: My Policies or Yours: Does OECD Support for Agriculture Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?

Margaret McMillan, Alix Peterson Zwane and Nava Ashraf

11288: Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsäcker and Heidi L. Williams

11287: Lucky Stores, Gambling, and Addiction: Empirical Evidence from State Lottery Sales

Jonathan Guryan and Melissa Schettini Kearney

11286: Labour Market Institutions Without Blinders: The Debate over Flexibility and Labour Market Performance

Richard B. Freeman

11285: Understanding and Comparing Factor-Based Forecasts

Jean Boivin and Serena Ng

11284: Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention

Steven Shavell

11283: Conditional Policies in General Equilibrium

Kala Krishna

11282: Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music

Marie Connolly and Alan B. Krueger

11281: The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

George Borjas and Lawrence F. Katz

11280: Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches

Mitchell Petersen

11279: The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

Gordon B. Dahl and Lance Lochner

11278: Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?

Alberto Alesina, Edward Ludwig Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

11277: Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and their Peers

David Figlio

11276: Taylor Rules, McCallum Rules and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Michael F. Gallmeyer, Burton Hollifield and Stanley E. Zin

11275: Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States

Daron Acemoglu

11274: On the Renminbi: The Choice between Adjustment under a Fixed Exchange Rate and Adjustment under a Flexible Rate

Jeffrey Alexander Frankel