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909: What Makes a Good Economy? An Analysis of Survey Data

Darren Grant

908: Does the Relationship Between Mortality and the Business Cycle Vary by the Level of Economic Development? Evidence from Mexico

Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast

907: Another Consequence of the Economic Crisis: A Decrease in Migrants’ Remittances

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

906: Beer in Good Times and Bad: A U.S. State-Level Analysis of Economic Conditions and Alcohol Consumption

Donald Freeman

905: Are Remittances Manna From Heaven? A Look at the Business Cycle Properties of Remittances

Carlos Vargas-Silva

904: Introduction to the World of Exchange Rates

Carlos Vargas-Silva

903: Crime and Remittance Transfers

Carlos Vargas-Silva

902: Are Recessions Good for Everyone's Health? The Association Between Mortality and the Business Cycle by Race in the U.S

Matías Fontenla, Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast

901: The Simple Economics of Thresholds: Grades as Incentives

Darren Grant and William Green

807: Macroeconomic Changes and Mortality in Mexico

Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast

806: Do Profits Influence the Quality of Care Provided by Medicaid MCOs?

Troy Quast and Elizabeth Shenkman

805: Controlling Pollution with Fixed Inspection Capacity

Lirong Liu

804: Country Risk Analysis: A Survey of the Quantitative Methods

Hiranya Nath

803: Do regions matter for the behavior of city relative prices in the U. S.?

Viera Chmelarova and Hiranya Nath

802: A New State-Level Panel of Annual Inequality Measures Over the Period 1916 – 2005

Mark W. Frank

801: Physician Financial Incentives and Cesarean Delivery: New Conclusions from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project

Darren Grant

709: Elemental Tests of the Traditional Rational Voting Model

Darren Grant and Michael Toma

708: Dead on Arrival: Zero Tolerance Laws Don’t Work

Darren Grant

707: Optimal Drunk Driving Penalty Structure

Darren Grant

706: Multiproduct Pricing in Major League Baseball: A Principal Components Analysis

Darren Grant and Craig A. Depken

705: Monetary policy and the U.S. housing market: A VAR analysis imposing sign restrictions

Carlos Vargas-Silva

704: The Tale of Three Amigos: Remittances, Exchange Rates and Money Demand in Mexico

Carlos Vargas-Silva

703: Unbiased Estimation of the Half-Life to Price Index Convergence among US Cities

Hiranya Nath and Jayanta Sarkar

702: Common Volatility across Latin American Foreign Exchange Markets

Isabel Ruiz

701: Exchange Rates and U.S. Direct Investment into Latin America

Isabel Ruiz and Susan Pozo

606: Media Substitution in Advertising: A Spirited Case Study

Mark W. Frank

605: Trade, Growth and Wage Inequality in Bangladesh

Hiranya Nath and Khawaja Saeed Mamun

604: Sectoral Price Changes and Output Growth: Supply and Demand in General Equilibrium

Nathan Balke and Hiranya Nath

603: Do Elected Public Utility Commissioners Behave More Politically than Appointed Ones?

Troy Quast

602: Does the Form of Physician Compensation Affect the Quality of Care in Medicaid HMOS?

Troy Quast, David Sappington and Elizabeth Shenkman

601: Are Real GDP Levels Trend, Difference, or Regime-Wise Trend Stationary? Evidence from Panel Data Tests Incorporating Structural Change

Natalie Hegwood and David Papell

506: The “Resource Curse” and Regional U.S. Development

Donald Freeman

505: Drunk Driving Legislation and Traffic Fatalities: What Works and What Doesn’t?

Donald Freeman

504: Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies

Hiranya Nath

503: Income Inequality and Economic Growth in the U.S.:A Panel Cointegration Approach

Mark W. Frank

502: Simulation of FOMC Meeting: Learning About Monetary Policy by Doing

Hiranya Nath

501: Foreign Direct Investment and Inequality in Productivity across Countries

Gouranga Das, Hiranya Nath and Halis Murat Yildiz

302: Poverty in Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.: Causes and Consequences

Donald Freeman and Vijay Mathur

301: Inequality and Economic Growth Over the Business Cycle: Evidence From U.S. State-Level Data

Mark W. Frank and Donald Freeman