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Volume 47, issue 2, 2004

The "Arms Race" on American Roads: The Effect of Sport Utility Vehicles and Pickup Trucks on Traffic Safety pp. 333-55

Michelle J White

The Effect of Automobile Insurance and Accident Liability Laws on Traffic Fatalities pp. 357-93

Alma Cohen and Rajeev Dehejia

The Impact of Privatization and Competition in the Telecommunications Sector around the World pp. 395-430

Wei Li and Lixin Xu

Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link pp. 431-52

Steven Levitt

Other People's Taxes: Nonresident Voters and Statewide Limitation of Local Government pp. 453-76

Jacob Vigdor

Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats? pp. 477-513

Rafael Di Tella and Raymond Fisman

Copycat Funds: Information Disclosure Regulation and the Returns to Active Management in the Mutual Fund Industry pp. 515-41

Mary Margaret Frank, James Poterba, Douglas Shackelford and John B Shoven

The Causes of Bargaining Failure: Evidence from Major League Baseball pp. 543-68

Amy Farmer, Paul Pecorino and Victor Stango

The Political Economy of State-Level Administrative Procedure Acts pp. 569-88

de Figueiredo, Rui J P, and Richard G Vanden Bergh

Corporate Governance and the Returns on Investment pp. 589-633

Klaus Gugler, Dennis Mueller and Burcin Yurtoglu

Volume 47, issue 1, 2004

The Response of Criminals and Noncriminals to Fines pp. 1-17

Avner Bar-ilan and Bruce Sacerdote

The Political Economy of Property Exemption Laws pp. 19-43

Richard M Hynes, Anup Malani and Eric A Posner

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights: Are Small Firms Handicapped? pp. 45-74

Jean Lanjouw and Mark Schankerman

Salaries, Turnover, and Performance in the Federal Criminal Justice System pp. 75-92

Richard T Boylan

The Fugitive: Evidence on Public versus Private Law Enforcement from Bail Jumping pp. 93-122

Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok

Research and Development Alliances: Evidence from a Federal Contracts Repository pp. 123-66

Conrad S Ciccotello, Martin J Hornyak and Michael S Piwowar

Regulation and the Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising, or Window Dressing? pp. 167-93

Eric Helland and Michael Sykuta

An Empirical Investigation of the Competitive Effects of Domestic Airline Alliances pp. 195-222

Gustavo E Bamberger, Dennis Carlton and Lynette R Neumann

Abortion Policy and Fertility Outcomes: The Eastern European Experience pp. 223-43

Phillip Levine and Doug Staiger

Retail Gasoline Price Cycles across Spatially Dispersed Gasoline Stations pp. 245-73

Andrew Eckert and Douglas West

Financial Disclosure and Bond Insurance pp. 275-306

Angela K Gore, Kevin Sachs and Charles Trzcinka

On the Incidence and Variety of Low-Price Guarantees pp. 307-32

Maria Arbatskaya, Morten Hviid and Greg Shaffer

Volume 46, issue 2, 2003

Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government pp. 293-340

Gary Becker and Casey Mulligan

Who Owns the Media? pp. 341-81

Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana Nenova and Andrei Shleifer

Firms' Decisions Where to Incorporate pp. 383-425

Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen

Strategic Responses to Regulatory Threat in the Credit Card Market pp. 427-52

Victor Stango

Getting Off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment pp. 453-78

Naci Mocan and R. Gittings

The Fable of the Bees Revisited: Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Honey Program pp. 479-516

Mary K Muth, Randal R Rucker, Walter Thurman and Ching-Ta Chuang

Impact of the Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990 on the Initial Public Offering Market pp. 517-41

Randolph Beatty and Padma Kadiyala

Personal Bankruptcy and the Level of Entrepreneurial Activity pp. 543-67

Wei Fan and Michelle J White

The Determinants of Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering pp. 569-98

Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers

A Simple Model of Pharmaceutical Price Dynamics pp. 599-626

Jayanta Bhattacharya and William Vogt

Ticket Pricing under Demand Uncertainty pp. 627-52

Pascal Courty

Founding-Family Ownership, Corporate Diversification, and Firm Leverage pp. 653-84

Ronald C Anderson and David Reeb

Volume 46, issue 1, 2003

Lethal Elections: Gubernatorial Politics and the Timing of Executions pp. 1-25

Jeffrey D Kubik and John R Moran

Preemptive Habitat Destruction under the Endangered Species Act pp. 27-60

Dean Lueck and Jeffrey A Michael

Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure pp. 61-83

Gerard Pfann and Hans van Kranenburg

Competition in the Interexchange Telecommunication Market pp. 85-101

Clement G Krouse and Jongsur Park

Corporate Environmentalism and Environmental Statutory Permitting pp. 103-29

Christopher S Decker

Drug Testing in the Trucking Industry: The Effect on Highway Safety pp. 131-56

Mireille Jacobson

Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates: Mapping Out the Consequences of the Exclusionary Rule pp. 157-79

Raymond A Atkins and Paul Rubin

Does More Crime Mean More Prisoners? An Instrumental Variables Approach pp. 181-206

Yair Listokin

The Impact of the Minimum Wage If Workers Can Adjust Effort pp. 207-27

Richard A Ippolito

The Origins of the Blue-Sky Laws: A Test of Competing Hypotheses pp. 229-51

Paul G Mahoney

Rent Seeking by Agents of the Firm pp. 253-68

Sanjay Gupta and Charles W Swenson

The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires pp. 269-92

Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Volume 45, issue S2, 2002

The Regulation of Medical Innovation and Pharmaceutical Markets pp. 583-586

Tomas Philipson

Health Insurance and the Growth in Pharmaceutical Expenditures pp. 587-613

Patricia Danzon and Mark V. Pauly

Pharmaceutical Policy Change and the Safety of New Drugs pp. 615-642

Mary Olson

The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between-Patent Competition in the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Industry pp. 643-672

Frank Lichtenberg and Tomas Philipson

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and the Demand for Cholesterol-Reducing Drugs pp. 673-690

John Calfee, Clifford Winston and Randolph Stempski

Deregulating Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Prescription Drugs: Effects on Prescription and Over-the-Counter Product Sales pp. 691-723

Davina C. Ling, Ernst R. Berndt and Margaret Kyle

Volume 45, issue 2, 2002

Entry into Regulated Monopoly Markets: The Development of a Competitive Fringe in the Local Telephone Industry pp. 289-316

Jaison Abel

Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers pp. 317-43

Austan Goolsbee and Pete Klenow

Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes? Evidence from Financial Services Legislation pp. 345-73

Thomas Stratmann

The Effect of the Big Eight Accounting Firm Mergers on the Market for Audit Services pp. 375-99

Mary W Sullivan

Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis from 1915 to 1939 pp. 401-35

Adriana Lleras-Muney

How Do Consumers Motivate Experts? Reputational Incentives in an Auto Repair Market pp. 437-68

Thomas N Hubbard

Insurance Fraud and Optimal Claims Settlement Strategies pp. 469-507

Keith J Crocker and Sharon Tennyson

Police, Prosecutors, Criminals, and Determinate Sentencing: The Truth about Truth-in-Sentencing Laws pp. 509-34

Joanna M Shepherd

Chief Executive Officer Careers in Regulated Environments: Evidence from Electric and Gas Utilities pp. 535-63

Charles J Hadlock, D Scott Lee and Robert Parrino

Title Systems and Land Values pp. 565-82

Thomas Miceli, Henry J Munneke, C F Sirmans and Geoffrey K Turnbull

Volume 45, issue 1, 2002

Inequality and Violent Crime pp. 1-40

Pablo Fajnzylber, Daniel Lederman and Norman Loayza

Sorting, Quotas, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991: Who Hires When It's Hard to Fire? pp. 41-68

Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

The Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions on Reported Violent Crime: Evidence from Los Angeles County pp. 69-90

Jeffrey Grogger

Liability and Organizational Choice pp. 91-125

Richard R W Brooks

Banks and Economic Growth: Implications from Japanese History pp. 127-64

Yoshiro Miwa and John Ramseyer

Political and Economic Determinants of the Likelihood of Privatizing Argentine Public Banks pp. 165-97

George Clarke and Robert Cull

The Effect of State Funeral Regulations on Cremations Rates: Testing for Demand Inducement in Funeral Markets pp. 199-225

David E Harrington and Kathy J Krynski

Managerial Incentives in Nonprofit Organizations: Evidence from Hospitals pp. 227-49

James A Brickley and R Lawrence Van Horn

The Market for New Handguns: An Empirical Investigation pp. 251-65

Douglas C Bice and David D Hemley

A Market-Based Environmental Policy Experiment in Chile pp. 267-87

Juan-Pablo Montero, José Sánchez and Ricardo Katz