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2009-12: The Stock Market's Valuation of Research and Development and Market Concentration in Horizontal Mergers

Ralph Sonenshine

2009-11: How to Use Decision Theory to Choose Among Mechanisms

James Bono and David Wolpert

2009-10: Game Mining: How to Make Money from those about to Play a Game

James Bono and David Wolpert

2009-08: Patent family data and statistics at the European Patent Office

Walter Park and Peter Hingley

2009-07: The social economics of ethical consumption: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence

Martha Starr

2009-06: Does the WTO Matter? A Non-parametric view

Walter Park

2009-05: Widening the Scope of Standards Through Work-Based Learning

Robert Lerman

2009-04: Foreign Competition and Small-Firm Entry in US Manufacturing

Robert Feinberg

2009-03: Quality competition, Pricing-To-Market and Non-Tariff measures: A Unified Framework For the Analysis of Bilateral Unit Values

Michael Ferrantino, Robert Feinberg and Lauren Deason

2009-02: Do International Shocks Affect Small Wholesalers and Retailers?

Robert Feinberg

2009-01: Overcoming Free Riding: A Cross Country Analysis of Firm Participation in Antidumping Petitions

Kara Reynolds

2008: The Moral Imperative and Social Rationality of Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling

Jon Wisman

200723: Socially Responsible Investment and Pro-social Change

Martha Starr

200722: The Macro/Social Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility: Informational Abundance and Collective Action

Martha Starr

200721: Disagreement, Regional Representation,and Federal Reserve Transcript Publication

Ellen Meade

2007: Central Bank Independence and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness

Christopher Crowe and Ellen Meade

1908: Household Saving, Class Identitiy, and Conspicuous Consumption

Jon Wisman

1907: Heteroskedasticity-Robust Elasticities in Logarithmic and Two-Part Models

Tom Hertz

1808: Coral Games and the Core of Cores

James Bono

1807: School Construction and Intergenerational Mobility in Indonesia

Tom Hertz and Tamara Jayasundera

1708: Adapting Strategic Risk in Corporate Tournaments

James Bono

1707: Changes in the Volatility of Household Income in the United States: A Regional Analysis

Tom Hertz

1608: Consumption, sentiment, and economic news

Martha Starr

1607: A Group-Specific Measure of Intergenerational Persistence

Tom Hertz

1606: Legal Rules and Bankruptcy Rates: Historical Evidence from the States

Mary Hansen and Bradley Hansen

1508: Religion, Social Capital, and Business Bankruptcy in the United States, 1921-1932

Bradley Hansen and Mary Hansen

1507: The Effect of Non-Farm Income on Investment in Bulgarian Family Farming

Tom Hertz

1506: The Value of Adoption

Mary Hansen

1505: Using Subsidies to Promote the Adoption of Children from Foster Care

Mary Hansen

1408: Trade Policy and Antitrust: Do Consumers Matter to Legislators?

Robert Feinberg, Thomas Husted and Kara Reynolds

1407: The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility in Post-Socialist Bulgaria

Tom Hertz, Mieke Meurs and Sibel Selcuk

1406: Tradeoffs in Formulating a Consistent National Policy on Adoption

Mary Hansen and Daniel Pollack

1405: The Role of Path Dependence in the Development of U.S. Bankruptcy Law, 1880-1938

Bradley Hansen and Mary Hansen

1308: Declining Secondary Enrollment in Albania: What Drives Household Decisions?

Mieke Meurs, Juna Miluka and Tom Hertz

1307: The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends

Tom Hertz, Tamara Jayasundera, Patrizio Piraino, Sibel Selcuk, Nicole Smith and Alina Verashchagina

1306: The Distribution of a Federal Entitlement: The Case of Adoption Assistance

Mary Hansen

1208: Does Trade Adjustment Assistance Make a Difference?

Kara Reynolds and John Palatucci

1207: Household Shocks, Vulnerability and Household Finances

Hazel Jean Malapit and Maria Floro

1206: From Agreement to Application. A Cross Country Analysis of Injury Determinants under the WTO Antidumping Agreement

Kara Reynolds

1205: Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse: Teaching the Economic Approach to Empirical Research

Bradley Hansen and Mary Hansen

1108: Understanding the Southern African‘Anomaly’Poverty, Endemic Disease, and HIV

Larry Sawers and Eileen Stillwaggon

1107: Gender and Time Dimensions of Informal Workers’ Well-being: Evidence from Thailand

Anant Pichetpongsa and Maria Floro

1106: Unpublished Statistical Appendix to: Price Competition and the Fallacy of Composition in Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Estimates of Short-Run Growth Effects

Robert Blecker and Arslan Razmi

1105: New Evidence on Race Discrimination under "Separate but Equal"

Bradley Hansen and Mary Hansen

1008: Measuring the Quality of Employment in the Informal Sector

John Messier and Maria Floro

1006: Why do the poor leave the safety net in Mexico? A study of the effects of conditionality on dropouts

Carola Álvarez, Florencia Devoto and Paul Winters

1005: The Economics of Adoption of Children from Foster Care

Mary Hansen and Bradley Hansen

0908: The Gender Dimensions of Social Networks, Unemployment and Underemployment: What Time Use Data Reveal

Maria Floro, Imraan Valodia and Hitomi Komatsu

0907: Determinants of the physical demand for gold: Evidence from panel data

Martha Starr and Ky Tran

0906: Macroeconomic dimensions of social economics: Saving, the stock market, and pension systems

Martha Starr

0807: Price Impacts of Small Firm Entry in US Manufacturing

Robert Feinberg

0806: Bank Runs in Emerging-Market Economies: Evidence from Turkey’s Special Finance Houses

Martha Starr and Rasim Yilmaz

0708: Would a North American monetary union protect Canada and Mexico against the ravages of “Dutch disease”?

Robert Blecker and Mario Seccareccia

0707: Merger Impacts on Investor Expectations: An Event Study for Australia

Brian Diepold, Robert Feinberg, David Round and Jeremy Tustin

0706: The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for US Manufacturing Investment: A Time-Series Analysis

Robert Blecker

0607: The Biggest Losers (and Winners) from U.S. Trade Liberalization

Kara Reynolds

0606: Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition?

Arslan Razmi and Robert Blecker

0508: An Examination of Entry and Competitive Performance in Rural Banking Markets

Robert Feinberg and Kara Reynolds

0507: Why Are So Many WTO Disputes Abandoned?

Kara Reynolds

0506: Macroeconomic and Structural Constraints on Export-Led Growth in Mexico

Robert Blecker

0408: External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico 1979–2006

Robert Blecker

0407: Valuing Substitute Families:Financial Support for Foster and Adoptive Families

Mary Hansen and Paul Jacobs

0406: Friendly Fire? The Impact of US Antidumping Enforcement on US Exporters

Robert Feinberg and Kara Reynolds

0308: Cofactor Infections and HIV Epidemics in Developing Countries: Implications for Treatment

Larry Sawers, Eileen Stillwaggon and Tom Hertz

0307: Using Private Contracts to Create Adoptions from Foster Care

Mary Hansen

0306: Dumping on U.S. Farmers: Are There Biases in Global Antidumping Regulations?

Kara Reynolds

0208: Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk in Low Income Households

Ranjula Bali Swain and Maria Floro

0207: The Fallacy of Composition and Contractionary Devaluations: The Output Impact of Real Exchange Rate Shocks in Developing Countries that Export Manufactures

Robert Blecker and Arslan Razmi

0206: Anticipated versus Realized Benefits: Can Event Studies be Used to Predict the Impact of New Regulations?

Kara Reynolds

0108: Let a Thousand Models Bloom: Forging Alliances with Western Universities and the Making of the New Higher Educational System in the Gulf

John Willoughby

0107: Transracial Adoption of Black Children: An Economic Analysis

Mary Hansen and Daniel Pollack

0106: Demographic Externalities from Poverty Programs in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America

Guy Stecklov, Paul Winters, Jessica Todd and Ferdinando Regalia