Boston College Working Papers in Economics

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435: What's Behind the Decline in the NAIRU?

Robert Murphy

434: Uncertainty in Executive Compensation and Capital Investment: A Panel Study

Atreya Chakraborty, Mark Kazarosian and Emery Trahan

433: Product Differentiation and the Use of Information Technology: New Evidence from the Trucking Industry

Atreya Chakraborty and Mark Kazarosian

432: Portfolio Allocation of Precautionary Assets: Panel Evidence for the United States

Atreya Chakraborty and Mark Kazarosian

431: Effects of Pensions on Labor Markets and Retirement

Robert Clark and Joseph Quinn

430: Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992

Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger

429: Is the Proportion of College Workers in 'Non-College' Jobs Increasing?

Peter Gottschalk and Michael Hansen

428: Why Do Nations Trade (So Little)?

James Anderson

427: Stepping-stone Jobs: Theory and Evidence

Helen Connolly and Peter Gottschalk

426: Sticky-Price Models of the Business Cycle: Specification and Stability

Peter Ireland

425: Expectations, Credibility, and Time-Consistent Monetary Policy

Peter Ireland

424: Has the Early Retirement Trend Reversed?

Joseph Quinn

423: Reform of Retirement Programs and the Future Well-Being of the Elderly in America

Robert Clark and Joseph Quinn

422: Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Firm Profitability

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and John Barkoulas

421: A Method for Taking Models to the Data

Peter Ireland

420: The Labour Market, Retirement, and Disability

Joseph Quinn

419: Interest Rates, Inflation, and Federal Reserve Policy Since 1980

Peter Ireland

418: Insecurity and the Pattern of Trade: An Empirical Investigation

James Anderson and Douglas Marcouiller

417: Trade Reform Diagnostics with Many Households, Quotas, and Tariffs

James Anderson

416: The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

415: Does the Time-Consistency Problem Explain the Behavior of Inflation in the United States?

Peter Ireland

414: Accounting for the Recent Decline in the NAIRU

Robert Murphy

413: Does Financial Reform Raise or Reduce Savings?

Oriana Bandiera, Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan and Fabio Schiantarelli

412: Have Recent College Graduates Experienced Worsening Wage and Job Distributions?

Peter Gottschalk and Michael Hansen

411: Neutral Property Taxation

Richard Arnott

410: A Test for Conditional Symmetry in Time Series Models

Jushan Bai and Serena Ng

409: Modeling fixed income excess returns

Basma Bekdache and Christopher Baum

408: Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s

Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt

407: On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility

Peter Gottschalk and Enrico Spolaore

406: New Paths to Retirement

Joseph Quinn

405: Exchange Rate Effects on the Volume and Variability of Trade Flows

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Mustafa Caglayan

404: Nonlinear Adjustment to Purchasing Power Parity in the post-Bretton Woods Era

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and John Barkoulas

403: A Semi-Parametric Factor Model of Interest Rates and Tests of the Affine Term Structure

Eric Ghysels and Serena Ng

402: The Boston Longshoremen's Strike of 1931: A Conflict Over the Weight of the Sling Load

Francis McLaughlin

401: The Replacement of the Knights of Labor by the International Longshoremen's Association in the Port of Boston

Francis McLaughlin

400: The Microeconomics of the Retirement Decision in the United States

Joseph Quinn, Kevin Cahill, Richard Burkhauser and Robert Weathers

399: An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Peter Gottschalk, John Fitzgerald and Robert Moffitt

398: Family Income Mobility -- How Much Is There and Has It Changed?

Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger

397: The Impact of Changes in Public Employment on Low Wage Labor Markets

Peter Gottschalk

396: Waves and Persistence in Merger and Acquisition Activity

John Barkoulas, Christopher Baum and Atreya Chakraborty

395: How Important are Intergenerational Transfers of Time? A Macroeconomic Analysis

Emanuela Cardia and Serena Ng

394: An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt

393: Poison Pills, Optimal Contracting and the Market for Corporate Control: Evidence from Fortune 500 Firms

Atreya Chakraborty and Christopher Baum

392: A Welfare-Based Measure of Productivity Growth with Environmental Externalities

Kelly Chaston, Gregory Swinand, Frank Gollop and Richard Arnott

391: Rent Control

Richard Arnott

390: Economic Theory and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

Richard Arnott

389: Congestion Tolling and Urban Spatial Structure

Richard Arnott

388: Urban Spatial Structure

Richard Arnott, Alex Anas and Kenneth Small

387: William S. Vickrey: Contributions to Public Policy

Richard Arnott

386: Household Debt and Aggregate Consumption Expenditures

Robert Murphy