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WP2006-018: Social Norms, Demographic Shocks, and Dowries in Florence, 1250-1450

Maristella Botticini

WP2006-017: A Note on Financial Frictions and Risky Corporate Debt in Relation to Cooley and Quadrini (2001)

Doriana Ruffino and Jonathan Treussard

WP2006-016: An Analytical Evaluation of the Log-periodogram Estimate in the Presence of Level Shifts and its Implications for Stock Returns Volatility*

Pierre Perron and Zhongjun Qu

WP2006-015: Moonlighting: Public Service and Private Practice

Gary Biglaiser and Ching-to Ma

WP2006-014: Optimal Mechanism for Selling Substitutes

Gregory Pavlov

WP2006-012: Estimating Deterministic Trends with an Integrated or Stationary Noise Component

Pierre Perron and Tomoyoshi Yabu

WP2006-011: A Modified Information Criterion for Cointegration Tests based on a VAR Approximation

Zhongjun Qu and Pierre Perron

WP2006-010: A Simple Modification to Improve the Finite Sample Properties of Ng and Perron’s Unit Root Tests

Pierre Perron and Zhongjun Qu

WP2006-009: The Marginal Worker and The Aggregate Elasticity of Labor Supply

Francois Gourio and Pierre-Alexandre Noual

WP2006-008: Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

Kevin Lang and Michael Manove

WP2006-007: Network Size and Network Capture

Gerard Llobet and Michael Manove

WP2006-006: Asymmetric Information from Physician Agency: Optimal Payment and Healthcare Quantity

Philippe Choné and Ching-to Ma

WP2006-005: Firms’ Heterogeneous Sensitivities to the Business Cycle, and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns

Francois Gourio

WP2006-003: Switching Costs in Infinitely Repeated Games1

Barton Lipman and Ruqu Wang

WP2006-002: An Empirical Analysis of Payment Card Usage

Marc Rysman

WP2006-001: Predictability and Predictiveness in Health Care Spending

Randall Ellis and Thomas McGuire

WP2005-44: An Alternative Trend-Cycle Decomposition using a State Space Model with Mixtures of Normals: Specifications and Applications to International Data

Tatsuma Wada and Pierre Perron

WP2005-43: An Alternative Trend-Cycle Decomposition using a State Space Model with Mixtures of Normals: Specifications and Applications to International Data

Tatsuma Wada and Pierre Perron

WP2005-38: Estimation of Structural Parameters and Marginal Effects in Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

Ivan Fernandez-Val

WP2005-15: Temptation, Welfare and Revealed Preference

Jawwad Noor

WP2005-049: NON-BAYESIAN UPDATING: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Larry Epstein, Jawwad Noor and Alvaro Sandroni

WP2005-047: A Non-local Perspective on the Power Properties of the CUSUM and CUSUM of Squares Tests for Structural Change

Ai Deng and Pierre Perron

WP2005-046: The Limit Distribution of the CUSUM of Square Test Under Genreal MIxing Conditions*

Ai Deng and Pierre Perron

WP2005-045: Skill-biased Technology Adoption: Evidence for the Chilean manufacturing sector

Olga Fuentes and Simon Gilchrist

WP2005-042: Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space: Corrigendum

Eddie Eckel, Barton Lipman, Aldo Rustichini and Todd Sarver

WP2005-041: Bias Correction in Panel Data Models with Individual Specific Parameters

Ivan Fernandez-Val

WP2005-040: Investing in Foreign Currency is like Betting on your Intertemporal Marginal Rate of Substitution

Hanno Lustig and Adrien Verdelhan

WP2005-039: Choice and Normative Preference

Jawwad Noor

WP2005-037: Estimating Deterministric Trends with an Integrated or Stationary Noise Component

Pierre Perron and Tomoyoshi Yabu

WP2005-036: Health Insurance, Expectations, and Job Turnover

Randall Ellis and Ching-to Ma

WP2005-035: BANKRUPTCY LAW, BONDED LABOR AND INEQUALITY

Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal and Dilip Mookherjee

WP2005-034: Decentralization, Hierarchies and Incentives: A Mechanism Design Perspective

Dilip Mookherjee

WP2005-033: Life-Cycle Consumption Plans and Portfolio Policies in a Heath-Jarrow-Morton Economy

Jonathan Treussard

WP2005-032: A Habit-Based Explanation of the Exchange Rate Risk Premium

Adrien Verdelhan

WP2005-031: Let’s Take a Break: Trends and Cycles in US Real GDP?

Pierre Perron and Tatsuma Wada

WP2005-030: A Comparison of Alternative Asymptotic Frameworks to Analyze a Structural Change in a Linear Time Trend

Ai Deng and Pierre Perron

WP2005-029: On the Validity of Risk Measures over Time: Value-at-Risk, Conditional Tail Expectations and the Bodie-Merton-Perold Put

Jonathan Treussard

WP2005-028: New Directions in Development Economics: Theory or Empirics? - Is There Too Little Theory in Development Economics?

Dilip Mookherjee

WP2005-027: Complementarities in Information Acquisition with Short-Term Trades

Christophe Chamley

WP2005-026: Testing for Shifts in Trend with an Integrated or Stationary Noise Component

Pierre Perron and Tomoyoshi Yabu

WP2005-025: NON-BAYESIAN UPDATING: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Larry Epstein, Jawwad Noor and Alvaro Sandroni

WP2005-024: Bias Corrected Instrumental Variables Estimation for Dynamic Panel Models with Fixed E¤ects

Jinyong Hahn, Jerry Hausman and Guido Kuersteiner

WP2005-023: Decentralization, Corruption And Government Accountability: An Overview

Dilip Mookherjee and Pranab Bardhan

WP2005-022: Occupational Diversity and Endogenous Inequality

Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray

WP2005-021: Switching Costs in Infinitely Repeated Games

Barton Lipman and Ruqu Wang

WP2005-020: Where do you run after you run for cover? The impact on premium changes on the characteristics of the privately insured in Australia

Randall Ellis and Elizabeth Savage

WP2005-019: THE CROSS-SECTION OF FOREIGN CURRENCY RISK PREMIA AND CONSUMPTION GROWTH RISK

Adrien Verdelhan and Hanno Lustig

WP2005-018: From Farmers to Merchants:A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

WP2005-017: Dealing with Structural Breaks

Pierre Perron

WP2005-014: Commitment and Self-Control

Jawwad Noor

WP2005-013: Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations

Claudia Olivetti and Stefania Albanesi

WP2005-012: Estimating and testing structural changes in multivariate regressions

Zhongjun Qu and Pierre Perron

WP2005-011: Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage

Kevin Lang and Hong Kang

WP2005-010: Difference in Difference Meets Generalized Least Squares: Higher Order Properties of Hypotheses Tests

Jerry Hausman and Guido Kuersteiner

WP2005-009: Finite Order Implications of Common Priors in Infinite Models

Barton Lipman

WP2005-008: Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

WP2005-007: Option Exercise with Temptation

Jianjun Miao

WP2005-006: Asymmetric Information from Physician Agency:Optimal Payment and Healthcare Quantity

Philippe Choné and Ching-to Ma

WP2005-005: Temptation–Driven Preferences

Eddie Dekel, Barton Lipman and Aldo Rustichini

WP2005-004: An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation

Rasmus Lentz and Dale Mortensen

WP2005-003: Numerical Solution of Dynamic Non-Optimal Economies

Jianjun Miao and Manuel Santos

WP2005-002: Operating Leverage,Stock Market Cyclicality,and the Cross-Section of Returns

Francois Gourio

WP2005-001: A Genetic Algorithm for the Structural Estimation of Games with Multiple Equilibria

Victor Aguirregabiria and Pedro Mira