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65: Time-Scale Transformations of Discrete-Time Processes

Oscar Jorda and Massimiliano Marcellino

64: Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?

Peter Lindert

63: The Resource Curse Exorcised: Evidence from a Panel of Countries

Brock Smith

62: Sex Hormones and Choice under Risk

Burkhard Schipper

61: Ziliak and McClosky?s Criticisms of Significance Tests: A Damage Assessment

Thomas Mayer

60: An epistemic characterization of generalized backward induction

Giacomo Bonanno

59: Why The Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch

Peter Lindert

58: Searching for the Causal Structure of a Vector Autoregression

Kevin Hoover and Selva Demiralp

57: Rethinking the Area Approach: Immigrants and the Labor Market in California, 1960-2005

Giovanni Peri

56: Ambiguity and Social Interaction

Burkhard Schipper and David Kelsey

55: The Market Price of Risk and the Equity Premium

Tim W. Cogley and Thomas Sargent

54: Does Head Start Improve Children?s Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Doug Miller and Jens Ludwig

53: The Impact of Driver Cell Phone Use on Accidents

James Prieger and Robert Hahn

52: Menstrual Cycle and Competitive Bidding

Matthew Pearson and Burkhard Schipper

51: Preference for Flexibility and Freedom of Choice in a Savage Framework

Klaus Nehring

50: The Supply Side of the Digital Divide: Is There Equal Availability in the Broadband Internet Access Market?

James Prieger

49: The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany

Giovanni Peri and Dieter Urban

48: The Timing of Product Innovation and Regulatory Delay

James Prieger

47: Unawareness, Beliefs, and Speculative Trade

Burkhard Schipper, Martin Meier and Aviad Heifetz

46: Political Awareness and Microtargeting of Voters in Electoral Competition

Burkhard Schipper and Hee Yeul Woo

45: When is Tit-For-Tat unbeatable?

Burkhard Schipper, Peter Duersch and Jörg Oechssler

44: Unbeatable Imitation

Burkhard Schipper, Peter Duersch and Jörg Oechssler

43: The Visible Hand: Finger Ratio (2D:4D) and Competitive Bidding

Matthew Pearson and Burkhard Schipper

42: Misinterpreting a Failure to Disconfirm as a Confirmation: A Recurrent Misreading of Significance Tests

Thomas Mayer

41: Non-Institutional Market Making Behavior: The Dalian Futures Exchange

Oscar Jorda, Holly Liu and Jeffrey Williams

40: Business Groups and Trade in East Asia: Part 2, Product Variety

Robert Feenstra, Gary G. Hamilton, Tzu-Han Yang and Pierpaolo Battigalli

39: Dynamic Unawareness and Rationalizable Behavior

Burkhard Schipper, Martin Meier and Aviad Heifetz

38: The Intergenerational Effects of Worker Displacement

Ann Stevens, Marianne Page and Philip Oreopoulos

37: Estimation of a Simple Queuing System WithUnits-in-Service and Complete Data

James Prieger

36: What Mean Impacts Miss:Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Hilary Hoynes, Marianne Bitler and Jonah Gelbach

35: Compatibility and Pricing with Indirect Network Effects: Evidence from ATMs

Christopher Knittel and Victor Stango

34: The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling

Ann Stevens, Marianne Page and Philip Oreopoulos

33: A characterization of sequential equilibrium in terms of AGM belief revision

Giacomo Bonanno

32: Why was the Fed so Inflationary in the 1960s and 1970s?

Thomas Mayer

31: Regulation, Innovation, and the introduction of new telecommunications services

James Prieger

30: Bootstrapping the Conditional Moment Test for Parametric Duration Models

James Prieger

29: Estimating the Impact of Currency Unions on Trade Using a Dynamic Gravity Framework

Douglas Campbell

28: Logic and Game Theory

Giacomo Bonanno and Cédric Dégremont

27: Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade

Diego Valderrama and Katheryn Russ

26: Once Beaten, Never Again: Imitation in Two-Player Potential Games

Burkhard Schipper, Peter Duersch and Jörg Oechssler

25: FDI in the Banking Sector

Beatriz de Blas and Katheryn Russ

24: Logic and Game Theory

Giacomo Bonanno and Cédric Dégremont

23: Some Fiscal Implications of Monetary Policy

Kevin Salyer and Harris Dellas

22: A Generalized Parametric Selection Model for Non-Normal Data

James Prieger

21: International Variation in the Size of the Welfare State: A Preference-Based Explanation

John Roemer

20: What You Don?t Know Can?t Help You: Pension Knowledge and Retirement Decision Making

Ann Stevens and Sewin Chan

19: Skills and Talent of Immigrants:A Comparison between the European Union and the United States

Giovanni Peri

18: Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

Hilary Hoynes, Marianne Bitler and Jonah B. Gelbach

17: Biases in Static Oligopoly Models?:Evidence from the California Electricity Market

Christopher Knittel and Dae-Wook Kim

16: Incompatibility, Product Attributes and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from ATMs

Christopher Knittel and Victor Stango

15: Groups and Trade in East Asia: Part 1, Networked Equilibria

Michael Magill, Robert Feenstra, Deng-Shing Huang, Gary G. Hamilton and Kristin Van Gaasback

14: How mindless is standard economics really?

Burkhard Schipper

13: The Dynamics of R&D and Innovation in the Long Run and in the Short Run

Giovanni Peri

12: Do Changes in Asset Prices Denote Changes in Wealth

Thomas Mayer

11: Logic and Game Theory

Giacomo Bonanno and Cédric Dégremont

10: A dynamic epistemic characterization of backward induction without counterfactuals

Giacomo Bonanno

9: Reasoning about strategies and rational play in dynamic games

Giacomo Bonanno

8: Menstrual Cycle and Competitive Bidding

Matthew Pearson and Burkhard Schipper

7: Civic capital and the size distribution of plants: Short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium

Mathias Burker and Gaetano Alfredo Minerva

6: Counterfactuals and the Prisoner?s Dilemma

Giacomo Bonanno

5: The Macroeconomic Loss Function: A Critical Note

Thomas Mayer

4: A Theory of Banks, Bonds, and the Distribution of Firm Size

Diego Valderrama and Katheryn Russ

3: Incentives and Risk Sharing in a Stock Market Equilibrium

Martine Quinzii and Michael Magill

2: TRUE STATE DEPENDENCE IN MONTHLY WELFARE PARTICIPATION:A NONEXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS

Hilary Hoynes, Kenneth Y. Chay and Dean Hyslop

1: Why Do Institutional Plan Sponsors Hire and Fire their Investment Managers?

Christopher Knittel, Jeffrey Heisler, John J. Neumann and Scott Stewart