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03-08: Sweetening the Pot: How American Sugar Buys Protection

Omer Gokcekus, Justin Knowles and Edward Tower

03-07: Index Fundamentalism Revisited

Kenneth S. Reinker and Edward Tower

03-06: The Outbreak of the Cost Disease: Baumol and Bowen and the Modern Case for the Arts

Gregory Besharov

03-05: An Optimal Shape of Income Tax: Evidence from Zero Income Tax Countries - Paraguay & Uruguay

Arie Beresteanu

03-04: Managing Switching Costs in Multiperiod Procurements with Strategic Buyers

Tracy Lewis and Huseyin Yildirim

03-03: Reconsidering the Experimental Evidence for Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting

Gregory Besharov and Bentley Coffey

03-02: Price Experimentation with Strategic Buyers

Oksana Loginova and Curtis Taylor

03-01: An Efficiency Enhancing Minimum Wage

Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower

02-35: Sequential Procurement of a Long-Term Project

Huseyin Yildirim

02-34: Seeking Lobbying Rents

Gregory Besharov

02-33: RULES FOR AN EMERGENT MARKET: Selling paintings in late seventeenth-century London

Neil De Marchi

02-32: Inefficient Local Regulation of Local Externalities

Gregory Besharov and Ari Zweiman

02-31: Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions

Ryan Gibbs, Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower

02-30: Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking

Peter Arcidiacono, Holger Sieg and Frank Sloan

02-29: Rational Pessimism: Predicting Equity Returns using Tobin's q and Price/Earnings Ratios

Matthew Harney and Edward Tower

02-28: Patents, Innovation and Access to New Pharmaceuticals

Henry Grabowski

02-27: School Choice: Money, Race And Congressional Voting Behavior

Joshua J. Phillips, Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower

02-26: Ability Sorting and the Returns to College Major

Peter Arcidiacono

02-25: Patents and New Product Development in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries

Henry Grabowski

02-24: 'Steeling' House Votes at Low Prices for the Steel Import Quota Bill of 1999

Robert C. Fisher, Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower

02-23: Do Stock Prices and Volatility Jump? Reconciling Evidence from Spot and Option Prices

Bjorn Eraker

02-22: Predicting Equity Returns for 37 Countries: Tweaking the Gordon Formula

Kenneth S. Reinker and Edward Tower

02-21: Returns on R&D for 1990s New Drug Introductions

Henry Grabowski, John Vernon and Joseph DiMasi

02-20: Trade Protectionism

William Kaempfer, Edward Tower and Thomas D. Willett

02-19: A Retrospective View of Hicks' CAPITAL AND TIME: A NEO-AUSTRIAN THEORY

Edwin Burmeister

02-18: The Impact of Jumps in Volatility and Returns

Bjorn Eraker, Michael Johannes and Nicholas Polson

02-17: School Finance, Spatial Income Segregation and the Nature of Communities

Thomas Nechyba

02-16: Micro Effects of Macro Announcements: Real-Time Price Discovery in Foreign Exchange

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Clara Vega

02-15: Prospects for Land Rent Taxes in State and Local Tax Reforms

Thomas Nechyba

02-14: Explaining Variations in Private Equity: A Panel Approach

Lori Leachman, Vinay Kumar and Scott Orleck

02-13: Introducing School Choice into Multi-District Public School Systems

Thomas Nechyba

02-12: Modeling and Forecasting Realized Volatility

Torben G. Anderson, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Paul Labys

02-11: Centralization, Fiscal Federalism and Privte School Attendance

Thomas Nechyba

02-10: Testing Long-horizon Predictive Ability with High Persistence, and the Meese-Rogoff Puzzle

Barbara Rossi

02-09: Simulated Score Methods and Indirect Inference for Continuous-time Models

A. Gallant and George Tauchen

02-08: Confidence Intervals for Half-life Deviations from Purchasing Power Parity

Barbara Rossi

02-07: Nonparametric Analysis of Cost Complementarities in the Telecommunications Industry

Arie Beresteanu

02-06: Efficient Method of Moments

A. Gallant and George Tauchen

02-05: Optimal Tests for Nested Model Selection with Underlying Parameter Instability

Barbara Rossi

02-04: Getting the Ball Rolling: Voluntary Contributions to a Long-Term Public Project

Huseyin Yildirim

02-03: Alternative Models for Stock Price Dynamic

Mikhail Chernov, A. Gallant, Eric Ghysels and George Tauchen

02-02: Private Demands and Demands for Privacy: Dynamic Pricing and the Market for Customer Information

Curtis Taylor

02-01: Evaluating A Buy and Hold Strategy for the S&P 500 Index

Edward Tower and Omer Gokcekus

01-09: Housing and the Business Cycle

Morris Davis and Jonathan Heathcote

01-08: Second-Best Considerations in Correcting Cognitive Biases

Gregory Besharov

01-07: Factor Taxation with Heterogeneous Agents

David Domeij and Jonathan Heathcote

01-06: On the Endogeneity and Robustness of Cournot-Nash and Stackelberg Equilibria: Games of Accumulation

Richard Romano and Huseyin Yildirim

01-05: Financial Globalization and Real Regionalization

Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri

01-04: Multicointegration, Sustainability of Fiscal Practices and the Role of Fiscal Institutions

Lori L. Leachman

01-03: Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Incomplete Markets

Jonathan Heathcote