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2011: A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Clean Energy Package

Joseph Aldy

2011: The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

Joseph Aldy and William Pizer

2011: R&D Costs and Productivity in Biopharmaceuticals

F. M. Scherer

2011: Addressing Catastrophic Risks: Disparate Anatomies Require Tailored Therapies

W Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: Shunning Uncertainty: The Neglect of Learning Opportunities

Stefan Trautmann and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: Mergers and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Market

William S. Comanor and F. M. Scherer

2011: The Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene (DRD4) and Self-Reported Risk Taking in the Economic Domain

Anna Dreber, David G. Rand, Nils Wernerfelt, Justin R. Garcia, J. Koji Lum and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins

2011: The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

Amy Finkelstein, et al.

2011: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Understanding Human Security

Ronald F. Inglehart and Pippa Norris

2011: Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory and Experience

Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins

2011: Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development during the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Joseph Aldy

2011: Civil Society, Public Action and Accountability in Africa

Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Michael Walton

2011: Making Democratic-Governance Work: The Consequences for Prosperity

Pippa Norris

2011: Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna

2011: The Future of Economic Convergence

Dani Rodrik

2011: Will Electric Cars Transform the U.S. Market?

Henry Lee and Grant Lovellette

2011: Iraqi Politics and Implications for Oil and Energy

Meghan O'Sullivan

2011: International Affairs and the Public Sphere

Stephen M. Walt

2011: Access Pricing, Competition, and Incentives to Migrate from "Old" to "New" Technology

Marc Bourreau, Carlo Cambini and Pinar Dogan

2011: The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns

Christopher Avery, Judith Chevalier and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: A Comparison of Product Price Targeting and Other Monetary Anchor Options, for Commodity Exporters in Latin America

Jeffrey Frankel

2011: The Behavior of Savings and Asset Prices When Preferences and Beliefs Are Heterogeneous

Ngoc-Khanh Tran and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: Deterring and Compensating Oil Spill Catastrophes: The Need for Strict and Two-Tier Liability

W Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis

Jeffrey Frankel and George Saravelos

2011: The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

2011: Parallel R&D Paths Revisited

F. M. Scherer

2011: Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does It Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps?

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo

2011: "The People Want the Fall of the Regime": Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy

Filipe Campante and Davin Chor

2011: Bank Credit and Business Networks

Asim Khwaja, Atif Mian and Abid Qamar

2011: Variable Temptations and Black Market Reputations

Christina Aperjis, Yali Miao and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: Why It Worked: Critical Success Factors of a Financial Reform Project in Africa

Stephen Peterson

2011: Politically Feasible Emission Target Formulas to Attain 460 ppm CO[subscript 2] Concentrations

Jeffrey Frankel and Valentina Bosetti

2011: How Can Commodity Exporters Make Fiscal and Monetary Policy Less Procyclical?

Jeffrey Frankel

2011: A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries

Jeffrey Frankel

2011: Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

2011: A Solution to Overoptimistic Forecasts and Fiscal Procyclicality: The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile

Jeffrey Frankel

2011: Are There Managerial Practices Associated with Service Delivery Collaboration Success?: Evidence from British Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships

Steven Kelman, Sounman Hong and Irwin Turbitt

2011: Red, Blue, and the Flu: Media Self-Selection and Partisan Gaps in Swine Flu Vaccinations

Matthew A. Baum

2011: The Value of Terroir: Hedonic Estimation of Vineyard Sale Prices

Robin Cross, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert Stavins

2011: Standard Oil as a Technological Innovator

F. M. Scherer

2011: The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

2011: The Asset Cost of Poor Health

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

2011: The Methodology of Normative Policy Analysis

Christopher Robert and Richard Zeckhauser

2011: Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: A Survey

Jeffrey Frankel

2011: AGOA Rules: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions

Lawrence Edwards and Robert Lawrence

2011: Global Justice

Mathias Risse

2011: Reforming Public Financial Management in Africa

Stephen Peterson

2010: Size of RJVs and Degree of Cooperation in Product Development

Marc Bourreau, Pinar Dogan and Matthieu Manant

2010: Rethinking the Millenium Development Goals for Africa

Stephen Peterson

2010: American Indian Self-Determination: The Political Economy of a Policy That Works

Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt

2010: Country Diversification, Product Ubiquity, and Economic Divergence

Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo

2010: How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates

Robert Lawrence

2010: The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled after 100 Years

Robert Stavins

2010: The Methodology of Positive Policy Analysis

Christopher Robert and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: The Regulation of Consumer Financial Products: An Introductory Essay with Four Case Studies

John Campbell, Howell E. Jackson, Brigitte Madrian and Peter Tufano

2010: Pricing and Reimbursement in U.S. Pharmaceutical Markets

Ernst R. Berndt and Joseph Newhouse

2010: Determinants of Agricultural and Mineral Commodity Prices

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

2010: Are Bilateral Remittances Countercylical?

Jeffrey Frankel

2010: Mauritius: African Success Story

Jeffrey Frankel

2010: Toward a General Theory of Boundary Work: Insights from the CGIAR's Natural Resource Management Programs

William C. Clark, et al.

2010: Dopamine and Risk Choices in Different Domains: Findings among Serious Tournament Bridge Players

Anna Dreber, David G. Rand, Nils Wernerfelt, Justin R. Garcia, J. Koji Lum and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: A New Era for Justice Sector Reform in Haiti

Christopher Stone

2010: "Schooling Can't Buy Me Love": Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo

2010: The Elasticity of Trust: How to Promote Trust in the Arab Middle East and the United States

Iris Bohnet, Benedikt Herrmann, Mohamad Al-Ississ, Andrea Robbett, Khalid Al-Yahia and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture

Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert Stavins

2010: Abuse of Dominance by High-Technology Enterprises: A Comparison of U.S. and E.C. Approaches

F. M. Scherer

2010: Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert Stavins

2010: Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Gita Khun-Jush and Lant Pritchett

2010: Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability

Merilee Grindle

2010: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Career Civil Service Systems in Latin America

Merilee Grindle

2010: Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World

Merilee Grindle

2010: Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea

Merilee Grindle

2010: Cultural Explanations of Electoral Reform: A Policy Cycle Model

Pippa Norris

2010: Disgust Promotes Disposal: Souring the Status Quo

Seunghee Han, Jennifer S. Lerner and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: Consumer Response to Cigarette Excise Tax Changes

Lesley Chiou and Erich Muehlegger

2010: Building Social Capital through Microfinance

Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica M. Field and Rohini Pande

2010: How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa?

Matt Andrews

2010: The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

John Horton, David G. Rand and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: Causes of the Financial Crisis: Many Responsible Parties

Richard Zeckhauser

2010: Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-Five Mortality Rates Are an Example

Matt Andrews, Roger Hay and Jerrett Myers

2010: Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions

Justin Marion and Erich Muehlegger

2010: Consumer Learning and Hybrid Vehicle Adoption

Garth Heutel and Erich Muehlegger

2010: Dopamine and Risk Preferences in Different Domains

Anna Dreber, David G. Rand, Justin R. Garcia, Nils Wernerfelt, J. Koji Lum and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: A Perplexed Economist Confronts 'Too Big to Fail'

F. M. Scherer

2010: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China

Hai Fang, Karen Eggleston, John Rizzo and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Robert Hahn and Robert Stavins

2010: Development as Leadership-Led Change--A Report for the Global Leadership Initiative and the World Bank Institute (WBI)

Matt Andrews, Jesse McConnell and Alison Wescott

2010: Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes

Carolyn Kousky, Olga Rostapshova, Michael Toman and Richard Zeckhauser

2010: Level of Access and Competition in Broadband Markets

Marc Bourreau and Pinar Dogan

2010: The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey

Jeffrey Frankel

2010: Reflections on the Jesuit Mission to China

Kenneth Winston and Mary Jo Bane

2010: Estimation of De Facto Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate Regimes

Jeffrey Frankel and Danxia Xie

2010: Media and Polarization

Filipe Campante and Daniel Hojman

2010: The Dynamics of Capitalism

F. M. Scherer