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553: Macroeconomic state variables as determinants of asset price covariances

John Ammer

552: The Tequila effect: theory and evidence from Argentina

Martín Uribe

551: The accumulation of human capital: alternative methods and why they matter

Murat Iyigun and Ann Owen

550: Alternatives in human capital accumulation: implications for economic growth

Murat Iyigun and Ann Owen

549: More evidence on the link between bank health and investment in Japan

Michael S. Gibson

548: The syndrome of exchange-rate-based stabilizations and the uncertain duration of currency pegs

Enrique Mendoza and Martín Uribe

547: German unification: what have we learned from multi-country models?

Joseph Gagnon, Paul Masson and Warwick McKibbin

546: Returns to scale in U.S. production: estimates and implications

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

545: Mexico's balance-of-payments crisis: a chronicle of death foretold

Guillermo Calvo and Enrique Mendoza

544: The twin crises: the causes of banking and balance-of-payments problems

Graciela Kaminsky and Carmen Reinhart

543: High real interest rates in the aftermath of disinflation: is it a lack of credibility?

Graciela Kaminsky and Leonardo Leiderman

542: Precautionary portfolio behavior from a life-cycle perspective

Carol C. Bertaut and Michael Haliassos

541: Using options prices to infer PDF'S for asset prices: an application to oil prices during the Gulf crisis

Will Melick and Charles Thomas

540: Monetary policy in the end-game to exchange-rate based stabilizations: the case of Mexico

Steven B. Kamin and John Rogers

539: Comparing the welfare costs and the initial dynamics of alternative temporary stabilization policies

Martín Uribe

538: Long memory in inflation expectations: evidence from international expectations

Joseph Gagnon

537: Using measures of expectations to identify the effects of a monetary policy shock

Allan Brunner

536: Regime switching in the dynamic relationship between the federal funds rate and innovations in nonborrowed reserves

Chan Guk Huh

535: The risks and implications of external financial shocks: lessons from Mexico

Edwin Truman

534: Currency crashes in emerging markets: an empirical treatment

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

533: Regional patterns in the law of one price: the roles of geography vs. currencies

Charles Engel and John Rogers

532: Aggregate productivity and the productivity of aggregates

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

531: A century of trade elasticities for Canada, Japan, and the United States

Jaime R. Marquez

530: Modelling inflation in Australia

Gordon De Brouwer and Neil Ericsson

529: Hyperinflation and stabilization: Cagan revisited

Marcus Miller and Lei Zhang

528: On the inverse of the covariance matrix in portfolio analysis

Guy V. G. Stevens

527: International comparisons of the levels of unit labor costs in manufacturing

Peter Hooper and Elizabeth Vranlovich

526: Uncertainty, instrument choice, and the uniqueness of Nash equilibrium: microeconomic and macroeconomic examples

Dale Henderson and Ning Zhu

525: Targeting inflation in the 1990s: recent challenges

Richard T. Freeman and Jonathan Willis

524: Economic development and intergenerational economic mobility

Murat Iyigun

523: Human capital accumulation, fertility and growth: a re-analysis

Murat Iyigun

522: Excess returns and risk at the long end of the Treasury market: an EGARCH-M approach

Allan Brunner and David P. Simon

521: The monetary transmission mechanism in Mexico

Martina Copelman and Alejandro M. Werner

520: When is monetary policy effective?

John Ammer and Allan Brunner

519: Central bank independence, inflation and growth in transition economies

Prakash Loungani and Nathan Sheets

518: Alternative approaches to real exchange rates and real interest rates: three up and three down

Hali Edison and Will Melick

517: Product market competition and the impact of price uncertainty on investment: some evidence from U.S. manufacturing industries

Vivek Ghosal and Prakash Loungani

516: Block distributed methods for solving multi-country econometric models

Jon Faust and Ralph W. Tryon

515: Supply-side sources of inflation: evidence from OECD countries

Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel

514: Capital flight from the countries in transition: some theory and empirical evidence

Nathan Sheets

513: Bank lending and economic activity in Japan: did \"financial factors\" contribute to the recent downturn?

Allan Brunner and Steven B. Kamin

512: Evidence on nominal wage rigidity from a panel of U.S. manufacturing industries

Vivek Ghosal and Prakash Loungani

511: Do taxes matter for long-run growth?: Harberger's superneutrality conjecture

Patrick K. Asea, Enrique Mendoza and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferreti

510: Options, sunspots, and the creation of uncertainty

David Bowman and Jon Faust

509: Hysteresis in a simple model of currency substitution

Martín Uribe

508: Import prices and the competing goods effect

Phillip Swagel

507: Supply-side economics in a global economy

Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

506: The Lucas critique in practice: theory without measurement

Neil Ericsson and John Irons

505: Real exchange rate targeting and macroeconomic instability

Martín Uribe

504: Inferences from parametric and non-parametric covariance matrix estimation procedures

Wouter J. Den Haan and Andrew Levin