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153: How sticky are prices? an analysis of the services sector

John Roberts

152: Is inflation sticky?

John Roberts

151: A note on the sustainability of fiscal policy

Darrel Cohen

150: Sectoral shocks, vacancies, and aggregate compensation determination

Maria Ward Otoo

149: Turnover as a measure of demand for existing homes

John C. Allen and James A. Berkovec

148: Fiscal rules and monetary policy

Darrel Cohen and David E. Lebow

147: New evidence on the retirement and depreciation of machine tools

Stephen Oliner

146: Is there a broad credit channel for monetary policy?

Stephen Oliner and Glenn Rudebusch

145: How important is precautionary saving?

Christopher Carroll and Andrew Samwick

144: Employment effects of minimum and subminimum wages: reply to Card, Katz, and Krueger

David Neumark and William Wascher

143: Habit formation in consumer preferences: evidence from panel data

Karen E. Dynan

142: Who pays broad-based energy taxes? Computing lifetime and regional incidence

Nicholas Bull, Kevin A. Hassett and Gilbert Metcalf

141: New and old models of business investment: a comparison of forecasting performance

Stephen Oliner, Glenn Rudebusch and Daniel E. Sichel

140: Saving and growth: a reinterpretation

Christopher Carroll and David Weil

139: The hiring of new labor by expanding industries

Bruce Fallick

138: Technical appendix to When All the Optimal Dynamic Taxes Are Zero (no. 137)

Nicholas Bull

137: When all the optimal dynamic taxes are zero

Nicholas Bull

136: Monetary policy at near-zero interest rates

David E. Lebow

135: How prudent are consumers?

Karen E. Dynan

134: The rate of time preference and shocks to wealth: evidence from panel data

Karen E. Dynan

133: Minimum wage effects on employment and school enrollment: evidence from policy variation in schooling quality and compulsory schooling laws

David Neumark and William Wascher

132: State and local fiscal indicators

Andrea L. Kusko and Laura S. Rubin

131: The accuracy of home owners' estimates of house value

John C. Allen and John B. Ittner

130: The Lucas critique revisited: assessing the stability of empirical Euler equations

Stephen Oliner, Glenn Rudebusch and Daniel E. Sichel

129: Reassessing the social returns to equipment investment

Alan Auerbach, Kevin A. Hassett and Stephen Oliner

128: Inventories and the three phases of the business cycle

Daniel E. Sichel

127: Limited-information estimates of New Keynesian price-adjustment models

John Roberts

126: How does future income affect current consumption?

Christopher Carroll

125: Economic performance under price stability

David E. Lebow, John Roberts and David J. Stockton

124: The nature and magnitude of precautionary wealth

Christopher Carroll and Andrew Samwick

123: Is the shift toward employment in services stabilizing?

David E. Lebow and Daniel E. Sichel

122: Regional house-price dispersion and interregional migration

Stuart Gabriel, Janice Shack-Marquez and William Wascher

121: Induced seasonality and production-smoothing models of inventory behavior

Spencer Krane

120: Emerging labor shortages and real wages in the 1990s

Maria Ward Otoo and Janice Shack-Marquez

119: Asymmetric adjustment costs, capital longevity, and investment

David S. Bizer and Daniel E. Sichel

118: Productivity and the public capital stock: another look

Laura S. Rubin

117: A critical analysis of the Eisner-Pieper fiscal measure

Darrel Cohen

116: Have postwar economic fluctuations been stabilized?

Francis Diebold and Glenn Rudebusch

115: Import competition and wages: the role of the nontradable goods sector

David E. Lebow

114: Buffer stock saving and the permanent income hypothesis

Christopher Carroll

113: The cumulation of individual responses to input price changes

Joe P. Mattey

112: Adjustable-rate mortgages and the demand for mortgage credit

John C. Allen

111: Prices by industry-based stage-of-process

Joe P. Mattey

110: Constant-quality price change, depreciation, and retirement of mainframe computers

Stephen Oliner

109: An analysis of revisions to the industrial production index

James E. Kennedy

108: The sources of business cycles: a monetarist interpretation

John Roberts

107: What do we know about consumption?

David Wilcox

106: Income tax refunds and the timing of consumption expenditure

David Wilcox

105: Trends and random walks in macroeconomic time series: a re-examination

Glenn Rudebusch

104: Imperfect competition and business cycles: an empirical investigation

David E. Lebow