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2015: The Global Diffusion of Ideas

Francisco Buera and Ezra Oberfield

2015: Estimating the Tax and Credit-Event Risk Components of Credit Spreads

Luca Benzoni and Robert S. Goldstein

2015: What Does Anticipated Monetary Policy Do?

Stefania D'Amico and Thomas King

2015: Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America

Lee Ohanian, Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria and Mark Wright

2015: Simpler Bootstrap Estimation of the Asymptotic Variance of U-statistic Based Estimators

Bo E. Honore and Luojia Hu

2015: Does Physician Pay Affect Procedure Choice and Patient Health? Evidence from Medicaid C-section Use

Diane Alexander

2015: The Value and Risk of Human Capital

Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk

2015: Backtesting Systemic Risk Measures During Historical Bank Runs

Christian Brownlees, Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels and Christopher J. Kurz

2015: External and Public Debt Crises

Cristina Arellano, Andrew Atkeson and Mark Wright

2015: Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the U.S.: Overcoming the Current Limitations of Tax Data

Bhashkar Mazumder

2015: Risk Management for Monetary Policy Near the Zero Lower Bound

Charles Evans, Jonas Fisher, Francois Gourio and Spencer Krane

2015: Revisiting the Role of Home Production in Life-Cycle Labor Supply

Jason Faberman

2015: Poor (Wo)man’s Bootstrap

Bo E. Honore and Luojia Hu

2014: Access to Refinancing and Mortgage Interest Rates: HARPing on the Importance of Competition

Gene Amromin and Caitlin Kearns

2014: Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Kenneth Chay, Jonathan Guryan and Bhashkar Mazumder

2014: Momentum Trading, Return Chasing and Predictable Crashes

Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels and Ravi Jagannathan

2014: What Drives Bank Funding Spreads?

Thomas King and Kurt Lewis

2014: Private Takings

Alessandro Marchesiani and Ed Nosal

2014: Quantitative Easing in Joseph's Egypt with Keynesian Producers

Jeffrey Campbell

2014: The Impact of Chicago's Small High School Initiative

Lisa Barrow, Amy Claessens and Diane Schanzenbach

2014: More on Middlemen: Equilibrium Entry and Efficiency in Intermediated Markets

Ed Nosal, Linda Wong and Randall Wright

2014: Adverse Selection, Risk Sharing and Business Cycles

Marcelo Veracierto

2014: Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn and Mark Wright

2014: On the Structural Interpretation of the Smets-Wouters “Risk Premium” Shock

Jonas Fisher

2014: AIG in Hindsight

Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson

2014: The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and Implications

Andrei Levchenko and Jing Zhang

2014: Saving Europe?: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of Fiscal Austerity in Integrated Economies

Enrique Mendoza, Linda Tesar and Jing Zhang

2014: The Effect of Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards on Technology Adoption

Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn

2014: Preventing Bank Runs

David Andolfatto, Ed Nosal and Bruno Sultanum

2014: Escaping the Great Recession

Francesco Bianchi and Leonardo Melosi

2014: Credit Supply and the Housing Boom

Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

2014: Constrained Discretion and Central Bank Transparency

Francesco Bianchi and Leonardo Melosi

2014: Liquidity Traps and Monetary Policy: Managing a Credit Crunch

Francisco Buera and Juan Pablo Nicolini

2014: The Stock of External Sovereign Debt: Can We Take the Data at ‘Face Value’?

Daniel Dias, Christine Richmond and Mark Wright

2014: Interpreting the Pari Passu Clause in Sovereign Bond Contracts: It's All Hebrew (and Aramaic) to Me

Mark Wright

2014: Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion

Fernando Alvarez and Gadi Barlevy

2014: Early Public Banks

William Roberds and Francois Velde

2014: The Effects of the Massachusetts Health Reform on Financial Distress

Bhashkar Mazumder and Sarah Miller

2014: Can Intangible Capital Explain Cyclical Movements in the Labor Wedge?

Francois Gourio and Leena Rudanko

2014: Inflation Uncertainty and Disagreement in Bond Risk Premia

Stefania D'Amico and Athanasios Orphanides

2013: Firm Dynamics and the Minimum Wage: A Putty-Clay Approach

Daniel Aaronson, Eric French and Isaac Sorkin

2013: Gross Migration, Housing and Urban Population Dynamics

Morris Davis, Jonas Fisher and Marcelo Veracierto

2013: Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program

Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru

2013: An Interview with Neil Wallace

David Altig and Ed Nosal

2013: Very Simple Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics

Jaap Abbring, Jeffrey Campbell, Jan Tilly and Nan Yang

2013: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Food Consumption Patterns

Leslie McGranahan and Diane Schanzenbach

2013: Gambling for Dollars: Strategic Hedge Fund Manager Investment

Dan Bernhardt and Ed Nosal

2013: The Scarcity Value of Treasury Collateral: Repo Market Effects of Security-Specific Supply and Demand Factors

Stefania D'Amico, Roger Fan and Yuriy Kitsul

2013: The Effects of the Saving and Banking Glut on the U.S. Economy

Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

2013: A Portfolio-Balance Approach to the Nominal Term Structure

Thomas King

2013: Human Capital and Long-Run Labor Income Risk

Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk

2013: Bubbles and Leverage: A Simple and Unified Approach

Theodore Bogusz and Theodore Bogusz

2013: Agglomeration in the European Automobile Supplier Industry

Thomas Klier and Daniel McMillen

2013: Rushing into American Dream? House Prices, Timing of Homeownership, and Adjustment of Consumer Credit

Sumit Agarwal, Luojia Hu and Xing Huang

2013: Modeling the Evolution of Expectations and Uncertainty in General Equilibrium

Francesco Bianchi and Leonardo Melosi

2013: Size-dependent regulations, firm size distribution, and reallocation

Francois Gourio and Nicolas Roys

2013: The global labor market impact of rmerging giants: a quantitative assessment

Andrei Levchenko and Jing Zhang

2013: Structural change in an open economy

Timothy Uy, Kei-Mu Yi and Jing Zhang

2013: The global welfare impact of China: trade integration and technological change

Julian di Giovanni, Andrei Levchenko and Jing Zhang

2013: Financial incentives and educational investment: the impact of performance-based scholarships on student time use

Lisa Barrow and Cecilia Elena Rouse

2013: Credit crunches and credit allocation in a model of entrepreneurship

Marco Bassetto, Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi

2013: Properties of the vacancy statistic in the discrete circle covering problem

Gadi Barlevy and H. N. Nagaraja

2013: Fiscal consequences of paying interest on reserves

Marco Bassetto and Todd Messer

2013: Bank panics, government guarantees, and the long-run size of the financial sector: evidence from free-banking America

Benjamin Chabot and Charles Moul

2013: Why do borrowers make mortgage refinancing mistakes?

Sumit Agarwal, Richard Rosen and Vincent Yao

2013: The urban density premium across establishments

Jason Faberman and Matthew Freedman

2013: Emerging economies, trade policy, and macroeconomic shock

Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley

2013: Fetal origins and parental responses

Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder