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107: Contractual Structure and Wealth Accumulation

Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray

106: Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The Challenge to Economics

Glenn Loury

105: Plants and Productivity in International Trade

Andrew Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Jensen and Samuel Kortum

104: Corruption and Decentralization of Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

103: The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes and Poverty: A Review of Evidence

Peter R. Fallon and Robert Lucas

102: Job Stability in Developing and Developed countries: Evidence from Colombia and the United States

Julie Anderson Schaffner

101: Heteroscedastic Sample Selection and Developing country Wage Equations

Julie Anderson Schaffner

100: Credits, Crises, and Capital Controls: A Microeconomic Analysis

Zvika Neeman and Gerhard O. Orosel

99: Designing Stabilization Policy in a Monetary Union

Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf

98: Contractual Constraints on Firm Performance in Developing Countries

Dilip Mookherjee

97: Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments: An Essay in the Political Economy of Decentralization

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

96: Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

Eli Berman, Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

95: Why Dowries?

Maristella Botticini and Aloysius Siow

94: Financial Fragility in a Monetary Economy: Positive Implications and Policy Prescriptions

Russell Cooper and P. Dean Corbae

93: Information and Enforcement in Informal Credit Markets

Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray

92: Endogenous Matching and the Empirical Determinants of Contract Form

Daniel Ackerberg and Maristella Botticini

91: Internal Migration and Urbanization: Recent Contributions and New Evidence

Robert Lucas

90: Expenditure Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

89: Fertility, Migration, Altruism and Growth

Eli Berman and Zaur Rzakhanov

88: Establishing a Monetary Union

Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf

87: European Technology Policy

Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez and Samuel Kortum

86: Geographic Poverty Traps?

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

85: Performance of Czech Companies by Ownership Structure

Andrew Weiss and Georgiy Nikitin

84: Borrowing iwth Unobserved Liquidity Constraints: Structural Estimation with an Application to Sovereign Debt

Jerome Adda and Jonathan Eaton

83: The Rise in Union Wage Premia in South Africa

Julian F. Hofmeyr and Robert Lucas

82: A Rising Tide Raises All Ships: Trade and Diffusion as Conduits of Growth

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

81: Technological Specialization in International Patenting

Jonathan Eaton, Robert Evenson, Samuel Kortum, Poorti Marino and Jonathan Putnam

80: Inequality, control Rights and Rent Seeking - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra

Abhijit Banerjee, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Debraj Ray

79: Technology and Bilateral Trade

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

78: Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence

Eli Berman, John Bound and Stephen Machin

77: Wealth Effects, Incentives and Productivity

Dilip Mookherjee

76: Licensing vs. Innovaiton Incentives under Uncertainties in Government Policies

Tarun Kabiraj and Chun-Lei Yang

75: Economic Development and CO2 Emission: Economy-Environment Relation and Policy Approach to Choice of Emission Standard for Climate Control

Ramprasad Sengupta

74: The Efficiency Wage Under Long-run Employment

Sanjay Banerji and Manas Ranjan Gupta

73: Egalitarianism and Incentives

Debraj Ray and Kaoru Ueda

72: Tenency, Credit Markets, Segmentation, and Hierarchical Loan Contracts

Ghazala Mansuri

71: Synchronization of Japanese Money Markets

Yoshikazu Yuasa

70: Japanese and U.S. Exports and Investment as Conduits of Growth

Jonathan Eaton and Akiko Tamura

69: Tax Amnesties as Asset Laundering Devices

Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee

68: Economic Strategies for Banishing Child-Labour: Compulsory Primary Education, Specific vs. General Egalitarianism, and Innovation in Financial Instruments for Mobilization of Participation

Binod Khadria

67: Applying Generational Accounting to Developing Countries

Laurence Kotlikoff

66: Privatization of Social Security: How it Works and Why it Matters

Laurence Kotlikoff

65: Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence

Joseph Altonji, Fumio Hayashi and Laurence Kotlikoff

64: Cooperation in Community Interaction Without Information Flows

Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray

63: Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

62: Private Investment and External Debt: The Debt Overhang Hypothesis Revisited

Hiranya Mukhopadhyay

61: P-Values for Non-Standard Distributions with an Application to the DF Test

Jerome Adda and Jesus Gonzalo

60: To Protect Or Not To Protect Foreign-Owned Patents -- A Strategic Decision

Tarun Kabiraj

59: Sovereign Debt

Jonathan Eaton and Raquel Fernandez

58: On The Coexistence of Share, Rent and Wage Contracts in a Rural Economy

Parikshit Ghosh