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452: Technology, Tradition, and Treatment of the Elderly

Matthew Baker and Joyce Jacobsen

451: Foundations of the Age-Area Hypothesis

Matthew Baker

450: Sherwin Rosen

Kenneth J. McLaughlin

449: Employment Effects of Three Rounds of Federal Minimum Wage Hikes

Kenneth McLaughlin

448: Share Repurchases and CEO Ownership

Ingmar Nyman and Devra Golbe

447: Bailouts and Soft Budget Constraints in Decentralized Government: A Synthesis and Survey of an Alternative View of Intergovernmental Grant Policy

Timothy Goodspeed

446: Absorbing Shocks: National Rainy-Day Funds and Cross-Country Transfers in a Fiscal Union

Timothy Goodspeed

445: The Importance of Geographic Access for the Impact of Microfinance

Nargiza Alimukhamedova, Randall Filer and Jan Hanousek

444: Was Civil War Surgery Effective?

Matthew Baker

443: Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News

Lisa George and Christiaan Hogendorn

442: A life-cycle model of unemployment and disability insurance

Sagiri Kitao

441: Achieving Fiscal Balance in Japan

Sagiri Kitao, Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Tomoaki Yamada

440: Adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and estimation in Mata

Matthew Baker

439: Tax Reform in Georgia and the Size of the Shadow Economy

Karine Torosyan and Randall Filer

438: Measuring the Shadow Economy: Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation

Tomáš Lichard, Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer

437: Job Hoarding

Ingmar Nyman and Matthew Baker

436: On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance in a Federation

Timothy Goodspeed and Andrew Haughwout

435: Political fragmentation, Party ideology and Public expenditures

Timothy Goodspeed, Yvon Rocaboy and Benoît Le Maux

434: Public Policies and FDI Location: Differences between Developing and Developed Countries

Timothy Goodspeed, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Li Zhang

433: The role of public services and taxes in attracting ‘foreign’ direct investment

Timothy Goodspeed, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Li Zhang

432: Finite Mixture for Panels with Fixed Effects

Partha Deb and Pravin Trivedi

431: How much do respondents in the health and retirement study know about their tax-deferred contribution plans? A cross-cohort comparison

Marjorie Honig and Irena Dushi

430: How do share repurchases affect ownership concentration?

Devra Golbe and Ingmar Nyman

429: Financial Frictions and Total Factor Productivity: Accounting for the Real Effects of Financial Crises

Sangeeta Pratap and Carlos Urrutia

428: Financial Crises and Labor Market Turbulence

Sangeeta Pratap and Erwan Quintin

427: The Role of Television in Household Debt: Evidence from the 1950's

Matthew Baker and Lisa George

426: Competitive Pressure and Lying in Search Markets

Matthew Baker and Ingmar Nyman

425: Crime, Expectations and The Deterrence Hypothesis

Matthew Baker and Niklas Westelius

424: Discretionary Monetary Policy and Inflation Persistence

Niklas Westelius

423: Inflation Range Targets with Hard Edges

Niklas Westelius

422: Conformity in search markets

Ingmar Nyman and Matthew Baker

421: Subordinated debt, uninsured deposits, and market discipline: evidence from U.S. bank holding companies

Fatma Cebenoyan and A. Sinan Cebenoyan

420: The Effects of Parents Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption on Their Children's Time Use and Educational Attainment

Partha Deb and Eugenia Priedane

419: Impact Evaluation for Land Property Rights Reforms

Jonathan Conning and Partha Deb

418: The Timing and Magnitude of Exchange Rate Overshooting

Niklas Westelius, Mathias Hoffmann and Jens Sondergaard

417: “Yes-Men in Tournaments

Ingmar Nyman and Jason Cummins

416: Inflation Band Targeting and Optimal Inflation Contracts

Niklas Westelius and Frederic Mishkin

415: Imperfect Transparency and Shifts in the Central Bank's Output Gap Target

Niklas Westelius

414: Attracting FDI: Are Other Government Policies More Important than Taxation in Attracting FDI?

Timothy Goodspeed, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Li Zhang

413: Information Management in Rank-Order Tournaments

Ingmar Nyman and Jason Cummins

412: Offers or Take-up: Explaining Minorities’ Lower Health Insurance Coverage

Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig

411: Household Demand for Health Insurance: Price and Spouse's Coverage

Marjorie Honig and Irena Dushi

410: Endogenous Pensions and Retirement Behavior

Randall Filer and Marjorie Honig

409: Do Parents Favor their Biological Offspring over Adopted Orphans? Theory and Evidence from Tanzania

Papa Seck

408: Freedom, Servitude and Voluntary Contract

Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

407: Monitoring by Peers or by Delegates? Joint Liability Loans and Moral Hazard

Jonathan Conning

406: Estimation of threshold time series models using efficient jump MCMC

Temisan Agbeyegbe and Elena Goldman

405: Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture

Jonathan Conning and James Robinson

404: Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Choice of Regimes in Emerging Markets

Temisan Agbeyegbe and Patrick Osakwe

403: Trade Liberalization, Exchange Rate Changes, and Tax Revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa

Temisan Agbeyegbe, Janet G. Stotsky and Asegedech WoldeMariam

402: Stock Market Speculation and Managerial Myopia

Ingmar Nyman

401: The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom and the Roads to Agrarian Capitalism: Domar's Hypothesis Revisited

Jonathan Conning

306: On the feasibility of a monetary union in the Southern Africa Development Community

Temisan Agbeyegbe

305: The tail behavior of stock index return on the Jamaican Stock Exchange

Temisan Agbeyegbe

303: Regulatory Regimes and Takeovers of U.S. Thrifts

Fatma Cebenoyan, A. Sinan Cebenoyan and Elizabeth S. Cooperman

302: Firms’ Relative Operational Efficiency and Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts

Fatma Cebenoyan and Donal Byard

301: Operational Efficiency and the Value-Relevance of Earnings

Fatma Cebenoyan

214: Why isn't there more Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries?

Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

213: Lending Technologies, Competition, and Consolidation in the Market for Microfinance in Bolivia

Jonathan Conning, Sergio Navajas and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega

212: A Quasi-experimental Comparison of Econometric Models for Health Care Expenditures

Partha Deb and James F. Burgess, Jr.

211: Estimating the Effect of Fertility Decisions on Child Labor and Schooling

Partha Deb and Furio Rosati

02/9: Determinants of Child Labor and School Attendance: The Role of Household Unobservables

Partha Deb and Furio Rosati

02/8: Consumers' Opinion of Inflation Bias Due to Quality Improvements

Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer

02/7: Local Fiscal Policy and Retiree Migration: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Purvi Sevak and Martin Farnham

02/6: Giving to Family versus Giving to the Community Within and Across Generations

Partha Deb, Cagla Okten and Una Osili

02/5: Specification and Simulated Likelihood Estimation of a Non-normal Outcome Model with Selection: Application to Health Care Utilization

Partha Deb and Pravin Trivedi

02/4: Optimal Investment by Financially Xenophobic Managers

Jason Cummins and Ingmar Nyman

02/3: The Dark Side of Competitive Pressure

Jason Cummins and Ingmar Nyman

02/2: Is Prenatal Care Really Ineffective? Or, is the 'Devil' in the Distribution?

Partha Deb and Karen Smith Conway

02/1: Latifundia Economics

Jonathan Conning