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20410: Selling Failed Banks

João Granja, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru

20409: The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium

Joseph Aldy

20408: What Calls to ARMs? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages

Cristian Badarinza, John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai

20407: Can a Summer Make a Difference? The Impact of the American Economic Association Summer Program on Minority Student Outcomes

Charles M. Becker, Cecilia Elena Rouse and Mingyu Chen

20406: Price Setting in Online Markets: Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-border Integration

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Oleksandr Talavera

20405: Why High-order Polynomials Should not be Used in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Andrew Gelman and Guido Imbens

20404: On the Measure of Distortions

Hugo Hopenhayn

20403: A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior

Leonardo Bursztyn and Davide Cantoni

20402: From Assortative to Ashortative Coupling: Men's Height, Height Heterogamy, and Relationship Dynamics in the United States

Abigail Weitzman and Dalton Conley

20401: Failure to Refinance

Benjamin Keys, Devin Pope and Jaren Pope

20400: Within-Mother Estimates of the Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes in New York City

Janet Currie and Ishita Rajani

20399: A Direct Estimate of the Technique Effect: Changes in the Pollution Intensity of US Manufacturing 1990 - 2008

Arik Levinson

20398: Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction

Daniel Hamermesh, Daiji Kawaguchi and Jungmin Lee

20397: Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Christopher Cotton, Brent R. Hickman and Joseph Price

20396: The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?

Alan Krueger, Alexandre Mas and Xiaotong Niu

20395: Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price

20394: Uncertainty Outside and Inside Economic Models

Lars Hansen

20393: Terminating Links between Emission Trading Programs

William Pizer and Andrew Yates

20392: Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?

Ramana Nanda and Tom Nicholas

20391: Evidence for Relational Contracts in Sovereign Bank Lending

Peter Benczur and Cosmin Ilut

20390: Perturbation Methods for Markov-Switching DSGE Models

Andrew Foerster, Juan F Rubio-Ramirez, Daniel Waggoner and Tao Zha

20389: Damming the Commons: An Empirical Analysis of International Cooperation and Conflict in Dam Location

Sheila M. Olmstead and Hilary Sigman

20388: Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Suresh Naidu, Yaw Nyarko and Shing-Yi Wang

20387: Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert and Christopher Udry

20386: International Reserves Before and After the Global Crisis: Is There No End to Hoarding?

Joshua Aizenman, Yin-Wong Cheung and Hiro Ito

20385: Fair Weather Avoidance: Unpacking Costs and Benefits in Replication of 'Avoiding the Ask'

Hannah Trachtman, Andrew Steinkruger, Mackenzie Wood, Adam Wooster, James Andreoni, James Murphy and Justin M. Rao

20384: Does the Gender of Offspring Affect Parental Political Orientation?

Byungkyu Lee and Dalton Conley

20383: Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Rachel Heath and Ahmed Mobarak

20382: Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches: Evidence for the US

Peter Cappelli

20381: On the Interaction of Memory and Procrastination: Implications for Reminders

Keith Ericson

20380: The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran

20379: Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?

John Komlos

20378: Don't Take 'No' For An Answer: An Experiment With Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Judd B. Kessler and Alvin Roth

20377: Discount Shock, Price-Rent Dynamics, and the Business Cycle

Jianjun Miao, Pengfei Wang and Tao Zha

20376: Welfare Implications of Learning Through Solicitation versus Diversification in Health Care

Anirban Basu

20375: Defining Clusters of Related Industries

Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

20374: Spatial Errors in Count Data Regressions

Marinho Bertanha and Petra Moser

20373: Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Jesse Margolis, Jason Hockenberry, Michael Grossman and Shin-Yi Chou

20372: Corporate Taxes and Capital Structure: A Long-Term Historical Perspective

Francis Longstaff and Ilya Strebulaev

20371: Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion

Melissa Boyle and Joanna Lahey

20370: Changing Times, Changing Values: A Historical Analysis of Sectors within the US Stock Market 1872-2013

Oliver D. Bunn and Robert Shiller

20369: Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws

Daron Acemoglu and Matthew Jackson

20368: The 9/11 Dust Cloud and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Reconsideration

Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

20367: Agglomeration and Innovation

Gerald Carlino and William Kerr

20366: Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes

20365: Inefficiently Low Screening with Walrasian Markets

Kinda Hachem

20364: Remix Rights and Negotiations Over the Use of Copy-Protected Works

Joshua Gans

20363: Paternalism and Energy Efficiency: An Overview

Hunt Allcott

20362: Free to Choose: Promoting Conservation by Relaxing Outdoor Watering Restrictions

Anita Castledine, Klaus Moeltner, Michael Price and Shawn Stoddard

20361: Supply vs. Demand under an Affirmative Action Ban: Estimates from UC Law Schools

Danny Yagan

20360: Riding the Bubble? Chasing Returns into Illiquid Assets

Danny Yagan

20359: Tradeoffs in the Design of Health Plan Payment Systems: Fit, Power and Balance

Michael Geruso and Thomas G. McGuire

20358: Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

William Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

20357: The Economics of Fair Trade

Raluca E. Dragusanu, Daniele Giovannucci and Nathan Nunn

20356: History of American Corporate Governance: Law, Institutions, and Politics

Eric Hilt

20355: The Changing Face of World Oil Markets

James Hamilton

20354: The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephen Redding, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf

20353: Positive Externalities of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Consumer Credit

Joanne Hsu, David A. Matsa and Brian Melzer

20352: The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones

Solomon M. Hsiang and Amir S. Jina

20351: Measuring Economic Efficiency Using Inverse-Optimum Weights

Nathaniel Hendren

20350: Urban Vibrancy and Corporate Growth

Casey Dougal, Christopher A. Parsons and Sheridan Titman

20349: Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending

Mark Hoekstra, Steven Puller and Jeremy West

20348: How Does Family Health Care Use Respond to Economic Shocks? Realized and Anticipated Effects

Alan C. Monheit, Irina Grafova and Rizie Kumar

20347: The Geography of Financial Misconduct

Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman and Sheridan Titman

20346: Political Booms, Financial Crises

Helios Herrera, Guillermo Ordonez and Christoph Trebesch

20345: Capital Structure and Hedging Demand with Incomplete Markets

Alberto Bisin, Gian Luca Clementi and Piero Gottardi

20344: Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia

Sean Lewis-Faupel, Yusuf Neggers, Benjamin Olken and Rohini Pande

20343: Reference-Dependent Preferences: Evidence from Marathon Runners

Eric J. Allen, Patricia M. Dechow, Devin Pope and George Wu

20342: Broken or Fixed Effects?

Charles E. Gibbons, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Michael B. Urbancic

20341: An econometric model of link formation with degree heterogeneity

Bryan Graham

20340: Information, Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity

Joel David, Hugo Hopenhayn and Venky Venkateswaran

20339: Inflating Away the Public Debt? An Empirical Assessment

Jens Hilscher, Alon Raviv and Ricardo Reis

20338: An Exploration of the International Comparison Program's New Global Economic Landscape

Martin Ravallion

20337: Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents?: Evidence from Micro-Level Application Data

Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

20336: Capital Market Financing, Firm Growth, Firm Size Distribution

Tatiana Didier, Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler

20335: The Macroeconomics of Shadow Banking

Alan Moreira and Alexi Savov

20334: Multiple Pollutants, Uncovered Sectors, and Suboptimal Environmental Policies

Don Fullerton and Daniel H. Karney

20333: A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan

Don Fullerton, Li Gan and Miwa Hattori

20332: Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use

D. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Hansen and Daniel Rees

20331: Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade

Pablo Fajgelbaum and Amit Khandelwal

20330: Health Care Adherence and Personalized Medicine

Mark Egan and Tomas Philipson

20329: Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation

Judith Scott-Clayton and Veronica Minaya

20328: Implications of Heterogeneity in Preferences, Beliefs and Asset Trading Technologies for the Macroeconomy

YiLi Chien, Harold Cole and Hanno Lustig

20327: Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya

Kenneth Lee, Eric Brewer, Carson Christiano, Francis Meyo, Edward Miguel, Matthew Podolsky, Javier Rosa and Catherine Wolfram

20326: Growth, Import Dependence and War

Roberto Bonfatti and Kevin O'Rourke

20325: Finite Population Causal Standard Errors

Alberto Abadie, Susan Athey, Guido Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge

20324: Presidents and the U.S. Economy: An Econometric Exploration

Alan Blinder and Mark Watson

20323: Trade Liberalization, Quality, and Export Prices

Haichao Fan, Yao Li and Stephen Yeaple

20322: Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms

Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Scott Kominers

20321: When Incentives Matter Too Much: Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information

Tom Ahn and Jacob Vigdor

20320: Time Preferences and Consumer Behavior

W. David Bradford, Charles Courtemanche, Garth Heutel, Patrick McAlvanah and Christopher Ruhm

20319: Risk and Ambiguity in Models of Business Cycles

David Backus, Axelle Ferriere and Stanley Zin

20318: Applying Insights from Behavioral Economics to Policy Design

Brigitte Madrian

20317: The Gradients of Power: Evidence from the Chinese Housing Market

Hanming Fang, Quanlin Gu and Li-An Zhou

20316: A Surplus of Ambition: Can Europe Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem?

Barry Eichengreen and Ugo Panizza

20315: Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistle-blowing: a Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports

Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padró i Miquel

20314: The Twin Ds: Optimal Default and Devaluation

Seunghoon Na, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Martín Uribe and Vivian Yue

20313: Do Large Modern Retailers Pay Premium Wages?

Brianna Cardiff-Hicks, Francine Lafontaine and Kathryn Shaw

20312: Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing?

Francine Lafontaine and Kathryn Shaw

20311: An Econometric Evaluation of Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap

Brian Knight