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17840: Preferential Trade Agreements and the World Trade System: A Multilateralist View

Pravin Krishna

17839: U.S. International Equity Investment

John Ammer, Sara B. Holland, David C. Smith and Francis Warnock

17838: Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows during the 2007-2009 Crisis

Viral Acharya and Nada Mora

17837: The Households Effects of Government Consumption

Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon

17836: Ben Bernanke and the Zero Bound

Laurence Ball

17835: Gold Standard Gravity

James Anderson and Yoto Yotov

17834: Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Susan Dynarski and Mark Wiederspan

17833: Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Thresholds

Francesco Caselli, Thomas Cunningham, Massimo Morelli and Inés Moreno de Barreda

17832: Credit Supply and House Prices: Evidence from Mortgage Market Segmentation

Manuel Adelino, Antoinette Schoar and Felipe Severino

17831: Resolving Debt Overhang: Political Constraints in the Aftermath of Financial Crises

Atif Mian, Amir Sufi and Francesco Trebbi

17830: What explains high unemployment? The aggregate demand channel

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

17829: Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising?

Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz

17828: China's Financial System: Opportunities and Challenges

Franklin Allen, Jun Qian, Chenying Zhang and Mengxin Zhao

17827: Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges

Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Claudia Goldin

17826: China's Potential Future Growth and Gains from Trade Policy Bargaining: Some Numerical Simulation Results

Chunding Li and John Whalley

17825: Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

Emek Basker

17824: Were They Prepared for Retirement? Financial Status at Advanced Ages in the HRS and AHEAD Cohorts

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

17823: Practical Monetary Policy: Examples from Sweden and the United States

Lars Svensson

17822: Does Macro-Pru Leak? Evidence from a UK Policy Experiment

Shekhar Aiyar, Charles Calomiris and Tomasz Wieladek

17821: Numeracy, financial literacy, and financial decision-making

Annamaria Lusardi

17820: What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology

Daron Acemoglu and David Autor

17819: Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows

Pol Antras, Davin Chor, Thibault Fally and Russell Hillberry

17818: Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

Jason Lindo and Charles Stoecker

17817: Optimal Asset Taxes in Financial Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty

Florian Scheuer

17816: Plant-level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in U.S. Census Manufacturing Data

T. Kirk White, Jerome P. Reiter and Amil Petrin

17815: Noisy Information, Distance and Law of One Price Dynamics Across US Cities

Mario Crucini, Mototsugu Shintani and Takayuki Tsuruga

17814: The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Employment

Johannes Schmieder, Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender

17813: The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years

Johannes Schmieder, Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender

17812: Accounting for Real Exchange Rates Using Micro-data

Mario Crucini and Anthony Landry

17811: Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy

Judith Scott-Clayton

17810: When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority

Levent Celik, Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren

17809: Interjurisdictional Housing Prices and Spatial Amenities: Which Measures of Housing Prices Reflect Local Public Goods?

Spencer Banzhaf and Omar Farooque

17808: Voting Rights, Share Concentration, and Leverage at Nineteenth-Century US Banks

Howard Bodenhorn

17807: Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates

Tal Gross, Matthew Notowidigdo and Jialan Wang

17806: Trilemma Policy Convergence Patterns and Output Volatility

Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito

17805: The Firm-Level Credit Multiplier

Murillo Campello and Dirk Hackbarth

17804: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Robert Fairlie, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

17803: Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

Gregory F. Branch, Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin

17802: Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?

Aviva Aron-Dine, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Mark R. Cullen

17801: The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level

Jeremy Foltz, Ursula Aldana and Paul Laris

17800: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

George Borjas and Kirk Doran

17799: Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

17798: Inflation and Individual Equities

Andrew Ang, Marie Brière and Ombretta Signori

17797: Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

Bo Becker, Daniel Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian

17796: Nominal Stability and Financial Globalization

Michael Devereux, Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland

17795: Growth Opportunities, Technology Shocks, and Asset Prices

Leonid Kogan and Dimitris Papanikolaou

17794: Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian

17793: Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity

Ajay Agrawal, Iain Cockburn, Alberto Galasso and Alexander Oettl

17792: Technology Variation vs. R&D Uncertainty: What Matters Most for Energy Patent Success?

David Popp, Nidhi Santen, Karen Fisher-Vanden and Mort Webster

17791: Confronting Model Misspecification in Macroeconomics

Daniel Waggoner and Tao Zha

17790: Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence

Kyle Handley and Nuno Limão

17789: The Double Facetted Nature of Health Investments - Implications for Equilibrium and Stability in a Demand-for-Health Framework

Kristian Bolin and Bjorn Lindgren

17788: Investment and Growth in Rich and Poor Countries

Yin-Wong Cheung, Michael Dooley and Vladyslav Sushko

17787: Government Spending and Private Activity

Valerie Ramey

17786: Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching

Michael Waldman, Sean Nicholson and Nodir Adilov

17785: Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

17784: De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution

Benjamin Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl

17783: Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming: Some Preliminary Results

Xavier Gabaix

17782: Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence

Steven Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger

17781: Child Gender And Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?

Silvia Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho and Adriana Lleras-Muney

17780: Macroprudential Policies in Open Emerging Economies

Joon-Ho Hahm, Frederic Mishkin, Hyun Song Shin and Kwanho Shin

17779: Is Labor Supply Important for Business Cycles?

Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson and Aysegul Sahin

17778: Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide

Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick

17777: The Safe-Asset Share

Gary Gorton, Stefan Lewellen and Andrew Metrick

17776: Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Elizabeth Cascio and Ebonya L. Washington

17775: Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch

Francisco Buera and Benjamin Moll

17774: Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

17773: Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

Bronwyn Hall and Dietmar Harhoff

17772: Identification and Estimation of Gaussian Affine Term Structure Models

James Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu

17771: Collateral Crises

Gary Gorton and Guillermo Ordonez

17770: Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States

Jason DeBacker, Bradley Heim and Anh Tran

17769: Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth

Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru and Noah Stoffman

17768: Sizing Up Repo

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stefan Nagel and Dmitry Orlov

17767: Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade

Ariel Burstein and Javier Cravino

17766: Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?

Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone

17765: On the Optimal Burden of Proof

Louis Kaplow

17764: Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long Term Analysis

Sebastian Edwards

17763: How Firms Use Domestic and International Corporate Bond Markets

Juan Carlos Gozzi, Ross Levine, Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler

17762: Do Consumers Exploit Precommitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption

B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Meer and Neva K. Novarro

17761: Salience in Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect

Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

17760: The Corporation in Finance

Raghuram Rajan

17759: Oil Prices, Exhaustible Resources, and Economic Growth

James Hamilton

17758: Time as a Trade Barrier

David Hummels and Georg Schaur

17757: Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World

John Hassler and Per Krusell

17756: The Impact of Foreign Liabilities on Small Firms: Firm-Level Evidence from the Korean Crisis

Yun Jung Kim, Linda Tesar and Jing Zhang

17755: Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy

Charles Manski

17754: Shanghai's Trade, China's Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War

Wolfgang Keller, Ben Li and Carol Shiue

17753: How is Tax Policy Conducted over the Business Cycle?

Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

17752: Vertical versus Horizontal Incentives in Education: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Roland Fryer, Tanaya Devi and Richard Holden

17751: International Capital Flows and House Prices: Theory and Evidence

Jack Favilukis, David Kohn, Sydney Ludvigson and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

17750: The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on the Functional Limitations of Elderly Americans Evidence from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey

Frank Lichtenberg

17749: The Nixon Shock after Forty Years: The Import Surcharge Revisited

Douglas Irwin

17748: Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

Martin Hackmann, Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

17747: How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?

Catherine Wolfram, Orie Shelef and Paul Gertler

17746: Directed Search over the Life Cycle

Guido Menzio, Irina Telyukova and Ludo Visschers

17745: Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

Douglas Kruse, Joseph R. Blasi and Richard Freeman

17744: What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?

Judith Scott-Clayton

17743: The Diffusion of Microfinance

Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo and Matthew Jackson

17742: An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search

Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Lu Zhang

17741: Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages

Karen Fisher-Vanden, Erin Mansur and Qiong (Juliana) Wang