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17879: Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare

Richard Steckel and William J. White

17878: Prices versus Quantities versus Bankable Quantities

Harrison Fell, Ian MacKenzie and William Pizer

17877: Does the Current Account Still Matter?

Maurice Obstfeld

17876: Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality

Veronica Guerrieri and Robert Shimer

17875: Are Chinese Trade Flows Different?

Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Xingwang Qian

17874: Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven Kaplan

17873: Follow the Money: Quantifying Domestic Effects of Foreign Bank Shocks in the Great Recession

Nicola Cetorelli and Linda Goldberg

17872: International Consumption Risk Is Shared After All: An Asset Return View

Karen Lewis and Edith Liu

17871: Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression

Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O'Rourke

17870: Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems

Peter J. Huckfeldt, Neeraj Sood, José J. Escarce, David C. Grabowski and Joseph Newhouse

17869: Culture and the Historical Process

Nathan Nunn

17868: Crisis-Related Shifts in the Market Valuation of Banking Activities

Charles Calomiris and Doron Nissim

17867: Financing-Motivated Acquisitions

Isil Erel, Yeejin Jang and Michael Weisbach

17866: The Decision to Delay Social Security Benefits: Theory and Evidence

John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

17865: Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial

Damien de Walque, William Dow, Carol Medlin and Rose Nathan

17864: International Trade: Linking Micro and Macro

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Sebastian Sotelo

17863: Financial Sophistication in the Older Population

Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia Mitchell and Vilsa Curto

17862: How Do Laffer Curves Differ Across Countries?

Mathias Trabandt and Harald Uhlig

17861: Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen

17860: The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the Interwar Era

Christina Romer and David Romer

17859: Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?

C. Kirabo Jackson

17858: Repossession and the Democratization of Credit

Juliano Assuncao, Efraim Benmelech and Fernando S. S. Silva

17857: Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care

Robin McKnight, Jonathan Reuter and Eric Zitzewitz

17856: Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do they Receive Better Terms?

Jongha Lim, Bernadette A. Minton and Michael Weisbach

17855: Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

Uri Gneezy, John List and Michael Price

17854: Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Default Crises: A Long-Term Perspective

Kay Giesecke, Francis Longstaff, Stephen Schaefer and Ilya Strebulaev

17853: The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson

17852: Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan

17851: Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province

Pascaline Dupas, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats and Jonathan Robinson

17850: Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

17849: Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits

Yi Qian

17848: The "Out of Sample" Performance of Long-run Risk Models

Wayne Ferson, Suresh K. Nallareddy and Biqin Xie

17847: Vote Trading With and Without Party Leaders

Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey and Sébastien Turban

17846: Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li and Julie Wulf

17845: The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

Gabriel Chan, Robert Stavins, Robert Stowe and Richard Sweeney

17844: Uncertain Fiscal Consolidations

Huixin Bi, Eric Leeper and Campbell Leith

17843: Small Cues Change Savings Choices

James Choi, Emily Haisley, Jennifer Kurkoski and Cade Massey

17842: The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John van Reenen

17841: From Growth to Green Growth - a Framework

Stephane Hallegatte, Geoffrey Heal, Marianne Fay and David Tréguer

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