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16910: The Great Inflation: Did the Shadow Know Better?

William Poole, Robert Rasche and David Wheelock

16909: Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jinhu Li, Jeremiah Hurley, Philip DeCicca and Gioia Buckley

16908: Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience

John List

16907: The Promise of Beijing: Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality

Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin, Naresh Kumar and Guang Shi

16906: Generalized Transform Analysis of Affine Processes and Applications in Finance

Hui Chen and Scott Joslin

16905: Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints

Kalina Manova, Shang-Jin Wei and Zhiwei Zhang

16904: Factor Prices and International Trade: A Unifying Perspective

Ariel Burstein and Jonathan Vogel

16903: Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis

Carolin Pflueger and Luis Viceira

16902: Comparing Economic and Social Interventions to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Central and Southern Africa

Radha Iyengar and Giulia Ferrari

16901: HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa

James Levinsohn, Zoë McLaren, Olive Shisana and Khangelani Zuma

16900: Economics of Individualization in Comparative Effectiveness Research and a Basis for a Patient-Centered Health Care

Anirban Basu

16899: Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Fragility in Financially Integrated Economies

Patrick Bolton and Olivier Jeanne

16898: The Short of It: Investor Sentiment and Anomalies

Robert Stambaugh, Jianfeng Yu and Yu Yuan

16897: Workday, Holiday and Calendar Adjustment with 21st Century Data: Monthly Aggregates from Daily Diesel Fuel Purchases

Edward Leamer

16896: Dividends and Bank Capital in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

Viral Acharya, Irvind Gujral, Nirupama Kulkarni and Hyun Song Shin

16895: Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices

Barbara M. Fraumeni

16894: Identification and Estimation in Discrete Choice Demand Models when Endogenous Variables Interact with the Error

Amit Gandhi, Kyoo il Kim and Amil Petrin

16893: The Liquidation of Government Debt

Carmen Reinhart and M. Belen Sbrancia

16892: Return Predictability in the Treasury Market: Real Rates, Inflation, and Liquidity

Carolin Pflueger and Luis Viceira

16891: Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

16890: Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 A Success... And for the Poor?

Lisa Cook

16889: What Explains the Lagged Investment Effect?

Janice Eberly, Sergio Rebelo and Nicolas Vincent

16888: Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates

Shamena Anwar and Hanming Fang

16887: When a Nudge Isn't Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers

Erin Bronchetti, Thomas Dee, David Huffman and Ellen Magenheim

16886: Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses

Cristian Pop-Eleches and Miguel Urquiola

16885: What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Victor Lavy

16884: Simple Variance Swaps

Ian Martin

16883: Monetary Policy as Financial-Stability Regulation

Jeremy Stein

16882: Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster

Joel Waldfogel

16881: The Effects of Student Coaching in College: An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Mentoring

Eric Bettinger and Rachel Baker

16880: A Roy Model of Social Interactions

Steve Cicala, Roland Fryer and Jörg Spenkuch

16879: A Primer on the Economics of Prescription Pharmaceutical Pricing in Health Insurance Markets

Ernst R. Berndt, Thomas G. McGuire and Joseph Newhouse

16878: The Possibilities For Global Poverty Reduction Using Revenues From Global Carbon Pricing

James Davies, Xiaojun Shi and John Whalley

16877: The Effect of Evaluation on Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers

Eric S. Taylor and John Tyler

16876: Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Wehn-Jyuan Tsai, Jin-Tan Liu, Shin-Yi Chou and Michael Grossman

16875: Limits to Arbitrage and Hedging: Evidence from Commodity Markets

Viral Acharya, Lars A. Lochstoer and Tarun Ramadorai

16874: Adoptive Expectations: Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms

Vikas Mehrotra, Randall Morck, Jungwook Shim and Yupana Wiwattanakantang

16873: Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of "No Child Left Behind" on Children's Obesity

Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher and Diane Schanzenbach

16872: Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1939: A Statistical History

Gary Richardson and Michael Gou

16871: Monetary and Fiscal Stimuli, Ownership Structure, and China's Housing Market

Yongheng Deng, Randall Morck, Jing Wu and Bernard Yeung

16870: Finance and Governance in Developing Economies

Randall Morck

16869: Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major

Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

16868: Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking?

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

16867: Global Liquidity Trap

Ippei Fujiwara, Tomoyuki Nakajima, Nao Sudo and Yuki Teranishi

16866: Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions: Reconsidering Hiring Credits

David Neumark

16865: From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects

Scott Carrell, Bruce Sacerdote and James West

16864: Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the US Economy, 1958 to 2007

Edward Wolff

16863: Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions

Justin Marion and Erich Muehlegger

16862: Uncertainty Business Cycles - Really?

Ruediger Bachmann and Christian Bayer

16861: Investment Dispersion and the Business Cycle

Ruediger Bachmann and Christian Bayer

16860: The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets With Imperfect Enforcement

Hilary Sigman and Howard F. Chang

16859: The Long-term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes

Vivian Y. Wu and Yu-Chu Shen

16858: Exposure to Food Advertising On Television: Associations With Children's Fast Food and Soft Drink Consumption and Obesity

Tatiana Andreyeva, Inas Kelly and Jennifer L. Harris

16857: Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth: Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects

Dalton Conley and Jason Alan Thompson

16856: Mother's Schooling and Fertility under Low Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Victor Lavy and Alexander Zablotsky

16855: Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Prosper.com

Seth Freedman and Ginger Zhe Jin

16854: Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries

Roger Bate, Ginger Zhe Jin and Aparna Mathur

16853: Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?

Jeremy Fox and Valerie Smeets

16852: The Economics of Internet Markets

Jonathan Levin

16851: Set-Asides and Subsidies in Auctions

Susan Athey, Dominic Coey and Jonathan Levin

16850: Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools

Roland Fryer

16849: Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt?

Taylor D. Nadauld and Michael Weisbach

16848: Wealth Effects Revisited 1978-2009

Karl Case, John Quigley and Robert Shiller

16847: Pegs and Pain

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

16846: Industrial Actions in Schools: Strikes and Student Achievement

Michael Baker

16845: Asset Prices, Credit Growth, Monetary and Other Policies: An Australian Case Study

Paul Bloxham, Christopher Kent and Michael Robson

16844: Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone and Enrico Moretti

16843: A Unified Model of Entrepreneurship Dynamics

Chong Wang, Neng Wang and Jinqiang Yang

16842: The Economics of Hedge Funds: Alpha, Fees, Leverage, and Valuation

Yingcong Lan, Neng Wang and Jinqiang Yang

16841: The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality

James Heckman

16840: Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom? Results from the SCF and PSID

Edward Wolff and Maury Gittleman

16839: Cross-Country Comparisons of Corporate Income Taxes

Kevin S. Markle and Douglas Shackelford

16838: The Geography of Fear

Daniel Treisman

16837: Why World Exports are so Susceptible to the Economic Crisis --The Prevailing "Export Overshooting" Phenomenon

Bih Jane Liu

16836: Procyclicality and Monetary Aggregates

Hyun Song Shin and Kwanho Shin

16835: Does Less Income Mean Less Representation?

Eric Brunner, Stephen Ross and Ebonya L. Washington

16834: Deductions from the Export Basket: Capabilities, Wealth and Trade

John Sutton and Daniel Trefler

16833: Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004

Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk

16832: Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus

Jess Benhabib, Alejandro Corvalan and Mark Spiegel

16831: Free vs. Controlled Migration: Bilateral Country Study

Assaf Razin and Jackline Wahba

16830: School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana, Pramila Krishnan, Karthik Muralidharan and Venkatesh Sundararaman

16829: New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans

John Helliwell and Haifang Huang

16828: Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China

Chadwick Curtis, Steven Lugauer and Nelson Mark

16827: A Decade of Debt

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

16826: Life Shocks and Homelessness

Marah A. Curtis, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy Reichman

16825: "To Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking": How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision

Eugene White

16824: Commodity Price Volatility in the Biofuel Era: An Examination of the Linkage Between Energy and Agricultural Markets

Thomas Hertel and Jayson Beckman

16823: The Diversity of Concentrated Prescribing Behavior: An Application to Antipsychotics

Anna A. Levine Taub, Anton Kolotilin, Robert Gibbons and Ernst R. Berndt

16822: Personality Psychology and Economics

Mathilde Almlund, Angela Lee Duckworth, James Heckman and Tim D. Kautz

16821: The Unofficial Economy in Africa

Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer

16820: The Geography of Crowdfunding

Ajay Agrawal, Christian Catalini and Avi Goldfarb

16819: Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies

Eric Leeper and Todd Walker

16818: Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process

Aaron Edlin and Joseph Farrell

16817: Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

C. Kirabo Jackson

16816: Learning, Large Deviations and Rare Events

Jess Benhabib and Chetan Dave

16815: Pride Goes Before a Fall: Federal Reserve Policy and Asset Markets

Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart

16814: Stock Option Exercise and Gift Exchange Relationships: Evidence for a Large US Company

Peter Cappelli and Martin Conyon

16813: The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Computations Using Data from Ghana

Yaw Nyarko

16812: Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms

Carola Frydman and Raven S. Molloy

16811: The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Jin-Tan Liu