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17126: Price Setting in a Leading Swiss Online Supermarket

Martin Berka, Michael Devereux and Thomas Rudolph

17125: The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

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

17124: Privacy and Innovation

Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker

17123: Irving Fisher and Price-Level Targeting in Austria: Was Silver the Answer?

Richard Burdekin, Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier

17122: Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments

Yael V. Hochberg and Joshua Rauh

17121: Global Crises and Equity Market Contagion

Geert Bekaert, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher and Arnaud Mehl

17120: How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes

John P. Papay, Richard Murnane and John B. Willett

17119: Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam

Eric Bettinger, Brent J. Evans and Devin Pope

17118: The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

17117: Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport

Anca Cristea, David Hummels, Laura Puzzello and Misak Avetisyan

17116: The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium

Charles Engel

17115: A Model of Shadow Banking

Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

17114: Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre and Sergio Perelman

17113: Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Nico Voigtlaender and Hans-Joachim Voth

17112: High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis

John P. Papay, John B. Willett and Richard Murnane

17111: Fiscal Stimulus and Distortionary Taxation

Thorsten Drautzburg and Harald Uhlig

17110: Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Germany

Tabea Bucher-Koenen and Annamaria Lusardi

17109: Financial Literacy, Retirement Preparation and Pension Expectations in the Netherlands

Rob Alessie, Maarten van Rooij and Annamaria Lusardi

17108: Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17107: Financial Literacy around the World: An Overview

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17106: Institutional Comparative Statics

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

17105: Maternity Leave and Children's Cognitive and Behavioral Development

Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan

17104: Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, Dania V. Francis and Christina M. Gibson-Davis

17103: Americans' Financial Capability

Annamaria Lusardi

17102: Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis

Quamrul Ashraf, Boris Gershman and Peter Howitt

17101: Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data

Emanuele Massetti and Robert Mendelsohn

17100: International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?

Nune Hovhannisyan and Wolfgang Keller

17099: Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks' Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting

Ebonya L. Washington

17098: On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

17097: Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

John D. Griffin, David Nickerson and Abigail Wozniak

17096: Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States

James Banks, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

17095: Empirical Implementation of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models

Daniel Henderson, John List, Daniel Millimet, Christopher Parmeter and Michael Price

17094: Life and Growth

Charles Jones

17093: How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns

Ran Abramitzky and Victor Lavy

17092: Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. and African Agriculture

Marshall Burke, John Dykema, David Lobell, Edward Miguel and Shanker Satyanath

17091: Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley

17090: Macroeconomic Regimes

Lieven Baele, Geert Bekaert, Seonghoon Cho, Koen Inghelbrecht and Antonio Moreno

17089: Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement

Sa A. Bui, Steven Craig and Scott Imberman

17088: Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends

David Card and Laura Giuliano

17087: Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households

Sebastian Rausch, Gilbert Metcalf and John Reilly

17086: Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Stanley Reynolds and Mario Samano

17085: The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education: Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment

Philip DeCicca and Justin Smith

17084: Unemployment in an Estimated New Keynesian Model

Jordi Galí, Frank Smets and Raf Wouters

17083: Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency

Garth Heutel

17082: Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence

Eduard Ponds, Clara Severinson and Juan Yermo

17081: The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

John Cawley and Christopher Ruhm

17080: Monetary Policy Mistakes and the Evolution of Inflation Expectations

Athanasios Orphanides and John Williams

17079: Disability, Pension Reform and Early Retirement in Germany

Axel H. Boersch-Supan and Hendrik Juerges

17078: Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17077: The Outlook for Financial Literacy

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17076: A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis

Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra and Thierry Tressel

17075: Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Oded Galor and Stelios Michalopoulos

17074: Exchange Rates in Emerging Countries: Eleven Empirical Regularities from Latin America and East Asia

Sebastian Edwards

17073: Financial Protectionism: the First Tests

Andrew Rose and Tomasz Wieladek

17072: Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications

Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider and Peter Tufano

17071: Is there a trade-off between inflation and output stabilization?

Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

17070: The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions

Craig L. Garthwaite

17069: Income-Based Disparities in Health Care Utilization under Universal Coverage in Brazil

Guido Cataife and Charles Courtemanche

17068: Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias

Dhaval Dave, Jennifer Tennant and Gregory Colman

17067: Goods Prices and Availability in Cities

Jessie Handbury and David Weinstein

17066: History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms

Daron Acemoglu and Matthew Jackson

17065: Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

Christopher Mayer, Edward Morrison, Tomasz Piskorski and Arpit Gupta

17064: Recursive Contracts, Lotteries and Weakly Concave Pareto Sets

Harold Cole and Felix Kubler

17063: Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks

Ruediger Bachmann and Eric Sims

17062: Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan

17061: Are the Seeds of Bad Governance Sown in Good Times?

Antoinette Schoar and Ebonya L. Washington

17060: Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations

George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O

17059: Theft and Deterrence

William Harbaugh, Naci Mocan and Michael S. Visser

17058: Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

Oded Galor

17057: The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences

Oded Galor

17056: Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

17055: Disability and Social Security Reforms: The French Case

Luc Behaghel, Didier Blanchet, Thierry Debrand and Muriel Roger

17054: Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden

Lisa Jönsson, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson

17053: Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands

Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn and Adriaan Kalwij

17052: Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan: A Historical Perspective

Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani

17051: Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman

17050: Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups

Annamaria Conti, Marie Thursby and Frank Rothaermel

17049: Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson

17048: Health, Disability and Pathways to Retirement in Spain

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Judit Vall Castello

17047: The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

David Card, Stefano DellaVigna and Ulrike Malmendier

17046: Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less

Peter J. Huckfeldt and Christopher Knittel

17045: Land-price dynamics and macroeconomic fluctuations

Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang and Tao Zha

17044: Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession

Laurence Ball and Sandeep Mazumder

17043: Incentives and the Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics

John Conley, Mario Crucini, Robert Driskill and Ali Onder

17042: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert Moffitt and John Scholz

17041: What Do Small Businesses Do?

Erik Hurst and Benjamin Pugsley

17040: Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010

Henry S. Farber

17039: Estimating and Testing Models with Many Treatment Levels and Limited Instruments

Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti

17038: This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance During the Recent Financial Crisis

Ruediger Fahlenbrach, Robert Prilmeier and René Stulz

17037: Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

17036: Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?

Scott A. Baker and Anup Malani

17035: Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

Casey Rothschild and Florian Scheuer

17034: Are the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks Big or Small?

Olivier Coibion

17033: Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

James Andreoni and Laura Gee

17032: The Hired Gun Mechanism

James Andreoni and Laura Gee

17031: Individual Preferences, Organization, and Competition in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision

Nicola Lacetera and Lorenzo Zirulia

17030: Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

Nicola Lacetera, Devin Pope and Justin R. Sydnor

17029: An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl

17028: Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Bank Overdraft Fees

Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman

17027: The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

Tarek Hassan and Thomas Mertens