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17545: How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

17544: The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge

Aaron Weisbrod and John Whalley

17543: Supply-Side Policies and the Zero Lower Bound

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Pablo Guerron and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

17542: Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector

Viral Acharya and Raghuram Rajan

17541: The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan

17540: Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon: Background and Results from the RICE-2011 Model

William Nordhaus

17539: Policy-Instrument Choice and Benefit Estimates for Climate-Change Policy in the United States

Matthew Kotchen, Kevin Boyle and Anthony A. Leiserowitz

17538: Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program

Kenneth T. Whelan, Ronald Ehrenberg, Kevin Hallock and Ronald L. Seeber

17537: Housing and the Macroeconomy: The Role of Bailout Guarantees for Government Sponsored Enterprises

Karsten Jeske, Dirk Krueger and Kurt Mitman

17536: The Composition and Draw-down of Wealth in Retirement

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

17535: Organizational Economics and Physician Practices

James Rebitzer and Mark E. Votruba

17534: Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

Jesse Rothstein

17533: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion

Susan Dynarski, Joshua Hyman and Diane Schanzenbach

17532: The Value-Added Tax Reform Puzzle

Jing Cai and Ann Harrison

17531: The Tax Reform Act of 1986: Comment on the 25th Anniversary

Martin Feldstein

17530: Financial Sector Ups and Downs and the Real Sector: Up by the stairs, down by the parachute

Joshua Aizenman, Brian Pinto and Vladyslav Sushko

17529: Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization

Robert Pollak

17528: The Effect of FDA Advisories on Branded Pharmaceutical Firms' Valuations and Promotion Efforts

Rena Conti, Haiden A. Huskamp and Ernst R. Berndt

17527: Teaching Practices and Social Capital

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Andrei Shleifer

17526: Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States

Alan Barreca, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

17525: Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions

George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O

17524: Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Amit Khandelwal, Peter Schott and Shang-Jin Wei

17523: A survey of venture capital research

Marco Da Rin, Thomas Hellmann and Manju Puri

17522: Government Policy and Ownership of Financial Assets

Kristian Rydqvist, Joshua Spizman and Ilya Strebulaev

17521: The Simple Analytics of the Melitz Model in a Small Open Economy

Svetlana Demidova and Andrés Rodríguez-Clarez

17520: Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach

Allen Head, Lucy Qian Liu, Guido Menzio and Randall Wright

17519: Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments

Michal Kolesár, Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Edward Glaeser and Guido Imbens

17518: Ending "Too Big To Fail": Government Promises vs. Investor Perceptions

Todd A. Gormley, Simon Johnson and Changyong Rhee

17517: The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes

Alon Brav, Wei Jiang and Hyunseob Kim

17516: A Model of Mortgage Default

John Campbell and João F. Cocco

17515: Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity

Assaf Razin and Jackline Wahba

17514: Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell

17513: A Forensic Analysis of Global Imbalances

Menzie Chinn, Barry Eichengreen and Hiro Ito

17512: Innovation and Growth with Financial, and other, Frictions

Jonathan Chiu, Cesaire Meh and Randall Wright

17511: Buyers, Sellers and Middlemen: Variations on Search-Theoretic Themes

Linda Wong and Randall Wright

17510: Endogenous Credit Cycles

Chao Gu and Randall Wright

17509: What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings

Miriam Schwartz-Ziv and Michael Weisbach

17508: The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Raquel Fernandez and Joyce Cheng Wong

17507: Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Erdal Tekin

17506: Speculation and Risk Sharing with New Financial Assets

Alp Simsek

17505: Lifecycle Portfolio Choice with Systematic Longevity Risk and Variable Investment-Linked Deferred Annuities

Vasily Kartashov, Raimond Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Ralph Rogalla

17504: General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Eric Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann and Lei Zhang

17503: Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music since Napster

Joel Waldfogel

17502: Capital Flows and Economic Growth in the Era of Financial Integration and Crisis, 1990-2010

Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak and Donghyun Park

17501: Traded and Nontraded Goods Prices, and International Risk Sharing: an Empirical Investigation

Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Francesca Viani

17500: Liquidity and the Threat of Fraudulent Assets

Yiting Li, Guillaume Rocheteau and Pierre-Olivier Weill

17499: The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy: An Introduction

Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram

17498: What Role for Trade in a Post 2012 Global Climate Policy Regime

John Whalley

17497: Role Reversal in Global Finance

Eswar Prasad

17496: The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data

David Hummels, Rasmus Jørgensen, Jakob Munch and Chong Xiang

17495: Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time

Robert Lucas and Benjamin Moll

17494: Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: A Field Experiment in Houston

Roland Fryer

17493: Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy

Andrew Atkeson and Ariel T. Burstein

17492: Reserves and Baskets

Michael Bordo and Harold James

17491: Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Generate Alpha

Diane Del Guercio and Jonathan Reuter

17490: On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms

Francis Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz

17489: Optimal Monetary Policy with Endogenous Entry and Product Variety

Florin Bilbiie, Ippei Fujiwara and Fabio Ghironi

17488: Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory and Experience

Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins

17487: The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach

Benjamin Jones

17486: If You Build It Will They Come? Teacher Use of Student Performance Data on a Web-Based Tool

John Tyler

17485: House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Lisa Dettling and Melissa Kearney

17484: Price Dividend Ratio Factors: Proxies for Long Run Risk

Ravi Jagannathan and Srikant Marakani

17483: Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity

Charles Courtemanche, Garth Heutel and Patrick McAlvanah

17482: Estimating Patients' Preferences for Medical Devices: Does the Number of Profile in Choice Experiments Matter?

John Bridges, Christine Buttorff and Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn

17481: Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob and Martin Jacob

17480: Separating the Opposing Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties

Bruce Blonigen, Lindsay Oldenski and Nicholas Sly

17479: The Stock Market Crash of 2008 Caused the Great Recession: Theory and Evidence

Roger Farmer

17478: Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

Harold Cuffe, William Harbaugh, Jason Lindo, Giancarlo Musto and Glen Waddell

17477: Sticking with What (Barely) Worked

Lars Lefgren, Brennan Platt and Joseph Price

17476: The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers: A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool

Orley Ashenfelter, Daniel S. Hosken and Matthew Weinberg

17475: List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

17474: Human Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

Ann P. Bartel, Ciaran S. Phibbs, Nancy Beaulieu and Patricia Stone

17473: The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Craig Landry, Andreas Lange, John List, Michael Price and Nicholas Rupp

17472: Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Craig Landry, Andreas Lange, John List, Michael Price and Nicholas Rupp

17471: The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

17470: Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production

Pol Antras

17469: State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing

Brian Knight

17468: Does Short-Term Debt Increase Vulnerability to Crisis? Evidence from the East Asian Financial Crisis

Efraim Benmelech and Eyal Dvir

17467: Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

David Neumark and Joanne Song

17466: Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?

Alison Felix and James Hines

17465: Grade Non-Disclosure

Daniel Gottlieb and Kent Smetters

17464: Political Uncertainty and Risk Premia

Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

17463: Corporate Acquisitions, Diversification, and the Firm's Lifecycle

Asli M. Arikan and René Stulz

17462: Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages

Roland Fryer, Devah Pager and Jörg Spenkuch

17461: Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

George Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon Hanson

17460: Importing Skill-Biased Technology

Ariel Burstein, Javier Cravino and Jonathan Vogel

17459: Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts

Benjamin R. Handel

17458: Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States

William Collins and Katharine L. Shester

17457: Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies

Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador

17456: The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers

Jesse Cunha, Giacomo De Giorgi and Seema Jayachandran

17455: Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections

Charles Manski and John Pepper

17454: CoVaR

Tobias Adrian and Markus Brunnermeier

17453: Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence

Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen

17452: Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?

Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

17451: Insuring Long Term Care In the US

Jeffrey Brown and Amy Finkelstein

17450: Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics

Kevin Lang and Jee-Yeon Lehmann

17449: Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

17448: Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit

Igor Livshits, James (Jim) MacGee and Michele Tertilt

17447: Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion

Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

17446: The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata

Ralf Martin, Laure de Preux and Ulrich Wagner