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15610: Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

Steven Levitt, John List and Sally E. Sadoff

15609: What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

Steven Levitt, John List and David Reiley

15608: How Do Retirees Value Life Annuities? Evidence from Public Employees

John Chalmers and Jonathan Reuter

15607: Integrating Retirement Models

Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier

15606: Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines

Ronald Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Mirinda L. Martin, Joyce B. Main and Thomas Eisenberg

15605: The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe

Richard Hornbeck

15604: Trade, Multinational Production, and the Gains from Openness

Natalia Ramondo and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

15603: The Effects of Product Liability Exemption in the Presence of the FDA

Tomas Philipson, Eric Sun and Dana Goldman

15602: Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky

15601: The (Dis)saving Behavior of the Aged in Japan

Charles Horioka

15600: The Good, the Bad and the Average: Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools

Victor Lavy, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt

15599: Composition of International Capital Flows: A Survey

Koralai Kirabaeva and Assaf Razin

15598: Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Petra Moser and Alessandra Voena

15597: Migration and the Welfare State: A Dynamic Political-Economy Theory

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Benjarong Suwankiri

15596: Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States

John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff and Richard Steckel

15595: Utility from Accumulation

Louis Kaplow

15594: Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith and the Crisis of 1772

Hugh Rockoff

15593: Measuring the Gains from Trade under Monopolistic Competition

Robert Feenstra

15592: Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth

Robert Feenstra, Benjamin Mandel, Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter

15591: Momentum Cycles and Limits to Arbitrage Evidence from Victorian England and Post-Depression US Stock Markets

Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels and Ravi Jagannathan

15590: Pain at the Pump: The Differential Effect of Gasoline Prices on New and Used Automobile Markets

Meghan R. Busse, Christopher Knittel and Florian Zettelmeyer

15589: Is a WIC Start a Better Start? Evaluating WIC's Impact on Infant Health Using Program Introduction

Hilary Hoynes, Marianne Page and Ann Stevens

15588: Risk-Adjusted Gamma Discounting

Martin Weitzman

15587: The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution

Alberto Alesina, Guido Cozzi and Noemi Mantovan

15586: Testing for Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets

Alma Cohen and Peter Siegelman

15585: Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits

W Viscusi, Joel Huber, Jason Bell and Caroline Cecot

15584: The Great Depression Analogy

Michael Bordo and Harold James

15583: Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women

Alexander Gelber and Joshua W. Mitchell

15582: Public versus Private Risk Sharing

Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri

15581: The Economics of Labor Coercion

Daron Acemoglu and Alexander Wolitzky

15580: The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices

Martin Berka and Mario Crucini

15579: Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Servén

15578: The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia

Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson and Rafael Santos

15577: Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Gilbert Cette, Yusuf Kocoglu and Jacques Mairesse

15576: The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

15575: Banking System Control, Capital Allocation, and Economy Performance

Randall Morck, M. Deniz Yavuz and Bernard Yeung

15574: An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer

Eric Sun, Anupam Jena, Darius Lakdawalla, Carolina M. Reyes, Tomas Philipson and Dana Goldman

15573: Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s

Eugene White

15572: Profiting from Regulation: An Event Study of the EU Carbon Market

James Bushnell, Howard Chong and Erin Mansur

15571: The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards

Alison Del Rossi and W Viscusi

15570: Investment Shocks and Business Cycles

Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

15569: Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking

Viral Acharya, Yakov Amihud and Lubomir Litov

15568: The Internal Governance of Firms

Viral Acharya, Stewart C. Myers and Raghuram Rajan

15567: Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity

Viral Acharya, Hyun Song Shin and Tanju Yorulmazer

15566: Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources

John Bound, Michael Lovenheim and Sarah Turner

15565: Quantitative Easing: A Rationale and Some Evidence from Japan

Volker Wieland

15564: Employers' Preferences for Gender, Age, Height and Beauty: Direct Evidence

Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen

15563: What Ties Return Volatilities to Price Valuations and Fundamentals?

Alexander David and Pietro Veronesi

15562: Using Inflation to Erode the U.S. Public Debt

Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion

15561: Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Co-movement

Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston

15560: National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Enrico Spolaore

15559: "Do the Right Thing:" The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation

Ernesto Dal Bó and Pedro Dal Bó

15558: Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure: Historical Experience in the Western United States

Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary Libecap and Scott E. Lowe

15557: Distance, Trade, and Income - The 1967 to 1975 Closing of the Suez Canal as a Natural Experiment

James Feyrer

15556: Exports and Financial Shocks

Mary Amiti and David Weinstein

15555: Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry

Steven Puller, Anirban Sengupta and Steven N. Wiggins

15554: Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

Dirk Krueger, Fabrizio Perri, Luigi Pistaferri and Giovanni Violante

15553: How Much Consumption Insurance Beyond Self-Insurance?

Greg Kaplan and Giovanni Violante

15552: The Real Effects of Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Financial Crisis

Murillo Campello, John Graham and Campbell Harvey

15551: A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions

Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan and Jeffrey Wurgler

15550: Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels

15549: Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane and Parag Pathak

15548: A Concordance Between Ten-Digit U.S. Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product Classes and Industries

Justin Pierce and Peter Schott

15547: Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines

Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Joseph H. Felter and Jacob N. Shapiro

15546: A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sebastien Perez-Duarte and Ian Schmutte

15545: Tractability in Incentive Contracting

Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix

15544: The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics

Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse Shapiro and Michael Sinkinson

15543: Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty

Nicholas Burger and Charles Kolstad

15542: How Debt Markets have Malfunctioned in the Crisis

Arvind Krishnamurthy

15541: International Trade and Domestic Regulation

Robert Staiger and Alan O. Sykes

15540: Bayesian Persuasion

Emir Kamenica and Matthew Gentzkow

15539: Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program

Daniel Millimet and Rusty Tchernis

15538: When Safe Proved Risky: Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

Marcin Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl

15537: The State of Corporate Governance Research

Lucian Bebchuk and Michael Weisbach

15536: Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship

Edward Glaeser, Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange

15535: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform

Richard Boylan and Naci Mocan

15534: Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth: A Long Run View

Michael Bordo, Christopher Meissner and David Stuckler

15533: Jump-Robust Volatility Estimation using Nearest Neighbor Truncation

Torben Andersen, Dobrislav Dobrev and Ernst Schaumburg

15532: Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry

Ashish Arora and Anand Nandkumar

15531: The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob

15530: Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry

James Markusen and Frank Stähler

15529: Trust and Delegation

Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann, Bing Liang and Christopher Schwarz

15528: Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade

Katheryn Russ and Diego Valderrama

15527: Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe

Daniel Hamermesh and Gerard Pfann

15526: Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu and Serdar Ozkan

15525: Current Account Fact and Fiction

David Backus, Espen Henriksen, Frederic Lambert and Chris Telmer

15524: From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons

Miguel Almunia, Agustín Bénétrix, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin O'Rourke and Gisela Rua

15523: Currency Carry Trade Regimes: Beyond the Fama Regression

Richard Clarida, Josh Davis and Niels Pedersen

15522: Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization

Ofer Malamud

15521: Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities

David Card, Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston

15520: Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

Jeremy Atack and Robert Margo

15519: The Feldstein-Horioka fact

Domenico Giannone and Michele Lenza

15518: The Carry Trade and Fundamentals: Nothing to Fear But FEER Itself

Oscar Jorda and Alan Taylor

15517: A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment

Till Bärnighausen, David Bloom and Salal Humair

15516: Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations

Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey Frankel

15515: Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?

Christian Laux and Christian Leuz

15514: Anchors Away: How Fiscal Policy Can Undermine the Taylor Principle

Eric Leeper

15513: Decentralized Trading with Private Information

Mikhail Golosov, Guido Lorenzoni and Aleh Tsyvinski

15512: Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870-2008

Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor

15511: Innovators: Songwriters

David Galenson