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15879: How Has the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Evolved Over Time?

Jean Boivin, Michael Kiley and Frederic Mishkin

15878: Why Do Inventories Rise When Demand Falls in Housing and Other Markets?

Edward Lazear

15877: Public Safety through Private Action: An economic assessment of BIDs, locks, and citizen cooperation

Philip J Cook and John MacDonald

15876: Surfing the Waves of Globalization: Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma

Joshua Aizenman, Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

15875: Diet, Health and Work Intensity in England and Wales, 1700-1914

Bernard Harris, Roderick Floud, Robert Fogel and Sok Chul Hong

15874: Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates: Challenges and Policy

Steven Raphael

15873: The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship

Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher

15872: One for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated Driving

C. Kirabo Jackson and Emily Owens

15871: Monetary Policy and Unemployment

Jordi Galí

15870: Economic Growth with Bubbles

Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura

15869: Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires

Jasjit Singh and Ajay Agrawal

15868: The Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis: Real Exchange Rates and their Long-Run Equilibrium

Yanping Chong, Oscar Jorda and Alan Taylor

15867: Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

15866: Investor Overconfidence and the Forward Premium Puzzle

Craig Burnside, Bing Han, David Hirshleifer and Tracy Yue Wang

15865: Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil

Lee Alston, Gary Libecap and Bernardo Mueller

15864: Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight

Shu Wen Ng, Edward Norton, David K. Guilkey and Barry M. Popkin

15863: Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

Douglas Gollin and Richard Rogerson

15862: The Trend of Mean BMI Values of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986 Indicates that the Obesity Epidemic Began Earlier than Hitherto Thought

John Komlos and Marek Brabec

15861: How University Endowments Respond to Financial Market Shocks: Evidence and Implications

Jeffrey Brown, Stephen Dimmock, Jun-Koo Kang and Scott Weisbenner

15860: Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey

Hanming Fang and Andrea Moro

15859: Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios

Laurent Calvet and Paolo Sodini

15858: Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes

Richard Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

15857: Using Innovations Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Jacques Mairesse and Pierre Mohnen

15856: The Politics of Monetary Policy

Alberto Alesina and Andrea Stella

15855: Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State

Jonathan Gruber and Samuel Kleiner

15854: The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Robert Hahn and Robert Stavins

15853: Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Jennifer Hunt

15852: Optimal price setting with observation and menu costs

Fernando E. Alvarez, Francesco Lippi and Luigi Paciello

15851: Harmonizing and Combining Large Datasets - An Application to Firm-Level Patent and Accounting Data

Grid Thoma, Salvatore Torrisi, Alfonso Gambardella, Dominique Guellec, Bronwyn Hall and Dietmar Harhoff

15850: Modeling Financial Contagion Using Mutually Exciting Jump Processes

Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Julio Cacho-Diaz and Roger Laeven

15849: Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)

Christopher Carpenter, Sabina Postolek and Casey Warman

15848: Corporate Bond Default Risk: A 150-Year Perspective

Kay Giesecke, Francis Longstaff, Stephen Schaefer and Ilya Strebulaev

15847: Tax buyouts

Marco Del Negro, Fabrizio Perri and Fabiano Schivardi

15846: Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber

N. Gregory Mankiw

15845: Civic Capital as the Missing Link

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

15844: Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium

Jared Carbone and V. Smith

15843: The economic crisis and medical care usage

Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider and Peter Tufano

15842: Globalization, Pass-Through and Inflation Dynamic

Pierpaolo Benigno and Ester Faia

15841: The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes

15840: Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health

Anna Aizer and Laura Stroud

15839: Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher Malloy

15838: Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences: Answers and Questions

David Galenson

15837: Leverage, Moral Hazard and Liquidity

Viral Acharya and S Viswanathan

15836: The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey

Jeffrey Frankel

15835: Durable consumption and asset management with transaction and observation costs

Fernando E. Alvarez, Luigi Guiso and Francesco Lippi

15834: Revisiting U. S. Productivity Growth over the Past Century with a View of the Future

Robert Gordon

15833: Information, analysts, and stock return comovement

Allaudeen Hameed, Randall Morck, Jianfeng Shen and Bernard Yeung

15832: Estimating Network Economies in Retail Chains: A Revealed Preference Approach

Paul Ellickson, Stephanie Houghton and Christopher Timmins

15831: The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

William Kerr, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

15830: The Predictive Content of Commodity Futures

Menzie Chinn and Olivier Coibion

15829: Insuring Consumption Using Income-Linked Assets

Andreas Fuster and Paul Willen

15828: Alcohol Regulation and Crime

Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin

15827: Human Capital Development Before Age Five

Douglas Almond and Janet Currie

15826: Microeconomic Evidence on Price-Setting

Pete Klenow and Benjamin Malin

15825: Regulating Abortion: Impact on Patients and Providers in Texas

Silvie Colman and Ted Joyce

15824: The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s

Price Fishback, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, William Horrace, Shawn Kantor and Jaret Treber

15823: The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services

Michael Anderson, Carlos Dobkin and Tal Gross

15822: The Redistributional Impact of Non-linear Electricity Pricing

Severin Borenstein

15821: Limits of Arbitrage: The State of the Theory

Denis Gromb and Dimitri Vayanos

15820: Large Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

Gary Libecap, Dean Lueck and Trevor O'Grady

15819: "Loans for Shares" Revisited

Daniel Treisman

15818: On the Taxation of Private Transfers

Louis Kaplow

15817: Leverage and Asset Bubbles: Averting Armageddon with Chapter 11?

Marcus Miller and Joseph Stiglitz

15816: Constrained Job Matching: Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?

Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin

15815: This Time is Different Chartbook: Country Histories on Debt, Default, and Financial Crises

Carmen Reinhart

15814: Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital

Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches

15813: The Relationship Between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps

Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Fabrice Murtin

15812: Disruption, Achievement and the Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes

Graham J. McKee, Steven Rivkin and Katharine Sims

15811: Measuring the Impact of Health Insurance on Levels and Trends in Inequality

Richard Burkhauser and Kosali Simon

15810: Sovereign Debt Risk Premia and Fiscal Policy in Sweden

Huixin Bi and Eric Leeper

15809: Market Response to Policy Initiatives during the Global Financial Crisis

Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Jochen Andritzky, Andreas Jobst, Sylwia Nowak and Natalia Tamirisa

15808: Analyzing the Spectrum of Asset Returns: Jump and Volatility Components in High Frequency Data

Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jean Jacod

15807: Cash Flow Multipliers and Optimal Investment Decisions

Holger Kraft and Eduardo S. Schwartz

15806: Stressed not Frozen: The Fed Funds Market in the Financial Crisis

Gara Afonso, Anna Kovner and Antoinette Schoar

15805: Optimal retirement benefit guarantees

Stavros Panageas

15804: International reserves and swap lines: substitutes or complements?

Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak and Donghyun Park

15803: Identifying Effective Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data

Thomas J. Kane, Eric S. Taylor, John Tyler and Amy L. Wooten

15802: Reassessing FHA Risk

Diego Aragon, Andrew Caplin, Sumit Chopra, John Leahy, Yann LeCun, Marco Scoffier and Joseph Tracy

15801: Involuntary Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Lawrence Christiano, Mathias Trabandt and Karl Walentin

15800: Simple Analytics and Empirics of the Government Spending Multiplier and Other "Keynesian" Paradoxes

Casey Mulligan

15799: Decoding Microsoft: Intangible Capital as a Source of Company Growth

Charles R. Hulten

15798: Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from the Expiration of Hill-Burton Requirements in Florida

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Emilia Simeonova

15797: Water Markets: Australia's Murray-Darling Basin and the US Southwest

R. Quentin Grafton, Clay Landry, Gary Libecap and Robert J. O'Brien

15796: The Effects of Employment on Influenza Rates

Sara Markowitz, Erik Nesson and Joshua Robinson

15795: From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

15794: The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

15793: Agricultural Innovation

Brian Wright and Tiffany M. Shih

15792: Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Monika Schnitzer

15791: The Effects of Oil Price Changes on the Industry-Level Production and Prices in the U.S. and Japan

Ichiro Fukunaga, Naohisa Hirakata and Nao Sudo

15790: How Much Is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation

Paul Beaudry, David Green and Benjamin Sand

15789: Family Status Transitions, Latent Health, and the Post-Retirement Evolution of Assets

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

15788: Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices

Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel

15787: Questions and Answers about the Financial Crisis

Gary Gorton

15786: Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report

Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin

15785: Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection

Thomas Philippon and Vasiliki Skreta

15784: On the ease of overstating the fiscal stimulus in the US, 2008-9

Joshua Aizenman and Gurnain Pasricha

15783: Rational-Expectations Equilibrium in Intermediate Good Markets

Robert Gibbons, Richard Holden and Michael Powell

15782: "Unfunded Liabilities" and Uncertain Fiscal Financing

Troy Davig, Eric Leeper and Todd Walker

15781: Prices and Cigarette Demand: Evidence from Youth Tobacco Use in Developing Countries

Deliana Kostova, Hana Ross, Evan Blecher and Sara Markowitz

15780: Terms of Trade Shocks and Fiscal Cycles

Graciela Kaminsky