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14610: An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz

14609: Informed Trading, Liquidity Provision, and Stock Selection by Mutual Funds

Zhi Da, Pengjie Gao and Ravi Jagannathan

14608: National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment

Steven Cantrell, Jon Fullerton, Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

14607: Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation

Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

14606: Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

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

14605: Trading Frictions and House Price Dynamics

Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

14604: Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands

Peter Henry and Conrad Miller

14603: Endogenous Presidentialism

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

14602: Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries: Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology

Matthew Higgins, Paula Stephan and Jerry Thursby

14601: Forecast Evaluation of Small Nested Model Sets

Kirstin Hubrich and Kenneth West

14600: "Currency Manipulation" and World Trade

Robert Staiger and Alan O. Sykes

14599: The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner

14598: Media Coverage of Political Scandals

Riccardo Puglisi and James Snyder

14597: Predictability and 'Good Deals' in Currency Markets

Richard M. Levich and Valerio Potì

14596: Opting Out of the Great Inflation: German Monetary Policy After the Break Down of Bretton Woods

Andreas Beyer, Vitor Gaspar, Christina Gerberding and Otmar Issing

14595: Learning the Wealth of Nations

Francisco Buera, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Giorgio Primiceri

14594: Innovation and Productivity in SMEs: Empirical Evidence for Italy

Bronwyn Hall, Francesca Lotti and Jacques Mairesse

14593: Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

Christopher Barrington-Leigh and John Helliwell

14592: Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation

Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur and John McHale

14591: Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

Dhaval Dave, Sandra Decker, Robert Kaestner and Kosali Simon

14590: Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions

Susan Athey, Jonathan Levin and Enrique Seira

14589: Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

John Helliwell and Haifang Huang

14588: The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry

Justin Ho, Katherine Ho and Julie Mortimer

14587: Banking Crises: An Equal Opportunity Menace

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

14586: What Can Survey Forecasts Tell Us About Informational Rigidities?

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

14585: The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

14584: Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects, and Markups

Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti

14583: Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows

Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner

14582: The Value of Making Commitments Externally: Evidence from WTO Accessions

Man-Keung Tang and Shang-Jin Wei

14581: Equity Depletion from Government-Guaranteed Debt

Robert Hall

14580: Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

Loretti Dobrescu, Laurence Kotlikoff and Alberto Motta

14579: The Flypaper Effect

Robert P. Inman

14578: The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

Justine Hastings and Ebonya L. Washington

14577: Superstar Extinction

Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Jialan Wang

14576: Evidence of Improved Monitoring and Insolvency Resolution after FDICIA

Edward Kane, Rosalind Bennett and Robert Oshinsky

14575: The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function

James Adams and J. Roger Clemmons

14574: Delegated Asset Management, Investment Mandates, and Capital Immobility

Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong

14573: Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers

Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman

14572: Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

Leemore Dafny

14571: Forecasting Stock Market Returns: The Sum of the Parts is More than the Whole

Miguel Ferreira and Pedro Santa-Clara

14570: The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig

14569: An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008

Michael Bordo

14568: The Cost of Primary Care Doctors

Sherry A. Glied, Ashwin Prabhu and Norman H. Edelman

14567: Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation: Evidence from US and Italy

Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya and Lorenzo Carbonari

14566: The Timing of Labor Demand

Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel Hamermesh and Jose Varejao

14565: International Trade in Used Durable Goods: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA

Lucas Davis and Matthew Kahn

14564: Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

Jonah E. Rockoff and Lesley Turner

14563: The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited

Alan Blinder and Jeremy B. Rudd

14562: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance

Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick

14561: Inflation Targeting and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets

Joshua Aizenman, Michael Hutchison and Ilan Noy

14560: Did Economics Cause World War II?

Robert Gordon

14559: Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision

Michael Spencer, Stephen Swallow, Jason Shogren and John List

14558: Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones

14557: The Evolution of Corporate Ownership After IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection

C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood

14556: A Resource Belief-Curse? Oil and Individualism

Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch

14555: Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age

Hugh Rockoff

14554: Task Trade between Similar Countries

Gene Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

14553: The Slow Decline of East Germany

Harald Uhlig

14552: An Exploration of Local R&D Spillovers in France

Jacques Mairesse and Benoît Mulkay

14551: What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?

Andrew Mountford and Harald Uhlig

14550: Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children

Brian Jacob and Jens Ludwig

14549: Bankruptcy: Past Puzzles, Recent Reforms, and the Mortgage Crisis

Michelle White

14548: What is a Company Really Worth? Intangible Capital and the "Market to Book Value" Puzzle

Charles R. Hulten and Xiaohui Hao

14547: Can Structural Small Open Economy Models Account for the Influence of Foreign Disturbances?

Alejandro Justiniano and Bruce Preston

14546: Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Marcos Chamon and Eswar Prasad

14545: Mandates and the Affordability of Health Care

Sherry A. Glied

14544: Mispricing of S&P 500 Index Options

George Constantinides, Jens Carsten Jackwerth and Stylianos Perrakis

14543: Asset Pricing Tests with Long Run Risks in Consumption Growth

George Constantinides and Anisha Ghosh

14542: The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade: Why Are They Below Historical Effects of Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?

Jeffrey Frankel

14541: More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan

Ming-Jen Lin, Nancy Qian and Jin-Tan Liu

14540: Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

Jeffrey Liebman, Erzo Luttmer and David G. Seif

14539: Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

14538: Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Justine Hastings and Lydia Tejeda-Ashton

14537: Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005

Chiaki Moriguchi

14536: Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions

Richard Steckel

14535: Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

Helena Nielsen, Torben Sørensen and Christopher R. Taber

14534: Inflation Determination with Taylor Rules: Is New Keynesian Analysis Critically Flawed?

Bennett McCallum

14533: Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time

Joshua Aizenman, Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

14532: Bretton Woods and the Great Inflation

Michael Bordo and Barry Eichengreen

14531: Credit Constraints, Heterogeneous Firms, and International Trade

Kalina Manova

14530: Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program

David Neumark and Jed Kolko

14529: Business Cycles in the Euro Area

Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Lucrezia Reichlin

14528: Emerging Market Currency Excess Returns

Stephen Gilmore and Fumio Hayashi

14527: Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch and Laurence Kotlikoff

14526: Dynamic Merger Review

Volker Nocke and Michael Whinston

14525: Impossible Frontiers

Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew Lo

14524: High Birth Weight and Cognitive Outcomes

Resul Cesur and Inas Rashad

14523: An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal

Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley

14522: Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Amanda Kowalski and Heidi Williams

14521: Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances

Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

14520: The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development

Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer

14519: Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in EMU: Evidence from an Estimated Model

Ulf Söderström

14518: Did Mergers Help Japanese Mega-Banks Avoid Failure? Analysis of the Distance to Default of Banks

Kimie Harada and Takatoshi Ito

14517: Intermediary Asset Pricing

Zhiguo He and Arvind Krishnamurthy

14516: The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Fernando Ferreira and Jesse Rothstein

14515: Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing

Yongmin Chen, Ignatius Horstmann and James Markusen

14514: A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance

Casey Mulligan

14513: No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity

John Mullahy and Stephanie A. Robert

14512: Tobit at Fifty: A Brief History of Tobin's Remarkable Estimator, of Related Empirical Methods, and of Limited Dependent Variable Econometrics in Health Economics

Kohei Enami and John Mullahy

14511: Term Length and Political Performance

Ernesto Dal Bó and Martín Rossi