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14940: Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it

Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer

14939: Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from the Ports of Los Angeles

Enrico Moretti and Matthew Neidell

14938: Estimating the Border Effect: Some New Evidence

Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Nicholas Li

14937: Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments

Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

14936: Pollution and International Trade in Services

Arik Levinson

14935: Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana D. Kugler and Maurice Kugler

14934: The Random Coefficients Logit Model Is Identified

Patrick Bajari, Jeremy Fox, Kyoo il Kim and Stephen Ryan

14933: Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

Julio Rotemberg

14932: What's the "Interest" in FDA Drug Advisory Committee Conflicts of Interest?

Joseph Golec and John Vernon

14931: Why Do Foreign Firms Have Less Idiosyncratic Risk than U.S. Firms?

Söhnke Bartram, Gregory Brown and René Stulz

14930: On the Self-interested Use of Equity in International Climate Negotiations

Andreas Lange, Andreas Löschel, Carsten Vogt and Andreas Ziegler

14929: Efficient Recapitalization

Thomas Philippon and Philipp Schnabl

14928: Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints

Juan Hallak and Jagadeesh Sivadasan

14927: Three Epochs of Oil

Eyal Dvir and Kenneth Rogoff

14926: Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-invent or First-to-file? Lessons From Canada

Shih-tse Lo and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

14925: Fear of Fire Sales and the Credit Freeze

Douglas Diamond and Raghuram Rajan

14924: Adolescent Cognitive and Non-cognitive Correlates of Adult Health

Robert Kaestner

14923: The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, Daniel Ortega and Francisco Rodríguez

14922: Interviewing in Two-Sided Matching Markets

Robin Lee and Michael Schwarz

14921: Experts and Their Records

Alexander Frankel and Michael Schwarz

14920: Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

Jennifer Hunt

14919: Reply to "Generalizing the Taylor Principle: A Comment"

Troy Davig and Eric Leeper

14918: Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

Nathan Nunn and Diego Puga

14917: The Long Term Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from a Unique Natural Experiment using China's Great Famine

Xin Meng and Nancy Qian

14916: Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Ashley Taylor

14915: Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium

Veronica Guerrieri, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright

14914: Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors

Francisco Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Yongseok Shin

14913: U.S. Stock Market Crash Risk, 1926-2006

David S. Bates

14912: State Dependence and Alternative Explanations for Consumer Inertia

Jean-Pierre Dubé, Günter J. Hitsch and Peter Rossi

14911: Ability-grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments

C. Kirabo Jackson

14910: Trade and Income -- Exploiting Time Series in Geography

James Feyrer

14909: The Long or Short of it: Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets

Philip Lane and Jay Shambaugh

14908: Inequality and the Measurement of Residential Segregation by Income In American Neighborhoods

Tara Watson

14907: Block Recursive Equilibria for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job

Guido Menzio and Shouyong Shi

14906: Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance

Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

14905: Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle

Guido Menzio and Shouyong Shi

14904: How the Subprime Crisis Went Global: Evidence from Bank Credit Default Swap Spreads

Barry Eichengreen, Ashoka Mody, Milan Nedeljkovic and Lucio Sarno

14903: Risk Shifting and Mutual Fund Performance

Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm and Hanjiang Zhang

14902: Anticipated Alternative Instrument-Rate Paths in Policy Simulations

Stefan Laséen and Lars Svensson

14901: Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle

Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

14900: Immigration and Product Diversity

Francesca Mazzolari and David Neumark

14899: The Importance of History for Economic Development

Nathan Nunn

14898: Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility

Veronica Guerrieri and Péter Kondor

14897: Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms' Responses to the Enron Shock

Christian Leuz and Catherine Schrand

14896: Better LATE Than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009)

Guido Imbens

14895: The Great Inflation in the United States and the United Kingdom: Reconciling Policy Decisions and Data Outcomes

Riccardo DiCecio and Edward Nelson

14894: Euro Membership as a U.K. Monetary Policy Option: Results from a Structural Model

Riccardo DiCecio and Edward Nelson

14893: Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Stefano Gagliarducci and M. Daniele Paserman

14892: Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis: The Panic of 1826

Eric Hilt

14891: Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies

Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley

14890: Do Regulations Based on Credit Ratings Affect a Firm's Cost of Capital?

Darren J. Kisgen and Philip E. Strahan

14889: CAPM for Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital: Interpreting the Empirical Evidence

Zhi Da, Re-Jin Guo and Ravi Jagannathan

14888: Global Financial Structure and Climate Change

John Whalley and Yufei Yuan

14887: Financial Regulation, Financial Globalization and the Synchronization of Economic Activity

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Elias Papaioannou and Jose-Luis Peydro

14886: Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

Kathleen Mullen, Richard G. Frank and Meredith B. Rosenthal

14885: Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Hanming Fang and Kenneth I. Spenner

14884: Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

Eric Gould, Victor Lavy and M. Daniele Paserman

14883: Sophisticated Monetary Policies

Andrew Atkeson, Varadarajan Chari and Patrick Kehoe

14882: Bayesian and Frequentist Inference in Partially Identified Models

Hyungsik Moon and Frank Schorfheide

14881: Information Asymmetry, Information Precision, and the Cost of Capital

Richard A. Lambert, Christian Leuz and Robert E. Verrecchia

14880: Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements: Analytics and Simulations

Yan Dong and John Whalley

14879: A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education

Meta Brown, John Scholz and Ananth Seshadri

14878: The Alchemy of CDO Credit Ratings

Efraim Benmelech and Jennifer Dlugosz

14877: Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?

Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller

14876: An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades

Jeffrey Frankel

14875: Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks

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

14874: The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

14873: Gender Roles and Medical Progress

Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti

14872: DSGE Model-Based Forecasting of Non-modelled Variables

Frank Schorfheide, Keith Sill and Maxym Kryshko

14871: Valuing Toxic Assets: An Analysis of CDO Equity

Francis Longstaff and Brett Myers

14870: Sticky Prices Versus Monetary Frictions: An Estimation of Policy Trade-offs

S. Boragan Aruoba and Frank Schorfheide

14869: Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools

Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis and Sarah Reber

14868: Business and Financial Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

Bronwyn Hall

14867: Outside and Inside Liquidity

Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos and Jose Scheinkman

14866: Forced Sales and House Prices

John Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Parag Pathak

14865: Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

Jonathan Skinner and Doug Staiger

14864: Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag Pathak and Alvin Roth

14863: Credit Market Shocks and Economic Fluctuations: Evidence from Corporate Bond and Stock Markets

Simon Gilchrist, Vladimir Yankov and Egon Zakrajšek

14862: The Great Inflation Drift

Marvin Goodfriend and Robert King

14861: The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

14860: Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching: A Nonparametric Analysis

Bryan Graham, Guido Imbens and Geert Ridder

14859: How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

14858: The Riddle of the Great Pyramids

Randall Morck

14857: Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Municipalities

Stephen Coate and Brian Knight

14856: A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline

Thomas Holmes and Julia Thornton Snider

14855: Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Bajari and Gregory Lewis

14854: The Olympic Effect

Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel

14853: Menstruation and Education in Nepal

Emily Oster and Rebecca Thornton

14852: Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement

Caroline Hoxby and Sonali Murarka

14851: The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S

Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Caroline Hoxby, Andreu Mas-Colell and Andre Sapir

14850: Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth

Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig

14849: Surprising Comparative Properties of Monetary Models: Results from a New Data Base

John Taylor and Volker Wieland

14848: Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk

Hui Chen, Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang

14847: Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Brandon Dupont, Alka Gandhi and Thomas Weiss

14846: Confidence, Crashes and Animal Spirits

Roger Farmer

14845: A Unified Theory of Tobin's q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management

Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen and Neng Wang

14844: Early Admissions at Selective Colleges

Christopher Avery and Jonathan Levin

14843: Financial Openness and Productivity

Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey and Christian Lundblad

14842: Estimation of Causal Effects in Experiments with Multiple Sources of Noncompliance

John Engberg, Dennis Epple, Jason Imbrogno, Holger Sieg and Ron Zimmer

14841: Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market

Trevon Logan and Manisha Shah