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14110: Energy Tax Incentives and the Alternative Minimum Tax

Curtis Carlson and Gilbert Metcalf

14109: How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive

Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei

14108: Intangible Capital and Productivity: An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms

Maria Bontempi and Jacques Mairesse

14107: Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830

Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson

14106: Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence

Mary Amiti and Donald Davis

14105: How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier

14104: The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

John Cawley, John R. Moran and Kosali Simon

14103: Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections: A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Alessandra Casella, Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman and Jie Shen

14102: Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

Daniel F. McCaffrey, Rosalie Pacula, Bing Han and Phyllis Ellickson

14101: Banking Globalization, Monetary Transmission, and the Lending Channel

Nicola Cetorelli and Linda Goldberg

14100: Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility: How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?

Barry Eichengreen

14099: Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary & Secondary Education

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson and Matthew P. Williams

14098: On the Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand

Peter Ireland

14097: Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation

Alessandra Fogli and Laura Veldkamp

14096: Utilisation of Physician Services in the 50+ Population. The Relative Importance of Individual versus Institutional Factors in 10 European Countries

Kristian Bolin, Anna Lindgren, Bjorn Lindgren and Petter Lundborg

14095: Is There a Market for Voluntary Health Insurance in Developing Countries?

Mark Pauly, Fredric E. Blavin and Sudha Meghan

14094: Life-cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk

Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff

14093: The Cost of Uncertain Life Span

Ryan Edwards

14092: Optimal Monetary Policy in an Operational Medium-Sized DSGE Model

Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé and Lars Svensson

14091: Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals

Eric Brunner, Stephen Ross and Ebonya L. Washington

14090: Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan

Kris J. Mitchener and Mari Ohnuki

14089: What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

Amy Finkelstein, Erzo Luttmer and Matthew Notowidigdo

14088: Capital Market Imperfections and the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

14087: A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice

Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson and Jeremy Stein

14086: Use of Propensity Scores in Non-Linear Response Models: The Case for Health Care Expenditures

Anirban Basu, Daniel Polsky and Willard Manning

14085: Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

Sharon Katz

14084: Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?

Annamaria Lusardi

14083: Subprime Mortgages: What, Where, and to Whom?

Christopher Mayer and Karen Pence

14082: Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets

Hanno Lustig, Nikolai Roussanov and Adrien Verdelhan

14081: Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors

Scott Carrell and James West

14080: Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: Challenges, Difficulties and Warnings

Christopher Knittel and Konstantinos Metaxoglou

14079: Estimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports

Ram C. Acharya and Wolfgang Keller

14078: Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges

Olivia Mitchell, John Piggott and Cagri Kumru

14077: Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution

Gregory Clark, Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor

14076: How Social Processes Distort Measurement: The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work

Katharine Abraham, Sara Helms and Stanley Presser

14075: Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?

Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon

14074: Welfare Payments and Crime

C. Fritz Foley

14073: Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood

Elizabeth Cascio, Damon Clark and Nora Gordon

14072: Firm Heterogeneity and the Structure of U.S. Multinational Activity: An Empirical Analysis

Stephen Yeaple

14071: The Continuing Puzzle of Short Horizon Exchange Rate Forecasting

Kenneth Rogoff and Vania Stavrakeva

14070: Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics

Andrew Epstein, Jonathan Ketcham and Sean Nicholson

14069: International R&D Spillovers and Institutions

David Coe, Elhanan Helpman and Alexander Hoffmaister

14068: Hedge Fund Contagion and Liquidity

Nicole M. Boyson, Christof W. Stahel and René Stulz

14067: On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements

Giovanni Maggi and Robert Staiger

14066: The Back Story of Twentieth-Century Art

David Galenson

14065: The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren and David Sims

14064: Schools, Skills, and Synapses

James Heckman

14063: The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility

Nir Jaimovich and Henry Siu

14062: Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking

Michael Grubb and Paul Oyer

14061: Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

Runjuan Liu and Daniel Trefler

14060: Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanczuk

14059: Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines

Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman

14058: Market Liquidity, Asset Prices and Welfare

Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang

14057: Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards

Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm

14056: Big-Think Regionalism: A Critical Survey

Richard Baldwin

14055: Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts

Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond H. Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Michael Z. Stamos

14054: Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski and Sergio Rebelo

14053: Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

14052: The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni Violante

14051: A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar Prasad and Raghuram Rajan

14050: Second-Best Institutions

Dani Rodrik

14049: An Anatomy Of Credit Booms: Evidence From Macro Aggregates And Micro Data

Enrique Mendoza and Marco Terrones

14048: Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels

Steven Davis and James Kahn

14047: Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory

Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate

14046: Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation

James Anderson

14045: Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?

James Anderson

14044: Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

James Heckman, John Humphries, Paul LaFontaine and Pedro L. Rodriguez

14043: Crossover Inventions And Knowledge Diffusion Of General Purpose Technologies? Evidence From The Electrical Technology

Shih-tse Lo and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

14042: Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking: Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios

14041: Effects of Regulation on Drug Launch and Pricing in Interdependent Markets

Patricia Danzon and Andrew J. Epstein

14040: Bayesian Learning in Social Networks

Daron Acemoglu, Munther A. Dahleh, Ilan Lobel and Asuman Ozdaglar

14039: Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain

Karin Mayr-Dorn and Giovanni Peri

14038: The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

Jordan Matsudaira and Rebecca Blank

14037: Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

Trevon Logan

14036: Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?

Terra McKinnish, Randall Walsh and T. Kirk White

14035: The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan Soetevent and Arie Kapteyn

14034: Globalization, Growth and Crises: The View from Latin America

Sebastian Edwards

14033: When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Pablo Querubin and James Robinson

14032: Does Your Cohort Matter? Measuring Peer Effects in College Achievement

Scott Carrell, Richard L. Fullerton and James West

14031: Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Sharon L. Maccini and Dean Yang

14030: The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings in the U.S. Residential Market for Natural Gas

Lucas Davis and Lutz Kilian

14029: Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital: Canadian Evidence

James Brander, Edward Egan and Thomas Hellmann

14028: Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics

Eric Leeper, Todd Walker and Shu-Chun Yang

14027: Big Business Stability and Social Welfare

Kathy Fogel, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

14026: Systemic Sudden Stops: The Relevance Of Balance-Sheet Effects And Financial Integration

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Luis Fernando Mejía

14025: Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments: Old Wine in Green Bottles?

Ben Lockwood and John Whalley

14024: China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa

Hany Besada, Yang Wang and John Whalley

14023: Assessing the Federal Deduction for State and Local Tax Payments

Gilbert Metcalf

14022: Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

Donald Boyd, Pam Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb and James Wyckoff

14021: The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff and James Wyckoff

14020: Measuring the Output and Prices of the Lottery Sector: An Application of Implicit Expected Utility Theory

Kam Yu

14019: Inflation, Monetary Policy and Stock Market Conditions

Michael Bordo, Michael Dueker and David Wheelock

14018: Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes

Walter Diewert, Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver

14017: Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data

Christian Broda and David Weinstein

14016: Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes: Synthesis of the Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights

Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei

14015: Private Sunspots and Idiosyncratic Investor Sentiment

George-Marios Angeletos

14014: Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

Anders Bjorklund and Richard Freeman

14013: Liquidity and Market Crashes

Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang

14012: Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints

Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi

14011: Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires

Seema Jayachandran