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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

14510: Monetary Policy Trade-Offs in an Estimated Open-Economy DSGE Model

Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé and Lars Svensson

14509: An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

Diego Comin

14508: Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing

Ernesto Dal Bó and Marko Terviö

14507: Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development

John Helliwell

14506: The Strategic Timing Incentives of Commercial Radio Stations: An Empirical Analysis Using Multiple Equilibria

Andrew Sweeting

14505: Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets

Andrew Sweeting

14504: Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources

Meredith Fowlie, Christopher Knittel and Catherine Wolfram

14503: Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry

Steven Berry and Panle Jia

14502: On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke

14501: Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

14500: Price Momentum In Stocks: Insights From Victorian Age Data

Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels and Ravi Jagannathan

14499: Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts

Angus Deaton and Alan Heston

14498: The Future of American Fertility

Samuel H. Preston and Caroline Sten Hartnett

14497: China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries

Gordon Hanson and Raymond Robertson

14496: Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds

Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali and Yuhang Xing

14495: Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish

Irene Brambilla, Guido Porto and Alessandro Tarozzi

14494: Taxing Corporate Income

Alan Auerbach, Michael Devereux and Helen Simpson

14493: The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer and Kevin O'Rourke

14492: Understanding Crude Oil Prices

James Hamilton

14491: The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf

14490: The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

Gordon Hanson

14489: How Central Bankers See It: The First Decade of ECB Policy and Beyond

Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz

14488: Capital Structure and Debt Structure

Joshua Rauh and Amir Sufi

14487: Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

Alessandra Casella

14486: The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey

Renee Adams, Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Weisbach

14485: Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?

Jonah E. Rockoff, Brian A. Jacob, Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

14484: Luddites and the Demographic Transition

Kevin O'Rourke, Ahmed Rahman and Alan Taylor

14483: Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization

Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky

14482: Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

Janet Currie, Mark Stabile, Phongsack Manivong and Leslie L. Roos

14481: Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

14480: Self-Enforcing Stochastic Monitoring and the Separation of Debt and Equity Claims

Harold Cole

14479: The Euro and Structural Reforms

Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna and Vincenzo Galasso

14478: Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding

14477: Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary

Alla Lileeva and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

14476: Why the European Securities Market is Not Fully Integrated

Alberto Giovannini

14475: Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

14474: Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

14473: Carry Trades and Currency Crashes

Markus Brunnermeier, Stefan Nagel and Lasse Pedersen

14472: Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas

David Albouy

14471: Mental Health Parity Legislation, Cost-Sharing and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions

Dhaval Dave and Swati Mukerjee

14470: Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping

David Card, Alexandre Mas and Jesse Rothstein

14469: Identification and Estimation of 'Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models

Bryan Graham and James Powell

14468: The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis

Atif Mian, Amir Sufi and Francesco Trebbi

14467: The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

14466: Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

Dhaval Dave, Nancy E. Reichman and Hope Corman

14465: What Happened To The Quants In August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data

Amir E. Khandani and Andrew Lo

14464: Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies

Suzanne Scotchmer

14463: An Arbitrage-Free Generalized Nelson-Siegel Term Structure Model

Jens Christensen, Francis Diebold and Glenn Rudebusch

14462: The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects

Dora Costa

14461: Testing the Melitz Model of Trade: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports

Gordon Hanson and Chong Xiang

14460: China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations

Huifang Tian and John Whalley

14459: The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration

Alon Cohen and Assaf Razin

14458: Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

14457: Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency

Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

14456: Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa

Anne Case, Anu Garrib, Alicia Menendez and Analia Olgiati

14455: Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance

Randall D. Cebul, James Rebitzer, Lowell Taylor and Mark E. Votruba

14454: The Euro and Firm Restructuring

Matteo Bugamelli, Fabiano Schivardi and Roberta Zizza

14453: The US as the "Demander of Last Resort" and its Implications on China's Current Account

Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak

14452: Income Dispersion and Counter-Cyclical Markups

Chris Edmond and Laura Veldkamp

14451: Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability

Asher Blass, Saul Lach and Charles Manski

14450: How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?

Shanjun Li, Roger von Haefen and Christopher Timmins

14449: When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?

Quamrul Ashraf, Ashley Lester and David Weil

14448: Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

Louis Putterman and David Weil

14447: Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints

Debopam Bhattacharya and Pascaline Dupas

14446: Market Responses to the Panic of 2008

Casey Mulligan and Luke Threinen

14445: Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements

Brian Knight and Chun-Fang Chiang

14444: Sudden Stops, Financial Crises and Leverage: A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin's Q

Enrique Mendoza

14443: What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Henry Sauermann and Wesley M. Cohen

14442: Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement

Jesse Rothstein

14441: Auction Design and Tacit Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions

Patrick Bajari and Jungwon Yeo

14440: Realization Utility

Nicholas C. Barberis and Wei Xiong

14439: Portfolio Substitution and the Revenue Cost of Exempting State and Local Government Interest Payments from Federal Income Tax

James Poterba and Arturo Ramirez Verdugo

14438: Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?

Barry Eichengreen and Katharina Steiner

14437: Real Exchange Rate Movements and the Relative Price of Non-traded Goods

Caroline Betts and Timothy Kehoe

14436: Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors: A Validation Study of Homescan

Liran Einav, Ephraim Leibtag and Aviv Nevo

14435: Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

Tracy Falba, William T. Gallo and Jody L. Sindelar

14434: Identification with Imperfect Instruments

Aviv Nevo and Adam Rosen

14433: Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index

Rachel Griffith, Ephraim Leibtag, Andrew Leicester and Aviv Nevo

14432: Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture

Judson Jaffe and Robert Stavins

14431: Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas

Yan Dong and John Whalley

14430: Are Structural VARs with Long-Run Restrictions Useful in Developing Business Cycle Theory?

Varadarajan Chari, Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan

14429: Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana

Matthew Kotchen and Laura Grant

14428: Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

14427: The True Cost of Social Security

Alexander W. Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff and Stephen Ross