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13810: The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James Heckman and Bas ter Weel

13809: The Divergence of Legal Procedures

Aron Balas, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

13808: Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables

Erzo Luttmer and Richard Zeckhauser

13807: Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality

Juan Hallak and Peter Schott

13806: Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns

Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos

13805: Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates

Emmanuel Farhi and Xavier Gabaix

13804: Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors

Lubos Pastor and Robert Stambaugh

13803: Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff

13802: Liquidity Risk and Syndicate Structure

Evan Gatev and Philip Strahan

13801: Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis

Susan Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton

13799: Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects

Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts

13798: Liquidity Production in 21st Century Banking

Philip Strahan

13797: Optimal Provision of Multiple Excludable Public Goods

Hanming Fang and Peter Norman

13796: Do Real Estate Brokers Add Value When Listing Services Are Unbundled?

B. Douglas Bernheim and Jonathan Meer

13795: Varieties and the Transfer Problem: The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment

Giancarlo Corsetti, Philippe Martin and Paolo Pesenti

13794: Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults

Cristina Arellano and Narayana Kocherlakota

13793: Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior

Christopher Ruebeck, Susan Averett and Howard Bodenhorn

13792: Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment

Selim Elekdag, Rene Lalonde, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir and Paolo Pesenti

13791: Educating Urban Children

Richard Murnane

13790: Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations

George Alessandria, Joseph Kaboski and Virgiliu Midrigan

13789: The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle

Erik Hurst

13788: On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions

Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu and Michael Schwarz

13787: A Maximum Likelihood Method for the Incidental Parameter Problem

Marcelo Moreira

13786: Do Hedge Funds Profit From Mutual-Fund Distress?

Joseph Chen, Samuel Hanson, Harrison Hong and Jeremy Stein

13785: 50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence

Radha Iyengar, Lindsay Sabik, Cindy Southworth, Sarah Tucker and Cynthia Fraser

13784: I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws

Radha Iyengar

13783: The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density

Thomas Holmes

13782: Evidence of Differences in the Effectiveness of Safety-Net Management in European Union Countries

Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Edward Kane and Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez

13781: Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control: An Overview

Philip J Cook

13780: Earnings Functions and Rates of Return

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Petra Todd

13779: Inflating the Beast: Political Incentives Under Uncertainty

Ricardo Caballero and Pierre Yared

13778: Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000

Steven Davis, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Mary Streitwieser

13777: Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, & Unemployment Flows

Michael Elsby

13776: Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance

Emma Hall, Carol Propper and John van Reenen

13775: The Changing Effect of HMO Market Structure: An Analysis of Penetration, Concentration, and Ownership Between 1994-2005

Yu-Chu Shen, Vivian Wu and Glenn Melnick

13774: Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy: Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales

Charles Calomiris, Raymond Fisman and Yongxiang Wang

13773: Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth

Anna Aizer

13772: Search and Rest Unemployment

Fernando Alvarez and Robert Shimer

13771: What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?

Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei

13770: The Continental Dollar: What Happened to It after 1779?

Farley Grubb

13769: The Dynamics of City Formation

J. Vernon Henderson and Anthony Venables

13768: Cross-Border Returns Differentials

Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak and Francis Warnock

13767: The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending

John F. Cogan, Robert Hubbard and Daniel P. Kessler

13766: Information Disclosure and Unraveling in Matching Markets

Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz

13765: Trade and Empire

Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier

13764: Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement

Robert Kaestner and Michael Grossman

13763: To Roth or Not? -- That is the Question

Laurence Kotlikoff, Benjamin Marx and David Rapson

13762: Catering Through Nominal Share Prices

Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler

13761: Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

13760: Renewable Energy Policies And Technological Innovation: Evidence Based On Patent Counts

Nick Johnstone, Ivan Haščič and David Popp

13759: What Do Economists Know About Crime?

Angela Dills, Jeffrey Miron and Garrett Summers

13758: Covering the Uninsured in the U.S

Jonathan Gruber

13757: Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830

Gary Richardson and Dan Bogart

13756: The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship

Simeon Djankov, Tim Ganser, Caralee McLiesh, Rita Ramalho and Andrei Shleifer

13755: Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

Julio Rotemberg

13754: Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

Julio Rotemberg

13753: Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals

Gilbert Metcalf

13752: Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study

Alma Cohen

13751: The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value?

Christina Romer and David Romer

13750: Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

13749: Inflation-Gap Persistence in the U.S

Timothy Cogley, Giorgio Primiceri and Thomas Sargent

13748: Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle

Jeffrey Brown, Jeffrey Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan and Marian V. Wrobel

13747: Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries

Michael Chernew, Philip DeCicca and Robert Town

13746: Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance

David Cutler, Amy Finkelstein and Kathleen McGarry

13745: Effects of Taxes on Economic Behavior

Martin Feldstein

13744: The Rise and (Partial) Fall of Abstract Painting in the Twentieth Century

David Galenson

13743: The Effect of Hours of Work on Social Interaction

Henry Saffer and Karine Lamiraud

13742: Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation

Eduardo Engel and Ronald Fischer

13741: Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How it Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)

Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide

13740: Sui Generis EMU

Barry Eichengreen

13739: High Idiosyncratic Volatility and Low Returns: International and Further U.S. Evidence

Andrew Ang, Robert Hodrick, Yuhang Xing and Xiaoyan Zhang

13738: Mixing Family With Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them

Marianne Bertrand, Simon Johnson, Krislert Samphantharak and Antoinette Schoar

13737: Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics

B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel

13736: Global Forces and Monetary Policy Effectiveness

Jean Boivin and Marc Giannoni

13735: Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism

Robert P. Inman

13734: Globalization and the Sustainability of Large Current Account Imbalances: Size Matters

Joshua Aizenman and Yi Sun

13733: Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa

Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

13732: Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives

Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi

13731: Trade, Production Sharing, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles

Ariel Burstein, Christopher Kurz and Linda Tesar

13730: How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach

John Romley and Dana Goldman

13729: Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States

Martin Feldstein

13728: Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Daniel Rondeau and John List

13727: Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

Uri Gneezy, Kenneth Leonard and John List

13726: Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values

Julia Coronado, Olivia Mitchell, Steven Sharpe and S. Blake Nesbitt

13725: Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model

Eli Berman and David D. Laitin

13724: Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance

Xavier Gabaix

13723: Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Outflows

Itay Goldstein, Assaf Razin and Hui Tong

13722: Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects

Mary Evans and V. Smith

13721: How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?

Woochan Kim, Taeyoon Sung and Shang-Jin Wei

13720: Optimal Savings Distortions with Recursive Preferences

Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning

13719: Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Klara Sabirianova Peter

13718: Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?

Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna

13717: Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest

Kaivan Munshi and Nicholas Wilson

13716: Forecast Targeting as a Monetary Policy Strategy: Policy Rules in Practice

Michael Woodford

13715: Impact of First Occupation on Health at Older Ages

Jody L. Sindelar, Jason Fletcher, Tracy Falba, Patricia Keenan and William T. Gallo

13714: Do Professional Currency Managers Beat the Benchmark?

Momtchil Pojarliev and Richard M. Levich

13713: Procrastination and Impatience

Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

13712: Social Capital as Good Culture

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

13711: Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies

Itzhak Ben-David, John R. Graham and Campbell Harvey

13710: Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?

Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto