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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

13709: Using Tax Return Data to Simulate Corporate Marginal Tax Rates

John R. Graham and Lillian Mills

13708: Corporate Misreporting and Bank Loan Contracting

John R. Graham, Si Li and Jiaping Qiu

13707: The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan and Yishay Maoz

13706: What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues?

Brandon Julio, Woojin Kim and Michael Weisbach

13705: Organizing Growth

Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

13704: Arbitrage in Housing Markets

Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

13703: Optimal Choice of Product Scope for Multiproduct Firms under Monopolistic Competition

Robert Feenstra and Hong Ma

13702: Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics

Lucian Bebchuk and Zvika Neeman

13701: CEO Centrality

Lucian Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer

13700: Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

Alma Cohen, Rajeev Dehejia and Dmitri Romanov

13699: The Bidder's Curse

Young Han Lee and Ulrike Malmendier

13698: Firm Level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from Bangladesh

Hiau Looi Kee and Kala Krishna

13697: Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking

Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

13696: The Economics Approach to Cities

Edward Glaeser

13695: Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930

Woong Lee

13694: The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates -- Evidence from Consumer Credit Data

Sumit Agarwal, Chunlin Liu and Nicholas Souleles

13693: Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement

Todd Sinai and Nicholas Souleles

13692: The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal

Todd C. Neumann, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

13691: What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions

Arnaud Costinot and Ivana Komunjer

13690: Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs

Robert Barro

13689: Religious Conversion in 40 Countries

Robert Barro and Jason Hwang

13688: Trade Policy under Firm-Level Heterogeneity in a Small Economy

Svetlana Demidova and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

13687: Extremism and Social Learning

Edward Glaeser and Cass Sunstein

13686: Occupational Choice and Development

Jan Eeckhout and Boyan Jovanovic

13685: The Explanatory Power of Monetary Policy Rules

John Taylor

13684: Mortgage Broker Regulations That Matter: Analyzing Earnings, Employment, and Outcomes for Consumers

Morris M. Kleiner and Richard M. Todd

13683: Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

13682: Housing and Monetary Policy

John Taylor

13681: Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure

Cecilia Elena Rouse, Jane Hannaway, Dan Goldhaber and David Figlio

13680: Complements versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choice in Dynastic Models

Larry Jones and Alice Schoonbroodt

13679: Principal-agent Incentives, Excess Caution, and Market Inefficiency: Evidence From Utility Regulation

Severin Borenstein, Meghan Busse and Ryan Kellogg

13678: Conservation: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

Matthew Kotchen and Michael Moore

13677: Nominal Debt as a Burden on Monetary Policy

Ramon Marimon, Javier Díaz-Giménez, Giorgia Giovannetti and Pedro Teles

13676: School Markets: The Impact of Information Approximating Schools' Effectiveness

Alejandra Mizala and Miguel Urquiola

13675: The Great Mexican Emigration

Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh

13674: Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment

Andreas Hornstein, Per Krusell and Giovanni Violante

13673: Insurance and Opportunities: A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Risk

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni Violante

13672: Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress

Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi

13671: Trade Policy and Market Power: The Case of the US Steel Industry

Bruce Blonigen, Benjamin Liebman and Wesley Wilson

13670: The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels

James Heckman and Paul LaFontaine

13669: Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico

George Borjas

13668: Does Medicare Save Lives?

David Card, Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas

13667: Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior

Rebecca Blank, Kerwin Kofi Charles and James Sallee

13666: Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

Yuriy Gorodnichenko

13665: Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates and Daniel Hamermesh

13664: Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment

Awash Teklehaimanot, Gordon McCord and Jeffrey D. Sachs

13663: First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function

Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Schanzenbach

13662: Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

13661: Prejudice and The Economics of Discrimination

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan

13660: Financial Structure, Liquidity, and Firm Locations

Andres Almazan, Adolfo de Motta, Sheridan Titman and Vahap Uysal

13659: Exchange Rate Volatility and First-Time Entry by Multinational Firms

Katheryn Russ

13658: How Sovereign is Sovereign Credit Risk?

Francis Longstaff, Jun Pan, Lasse Pedersen and Kenneth Singleton

13657: Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men

John Bound, Todd Stinebrickner and Timothy Waidmann

13656: Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect

James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

13655: The Heterogeneous State of Modern Macroeconomics: A Reply to Solow

Varadarajan Chari and Patrick Kehoe

13654: Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility: International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw

13653: Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw

13652: Tenure and Output

Kathryn Shaw and Edward Lazear

13651: International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K

Ann Bartel, Casey Ichniowski, Kathryn Shaw and Ricardo Correa

13650: Evaluating Asset Pricing Models with Limited Commitment using Household Consumption Data

Dirk Krueger, Hanno Lustig and Fabrizio Perri

13649: Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India

Ashlesha Datar, Arkadipta Ghosh and Neeraj Sood

13648: Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?

Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

13647: Firms' Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency

Andres Almazan, Javier Suarez and Sheridan Titman

13646: Endogenous Entry, Product Variety, and Business Cycles

Florin Bilbiie, Fabio Ghironi and Marc Melitz

13645: The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates

Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel

13644: Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms: Evidence from the Software Industry

Iain Cockburn and Megan MacGarvie

13643: Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets

Matthew Kotchen

13642: Open-Access Losses and Delay in the Assignment of Property Rights

Gary Libecap

13641: The Impact of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation

Vladimir Atanasov, Vladimir Ivanov and Kate Litvak

13640: Do Stock Prices Influence Corporate Decisions? Evidence from the Technology Bubble

Murillo Campello and John Graham