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13209: Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections

Kiminori Matsuyama

13208: Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

Daron Acemoglu, María Angélica Bautista, Pablo Querubin and James Robinson

13207: Banking and Interest Rates in Monetary Policy Analysis: A Quantitative Exploration

Marvin Goodfriend and Bennett McCallum

13206: Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers

13205: Random Walk Expectations and the Forward Discount Puzzle

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

13204: Liquidity and Trading Dynamics

Veronica Guerrieri and Guido Lorenzoni

13203: Offshoring in a Ricardian World

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

13202: Managerial Ownership Dynamics and Firm Value

Ruediger Fahlenbrach and René Stulz

13201: Information Diffusion Effects in Individual Investors' Common Stock Purchases Covet Thy Neighbors' Investment Choices

Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner

13200: Government Investment and the European Stability and Growth Pact

Marco Bassetto and Vadym Lepetyuk

13199: Monetary Policy and Business Cycles with Endogenous Entry and Product Variety

Florin Bilbiie, Fabio Ghironi and Marc Melitz

13198: Spin-offs and the Market for Ideas

Satyajit Chatterjee and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

13197: The Two Crises of International Economics

Michael Dooley, Peter Garber and David Folkerts-Landau

13196: Long-Run Risks and Financial Markets

Ravi Bansal

13195: The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

James Heckman

13194: Latin America's Access to International Capital Markets: Good Behavior or Global Liquidity?

Ana Fostel and Graciela Kaminsky

13193: School Desegregation and Educational Attainment for Blacks

Sarah J. Reber

13192: From Separate and Unequal to Integrated and Equal? School Desegregation and School Finance in Louisiana

Sarah J. Reber

13191: The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle

Sumit Agarwal, John Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson

13190: Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age: Lessons from the Impressionists

David Galenson

13189: Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market

Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler

13188: Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates

Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan

13187: An Analysis of the Performance of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel

Radha Iyengar

13186: Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws

Radha Iyengar

13185: Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Their Differential Effects on the Welfare of Generations

Alexander Ludwig, Dirk Krueger and Axel H. Boersch-Supan

13184: Capitalism and Democracy in 2040: Forecasts and Speculations

Robert Fogel

13183: A Structural Approach to Identifying the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability

Pinelopi Goldberg and Rebecca Hellerstein

13182: A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement

Florian Hoffman and Philip Oreopoulos

13181: Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States

Christopher Ruhm

13180: Democracy, Technology, and Growth

Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina and Francesco Trebbi

13179: Gender Roles and Technological Progress

Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti

13178: Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

Olivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone

13177: Interest Rate Rules, Inflation Stabilization, and Imperfect Credibility: The Small Open Economy Case

Guillermo Calvo

13176: Assessment of U.S. Cap-and-Trade Proposals

Sergey Paltsev, John Reilly, Henry D. Jacoby, Angelo Gurgel, Gilbert Metcalf, Andrei P. Sokolov and Jennifer F. Holak

13175: Diffusion of Common Application Membership and Admissions Outcomes at American Colleges and Universities

Albert Liu, Ronald Ehrenberg and Jesenka Mrdjenovic

13174: Investment and the Cost of Capital: New Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market

Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajšek

13173: Portfolio Choices with Near Rational Agents: A Solution of Some International-Finance Puzzles

Pierpaolo Benigno

13172: Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall Van Alstyne

13171: Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Randall Morck and Masao Nakamura

13170: Development Through Synergistic Reform

James Rauch

13169: Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral Lessons from 401(k) Plans

Jeffrey Brown, Nellie Liang and Scott Weisbenner

13168: Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation

Jeffrey Brown, Zoran Ivkovich, Paul A. Smith and Scott Weisbenner

13167: Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa

Abhijit Banerjee, Sebastian Galiani, James Levinsohn, Zoë McLaren and Ingrid Woolard

13166: How Structural Are Structural Parameters?

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

13165: Predictable Returns and Asset Allocation: Should a Skeptical Investor Time the Market?

Jessica Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana

13164: Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

13163: Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device

Rafael Di Tella and Federico Weinschelbaum

13162: Women, Wealth and Mobility

Lena Edlund and Wojciech Kopczuk

13161: Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Melissa McInerney

13160: Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth

Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi

13159: Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

Rafael Di Tella, John de New and Robert MacCulloch

13158: Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access

Shane Greenstein

13157: Investment Spikes: New Facts and a General Equilibrium Exploration

Francois Gourio and Anil Kashyap

13156: The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lisa Lynch

13155: Product Differentiation, Multi-product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity

Jan De Loecker

13154: Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal Exchange Rate Regimes

Amartya Lahiri, Rajesh Singh and Carlos Vegh

13153: Pioneers, Submariners, or Thicket-builders: Which Firms Use Continuations in Patenting?

Deepak Hegde, David C. Mowery and Stuart Graham

13152: Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Alumni Giving

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen

13151: Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow

Martin Evans and Richard Lyons

13150: The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

13149: Offshoring and Unemployment

Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

13148: Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization

Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei

13147: Inflation Dynamics

Frederic Mishkin

13146: Patents and the Survival of Internet-related IPOs

Iain Cockburn and Stefan Wagner

13145: The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Benjamin Olken and Patrick Barron

13144: Outsourcing and Volatility

Paul Bergin, Robert Feenstra and Gordon Hanson

13143: In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy

Roberto Perotti

13142: Bargaining Around the Hearth

Robert Pollak

13141: Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution

Carl Shapiro

13140: "The Best Price You'll Ever Get" The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry

Meghan R. Busse, Duncan Simester and Florian Zettelmeyer

13139: Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization

Donald Davis and James Harrigan

13138: Labor Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market

Alexandre Mas

13137: Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length

Carole Roan Gresenz, Jeannette Rogowski and José J. Escarce

13136: Revisiting the Supply-Side Effects of Government Spending Under Incomplete Markets

George-Marios Angeletos and Vasia Panousi

13135: Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks: How Much is A Friend Worth?

Stephen Leider, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat and Quoc-Anh Do

13134: Instrumental Variables Estimation of Heteroskedastic Linear Models Using All Lags of Instruments

Kenneth West, Ka-fu Wong and Stanislav Anatolyev

13133: How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada

Christopher Carpenter

13132: Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities

Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

13131: Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race

Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

13130: Sub-national Differentiation and the Role of the Firm in Optimal International Pricing

Edward Balistreri and James Markusen

13129: The Forward Premium is Still a Puzzle

Craig Burnside

13128: Performance Pay and Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux, W. Bentley Macleod and Daniel Parent

13127: The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work

Daniel Hamermesh and Stephen Donald

13126: Trust and Social Collateral

Markus Mobius and Adam Szeidl

13125: End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing

Avi Dor, Mark V. Pauly, Margaret A. Eichleay and Philip J. Held

13124: Do Security Analysts Speak in Two Tongues?

Ulrike Malmendier and Devin Shanthikumar

13123: Precautionary Demand for Foreign Assets in Sudden Stop Economies: An Assessment of the New Merchantilism

C. Bora Durdu, Enrique Mendoza and Marco Terrones

13122: Political Dynasties

Ernesto Dal Bó, Pedro Dal Bó and Jason Snyder

13121: The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy

13120: The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa: Benchmarking the Constraints

Simon Johnson, Jonathan Ostry and Arvind Subramanian

13119: Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?

Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

13118: International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity

Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton

13117: Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

Jesse Rothstein and Cecilia Elena Rouse

13116: Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

Sandra Black and Alexandra Spitz-Oener

13115: Implications of Search Frictions: Matching Aggregate and Establishment-level Observations

Russell Cooper, John Haltiwanger and Jonathan Willis

13114: Why is the Dollar So High?

Martin Feldstein

13113: Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance

Inas Rashad and Sara Markowitz

13112: Daily Changes in Fed Funds Futures Prices

James Hamilton

13111: Are Shocks to the Terms of Trade Shocks to Productivity?

Timothy Kehoe and Kim Ruhl

13110: Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers

Gopi Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov