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13109: Putting the Corporation in its Place

Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

13108: Cointegration and Consumption Risks in Asset Returns

Ravi Bansal, Robert Dittmar and Dana Kiku

13107: Rational Pessimism, Rational Exuberance, and Asset Pricing Models

Ravi Bansal, A. Gallant and George Tauchen

13106: Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America

Frank Levy and Peter Temin

13105: The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

John Ameriks, Andrew Caplin, Steven Laufer and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

13104: Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs

Jeremy Greenwood, Juan Sanchez and Cheng Wang

13103: Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China

David Dollar and Shang-Jin Wei

13102: Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olken

13101: Do Markets Care Who Chairs the Central Bank?

Kenneth Kuttner and Adam Posen

13100: Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime

Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei

13099: Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models

Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide

13098: Decentralization and Environmental Quality: An International Analysis of Water Pollution

Hilary Sigman

13097: Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes

13096: Understanding the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: A Theoretical Analysis

Fatih Guvenen and Burhanettin Kuruscu

13095: A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: 1970-2000

Fatih Guvenen and Burhanettin Kuruscu

13094: Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

13093: When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century

Eric Hilt

13092: Financial Frictions, Investment and Tobin's q

Guido Lorenzoni and Karl Walentin

13091: Rise of 401(k) Plans, Lifetime Earnings, and Wealth at Retirement

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

13090: The Earnings Announcement Premium and Trading Volume

Owen Lamont and Andrea Frazzini

13089: Credit Constraints and Stock Price Volatility

Galina Hale, Assaf Razin and Hui Tong

13088: Global Currency Hedging

John Campbell, Karine Serfaty- de Medeiros and Luis Viceira

13087: Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

Rodrigo Soares

13086: Technology Transfer through Imports

Ram C. Acharya and Wolfgang Keller

13085: Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

13084: Takeoffs

Joshua Aizenman and Mark Spiegel

13083: New Estimates of the Future Path of 401(k) Assets

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

13082: When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States

David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor

13081: Markets and Housing Finance

Veronica Warnock and Francis Warnock

13080: Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Melissa McInerney

13079: Has New York Become Less Competitive in Global Markets? Evaluating Foreign Listing Choices Over Time

Craig Doidge, G. Karolyi and René Stulz

13078: Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care: Why is Adoption So Slow and Is Slower Better?

Michael C. Christensen and Dahlia Remler

13077: Persistent Appreciations and Overshooting: A Normative Analysis

Ricardo Caballero and Guido Lorenzoni

13076: Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow Short Term?

Fernando Broner, Guido Lorenzoni and Sergio Schmukler

13075: Price Dispersion under Costly Capacity and Demand Uncertainty

Diego Escobari and Li Gan

13074: The Stability of Large External Imbalances: The Role of Returns Differentials

Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak and Francis Warnock

13073: Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries

Ariel Burstein and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

13072: Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

Glenn Harrison and John List

13071: The Rise of the Sunbelt

Edward Glaeser and Kristina Tobio

13070: Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria

Una Osili and Bridget Long

13069: Strategic Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration

Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

13068: What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Glenn Ellison, Edward Glaeser and William Kerr

13067: Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending

William Adams, Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin

13066: Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage

Kevin Lang and Hong Kang

13065: From Farming to International Business: The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy

Kaivan Munshi

13064: Wage and Labor Mobility in Denmark, 1980-2000

Tor Eriksson and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen

13063: Determinants of Firm Boundaries: Empirical Analysis of the Japanese Auto Industry from 1984 to 2002

Sadao Nagaoka, Akira Takeishi and Yoshihisa Noro

13062: Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage

Alejandro Cunat and Marc Melitz

13061: Why Do Private Acquirers Pay So Little Compared to Public Acquirers?

Leonce Bargeron, Frederik Schlingemann, René Stulz and Chad Zutter

13060: Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Nicholas Bloom, Mark Schankerman and John van Reenen

13059: Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security

Andrew Samwick

13058: An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing

Arghya Ghosh and Hodaka Morita

13057: Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution

Kevin O'Rourke, Ahmed Rahman and Alan Taylor

13056: The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital

Robert Hall and Susan E. Woodward

13055: Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Joan Rosés, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

13054: Firms in International Trade

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

13053: Endogenizing Technological Change: Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs

William Pizer and David Popp

13052: Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation

David Card, Alexandre Mas and Jesse Rothstein

13051: The Power of the Family

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

13050: On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate

Jeffrey Frankel

13049: HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?

Emily Oster

13048: Market Access, Openness and Growth

John Romalis

13047: The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued?

Farley Grubb

13046: Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys

Christopher Carpenter and Philip J Cook

13045: Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

13044: Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard: Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design

Mark V. Pauly and Fredric E. Blavin

13043: Technology and the Demand for Skill:An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

John Abowd, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, Kevin McKinney and Kristin Sandusky

13042: Return Persistence and Fund Flows in the Worst Performing Mutual Funds

Jonathan B. Berk and Ian Tonks

13041: Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications

Christian Broda and David Weinstein

13040: Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders: Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?

Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan

13039: Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

Guido Imbens and Thomas Lemieux

13038: Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations

Bruce Weinberg

13037: Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence

Anna Maria Mayda, Kevin O'Rourke and Richard Sinnott

13036: The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Roland Fryer and Michael Greenstone

13035: Unbalanced Trade

Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

13034: Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Jennifer Hunt

13033: Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence

Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley and Kamal Saggi

13032: Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Alan Krueger and David Schkade

13031: Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs

Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

13030: Rent Rigidity, Asymmetric Information, and Volatility Bounds in Labor Markets

Bjoern Bruegemann and Giuseppe Moscarini

13029: Wage Mobility and Dynamics in Italy in the 90's

Bruno Contini, Roberto Leombruni, Lia Pacelli and Claudia Villosio

13028: The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

13027: The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Alan Krueger and David A. Schkade

13026: Replication in Economics

Daniel Hamermesh

13025: Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach

13024: Regularities

Laura X. L. Liu, Toni Whited and Lu Zhang

13023: Regionalization, Changes in Home Bias, and the Growth of World Trade

John Whalley and Xian Xin

13022: The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?

Jacob Vigdor

13021: Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000

Oskar Skans, Per-Anders Edin and Bertil Holmlund

13020: Collateral Damage: Exchange Controls and International Trade

Shang-Jin Wei and Zhiwei Zhang

13019: Crises and Growth: A Latin American Perspective

Sebastian Edwards

13018: Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants

Diego Restuccia and Richard Rogerson

13017: Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes

Richard Rogerson and Johanna Wallenius

13016: The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

James Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov

13015: International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

Susan Helper and Morris M. Kleiner

13014: Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure

Jonathan B. Berk, Richard Stanton and Josef Zechner

13013: Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?

David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Allison B. Rosen

13012: Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

Erzo Luttmer

13011: Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity

Hyunbae Chun, Jung-Wook Kim, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

13010: Is Bad News About Inflation Good News for the Exchange Rate?

Richard Clarida and Daniel Waldman