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12709: Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

Kelly Shue and Erzo Luttmer

12708: The "Great Moderation" and the US External Imbalance

Alessandra Fogli and Fabrizio Perri

12707: What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro

12706: Contracts as Reference Points

Oliver Hart and John Moore

12705: Basel II: A Contracting Perspective

Edward Kane

12704: Would Protectionism Defuse Global Imbalances and Spur Economic Activity? A Scenario Analysis

Hamid Faruqee, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir and Paolo Pesenti

12703: Deflationary Shocks and Monetary Rules: an Open-Economy Scenario Analysis

Douglas Laxton, Papa N'Diaye and Paolo Pesenti

12702: Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets

Alvin Roth

12701: Bequest and Tax Planning: Evidence From Estate Tax Returns

Wojciech Kopczuk

12700: Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000

Cyrus C. M. Mody

12699: Pricing-to-Market, the Interest-Rate Rule, and the Exchange Rate

Maurice Obstfeld

12698: Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation

Peter Blair Henry

12697: Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing? Foreign Equity Inside and Outside the US

Karen Lewis

12696: Americans' Dependency on Social Security

Laurence Kotlikoff, Benjamin Marx and Pietro Rizza

12695: The Economics of Conflicts of Interest in Financial Institutions

Hamid Mehran and Rene M. Stulz

12694: The Evolution of Work

Markus Mobius and Raphael Schoenle

12693: Educational Mismatch Among Ph.D.s: Determinants and Consequences

Keith Bender and John Heywood

12692: International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set

Jinyoung Kim, Sangjoon John Lee and Gerald Marschke

12691: Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001

Donna Ginther and Shulamit Kahn

12690: Vector Multiplicative Error Models: Representation and Inference

Fabrizio Cipollini, Robert Engle and Giampiero Gallo

12689: AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

Joshua Graff Zivin, Harsha Thirumurthy and Markus Goldstein

12688: The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States

David Bloom, David Canning, Michael Moore and Younghwan Song

12687: Has Globalization Changed Inflation?

Laurence Ball

12686: Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China

Li Gan, Lixin Xu and Yang Yao

12685: The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez

12684: Optimal exchange rate regimes: Turning Mundell-Fleming's dictum on its head

Amartya Lahiri, Rajesh Singh and Carlos Vegh

12683: The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

James Adams and J. Roger Clemmons

12682: Price Impacts of Deals and Predictability of the Exchange Rate Movements

Takatoshi Ito and Yuko Hashimoto

12681: Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract

Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood

12680: Economic Well-Being at Older Ages: Income- and Consumption-Based Poverty Measures in the HRS

Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

12679: Judicial Fact Discretion

Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

12678: Is Terrorism Eroding Agglomeration Economies in Central Business Districts? Lessons from the Office Real Estate Market in Downtown Chicago

Alberto Abadie and Sofia Dermisi

12677: World Technology Usage Lags

Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn and Emilie Rovito

12676: European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R&D Spending

Joseph H. Golec and John A. Vernon

12675: Complex Ownership Structures and Corporate Valuations

Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

12674: The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic

James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoe Oldfield and James P. Smith

12673: Euros and Zeros: The Common Currency Effect on Trade in New Goods

Richard Baldwin and Virginia Di Nino

12672: Linear-Quadratic Approximation of Optimal Policy Problems

Pierpaolo Benigno and Michael Woodford

12671: Testing Models of Low-Frequency Variability

Ulrich Mueller and Mark Watson

12670: A Search-Based Theory of the On-the-Run Phenomenon

Dimitri Vayanos and Pierre-Olivier Weill

12669: Minerva Unbound: Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production

Lynne Zucker, Michael Darby, Jonathan Furner, Robert C. Liu and Hongyan Ma

12668: A Solution to Two Paradoxes of International Capital Flows

Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei

12667: Do External Interventions Work? The Case of Trade Reform Conditions in IMF Supported Programs

Shang-Jin Wei and Zhiwei Zhang

12666: On the Origins of "A Monetary History"

Hugh Rockoff

12665: Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Matthias Doepke and Dirk Krueger

12664: Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill

Eric A. Hanushek and Lei Zhang

12663: Minimum Wages and Employment: A Review of Evidence from the New Minimum Wage Research

David Neumark and William Wascher

12662: The Historical Origins of U.S. Exchange Market Intervention Policy

Michael Bordo, Owen Humpage and Anna J. Schwartz

12661: Anticipating the Stock Market Crash of 1929: The View from the Floor of the Stock Exchange

Eugene White

12660: Thin-Slice Forecasts of Gubernatorial Elections

Daniel Benjamin and Jesse M. Shapiro

12659: Simplification and Saving

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

12658: Asset Pricing Models with Conditional Betas and Alphas: The Effects of Data Snooping and Spurious Regression

Wayne Ferson, Sergei Sarkissian and Timothy Simin

12657: Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

Diego Comin, William Easterly and Erick Gong

12656: Bankruptcy and Collateral in Debt Constrained Markets

Timothy Kehoe and David Levine

12655: Is the Eldest Son Different? The Residential Choice of Siblings in Japan

Midori Wakabayashi and Charles Y. Horioka

12654: Inflation Implications of Rising Government Debt

Chryssi Giannitsarou and Andrew Scott

12653: Political Competitiveness

Casey Mulligan and Kevin Tsui

12652: The Effects of Education Quality on Income Growth and Mortality Decline

Eliot A. Jamison, Dean Jamison and Eric A. Hanushek

12651: School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

Eric A. Hanushek and Steven Rivkin

12650: Long Term Risk: An Operator Approach

Lars Peter Hansen and Jose Scheinkman

12649: Why do firms hold so much cash? A tax-based explanation

C. Fritz Foley, Jay C. Hartzell, Sheridan Titman and Garry Twite

12648: Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World

Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov and Muhamet Yildiz

12647: Two Flaws In Business Cycle Accounting

Lawrence Christiano and Joshua M. Davis

12646: Product Differentiation and Film Programming Choice: Do First-Run Movie Theatres Show the Same Films?

Darlene C. Chisholm, Margaret McMillan and George Norman

12645: The Economics of Earnings Manipulation and Managerial Compensation

Keith J. Crocker and Joel Slemrod

12644: Devaluation with Contract Redenomination in Argentina

Charles Calomiris

12643: Cost-Offsets of New Medications for Treatment of Schizophrenia

Richard G. Frank, Thomas G. McGuire and Sharon-Lise Normand

12642: Welfare Reform and Indirect Impacts on Health

Marianne Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes

12641: Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra

12640: University Patenting: Estimating the Diminishing Breadth of Knowledge Diffusion and Consumption

Carlos Rosell and Ajay Agrawal

12639: Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market

David Card, Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber

12638: Revealing the Secrets of the Temple: The Value of Publishing Central Bank Interest Rate Projections

Glenn Rudebusch and John Williams

12637: A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy

Dale F. Gray, Robert Merton and Zvi Bodie

12636: When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal

Patricia E. Beeson and Werner Troesken

12635: Tacit Collusion in the Presence of Cyclical Demand and Endogenous Capacity Levels

Christopher Knittel and Jason J. Lepore

12634: When is Market Incompleteness Irrelevant for the Price of Aggregate Risk (and when is it not)?

Dirk Krueger and Hanno Lustig

12633: Illiquid Assets and Optimal Portfolio Choice

Eduardo S. Schwartz and Claudio Tebaldi

12632: Does Television Cause Autism?

Michael Waldman, Sean Nicholson and Nodir Adilov

12631: The Impact of Incentives on Human Behavior: Can We Make It Disappear? The Case of the Death Penalty

Naci Mocan and R. Gittings

12630: On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives

Raj Arunachalam and Trevon Logan

12629: Real Business Cycles in Emerging Countries?

Javier García-Cicco, Roberto Pancrazi and Martín Uribe

12628: Cramming: The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students

Colleen Donovan, David Figlio and Mark Rush

12627: Individual Teacher Incentives And Student Performance

David Figlio and Lawrence Kenny

12626: The Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

Jerry Cao and Josh Lerner

12625: On the Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria Under Liability Rules

Ram Singh

12624: Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Neeraj Kaushal, Qin Gao and Jane Waldfogel

12623: Tradeoffs from Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets for Health Care

Christopher C. Afendulis and Daniel P. Kessler

12622: Relationship Banking and the Pricing of Financial Services

Charles Calomiris and Thanavut Pornrojnangkool

12621: Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings

David Bloom, David Canning, Rick Mansfield and Michael Moore

12620: External Imbalances in an Advanced, Commodity-Exporting Country: The Case of New Zealand

Sebastian Edwards

12619: An Instrumental Variable Evaluation of Antidepressant Use on Employment Among HIV-Infected Women Using Highly-Active Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States: 1996-2004

Omar Galarraga, David S. Salkever, Judith A. Cook and Stephen J. Gange

12618: Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance

Robert Shimer and Iván Werning

12617: Regulation - the Corridor to Liberalization: The Experience of the Israeli Phone Market 1984-2005

Reuben Gronau

12616: A Simple Test of the Effect of Interest Rate Defense

Allan Drazen and Stefan Hubrich

12615: Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions

Ahmed Khwaja, Dan Silverman and Frank Sloan

12614: Bubbles and Self-Enforcing Debt

Christian Hellwig and Guido Lorenzoni

12613: British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India

Shilpi Kapur and Sukkoo Kim

12612: Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market

Atif Mian and Asim Khwaja

12611: Evaluating the Economic Significance of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity

Michael Elsby

12610: Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

Robert Bates, John H. Coatsworth and Jeffrey Williamson