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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

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