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12509: Public & Private Spillovers, Location and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Jeffrey L. Furman, Margaret Kyle, Iain Cockburn and Rebecca Henderson

12508: Peers at Work

Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti

12507: An Experimental Test of Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles and Young Adults

Michael S. Visser, William Harbaugh and Naci Mocan

12506: Willingness to Pay for Drug Rehabilitation: Implications for Cost Recovery

David Bishai and Jody Sindelar

12505: A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Flavio Cunha and James Heckman

12504: The Effect of State Community Rating Regulations on Premiums and Coverage in the Individual Health Insurance Market

Bradley Herring and Mark V. Pauly

12503: Rules Rather Than Discretion: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly

12502: The Tradeoff Between Mortgage Prepayments and Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings

Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang and Clemens Sialm

12501: The Cost of Banking Regulation

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

12500: Look at Me Now: What Attracts U.S. Shareholders?

John Ammer, Sara B. Holland, David C. Smith and Francis Warnock

12499: A Conceptual World: Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is So Different From the Art of All Earlier Centuries

David Galenson

12498: Unemployment Fluctuations With Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining

Mark Gertler and Antonella Trigari

12497: Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri

12496: The Forward Market in Emerging Currencies: Less Biased Than in Major Currencies

Jeffrey Frankel and Jumana Poonawala

12495: The International Role of the Dollar and Trade Balance Adjustment

Linda Goldberg and Cédric Tille

12494: Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers

Rebecca Blank and Heidi Shierholz

12493: Transfer Pricing by U.S.-Based Multinational Firms

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

12492: Changes in the Federal Reserve's Inflation Target: Causes and Consequences

Peter Ireland

12491: Swiss Exchange Rate Policy in the 1930s. Was the Delay in Devaluation Too High a Price to Pay for Conservatism?

Michael Bordo, Thomas Helbling and Harold James

12490: How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down

Jennifer Hunt

12489: The Returns to Currency Speculation

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski and Sergio Rebelo

12488: Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry

Daniel Ackerberg and Gautam Gowrisankaran

12487: The Equity Premium Implied by Production

Urban Jermann

12486: Irreversible Investment, Real Options, and Competition: Evidence from Real Estate Development

Laarni Bulan, Christopher Mayer and Craig Somerville

12485: The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

Adam Ashcraft and Kevin Lang

12484: Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff and Shang-Jin Wei

12483: Productivity, External Balance and Exchange Rates: Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism Among G7 Countries

Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc

12482: Globalization and Risk Sharing

Jaume Ventura and Fernando Broner

12481: Conventional and Unconventional Approaches to Exchange Rate Modeling and Assessment

Menzie Chinn and Ron Alquist

12480: Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers

Ellen Meara and Richard Frank

12479: The "Names Game": Harnessing Inventors' Patent Data for Economic Research

Manuel Trajtenberg, Gil Shiff and Ran Melamed

12478: First Do No Harm?: Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes

Janet Currie and W. Bentley Macleod

12477: A Theory of Demand Shocks

Guido Lorenzoni

12476: Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory is Shaping Policy

Patrick Kehoe and Varadarajan Chari

12475: Capital Deepening and Non-Balanced Economic Growth

Daron Acemoglu and Veronica Guerrieri

12474: Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment

Ramon Marimon and Vincenzo Quadrini

12473: Understanding International Portfolio Diversification and Turnover Rates

Amir Amadi and Paul Bergin

12472: Smoke Signals: Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation

Philip J Cook and Rebecca Hutchinson

12471: Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior

Philip J Cook, Robert MacCoun, Clara Muschkin and Jacob Vigdor

12470: Optimal Monetary Policy with Collateralized Household Debt and Borrowing Constraints

Tommaso Monacelli

12469: Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and Production: Experience From the Second Industrial Revolution

Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

12468: Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking

Jeffrey DeSimone

12467: Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences

Raj Chetty and Adam Szeidl

12466: Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes

Anne Case and Christina Paxson

12465: How has CEO Turnover Changed? Increasingly Performance Sensitive Boards and Increasingly Uneasy CEOs

Steven Kaplan and Bernadette Minton

12464: The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

12463: Why Have Corporate Tax Revenues Declined? Another Look

Alan Auerbach

12462: The Bond Market's q

Thomas Philippon

12461: Benchmarking Money Manager Performance: Issues and Evidence

Josef Lakonishok, Louis Chan and Stephen Dimmock

12460: Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs since the 1960s: Which Institutions Really Mattered?

Gayle Allard and Peter Lindert

12459: Science and Industry: Tracing the Flow of Basic Research through Manufacturing and Trade

James Adams and Roger Clemmons

12458: Youth Smoking, Cigarette Prices, and Anti-Smoking Sentiment

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios, Yoon-Jeong Shin and Jae-Young Lim

12457: Openness and Industrial Responses in a Wal-Mart World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers

Beata Javorcik, Wolfgang Keller and James Tybout

12456: Stochastic Components of Individual Consumption: A Time Series Analysis of Grouped Data

Orazio Attanasio and Margherita Borella

12455: Contractual Tradeoffs and SMEs Choice of Organizational Form, A View from U.S. and French History, 1830-2000

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

12454: Can Central Banks Target Bond Prices?

Kenneth Kuttner

12453: On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Returns to Capital, and the Distribution of Wealth and Welfare

Dirk Krueger and Alexander Ludwig

12452: Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply

Louis Kaplow

12451: Insurance Underwriter or Financial Development Fund: What Role for Reserve Pooling in Latin America?

Barry Eichengreen

12450: Democracy and Globalization

Barry Eichengreen

12449: Reflections on U.S. Disaster Insurance Policy for the 21st Century

Howard Kunreuther

12448: Electoral Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows

Roberto Chang

12447: Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

12446: Goals and Plans in Protective Decision Making

David H. Krantz and Howard Kunreuther

12445: Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection and Health Expenditures: A Semiparametric Analysis

Patrick Bajari, Han Hong and Ahmed Khwaja

12444: Financial Innovation for an Aging World

Olivia Mitchell, John Piggott, Michael Sherris and Shaun Yow

12443: The Welfare Consequences of ATM Surcharges: Evidence from a Structural Entry Model

Gautam Gowrisankaran and John Krainer

12442: Expectations, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy: The Role of Learning

Simon Gilchrist and Masashi Saito

12441: E-Stability vis-a-vis Determinacy Results for a Broad Class of Linear Rational Expectations Models

Bennett McCallum

12440: Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States

Susana Iranzo and Giovanni Peri

12439: Home and Regional Biases and Border Effects in Armington Type Models

John Whalley and Xian Xin

12438: Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Controls

Leemore Dafny and David Dranove

12437: How Do Youth with Mental Disorders Fare in the Juvenile Justice System?

Pinka Chatterji and Alison Cuellar

12436: The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding

David Autor and Mark Duggan

12435: Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?

Fredrik Andersson, Matthew Freedman, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane and Kathryn Shaw

12434: The Equity Premium in India

Rajnish Mehra

12433: Recursive Competitive Equilibrium

Rajnish Mehra

12432: On the Determinants of Exporters' Currency Pricing: History vs. Expectations

Shin-ichi Fukuda and Masanori Ono

12431: The Direct Substitution Between Government and Private Consumption in East Asia

Yum K. Kwan

12430: Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

Jayanta Bhattacharya and William Vogt

12429: Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take Up

Alan C. Monheit and Jessica Primoff Vistnes

12428: Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

Benjamin Olken

12427: Policy Options for Financing the Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan

Tadashi Fukui and Yasushi Iwamoto

12426: Reflections on One Year at the Bank of Israel

Stanley Fischer

12425: Evaluating Wireless Carrier Consolidation Using Semiparametric Demand Estimation

Patrick Bajari, Jeremy Fox and Stephen Ryan

12424: Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment

John Bound and Sarah Turner

12423: Parallel Imports and Price Controls

Gene Grossman and Edwin Lai

12422: Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance: Evidence From Japanese Firm-Level Data

Kyoji Fukao, Keiko Ito, Hyeog Ug Kwon and Miho Takizawa

12421: The Consumption-Tightness Puzzle

Morten Ravn

12420: Noisy Macroeconomic Announcements, Monetary Policy, and Asset Prices

Roberto Rigobon and Brian Sack

12419: Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information

Stefania Albanesi

12418: When Knowledge is not Enough: HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana

James Levinsohn, Taryn Dinkelman and Rolang Majelantle

12417: The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Realization of Taxable Income

W. Looney and Monica Singhal

12416: Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880

Chulhee Lee

12415: Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms

Julio Rotemberg

12414: What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

12413: Intra-Day Seasonality in Activities of the Foreign Exchange Markets: Evidence From the Electronic Broking System

Takatoshi Ito and Yuko Hashimoto

12412: Intertemporal Consumption Choices, Transaction Costs and Limited Participation to Financial Markets: Reconciling Data and Theory

Orazio Attanasio and Monica Paiella

12411: Skill Acquisition, Credit Constraints, and Trade

Tatyana Chesnokova and Kala Krishna

12410: The Church vs the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?

Jonathan Gruber and Daniel Hungerman