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12760: South African Trade Policy Matters: Trade Performance and Trade Policy

Lawrence Edwards and Robert Lawrence

12759: China and the Multilateral Trading System

Robert Lawrence

12758: Is Drug Coverage a Free Lunch? Cross-Price Elasticities and the Design of Prescription Drug Benefits

Martin Gaynor, Jian Li and William Vogt

12757: Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

Amil Petrin and Jagadeesh Sivadasan

12756: Anomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test

Andre Bonfrer, Ernst R. Berndt and Alvin Silk

12755: The Return to Capital in China

Chong-En Bai, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Yingyi Qian

12754: Crime and Circumstance: The Effects of Infant Health Shocks on Fathers' Criminal Activity

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E. Reichman and Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

12753: On the Macroeconomics of Asset Shortages

Ricardo Caballero

12752: Uncertainty In Environmental Economics

Robert Pindyck

12751: Party Influence in Congress and the Economy

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

12750: Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt: Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences

Joshua Aizenman, Kenneth Kletzer and Brian Pinto

12749: Coalition Formation in Political Games

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

12748: Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni

12747: Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing

Pol Antras and Elhanan Helpman

12746: How Large Is the Housing Wealth Effect? A New Approach

Christopher Carroll, Misuzu Otsuka and Jiri Slacalek

12745: Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

Henrik Horn, Giovanni Maggi and Robert Staiger

12744: Unspanned Stochastic Volatility and the Pricing of Commodity Derivatives

Anders B. Trolle and Eduardo S. Schwartz

12743: Does Increased Access Increase Equality? Gender and Child Health Investments in India

Emily Oster

12742: Catastrophe Bonds, Reinsurance, and the Optimal Collateralization of Risk-Transfer

Darius Lakdawalla and George Zanjani

12741: The "Stern Review" on the Economics of Climate Change

William Nordhaus

12740: Comparing Two Variants of Calvo-Type Wage Stickiness

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

12739: Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations

Holger M. Mueller and Thomas Philippon

12738: The Political Economy of Warfare

Edward Glaeser

12737: Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries

Eric Hanushek, Victor Lavy and Kohtaro Hitomi

12736: The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets: Implications for Immigration and Other Policies

Martin Feldstein

12735: Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies

Angus Deaton

12734: International Reserves Management and the Current Account

Joshua Aizenman

12733: Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending and Federal Revenues

John F. Cogan, Robert Hubbard and Daniel P. Kessler

12732: Taxing Sales Under the FairTax: What Rate Works?

Paul Bachman, Jonathan Haughton, Laurence Kotlikoff, Alfonso Sánchez-Peñalver and David G. Tuerck

12731: Pricing to Habits and the Law of One Price

Morten Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

12730: Taxing Consumption and Other Sins

James Hines

12729: The Nature of Exchange Rate Regimes

Michael Klein and Jay Shambaugh

12728: Is Home Bias in Assets Related to Home Bias in Goods?

Eric van Wincoop and Francis Warnock

12727: What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

12726: Sudden Flight and True Sudden Stops

Alexander Rothenberg and Francis Warnock

12725: Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters

Svetlana Demidova, Hiau Looi Kee and Kala Krishna

12724: Security Issue Timing: What Do Managers Know, and When Do They Know It?

Dirk Jenter, Katharina Lewellen and Jerold B. Warner

12723: The Determinants of Household Saving in China: A Dynamic Panel Analysis of Provincial Data

Charles Horioka and Junmin Wan

12722: Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries

Rachel Griffith, Elena Huergo, Jacques Mairesse and Bettina Peters

12721: Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring

Gene Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

12720: Coarse Thinking and Persuasion

Sendhil Mullainathan, Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer

12719: A Comment Concerning Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard

Gary Richardson

12718: Financial Versus Monetary Mercantilism-Long-run View of Large International Reserves Hoarding

Joshua Aizenman and Jaewoo Lee

12717: Bank Distress during the Great Depression: The Illiquidity-Insolvency Debate Revisited

Gary Richardson

12716: Correspondent Clearing and the Banking Panics of the Great Depression

Gary Richardson

12715: Quarterly Data on the Categories and Causes of Bank Distress During the Great Depression

Gary Richardson

12714: Painting by Proxy: The Conceptual Artist as Manufacturer

David Galenson

12713: The Effect of Monetary Policy on Real Commodity Prices

Jeffrey Frankel

12712: A Product-Quality View of the Linder Hypothesis

Juan Hallak

12711: A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Inflation Targeting is Bretton Woods, Reversed

Andrew Rose

12710: Gold Rush Fever in Business Cycles

Paul Beaudry, Fabrice Collard and Franck Portier

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 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 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 René 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 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 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 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 Schwartz

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

Eugene White