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12539: Importation and Innovation

Frank Lichtenberg

12538: Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Pierre-Olivier Weill

12537: Can News About the Future Drive the Business Cycle?

Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo

12536: Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

Jeffrey Brown, Norma Coe and Amy Finkelstein

12535: A Comment on The Role of Prices for Excludable Public Goods

Gilbert Metcalf and Jongsang Park

12534: Why Do U.S. Firms Hold So Much More Cash Than They Used To?

Thomas W. Bates, Kathleen M. Kahle and René Stulz

12533: Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? -- Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving

Laurence Kotlikoff and David Rapson

12532: Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students?

Christina Czart Ciecierski, Pinka Chatterji, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler

12531: Explaining Import Variety and Quality: The Role of the Income Distribution

Yo Chul Choi, David Hummels and Chong Xiang

12530: Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand

Jonathan Hughes, Christopher Knittel and Daniel Sperling

12529: High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Pinka Chatterji and Jeffrey DeSimone

12528: Do Female Physicians Capture Their Scarcity Value? The Case of OB/GYNs

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes

12527: The Effectiveness of Cigarette Regulations in Reducing Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Sara Markowitz

12526: What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970

E. Han Kim, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales

12525: The Corporate Governance Role of the Media: Evidence from Russia

Isaac Dyck, Natalya Volchkova and Luigi Zingales

12524: Customer Risk from Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing: Bill Volatility and Hedgability

Severin Borenstein

12523: Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research

Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern

12522: How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages

Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek

12521: Endogenous Skill Bias in Technology Adoption: City-Level Evidence from the IT Revolution

Paul Beaudry, Mark Doms and Ethan Lewis

12520: Creative Destruction in Industries

Boyan Jovanovic and Chung-Yi Tse

12519: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury

Steven Levitt and Joseph J. Doyle

12518: Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks

George Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon Hanson

12517: Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

Jean-Marie Baland and James Robinson

12516: Gravity for Dummies and Dummies for Gravity Equations

Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni

12515: Monetary Policy Strategy: How Did We Get Here?

Frederic Mishkin

12514: Temporary Investment Tax Incentives: Theory with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation

Christopher House and Matthew Shapiro

12513: Linear Approximations and Tests of Conditional Pricing Models

Michael W. Brandt and David Chapman

12512: From Groundnuts to Globalization: A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth

Christian Broda, Joshua Greenfield and David Weinstein

12511: The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured

Daniel Polsky, Jalpa A. Doshi, Jose Escarce, Willard Manning, Susan M. Paddock, Liyi Cen and Jeannette Rogowski

12510: Contingent Valuation Analysis of Willingness to Pay To Reduce Childhood Obesity

John Cawley

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