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12360: A Skeptical Appraisal of Asset-Pricing Tests

Jonathan Lewellen, Stefan Nagel and Jay Shanken

12359: Agency Conflicts, Asset Substitution, and Securitization

Yingjin Hila Gan and Christopher Mayer

12358: Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert Pollak and Barbara Schone

12357: Sustainability, Debt Management, and Public Debt Policy in Japan

Takero Doi, Toshihiro Ihori and Kiyoshi Mitsui

12356: Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance

Morten Bennedsen, Kasper M. Nielsen, Francisco Pérez-González and Daniel Wolfenzon

12355: Superstar Cities

Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer and Todd Sinai

12354: Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded versus Privately Held Firms

Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

12353: Assessing Structural VARs

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson

12352: Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence

David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney

12351: The Dissaving of the Aged Revisited: The Case of Japan

Charles Horioka

12350: Time Zones as Cues for Coordination: Latitude, Longitude, and Letterman

Daniel Hamermesh, Caitlin Myers and Mark Pocock

12349: The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer

N. Gregory Mankiw

12348: The Catastrophic Effects of Natural Disasters on Insurance Markets

W Viscusi and Patricia Born

12347: Globalization and Poverty

Ann Harrison

12346: The Performance of International Equity Portfolios

Charles Thomas, Francis Warnock and Jon Wongswan

12345: Liquidity Insurance in a Financially Dollarized Economy

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

12344: On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language

Jerry Green and Laurence Kotlikoff

12343: Competing With the NYSE

William O. Brown, Jr., J. Harold Mulherin and Marc Weidenmier

12342: Capital Gains Taxes and Asset Prices: Capitalization or Lock-In?

Zhonglan Dai, Edward Maydew, Douglas Shackelford and Harold Zhang

12341: Consumption Over the Life Cycle: The Role of Annuities

Gary Hansen and Selahattin Imrohoroglu

12340: The Lending Channel in Emerging Economics: Are Foreign Banks Different?

Marco Arena, Carmen Reinhart and Francisco Vazquez

12339: Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation

Louis Kaplow

12338: Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence From a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

Dean Karlan and John List

12337: A General Stochastic Volatility Model for the Pricing and Forecasting of Interest Rate Derivatives

Anders B. Trolle and Eduardo S. Schwartz

12336: Aggregate Implications of Lumpy Investment: New Evidence and a DSGE Model

Ruediger Bachmann, Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

12335: Hospital Competition, Managed Care and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions: Evidence From Three States

José J. Escarce, Arvind K. Jain and Jeannette Rogowski

12334: Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

Muriel Niederle

12333: Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves: The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar

Elias Papaioannou, Richard Portes and Gregorios Siourounis

12332: Separation of Powers and the Budget Process

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

12331: Do Rising Tides Lift All Prices? Income Inequality and Housing Affordability

Janna L. Matlack and Jacob Vigdor

12330: Do Borrowing Constraints Matter? An Analysis of Why the Permanent Income Hypothesis Does Not Apply in Japan

Miki Kohara and Charles Horioka

12329: The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth

Justin McCrary and Heather Royer

12328: Artificial States

Alberto Alesina, William Easterly and Janina Matuszeski

12327: A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States

Abdurrahman Aydemir and George Borjas

12326: Trade and Growth with Heterogenous Firms

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

12325: International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Dean Yang

12324: Why Has U.S. Inflation Become Harder to Forecast?

James Stock and Mark Watson

12323: Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Compensation Program

Mark Duggan, Robert Rosenheck and Perry Singleton

12322: Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope

Volker Nocke and Stephen Yeaple

12321: New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires

Francine Blau and Jed DeVaro

12320: Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

Bronwyn Hall and Jacques Mairesse

12319: Inflation as a Redistribution Shock: Effects on Aggregates and Welfare

Matthias Doepke and Martin Schneider

12318: Contributions of Zvi Griliches

James Heckman

12317: Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel

12316: Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879

Rafael Dobado González, Aurora Gómez Galvarriato and Jeffrey Williamson

12315: People Flows in Globalization

Richard Freeman

12314: An Exploration of Technology Diffusion

Diego Comin and Bart Hobiijn

12313: Socially Optimal Districting: An Empirical Investigation

Stephen Coate and Brian Knight

12312: Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets

Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel

12311: The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later

Robert Gordon

12310: Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman

12309: Collateralized Borrowing and Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice

Paul Willen and Felix Kubler

12308: Financial Innovations and Macroeconomic Volatility

Urban Jermann and Vincenzo Quadrini

12307: The Choice Between Income and Consumption Taxes: A Primer

Alan Auerbach

12306: Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

Richard Freeman

12305: Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?

Weili Ding and Steven Lehrer

12304: The Impact of Poor Health on Education: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers

Weili Ding, Steven Lehrer, J. Niels Rosenquist and Janet Audrain-McGovern

12303: Early Retirement, Social Security and Well-Being in Germany

Axel Börsch-Supan and Hendrik Jürges

12302: Australian Government Balance Sheet Management

Wilson Au-Yeung, Jason McDonald and Amanda Sayegh

12301: What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets?

Martin Gaynor

12300: Even For Teenagers, Money Does Not Grow on Trees: Teenage Substance Use and Budget Constraints

Sara Markowitz and John Tauras

12299: Currency Mismatches, Default Risk, and Exchange Rate Depreciation: Evidence from the End of Bimetallism

Michael Bordo, Christopher Meissner and Marc Weidenmier

12298: Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

Eric I. Knudsen, James Heckman, Judy L. Cameron and Jack P. Shonkoff

12297: The Industry Life Cycle and Acquisitions and Investment: Does Firm Organization Matter?

Vojislav Maksimovic and Gordon Phillips

12296: Baumol-Tobin and the Welfare Costs of National Security Border Delays

Hui Huang and John Whalley

12295: The Variability of IPO Initial Returns

Michelle Lowry, Micah S. Officer and G. Schwert

12294: Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis

W Viscusi

12293: Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

12292: Dividends and Taxes

Roger Gordon and Martin Dietz

12291: Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research

John Cawley and Richard Burkhauser

12290: Equity Premia with Benchmark Levels of Consumption: Closed-Form Results

Andrew Abel

12289: Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market

Hanming Fang, Michael Keane and Dan Silverman

12288: The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler

12287: Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia

Reuben Gronau

12286: Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gaming Under a Performance Accountability System

Julie Cullen and Randall Reback

12285: Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina

Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

12284: Optimal Income Transfers

Louis Kaplow

12283: Ineffective Controls on Capital Inflows Under Sophisticated Financial Markets: Brazil in the Nineties

Bernardo S. de M. Carvalho and Marcio Garcia

12282: Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School

Erica Field

12281: Supermodularity and Tipping

Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther

12280: Innovativity: A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Pierre Mohnen, Jacques Mairesse and Marcel Dagenais

12279: Balancing the Goals of Health Care Provision

Martin Feldstein

12278: Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges

Emre Ozdenoren, Stephen Salant and Dan Silverman

12277: Stability First: Reflections Inspired by Otmar Issing's Success as the ECB's Chief Economist

Vitor Gaspar and Anil Kashyap

12276: Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment

Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James Hines

12275: When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin and Peter Howitt

12274: Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?

Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan

12273: Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement Among Married Couples

Kanika Kapur and Jeannette Rogowski

12272: Energy Conservation in the United States: Understanding its Role in Climate Policy

Gilbert Metcalf

12271: Measuring International Trade in Services

Robert Lipsey

12270: Resolving Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Stock and Bond Markets

Alessandro Beber and Michael W. Brandt

12269: Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

12268: Monetary Policy When Potential Output is Uncertain: Understanding the Growth Gamble of the 1990s

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Matthew Shapiro

12267: Socioeconomic Status and Health in Childhood: A Comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews (2006)

Anne Case, Christina Paxson and Tom Vogl

12266: $2.00 Gas! Studying the Effects of a Gas Tax Moratorium

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. and Krislert Samphantharak

12265: Population Aging, Fiscal Policies, and National Saving: Predictions for Korean Economy

Young Jun Chun

12264: A Century of Work and Leisure

Valerie Ramey and Neville Francis

12263: Information Spillovers in the Market for Recorded Music

Ken Hendricks and Alan Sorensen

12262: New Evidence on Real Wage Cyclicality within Employer-Employee Matches

Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon

12261: Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds

James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian