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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

12260: Individual Versus Aggregate Collateral Constraints and the Overborrowing Syndrome

Martín Uribe

12259: Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax

Louis Kaplow

12258: Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?

Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna

12257: Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

Kevin Lang and Michael Manove

12256: Noise Traders

James Dow and Gary Gorton

12255: Private Investment and Government Protection

Carolyn Kousky, Erzo Luttmer and Richard Zeckhauser

12254: Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence From the Health Care Sector

Daron Acemoglu and Amy Finkelstein

12253: There Goes the Neighborhood? Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values From Megan's Laws

Leigh Linden and Jonah E. Rockoff

12252: Judicial Risk and Credit Market Performance: Micro Evidence from Brazilian Payroll Loans

Ana Carla A. Costa and Joao De Mello

12251: The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover -- An Experiment in a College Classroom

Zeynep Hansen, Hideo Owan and Jie Pan

12250: Democracy and Protectionism

Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor

12249: China's FDI and Non-FDI Economies and the Sustainability of Future High Chinese Growth

John Whalley and Xian Xin

12248: Risk, Uncertainty and Asset Prices

Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom and Yuhang Xing

12247: Stock and Bond Returns with Moody Investors

Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom and Steven R. Grenadier

12246: Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities: Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880

Sukkoo Kim

12245: Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

E. Han Kim, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales

12244: The Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers

Robert Town, Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman and Lawton R. Burns

12243: Intertemporal Disturbances

Giorgio Primiceri, Ernst Schaumburg and Andrea Tambalotti

12242: Internet Retail Demand: Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

12241: Hospital Ownership and Quality of Care: What Explains the Different Results?

Karen Eggleston, Yu-Chu Shen, Joseph Lau, Christopher H. Schmid and Jia Chan

12240: Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality: Evidence from India

Jagadeesh Sivadasan and Joel Slemrod

12239: Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency

Louis Kaplow

12238: U.S.-Based Private Voluntary Organizations: Religious and Secular PVOs Engaged in International Relief & Development

Rachel M. McCleary and Robert Barro

12237: Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression

Rena Conti, Ernst R. Berndt and Richard G. Frank

12236: Econometric Risk Adjustment, Endogeneity, and Extrapolation Bias

John Mullahy

12235: Sudden Stops and IMF-Supported Programs

Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta and Ashoka Mody

12234: Managing Bank Liquidity Risk: How Deposit-Loan Synergies Vary with Market Conditions

Evan Gatev, Til Schuermann and Philip E. Strahan

12233: The International CAPM and a Wavelet-Based Decomposition of Value at Risk

Viviana Fernandez

12232: Medicaid Policy Changes in Mental Health Care and Their Effect on Mental Health Outcomes

Alison Cuellar and Sara Markowitz

12231: Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogenous Producers: An Empirical Test

Chad Syverson

12230: On the Optimal Timing of Benefits with Heterogeneous Workers and Human Capital Depreciation

Robert Shimer and Iván Werning

12229: Monetary Unions, External Shocks and Economic Performance: A Latin American Perspective

Sebastian Edwards

12228: An Elephant in the Garden: The Allies, Spain, and Oil in World War II

Leonardo Caruana and Hugh Rockoff

12227: The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics

Susan Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton

12226: Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History

Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy

12225: Tax Competition With Parasitic Tax Havens

Joel Slemrod and John Wilson

12224: Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms

Daron Acemoglu, Mikhail Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski

12223: Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence, and Trading Activity

Mark Grinblatt and Matti Keloharju

12222: Do Foreigners Invest Less in Poorly Governed Firms?

Christian Leuz, Karl Lins and Francis Warnock

12221: Crime and Young Men: The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience, and Heterogeneity

Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna

12220: International Diversification at Home and Abroad

Fang Cai and Francis Warnock

12219: Are Valuation Effects Desirable from a Global Perspective?

Pierpaolo Benigno

12218: Baumol's Diseases: A Macroeconomic Perspective

William Nordhaus

12217: Multinationals, Technology, and the Introduction of Varieties of Goods

Irene Brambilla

12216: Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Nicholas Bloom and John van Reenen

12215: Expenditure Switching vs. Real Exchange Rate Stabilization: Competing Objectives for Exchange Rate Policy

Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

12214: Portfolio Choice in a Monetary Open-Economy DSGE Model

Charles Engel and Akito Matsumoto

12213: Expectations and Exchange Rate Policy

Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

12212: Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations

Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti

12211: Identifying Individual and Group Effects in the Presence of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application

Patrick Bayer and Stephen Ross

12210: An Empirical Analysis of the Pricing of Collateralized Debt Obligations

Francis Longstaff and Arvind Rajan

12209: Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making - A Selective Survey

Pablo Spiller and Sanny Liao

12208: The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns of the Elderly

Lara Gardner and Donna Gilleskie

12207: The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8

Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

12206: Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Claire Lelarge, John van Reenen and Fabrizio Zilibotti

12205: Redistribution by Insurance Market Regulation: Analyzing a Ban on Gender-Based Retirement Annuities

Amy Finkelstein, James Poterba and Casey Rothschild

12204: Intergenerational Risksharing and Equilibrium Asset Prices

John Campbell and Yves Nosbusch

12203: Is IPO Underperformance a Peso Problem?

Andrew Ang, Li Gu and Yael V. Hochberg

12202: Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance

Alexandre Mas

12201: The Effect of Taxes on Efficiency and Growth

Martin Feldstein

12200: Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

12199: Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance?

Thomas Dee and Brian A. Jacob

12198: Stabilization of Effective Exchange Rates Under Common Currency Basket Systems

Eiji Ogawa and Junko Shimizu

12197: The Effects of Health on Health Insurance Status in Fragile Families

Hope Corman, Anne Carroll, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

12196: Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs

Pol Antras, Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

12195: The Private Value of Software Patents

Bronwyn Hall and Megan MacGarvie

12194: G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment

Richard Clarida

12193: Are There Thresholds of Current Account Adjustment in the G7?

Richard Clarida, Manuela Goretti and Mark Taylor

12192: Trade Liberalization with Heterogenous Firms

Richard Baldwin and Rikard Forslid

12191: Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect

Andrew K. Rose

12190: Pork Barrel Cycles

Allan Drazen and Marcela Eslava

12189: One World Money, Then and Now

Michael Bordo and Harold James

12188: What Determines Bilateral Trade Flows?

Marianne Baxter and Michael Kouparitsas

12187: Debt Relief

Serkan Arslanalp and Peter Henry

12186: Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment

Anusha Chari and Peter Henry

12185: Analyzing Artistic Innovation: The Greatest Breakthroughs of the Twentieth Century

David Galenson

12184: Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions

David Cutler, Mary Beth Landrum and Kate A. Stewart

12183: The Expected Value Premium

Long Chen, Ralitsa Petkova and Lu Zhang

12182: The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States

Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince

12181: AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

12180: Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Andreas Ammermueller and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

12179: Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

Elizabeth Cascio