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11460: The Role of Patents for Bridging the Science to Market Gap

Thomas Hellmann

11459: Investment-Based Underperformance Following Seasoned Equity Offerings

Evgeny Lyandres, Le Sun and Lu Zhang

11458: Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy

Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

11457: Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?

Richard Freeman

11456: Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census

Pablo Ibarraran and Darren Lubotsky

11455: Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth

David Weil

11454: Labor Supply Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Evidence from Wisconsin Supplemental Benefit for Families with Three Children

Maria Cancian and Arik Levinson

11453: The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Daniel Hamermesh

11452: The Effects of Taxes on Market Responses to Dividend Announcements and Payments: What Can we Learn from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut?

Raj Chetty, Joseph Rosenberg and Emmanuel Saez

11451: Managerial Skill Acquisition and the Theory of Economic Development

Paul Beaudry and Patrick Francois

11450: Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Andrew A. Toole and Dirk Czarnitzki

11449: The 2003 Dividend Tax Cuts and the Value of the Firm: An Event Study

Alan Auerbach and Kevin Hassett

11448: A Note on the Empirical Implementation of the Lens Condition

Andrew Bernard, Raymond Robertson and Peter Schott

11447: The Influence of University Research on Industrial Innovation

Jinyoung Kim, Sangjoon John Lee and Gerald Marschke

11446: Health Insurance Reform and HMO Penetration in the Small Group Market

Thomas Buchmueller

11445: Race, Income, and College in 25 Years: The Continuing Legacy of Segregation and Discrimination

Alan Krueger, Jesse Rothstein and Sarah Turner

11444: Optimal Trading Strategy and Supply/Demand Dynamics

Anna Obizhaeva and Jiang Wang

11443: The Growth of Executive Pay

Lucian Bebchuk and Yaniv Grinstein

11442: The Risks of Financial Institutions

Mark Carey and René Stulz

11441: Multifrequency News and Stock Returns

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher

11440: Wealth Transfers, Contagion, and Portfolio Constraints

Anna Pavlova and Roberto Rigobon

11439: Caught On Tape: Institutional Order Flow and Stock Returns

John Campbell, Tarun Ramadorai and Tuomo O. Vuolteenaho

11438: The Incidence of Pollution Control Policies

Ian Parry, Hilary Sigman, Margaret Walls and Roberton Williams

11437: Crafting A Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students

Ronald Ehrenberg, Liang Zhang and Jared Levin

11436: Firms' Demand for Employment-Based Mental Health Benefits

Judith Shinogle and David Salkever

11435: Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study

Joanna Lahey

11434: Capital Controls, Exchange Rate Volatility and External Vulnerability

Sebastian Edwards and Roberto Rigobon

11433: Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health

Kelly Noonan, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman and Dhaval Dave

11432: Regional Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

Kurt Unger

11431: Generic Scrip Share and the Price of Brand-Name Drugs: The Role of the Consumer

John Rizzo and Richard Zeckhauser

11430: Sunk Costs and Real Options in Antitrust

Robert Pindyck

11429: Establishing Credibility: The Role of Foreign Advisors

Sebastian Edwards

11428: Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration From Rural Mexico to the United States

Susan Richter, J. Edward Taylor and Antonio Naude

11427: Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition, 1850-1925

Joseph P. Ferrie and Werner Troesken

11426: Investor Competence, Trading Frequency, and Home Bias

John R. Graham, Campbell Harvey and Hai Huang

11425: Opportunities for Improving the Drug Development Process: Results from a Survey of Industry and the FDA

Ernst R. Berndt, Adrian H. B. Gottschalk and Matthew W. Strobeck

11424: Determinants of Vertical Integration: Finance, Contracts, and Regulation

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and Todd Mitton

11423: Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

11422: Dating Business Cycle Turning Points

Marcelle Chauvet and James Hamilton

11421: Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks

Judith Chevalier and Austan Goolsbee

11420: Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs

Leemore Dafny and David Dranove

11419: Can Ranking Hospitals on the Basis of Patients' Travel Distances Improve Quality of Care?

Daniel P. Kessler

11418: International Outsourcing and Incomplete Contracts

Barbara Spencer

11417: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model: Expanded Version

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

11416: Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

11415: They Don't Invent Them Like They Used To: An Examination of Energy Patent Citations Over Time

David Popp

11414: Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Till von Wachter

11413: Liquidity and Expected Returns: Lessons From Emerging Markets

Geert Bekaert, Campbell R. Harvey and Christian Lundblad

11412: Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earnings in Mexico

Gordon Hanson

11411: The Impact of State Physical Education Requirements on Youth Physical Activity and Overweight

John Cawley, Chad Meyerhoefer and David Newhouse

11410: What Do Unions Do?: The 2004 M-Brane Stringtwister Edition

Richard Freeman

11409: Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation

Nittai K. Bergman and Dirk Jenter

11408: Inequality, Social Discounting and Estate Taxation

Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning

11407: Tying, Upgrades, and Switching Costs in Durable-Goods Markets

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

11406: Alternative Methods of Price Indexing Social Security: Implications for Benefits and System Financing

Andrew Biggs, Jeffrey Brown and Glenn Springstead

11405: The Value of Health and Longevity

Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel

11404: Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

11403: FDI and Trade -- Two Way Linkages?

Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy

11402: Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

Alvin Roth, Tayfun Sönmez and Utku Unver

11401: Real Business Cycle Models: Past, Present, and Future

Sergio Rebelo

11400: Investor Attention: Overconfidence and Category Learning

Lin Peng and Wei Xiong

11399: Corruption, Inequality and Fairness

Alberto Alesina and George-Marios Angeletos

11398: Urban Colossus: Why is New York America's Largest City?

Edward Glaeser

11397: Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era

John Joseph Wallis and Barry Weingast

11396: Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

11395: Price and the Health Plan Choices of Retirees

Thomas Buchmueller

11394: Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans

Orley Ashenfelter, William Collins and Albert Yoon

11393: Market Size, Trade, and Productivity

Marc Melitz and Gianmarco Ottaviano

11392: Optimal Policy Projections

Lars Svensson and Robert Tetlow

11391: Is Cash Negative Debt? A Hedging Perspective on Corporate Financial Policies

Viral Acharya, Heitor Almeida and Murillo Campello

11390: Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

Philip J Cook and Jens Ludwig

11389: Growth or Glamour? Fundamentals and Systematic Risk in Stock Returns

John Campbell, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho

11388: The Rise in Firm-Level Volatility: Causes and Consequences

Diego Comin and Thomas Philippon

11387: India's Experience with Capital Flows: The Elusive Quest for a Sustainable Current Account Deficit

Ajay Shah and Ila Patnaik

11386: A General Formula for the Optimal Level of Social Insurance

Raj Chetty

11385: Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets

Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein

11384: Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid

Murray Leibbrandt, James Levinsohn and Justin McCrary

11383: Historical Perspective on Global Imbalances

Michael Bordo

11382: International Borrowing, Capital Controls and the Exchange Rate: Lessons from Chile

Kevin Cowan and Jose De Gregorio

11381: South Korea's Experience with International Capital Flows

Marcus Noland

11380: Ultra High Frequency Volatility Estimation with Dependent Microstructure Noise

Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Per A. Mykland and Lan Zhang

11379: Hospital Integration and Vertical Consolidation: An Analysis of Acquisitions in New York State

Robert Huckman

11378: An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Policies on Youth Risky Sexual Behaviors

Sara Markowitz, Robert Kaestner and Michael Grossman

11377: Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?

Jonathan Gruber

11376: Does Corporate Ownership Matter? Service Provision in the Hospital Industry

Jill R. Horwitz

11375: A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda

Alessandra Casella and Andrew Gelman

11374: Fiscal Remedies for Japan's Slump

Laurence Ball

11373: Productivity, Efficiency, Scale Economies and Technical Change: A New Decomposition Analysis

Jiro Nemoto and Mika Goto

11372: The Microeconomic Evidence on Capital Controls: No Free Lunch

Kristin Forbes

11371: Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy

Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna and Marcelo Olarreaga

11370: What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions

Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

11369: Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility: Singapore's Experience

Basant Kapur

11368: A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups

Heitor Almeida and Daniel Wolfenzon

11367: Asset Float and Speculative Bubbles

Harrison Hong, Jose Scheinkman and Wei Xiong

11366: International Reserves: Precautionary versus Mercantilist Views, Theory and Evidence

Joshua Aizenman and Jaewoo Lee

11365: The International Exposure of U.S. Banks

Linda Goldberg

11364: Eat or Be Eaten: A Theory of Mergers and Merger Waves

Gary Gorton, Matthias Kahl and Richard Rosen

11363: Bank Credit Cycles

Gary Gorton and Ping He

11362: Speculative Trading and Stock Prices: Evidence from Chinese A-B Share Premia

Jianping Mei, Jose Scheinkman and Wei Xiong

11361: Optimism and Economic Choice

Manju Puri and David Robinson