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11225: Pricing Capital Under Mandatory Unbundling and Facilities Sharing

Robert Pindyck

11224: SMEs, Growth, and Poverty

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

11223: The Competitive Effects of Drug Withdrawals

John Cawley and John Rizzo

11222: The Tactical and Strategic Value of Commodity Futures

Claude B. Erb and Campbell Harvey

11221: The Structure of Factor Content Predictions

Daniel Trefler and Susan Chun Zhu

11220: An Information Approach to International Currencies

Richard Lyons and Michael Moore

11219: Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Joshua Angrist and Adriana Kugler

11218: Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies

Dana Goldman and James Smith

11217: The Labor Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration

George Borjas

11216: Competition Among Public Schools: A Reply to Rothstein (2004)

Caroline Hoxby

11215: Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? A Comment on Hoxby (2000)

Jesse Rothstein

11214: Pitfalls of a State-Dominated Financial System: The Case of China

Genevieve Boyreau-Debray and Shang-Jin Wei

11213: Affirmative Action in Hierarchies

Suzanne Scotchmer

11212: Fluctuating Macro Policies and the Fiscal Theory

Troy Davig and Eric Leeper

11211: Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market

Stefano DellaVigna and Joshua M. Pollet

11210: Asymmetric Crime Cycles

Naci Mocan and Turan G. Bali

11209: Equivalence Results for Optimal Pass-Through, Optimal Indexing to Exchange Rates, and Optimal Choice of Currency for Export Pricing

Charles Engel

11208: Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

11207: Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860-1880

Chulhee Lee

11206: Industrialization and Urbanization: Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?

Sukkoo Kim

11205: Income and Democracy

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Pierre Yared

11204: From Education to Democracy?

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Pierre Yared

11203: Financing Cities

Robert Inman

11202: Did Iraq Cheat the United Nations? Underpricing, Bribes, and the Oil for Food Program

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti

11201: Competition and Efficiency in Congested Markets

Daron Acemoglu and Asuman Ozdaglar

11200: Systemic Risk and Hedge Funds

Nicholas Chan, Mila Getmansky, Shane M. Haas and Andrew Lo

11199: Slow Passthrough Around the World: A New Import for Developing Countries?

Jeffrey Frankel, David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

11198: The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets

Barry Eichengreen, Kenneth Kletzer and Ashoka Mody

11197: Do Firms Go Public to Raise Capital?

Woojin Kim and Michael Weisbach

11196: Corporate Taxation and Bilateral FDI with Threshold Barriers

Assaf Razin, Yona Rubinstein and Efraim Sadka

11195: Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap

David Figlio

11194: Testing, Crime and Punishment

David Figlio

11193: Financial Markets and the Real Economy

John Cochrane

11192: Hospital Ownership Mix Efficiency in the US: An Exploratory Study

Rexford Santerre and John A. Vernon

11191: Self-Fulfilling Currency Crises: The Role of Interest Rates

Christian Hellwig, Arijit Mukherji and Aleh Tsyvinski

11190: Special Purpose Vehicles and Securitization

Gary Gorton and Nicholas Souleles

11189: Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases, and the Role of Expert Agents: An Empirical Study of Final-Offer Arbitration

Orley Ashenfelter and Gordon Dahl

11188: Volatility Forecasting

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Peter Christoffersen and Francis Diebold

11187: Integrating Industry and National Economic Accounts: First Steps and Future Improvements

Ann M. Lawson, Brian C. Moyer, Sumiye Okubo and Mark A. Planting

11186: The Amplification of Unemployment Fluctuations through Self-Selection

Robert Hall

11185: Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Insurance Markets

Mikhail Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski

11184: Outsourcing Price Decisions: Evidence from U.S. 9802 Imports

Deborah Swenson

11183: Employment Efficiency and Sticky Wages: Evidence from Flows in the Labor Market

Robert Hall

11182: Cohort Turnover and Productivity: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals

Robert Huckman and Jason Barro

11181: Socio-economic Impact of Nanoscale Science: Initial Results and NanoBank

Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby

11180: UNINSURED IDIOSYNCRATIC INVESTMENT RISK

George-Marios Angeletos

11179: Out-of-Pocket Health Spending Between Low- and High-Income Populations: Who is at Risk of Having High Financial Burdens?

Yu-Chu Shen and Joshua McFeeters

11178: Are Asset Price Guarantees Useful for Preventing Sudden Stops?: A Quantitative Investigation of the Globalization Hazard-Moral Hazard Tradeoff

C. Bora Durdu and Enrique Mendoza

11177: Reading, Writing and Raisinets: Are School Finances Contributing to Children's Obesity?

Patricia Anderson and Kristin Butcher

11176: The Effect of the 1998 Master Settlement on Prenatal Smoking

Douglas E. Levy and Ellen Meara

11175: Globalization and Complementary Policies: Poverty Impacts in Rural Zambia

Jorge Balat and Guido Porto

11174: Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions

Don Fullerton and Li Gan

11173: Financial Crises, 1880-1913: The Role of Foreign Currency Debt

Michael Bordo and Christopher Meissner

11172: Measurement and Explanation of the Intensity of Co-publication in Scientific Research: An Analysis at the Laboratory Level

Jacques Mairesse and Laure Turner

11171: Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development

Torsten Persson

11170: Capital Controls, Sudden Stops and Current Account Reversals

Sebastian Edwards

11169: Explaining Returns with Cash-Flow Proxies

Peter Hecht and Tuomo Vuolteenaho

11168: What is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts?: Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu

11167: Monetary Policy with Judgment: Forecast Targeting

Lars Svensson

11166: Stocks, Bonds, Money Markets and Exchange Rates: Measuring International Financial Transmission

Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher and Roberto Rigobon

11165: Productivity Spillovers, Terms of Trade and the "Home Market Effect"

Giancarlo Corsetti, Philippe Martin and Paolo Pesenti

11164: Technology, Monopoly, and the Decline of the Viatical Settlements Industry

Neeraj Sood, Abby Alpert and Jay Bhattacharya

11163: Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement

John Laitner and Dan Silverman

11162: Private Benefits of Control, Ownership, and the Cross-Listing Decision

Craig Doidge, G. Karolyi, Karl Lins, Darius P. Miller and René Stulz

11161: What's Real About the Business Cycle?

James Hamilton

11160: The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums

Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra

11159: Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Since 1975

Casey Mulligan and Yona Rubinstein

11158: Outsourcing and Technological Change

Ann Bartel, Saul Lach and Nachum Sicherman

11157: An Improved Annual Chronology of U.S. Business Cycles since the 1790's

Joseph H. Davis

11156: The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

11155: International Financial Adjustment

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Helene Rey

11154: The Market for Teacher Quality

Eric Hanushek, John Kain, Daniel M. O'Brien and Steven Rivkin

11153: Sudden Stop, Financial Factors and Economic Collpase in Latin America: Learning from Argentina and Chile

Guillermo Calvo and Ernesto Talvi

11152: Anticipating Artistic Success (or, How to Beat the Art Market): Lessons from History

David Galenson

11151: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap: The Japanese Experience 1999-2004

Mitsuru Iwamara, Takeshi Kudo and Tsutomu Watanabe

11150: Understanding Rules of Origin

Kala Krishna

11149: Firm-Specific Capital and the New-Keynesian Phillips Curve

Michael Woodford

11148: Investment Timing, Agency, and Information

Steven R. Grenadier and Neng Wang

11147: Why Inflation Rose and Fell: Policymakers' Beliefs and US Postwar Stabilization Policy

Giorgio Primiceri

11146: Fertility and Social Security

Michele Boldrin, Mariacristina De Nardi and Larry Jones

11145: Financial Liberalization in Latin-America in the 1990s: A Reassessment

Joshua Aizenman

11144: Why is Long-Horizon Equity Less Risky? A Duration-Based Explanation of the Value Premium

Martin Lettau and Jessica Wachter

11143: Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structure in Poland

Chor-Ching Goh and Beata Javorcik

11142: Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation

James Heckman

11141: The War Against Drug Producers

Herschel Grossman and Daniel Mejia

11140: Constraining Managers without Owners: Governance of the Not-for-Profit Enterprise

Mihir A. Desai and Robert J. Yetman

11139: Assessing Consumer Gains from a Drug Price Control Policy in the U.S

Rexford Santerre and John A. Vernon

11138: Are Alcohol Excise Taxes Good For Us? Short and Long-Term Effects on Mortality Rates

Philip J Cook, Jan Ostermann and Frank Sloan

11137: The U.S. Current Account and the Dollar

Olivier Blanchard, Francesco Giavazzi and Filipa Sa

11136: Smart Institutions, Foolish Choices? The Limited Partner Performance Puzzle

Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar and Wan Wong

11135: How Does Job-Protected Maternity Leave Affect Mothers' Employment and Infant Health?

Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan

11134: A Framework for Exploring the Macroeconomic Determinants of Systematic Risk

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Jin (Ginger) Wu

11133: Sudden Stops and Output Drops

Varadarajan Chari, Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan

11132: The Market Price of Aggregate Risk and the Wealth Distribution

Hanno Lustig and YiLi Chien

11131: Evaluation of Exchange-Rate, Capital Market, and Dollarization Regimes in the Presence of Sudden Stops

Assaf Razin and Yona Rubinstein

11130: Trends in Hours, Balanced Growth, and the Role of Technology in the Business Cycle

Jordi Galí

11129: Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?

Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Raven Saks

11128: Shirking, Sharing Risk, and Shelving: The Role of University License Contracts

Marie Thursby, Jerry Thursby and Emmanuel Dechenaux

11127: Vehicle Currency Use in International Trade

Linda Goldberg and Cédric Tille

11126: Profitable Investments or Dissipated Cash? Evidence on the Investment-Cash Flow Relationship From Oil and Gas Lease Bidding

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan