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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

11125: RECONSIDERING EXPECTATIONS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AFTER

Robert Fogel

11124: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

11123: Understanding Strategic Bidding in Restructured Electricity Markets: A Case Study of ERCOT

Ali Hortacsu and Steven Puller

11122: Junior is Rich: Bequests as Consumption

George Constantinides, John B. Donaldson and Rajnish Mehra

11121: Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Isaac Ehrlich and Jinyoung Kim

11120: Proprietary vs. Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products

Alfonso Gambardella and Bronwyn Hall

11119: The Term Structure of the Risk-Return Tradeoff

John Campbell and Luis Viceira

11118: An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion

Richard Arnott and Eren Inci

11117: The Globalization of Trade and Democracy, 1870-2000

José López-Córdova and Christopher Meissner

11116: Order Flow and the Formation of Dealer Bids: Information Flows and Strategic Behavior in the Government of Canada Securities Auctions

Ali Hortacsu and Samita Sareen

11115: Testing for Ownership Mix Efficiency: The Case of the Nursing Home Industry

Rexford Santerre and John A. Vernon

11114: The Cost of US Pharmaceutical Price Reductions: A Financial Simulation Model of R&D Decisions

Thomas A. Abbott and John A. Vernon

11113: Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws

Elizabeth Cascio and Ethan Lewis

11112: Capital Account Liberalization, Institutional Quality and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence

Michael Klein

11111: The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade: Embassies as Export Promotion

Andrew Rose

11110: Testing out Contractual Incompleteness: Evidence from Soccer

Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau and Diego Comin

11109: Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments

Mark Duggan and William Evans

11108: Property Tax Limitations and Mobility: The Lock-in Effect of California's Proposition 13

Nada Wasi and Michelle White

11107: The Integration of the Canadian Productivity Accounts within the System of National Accounts: Current Status and Challenges Ahead

John Baldwin and Tarek Harchaoui

11106: The Architecture of the System of National Accounts: A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom

Karen Wilson

11105: Monetary Policy, Asset-Price Bubbles and the Zero Lower Bound

Tim Robinson and Andrew Stone

11104: The Cross-Section of Currency Risk Premia and US Consumption Growth Risk

Hanno Lustig and Adrien Verdelhan

11103: Implications of Alternative Operational Risk Modeling Techniques

Patrick de Fontnouvelle, John Jordan and Eric Rosengren

11102: Money Growth and Interest Rates

Seok-Kyun Hur

11101: Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes

Kent Smetters

11100: What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking and Other Health-Related Behaviors

David Cutler and Edward Glaeser

11099: Health Insurance, Treatment and Outcomes: Using Auto Accidents as Health Shocks

Joseph J. Doyle

11098: Structural Reform of Social Security

Martin Feldstein

11097: Urban Growth and Housing Supply

Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Raven E. Saks

11096: Water, Water, Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities

David Cutler and Grant Miller

11095: Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben

11094: Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

Pol Antras, Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

11093: General Purpose Technologies

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

11092: Can Endogenous Changes in Price Flexibility Alter the Relative Welfare Performance of Exchange Rate Regimes?

Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland

11091: Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance

Lara Shore-Sheppard

11090: Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?

Derek Neal

11089: Modeling Bond Yields in Finance and Macroeconomics

Francis Diebold, Monika Piazzesi and Glenn Rudebusch

11088: Time Consistency of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A Solution

Mats Persson, Torsten Persson and Lars Svensson

11087: Did the HMO Revolution Cause Hospital Consolidation?

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

11086: Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools

Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

11085: Electoral Manipulation via Expenditure Composition: Theory and Evidence

Allan Drazen and Marcela Eslava

11084: Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

Martin Feldstein

11083: A Dynamic Theory of Optimal Capital Structure and Executive Compensation

Andrew Atkeson and Harold Cole

11082: A Theory of Takeovers and Disinvestment

Bart Lambrecht and Stewart C. Myers

11081: The Effects of the Colombian Trade Liberalization on Urban Poverty

Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

11080: Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

John Joseph Wallis, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

11079: Saving and Cohabitation: The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands

Rob Alessie, Agar Brugiavini and Guglielmo Weber

11078: Private Credit in 129 Countries

Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh and Andrei Shleifer

11077: Testing Uncovered Interest Parity at Short and Long Horizons during the Post-Bretton Woods Era

Menzie Chinn and Guy Meredith

11076: Systemic Crises and Growth

Romain Ranciere, Aaron Tornell and Frank Westermann

11075: Foreign Direct Investment and the Domestic Capital Stock

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

11074: Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions

Gabriel Carroll, James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick

11073: Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating BEA's Accounts: Improved Methods for Calculating GDP by Industry

Brian Moyer, Marshall Reinsdorf and Robert Yuskavage

11072: How do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from the Major Airlines

Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson

11071: Structuring and Restructuring Sovereign Debt: The Role of Seniority

Patrick Bolton and Olivier Jeanne

11070: The Limits of Financial Globalization

René Stulz

11069: Practical Volatility and Correlation Modeling for Financial Market Risk Management

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Peter Christoffersen and Francis Diebold

11068: Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts

John R. Moran and Kosali Simon

11067: Bank-Tax Conformity for Corporate Income: An Introduction to the Issues

Michelle Hanlon and Terry Shevlin

11066: Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor?

Emma Aisbett

11065: Does it Cost to be Virtuous? The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Constraints

Fabio Canova and Evi Pappa

11064: Where Are We Now? Real-Time Estimates of the Macro Economy

Martin Evans

11063: Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs

Dana Goldman, Neeraj Sood and Arleen Leibowitz

11062: The Global History of Corporate Governance: An Introduction

Randall Morck and Lloyd Steier

11061: Changing Monetary Policy Rules, Learning, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

Nelson Mark