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11944: Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf

11943: Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings

Steven Haider and Gary Solon

11942: Robust Optimal Policy in a Forward-Looking Model with Parameter and Shock Uncertainty

Marc Giannoni

11941: Estimating the Intertemporal Risk-Return Tradeoff Using the Implied Cost of Capital

Lubos Pastor, Meenakshi Sinha and Bhaskaran Swaminathan

11940: Modeling Inefficient Institutions

Daron Acemoglu

11939: Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program

V. Joseph Hotz, Guido Imbens and Jacob A. Klerman

11938: Private Profits and Public Health: Does Advertising Smoking Cessation Products Encourage Smokers to Quit?

Rosemary Avery, Donald Kenkel, Dean R. Lillard and Alan Mathios

11937: Strategic Information Disclosure: The Case of Multi-Attribute Products with Heterogeneous Consumers

V. Joseph Hotz and Mo Xiao

11936: Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness

Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

11935: Hyperbolic Discounting of Public Goods

W Viscusi and Joel Huber

11934: Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

W Viscusi

11933: Globalization and Developing Countries - A Shrinking Tax Base?

Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak

11932: The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

Peter Kuhn and Chris Riddell

11931: Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

11930: Health Care, Technological Change, and Altruistic Consumption Externalities

Tomas Philipson, Stéphane Mechoulan and Anupam Jena

11929: Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty, and Risk

Refet Gürkaynak and Justin Wolfers

11928: Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion

Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn and Emilie Rovito

11927: The Political Economy of "Truth-in-Advertising" Regulation During the Progressive Era

Zeynep Hansen and Marc Law

11926: Service Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from the United States

Mary Amiti and Shang-Jin Wei

11925: Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

11924: Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues

Ebonya Washington

11923: The Economics of Climate Change

Lawrence H. Goulder and William Pizer

11922: Overconfidence, Subjective Perception and Pricing Behavior

Pierpaolo Benigno and Anastasios Karantounias

11921: The U.S. Current Account Deficit and the Expected Share of World Output

Charles Engel and John Rogers

11920: Early Decisions: A Regulatory Framework

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

11919: Capitalizing Patriotism: The Liberty Loans of World War I

Sung Won Kang and Hugh Rockoff

11918: When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back: Liability Disputes in the Workers' Compensation System

David Card and Brian McCall

11917: The Impact of Academic Patenting on the Rate, Quality, and Direction of (Public) Research Output

Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding and Toby Stuart

11916: Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects

Orley Ashenfelter

11915: How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout

Ebonya Washington

11914: Financial Expertise of Directors

A. Burak Güner, Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate

11913: On Overborrowing

Martín Uribe

11912: Financial Globalization, Corporate Governance, and Eastern Europe

René Stulz

11911: The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

David Bell and David Blanchflower

11910: Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting

Sendhil Mullainathan and Ebonya Washington

11909: Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeffrey Kling, Greg Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

11908: Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873

Lee Alston, Jeffery A. Jenkins and Tomas Nonnenmacher

11907: Executive Pensions

Lucian Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson, Jr.

11906: International Stock Return Comovements

Geert Bekaert, Robert Hodrick and Xiaoyan Zhang

11905: What You Export Matters

Ricardo Hausmann, Jason Hwang and Dani Rodrik

11904: Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Abhijit Banerjee, Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo and Leigh Linden

11903: CAPM Over the Long Run: 1926-2001

Andrew Ang and Joseph Chen

11902: The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus

Philip J Cook and Bethany Peters

11901: Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation

Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych

11900: Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms

Gabriel Weintraub, C. Lanier Benkard and Ben Van Roy

11899: The Greatest Artists of the Twentieth Century

David Galenson

11898: Central Bank Communication and Policy Effectiveness

Michael Woodford

11897: The Role of Foreign Currency Debt in Financial Crises: 1880-1913 vs. 1972-1997

Michael Bordo and Christopher Meissner

11896: Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy with Near Rational Expectations

Michael Woodford

11895: The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004

Peter Kuhn and Fernando Lozano

11894: Internationalization and Stock Market Liquidity

Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler

11893: Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study

Pinka Chatterji, Margarita Alegria, Mingshan Lu and David Takeuchi

11892: What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Marianne Bertrand, Dean Karlin, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman

11891: Is Financial Globalization Beneficial?

Frederic Mishkin

11890: Neckties in the Tropics: A Model of International Trade and Cultural Diversity

James Rauch and Vitor Trindade

11889: Life After Kyoto: Alternative Approaches to Global Warming

William Nordhaus

11888: Mismatch

Robert Shimer

11887: Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data

Amil Petrin and James Levinsohn

11886: Firm Expansion and CEO Pay

Lucian Bebchuk and Yaniv Grinstein

11885: Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing: The Role of Proximity

Robert Feenstra and Barbara Spencer

11884: Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

11883: The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing

Simeon Djankov, Rafael LaPorta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

11882: Investor Sentiment and Corporate Finance: Micro and Macro

Owen Lamont and Jeremy Stein

11881: The Demand for Social Interaction

Henry Saffer

11880: Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Esther Duflo and Rema Hanna

11879: Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

Shin-Yi Chou, Inas Rashad and Michael Grossman

11878: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Trends in Long-term Employment in the United States, 1969-2002

Ann Stevens

11877: Pensions for an Aging Population

Peter Diamond

11876: Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices

Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

11875: The Future of Drug Development: The Economics of Pharmacogenomics

John A. Vernon and W. Keener Hughen

11874: Generalizing the Taylor Principle

Troy Davig and Eric Leeper

11873: The Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality of Care in Child Care Markets

V. Joseph Hotz and Mo Xiao

11872: Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Lingxin Hao, V. Joseph Hotz and Ginger Z. Jin

11871: The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya

Harsha Thirumurthy, Joshua Graff-Zivin and Markus Goldstein

11870: The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand

Adam Copeland and George Hall

11869: Are Countercyclical Fiscal Policies Counterproductive?

David Gordon and Eric Leeper

11868: The Net Asset Position of the U.S. National Government, 1784-1802: Hamilton's Blessing or the Spoils of War?

Farley Grubb

11867: Thinking Ahead: The Decision Problem

Patrick Bolton and Antoine Faure-Grimaud

11866: A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

11865: Confronting Divergent Interests in Cross-Country Regulatory Arrangements

Edward Kane

11864: Equilibrium Commodity Prices with Irreversible Investment and Non-Linear Technology

Jaime Casassus, Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Bryan Routledge

11863: The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend

W Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser

11862: How Do Budget Deficits and Economic Growth Affect Reelection Prospects? Evidence from a Large Cross-Section of Countries

Adi Brender and Allan Drazen

11861: Can Standard Preferences Explain the Prices of out of the Money S&P 500 Put Options

Luca Benzoni, Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Robert S. Goldstein

11860: Can the European Community Afford to Neglect the Need for More Accountable Safety-Net Management?

Edward Kane

11859: The Generational Divide in Support for Environmental Policies: European Evidence

Joni Hersch and W Viscusi

11858: Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the FairTax

Sabine Jokisch and Laurence Kotlikoff

11857: Myths and Realities of American Political Geography

Edward Glaeser and Bryce Ward

11856: Monetary Policy in a Changing International Environment: The Role of Global Capital Flows

Martin Feldstein

11855: The Impact of Provider Choice on Workers' Compensation Costs and Outcomes

David Neumark, Peter S. Barth and Richard Victor

11854: Optimal Inflation Stabilization in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

11853: Three Current Account Balances: A "Semi-Structuralist" Interpretation

Menzie Chinn and Jaewoo Lee

11852: Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets: Evidence from Intel

Annabelle Gawer and Rebecca Henderson

11851: Limits of Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence from the Mortgage-Backed Securities Market

Xavier Gabaix, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Olivier Vigneron

11850: Aging, Pension Reform, and Capital Flows: A Multi-Country Simulation Model

Axel Boersch-Supan, Alexander Ludwig and Joachim Winter

11849: Inertia and Incentives: Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Theory

Rebecca Henderson and Sarah Kaplan

11848: Search Profiling with Partial Knowledge of Deterrence

Charles Manski

11847: Competition in Large Markets

Jeffrey Campbell

11846: Improving the Performance of the Education Sector: The Valuable, Challenging, and Limited Role of Random Assignment Evaluations

Richard Murnane and Richard Nelson

11845: Equilibrium Bias of Technology

Daron Acemoglu