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10409: Asymmetric Social Interaction in Economics: Cigarette Smoking Among Young People in the United States, 1992-1999

Jeffrey E. Harris and Beatriz Lopez-Valcarcel

10408: Does the Market Value R&D Investment by European Firms? Evidence from a Panel of Manufacturing Firms in France, Germany, and Italy

Bronwyn Hall and Raffaele Oriani

10407: On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal

Louis Kaplow

10406: New Forecasts of the Equity Premium

Christopher Polk, Samuel Thompson and Tuomo Vuolteenaho

10405: Mergers and the Composition of International Commerce

Volker Nocke and Stephen Yeaple

10404: Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration

James Harrigan and Anthony Venables

10403: Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry

Eric Hilt

10402: What Explains the Stock Market's Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?

Ben Bernanke and Kenneth Kuttner

10401: Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias

Orley Ashenfelter and Michael Greenstone

10400: The Institutions of Monetary Policy

Mervyn King

10399: Top Wealth Shares in the United States: 1916-2000: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns

Wojciech Kopczuk and Emmanuel Saez

10398: Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America

Ricardo J. Caballlero, Eduardo Engel and Alejandro Micco

10397: Agreeing Now to Agree Later: Contracts that Rule Out but do not Rule In

Oliver Hart and John Moore

10396: The Trilemma in History: Tradeoffs among Exchange Rates, Monetary Policies, and Capital Mobility

Maurice Obstfeld, Jay Shambaugh and Alan Taylor

10395: Valuing Assets in Retirement Saving Accounts

James Poterba

10394: Public Debt Management in Brazil

Francesco Giavazzi and Alessandro Missale

10393: Monetary Sovereignty, Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls: The Trilemma in the Interwar period

Maurice Obstfeld, Jay Shambaugh and Alan Taylor

10392: Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and the Design of Interest Rate Rules

Jordi Galí, David Lopez-Salido and Javier Valles

10391: Transparency of Information and Coordination in Economies with Investment Complementarities

George-Marios Angeletos and Alessandro Pavan

10390: Inflation Targeting and Debt: Lessons from Brazil

Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

10389: Fiscal Dominance and Inflation Targeting: Lessons from Brazil

Olivier Blanchard

10388: An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Impact of Federal Terrorism Reinsurance

Jeffrey Brown, John Cummins, Christopher M. Lewis and Ran Wei

10387: Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Role of Interest Rates

Pablo Neumeyer and Fabrizio Perri

10386: Consumer Demand for Health Information on the Internet

M. Kate Bundorf, Laurence Baker, Sara Singer and Todd Wagner

10385: Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power, and the Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence from the U.S. Senate

Brian Knight

10384: Tracking the Source of the Decline in GDP Volatility: An Analysis of the Automobile Industry

Valerie Ramey and Daniel J. Vine

10383: Nominal Wage Rigidities in Mexico: Evidence from Social Security Records

Sara Castellanos, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu and David Kaplan

10382: Employer-Sponsored Disability Insurance: Where are the Gaps in Coverage?

Helen Levy

10381: Mortality Risk and Educational Attainment of Black and White Men

Li Gan and Guan Gong

10380: Entry Regulation as a Barrier to Entrepreneurship

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan

10379: A New Micro Model of Exchange Rate Dynamics

Martin Evans and Richard Lyons

10378: Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies

Bruce Blonigen and Miao Wang

10377: Transaction Prices and Managed Care Discounting for Selected Medical Technologies: A Bargaining Approach

Avi Dor, Michael Grossman and Siran M.Koroukian

10376: From "Hindu Growth" to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition

Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subramanian

10375: Government Gains from Self-Restraint: A Bargaining Theory of Inefficient Redistribution

Allan Drazen and Nuno Limão

10374: Pay or Pray? The Impact of Charitable Subsidies on Religious Attendance

Jonathan Gruber

10373: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade

Andrew Rose

10372: Dynamic Portfolio Selection by Augmenting the Asset Space

Michael W. Brandt and Pedro Santa-Clara

10371: Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract

Roland Benabou

10370: Do College Instructors Matter? The Effects of Adjuncts and Graduate Assistants on Students' Interests and Success

Eric Bettinger and Bridget Long

10369: Shape Up or Ship Out: The Effects of Remediation on Students at Four-Year Colleges

Eric Bettinger and Bridget Long

10368: Three Strikes and You're Out: Reply to Cooper and Willis

Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

10367: The Effect of Structural Reforms on Productivity and Profitability Enhancing Reallocation: Evidence from Colombia

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler

10366: Would the Elimination of Affirmative Action Affect Highly Qualified Minority Applicants? Evidence from California and Texas

David Card and Alan Krueger

10365: The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare

David Card, Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas

10364: Labor Productivity in Britain and America During the Nineteenth Century

Stephen Broadberry and Douglas Irwin

10363: The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay

Luis Cabral and Ali Hortacsu

10362: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Switching

Troy Davig, Eric Leeper and Hess Chung

10361: Subjective Outcomes in Economics

Daniel Hamermesh

10360: Productivity Growth and Disinflation in Chile

Jose De Gregorio

10359: Interpreting the Predictions of Prediction Markets

Charles Manski

10358: The Effect of Financial Development on Convergence: Theory and Evidence

Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and David Mayer-Foulkes

10357: Tax Policy and Education Policy: Collision or Coordination? A Case Study of the 529 and Coverdell Saving Incentives

Susan Dynarski

10356: How Well Can the New Open Economy Macroeconomics Explain the Exchange Rate and Current Account?

Paul Bergin

10355: Equity Style Returns and Institutional Investor Flows

Kenneth Froot and Melvyn Teo

10354: Interest Rates and Backward-Bending Investment

Raj Chetty

10353: Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade

Ximena Clark, David Dollar and Alejandro Micco

10352: Fibonacci and the Financial Revolution

William Goetzmann

10351: Business Cycle Accounting

Varadarajan Chari, Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan

10350: Co-Worker Complemetarity and the Stability of Top Management Teams

Rachel M. Hayes, Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

10349: Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs?

George Borjas

10348: Transaction Structures in the Developing World

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

10347: On the Distributional Consequences of Child Labor Legislation

Dirk Krueger and Jessica Tjornhom Donohue

10346: Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

B. Zorina Khan

10345: Time-Inconsistency and Welfare

Jay Bhattacharya and Darius Lakdawalla

10344: Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz

10343: Portfolio Diversification and City Agglomeration

William Goetzmann, Massimo Massa and Andrei Simonov

10342: The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

10341: Minimum Asset Requirements and Compulsory Liability Insurance As Solutions to the Judgment-Proof Problem

Steven Shavell

10340: Unlocking Housing Equity in Japan

Olivia Mitchell and John Piggott

10339: Who Bears the Burden of Social Insurance?

Kohei Komamura and Atsuhiro Yamada

10338: What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the US?

Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin and Hidehiko Ichimura

10337: Capital Controls, Liberalizations, and Foreign Direct Investement

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

10336: A Risk Management Approach to Emerging Market's Sovereign Debt Sustainability with an Application to Brazilian Data

Marcio Garcia and Roberto Rigobon

10335: From the Valley to the Summit: The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Work

Claudia Goldin

10334: Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems

Angelique Augereau, Shane Greenstein and Marc Rysman

10333: Are Policy Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election

Brian Knight

10332: The Revived Bretton Woods System: The Effects of Periphery Intervention and Reserve Management on Interest Rates & Exchange Rates in Center Countries

Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber

10331: The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family

Claudia Goldin

10330: Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second-Best Setting

Sarah West and Roberton Williams

10329: Good versus Bad Deflation: Lessons from the Gold Standard Era

Michael Bordo, John Landon-Lane and Angela Redish

10328: The Expanding Pharmaceutical Arsenal in the War on Cancer

Frank Lichtenberg

10327: Flight to Quality, Flight to Liquidity, and the Pricing of Risk

Dimitri Vayanos

10326: The Consequences of Rigid Wages in Search Models

Robert Shimer

10325: Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

10324: The Illusion of Sustainability

Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel

10323: Market Power versus Efficiency Effects of Mergers and Research Joint Ventures: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Ralph Siebert and Klaus Gugler

10322: The (Un)changing Geographical Distribution of Housing Tax Benefits: 1980 to 2000

Todd Sinai and Joseph Gyourko

10321: Taxation and Corporate Payout Policy

James Poterba

10320: Household vs. Personal Accounts of the U.S. Labor Market, 1965-2000

Casey Mulligan and Yona Rubinstein

10319: Surviving the U.S. Import Market: The Role of Product Differentiation

Tibor Besedes and Thomas Prusa

10318: Is the Invisible Hand Discerning or Indiscriminate? Investment and Stock Prices in the Aftermath of Capital Account Liberalizations

Anusha Chari and Peter Henry

10317: International Trade and Child Labor: Cross-Country Evidence

Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik

10316: Why do Americans Work so Much More than Europeans?

Edward Prescott

10315: Putting Computerized Instruction to the Test: A Randomized Evaluation of a "Scientifically-based" Reading Program

Cecilia E. Rouse and Alan Krueger

10314: Globalization and the Gains from Variety

Christian Broda and David Weinstein

10313: Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara

10312: Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location: The Influence of John Kain

Edward Glaeser, Eric Hanushek and John Quigley

10311: Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease during the Course of the Twentieth Century

Robert Fogel

10310: The Economic Future of Europe

Olivier Blanchard