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10309: Technology Shocks in the New Keynesian Model

Peter Ireland

10308: Asbestos and the Future of Mass Torts

Michelle White

10307: Consumption vs. Expenditure

Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst

10306: Rearranging the Family? Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country

Eric Edmonds, Kristin Mammen and Douglas Miller

10305: Personal Accounts and Family Retirement

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

10304: Does "Aggregation Bias" Explain the PPP Puzzle?

Shiu-Sheng Chen and Charles Engel

10303: Robustness of Productivity Estimates

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

10302: The Economics of Latin American Art: Creativity Patterns and Rates of Return

Sebastian Edwards

10301: Did Dividends Increase Immediately After the 2003 Reduction in Tax Rates?

Jennifer L. Blouin, Jana Smith Raedy and Douglas A. Shackelford

10300: Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long-run Comparison

Wolfgang Keller and Carol H. Shiue

10299: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America

Richard H. Steckel

10298: Interest Rates and Initial Public Offerings

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

10297: Dynamics of Labor Demand: Evidence from Plant-level Observations and Aggregate Implications

Russel W. Cooper, John C. Haltiwanger and Jonathan Willis

10296: Serial Default and the "Paradox" of Rich to Poor Capital Flows

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

10295: How Do Banks Set Interest Rates?

Leonardo Gambacorta

10294: Aggregate Supply and Potential Output

Assaf Razin

10293: The Positive Link Between Financial Liberalization, Growth and Crises

Aaron Tornell, Frank Westermann and Lorenza Martinez

10292: Subsidy Agreements

Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger

10291: How Much Equity Does the Government Hold?

Alan Auerbach

10290: Monetary and Fiscal Remedies for Deflation

Alan Auerbach and Maurice Obstfeld

10289: NAFTA and Mexico's Less-Than-Stellar Performance

Aaron Tornell, Frank Westermann and Lorenza Martinez

10288: Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

10287: Mandatory Unbundling and Irreversible Investment in Telecom Networks

Robert Pindyck

10286: Self-Employment: More may not be better

David Blanchflower

10285: ENTICE-BR: The Effects of Backstop Technology R&D on Climate Policy Models

David Popp

10284: Capital Controls: Mud in the Wheels of Market Discipline

Kristin Forbes

10283: Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Jeremy Lise, Shannon Seitz and Jeffrey Smith

10282: Social Security and Unsecured Debt

Erik Hurst and Paul Willen

10281: The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage

Gordon Dahl and Enrico Moretti

10280: Monetary Policy and the Volatility of Real Exchange Rates in New Zealand

Kenneth West

10279: Cross-country Conversion Factors for Sectoral Productivity Comparisons

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

10278: Demand Estimation with Heterogeneous Consumers and Unobserved Product Characteristics: A Hedonic Approach

C. Lanier Benkard and Patrick Bajari

10277: Financial Openness, Sudden Stops and Current Account Reversals

Sebastian Edwards

10276: Thirty Years of Current Account Imbalances, Current Account Reversals and Sudden Stops

Sebastian Edwards

10275: Tax-Motivated Trading by Individual Investors

Zoran Ivkovich, James Poterba and Scott Weisbenner

10274: Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Erdal Tekin

10273: Reported Incomes and Marginal Tax Rates, 1960-2000: Evidence and Policy Implications

Emmanuel Saez

10272: Chaotic Interest Rate Rules: Expanded Version

Jess Benhabib, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

10271: Does Copyright Piracy Pay? The Effects of U.S. International Copyright Laws on the Market for Books, 1790-1920

B. Zorina Khan

10270: The Declining Equity Premium: What Role Does Macroeconomic Risk Play?

Martin Lettau, Sydney Ludvigson and Jessica Wachter

10269: Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior?

Andrei Shleifer

10268: Deflation and Depression: Is There and Empirical Link?

Andrew Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe

10267: Accounting for Exchange Rate Variability in Present-Value Models When the Discount Factor is Near One

Charles Engel and Kenneth West

10266: Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life

Thomas Kniesner, James Ziliak and W Viscusi

10265: Does Illiquidity Alter Child Labor and Schooling Decisions? Evidence from Household Responses to Anticipated Cash Transfers in South Africa

Eric Edmonds

10264: Investor Behavior in the Option Market

Josef Lakonishok, Inmoo Lee and Allen M. Poteshman

10263: Inflation Illusion and Stock Prices

John Campbell and Tuomo Vuolteenaho

10262: What do Aggregate Consumption Euler Equations Say about the Capital Income Tax Burden?

Casey Mulligan

10261: Deep Habits

Morten Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

10260: Are Americans Saving "Optimally" for Retirement?

John Karl Scholz, Ananth Seshadri and Surachai Khitatrakun

10259: Why Are Most Funds Open-End? Competition and the Limits of Arbitrage

Jeremy C. Stein

10258: R&D Investments with Competitive Interactions

Kristian R. Miltersen and Eduardo S. Schwartz

10257: Is There a Retirement-Consumption Puzzle? Evidence Using Subjective Retirement Expectations

Steven Haider and Melvin Stephens

10256: Market Culture: How Norms Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance

Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth

10255: The Great Depression and the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis

Lawrence Christiano, Roberto Motto and Massimo Rostagno

10254: The Response of Hours to a Technology Shock: Evidence Based on Direct Measures of Technology

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson

10253: Optimal Simple and Implementable Monetary and Fiscal Rules

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

10252: A Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

10251: Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience

Janet Currie and Matthew Neidell

10250: Tight Clothing: How the MFA Affects Asian Apparel Exports

Carolyn Evans and James Harrigan

10249: National Sovereignty in an Interdependent World

Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger

10248: Persuasion in Politics

Kevin Murphy and Andrei Shleifer

10247: How Well Do Parents With Young Children Combine Work and Family Life

Christopher Ruhm

10246: Financial Development and the Instability of Open Economies

Philippe Aghion, Philippe Bacchetta and Abhijit Banerjee

10245: A Scapegoat Model of Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

10244: Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate

Juan Carlos Hallak and James Levinsohn

10243: The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots

William Collins and Robert Margo

10242: How Financial Aid Affects Persistence

Eric Bettinger

10241: Bureaucrats or Politicians?

Alberto Alesina and Guido Tabellini

10240: Incentives vs. Control: An Analysis of U.S. Dual-Class Companies

Paul Gompers, Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick

10239: Is it is or is it Ain't my Obligation? Regional Debt in Monetary Unions

Russell Cooper, Hubert Kempf and Dan Peled

10238: Investment Prices and Exchange Rates: Some Basic Facts

Ariel Burstein, Joao C. Neves and Sergio Rebelo

10237: Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity: A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing CIS3 Data

Elisabeth Kremp and Jacques Mairesse

10236: Financial Development and Growth in the Short and Long Run

Raymond Fisman and Inessa Love

10235: The Geography of Stock Market Participation: The Influence of Communities and Local Firms

Jeffrey Brown, Zoran Ivkovich, Paul A. Smith and Scott Weisbenner

10234: Population and Regulation

Casey Mulligan and Andrei Shleifer

10233: Market Reactions to Export Subsidies

Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines

10232: On the Desirability of Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union

Varadarajan Chari and Patrick Kehoe

10231: Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth

Mikhail Golosov, Larry Jones and Michele Tertilt

10230: Helping the Poor to Help Themselves: Debt Relief or Aid

Serkan Arslanalp and Peter Blair Henry

10229: Some Simple Analytics of School Quality

Eric A. Hanushek

10228: Employees' Investment Decisions about Company Stock

James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick

10227: What Happens When Child Care Inspections and Complaints Are Made Available on the Internet?

Ann Dryden Witte and Magaly Queralt

10226: Interpersonal Effects in Consumption: Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors

Mark Grinblatt, Matti Keloharju and Seppo Ikaheimo

10225: World Markets for Raising New Capital

Brian J. Henderson, Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Michael Weisbach

10224: Private Benefits and Cross-Listings in the United States

Evangelos Benos and Michael Weisbach

10223: The New New Financial Thing: The Sources of Innovation Before and After State Street

Josh Lerner

10222: Why Do Some Firms Give Stock Options to All Employees?: An Empirical Examination of Alternative Theories

Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

10221: Compensating Employees Below the Executive Ranks: A Comparison of Options, Restricted Stock, and Cash

Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

10220: Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy: A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) Approach

Ben Bernanke, Jean Boivin and Piotr Eliasz

10219: How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?

Hugo Benitez-Silva, Moshe Buchinsky and John Rust

10218: Aggregate Short Interest and Market Valuations

Owen Lamont and Jeremy C. Stein

10217: Is Debt Relief Efficient?

Serkan Arslanalp and Peter Blair Henry

10216: The Absent-Minded Consumer

John Ameriks, Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

10215: The Effect of Job Security Regulations on Labor Market Flexibility: Evidence from the Colombian Labor Market Reform

Adriana Kugler

10214: Family Cap Provisions and Changes in Births and Abortions

Ted Joyce, Robert Kaestner, Sanders Korenman and Stanley Henshaw

10213: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator: Measuring the Careers of Modern Novelists

David Galenson

10212: Innovation and Diffusion

Bronwyn H. Hall

10211: Consumption Commitments, Unemployment Durations, and Local Risk Aversion

Raj Chetty

10210: Robust Aggregate Implications of Stochastic Discount Factor Volatility

Casey Mulligan