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10580: Until it's Over, Over There: The U.S. Economy in World War I

Hugh Rockoff

10579: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models

Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Robert Kimmel

10578: Education for Innovation: Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs vs. Corporate Incremental Improvements

William Baumol

10577: Why Barriers to Entry are Barriers to Understanding

Dennis Carlton

10576: Why Doesn't Asia Have Bigger Bond Markets?

Barry Eichengreen and Pipat Luengnaruemitchai

10575: Targeted Remedial Education for Under-Performing Teenagers: Costs and Benefits

Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser

10574: Should We Fear Derivatives?

René Stulz

10573: Asymmetric Cycles

Boyan Jovanovic

10572: Do Dividend Payments Respond to Taxes? Preliminary Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut

Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez

10571: Conflicts of Interest, Information Provision, and Competition in Banking

Patrick Bolton, Xavier Freixas and Joel Shapiro

10570: Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet

Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

10569: Productivity, Tradability, and the Long-Run Price Puzzle

Paul Bergin, Reuven Glick and Alan Taylor

10568: Do Institutions Cause Growth?

Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez- de-Silane and Andrei Shleifer

10567: SEC Regulation Fair Disclosure, Information, and the Cost of Capital

Armando Gomes, Gary Gorton and Leonardo Madureira

10566: Growth Accelerations

Ricardo Hausmann, Lant Pritchett and Dani Rodrik

10565: Globalization, Returns to Accumulationa and the World Distribution of Output

Paul Beaudry and Fabrice Collard

10564: Further Tests of Abortion and Crime

Ted Joyce

10563: The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment

Christopher Polk and Paola Sapienza

10562: The Economic Effects of Living Wage Laws: A Provisional Review

Scott Adams and David Neumark

10561: When Do Living Wages Bite?

Scott Adams and David Neumark

10560: Growth Volatility and Financial Liberalization

Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey and Christian Lundblad

10559: The Stock Market and Investment: Evidence from FDI Flows

Malcolm Baker, C. Fritz Foley and Jeffrey Wurgler

10558: Conscription as Regulation

Casey Mulligan and Andrei Shleifer

10557: The Green Solow Model

William Brock and M. Scott Taylor

10556: Shakeouts and Market Crashes

Alessandro Barbarino and Boyan Jovanovic

10555: Growth Effects of the Exchange-Rate Regime and the Capital-Account Openness in A Crisis-Prone World Market: A Nuanced View

Assaf Razin and Yona Rubinstein

10554: Where Do New US-Trained Science-Engineering PhDs come from?

Richard Freeman, Emily Jin and Chia-Yu Shen

10553: When Do Firms Hire Lobbyists? The Organization of Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission

John M. de Figueiredo and James J. Kim

10552: The Costs of Low Birth Weight

Douglas Almond, Kenneth Chay and David S. Lee

10551: "Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation

William Gentry and Robert Hubbard

10550: The Economic Implications of Corporate Financial Reporting

John R. Graham, Campbell Harvey and Shiva Rajgopal

10549: Welfare Reform and Health

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

10548: Stock Prices, News and Economic Fluctuations

Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier

10547: Futures Prices as Risk-adjusted Forecasts of Monetary Policy

Monika Piazzesi and Eric Swanson

10546: Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer

10545: Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises

Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin Forbes

10544: Heterogeneous Productivity Response to Tariff Reduction: Evidence from Brazilian Manufacturing Firms

Adriana Schor

10543: Earnings Manipulation and Managerial Investment Decisions: Evidence from Sponsored Pension Plans

Daniel Bergstresser, Mihir A. Desai and Joshua Rauh

10542: How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income?

Sean Nicholson

10541: Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Thomas Lemieux and Kevin Milligan

10540: International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms

Fabio Ghironi and Marc Melitz

10539: Political Budget Cycles in New versus Established Democracies

Adi Brender and Allan Drazen

10538: The Globalization of the Software Industry: Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries

Ashish Arora and Alfonso Gambardella

10537: Do Stock Price Bubbles Influence Corporate Investment?

Simon Gilchrist, Charles P. Himmelberg and Gur Huberman

10536: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries

Patricia Danzon, Andrew Epstein and Sean Nicholson

10535: Building Relationships Early: Banks in Venture Capital

Thomas Hellman, Laura Lindsey and Manju Puri

10534: International Reserves Management and Capital Mobility in a Volatile World: Policy Considerations and a Case Study of Korea

Joshua Aizenman, Yeonho Lee and Yeongseop Rhee

10533: Dealing with Destabilizing 'Market Discipline'

Daniel Cohen and Richard Portes

10532: Fiscal Policy and Financial Depth

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

10531: The Value of Phased Retirement

Steven Allen

10530: Bargaining in Legislatures: An Empirical Investigation

Brian Knight

10529: International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

10528: Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects

Christine Jolls

10527: Consumption, Commitmants and Preferences for Risk

Andrew Postlewaite, Larry Samuelson and Dan Silverman

10526: Firms' Histories and Their Capital Structures

Ayla Kayhan and Sheridan Titman

10525: The German Public Pension System: How it Was, How it Will Be

Axel Boersch-Supan and Christina B. Wilke

10524: A Small Corner of Intertemporal Public Finance - New Developments in Monetary Economics: 2 Ghosts, 2 Eccentricities, A Fallacy, A Mirage and A Mythos

Willem Buiter

10523: Firm Dynamics, Investment, and Debt Portfolio: Balance Sheet Effects of the Mexican Crisis of 1994

Sangeeta Pratap and Carlos Urrutia

10522: The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height

Nicola Persico, Andrew Postlewaite and Dan Silverman

10521: How Fast Do Personal Computers Depreciate? Concepts and New Estimates

Mark Doms, Wendy E. Dunn, Stephen Oliner and Daniel Sichel

10520: On the Empirics of Sudden Stops: The Relevance of Balance-Sheet Effects

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Luis Fernando Mejía

10519: Fear of Sudden Stops: Lessons from Australia and Chile

Ricardo Caballero, Kevin Cowan and Jonathan Kearns

10518: Speculative Growth: Hints from the US Economy

Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi and Mohamad L. Hammour

10517: Exchange Rate Volatility and the Credit Channel in Emerging Markets: A Vertical Perspective

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

10516: HIV Breakthroughs and Risk Sexual Behavior

Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood

10515: A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator: Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle

David Galenson

10514: Measuring Self-Control

John Ameriks, Andrew Caplin, John Leahy and Tom Tyler

10513: The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter Less Than Mothers?

Lucia Breierova and Esther Duflo

10512: The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World's Demographic Transition

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch and Laurence Kotlikoff

10511: The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The 20th Century United States

David Cutler and Grant Miller

10510: Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime

Jennifer Hunt

10509: Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size: Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons

Steven Davis and Magnus Henrekson

10508: Obesity as a Barrier to the Transition from Welfare to Work

John Cawley and Sheldon Danziger

10507: The Path to the Top: Changes in the Attributes and Careers of Corporate Executives, 1980-2001

Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori

10506: Simple Estimators for the Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games (with Entry/Exit Samples)

Ariel Pakes, Michael Ostrovsky and Steven Berry

10505: How Much Does Household Collateral Constrain Regional Risk Sharing?

Hanno Lustig and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

10504: Prediction Markets

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

10503: Land of Addicts? An Empirical Investigation of Habit-Based Asset Pricing Behavior

Xiaohong Chen and Sydney Ludvigson

10502: Do Domestic Investors Have an Edge? The Trading Experience of Foreign Investors in Korea

Hyuk Choe, Bong-Chan Kho and René Stulz

10501: Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example

Chad Syverson

10500: Optimal Unemployment Insurance When Income Effects are Large

Raj Chetty

10499: Money, Sex, and Happiness: An Empirical Study

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

10498: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

Esther Duflo and Christopher Udry

10497: Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

Barry Eichengreen

10496: Endogenous Financial and Trade Openness

Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy

10495: Elements of a Theory of Design Limits to Optimal Policy

William Brock and Steven Durlauf

10494: Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?

Raghuram Rajan and Julie Wulf

10493: The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values

William Collins and Robert Margo

10492: Moving Up or Moving Out? Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes

Ann Harrison and Jason Scorse

10491: The Tying of Lending and Equity Underwriting

Steven Drucker and Manju Puri

10490: On the (Ir)Relevence of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion of Government Policy

Louis Kaplow

10489: The Role of Information in Medical Markets: An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery

David Cutler, Robert Huckman and Mary Beth Landrum

10488: The Take Up of Social Benefits

Janet Currie

10487: Do Welfare Asset Limits Affect Household Saving? Evidence from Welfare Reform

Erik Hurst and James Ziliak

10486: Plan Design and 401(k) Savings Outcomes

James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

10485: Social Capital

Steven Durlauf and Marcel Fafchamps

10484: Finders Keepers: Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets

Katherine Baicker and Mireille Jacobson

10483: A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction

Amit Goval and Ivo Welch

10482: Assessing the Economic Gains from Telecom Competition

Richard N. Clarke, Kevin Hassett, Zoya Ivanova and Laurence Kotlikoff

10481: Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson