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10625: R&D: A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth

Diego Comin

10624: Sources for Financing Domestic Capital -- Is Foreign Saving a Viable Option for Developing Countries?

Joshua Aizenman, Brian Pinto and Artur Radziwill

10623: How Have Borrowers Fared in Banking Mega-Mergers?

Kenneth A. Carow, Edward Kane and Rajesh Narayanan

10622: Performance Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity and Grading Ethics

Victor Lavy

10621: The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s

Martha Bailey and William Collins

10620: The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure

Robert Merton and Zvi Bodie

10619: The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits

Dhaval Dave

10618: Education, Redistribution, and the Threat of Brain Drain

Alexander Haupt and Eckhard Janeba

10617: Evaluating the Calvo Model of Sticky Prices

Martin Eichenbaum and Jonas Fisher

10616: The Macroeconomy and the Yield Curve: A Dynamic Latent Factor Approach

Francis Diebold, Glenn Rudebusch and S. Boragan Aruoba

10615: A Continuous-Time Agency Model of Optimal Contracting and Capital Structure

Peter DeMarzo and Yuliy Sannikov

10614: Unbiased Estimation of the Half-Life to PPP Convergence in Panel Data

Chi-Young Choi, Nelson Mark and Donggyu Sul

10613: The Evolution of Concentrated Ownership in India Broad patterns and a History of the Indian Software Industry

Tarun Khann and Krishna Palepu

10612: Targeting vs. Instrument Rules for Monetary Policy

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

10611: Liquidity Constraints and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from the VA Mortgage

Jacob Vigdor

10610: The Political Economy of Fair Housing Laws Prior to 1968

William Collins

10609: How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy

John List and Daniel Sturm

10608: Breakfast of Champions? The School Breakfast Program and the Nutrition of Children and Families

Jayanta Bhattacharya, Janet Currie and Steven Haider

10607: The Purchasing Power Parity Debate

Alan Taylor and Mark Taylor

10606: Measuring the Growth from Better and Better Goods

Mark Bils

10605: Exploring the Patent Explosion

Bronwyn Hall

10604: The Impact of Presumed Consent Legislation on Cadaveric Organ Donation: A Cross Country Study

Alberto Abadie and Sebastien Gay

10603: Learning on the Quick and Cheap: Gains from Trade Through Imported Expertise

James Markusen and Thomas Rutherford

10602: Managing Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner's Guide Overview

Joshua Aizenman and Brian Pinto

10601: Peace and War in Territorial Disputes

Herschel Grossman

10600: The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change

Christopher Blattman, Jason Hwang and Jeffrey Williamson

10599: Dividend Policy, Agency Costs, and Earned Equity

Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo and René Stulz

10598: Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001

John DiNardo and David S. Lee

10597: Exotic Preferences for Macroeconomists

David Backus, Bryan Routledge and Stanley Zin

10596: The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment

Marcella Alsan, David Bloom and David Canning

10595: Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures

Gary Gorton and K. Rouwenhorst

10594: Product Variety and Demand Uncertainty

Dennis Carlton and James Dana

10593: Trade, Inequality, and Poverty: What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

10592: Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?

Susanto Basu, John Fernald and Miles Kimball

10591: Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?

Eric Hanushek and Margaret E. Raymond

10590: The Quality of Labor Relations and Unemployment

Olivier Blanchard and Thomas Philippon

10589: Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from WWII

Raquel Fernandez, Alessandra Fogli and Claudia Olivetti

10588: The Timing, Intensity, and Composition of Interest Group Lobbying: An Analysis of Structural Policy Windows in the States

John M. de Figueiredo

10587: The Costs of Entrenched Boards

Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen

10586: India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence

David Clingingsmith and Jeffrey Williamson

10585: Trade Liberalization and Pollution Havens

Josh Ederington, Arik Levinson and Jenny Minier

10584: Slow Recoveries

Raphael Bergoeing, Norman Loayzaw and Andrea Repetto

10583: Measuring Market Integration: Foreign Exchange Arbitrage and the Gold Standard, 1879-1913

Eugene Canjels, Gauri Prakash-Canjels and Alan Taylor

10582: The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Actions in Historical Perspective

Douglas Irwin

10581: Was There a Nasdaq Bubble in the Late 1990s?

Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

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