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9909: How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs

Petra Moser

9908: Debt Intolerance

Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff and Miguel A. Savastano

9907: Parental Medicaid Expansions and Health Insurance Coverage

Anna Aizer and Jeffrey Grogger

9906: On the Hidden Links Between Financial and Trade Opening

Joshua Aizenman

9905: Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy: A Linear Quadratic Approach

Pierpaolo Benigno and Michael Woodford

9904: The Economics of 'Acting White'

David Austen-Smith and Roland Fryer

9903: Procuring Knowledge

Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer

9902: Household Saving in Germany: Results of the first SAVE study

Axel Borsch-Supan and Lothar Essig

9901: A Pound of Flesh or Just Proxy? Using Twin Differences to Estimate the Effect of Birth Weight on Life Chances

Dalton Conley, Kate Strully and Neil G. Bennett

9900: Does Exchange Rate Risk Matter for Welfare?

Paul Bergin and Ivan Tchakarov

9899: Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan

Eiichi Tomiura

9898: Missing Aggregate Dynamics: On the Slow Convergence of Lumpy Adjustment Models

David Berger, Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

9897: Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live: Predicted Trajectories of Health, Wealth and Living Arrangements Among the Oldest Old

Florian Heiss, Michael Hurd and Axel Borsch-Supan

9896: What, Me Vote?

Richard Freeman

9895: Simulation and Estimation of Nonaddative Hedonic Models

James Heckman, Rosa Matzkin and Lars Nesheim

9894: Investor Rationality: Evidence from UK Property Capitalization Rates

Patric Hendershott and Bryan D. MacGregor

9893: Inventory Information

Huining Cao, Richard Lyons and Martin Evans

9892: Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts

James Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven Venti and David Wise

9891: Estimating Housing Demand with an Application to Explaining Racial Segregation in Cities

Patrick Bajari and Matthew Kahn

9890: Regulations, Market Structure, Institutions, and the Cost of Financial Intermediation

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

9889: Are Structural Estimates of Auction Models Reasonable? Evidence from Experimental Data

Patrick Bajari and Ali Hortacsu

9888: Incentive-Compatible Guaranteed Renewable Health Insurance

Bradley Herring and Mark Pauly

9887: Six Challenges in Designing Equity-Based Pay

Brian J. Hall

9886: Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs

Edward Glaeser and Janet Kohlhase

9885: You Only Die Once: Managing Discrete Interdependent Risks

Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther

9884: Imperfect Knowledge, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy

Athanasios Orphanides and John Williams

9883: Fees and Surcharging in automatic teller machine networks: Non-bank ATM providers versus large banks

Elizabeth W. Croft and Barbara Spencer

9882: What Works in Securities Law?

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

9881: The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Karsten Hansen, James Heckman and Kathleen Mullen

9880: Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration

Robert Flood and Andrew K. Rose

9879: Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India

Rana Hasan, Devashish Mitra and K Ramaswamy

9878: Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching Public School Teachers to Jobs: Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets

Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb and James Wyckoff

9877: Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

James Heckman and Xuesong Li

9876: Peer Effects and Alcohol Use Among College Students

Michael Kremer and Dan M. Levy

9875: When Do Central Bank Interventions Influence Intra-Daily and Longer-Term Exchange Rate Movements?

Kathryn Dominguez

9874: The Impact of Price Regulation on the Launch Delay of New Drugs - Evidence from Twenty-Five Major Markets in the 1990s

Patricia Danzon, Y. Richard Wang and Liang Wang

9873: Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

9872: Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization

Kevin O'Rourke

9871: Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-By-Doing

Leemore S. Dafny

9870: Who Gets Health Care?

Robert Fogel and Chulhee Lee

9869: Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch

Peter Lindert

9868: Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach their Implicit Contracts? Preliminary Findings from Company-level Data, 1920-1940

Chiaki Moriguchi

9867: Flexible Exchange Rates as Shock Absorbers

Sebastian Edwards and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

9866: A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications

Christina Romer and David Romer

9865: The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century: Growth in Africa

Elsa Artadi and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

9864: Explaining Sudden Stops, Growth Collapse and BOP Crises: The Case of Distortionary Output Taxes

Guillermo Calvo

9863: Market Evidence of Misperceived Prices and Mistaken Mortality Risks

Jay Bhattacharya, Dana Goldman and Neeraj Sood

9862: Anticipated Ramsey Reforms and the Uniform Taxation Principle: the Role of International Financial Markets

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

9861: Evaluating Portfolio Policies: A Duality Approach

Martin B. Haugh, Leonid Kogan and Jiang Wang

9860: Why didn't France follow the British Stabilization after World War One?

Michael Bordo and Pierre Hautcoeur

9859: Understanding Changes in International Business Cycle Dynamics

James Stock and Mark Watson

9858: Stock Prices and IPO Waves

Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

9857: The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990

Joshua Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom

9856: Literary Life Cycles: The Careers of Modern American Poets

David Galenson

9855: Tax Credits and the Use of Medical Care

Michael Smart and Mark Stabile

9854: After the War Boom: Reconversion on the U.S. Pacific Coast, 1943-49

Paul Rhode

9853: Beauty in the Classroom: Professors' Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity

Daniel Hamermesh and Amy M. Parker

9852: The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion

Louis Kaplow

9851: The Effects of Changes in State SSI Supplements on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

9850: Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998

Claudio Montenegro and Carmen Pages

9849: Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

Robert Gibbons and Michael Waldman

9848: Understanding Trend and Cycle in Asset Values: Reevaluating the Wealth Effect on Consumption

Martin Lettau and Sydney Ludvigson

9847: Quality and Employers' Choice of Health Plan

Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran, Catherine McLaughlin and Teresa Gibson

9846: New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000)

William Easterly, Ross Levine and David Roodman

9845: Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?

Kent Smetters

9844: Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?

Michael Greenstone and Enrico Moretti

9843: Addressing the Transfer-Pricing Problem in an Origin-Basis X Tax

David Bradford

9842: Public Goods and the Distribution of Income

Louis Kaplow

9841: How "Original Sin" was Overcome: The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions

Michael Bordo, Christopher Meissner and Angela Redish

9840: Financial Innovation, Market Participation and Asset Prices

Laurent Calvet, Martin Gonzalez-Eiras and Paolo Sodini

9839: Regime-Switching and the Estimation of Multifractal Processes

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher

9838: Monetary Policy in Economies with Little or No Money

Bennett McCallum

9837: Multiple-Solution Indeterminacies in Monetary Policy Analysis

Bennett McCallum

9836: Bidding Rings and the Winner's Curse: The Case of Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions

Ken Hendricks, Robert Porter and Guofu Tan

9835: Monetary Policy and Sectoral Shocks: Did the FED react properly to the High-Tech Crisis?

Claudio Raddatz and Roberto Rigobon

9834: Asset Prices and Exchange Rates

Anna Pavlova and Roberto Rigobon

9833: Why Are Drugs More Profitable Than Vaccines?

Michael Kremer and Christopher Snyder

9832: Do Flexible Durable Goods Prices Undermine Sticky Price Models?

Robert Barsky, Christopher House and Miles Kimball

9831: Chip Shots: Association Between the State Children's Health Insurance Programs and Immunization Coverage and Delivery

Ted Joyce and Andrew Racine

9830: Trade Reforms and Wage Inequiality in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

9829: Are More Data Always Better for Factor Analysis?

Jean Boivin and Serena Ng

9828: Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Rate, and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina's Lessons

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Ernesto Talvi

9827: Aggregation and Insurance Mortality Estimation

William Dow, Kristine A. Gonzalez and Luis Rosero-Bixby

9826: What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance And What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured?

Helen Levy and Thomas DeLeire

9825: Grilichesian Breakthroughs: Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology

Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker

9824: Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

9823: Trade, Growth and the Environment

Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor

9822: Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)

Angus Deaton

9821: Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines

Anne Case and Angus Deaton

9820: Strict Dollarization and Economic Performance: An Empirical Investigation

Sebastian Edwards and I. Igal Magendzo

9819: What Happens After a Technology Shock?

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson

9818: The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

9817: Stock Market Cycles, Financial Liberalization and Volatility

Sebastian Edwards, Javier Gómez Biscarri and Fernando Pérez de Gracia

9816: Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986-1999

Paul Gompers, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein

9815: Causing Problems? The WTO Review of Causation and Injury Attribution in U.S. Section 201 Cases

Douglas Irwin

9814: The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap

Alan Auerbach and Maurice Obstfeld

9813: Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

9812: Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen

9811: The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children

Joseph Altonji and Ernesto Villanueva

9810: Bankruptcy Policy Reform and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Korea

Youngjae Lim and Chin Hee Hahn