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9309: The Corporate Governance Role of the Media

Isaac Dyck and Luigi Zingales

9308: Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence from Taxpayer Surveys

Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

9307: Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System

David Figlio and Lawrence S. Getzler

9306: Is There a Role for Discretionary Fiscal Policy?

Alan Auerbach

9305: Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian and Francesco Trebbi

9304: Bubbles and Capital Flows

Jaume Ventura

9303: The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry

Frank Lichtenberg and Tomas Philipson

9302: The "Arms Race" on American Roads: The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety and the Failure of Liability Rules

Michelle White

9301: Stochastic Taxation and Asset Pricing in Dynamic General Equilibrium

Clemens Sialm

9300: Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

9299: Health Insurance on the Internet and the Economics of Search

Mark V. Pauly, Bradley Herring and David Song

9298: Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the CPI

Jerry Hausman

9297: Financial Crises and Reform of the International Financial System

Stanley Fischer

9296: China's Investment in Human Capital

James Heckman

9295: Media Bias

Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer

9294: Real Exchange Rate Targeting and Macroeconomic Instability

Martín Uribe

9293: Home and Host Country Effects of FDI

Robert Lipsey

9292: Financial Globalization and Real Regionalization

Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri

9291: The Role of Output Stabilization in the Conduct of Monetary Policy

Frederic Mishkin

9290: Agglomeration, Integration and Tax Harmonization

Richard Baldwin and Paul Krugman

9289: Employee Stock Options, Corporate Taxes and Debt Policy

John R. Graham, Mark H. Lang and Douglas Shackelford

9288: Financial Globalization and Emerging Markets: With or Without Crash?

Philippe Martin and Helene Rey

9287: Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commerical Internet Use

Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

9286: Margin Calls, Trading Costs, and Asset Prices in Emerging Markets: The Finanical Mechanics of the 'Sudden Stop' Phenomenon

Enrique Mendoza and Katherine Smith

9285: A Gravity Model of Sovereign Lending: Trade, Default and Credit

Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel

9284: The Benefits of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction

Edward Glaeser and Jesse Shapiro

9283: Prices vs. Quantities vs. Tradable Quantities

Roberton Williams

9282: After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

9281: Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?

M. Kate Bundorf and Mark V. Pauly

9280: Does Medicare Benefit the Poor? New Answers to an Old Question

Jay Bhattacharya and Darius Lakdawalla

9279: Mergers as Reallocation

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

9278: The Stability and Growth Pact as an Impediment to Privatizing Social Security

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

9277: Anomalies and Market Efficiency

G. Schwert

9276: Still Fettered After All These Years

Barry Eichengreen

9275: Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets

Jonathan B. Berk and Richard Green

9274: The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy

Christina Romer and David Romer

9273: Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?

Andrew Rose

9272: Information Technology Externalities: Empirical Evidence from 42 U.S. Industries

Sung-Bae Mun and M. Ishaq Nadiri

9271: Federal Terrorism Risk Insurance

Jeffrey Brown, Randall S. Kroszner and Brian H. Jenn

9270: Closing Small Open Economy Models

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

9269: Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship

Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt

9268: Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

Daniel Bergstresser and James Poterba

9267: Decomposing Productivity Growth in the U.S. Computer Industry

Hyunbae Chun and M. Ishaq Nadiri

9266: The High Demand for International Reserves in the Far East: What's Going On?

Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion

9265: Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

Terence Edwards and John Whalley

9264: What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies

Pekka Hietala, Steven Kaplan and David Robinson

9263: How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Joshua Angrist and Kevin Lang

9262: Determinants of Real House Price Dynamics

Dennis Capozza, Patric Hendershott, Charlotte Mack and Christopher Mayer

9261: Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War

George Hall

9260: Transparency and International Investor Behavior

R. Gaston Gelos and Shang-Jin Wei

9259: Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff

9258: Redistribution Policy: A European Model

Alessandra Casella

9257: The Great Exchange Rate Debate After Argentina

Sebastian Edwards

9256: Redistribution and Insurance: Mandatory Annuitization with Mortality Heterogeneity

Jeffrey Brown

9255: The Role of Information in Driving FDI: Theory and Evidence

Assaf Razin, Ashoka Mody and Efraim Sadka

9254: The Labour Market in the New Information Economy

Richard Freeman

9253: Corporate Demand for Liquidity

Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello and Michael Weisbach

9252: Firm-Specific Resources, Financial-Market Development and the Growth of U.S. Multinationals

Susan Feinberg and Gordon Phillips

9251: Financial Market Runs

Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch

9250: The Role of Company Stock in Defined Contribution Plans

Olivia Mitchell and Stephen P. Utkus

9249: Rational Addiction, Peer Externalities and Long Run Effects of Public Policy

Donald Kenkel, Robert Reed and Ping Wang

9248: Optimal Drug Policy in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Sheng-Wen Chang, N. Edward Coulson and Ping Wang

9247: An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer

9246: Information Content of Equity Analyst Reports

Paul Asquith, Michael B. Mikhail and Andrea S. Au

9245: The Effect of Cigarette Excise Taxes on Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy

Greg Coleman, Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce

9244: I Did What Last Night?!!! Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use

Michael Grossman and Sara Markowitz

9243: Frictions and Tax-Motivated Hedging: An Empirical Exploration of Publicly-Traded Exchangeable Securities

William Gentry and David M. Schizer

9242: International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Daniel Chiquiar and Gordon Hanson

9241: The Persistence of Emerging Market Equity Flows

Jessica Tjornhom Donohue and Kenneth Froot

9240: Decomposing the Twin-peaks in the World Distribution of Output-per-worker

Paul Beaudry, Fabrice Collard and David Green

9239: Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation

Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra

9238: Access to Physician Services: Does Supplemental Insurance Matter? Evidence from France

Thomas Buchmueller, Agnès Couffinhal, Michel Grignon and Marc Perronin

9237: People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

9236: Food Insecurity and Public Assistance

George Borjas

9235: Short-Run Money Demand

Laurence Ball

9234: Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labor and Education Choices

Raquel Fernandez, Alessandra Fogli and Claudia Olivetti

9233: A New World Order: Explaining the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard

Christopher Meissner

9232: Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics

Robert Pollak

9231: The Timing of Childbearing among Heterogeneous Women in Dynamic General Equilibrium

Charles H. Mullin and Ping Wang

9230: Suppressing Asset Price Inflation: The Confederate Experience, 1861-1865

Marc Weidenmier and Richard Burdekin

9229: "Napsterizing" Pharmaceuticals: Access, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare

James Hughes, Michael J. Moore and Edward Snyder

9228: Financial Aid Packages and College Enrollment Decisions: An Econometric Case Study

David M. Linsenmeier, Harvey Rosen and Cecilia Elena Rouse

9227: Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Bruce Sacerdote

9226: The Effects of Progressive Income Taxation on Job Turnover

William Gentry and Robert Hubbard

9225: Why Do Employers Pay For College?

Peter Cappelli

9224: Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment

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

9223: Borders and Growth

Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg

9222: A Survey of Behavioral Finance

Nicholas Barberis and Richard Thaler

9221: A Fiscal Theory of Sovereign Risk

Martín Uribe

9220: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy Under Sticky Prices

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

9219: Boom-Bust Cycles in Middle Income Countries: Facts and Explanation

Aaron Tornell and Frank Westermann

9218: Consistent Expectations, Rational Expectations, Multiple-Solution Indeterminacies, and Least-Squares Learnability

Bennett McCallum

9217: The Time Series of the Cross Section of Asset Prices

Lior Menzly, Tano Santos and Pietro Veronesi

9216: Get High and Get Stupid: The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior

Michael Grossman, Robert Kaestner and Sara Markowitz

9215: Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism

Darius Lakdawalla and George Zanjani

9214: Valuing and Pricing Retail Leases with Renewal and Overage Options

Patric Hendershott and Charles Ward

9213: Orphans in Africa

Anne Case, Christina Paxson and Joseph Ableidinger

9212: University Research, Industrial R&D, and the Anchor Tenant Hypothesis

Ajay Agrawal and Iain Cockburn

9211: A Brazilian Debt-Crisis Model

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

9210: The Effects of a Baby Boom on Stock Prices and Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Social Security

Andrew Abel