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9539: The Life Cycles of Modern Artists: Theory, Measurement, and Implications

David Galenson

9538: Consumption Risk and Cross-Sectional Returns

Jonathan Parker and Christian Julliard

9537: The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination

Kevin Lang

9536: The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence and Theory

Robert Shimer

9535: A New Summary Measure of the Effective Tax Rate on Investment

Roger Gordon, Laura Kalambokidis and Joel Slemrod

9534: Merchant Transmission Investment

Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole

9533: International agreements on product standard: an incomplete contracting theory

Pierpaolo Battigalli and Giovanni Maggi

9532: Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

John Donohue and Steven Levitt

9531: Freight Rates and Productivity Gains in British Tramp Shipping 1869-1950

Saif I. Shah Mohammed and Jeffrey Williamson

9530: Why is Productivity Growing Faster?

Martin Feldstein

9529: Price Discovery in the U.S. Treasury Market: The Impact of Orderflow and Liquidity on the Yield Curve

Michael W. Brandt and Kenneth A. Kavajecz

9528: Knife Edge of Plateau: When Do Market Models Tip?

Glenn Ellison and Drew Fudenberg

9527: CEO Turnover and Foreign Market Participation

Bruce Blonigen and Rossitza Wooster

9526: Measuring Capital

Walter Diewert

9525: The Equity Premium in Retrospect

Rajnish Mehra and Edward Prescott

9524: Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Alan Krueger and Alexandre Mas

9523: Do shareholders of acquiring firms gain from acquisitions?

Sara B. Moeller, Frederik Schlingemann and René Stulz

9522: Deflation, Silent Runs, and Bank Holidays, in the Great Contraction

Hugh Rockoff

9521: Doomed to Deficits? Aggregate U.S. Trade Flows Re-Examined

Menzie Chinn

9520: Is Deflation depressing? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard

Michael Bordo and Angela Redish

9519: What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists?

Richard Steckel

9518: Time in Purgatory: Determinants of the Grant Lag for U.S. Patent Applications

David Popp, Ted Juhl and Daniel Johnson

9517: Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment

Karolina Ekholm, Rikard Forslid and James Markusen

9516: Resident and Nonresident Tuition and Enrollment at Flagship State Universities

Michael J. Rizzo and Ronald Ehrenberg

9515: Do Asset Prices Reflect Fundamentals? Freshly Squeezed Evidence from the OJ Market

Jacob Boudoukh, Matthew Richardson, YuQing Shen and Robert F. Whitelaw

9514: A Currency of One's Own? An Empirical Investigation on Dollarization and Independent Currency Unions

Sebastian Edwards and Igal Magendzo

9513: Geography and Racial Health Disparities

Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan Skinner

9512: The Equity Premium: Why is it a Puzzle?

Rajnish Mehra

9511: International Price-Fixing Cartels and Developing Countries: A Discussion of Effects and Policy Remedies

Margaret Levenstein, Valerie Suslow and Lynda Oswald

9510: Market Integration and Contagion

Geert Bekaert and Campbell Harvey

9509: Bad Beta, Good Beta

John Campbell and Tuomo Vuolteenaho

9508: Job Loss Expectations, Realizations, and Household Consumption Behavior

Melvin Stephens

9507: Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? An Analysis of Prisoners on Death Row in the United States

Laura Argys and Naci Mocan

9506: Fiscal Policy and Inflation: Pondering the Imponderables

Eric Leeper

9505: Education Saving Incentives and Household Saving: Evidence from the 2000 TIAA-CREF Survey of Participant Finances

Jennifer Ma

9504: Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

Wolfgang Keller and Stephen Yeaple

9503: Taxation of Interest Income

Roger Gordon

9502: Fairness and Redistribution: U.S. versus Europe

Alberto Alesina and George-Marios Angeletos

9501: Peer Effects in Higher Education

Gordon Winston and David Zimmerman

9500: Capital Account Openness and the Varieties of Growth Experience

Michael Klein

9499: Disposition Matters: Volume, Volatility and Price Impact of a Behavioral Bias

William Goetzmann and Massimo Massa

9498: Can Information Heterogeneity Explain the Exchange Rate Determination Puzzle?

Eric van Wincoop and Philippe Bacchetta

9497: Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

9496: Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions

Courtney Coile

9495: Human Capital Policy

James Heckman and Pedro Carneiro

9494: Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

Raphael Desmet, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman and Pierre Pestieau

9493: Will the Sovereign Debt Market Survive?

Andrei Shleifer

9492: Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency in a Stochastic OLG Economy

Shinichi Nishiyama and Kent Smetters

9491: Monetary Policy for Inattentive Economies

Laurence Ball, N. Gregory Mankiw and Ricardo Reis

9490: Institutions Don't Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income

Jeffrey D. Sachs

9489: The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives

Magnus Blomstrom and Ari Kokko

9488: Capital Account Liberalization, The Cost of Capital, and Economic Growth

Peter Henry

9487: The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates throughout the World

W Viscusi and Joseph Aldy

9486: Monetary Policy and Real Stabilization

Lars Svensson

9485: Border Delays and Trade Liberalization

Edgar Cudmore and John Whalley

9484: Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan

Hiroshi Ono and Marcus Rebick

9483: Economic Analysis of Accident Law

Steven Shavell

9482: Do and Should Financial Aid Packages Affect Students' College Choices?

Christopher Avery and Caroline Hoxby

9481: Equity market liberalizations as country IPOs

Rodolfo Martell and René Stulz

9480: Individual Subjective Survival Curves

Li Gan, Michael Hurd and Daniel McFadden

9479: The Center and the Periphery: The Globalization of Financial Turmoil

Graciela Kaminsky and Carmen Reinhart

9478: The Emergence of Strong Property Rights: Speculation from history

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

9477: Do We Now Collect Any Revenue From Taxing Capital Income?

Roger Gordon, Laura Kalambokidis and Joel Slemrod

9476: Is the Convergence of the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?

Amitabh Chandra

9475: An Equilibrium Analysis of Real Estate

Steven R. Grenadier

9474: Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

Lance Lochner

9473: Unionization and Wage Inequality: A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada

David Card, Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell

9472: Welfare Transitions in the 1990s: The Economy, Welfare Policy, and the EITC

Jeffrey Grogger

9471: Competition Among Hospitals

Martin Gaynor and William Vogt

9470: Investor Sentiment in Japanese and U.S. Daily Mutual Fund Flows

Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann, Takato Hiraki, Noriyoshi Shirishi and Masahiro Watanabe

9469: Modeling and Measuring Russian Corporate Governance: The Case of Russian Preferred and Common Shares

William Goetzmann, Matthew Spiegel and Andrey Ukhov

9468: Healthy Living in Hard Times

Christopher Ruhm

9467: The collapse of a medical clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)

C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth

9466: Efficiency and the Bear: Short Sales and Markets around the World

William Goetzmann, Ning Zhu and Arturo Bris

9465: Rain or Shine: Where is the Weather Effect?

William Goetzmann and Ning Zhu

9464: Fees on Fees in Funds of Funds

Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann and Bing Liang

9463: Universities, Joint Ventures, and Success in the Advanced Technology Program

Michael Darby, Lynne Zucker and Andrew Wang

9462: Owner-Occupied Housing as a Hedge Against Rent Risk

Todd Sinai and Nicholas Souleles

9461: Diversification and the Optimal Construction of Basis Portfolios

Bruce N. Lehmann and David M. Modest

9460: Health Policy and Technological Change: Evidence from the Vaccine Industry

Amy Finkelstein

9459: Has Monetary Policy Become More Effective?

Jean Boivin and Marc Giannoni

9458: Time-Consistent No-Arbitrage Models of the Term Structure

Michael W. Brandt and Amir Yaron

9457: Gaucho Banking Redux

Gerardo della Paolera and Alan Taylor

9456: Inter-Asset Differences in Effective Estate Tax Burdens

James Poterba and Scott Weisbenner

9455: Simulating the Response to Reform of Canada's Income Security Programs

Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber and Kevin Milligan

9454: The cash flow, return and risk characteristics of private equity

Alexander Ljungqvist and Matthew Richardson

9453: Portfolio Choice and Health Status

Harvey Rosen and Stephen Wu

9452: Omitted Product Attributes in Discrete Choice Models

Amil Petrin and Kenneth Train

9451: Letting States do the Dirty Work: State Responsibility for Federal Environmental Regulation

Hilary Sigman

9450: Regulation, Distribution Efficiency, and Retail Density

David Flath

9449: Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link"

Steven Levitt

9448: Legacies in Black and White: The Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool

Cameron Howell and Sarah Turner

9447: Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?

Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

9446: Why Have Americans Become More Obese?

David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jesse Shapiro

9445: The Productivity of U.S. States Since 1880

Kris James Mitchener and Ian McLean

9444: Inefficiency of Corporate Investment and Distortion of Savings Behavior in Japan

Albert Ando, Dimitris Christelis and Tsutomu Miyagawa

9443: The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalization

Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

9442: Dynastic Management

Francesco Caselli and Nicola Gennaioli

9441: Tests of Multifactor Pricing Models, Volatility Bounds and Portfolio Performance

Wayne Ferson

9440: Routine

Daniel Hamermesh