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9039: A Theory of the Currency Denomination of International Trade

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

9038: Drug Treatment as a Crime Fighting Tool

Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Jody L. Sindelar

9037: Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

9036: Employee Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage

David Cutler

9035: When Can Partial Public Insurance Produce Pareto Improvements?

Amy Finkelstein

9034: Stock Market Boom and the Productivity Gains of the 1990s

Urban Jermann and Vincenzo Quadrini

9033: Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life

Kerwin Kofi Charles

9032: Is There an Optimal Industry Financial Structure?

Peter MacKay and Gordon Phillips

9031: The Interaction of Partial Public Insurance Programs and Residual Private Insurance Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Program

Amy Finkelstein

9030: Current Accounts in the Long and Short Run

Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura

9029: Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M.G. Raff and Peter Temin

9028: Gender Differences in Completed Schooling

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Ming-Ching Luoh

9027: Tariff-jumping FDI and Domestic Firms' Profits

Bruce Blonigen, KaSaundra Tomlin and Wesley Wilson

9026: The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants

Andrew Bernard and J. Jensen

9025: Peer Effects in Medical School

Peter Arcidiacono and Sean Nicholson

9024: It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy

David Romer

9023: Shipping the Good Apples Out? An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian-Allen Conjecture

David Hummels and Alexandre Skiba

9022: Intra-national Home Bias: Some Explanations

Russell Hillberry and David Hummels

9021: The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree

Phillip Levine

9020: Explaining Home Bias in Consumption: The Role of Intermediate Input Trade

Russell Hillberry and David Hummels

9019: Globalization and Changing Patterns in the International Transmission of Shocks in Financial Markets

Michael Bordo and Antu Murshid

9018: Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit Across Countries

Rajeev Dehejia and Roberta Gatti

9017: Intermediaries in the U.S. Market for Technology, 1870-1920

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff

9016: Expenditure Switching and Exchange Rate Policy

Charles Engel

9015: Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity: Theory and Evidence for the U.S

Roger Gordon and Julie Cullen

9014: Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance

Alan Krueger and Bruce Meyer

9013: Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor and David Lyle

9012: The Bush Tax Cut and National Saving

Alan Auerbach

9011: How Could Everyone Have Been So Wrong? Forecasting the Great Depression with the Railroads

John Landon-Lane, Eugene White and Adam Klug

9010: Bankruptcy and Small Firms' Access to Credit

Jeremy Berkowitz and Michelle White

9009: Bidder Discounts and Target Premia in Takeovers

Boyan Jovanovic and Serguey Braguinsky

9008: Gains from FDI Inflows with Incomplete Information

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

9007: Biotech-Pharmaceutical Alliances as a Signal of Asset and Firm Quality

Sean Nicholson, Patricia Danzon and Jeffrey S. McCullough

9006: Endogenous Political Institutions

Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina and Francesco Trebbi

9005: Monetary Policy in a Financial Crisis

Lawrence Christiano, Christopher Gust and Jorge Roldos

9004: Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

Jayanta Bhattacharya, Thomas DeLeire, Steven Haider and Janet Currie

9003: Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy

Jayanta Bhattacharya, Steven Haider and Janet Currie

9002: The Performance of Performance Standards

James Heckman, Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith

9001: Entrepreneurship in Equilibrium

Denis Gromb and David Scharfstein

9000: Daily Cross-Border Equity Flows: Pushed or Pulled?

John M. Griffin, Federico Nardari and René Stulz

8999: The Roots of Latin American Protectionism: Looking Before the Great Depression

John H. Coatsworth and Jeffrey Williamson

8998: Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come From, and Why?

Ximena Clark, Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

8997: Art Auctions: A Survey of Empirical Studies

Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy

8996: Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: An Update

Frank Lichtenberg

8995: When Does Trade Hurt? Market, Transition and Developing Economies

Kala Krishna and Cemile Yavas

8994: Are Financial Assets Priced Locally or Globally?

G. Karolyi and René Stulz

8993: The Impact of Unionization on Establishment Closure: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Representation Elections

John DiNardo and David S. Lee

8992: U.S. Stock Market Crashes and Their Aftermath: Implications for Monetary Policy

Frederic Mishkin and Eugene White

8991: Stock Valuation and Learning about Profitability

Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

8990: The Market Price of Credit Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Interest Rate Swap Spreads

Jun Liu, Francis Longstaff and Ravit E. Mandell

8989: Ownership Form and Trapped Capital in the Hospital Industry

Henry Hansmann, Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan

8988: Risk Sharing and Asset Prices: Evidence From a Natural Experiment

Anusha Chari and Peter Henry

8987: Stocks as Money: Convenience Yield and the Tech-Stock Bubble

John Cochrane

8986: The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

Adriana Lleras-Muney

8985: A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings

Claudia Goldin

8984: Private and Social Incentives for Fertility: Israeli Puzzles

Charles Manski and Joram Mayshar

8983: Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States

Rebecca Blank

8982: Industry Growth and Capital Allocation: Does Having a Market- or Bank-Based System Matter?

Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine

8981: The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation and Administrative Regulation

John M. de Figueiredo and Rui J.P. de Figueiredo

8980: Are All Patent Examiners Equal? The Impact of Examiner Characteristics

Iain Cockburn, Samuel Kortum and Scott Stern

8979: Social Networks and the Aggregation on Individual Decisions

D. Lee Heavner and Lance Lochner

8978: The Distribution of Tax Burdens: An Introduction

Gilbert Metcalf and Don Fullerton

8977: Patent Protection and Innovation Over 150 Years

Josh Lerner

8976: Intellectual Property, Antitrust and Strategic Behavior

Dennis Carlton and Robert H. Gertner

8975: Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt

8974: The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Lucian Bebchuk, John C. Coates Iv and Guhan Subramanian

8973: Democratic Policy Making with Real-Time Agenda Setting: Part 1

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel and Luis Rayo

8972: The Use and Meaning of Words in Central Banking: Inflation Targeting, Credibility, and Transparency

Benjamin M. Friedman

8971: Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

8970: Asset Prices in a Flexible Inflation Targeting Framework

Stephen Cecchetti, Hans Genberg and Sushil Wadhwani

8969: Paper millionaires: How valuable is stock to a stockholder who is restricted from selling it?

Matthias Kahl, Jun Liu and Francis Longstaff

8968: Accountability, Incentives and Behavior: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in the Chicago Public Schools

Brian A. Jacob

8967: Capital Account Liberalization, Institutions and Financial Development: Cross Country Evidence

Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

8966: Boom-Busts in Asset Prices, Economic Instability, and Monetary Policy

Michael Bordo and Olivier Jeanne

8965: Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market

Ronald Ehrenberg

8964: Where the boys aren't: Non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education

Brian A. Jacob

8963: The Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements: A Reinterpretation

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

8962: Estimating Price Elasticities When there is Smuggling: The Sensitivity of Smoking to Price in Canada

Jonathan Gruber, Anindya Sen and Mark Stabile

8961: Equity Volatility and Corporate Bond Yields

John Campbell and Glen B. Taksler

8960: Trade Credit, Financial Intermediary Development and Industry Growth

Raymond Fisman and Inessa Love

8959: Micro Effects of Macro Announcements: Real-Time Price Discovery in Foreign Exchange

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Clara Vega

8958: Social Security and Democracy

Casey Mulligan, Ricard Gil and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

8957: The Complexion Gap: The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South

Howard Bodenhorn

8956: Closed-Form Likelihood Expansions for Multivariate Diffusions

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

8955: From Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

8954: Going Public When You Can in Biotechnology

Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker

8953: Odious Debt

Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran

8952: Economic Development as Self-Discovery

Ricardo Hausmann and Dani Rodrik

8951: IMF Programs: Who is Chosen and What Are the Effects?

Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee

8950: Why Should Emerging Economies Give up National Currencies: A Case for 'Institutions Substitution'

Enrique Mendoza

8949: Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World

Eric Hanushek and Javier A. Luque

8948: Economic Interpretations of Intergenerational Correlations

Nathan Grawe and Casey Mulligan

8947: Growing by Leaps and Inches: Creative Destruction, Real Cost Reduction, and Inching Up

Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker

8946: The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

8945: Homeownership in the Immigrant Population

George Borjas

8944: Nonparametric Option Pricing under Shape Restrictions

Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jefferson Duarte

8943: Network Externalities and Technology Adoption: Lessons from Electronic Payments

Gautam Gowrisankaran and Joanna Stavins

8942: The Curley Effect

Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

8941: Estimation and Identification of Structural Parameters in the Presence of Multiple Equilibria

Russell Cooper

8940: The NAIRU in Theory and Practice

Laurence Ball and N. Gregory Mankiw