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8509: The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective

Reuben Gronau and Daniel Hamermesh

8508: The Psychophysiology of Real-Time Financial Risk Processing

Andrew Lo and Dmitry V. Repin

8507: Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions

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

8506: Volatility Dependence and Contagion in Emerging Equity Markets

Sebastian Edwards and Raul Susmel

8505: The Really Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings: The Pre-NASDAQ Evidence

Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

8504: Telling from Discrete Data Whether the Underlying Continuous-Time Model is a Diffusion

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

8503: When Will the Germans Get Trapped in their Pension System?

Hans-Werner Sinn and Silke Uebelmesser

8502: Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?

Eric Hanushek, John Kain, Jacob M. Markman and Steven Rivkin

8501: The Assignment of Workers to Jobs In an Economy with Coordination Frictions

Robert Shimer

8500: Reforming Budgetary Language

David Bradford

8499: Commercializing Knowledge: University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology

Lynne Zucker, Michael Darby and Jeff S. Armstrong

8498: The NBER Patent Citation Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools

Bronwyn Hall, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

8497: Bayesian Inference for Hospital Quality in a Selection Model

John Geweke, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Robert Town

8496: Liquidity Constraints and Precautionary Saving

Christopher Carroll and Miles Kimball

8495: Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions

Anne Case

8494: Short Sale Constraints and Stock Returns

Charles Jones and Owen Lamont

8493: Deposit Insurance Around the Globe: Where Does it Work?

Edward Kane and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

8492: Do Rich and Poor Countries Specialize in a Different Mix of Goods? Evidence from Product-Level US Trade Data

Peter Schott

8491: Fixed versus Flexible: Lessons from EMS Order Flow

William P. Killeen, Richard Lyons and Michael Moore

8490: Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services Among the Self-Employed

Craig William Perry and Harvey Rosen

8489: An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders

Ilyana Kuziemko and Steven Levitt

8488: Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s

Douglas Elmendorf, Jeffrey Liebman and David Wilcox

8487: The Future of Social Security Pensions in Europe

Martin Feldstein

8486: Dividend Taxes and Share Prices: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts

William Gentry, Deen Kemsley and Christopher Mayer

8485: A General Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the late 19th Century US

Nathan Rosenberg and Manuel Trajtenberg

8484: The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 & 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufactures

Michael Greenstone

8483: Will Unionism Prosper in Cyber-Space? The Promise of the Internet for Employee Organization

Wayne J. Diamond and Richard Freeman

8482: Pharmaceutical Prices and Political Activity

Sara Fisher Ellison and Catherine Wolfram

8481: Worms: Education and Health Externalities in Kenya

Edward Miguel and Michael Kremer

8480: Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation

Wayne Gray and Ron Shadbegian

8479: Disruption versus Tiebout Improvement: The Costs and Benefits of Switching Schools

Eric Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

8478: The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country

Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal

8477: Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Antidumping Policy: Theory and Evidence

Bruce Blonigen and Jee-Hyeong Park

8476: Financial Super-Markets: Size Matters for Asset Trade

Philippe Martin and Helene Rey

8475: The Effects of Variable Capital Utilization on the Measurement and Properties of Sectoral Productivity: Some International Evidence

Marianne Baxter and Dorsey D. Farr

8474: Making a Name

Claudia Goldin and Maria Shim

8473: The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth

Joseph Altonji and Ulrich Doraszelski

8472: The Information Content of International Portfolio Flows

Kenneth Froot and Tarun Ramadorai

8471: U.S. Monetary Policy During the 1990s

N. Gregory Mankiw

8470: A Fuzzy Logic Approach Toward Solving the Analytic Maze of Health System Financing

Dov Chernichovsky

8469: From Wild West to the Godfather: Enforcement Market Structure

James Anderson and Oriana Bandiera

8468: Limiting Currency Volatility to Stimulate Goods Market Integration: A Price Based Approach

David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

8467: Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998 (series updated to 2000 available)

Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

8466: Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap: A Nonparametric Approach

Robert Barsky, John Bound, Kerwin Charles and Joseph Lupton

8465: Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?

Beata K. Smarzynska and Shang-Jin Wei

8464: The Economics of Has-Beens

Glenn MacDonald and Michael Weisbach

8463: Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model

Wouter Den Haan, Christian Haefke and Garey Ramey

8462: Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns

Lubos Pastor and Robert Stambaugh

8461: Why Are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist Than Others?

Anna Maria Mayda and Dani Rodrik

8460: Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson

8459: A Tariff-Growth Paradox? Protection's Impact the World Around 1875-1997

Michael Clemens and Jeffrey Williamson

8458: Environmental Taxation and Regulation

Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence H. Goulder

8457: Tax Credits, the Distribution of Subsidized Health Insurance Premiums, and the Uninsured

Mark V. Pauly, Bradley Herring and David Song

8456: Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments

Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger

8455: Health Policy in the Clinton Era: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

David Cutler and Jonathan Gruber

8454: U.S. Energy Policy During the 1990s

Paul Joskow

8453: Exchange Rate Exposure

Kathryn Dominguez and Linda Tesar

8452: The Effect of Capital Structure When Expected Agency Costs are Extreme

Campbell Harvey, Karl Lins and Andrew H. Roper

8451: Social Security

Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey Liebman

8450: The Economic Geography of the Internet Age

Edward Leamer and Michael Storper

8449: Corporate Governance and Equity Prices

Paul Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick

8448: Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: UK Evidence

Martin Conyon and Richard Freeman

8447: Economic Expansions Are Unhealthy: Evidence from Microdata

Christopher Ruhm

8446: Ginis in General Equilibrium: Trade, Technology and Southern Inequality

Susan Chun Zhu and Daniel Trefler

8445: Consumers and Agency Problems

Canice J. Prendergast

8444: The Limits to Wage Growth: Measuring the Growth Rate of Wages For Recent Welfare Leavers

David Card, Charles Michalopoulos and Philip Robins

8443: Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: The International Monetary and Financial Policies of the Clinton Administration

James DeLong and Barry Eichengreen

8442: California's Electricity Crisis

Paul Joskow

8441: The Electoral Advantage to Incumbency and Voters' Valuation of Politicians' Experience: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Elections to the U.S

David S. Lee

8440: Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes

Mihir A. Desai and James Hines

8439: Stock Market Driven Acquisitions

Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

8438: Does Direct Foreign Investment Affect Domestic Firms' Credit Constraints?

Ann Harrison and Margaret McMillan

8437: The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor

Rebecca Blank and David T. Ellwood

8436: Stock Volatility in the New Millennium: How Wacky Is Nasdaq?

G. Schwert

8435: "Hall of Fame" Voting: The Econometric Society

Daniel Hamermesh and Peter Schmidt

8434: The Quality Distribution of Jobs and the Structure of Wages in Search Equilibrium

Steven Davis

8433: Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms

Gordon Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, Jr. and Matthew J. Slaughter

8432: Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment

Thomas Dee

8431: Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity

Roland Benabou and Efe Ok

8430: The Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators: How to Make It More Timely

Robert H. McGuckin, Ataman Ozyildirim and Victor Zarnowitz

8429: The Inter-War Gold Exchange Standard: Credibility and Monetary Independence

Michael Bordo and Ronald MacDonald

8428: A "Vertical" Analysis of Crises and Intervention: Fear of Floating and Ex-ante Problems

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

8427: Smoothing Sudden Stops

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

8426: What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us about Markups?

Robert Barsky, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta and Daniel Levy

8425: New Products, Quality Changes and Welfare Measures Computed From Estimated Demand Systems

Aviv Nevo

8424: The Economic and Strategic Motives for Antidumping Filings

Thomas Prusa and Susan Skeath

8423: The Case for Price Stability

Marvin Goodfriend and Robert King

8422: Temporary Controls on Capital Inflows

Carmen Reinhart and Richard Smith

8421: Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve

Laurence Ball and Robert Moffitt

8420: A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies

Don Fullerton

8419: What do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?

Michael Baker, Mark Stabile and Catherine Deri Armstrong

8418: Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on "New" Trade Theories

James Tybout

8417: Luxury Goods and the Equity Premium

Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Jonathan Parker and Motohiro Yogo

8416: Targeting Managerial Control: Evidence from Franchising

Francine Lafontaine and Kathryn Shaw

8415: Toward a Framework for Improving Health Care Financing for an Aging Population: The Case of Israel

Dov Chernichovsky and Sara Markowitz

8414: When Does Capital Account Liberalization Help More than It Hurts?

Carlos Arteta, Barry Eichengreen and Charles Wyplosz

8413: Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States

Amanda Gosling and Thomas Lemieux

8412: Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

James Hines, Hilary Hoynes and Alan Krueger

8411: Economic Perspectives on Software Design: PC Operating Systems and Platforms

Steven Davis, Jack MacCrisken and Kevin Murphy

8410: Consumer Sentiment: Its Rationality and Usefulness in Forecasting Expenditure - Evidence from the Michigan Micro Data

Nicholas Souleles