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8839: The Fed and Interest Rates: A High-Frequency Identification

John Cochrane and Monika Piazzesi

8838: Dollarization: Analytical Issues

Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco

8837: Economic and Financial Crises in Emerging Market Economies: Overview of Prevention and Management

Martin Feldstein

8836: Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970

William Collins and Melissa Thomasson

8835: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability

Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

8834: Do Bilateral Tax Treaties Promote Foreign Direct Investment?

Bruce Blonigen and Ronald Davies

8833: Direct or Indirect Tax Instruments for Redistribution: Short-run versus Long-run

Emmanuel Saez

8832: Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Daron Acemoglu

8831: Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

8830: Was Jackson Pollock the Greatest Modern American Painter? A Quantitative Investigation

David Galenson

8829: Tax Incidence

Don Fullerton and Gilbert Metcalf

8828: Global Transmission of Interest Rates: Monetary Independence and Currency Regime

Jeffrey Frankel, Sergio Schmukler and Luis Servén

8827: Trade Openness and Investment Instability

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Tarek Coury

8826: Rational Asset Prices

George Constantinides

8825: Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Experimental Evidence from the UI System

Dan Black, Jeffrey Smith, Mark Berger and Brett J. Noel

8824: Productivity and the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate Puzzle

Ron Alquist and Menzie Chinn

8823: A Theory of the Informal Sector

Yoshiaki Azuma and Herschel Grossman

8822: Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Consumers and Limited Participation: Empirical Evidence

Alon Brav, George Constantinides and Christopher Geczy

8821: Implementing the Friedman Rule

Peter Ireland

8820: Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other?

Rebecca Blank

8819: Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation

Tor Klette and Samuel Kortum

8818: The Health of Nations: The Contribution of Improved Health to Living Standards

William Nordhaus

8817: Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature

Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian

8816: Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator

Malcolm Baker and Jeremy Stein

8815: Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints

Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

8814: Partnership and Hold-Up in Early America

Howard Bodenhorn

8813: Abortion as Insurance

Phillip Levine and Doug Staiger

8812: Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children's Medicaid Coverage and Utilization

Janet Currie and John Fahr

8811: Monitoring, Motivation and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment

Daniel Nagin, James Rebitzer, Seth Sanders and Lowell Taylor

8810: Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors Among Young Adults

Sara Markowitz, Pinka Chatterji, Robert Kaestner and Dhaval Dave

8809: International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms

John Budd, Jozef Konings and Matthew J. Slaughter

8808: Longevity and Life Cycle Savings

David Bloom, David Canning and Bryan Graham

8807: Post-Issue Patent "Quality Control": A Comparative Study of US Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions

Stuart Graham, Bronwyn Hall, Dietmar Harhoff and David C. Mowery

8806: The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines

Ulrich Kaiser

8805: A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations

Jay Ritter and Ivo Welch

8804: Trade Integration and Risk Sharing

Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura

8803: Highway Franchising and Real Estate Values

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

8802: Health Care and the Public Sector

David Cutler

8801: What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

David Card and Richard Freeman

8800: A Rehabilitation of Monetary Policy in the 1950s

Christina Romer and David Romer

8799: Publicly Provided Education

Eric Hanushek

8798: Unobserved Product Differentiation in Discrete Choice Models: Estimating Price Elasticities and Welfare Effects

Daniel Ackerberg and Marc Rysman

8797: Marketization of Production and the US-Europe Employment Gap

Richard Freeman and Ronald Schettkat

8796: Quantity Controls, License Transferability, and the Level of Investment

Kala Krishna, Ling Hui Tan and Ram Ranjan

8795: Uncovered Interest Rate Parity and the Term Structure

Geert Bekaert, Min Wei and Yuhang Xing

8794: The Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices

Roberto Rigobon and Brian P. Sack

8793: Who Underreacts to Cash-Flow News? Evidence from Trading between Individuals and Institutions

Randolph B. Cohen, Paul Gompers and Tuomo Vuolteenaho

8792: Within State Transitions from 2-Year to 4-Year Public Institutions

Ronald Ehrenberg and Christopher Smith

8791: Performance Evaluation with Stochastic Discount Factors

Heber Farnsworth, Wayne Ferson, David Jackson and Steven Todd

8790: Conditional Performance Measurement Using Portfolio Weights: Evidence for Pension Funds

Wayne Ferson and Kenneth Khang

8789: Stochastic Discount Factor Bounds with Conditioning Information

Wayne Ferson and Andrew Siegel

8788: Predicting the Equity Premium With Dividend Ratios

Amit Goyal and Ivo Welch

8787: Changes in U.S. Wages 1976-2000: Ongoing Skill Bias or Major Technological Change?

Paul Beaudry and David Green

8786: Will You Miss Me When I Am Gone? The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents

Marianne Page and Ann Stevens

8785: The Fed and the New Economy

Laurence Ball and Robert Tchaidze

8784: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Living Arrangements

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

8783: Self-Validating Optimum Currency Areas

Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo Pesenti

8782: Columbus' Egg: The Real Determinant of Capital Structure

Ivo Welch

8781: Exchange Traded Funds: A New Investment Option for Taxable Investors

James Poterba and John B. Shoven

8780: How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement?

Sewin Chan and Ann Stevens

8779: The Life Cycles of Modern Artists

David Galenson

8778: The North-South Wage Gap, Before and After the Civil War

Robert Margo

8777: A Theory of Government Regulation of Addictive Bads: Optimal Tax Levels and Tax Incidence for Cigarette Excise Taxation

Jonathan Gruber and Botond Koszegi

8776: Family Firms

Mike Burkart, Fausto Panunzi and Andrei Shleifer

8775: A Dual Method of Empirically Evaluating Dynamic Competitive Equilibrium Models with Market Distortions, Applied to the Great Depression & World War II

Casey Mulligan

8774: A Century of Labor-Leisure Distortions

Casey Mulligan

8773: The Financing of Research and Development

Bronwyn Hall

8772: Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior Within the Family

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

8771: Technology and Economic Performance in the American Economy

Robert Gordon

8770: Maternal Employment and Overweight Children

Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher and Phillip Levine

8769: Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles

David Card and John DiNardo

8768: Technology Shocks and Monetary Policy: Assessing the Fed's Performance

Jordi Galí, David Lopez-Salido and Javier Valles

8767: New Perspectives on Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle

Jordi Galí

8766: Productivity, Output, and Failure: A Comparison of Taiwanese and Korean Manufacturers

Bee Yan Aw, Sukkyun Chung and Mark Roberts

8765: The Need for International Policy Coordination: What's Old, What's New, What's Yet to Come?

Matthew Canzoneri, Robert Cumby and Behzad Diba

8764: Characteristics, Contracts, and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

Steven Kaplan and Per Stromberg

8763: Measuring Investment Distortions when Risk-Averse Managers Decide Whether to Undertake Risky Projects

Robert Parrino, Allen M. Poteshman and Michael Weisbach

8762: Moore's Law and Learning-By-Doing

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

8761: Medicare and Disparities in Women's Health

Sandra Decker and Carol Rapaport

8760: Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam

Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik

8759: The Guarantees of Freedom

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

8758: A Dual Liquidity Model for Emerging Markets

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

8757: International Labor Economics

Daniel Hamermesh

8756: Entry and Asymmetric Lobbying: Why Governments Pick Losers

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

8755: Sources of U.S. Longevity Increase, 1960-1997

Frank Lichtenberg

8754: Why has the Employment-Productivity Tradeoff among Industrialized Countries been so strong?

Paul Beaudry and Fabrice Collard

8753: Is a Bird in Hand Worth More than a Bird in the Bush? Intergenerational Transfers and Savings Behavior

Jeffrey Brown and Scott Weisbenner

8752: Does Function Follow Organizational Form? Evidence From the Lending Practices of Large and Small Banks

Allen Berger, Nathan H. Miller, Mitchell Petersen, Raghuram Rajan and Jeremy Stein

8751: Did Import Substitution Promote Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century?

Douglas Irwin

8750: When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity-Dependent Firms

Malcolm Baker, Jeremy Stein and Jeffrey Wurgler

8749: The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

Robert Moffitt

8748: Why Are Rates of Inflation So Low After Large Devaluations?

Ariel Burstein, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

8747: The New Systems Competition

Hans-Werner Sinn

8746: Information Aggregation, Security Design and Currency Swaps

Bhagwan Chowdhry, Mark Grinblatt and David Levine

8745: Tax-Loss Trading and Wash Sales

Mark Grinblatt and Matti Keloharju

8744: What Do We Really Know About the Cross-Sectional Relation Between Past and Expected Returns?

Mark Grinblatt and Tobias J. Moskowitz

8743: Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change

Edward Wolff

8742: Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and David Weil

8741: New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

Eric Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

8740: The Q-Theory of Mergers

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau