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8878: Why Did Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rise?

Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight

8877: Confronting Information Asymmetries: Evidence from Real Estate Markets

Mark J. Garmaise and Tobias J. Moskowitz

8876: The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment: A Private Equity Premium Puzzle?

Tobias J. Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

8875: Economic Considerations and Class Size

Alan Krueger

8874: Informal Financial Networks: Theory and Evidence

Mark J. Garmaise and Tobias J. Moskowitz

8873: School Choice and School Productivity (or Could School Choice be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?)

Caroline Hoxby

8872: Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?

Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan

8871: Interdependent Security: The Case of Identical Agents

Howard Kunreuther and Geoffrey Heal

8870: A Simple Framework for International Monetary Policy Analysis

Richard Clarida, Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler

8869: Competition in or for the Field: Which is Better?

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

8868: The Role of Residual Claims and Self-Enforcement in Franchise Contracting

Francine Lafontaine and Emmanuel Raynaud

8867: Stochastic Dominance Bounds on Derivative Prices in a Multiperiod Economy with Proportional Transaction Costs

George Constantinides and Stylianos Perrakis

8866: The Corporate Profit Base, Tax Sheltering Activity, and the Changing Nature of Employee Compensation

Mihir A. Desai

8865: The Costs of Price Stability - Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe

Steinar Holden

8864: Can Subsidiaries of Foreign Banks Contribute to the Stability of the Forex Market in Emerging Economies? A Look at Some Evidence from the Mexican

Alejandro Reynoso

8863: The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

8862: Technology, Agglomeration, and Regional Competition for Investment

Bruce Blonigen and Kolpin Van

8861: Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities

Daniel B. Klaff and Ronald Ehrenberg

8860: Gallman's Annual Output Series for the United States, 1834-1909

Paul Rhode

8859: Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard: Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking

Francine Lafontaine and Scott Masten

8858: Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Exchange Rate Volatility, and Exchange Rate Disconnect

Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

8857: The Reconstruction of the American Urban Landscape in the Twentieth Century

Sukkoo Kim

8856: Who Panics During Panics? Evidence from a Nineteenth Century Savings Bank

Cormac Ó Gráda and Eugene White

8855: The Cost of Accountability

Caroline Hoxby

8854: International Taxation

Roger Gordon and James Hines

8853: One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade

Andrew Rose

8852: Property Rights and Finance

Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

8851: Ricardian Equivalence with Incomplete Household Risk Sharing

Shinichi Nishiyama and Kent Smetters

8850: Markups, Gaps, and the Welfare Costs of Business Fluctuations

Jordi Galí, Mark Gertler and David Lopez-Salido

8849: Industry Dynamics with Adjustment Costs

Robert Hall

8848: Related Lending

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez- de-Silane and Guillermo Zamarripa

8847: Imperfect Contract Enforcement

James Anderson and Leslie Young

8846: Globalization and Capital Markets

Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor

8845: Subsidizing the Stork: New Evidence on Tax Incentives and Fertility

Kevin Milligan

8844: The Impact of Lending, Borrowing, and Anti-Smoking Policies on Cigarette Consumption by Teens

Brett Katzman, Sara Markowitz and Kerry Anne McGeary

8843: The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample

Dora Costa

8842: Testing Trade Theory in Ohlin's Time

Antoni Estevadeordal and Alan Taylor

8841: How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?

Marianne Bertrand, Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan

8840: Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T. Hansen and James Heckman

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