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8660: Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives

Joshua Angrist and Adriana Kugler

8659: Why International Equity Inflows to Emerging Markets are Inefficient and Small Relative to International Debt Flows

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen

8658: The Retirement Incentive Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs

Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber and Kevin Milligan

8657: Taxes and Health Insurance

Jonathan Gruber

8656: Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

Jean Lanjouw and Mark Schankerman

8655: Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance

James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick

8654: The Mysterious Growing Value of S&P 500 Membership

Randall Morck and Fan Yang

8653: Copycat Funds: Information Disclosure Regulation and the Returns to Active Management in the Mutual Fund Industry

Mary Margaret Myers, James Poterba and Douglas Shackelford

8652: The Optimal Concentration of Creditors

Arturo Bris and Ivo Welch

8651: For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior

James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick

8650: The Rise of the Regulatory State

Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

8649: On the Invariance of the Rate of Return to Convex Adjustment Costs

Andrew Abel

8648: Airbus versus Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft Market

Douglas Irwin and Nina Pavcnik

8647: What Does the European Union Do?

Alberto Alesina, Ignazio Angeloni and Ludger Schuknecht

8646: Institutional Rules for Federations

Alberto Alesina, Ignazio Angeloni and Federico Etro

8645: The Political Economy of International Unions

Alberto Alesina, Ignazio Angeloni and Federico Etro

8644: To Be or Not To Be Innovative: An Exercise in Measurement

Jacques Mairesse and Pierre Mohnen

8643: Downside Risk and the Momentum Effect

Andrew Ang, Joseph Chen and Yuhang Xing

8642: Efficiency in Marriage

Shelly Lundberg and Robert Pollak

8641: The Modigliani and Miller Theorem and Market Efficiency

Sheridan Titman

8640: Labor Market Effects of Population Aging

Axel Boersch-Supan

8639: Pardons, Executions and Homicide

Naci Mocan and R. Gittings

8638: The Response to Fines and Probability of Detection in a Series of Experiments

Avner Bar-ilan and Bruce Sacerdote

8637: The Factor Content of Trade

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

8636: The Curse of Non-Investment Grade Countries

Roberto Rigobon

8635: On the Invariance of the Rate of Return to Convex Adjustment Costs

Andrew Abel

8634: The Role of Industrial Country Policies in Emerging Market Crises

Jeffrey Frankel and Nouriel Roubini

8633: Takeover bids vs. Proxy Fights in Contests for Corporate Control

Lucian Bebchuk and Oliver Hart

8632: Payer Type and the Returns to Bypass Surgery: Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior

Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran and A. Mark Fendrick

8631: The Merits of Horizontal versus Vertical FDI in the Presence of Uncertainty

Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion

8630: DotCom Mania: The Rise and Fall of Internet Stock Prices

Eli Ofek and Matthew Richardson

8629: Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics

Sanghamitra Das, Mark Roberts and James Tybout

8628: Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S. Elderly

Victor Fuchs, Mark McClellan and Jonathan Skinner

8627: Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

8626: Estimation of a Dynamic Auction Game

Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Martin Pesendorfer

8625: Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System

Jeffrey Liebman

8624: Intermedia Substitutability and Market Demand by National Advertisers

Alvin J. Silk, Lisa R. Klein and Ernst R. Berndt

8623: Taxes, Regulations, and Asset Prices

Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott

8622: The Stock Market Crash of 1929: Irving Fisher Was Right!

Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott

8621: Hospitals, Managed Care, and the Charity Caseload in California

Janet Currie and John Fahr

8620: Trading Inefficiencies in California's Electricity Markets

Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, Christopher Knittel and Catherine Wolfram

8619: Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents

Laura L. Bivins and Kala Krishna

8618: Short Sales, Damages and Class Certification in 10b-5 Actions

Robert C. Apfel, John E. Parsons, G. Schwert and Geoffrey S. Stewart

8617: The Transmission Mechanism and the Role of Asset Prices in Monetary Policy

Frederic Mishkin

8616: Unraveling Reduces the Scope of an Entry Level Labor Market: Gastroenterology With and Without a Centralized Match

Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth

8615: Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo

8614: Sticky Information: A Model of Monetary Nonneutrality and Structural Slumps

N. Gregory Mankiw and Ricardo Reis

8613: Public Ownership in the American City

Edward Glaeser

8612: Long-Term Global Market Correlations

William Goetzmann, Lingfeng Li and K. Rouwenhorst

8611: Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from Within China

Shang-Jin Wei and Yi Wu

8610: The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth: Macro and Micro Evidence

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

8609: Risk Aversion and Optimal Portfolio Policies in Partial and General Equilibrium Economies

Leonid Kogan and Raman Uppal

8608: Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look

Steven Venti and David Wise

8607: Catching Up with the Joneses: Heterogeneous Preferences and the Dynamics of Asset Prices

Yeung Lewis Chan and Leonid Kogan

8606: Comparing Wealth Effects: The Stock Market Versus the Housing Market

Karl Case, Robert Shiller and John Quigley

8605: The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports

Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti

8604: Optimal Monetary Policy in Closed versus Open Economies: An Integrated Approach

Richard Clarida, Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler

8603: The Empirics of Monetary Policy Rules in Open Economies

Richard Clarida

8602: Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking

Peter Arcidiacono, Holger Sieg and Frank Sloan

8601: The Out-of-Sample Success of Term Structure Models as Exchange Rate Predictors: A Step Beyond

Richard Clarida, Lucio Sarno, Mark Taylor and Giorgio Valente

8600: Trade Linkages and Output-Multiplier Effects: A Structural VAR Approach with a Focus on Asia

Tilak Abeysinghe and Kristin Forbes

8599: Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

Eric Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

8598: Urban Decline and Durable Housing

Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

8597: Liquidity Effects in the Bond Market

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

8596: Technology in the Great Divergence

Gregory Clark and Robert Feenstra

8595: The Changing Role of America's Veterans

Hugh Rockoff

8594: Event-Study Evidence of the Value of Relaxing Longstanding Regulatory Restraints on Banks, 1970-2000

Kenneth A. Carow and Edward Kane

8593: Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990

David Popp

8592: Potential Paths of Social Security Reform

Martin Feldstein and Andrew Samwick

8591: Labor Market Search and Optimal Retirement Policy

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Casey Mulligan and Robert Reed

8590: The Empirical Frequency of a Pivotal Vote

Casey Mulligan and Charles G. Hunter

8589: Learning and the Value of Information: Evidence From Health Plan Report Cards

Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Dennis P. Scanlon

8588: Redistribution through Education and Other Transfer Mechanisms

Eric Hanushek, Charles Leung and Kuzey Yilmaz

8587: The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence

David Bloom, David Canning and J.P. Sevilla

8586: Biases in the IPO Pricing Process

Michelle Lowry and G. Schwert

8585: International Spillovers and Water Quality in Rivers: Do Countries Free Ride?

Hilary Sigman

8584: Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Globalization

Michael Bordo and Marc Flandreau

8583: Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Stability: The United Kingdom 1796-1999

Michael Bordo, Michael Dueker and David Wheelock

8582: Bond Market Inflation Expectations in Industrial Countries: Historical Comparisons

Michael Bordo and William G. Dewald

8581: Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Robert Lipsey and Eric Ramstetter

8580: Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality

Raquel Fernandez, Nezih Guner and John Knowles

8579: Commodity Market Integration, 1500-2000

Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke

8578: Job Displacement, Disability, and Divorce

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens

8577: Are the Japanese Selfish, Altruistic, or Dynastic?

Charles Horioka

8576: Antidumping and Retaliation Threats

Bruce Blonigen and Chad Bown

8575: Trade Protection and Wages: Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms

Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

8574: Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work

Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy

8573: International Technology Diffusion

Wolfgang Keller

8572: Courts and Relational Contracts

Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff

8571: After the Epidemic: Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States

Philip J Cook and John H. Laub

8570: State and Local Prevalence of Firearms Ownership: Measurement, Structure, and Trends

Deborah Azrael, Philip J Cook and Matthew Miller

8569: Financial Markets in Times of Stress

Graciela Kaminsky and Carmen Reinhart

8568: The Geographic Reach of Market and Non-Market Channels of Technology Transfer: Comparing Citations and Licenses of University Patents

David C. Mowery and Arvids A. Ziedonis

8567: Developments in Decumulation: The Role of Annuity Products in Financing Retirement

Olivia Mitchell

8566: A Multivariate Model of Strategic Asset Allocation

John Campbell, Yeung Lewis Chan and Luis Viceira

8565: Trading Volume: Implications of An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model

Andrew Lo and Jiang Wang

8564: The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare: A "Rapid Response" Methodology

Jed Friedman and James Levinsohn

8563: Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis from 1915 to 1939

Adriana Lleras-Muney

8562: Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes

Dhaval Dave and Robert Kaestner

8561: Population Aging, Savings Behavior and Capital Markets

Axel H. Boersch-Supan and Joachim Winter