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8560: Migration Consequences of Welfare Reform

Robert Kaestner, Neeraj Kaushal and Gregg Van Ryzin

8559: Endogenous Currency of Price Setting in a Dynamic Open Economy Model

Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

8558: Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Dynamics of Retail Trade Industries on the U.S.-Canada Border

Jeffrey Campbell and Beverly Lapham

8557: The Market for Crash Risk

David S. Bates

8556: Changes in the Age Distribution of Mortality Over the 20th Century

David Cutler and Ellen Meara

8555: Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Use of College-Educated Labor

John Bound, Jeffrey Groen, Gabor Kezdi and Sarah Turner

8554: Theoretical and Empirical properties of Dynamic Conditional Correlation Multivariate GARCH

Robert Engle and Kevin Sheppard

8553: Aging and International Capital Flows

Axel Boersch-Supan, Alexander Ludwig and Joachim Winter

8552: Firm Age and Wages

Charles Brown and James Medoff

8551: Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from "Missing Imports" in China

Raymond Fisman and Shang-Jin Wei

8550: The Adjustment of Prices and the Adjustment of the Exchange Rate

Charles Engel and James Morley

8549: Masterpieces and Markets: Why the Most Famous Modern Paintings Are Not by American Artists

David Galenson

8548: An Empirical Model of Heterogeneous Consumer Search for Retail Prescription Drugs

Alan T. Sorensen

8547: Entry, Pricing and Product Design in an Initially Monopolized Market

Steven Davis, Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel

8546: Has "In-Work" Benefit Reform Helped the Labour Market?

Hilary Hoynes and Richard Blundell

8545: The Adam Klug Memorial Lecture: Haberler versus Nurkse: The Case for Floating Exchange Rates as an Alternative to Bretton Woods?

Michael Bordo and Harold James

8544: The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

B. Douglas Bernheim, Katherine Carman, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence Kotlikoff

8543: What Role for Empirics in International Trade?

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

8542: Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe

Richard Steckel

8541: Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Robert Kaestner and Neeraj Kaushal

8540: International Trade and the Environment: A Framework for Analysis

Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor

8539: Money Growth Monitoring and the Taylor Rule

Lawrence Christiano and Massimo Rostagno

8538: Why are Foreign Firms Listed in the U.S. Worth More?

Craig Doidge, G. Karolyi and René Stulz

8537: The Effects of Hospital Ownership on Medical Productivity

Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan

8536: Physician Income Expectations and Specialty Choice

Sean Nicholson and Nicholas Souleles

8535: What Hurts Most? G-3 Exchange Rate or Interest Rate Volatility

Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart

8534: Mortality, Income, and Income Inequality Over Time in Britain and the United States

Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson

8533: A Rehabilitation of Stochastic Discount Factor Methodology

John Cochrane

8532: Bad Politicians

Francesco Caselli and Massimo Morelli

8531: Medicare Policy in the 1990s

Joseph Newhouse

8530: Demographic Fluctuations, Generational Welfare and Intergenerational Transfers

Alwyn Young

8529: Exchange Rate Regimes, Capital Flows and Crisis Prevention

Sebastian Edwards

8528: Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow: The Cases of Korea and Taiwan

Albert Guangzhou Hu and Adam Jaffe

8527: The Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap

Russell Cooper and Jonathan Willis

8526: Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Outcomes: Lessons for the US from International Long-Run Evidence

Giuseppe Bertola, Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

8525: Information, Decisions, and Productivity: On-Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking

Thomas N. Hubbard

8524: Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

8523: Household Responses to Public Home Care Programs

Peter C. Coyte and Mark Stabile

8522: Incentives in HMOs

Martin Gaynor, James Rebitzer and Lowell Taylor

8521: Cronyism and Capital Controls: Evidence from Malaysia

Simon Johnson and Todd Mitton

8520: A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s

Raphael Bergoeing, Patrick Kehoe, Timothy Kehoe and Raimundo Soto

8519: The Economics of Family Structure

Derek Neal

8518: Market Size, Linkages, and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

8517: Bones, Bombs and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

8516: Do Factor Endowments Matter for North-North Trade?

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

8515: Borders, Trade and Welfare

James Anderson and Eric van Wincoop

8514: The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996

David Card, Andrew K. G. Hildreth and Lara Shore-Sheppard

8513: Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor Force Attachment

Katharine Abraham and Robert Shimer

8512: The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff

8511: Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?

Christopher Ruhm and William E. Black

8510: An Empirical Investigation of Continuous-Time Equity Return Models

Torben Andersen, Luca Benzoni and Jesper Lund

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