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8009: The Uneasy Marriage of Export Incentives and the Income Tax

Mihir A. Desai and James Hines

8008: Evolution and Revolution in the Argentine Banking System under Convertibility: The Roles of Crises and Path Dependence

Lee Alston and Andres Gallo

8007: The Long-Term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts of the California GAIN Program

V. Joseph Hotz, Guido Imbens and Jacob A. Klerman

8006: Fixing for Your Life

Guillermo Calvo and Carmen Reinhart

8005: GATT-Think

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

8004: The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

John Donohue and Steven Levitt

8003: Bank Runs and Banking Policies: Lessons for African Policymakers

Edward Kane and Tara Rice

8002: On the Desirability of a Regional Basket Currency Arrangement

Eiji Ogawa and Takatoshi Ito

8001: The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring A Fresh Specification

David Bradford, Rebecca Schlieckert and Stephen H. Shore

8000: Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Dora Costa

7999: Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities

Charles Clotfelter

7998: Who Wins the Olympic Games: Economic Development and Medal Totals

Andrew Bernard and Meghan R. Busse

7997: Japan Premium and Stock Prices: Two Mirrors of Japanese Banking Crises

Takatoshi Ito and Kimie Harada

7996: Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive?

Jeffrey Brown and Austan Goolsbee

7995: Consumption and Risk Sharing Over the Life Cycle

Kjetil Storesletten, Chris Telmer and Amir Yaron

7994: Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers

John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane and James Spletzer

7993: Fear of Floating

Guillermo Calvo and Carmen Reinhart

7992: Private Inflows when Crises are Anticipated: A Case Study of Korea

Michael Dooley and Inseok Shin

7991: Asset Location for Retirement Savers

James Poterba, John B. Shoven and Clemens Sialm

7990: Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors

David Figlio and Jens Ludwig

7989: Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling

Jeffrey Kling

7988: Near-Rationality and Inflation in Two Monetary Regimes

Laurence Ball

7987: Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes

Peter Cappelli and William H. Carter

7986: Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

7985: Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance?

David Figlio and Maurice E. Lucas

7984: Commercial Policy with Altruistic Voters

Julio Rotemberg

7983: The Social Discount Rate

Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

7982: An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey

Sara Markowitz

7981: Why Don't Prices Rise During Periods of Peak Demand? Evidence from Scanner Data

Judith Chevalier, Anil Kashyap and Peter Rossi

7980: Personal Income Taxes and the Growth of Small Firms

Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mark Rider and Harvey Rosen

7979: The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and its Regulation

Michael J. Moore and James Hughes

7978: Using Asset Prices to Measure the Cost of Business Cycles

Fernando Alvarez and Urban Jermann

7977: Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

7976: Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

Christian Keuschnigg and Søren Nielsen

7975: Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled

John Bound and Timothy Waidmann

7974: Investor Protection and Equity Markets

Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Wolfenson

7973: Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment

Lawrence Katz, Jeffrey Kling and Jeffrey Liebman

7972: When Do Research Consortia Work Well and Why? Evidence from Japanese Panel Data

Lee Branstetter and Mariko Sakakibara

7971: International and Domestic Collateral Constraints in a Model of Emerging Market Crises

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

7970: Technological Change and the Environment

Adam Jaffe, Richard Newell and Robert Stavins

7969: Corruption and Composition of Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence

Beata K. Smarzynska and Shang-Jin Wei

7968: Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce

Jonathan Gruber

7967: More Guns, More Crime

Mark Duggan

7966: Hospital Market Structure and the Behavior of Not-for-Profit Hospitals: Evidence from Responses to California's Disproportionate Share Program

Mark Duggan

7965: The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan

Takao Kato

7964: Does Factor-Biased Technological Change Stifle International Covergence? Evidence from Manufacturing

Eli Berman

7963: Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions

Olivia Mitchell and John W.R. Phillips

7962: Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel

Neil Gandal, Gordon Hanson and Matthew J. Slaughter

7961: Internet Car Retailing

Fiona Scott Morton, Florian Zettelmeyer and Jorge Silva Risso

7960: The Impact of the Estate Tax on the Wealth Accumulation and Avoidance Behavior of Donors

Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk

7959: Wiring the Labor Market

David Autor

7958: The Governance of the New Enterprise

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

7957: The Zero Bound in an Open Economy: A Foolproof Way of Escaping from a Liquidity Trap

Lars Svensson

7956: Competition Between Private and Public Schools: Testing Stratification and Pricing Predictions

Dennis Epple, David Figlio and Richard Romano

7955: Decoupling at the Margin: The Threat to Monetary Policy from the Electronic Revolution in Banking

Benjamin M. Friedman

7954: A Re-examination of the Predictability of Economic Activity Using the Yield Spread

James Hamilton and Dong Heon Kim

7953: Indicator Variables for Optimal Policy

Lars Svensson and Michael Woodford

7952: Ferreting Out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups

Marianne Bertrand, Paras Mehta and Sendhil Mullainathan

7951: The Credit Crunch in East Asia: What can Bank Excess Liquid Assets Tell us?

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Joshua Aizenman and Alexander Hoffmaister

7950: Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework with an Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling

James Heckman, Justin Tobias and Edward Vytlacil

7949: The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes

Bruce Sacerdote

7948: Behavioral Economics

Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler

7947: The Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture: 1910-60

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

7946: A Historical Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990

Paul Rhode and Koleman S. Strumpf

7945: Class Struggle Inside the Firm: A Study of German Codetermination

Gary Gorton and Frank Schmid

7944: Who Benefits Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets?

Lisa George and Joel Waldfogel

7943: Do R&D Subsidies Stimulate or Displace Private R&D? Evidence from Israel

Saul Lach

7942: Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures

Donna Gilleskie and Thomas Mroz

7941: Increasing Returns and All That: A View From Trade

Werner Antweiler and Daniel Trefler

7940: Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care?

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

7939: The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis

Chiaki Moriguchi

7938: Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Daron Acemoglu

7937: Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?

Michael Baker and Nicole Fortin

7936: Idiosyncratic Risk and Aggregate Employment Dynamics

Jeffrey Campbell and Jonas Fisher

7935: IPO Market Cycles: Bubbles or Sequential Learning?

Michelle Lowry and G. Schwert

7934: Using Locational Equilibrium Models to Evaluate Housing Price Indexes

Holger Sieg, V. Smith, Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Walsh

7933: The Distribution of Stock Return Volatility

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Heiko Ebens

7932: Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

7931: The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs

Marianne Bertrand and Kevin Hallock

7930: R&D Policy in Israel: An Overview and Reassessment

Manuel Trajtenberg

7929: The Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity

Bruce Blonigen and Ronald Davies

7928: Taxing and Subsidizing Housing Investment: The Rise and Fall of Housing's Favored Status

Patric Hendershott and Michael White

7927: Currency Unions

Alberto Alesina and Robert Barro

7926: Prudential Supervision: Why Is It Important and What are the Issues?

Frederic Mishkin

7925: On the Nature of Capital Adjustment Costs

Russell W. Cooper and John Haltiwanger

7924: Does Managed Care Change the Mission of Nonprofit Hospitals? Evidence From the Managerial Labor Market

Richard Arnould, Marianne Bertrand and Kevin Hallock

7923: Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?

Jonathan Gruber and Peter Orszag

7922: The Optimal Elasticity of Taxable Income

Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk

7921: Different Approaches to Bankruptcy

Oliver Hart

7920: Taxing Multinationals

Michael Devereux and Robert Hubbard

7919: Causes of U.S. Bank Distress During the Depression

Charles Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason

7918: Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000

Josh Lerner

7917: Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation: Pigou, Taxation, and Pollution

Gilbert Metcalf

7916: The Present and Future of Monetary Policy Rules

Bennett McCallum

7915: Timeless Perspectives vs. Discretionary Monetary Policy In Forward-Looking Models

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

7914: Endogenous Pricing to Market and Financing Costs

Joshua Aizenman

7913: A New Approach to Measuring Financial Contagion

Kee-Hong Bae, G. Karolyi and René Stulz

7912: Estimating the Rental Adjustment Process

Patric Hendershott, Bryan D. MacGregor and Raymond Y.C. Tse

7911: International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications

Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee

7910: Policy Rules and External Shocks

Laurence Ball