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7909: Are Two Heads Better Than One?: An Experimental Analysis of Group vs. Individual Decisionmaking

Alan Blinder and John Morgan

7908: An Optimizing IS-LM Framework with Endogenous Investment

Miguel Casares and Bennett McCallum

7907: How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?

Sherry Glied and Joshua Graff Zivin

7906: Do the Rich Save More?

Karen E. Dynan, Jonathan Skinner and Stephen Zeldes

7905: Occupation-Level Income Shocks and Asset Returns: Their Covariance and Implications for Portfolio Choice

Steven Davis and Paul Willen

7904: The World Technology Frontier

Francesco Caselli and Wilbur Coleman

7903: The Effect of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the Location of Assets in Financial Services Firms

Rosanne Altshuler and Robert Hubbard

7902: International Capital Inflows, Domestic Financial Intermediation and Financial Crises under Imperfect Information

Menzie Chinn and Kenneth Kletzer

7901: Verifiability and the Vanishing Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime

Jeffrey Frankel, Sergio Schmukler and Luis Servén

7900: Are Financial Crises Becoming Increasingly More Contagious? What is the Historical Evidence on Contagion?

Michael Bordo and Antu Murshid

7899: Aspects of Global Economic Intergration: Outlook for the Future

Martin Feldstein

7898: Inventors and Pirates: Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights

Herschel Grossman

7897: The Creation of Effective Property Rights

Herschel Grossman

7896: Outside Funding of Community Organizations: Benefiting or Displacing the Poor?

Mary Kay Gugerty and Michael Kremer

7895: Live Long, Live Well: Quantifying the Health of Heterogenous Populations

John Mullahy

7894: Entrepreneurship and Household Saving

William Gentry and Robert Hubbard

7893: The Asset Price Incidence of Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence from the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and Publicly-Traded Real Estate Firms

Todd Sinai and Joseph Gyourko

7892: The Regulation of Entry

Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio LopezdeSilanes and Andrei Shleifer

7891: Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function: Evidence from International Patent Output

Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

7890: Upstairs, Downstairs: Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank

David Autor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane

7889: Optimal Exchange Rate Policy: The Influence of Price Setting and Asset Markets

Charles Engel

7888: The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

Julie Cullen, Brian Jacob and Steven Levitt

7887: The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

Susan Athey and Scott Stern

7886: Paying our Presidents: What do Trustees Value?

Ronald Ehrenberg, John L. Cheslock and Julia Epifantseva

7885: Contagion in Latin America: Definitions, Measurement, and Policy Implications

Kristin Forbes and Roberto Rigobon

7884: The Inexorable and Mysterious Tradeoff Between Inflation and Unemployment

N. Gregory Mankiw

7883: Managed Care, Technology Adoption, and Health Care: The Adoption of Neonatal Intensive Care

Laurence C. Baker and Ciaran S. Phibbs

7882: Aging and Housing Equity

Steven Venti and David Wise

7881: The Public-Private Mix in the Modern Health Care System - Concepts, Issues, and Policy Options Revisited

Dov Chernichovsky

7880: Fin de Siecle Real Interest Parity

Eiji Fujii and Menzie Chinn

7879: A Debt Puzzle

David Laibson, Andrea Repetto and Jeremy Tobacman

7878: Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans

James Choi, David Laibson and Andrew Metrick

7877: When Does Funding Research by Smaller Firms Bear Fruit?: Evidence from the SBIR Program

Joshua Gans and Scott Stern

7876: The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

Scott Stern, Michael E. Porter and Jeffrey L. Furman

7875: The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings

Julian R. Betts and Jeffrey Grogger

7874: Educational Attainment in Blended Families

Anne Case, I-Fen Lin and Sara McLanahan

7873: Asset Liquidity and Segment Divestitures

Frederik Schlingemann, René Stulz and Ralph A. Walkling

7872: Currency Unions and International Integration

Andrew Rose and Charles Engel

7871: Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates with Endogenously Segmented Asset Markets

Fernando Alvarez, Andrew Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe

7870: International Business Cycles with Endogenous Incomplete Markets

Patrick Kehoe and Fabrizio Perri

7869: Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates?

Varadarajan Chari, Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan

7868: Diagnosing Market Power in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market

Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell and Frank Wolak

7867: Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation

Caroline Hoxby

7866: Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?

Caroline Hoxby

7865: Do Pharmaceutical Prices Respond to Insurance?

Nina Pavcnik

7864: Do We Really Need a New International Monetary Compact?

Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

7863: The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education

Dennis Carlton and Avi Weiss

7862: Distribution Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics During Exchange-Rate-Based-Stabilizations

Ariel Burstein, Joao C. Neves and Sergio Rebelo

7861: Accumulated Pension Collars: A Market Approach to Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

Martin Feldstein and Elena Ranguelova

7860: Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment

Esther Duflo

7859: Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir and Caroline Hoxby

7858: Globalization of the Economy

Jeffrey Frankel

7857: Estimating the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

7856: Gold into Base Metals: Productivity Growth in the People's Republic of China during the Reform Period

Alwyn Young

7855: Managers, Investors, and Crises: Mutual Fund Strategies in Emerging Markets

Graciela Kaminsky, Richard Lyons and Sergio Schmukler

7854: Ability Tracking, School Competition, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits

Dennis Epple, Elizabeth Newlon and Richard Romano

7853: Monetary Policy in a World Without Money

Michael Woodford

7852: Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean Plants

Nina Pavcnik

7851: When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?

Joshua Gans, David H. Hsu and Scott Stern

7850: Neighborhood Schools, Choice, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits

Dennis Epple and Richard Romano

7849: Creative Destruction and Development: Institutions, Crises, and Restructuring

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

7848: Factor Supplies and Specialization in the World Economy

James Harrigan and Egon Zakrajšek

7847: A Model for the Federal Funds Rate Target

James Hamilton and Oscar Jorda

7846: What Explains Skill Upgrading in Less Developed Countries?

Nina Pavcnik

7845: Troubled Banks, Impaired Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Relative Access to Credit

Michael Klein, Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren

7844: Was There a Riverside Miracle? A Framework for Evaluating Multi-Site Programs

Rajeev Dehejia

7843: Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers

James Adams, Eric Chiang and Katara Starkey

7842: Regulating Executive Pay: Using the Tax Code to Influence CEO Compensation

Nancy Rose and Catherine Wolfram

7841: Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes

John Cawley

7840: Balance Sheets and Exchange Rate Policy

Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco

7839: 'Risky Habits' and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Permanent Income, or, How Much Would a Permanent Tax Cut Boost Japanese Consumption?

Christopher Carroll

7838: The Behavioral Dynamics of Youth Smoking

Donna Gilleskie and Koleman S. Strumpf

7837: Perspectives on the Budget Surplus

Alan Auerbach and William Gale

7836: Explaining the Border Effect: The Role of Exchange Rate Variability, Shipping Costs, and Geography

David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

7835: Rebels, Conformists, Contrarians and Momentum Traders

Evan Gatev and Stephen Ross

7834: Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?

Jarle Møen

7833: Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?

Robert Gordon

7832: Enrollee Mix, Treatment Intensity, and Cost in Competing Indemnity and HMO Plans

Daniel Altman, David Cutler and Richard Zeckhauser

7831: Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

Joseph Altonji, Todd Elder and Christopher R. Taber

7830: Social Security and Retirement

Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber

7829: Medicaid

Jonathan Gruber

7828: The Razor's Edge: Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China

Alwyn Young

7827: Capital Gains Holding Periods and Equity Trading: Evidence from the 1998 Tax Act

Jennifer L. Blouin, Jana Smith Raedy and Douglas Shackelford

7826: Portfolios of the Rich

Christopher Carroll

7825: The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited

Douglas Irwin and Peter Temin

7824: On the Benefits of Dollarization when Stabilization Policy is not Credible and Financial Markets are Imperfect

Enrique Mendoza

7823: Fiscal Policies in Open Cities with Firms and Households

Andrew Haughwout and Robert P. Inman

7822: Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

7821: On the Marginal Source of Investment Funds

Alan Auerbach and Kevin Hassett

7820: Identifying the Role of Cognitive Ability in Explaining the Level of and Change in the Return to Schooling

James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

7819: Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables

James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin

7818: Comments on Obstfeld and Rogoff's "The Six Major Puzzles in International Macroeconomics: Is There a Common Cause?"

Charles Engel

7817: Technology, Unemployment, and Inflation

Jacob Mincer and Stephan Danninger

7816: The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996: Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes

Ernst R. Berndt, Anupa Bir, Susan H. Busch, Richard G. Frank and Sharon-Lise T. Normand

7815: The Tenuous Tradeoff Between Risk and Incentives

Canice Prendergast

7814: Elderly Asset Management and Health: An Empirical Analysis

Jonathan Feinstein and Chih-Chin Ho

7813: Interest Rate Volatility and Contagion in Emerging Markets: Evidence from the 1990s

Sebastian Edwards and Raul Susmel

7812: Mortality Risk, Inflation Risk, and Annuity Products

Jeffrey Brown, Olivia Mitchell and James Poterba

7811: The Distributional Burden of Taxing Estates and Unrealized Capital Gains at the Time of Death

James Poterba and Scott Weisbenner

7810: Interpreting Developed Countries' Foreign Direct Investment

Robert Lipsey