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9344: Pricing the Global Industry Portfolios

Stefano Cavaglia, Robert Hodrick, Moroz Vadim and Xiaoyan Zhang

9343: Cross-Border Trading as a Mechanism for Capital Flight: ADRs and the Argentine Crisis

Sebastian Auguste, Kathryn Dominguez, Herman Kamil and Linda Tesar

9342: Why Measure Inequality?

Louis Kaplow

9341: The Own-Price of Money and a New Channel of Monetary Transmission

Michael Belongia and Peter Ireland

9340: Personal Bankruptcy and the Level of Entrepreneurial Activity

Wei Fan and Michelle White

9339: Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production

Kenneth Scheve and Matthew Slaughter

9338: The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women: Evidence from the Census

Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn and Jane Waldfogel

9337: IS-LM-BP in the Pampas

Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco

9336: Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

Ian Ayres and John Donohue

9335: Minimum Asset Requirements

Steven Shavell

9334: Why Europe Should Love Tax Competition - and the U.S. Even More So

Eckhard Janeba and Guttorm Schjelderup

9333: Historical Perspectives on Financial Development and Economic Growth

Peter Rousseau

9332: Trade Openness, Investment Instability and Terms-of-Trade Volatility

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Tarek Coury

9331: Borrowing Costs and the Demand for Equity Over the Life Cycle

Steven Davis, Felix Kubler and Paul Willen

9330: State Lotteries and Consumer Behavior

Melissa Kearney

9329: Addiction and Cue-Conditioned Cognitive Processes

B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel

9328: The Value of Information in International Trade: Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong

Robert Feenstra, Gordon Hanson and Songhua Lin

9327: Horses and Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure from Shareholder and Manager Perspectives

Nengjiu Ju, Robert Parrino, Allen M. Poteshman and Michael Weisbach

9326: Globalization, Trade, and Development: Some Lessons From History

Alan Taylor

9325: Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share fo GDP Risen So Much?

Charles Jones

9324: Institutional Efficiency, Monitoring Costs, and the Investment Share of FDI

Joshua Aizenman and Mark Spiegel

9323: Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best?

James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine

9322: How Country and Safety-Net Characteristics Affect Bank Risk-Shifting

Armen Hovakimian, Edward Kane and Luc Laeven

9321: Asset Price Inflation and Monetary Policy

Anna Schwartz

9320: Customer Anger at Price Increases, Time Variation in the Frequency of Price Changes and Monetary Policy

Julio Rotemberg

9319: Food for Thought: The Effects of School Accountability Plans on School Nutrition

David Figlio and Joshua Winicki

9318: The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870-1939

Antoni Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Alan Taylor

9317: Health and Retirement: Do Changes in Health Affect Retirement Expectations?

Kathleen McGarry

9316: Human Capital Spillovers in Manufacturing: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions

Enrico Moretti

9315: Credibility and Policy Convergence: Evidence from U.S. House Roll Call Voting Records

David S. Lee, Enrico Moretti and Matthew J. Butler

9314: The Correlation of Wealth Across Generations

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst

9313: The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers into the Public Sector

George Borjas

9312: The Flight-to-Liquidity Premium in U.S. Treasury Bond Prices

Francis Longstaff

9311: Technological Development and Medical Productivity: The Diffusion of Angioplasty in New York State

David Cutler and Robert Huckman

9310: Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background

Sandra Black and Amir Sufi

9309: The Corporate Governance Role of the Media

Isaac Dyck and Luigi Zingales

9308: Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence from Taxpayer Surveys

Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

9307: Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System

David Figlio and Lawrence S. Getzler

9306: Is There a Role for Discretionary Fiscal Policy?

Alan Auerbach

9305: Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian and Francesco Trebbi

9304: Bubbles and Capital Flows

Jaume Ventura

9303: The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry

Frank Lichtenberg and Tomas Philipson

9302: The "Arms Race" on American Roads: The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety and the Failure of Liability Rules

Michelle White

9301: Stochastic Taxation and Asset Pricing in Dynamic General Equilibrium

Clemens Sialm

9300: Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

9299: Health Insurance on the Internet and the Economics of Search

Mark V. Pauly, Bradley Herring and David Song

9298: Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the CPI

Jerry Hausman

9297: Financial Crises and Reform of the International Financial System

Stanley Fischer

9296: China's Investment in Human Capital

James Heckman

9295: Media Bias

Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer

9294: Real Exchange Rate Targeting and Macroeconomic Instability

Martín Uribe

9293: Home and Host Country Effects of FDI

Robert Lipsey

9292: Financial Globalization and Real Regionalization

Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri

9291: The Role of Output Stabilization in the Conduct of Monetary Policy

Frederic Mishkin

9290: Agglomeration, Integration and Tax Harmonization

Richard Baldwin and Paul Krugman

9289: Employee Stock Options, Corporate Taxes and Debt Policy

John R. Graham, Mark H. Lang and Douglas Shackelford

9288: Financial Globalization and Emerging Markets: With or Without Crash?

Philippe Martin and Helene Rey

9287: Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commerical Internet Use

Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

9286: Margin Calls, Trading Costs, and Asset Prices in Emerging Markets: The Finanical Mechanics of the 'Sudden Stop' Phenomenon

Enrique Mendoza and Katherine Smith

9285: A Gravity Model of Sovereign Lending: Trade, Default and Credit

Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel

9284: The Benefits of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction

Edward Glaeser and Jesse Shapiro

9283: Prices vs. Quantities vs. Tradable Quantities

Roberton Williams

9282: After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

9281: Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?

M. Kate Bundorf and Mark V. Pauly

9280: Does Medicare Benefit the Poor? New Answers to an Old Question

Jay Bhattacharya and Darius Lakdawalla

9279: Mergers as Reallocation

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

9278: The Stability and Growth Pact as an Impediment to Privatizing Social Security

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

9277: Anomalies and Market Efficiency

G. Schwert

9276: Still Fettered After All These Years

Barry Eichengreen

9275: Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets

Jonathan B. Berk and Richard Green

9274: The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy

Christina Romer and David Romer

9273: Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?

Andrew Rose

9272: Information Technology Externalities: Empirical Evidence from 42 U.S. Industries

Sung-Bae Mun and M. Ishaq Nadiri

9271: Federal Terrorism Risk Insurance

Jeffrey Brown, Randall S. Kroszner and Brian H. Jenn

9270: Closing Small Open Economy Models

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

9269: Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship

Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt

9268: Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

Daniel Bergstresser and James Poterba

9267: Decomposing Productivity Growth in the U.S. Computer Industry

Hyunbae Chun and M. Ishaq Nadiri

9266: The High Demand for International Reserves in the Far East: What's Going On?

Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion

9265: Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

Terence Edwards and John Whalley

9264: What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies

Pekka Hietala, Steven Kaplan and David Robinson

9263: How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Joshua Angrist and Kevin Lang

9262: Determinants of Real House Price Dynamics

Dennis Capozza, Patric Hendershott, Charlotte Mack and Christopher Mayer

9261: Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War

George Hall

9260: Transparency and International Investor Behavior

R. Gaston Gelos and Shang-Jin Wei

9259: Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff

9258: Redistribution Policy: A European Model

Alessandra Casella

9257: The Great Exchange Rate Debate After Argentina

Sebastian Edwards

9256: Redistribution and Insurance: Mandatory Annuitization with Mortality Heterogeneity

Jeffrey Brown

9255: The Role of Information in Driving FDI: Theory and Evidence

Assaf Razin, Ashoka Mody and Efraim Sadka

9254: The Labour Market in the New Information Economy

Richard Freeman

9253: Corporate Demand for Liquidity

Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello and Michael Weisbach

9252: Firm-Specific Resources, Financial-Market Development and the Growth of U.S. Multinationals

Susan Feinberg and Gordon Phillips

9251: Financial Market Runs

Antonio E. Bernardo and Ivo Welch

9250: The Role of Company Stock in Defined Contribution Plans

Olivia Mitchell and Stephen P. Utkus

9249: Rational Addiction, Peer Externalities and Long Run Effects of Public Policy

Donald Kenkel, Robert Reed and Ping Wang

9248: Optimal Drug Policy in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Sheng-Wen Chang, N. Edward Coulson and Ping Wang

9247: An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer

9246: Information Content of Equity Analyst Reports

Paul Asquith, Michael B. Mikhail and Andrea S. Au

9245: The Effect of Cigarette Excise Taxes on Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy

Greg Coleman, Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce