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8278: Ownership and Use Taxes as Congestion Correcting Instruments

Ngee Choon Chia, Albert Tsui and John Whalley

8277: On the Fiscal Implications of Twin Crises

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

8276: A New Approach to Valuing Secured Claims in Bankruptcy

Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

8275: Does the Current Account Matter?

Sebastian Edwards

8274: Dollarization and Economic Performance: An Empirical Investigation

Sebastian Edwards

8273: Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Displacement

Gerard Pfann and Daniel Hamermesh

8272: Legal Origins

Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

8271: Prices and Price Dispersion on the Web: Evidence from the Online Book Industry

Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan and Eric Wolff

8270: Intergenerational Risk Sharing in the Spirit of Arrow, Debreu, and Rawls, with Applications to Social Security Design

Laurence Ball and N. Gregory Mankiw

8269: Does Money Matter? Regression-Discontinuity Estimates from Education Finance Reform in Massachusetts

Jonathan Guryan

8268: Some Economic Aspects of Antitrust Analysis in Dynamically Competitive Industries

David Evans and Richard Schmalensee

8267: Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities

Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara

8266: Measuring Masters and Masterpieces: French Rankings of French Painters and Paintings from Realism to Surrealism

Martin Bruegel and David Galenson

8265: Stock Market Liberalizations and the Repricing of Systematic Risk

Anusha Chari and Peter Henry

8264: Economic Problems of Ireland in Europe

Martin Feldstein

8263: The Declining Quality of Teachers

Darius Lakdawalla

8262: The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation

Kent Smetters and Jennifer Gravelle

8261: Distortion Costs of Taxing Wealth Accumulation: Income Versus Estate Taxes

Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Donald Marples

8260: Worker Displacement and the Added Worker Effect

Melvin Stephens

8259: The Equivalence of the Social Security's Trust Fund Portfolio Allocation and Capital Income Tax Policy

Kent Smetters

8258: Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma

Laurence Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser

8257: A Biological Model of Unions

Michael Kremer and Benjamin Olken

8256: Payment Systems and Interchange Fees

Richard Schmalensee

8255: Indicator Variables for Optimal Policy under Asymmetric Information

Lars Svensson and Michael Woodford

8254: Global Corporations and Local Politics: A Theory of Voter Backlash

Eckhard Janeba

8253: Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work

Richard Dickens and David T. Ellwood

8252: Electoral Acceleration: The Effect of Minority Population on Minority Voter Turnout

Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel

8251: Links and Hyperlinks: An Empirical Analysis of Internet Portal Alliances, 1995-1999

Dan Elfenbein and Josh Lerner

8250: Searching for Prosperity

Michael Kremer, Alexei Onatski and James Stock

8249: Lending Booms: Latin America and the World

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Rodrigo Valdés and Oscar Landerretche

8248: The Impact of Market Rules and Market Structure on the Price Determination Process in the England and Wales Electricity Market

Frank A. Wolak and Robert Patrick

8247: Are the Young Becoming More Disabled?

Darius Lakdawalla, Dana Goldman and Jay Bhattacharya

8246: An Econometric Model of the Yield Curve with Macroeconomic Jump Effects

Monika Piazzesi

8245: Does Financial Liberalization Spur Growth?

Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey and Christian Lundblad

8244: One Size Fits All? Heckscher-Ohlin Specialization in Global Production

Peter Schott

8243: Do We Have A New E-Conomy?

Martin N. Baily and Robert Lawrence

8242: The Value Spread

Randolph B. Cohen, Christopher Polk and Tuomo Vuolteenaho

8241: Differential Mortality in the UK

Orazio Attanasio and Carl Emmerson

8240: What Drives Firm-Level Stock Returns?

Tuomo Vuolteenaho

8239: The Human Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past

Claudia Goldin

8238: Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States

Thomas Buchmueller and John DiNardo

8237: Saving Puzzles and Saving Policies in the United States

Annamaria Lusardi, Jonathan Skinner and Steven Venti

8236: The Financial Problems of the Elderly: A Holistic Approach

Victor Fuchs

8235: Pre-Contractual Reliance

Lucian Bebchuk and Omri Ben-Shahar

8234: Individual Learning About Consumption

Todd W. Allen and Christopher Carroll

8233: Precautionary Saving and the Marginal Propensity to Consume out of Permanent Income

Christopher Carroll

8232: Markets and Multiunit Firms from an American Historical Perspective

Sukkoo Kim

8231: Why is Health Related to Socioeconomic Status?

Ellen Meara

8230: International Dimensions of Optimal Monetary Policy

Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo Pesenti

8229: Retirement and Wealth

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

8228: Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?

Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson

8227: Quantifying the Benefits of New Products: The Case of the Minivan

Amil Petrin

8226: Should Monetary Policy Respond Strongly to Output Gaps?

Bennett McCallum

8225: Inflation Targeting and the Liquidity Trap

Bennett McCallum

8224: Financial Safety Nets: Reconstructing and Modeling a Policymaking Metaphor

Edward Kane

8223: Taxation and Portfolio Structure: Issues and Implications

James Poterba

8222: Culture, Openness, and Finance

René Stulz and Rohan Williamson

8221: Valuation Ratios and the Long-Run Stock Market Outlook: An Update

John Campbell and Robert Shiller

8220: Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the U.S.: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

Bengt Holmstrom and Steven Kaplan

8219: The Perverse Effects of Partial Labor Market Reform: Fixed Duration Contracts in France

Olivier Blanchard and Augustin Landier

8218: European Inflation Dynamics

Jordi Galí, Mark Gertler and David Lopez-Salido

8217: The International Macroeconomics of Taxation and the Case Against European Tax Harmonization

Enrique Mendoza

8216: The Silent Majority Fallacy of the Elzinga-Hogarty Criteria: A Critique and New Approach to Analyzing Hospital Mergers

Cory S. Capps, David Dranove, Shane Greenstein and Mark Satterthwaite

8215: The Effects of Race and Sex Discrimination Laws

David Neumark and Wendy A. Stock

8214: Do Political Institutions Shape Economic Policy?

Torsten Persson

8213: Estimating the Customer-Level Demand for Electricity Under Real-Time Market Prices

Robert Patrick and Frank A. Wolak

8212: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Hedge Contracts on Bidding Behavior

Frank A. Wolak

8211: Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Marianne Bertrand and Francis Kramarz

8210: Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher US Wage Inequality?

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

8209: When Is U.S. Bank Lending to Emerging Markets Volatile?

Linda Goldberg

8208: Housing Programs for Low-Income Households

Edgar Olsen

8207: Stock Return Predictability: Is it There?

Andrew Ang and Geert Bekaert

8206: Educational Inequality

Yoshiaki Azuma and Herschel Grossman

8205: Rethinking the Estate and Gift Tax: Overview

William Gale and Joel Slemrod

8204: What We Spend and What We Get: Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention

Ann Dryden Witte and Robert Witt

8203: Taxation and Corporate Financial Policy

Alan Auerbach

8202: Venture Capitalists As Principals: Contracting, Screening, and Monitoring

Steven Kaplan and Per Stromberg

8201: Hospital Governance, Performance Objectives, and Organizational Form

Leslie Eldenburg, Benjamin Hermalin, Michael Weisbach and Marta Wosinska

8200: Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

8199: Child Support: Interaction Between Private and Public Transfers

Robert Lerman and Elaine Sorensen

8198: Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alberto Alesina, Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

8197: An Empirical Investigation of the Competitive Effects of Domestic Airline Alliances

Gustavo E. Bamberger, Dennis Carlton and Lynette R. Neumann

8196: Integrating Expenditure and Tax Decisions: The Marginal Cost of Funds and the Marginal Benefit of Projects

Joel Slemrod and Shlomo Yitzhaki

8195: The Comovements between Real Activity and Prices in the G7

Wouter J. Den Haan and Steven Sumner

8194: Are Trade Linkages Important Determinants of Country Vulnerability to Crises?

Kristin Forbes

8193: Home Bias in Portfolios and Taxation of Asset Income

Roger Gordon and Vitor Gaspar

8192: The Life Cycle of US Economic Expansions

Edward Leamer

8191: Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions Using Observed Bid Data: An Application to Electricity Markets

Frank A. Wolak

8190: Mental Accounting, Loss Aversion, and Individual Stock Returns

Nicholas Barberis and Ming Huang

8189: Expenditure Competition

Roger Gordon and John Wilson

8188: Terms of Trade Shocks and Economic Performance 1870-1940: Prebisch and Singer Revisited

Yael Hadass and Jeffrey Williamson

8187: Negative Alchemy? Corruption, Composition of Capital Flows, and Currency Crises

Shang-Jin Wei and Yi Wu

8186: After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

8185: What can the take-up of other programs teach us about how to improve take-up of health insurance programs?

Dahlia K. Remler, Jason E. Rachlin and Sherry A. Glied

8184: A Case for Quantity Regulation

Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

8183: Public Versus Secret Reserve Prices in eBay Auctions: Results from a Pokemon Field Experiment

Rama Katkar and David Reiley

8182: Exhuming Q: Market Power vs. Capital Market Imperfections

Russell Cooper and João Ejarque

8181: Taxation and Economic Efficiency

Alan Auerbach and James Hines

8180: Forecasting Output and Inflation: The Role of Asset Prices

James Stock and Mark Watson

8179: International Franchising: Evidence from US and Canadian Franchisors in Mexico

Francine Lafontaine and Joanne Oxley