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8160: Modeling and Forecasting Realized Volatility

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Paul Labys

8159: Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor

Casey Mulligan

8158: Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity

Wojciech Kopczuk and Joel Slemrod

8157: A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000

Paul Joskow and Edward Kahn

8156: Improving School Accountability Measures

Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

8155: The Rising Tide Lifts...?

Richard Freeman

8154: Electoral Rules and Corruption

Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini and Francesco Trebbi

8153: The Effects of Time Limits and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income Among Female-Headed Families

Jeffrey Grogger

8152: Age Discrimination Legislation in the United States

David Neumark

8151: Breadth of Ownership and Stock Returns

Joseph Chen, Harrison Hong and Jeremy Stein

8150: The Geography and Channels of Diffusion at the World's Technology Frontier

Wolfgang Keller

8149: Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes: A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era

Paul Beaudry and David Green

8148: A New Approach to Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition

Lucian Bebchuk and Allen Ferrell

8147: The Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: Evidence from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Frank Lichtenberg

8146: How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

8145: Rules, Communication and Collusion: Narrative Evidence from the Sugar Institute Case

David Genesove and Wallace P. Mullin

8144: Repatriation Taxes, Repatriation Strategies and Multinational Financial Policy

Rosanne Altshuler and Harry Grubert

8143: Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market

David Genesove and Christopher Mayer

8142: Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?

Ethan Kaplan and Dani Rodrik

8141: International Liquidity Illusion: On the Risks of Sterilization

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

8140: Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality in Earnings Across Advanced Countries?

Dan Devroye and Richard Freeman

8139: How Severe is the Time Inconsistency Problem in Monetary Policy?

Stefania Albanesi, Varadarajan Chari and Lawrence Christiano

8138: Perfect Taxation with Imperfect Competition

Alan Auerbach and James Hines

8137: Exchange Rates and Wages

Linda Goldberg and Joseph Tracy

8136: The Real Balance Effect

Peter Ireland

8135: Asymptotic Methods for Asset Market Equilibrium Analysis

Kenneth Judd and Sy-Ming Guu

8134: Breast Cancer Survival, Work, and Earnings

Cathy J. Bradley, Heather Bednarek and David Neumark

8133: Are For-Profit Hospitals Really Different? Medicare Upcoding and Market Structure

Elaine Silverman and Jonathan Skinner

8132: An Exploration of the Effects of Pessimism and Doubt on Asset Returns

Andrew Abel

8131: Will Bequests Attenuate the Predicted Meltdown in Stock Prices When Baby Boomers Retire?

Andrew Abel

8130: Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers

Francesco Caselli and Wilbur Coleman

8129: Trade and Exposure

Kathryn Dominguez and Linda Tesar

8128: A Re-Examination of Exchange Rate Exposure

Kathryn Dominguez and Linda Tesar

8127: Variable Selection for Portfolio Choice

Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Michael W. Brandt

8126: Antitrust and the Not-For-Profit Sector

Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner

8125: Two Mezzogiornos

Hans-Werner Sinn and Frank Westermann

8124: Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

8123: Administered Prices and Suboptimal Prevention: Evidence from the Medicare Dialysis Program

Avi Dor

8122: Generalized Cash Flow Taxation

Alan Auerbach and David Bradford

8121: Exchange Rates and Tax-Based Export Promotion

Mihir A. Desai and James Hines

8120: Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in Goods and Labor Markets

Olivier Blanchard and Francesco Giavazzi

8119: Tropical Underdevelopment

Jeffrey D. Sachs

8118: Contagion: How to Measure It?

Roberto Rigobon

8117: Decentralized Employment and the Transformation of the American City

Edward Glaeser and Matthew Kahn

8116: FX Trading and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Martin Evans

8115: Money's Role in the Monetary Business Cycle

Peter Ireland

8114: Institutions and Geography: Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2000)

John McArthur and Jeffrey D. Sachs

8113: Was the Federal Reserve Fettered? Devaluation Expectations in the 1932 Monetary Expansion

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Christina Romer

8112: The Law of One Price - A Case Study

Jonathan Haskel and Holger Wolf

8111: External Job Churning and Internal Job Flexibility

Peter Cappelli and David Neumark

8110: The Market for Catastrophe Risk: A Clinical Examination

Kenneth Froot

8109: Annexation or Conquest? The Economics of Empire Building

Herschel Grossman and Juan Mendoza

8108: The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity: An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939

Price Fishback, William Horrace and Shawn Kantor

8107: The Empirical Importance of Precautionary Saving

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Jonathan Parker

8106: The Pricing of Event Risks with Parameter Uncertainty

Kenneth Froot and Steven E. Posner

8105: A General Analysis of Exclusionary Conduct and Refusal to Deal - Why Aspen and Kodak are Misguided

Dennis Carlton

8104: Comparative Advantage and the Cross-section of Business Cycles

Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura

8103: An International Perspective on Policies for an Aging Society

Jonathan Gruber and David Wise

8102: White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

Kimberly Elliott and Richard Freeman

8101: Sorting, Education and Inequality

Raquel Fernandez

8100: From the Exchange Stabilization Fund to the International Monetary Fund

Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz

8099: Relative Deprivation, Inequality, and Mortality

Angus Deaton

8098: Empirical Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models: A Comparison of the SDF and Beta Methods

Ravi Jagannathan and Zhenyu Wang

8097: New Data and Output Concepts for Understanding Productivity Trends

William Nordhaus

8096: Productivity Growth and the New Economy

William Nordhaus

8095: Alternative Methods for Measuring Productivity Growth

William Nordhaus

8094: The Peter Principle: Promotions and Declining Productivity

Edward Lazear

8093: Does Firm-specific Information in Stock Prices Guide Capital Allocation?

Artyom Durnev, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

8092: The Stock Market's Reaction to Unemployment News: Why Bad News is Usually Good for Stocks

John H. Boyd, Ravi Jagannathan and Jian Hu

8091: Annuity Values in Defined Contribution Retirement Systems: The Case of Singapore and Australia

Suzanne Doyle, Olivia Mitchell and John Piggott

8090: Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Injury, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy

Janet Currie and V. Joseph Hotz

8089: The Overlooked Corporate Finance Problems of a Microsoft Breakup

Lucian Bebchuk and David I. Walker

8088: Intermediaries in Entrepot Trade: Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods

Gordon Hanson and Robert Feenstra

8087: Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries

Frederic Mishkin

8086: Competition, Monopoly, and Aftermarkets

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

8085: The Minimum Inflation Rate for Euroland

Hans-Werner Sinn and Michael Reutter

8084: Foreign Direct Investors in Three Financial Crises

Robert Lipsey

8083: The World Income Distribution

Daron Acemoglu and Jaume Ventura

8082: Retirement Incentives and Expectations

Sewin Chan and Ann Stevens

8081: Why Wait? A Century of Life Before IPO

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

8080: Education and Religion

Bruce Sacerdote and Edward Glaeser

8079: Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle

James Anderson and Eric van Wincoop

8078: The Earned Income Tax Credit

V. Joseph Hotz and John Scholz

8077: Is the Stock Market Overvalued?

Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott

8076: Capital Mobility and Economic Performance: Are Emerging Economies Different?

Sebastian Edwards

8075: Information Technology and Research and Development Impacts on Productivity and Skills: Looking for Correlations on French Firm Level Data

Jacques Mairesse, Nathalie Greenan and Agnes Topiol-Bensaid

8074: Individual Risk in an Investment-Based Social Security System

Martin Feldstein and Elena Ranguelova

8073: Do Domestic Investors Have More Valuable Information About Individual Stocks Than Foreign Investors?

Hyuk Choe, Bong-Chan Kho and René Stulz

8072: Fiscal Requirements for Price Stability

Michael Woodford

8071: Inflation Stabilization and Welfare

Michael Woodford

8070: Trade in Capital Goods

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

8069: Effects of Competition under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs among High and Low Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 - 1993

David Meltzer and Jeanette Chung

8068: Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

8067: Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet

Dennis Carlton and Judith Chevalier

8066: The Risk and Return of Venture Capital

John Cochrane

8065: The Relation Between Managed Care Market Share and the Treatment of Elderly Fee-For-Service Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Paul A. Heidenreich, Mark McClellan, Craig Frances and Laurence C. Baker

8064: Longevity-Insured Retirement Distributions from Pension Plans: Market and Regulatory Issues

Jeffrey Brown and Mark J. Warshawsky

8063: The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP

John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

8062: A Public Finance Approach to Assessing Poverty Alleviation

Shlomo Yitzhaki

8061: Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa

Esther Duflo