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8060: Balance SHeet Effects, Bailout Guarantees and Financial Crises

Martin Schneider and Aaron Tornell

8059: Risks for the Long Run: A Potential Resolution of Asset Pricing Puzzles

Ravi Bansal and Amir Yaron

8058: Wages Around the World: Pay Across Occupations and Countries

Richard Freeman and Remco Oostendorp

8057: Monetary Policy

Benjamin M. Friedman

8056: Understanding Child Support Trends: Economic, Demographic, and Political Contributions

Anne Case, I-Fen Lin and Sara McLanahan

8055: School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Equality?

David Figlio and Marianne Page

8054: Longer Term Effects of Head Start

Eliana Garces, Duncan Thomas and Janet Currie

8053: Non-Market Interactions

Edward Glaeser and Jose Scheinkman

8052: Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

Brian J. Hall and Kevin Murphy

8051: The Incentive for Working Hard: Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany

Linda A. Bell and Richard Freeman

8050: The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and Its Effects on Firms and Workers

Richard Freeman, Morris M. Kleiner and Cheri Ostroff

8049: Environmental Tax Interactions When Pollution Affects Health or Productivity

Roberton Williams

8048: Health Effects in a Model of Second-Best Environmental Taxation or Reconsidering "Reconsidering the Tax-Interaction Effect"

Roberton Williams

8047: The Role of Interest Rates in Federal Reserve Policymaking

Benjamin M. Friedman

8046: Industrial Groupings and Strategic FDI: Theory and Evidence

Bruce Blonigen, Christopher J. Ellis and Dietrich Fausten

8045: Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: Policyholder Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

Amy Finkelstein and James Poterba

8044: European Financial Markets After EMU: A First Assessment

Jean-Pierre Danthine, Francesco Giavazzi and Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

8043: Closed and Open Economy Models of Business Cycles with Marked Up and Sticky Prices

Robert Barro and Silvana Tenreyro

8042: Consequences of Imbalanced Sex Ratios: Evidence from America's Second Generation

Joshua Angrist

8041: Growth Economics and Reality

William Brock and Steven Durlauf

8040: The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Revisited: Finite Lives and Cyclical Variation in Idiosyncratic Risk

Kjetil Storesletten, Chris Telmer and Amir Yaron

8039: Style Investing

Nicholas Barberis and Andrei Shleifer

8038: Firm Level Investment and R&D in France and the United States: A Comparison

Benoît Mulkay, Bronwyn Hall and Jacques Mairesse

8037: The Optimal Treatment of Tax Expenditures

Emmanuel Saez

8036: Issue Unbundling via Citizens' Initiatives

Timothy Besley and Stephen Coate

8035: The EMS Crisis in Retrospect

Barry Eichengreen

8034: The Social Consequences of Housing

Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

8033: On the Japanese Economy and Japanese National Accounts

Albert Ando

8032: The Effects of 401(k) Plans on Household Wealth: Differences Across Earnings Groups

Eric M. Engen and William Gale

8031: The Middle Class Parent Penalty: Child Benefits in the U.S. Tax Code

David T. Ellwood and Jeffrey Liebman

8030: An sS Model with Adverse Selection

Christopher House and John Leahy

8029: The Desirability of Commodity Taxation under Non-Linear Income Taxation and Heterogeneous Tastes

Emmanuel Saez

8028: Where did British Foreign Capital Go? Fundamentals, Failures and the Lucas Paradox: 1870-1913

Michael Clemens and Jeffrey Williamson

8027: Market Mechanisms for Policy Decisions: Tools for the European Union

Alessandra Casella

8026: Games for Central Bankers: Markets v/s Politics in Public Policy Decisions

Alessandra Casella

8025: Money and Inflation in the Euro Area: A Case for Monetary Indicators?

Stefan Gerlach and Lars Svensson

8024: A Framework for Applied Dynamic Analysis in I.O

Ariel Pakes

8023: Generalized Solow-Neutral Technical Progress and Postwar Economic Growth

Michael J. Boskin and Lawrence J. Lau

8022: Technological Change, the Labor Market and the Stock Market

Rodolfo Manuelli

8021: How Elastic is the Firm's Demand for Health Insurance?

Jonathan Gruber and Michael Lettau

8020: Managed Care and Technology Adoption in Health Care: Evidence from Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Laurence C. Baker

8019: What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and House Prices

David Figlio and Maurice E. Lucas

8018: Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya

Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin and Eric Zitzewitz

8017: The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs

Luis Garicano and Steven Kaplan

8016: 12 Million Salaried Workers Are Missing

Daniel Hamermesh

8015: Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States

Lee Branstetter

8014: Are Profits Shared Across Borders? Evidence on International Rent Sharing

John Budd and Matthew J.Slaughter

8013: Scale Economies and the Geographic Concentration of Industry

Gordon Hanson

8012: A Century of Purchasing-Power Parity

Alan Taylor

8011: The Impact of Capital Gains Taxes on Stock Price Reactions to S&P 500 Inclusion

Jennifer L. Blouin, Jana Smith Raedy and Douglas Shackelford

8010: Macroeconomic Factors and Antidumping Filings: Evidence from Four Countries

Michael M. Knetter and Thomas Prusa

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