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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

8178: The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

8177: The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

8176: High-Frequency Substitution and the Measurement of Price Indexes

Robert Feenstra and Matthew Shapiro

8175: Monetary Policy for an Open Economy: An Alternative Framework with Optimizing Agents and Sticky Prices

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

8174: Monetary Policy Analysis in Models Without Money

Bennett McCallum

8173: Hedge Funds With Style

Stephen Brown and William Goetzmann

8172: The Declining U.S. Equity Premium

Ravi Jagannathan, Ellen McGrattan and Anna Scherbina

8171: Country Risk and Capital Flow Reversals

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

8170: Life-Cycle Saving, Limits on Contributions to DC Pension Plans, and Lifetime Tax Benefits

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence Kotlikoff and Mark J. Warshawsky

8169: How Reasonable Are Assumptions Used in Theoretical Models?: Computational Evidence on the Likelihood of Trade Pattern Changes

Lisandro Abrego, Raymond Riezman and John Whalley

8168: Medical Care Price Indices: Problems and Opportunities / The Chung-Hua Lectures

Joseph Newhouse

8167: Expectation Puzzles, Time-varying Risk Premia, and Dynamic Models of the Term Structure

Qiang Dai and Kenneth Singleton

8166: Vintage Organization Capital

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

8165: The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States

Todd Sinai and Joseph Gyourko

8164: Protection of Minority Shareholder Interests, Cross-listings in the United States, and Subsequent Equity Offerings

William A. Reese, Jr. and Michael Weisbach

8163: Generational Policy

Laurence Kotlikoff

8162: High- and Low-Frequency Exchange Rate Volatility Dynamics: Range-Based Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models

Sassan Alizadeh, Michael W. Brandt and Francis Diebold

8161: Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature

Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Weisbach

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