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7407: Quantifying Artistic Success: Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism

David Galenson

7406: Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Consumers and Limited Participation: Empirical Evidence

Alon Brav, George Constantinides and Christopher Geczy

7405: Economic Conditions, Deterrence and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from Micro Data

Naci Mocan and Daniel Rees

7404: On the Spread and Impact of Antidumping

Thomas Prusa

7403: Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

7402: Tax Competition and Trade Protection

Eckhard Janeba and John Wilson

7401: How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?

Anne Case, I-Fen Lin and Sara McLanahan

7400: Excessive FDI Flows Under Asymmetric Information

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen

7399: Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa

Anne Case and Motohiro Yogo

7398: Capital Controls and Financial Crises

Joshua Aizenman

7397: Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment

V. Joseph Hotz, Seth G. Sanders and Susan Williams McElroy

7396: The Diversification Discount: Cash Flows vs. Returns

Owen Lamont and Christopher Polk

7395: Analysis of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: Methodological Issues

Bennett McCallum

7394: Latin America and Foreign Capital in the Twentieth Century: Economics, Politics, and Institutional Change

Alan Taylor

7393: Theoretical Issues Pertaining to Monetary Unions

Bennett McCallum

7392: Taxation and Household Portfolio Composition: U.S. Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s

James Poterba and Andrew Samwick

7391: Preference Externalities: An Empirical Study of Who Benefits Whom in Differentiated Product Markets

Joel Waldfogel

7390: The Technology of Birth: Is it Worth it?

David Cutler and Ellen Meara

7389: Uncertainty and the Disappearance of International Credit

Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion

7388: On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination Versus Specialization

Oliver Hart and John Moore

7387: Redistribution Through Public Employment: The Case of Italy

Alberto Alesina, Stephan Danninger and Massimo Rostagno

7386: Internal Versus External Convertibility and Developing-Country FinancialCrises: Lessons from the Argentine Bank Bailout of the 1930's

Gerardo della Paolera and Alan Taylor

7385: Enter at Your Own Risk: HMO Participation and Enrollment in the MedicareRisk Market

Jean Abraham, Ashish Arora, Martin Gaynor and Douglas Wholey

7384: Capital Account Liberalization, Financial Depth and Economic Growth

Michael Klein and Giovanni Olivei

7383: The Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies: Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?

Stephen L. Mehay and Rosalie Pacula

7382: Exchange Rate Pass-Through and the Welfare Effects of the Euro

Michael Devereux, Charles Engel and Cédric Tille

7381: New Trends in Pension Benefit and Retirement Provisions

Olivia Mitchell

7380: Anticipated and Actual Bequests

Michael Hurd and James Smith

7379: The Future of Health Economics

Victor Fuchs

7378: Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Antidumping Duties

Bruce Blonigen and Stephen E. Haynes

7377: Dynamic Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Stochastic Volatility in Incomplete Markets

George Chacko and Luis Viceira

7376: Differences of Opinion, Rational Arbitrage and Market Crashes

Harrison Hong and Jeremy Stein

7375: Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run

Charles Jones

7374: Do "High Performance" Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?

David Neumark and Peter Cappelli

7373: Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence

Paul David, Bronwyn Hall and Andrew A. Toole

7372: The Adequacy of Life Insurance: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

B. Douglas Bernheim, Lorenzo Forni, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence Kotlikoff

7371: Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada: 1987-1988

Michael Baker and Nicole Fortin

7370: Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Canadian Men, 1976-1992: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Records

Michael Baker and Gary Solon

7369: Environmental Compliance Costs and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to U.S. States

Wolfgang Keller and Arik Levinson

7368: What People Don't Know About Their Pensions and Social Security: An Analysis Using Linked Data from the Health and Retirement Study

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

7367: The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Income: A Panel Study of 'Bracket Creep'

Emmanuel Saez

7366: Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?

Emmanuel Saez

7365: The Future of EMU: What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?

Michael Bordo and Lars Jonung

7364: Short-Term Capital Flows

Dani Rodrik and Andres Velasco

7363: Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

Bruce Meyer and Dan Rosenbaum

7362: Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans: How Bad Can It Get?

Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence Kotlikoff

7361: Banks, the IMF, and the Asian Crisis

Bong-Chan Kho and René Stulz

7360: Estate Taxes, Life Insurance, and Small Business

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John W. Phillips and Harvey Rosen

7359: The Diffusion of Science-Driven Drug Discovery: Organizational Change in Pharmaceutical Research

Iain Cockburn, Rebecca Henderson and Scott Stern

7358: Marshall's Economies

J. Vernon Henderson

7357: Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Robert Lipsey

7356: Competition and the Cost of Capital Revisited: Special Authorities and Underwriters in the Market for Tax-emempt Hospital Bonds

Alec Ian Gershberg, Michael Grossman and Fred Goldman

7355: The Cost of Recessions Revisited: A Reverse-Liquidationist View

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

7354: On the Measurement of the International Propagation of Shocks

Roberto Rigobon

7353: Welfare Dynamics Under Time Limits

Jeffrey Grogger and Charles Michalopoulos

7352: Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance

Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer

7351: Causes of the Long Stagnation of Japan During the 1990s: Financial or Real?

Taizo Motonishi and Hirshi Yoshikawa

7350: The Morning After: Explaining the Slowdown in Japanese Growth in the 1990s

Tamim Bayoumi

7349: Educational Production

Edward Lazear

7348: The Wealth of the Unemployed: Adequacy and Implications for Unemployment Insurance

Jonathan Gruber

7347: How Wide is the Scope of Hold-Up-Based Theories? Contractual Form and Market Thickness in Trucking

Thomas N. Hubbard

7346: Stock and Bond Pricing in an Affine Economy

Geert Bekaert and Steven R. Grenadier

7345: The Quality of Ideas: Measuring Innovation with Multiple Indicators

Jean Lanjouw and Mark Schankerman

7344: Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race

Michael Hout and Harvey Rosen

7343: Work, Welfare, and Child Maltreatment

Christina Paxson and Jane Waldfogel

7342: Congressional Vote Options

David C. King and Richard Zeckhauser

7341: CAViaR: Conditional Value at Risk by Quantile Regression

Robert Engle and Simone Manganelli

7340: Import Diversion under European Antidumping Policy

Hylke Vandenbussche, Jozef Konings and Linda Springael

7339: Incentive Effects of Social Security Under an Uncertain Disability Option

Axel Boersch-Supan

7338: No Single Currency Regime is Right for All Countries or At All Times

Jeffrey Frankel

7337: The Market Microstructure of Central Bank Intervention

Kathryn Dominguez

7336: The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows

Richard Portes and Helene Rey

7335: Empire-Builders and Shirkers: Investment, Firm Performance, and Managerial Incentives

Rajesh Aggarwal and Andrew Samwick

7334: Performance Incentives Within Firms: The Effect of Managerial Responsibility

Rajesh Aggarwal and Andrew Samwick

7333: Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economcs: A Twentieth Century Retrospective

James Heckman

7332: The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Daniel Hamermesh

7331: Modeling the Impacts of Market Activity on Bid-Ask Spreads in the Option Market

Young-Hye Cho and Robert Engle

7330: Time-Varying Betas and Asymmetric Effect of News: Empirical Analysis of Blue Chip Stocks

Young-Hye Cho and Robert Engle

7329: Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers

Austan Goolsbee and Pete Klenow

7328: The Phillips Curve is Back? Using Panel Data to Analyze the Relationship Between Unemployment and Inflation in an Open Economy

John DiNardo and Mark P. Moore

7327: The Quality of Health Care Providers

Mark McClellan and Doug Staiger

7326: The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management

Thomas Kinnaman and Don Fullterton

7325: Stock Repurchases in Canada: Performance and Strategic Trading

David Ikenberry, Josef Lakonishok and Theo Vermaelen

7324: Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals

Mark McClellan and Doug Staiger

7323: Assessing Affirmative Action

Harry Holzer and David Neumark

7322: Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger

7321: Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence Kotlikoff and Mark J. Warshawsky

7320: Pensions and Retiree Health Benefits in Household Wealth: Changes from 1969 to 1992

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

7319: Bankers on Boards: Monitoring, Conflicts of Interest, and Lender Liability

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

7318: Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits

Courtney Coile, Peter Diamond, Jonathan Gruber and Alain Jousten

7317: Order Flow and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Martin Evans and Richard Lyons

7316: An Efficiency Approach to the Evaluation of Policy Changes

Stephen Coate

7315: Political Economy, Sectoral Shocks, and Border Enforcement

Gordon Hanson and Antonio Splimbergo

7314: Pre-Retirement Cashouts and Foregone Retirement Saving: Implications for 401(k) Asset Accumulation

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

7313: New Directions for Stochastic Open Economy Models

Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

7312: The Choice of Structural Model in Trade-Wages Decompositions

Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley

7311: Understanding How Price Responds to Costs and Production

Mark Bils and Yongsung Chang

7310: What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles

Mark Bils and James Kahn

7309: Wages and the Allocation of Hours and Effort

Mark Bils and Yongsung Chang

7308: Costs of Air Quality Regulation

Randy Becker and J. Vernon Henderson