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7960: The Impact of the Estate Tax on the Wealth Accumulation and Avoidance Behavior of Donors

Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk

7959: Wiring the Labor Market

David Autor

7958: The Governance of the New Enterprise

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

7957: The Zero Bound in an Open Economy: A Foolproof Way of Escaping from a Liquidity Trap

Lars Svensson

7956: Competition Between Private and Public Schools: Testing Stratification and Pricing Predictions

Dennis Epple, David Figlio and Richard Romano

7955: Decoupling at the Margin: The Threat to Monetary Policy from the Electronic Revolution in Banking

Benjamin M. Friedman

7954: A Re-examination of the Predictability of Economic Activity Using the Yield Spread

James Hamilton and Dong Heon Kim

7953: Indicator Variables for Optimal Policy

Lars Svensson and Michael Woodford

7952: Ferreting Out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups

Marianne Bertrand, Paras Mehta and Sendhil Mullainathan

7951: The Credit Crunch in East Asia: What can Bank Excess Liquid Assets Tell us?

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Joshua Aizenman and Alexander Hoffmaister

7950: Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework with an Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling

James Heckman, Justin Tobias and Edward Vytlacil

7949: The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes

Bruce Sacerdote

7948: Behavioral Economics

Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler

7947: The Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture: 1910-60

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

7946: A Historical Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990

Paul Rhode and Koleman S. Strumpf

7945: Class Struggle Inside the Firm: A Study of German Codetermination

Gary Gorton and Frank Schmid

7944: Who Benefits Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets?

Lisa George and Joel Waldfogel

7943: Do R&D Subsidies Stimulate or Displace Private R&D? Evidence from Israel

Saul Lach

7942: Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures

Donna Gilleskie and Thomas Mroz

7941: Increasing Returns and All That: A View From Trade

Werner Antweiler and Daniel Trefler

7940: Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care?

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

7939: The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis

Chiaki Moriguchi

7938: Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Daron Acemoglu

7937: Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?

Michael Baker and Nicole Fortin

7936: Idiosyncratic Risk and Aggregate Employment Dynamics

Jeffrey Campbell and Jonas Fisher

7935: IPO Market Cycles: Bubbles or Sequential Learning?

Michelle Lowry and G. Schwert

7934: Using Locational Equilibrium Models to Evaluate Housing Price Indexes

Holger Sieg, V. Smith, Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Walsh

7933: The Distribution of Stock Return Volatility

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Heiko Ebens

7932: Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

7931: The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs

Marianne Bertrand and Kevin Hallock

7930: R&D Policy in Israel: An Overview and Reassessment

Manuel Trajtenberg

7929: The Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity

Bruce Blonigen and Ronald Davies

7928: Taxing and Subsidizing Housing Investment: The Rise and Fall of Housing's Favored Status

Patric Hendershott and Michael White

7927: Currency Unions

Alberto Alesina and Robert Barro

7926: Prudential Supervision: Why Is It Important and What are the Issues?

Frederic Mishkin

7925: On the Nature of Capital Adjustment Costs

Russell Cooper and John Haltiwanger

7924: Does Managed Care Change the Mission of Nonprofit Hospitals? Evidence From the Managerial Labor Market

Richard Arnould, Marianne Bertrand and Kevin Hallock

7923: Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?

Jonathan Gruber and Peter Orszag

7922: The Optimal Elasticity of Taxable Income

Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk

7921: Different Approaches to Bankruptcy

Oliver Hart

7920: Taxing Multinationals

Michael Devereux and Robert Hubbard

7919: Causes of U.S. Bank Distress During the Depression

Charles Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason

7918: Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000

Josh Lerner

7917: Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation: Pigou, Taxation, and Pollution

Gilbert Metcalf

7916: The Present and Future of Monetary Policy Rules

Bennett McCallum

7915: Timeless Perspectives vs. Discretionary Monetary Policy In Forward-Looking Models

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

7914: Endogenous Pricing to Market and Financing Costs

Joshua Aizenman

7913: A New Approach to Measuring Financial Contagion

Kee-Hong Bae, G. Karolyi and René Stulz

7912: Estimating the Rental Adjustment Process

Patric Hendershott, Bryan D. MacGregor and Raymond Y.C. Tse

7911: International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications

Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee

7910: Policy Rules and External Shocks

Laurence Ball

7909: Are Two Heads Better Than One?: An Experimental Analysis of Group vs. Individual Decisionmaking

Alan Blinder and John Morgan

7908: An Optimizing IS-LM Framework with Endogenous Investment

Miguel Casares and Bennett McCallum

7907: How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?

Sherry Glied and Joshua Graff Zivin

7906: Do the Rich Save More?

Karen E. Dynan, Jonathan Skinner and Stephen Zeldes

7905: Occupation-Level Income Shocks and Asset Returns: Their Covariance and Implications for Portfolio Choice

Steven Davis and Paul Willen

7904: The World Technology Frontier

Francesco Caselli and Wilbur Coleman

7903: The Effect of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the Location of Assets in Financial Services Firms

Rosanne Altshuler and Robert Hubbard

7902: International Capital Inflows, Domestic Financial Intermediation and Financial Crises under Imperfect Information

Menzie Chinn and Kenneth Kletzer

7901: Verifiability and the Vanishing Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime

Jeffrey Frankel, Sergio Schmukler and Luis Servén

7900: Are Financial Crises Becoming Increasingly More Contagious? What is the Historical Evidence on Contagion?

Michael Bordo and Antu Murshid

7899: Aspects of Global Economic Intergration: Outlook for the Future

Martin Feldstein

7898: Inventors and Pirates: Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights

Herschel Grossman

7897: The Creation of Effective Property Rights

Herschel Grossman

7896: Outside Funding of Community Organizations: Benefiting or Displacing the Poor?

Mary Kay Gugerty and Michael Kremer

7895: Live Long, Live Well: Quantifying the Health of Heterogenous Populations

John Mullahy

7894: Entrepreneurship and Household Saving

William Gentry and Robert Hubbard

7893: The Asset Price Incidence of Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence from the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and Publicly-Traded Real Estate Firms

Todd Sinai and Joseph Gyourko

7892: The Regulation of Entry

Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio LopezdeSilanes and Andrei Shleifer

7891: Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function: Evidence from International Patent Output

Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

7890: Upstairs, Downstairs: Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank

David Autor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane

7889: Optimal Exchange Rate Policy: The Influence of Price Setting and Asset Markets

Charles Engel

7888: The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

Julie Cullen, Brian Jacob and Steven Levitt

7887: The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

Susan Athey and Scott Stern

7886: Paying our Presidents: What do Trustees Value?

Ronald Ehrenberg, John L. Cheslock and Julia Epifantseva

7885: Contagion in Latin America: Definitions, Measurement, and Policy Implications

Kristin Forbes and Roberto Rigobon

7884: The Inexorable and Mysterious Tradeoff Between Inflation and Unemployment

N. Gregory Mankiw

7883: Managed Care, Technology Adoption, and Health Care: The Adoption of Neonatal Intensive Care

Laurence C. Baker and Ciaran S. Phibbs

7882: Aging and Housing Equity

Steven Venti and David Wise

7881: The Public-Private Mix in the Modern Health Care System - Concepts, Issues, and Policy Options Revisited

Dov Chernichovsky

7880: Fin de Siecle Real Interest Parity

Eiji Fujii and Menzie Chinn

7879: A Debt Puzzle

David Laibson, Andrea Repetto and Jeremy Tobacman

7878: Does the Internet Increase Trading? Evidence from Investor Behavior in 401(k) Plans

James Choi, David Laibson and Andrew Metrick

7877: When Does Funding Research by Smaller Firms Bear Fruit?: Evidence from the SBIR Program

Joshua Gans and Scott Stern

7876: The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

Scott Stern, Michael E. Porter and Jeffrey L. Furman

7875: The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings

Julian R. Betts and Jeffrey Grogger

7874: Educational Attainment in Blended Families

Anne Case, I-Fen Lin and Sara McLanahan

7873: Asset Liquidity and Segment Divestitures

Frederik Schlingemann, René Stulz and Ralph A. Walkling

7872: Currency Unions and International Integration

Andrew Rose and Charles Engel

7871: Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates with Endogenously Segmented Asset Markets

Fernando Alvarez, Andrew Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe

7870: International Business Cycles with Endogenous Incomplete Markets

Patrick Kehoe and Fabrizio Perri

7869: Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates?

Varadarajan Chari, Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan

7868: Diagnosing Market Power in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market

Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell and Frank Wolak

7867: Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation

Caroline Hoxby

7866: Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?

Caroline Hoxby

7865: Do Pharmaceutical Prices Respond to Insurance?

Nina Pavcnik

7864: Do We Really Need a New International Monetary Compact?

Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

7863: The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education

Dennis Carlton and Avi Weiss

7862: Distribution Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics During Exchange-Rate-Based-Stabilizations

Ariel Burstein, Joao C. Neves and Sergio Rebelo

7861: Accumulated Pension Collars: A Market Approach to Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

Martin Feldstein and Elena Ranguelova