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7739: The Effects of Investing Social Security Funds in the Stock Market When Fixed Costs Prevent Some Households from Holding Stocks

Andrew Abel

7738: Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial-Market Imperfections

Joshua Aizenman and Ricardo Hausmann

7737: Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

Eli Berman, Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

7736: Do Debt Flows Crowd Out Equity Flows Or the Other Way Round?

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen

7735: Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices

Esther Duflo and Emmanuel Saez

7734: Delaying the Inevitable: Optimal Interest Rate Policy and BOP Crises

Amartya Lahiri and Carlos Vegh

7733: An Introduction to School-To-Work Programs in the NLSY97: How Prevalent are They, and Which Youths do They Serve?

David Neumark and Mary Joyce

7732: Gender Differences in Pay

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

7731: Uncertainty and Labor Contract Durations

Robert Rich and Joseph Tracy

7730: Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill

K.C. O'Shaughnessy, David I. Levine and Peter Cappelli

7729: Last Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Internet

Alvin Roth and Axel Ockenfels

7728: The Economic Approach to Social Capital

Edward Glaeser, David Laibson and Bruce Sacerdote

7727: Controlling Stocks and Flows to Promote Quality: The Environment, With Applications to Physical and Human Capital

Nathaniel Keohane, Benjamin Van Roy and Richard Zeckhauser

7726: The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying: How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission

John M. de Figueiredo and Emerson H. Tiller

7725: Alternative Monetary Policy Rules: A Comparison with Historical Settings for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan

Bennett McCallum

7724: The International Monetary Fund: Its Present Role in Historical Perspective

Michael Bordo and Harold James

7723: Should the Government Subsidize Supply or Demand in the Market for Scientists and Engineers?

Paul Romer

7722: Debt Restructuring

Benjamin M. Friedman

7721: The Old and the New in U.S. Economic Expansion of the 1990s

Victor Zarnowitz

7720: Institutions, Restructuring, and Macroeconomic Performance

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

7719: Evaluating School-To-Work Programs Using the New NLSY

David Neumark and Mary Joyce

7718: Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing

Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby

7717: Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part II: Design Issues

Michael Kremer

7716: Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part I: Rationale

Michael Kremer

7715: Can Emerging Market Bank Regulators Establish Credible Discipline? The Case of Argentina, 1992-1999

Charles Calomiris and Andrew Powell

7714: Foreign and Domestic Bank Participation in Emerging Markets: Lessons from Mexico and Argentina

Linda Goldberg, B. Gerard Dages and Daniel Kinney

7713: Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide

David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Karen Norberg

7712: The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining

Fiona Scott Morton and Florian Zettelmeyer

7711: Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve

William Harbaugh, Arik Levinson and David Wilson

7710: A Dynamic Analysis of the Market for Wide-Bodied Commercial Aircraft

C. Lanier Benkard

7709: Time Limits and Welfare Use

Jeffrey Grogger

7708: Optimal Income Transfer Programs: Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses

Emmanuel Saez

7707: The Distribution of Payroll and Income Tax Burdens, 1979-1999

Andrew Mitrusi and James Poterba

7706: In Search of New Foundations

Luigi Zingales

7705: Information Production and Capital Allocation: Decentralized vs. Hierarchical Firms

Jeremy Stein

7704: The Pace of Progress at Superfund Sites: Policy Goals and Interest Group Influence

Hilary Sigman

7703: Marijuana and Youth

Rosalie Pacula, Michael Grossman, Frank Chaloupka, P. M. O'Malley, Lloyd D. Johnston and Matthew C. Farrelly

7702: Trade Implies Law: The Power of the Weak

James Anderson and Leslie Young

7701: Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts: Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts

Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz

7700: Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise

James Markusen, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

7699: Estimation Risk, Market Efficiency, and the Predictability of Returns

Jonathan Lewellen and Jay Shanken

7698: Merit Motives and Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse

Casey Mulligan and Tomas Philipson

7697: The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany: What Explains the Differences?

Paul Beaudry and David Green

7696: State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization

Madanmohan Ghosh and John Whalley

7695: Quantifying Quality Growth

Mark Bils and Pete Klenow

7694: Credit Constraints in the Market for Consumer Durables: Evidence from Micro Data on Car Loans

Orazio Attanasio, Pinelopi Goldberg and Aikaterini Kyriazidou

7693: FDI in the Restructuring of the Japanese Economy

Magnus Blomstrom, Denise Konan and Robert Lipsey

7692: The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems: Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey

Pinka Chatterji and Sara Markowitz

7691: Mothers and Others: Who Invests in Children's Health?

Anne Case and Christina Paxson

7690: Building and Delivering the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access

Shane Greenstein

7689: Did U.S. Bank Supervisors Get Tougher During the Credit Crunch? Did They Get Easier During the Banking Boom? Did It Matter to Bank Lending?

Allen Berger, Margaret Kyle and Joseph M. Scalise

7688: Plants and Productivity in International Trade

Andrew Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Bradford Jenson and Samuel Kortum

7687: Forecasting Crashes: Trading Volume, Past Returns and Conditional Skewness in Stock Prices

Joseph Chen, Harrison Hong and Jeremy Stein

7686: Youths at Nutritional Risk: Malnourished or Misnourished?

Jay Bhattacharya and Janet Currie

7685: Does Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution in Small Business Lending

Mitchell Petersen and Raghuram Rajan

7684: The Information Technology Revolution and the Stock Market: Evidence

Bart Hobijn and Boyan Jovanovic

7683: Selling Company Shares to Reluctant Employees: France Telecom's Experience

Francois Degeorge, Dirk Jenter, Alberto Moel and Peter Tufano

7682: The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior

Brigitte Madrian and Dennis F. Shea

7681: Price Level Convergence Among United States Cities: Lessons for the European Central Bank

Stephen Cecchetti, Nelson Mark and Robert Sonora

7680: Can Monopoly Unionism Explain Publicly Induced Retirement?

Casey Mulligan

7679: Induced Retirement, Social Security, and the Pyramid Mirage

Casey Mulligan

7678: Human Capital, Heterogeneity, and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility

Song Han and Casey Mulligan

7677: Theoretical Analysis Regarding a Zero Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates

Bennett McCallum

7676: The Determinants of Punishment: Deterrence, Incapacitation and Vengeance

Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

7675: The Cost Channel of Monetary Transmission

Marvin J. Barth and Valerie Ramey

7674: Demand Side Considerations and the Trade and Wages Debate

Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley

7673: The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China

Naci Mocan, Erdal Tekin and Jeffrey Zax

7672: The Timing of Purchases and Aggregate Fluctuations

John Leahy and Joseph Zeira

7671: Information and Globalization: Wage Co-Movements, Labor Demand Elasticity, and Conventional Trade Liberalization

James Rauch and Vitor Trindade

7670: Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Lingxin Hao, V. Joseph Hotz and Ginger Zhe Jin

7669: Tax Externalities of Equity Mutual Funds

John B. Shoven, Joel Dickson and Clemens Sialm

7668: Understanding the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Lawrence Christiano and Terry Fitzgerald

7667: Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions: Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?

Janet Currie and Jeffrey Grogger

7666: Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development

Christopher Ruhm

7665: Monetary Policy in the Open Economy Revisited: Price Setting and Exchange Rate Flexibility

Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

7664: The Transition Economies After Ten Years

Stanley Fischer and Ratna Sahay

7663: Estate Taxes and Charitable Bequests by the Wealthy

David Joulfaian

7662: The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers

Alan Auerbach and Daniel Feenberg

7661: Evaluating the Specification Errors of Asset Pricing Models

Robert Hodrick and Xiaoyan Zhang

7660: Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts

Steven Kaplan and Per Stromberg

7659: Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are not Valid Measures of Financing Constraints

Steven Kaplan and Luigi Zingales

7658: Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?

David Card and Thomas Lemieux

7657: Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol

Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor

7656: The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from Project STAR

Alan Krueger and Diane Whitmore

7655: Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

David Card and Thomas Lemieux

7654: Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies: What Does it Cost?

Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence H. Goulder

7653: The Bail-In Problem: Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Barry Eichengreen and Christof Ruehl

7652: Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Instability: An Historical Analysis

Michael Bordo, Michael Dueker and David Wheelock

7651: Social Security Incentives for Retirement

Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber

7650: American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures

Dora Costa

7649: Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles

Louis Kaplow

7648: Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy Introduction

Carlo Carraro and Gilbert Metcalf

7647: What Have We Learned from the Reagan Deficits and Their Disappearance?

Benjamin M. Friedman

7646: Economic Reforms and Labor Markets: Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile

Sebastian Edwards and Alejandra Cox Edwards

7645: Controls on Capital Inflows: Do they Work?

Jose De Gregorio, Sebastian Edwards and Rodrigo Valdés

7644: Capital Gains Taxes and Stock Reactions to Quarterly Earnings Announcements

Jennifer L. Blouin, Jana Smith Raedy and Douglas Shackelford

7643: Universities as Research Partners

Bronwyn Hall, Albert Link and John Scott

7642: Trade and the Rate of Income Convergence

Dan Ben-David and Ayal Kimhi

7641: Ohlin Versus Stolper-Samuelson?

Douglas Irwin

7640: Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?

Douglas Irwin