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7206: Privatizing the Privatized

Aaron Tornell

7205: Managed Care

Sherry Glied

7204: The Value of Reductions in Child Injury Mortality in the U.S

Sherry Glied

7203: A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control

Lucian Bebchuk

7202: Reserve Uncertainty and the Supply of International Credit

Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion

7201: Stakes and Stars: The Effect of Intellectual Human Capital on the Level and Variability of High-Tech Firms' Market Values

Michael Darby, Qiao Liu and Lynne Zucker

7200: The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test

Leora Friedberg

7199: Joint Life Annuities and Annuity Demand by Married Couples

Jeffrey Brown and James Poterba

7198: Advances in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Health Interventions

Alan M. Garber

7197: Monopsonistic Discrimination and the Gender-Wage Gap

Erling Barth and Harald Dale-Olsen

7196: International Trade and Factor Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Linda Goldberg and Michael Klein

7195: Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

Michael Bordo, Barry Eichengreen and Douglas Irwin

7194: Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor

James Levinsohn, Steven Berry and Jed Friedman

7193: Are the Elderly Really Over-Annuitized? New Evidence on Life Insurance and Bequests

Jeffrey Brown

7192: Asset Location in Tax-Deferred and Conventional Savings Accounts

John B. Shoven and Clemens Sialm

7191: Private Pensions, Mortality Risk, and the Decision to Annuitize

Jeffrey Brown

7190: Education for Growth in Sweden and the World

Alan Krueger and Mikael Lindahl

7189: Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade

James Rauch and Vitor Trindade

7188: The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

Hilary Hoynes

7187: California Banking in the Nineteenth Century: The Art and Method of the Bank of A. Levy

Eugene White

7186: Was Adherence to the Gold Standard a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" During the Interwar Period?

Michael Bordo and Michael Edelstein

7185: Information and Competition in U.S. Forest Service Timber Auctions

Susan Athey and Jonathan Levin

7184: Minimum Wages and On-the-job Training

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

7183: Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequity via Bequests

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence Kotlikoff, James Sefton and Martin Weale

7182: Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910-1990

Robert Fairlie and Bruce Meyer

7181: Reorganization

Robert Hall

7180: The Stock Market and Capital Accumulation

Robert Hall

7179: Eurosystem Monetary Targeting: Lessons from U.S. Data

Glenn Rudebusch and Lars Svensson

7178: Does the P* Model Provide Any Rationale for Monetary Targeting?

Lars Svensson

7177: Monetary Policy Issues for the Eurosystem

Lars Svensson

7176: The Anatomy of Health Insurance

David Cutler and Richard Zeckhauser

7175: Corporate Focusing and Internal Capital Markets

Frederik Schlingemann, René Stulz and Ralph A. Walkling

7174: Employer Provided Pension Data in the NLS Mature Women's Survey and in the Health and Retirement Study

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

7173: The Impact of Fiscal Incentives on Student Disability Rates

Julie Cullen

7172: Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

Richard Murnane, John B. Willett and John Tyler

7171: The Employment Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Increases: Evidence from a Pre-specified Research Design

David Neumark

7170: Portfolio Advice for a Multifactor World

John Cochrane

7169: New Facts in Finance

John Cochrane

7168: Selection Effects in the Market for Individual Annuities: New Evidence from the United Kingdom

Amy Finkelstein and James Poterba

7167: Dress for Success -- Does Primping Pay?

Daniel Hamermesh, Xin Meng and Junsen Zhang

7166: The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data

Jens Ludwig and Philip J Cook

7165: Sticky Prices, Coordination and Collusion

John Driscoll and Harumi Ito

7164: Discriminating Among Alternative Theories of the Multinational Enterprise

James Markusen and Keith Maskus

7163: Multinational Firms: Reconciling Theory and Evidence

James Markusen and Keith Maskus

7162: Asset Pricing Models: Implications for Expected Returns and Portfolio Selection

A. Craig MacKinlay and Lubos Pastor

7161: Central Bank Credibility: Why Do We Care? How Do We Build It?

Alan Blinder

7160: Designing Indexed Units of Account

Robert Shiller

7159: Profitability of Momentum Strategies: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations

Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman

7158: Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees

Hao Li, Sherwin Rosen and Wing Suen

7157: An International Dynamic Asset Pricing Model

Robert Hodrick, David Ng and Paul Sengmueller

7156: How Offshore Financial Competition Disciplines Exit Resistence by Incentive-Conflicted Bank Regulators

Edward Kane

7155: Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara

7154: In Search of Substitution Between Foreign Production and Exports

Bruce Blonigen

7153: Regional Contagion and the Globalization of Securities Markets

Guillermo Calvo and Enrique Mendoza

7152: The Equilibrium Degree of Transparency and Control in Monetary Policy

Jon Faust and Lars Svensson

7151: Legal Structure, Financial Structure, and the Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism

Stephen Cecchetti

7150: Capital Mobility, Distributive Conflict, and International Tax Coordination

Dani Rodrik and Tanguy van Ypersele

7149: Patterns of Trade in the Market for Used Durables: Theory and Evidence

Robert Porter and Peter Sattler

7148: American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures

Dora Costa

7147: The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective

Richard Clarida, Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler

7146: The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies

Jeffrey Williamson

7145: Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation: 1870-1950

William Collins and Jeffrey Williamson

7144: Dispersion and Volatility in Stock Returns: An Empirical Investigation

John Campbell and Martin Lettau

7143: Hedging and Financial Fragility in Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

7142: The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements: Theory and Evidence

Gary Libecap and James Smith

7141: Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health

Angus Deaton

7140: Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts

Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson

7139: Common Fundamentals in the Tequila and Asian Crises

Aaron Tornell

7138: The Retirement Behavior of Married Couples: Evidence from the Spouse's Allowance

Michael Baker

7137: The Nominal Rigidity of Apartment Rents

David Genesove

7136: Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence

Timothy Bresnahan, Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin Hitt

7135: Exporting and Productivity

Andrew Bernard and J. Jensen

7134: Capital Flows in Asia

Takatoshi Ito

7133: Offshore Investment Funds: Monsters in Emerging Markets?

Woochan Kim and Shang-Jin Wei

7132: Tax and Education Policy in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy: What Levels of Redistribution Maximize Growth and Efficiency?

Roland Benabou

7131: Evaluating the Effect of an Antidiscrimination Law Using a Regression-Discontinuity Design

Jinyong Hahn, Petra Todd and Wilbert van der Klaauw

7130: The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption

Jeffrey Miron

7129: Alcohol Regulation and Violence on College Campuses

Michael Grossman and Sara Markowitz

7128: Determinants of Non-employment and Unemployment Durations in East Germany

Jennifer Hunt

7127: Learning and Forgetting: The Dynamics of Aircraft Production

C. Lanier Benkard

7126: The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

7125: Was Expansionary Monetary Policy Feasible During the Great Contraction? An Examination of the Gold Standard Constraint

Michael Bordo, Ehsan Choudhri and Anna Schwartz

7124: Executive Compensation: Six Questions that Need Answering

John Abowd and David Kaplan

7123: Blockholder Identity, Equity Ownership Structures, and Hostile Takeovers

Gary Gorton and Matthias Kahl

7122: Age and the Quality of Work: The Case of Modern American Painters

David Galenson and Bruce Weinberg

7121: Education and Social Capital

John Helliwell and Robert D. Putnam

7120: Urban Development in the United States, 1690-1990

Sukkoo Kim

7119: Social Security in Theory and Practice (II): Efficiency Theories, Narrative Theories, and Implications for Reform

Casey Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

7118: Social Security in Theory and Practice (I): Facts and Political Theories

Casey Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

7117: Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security

Casey Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

7116: Microfoundations and Macro Implications of Indivisible Labor

Casey Mulligan

7115: Understanding the "Problem of Economic Development": The Role of Factor Mobility and International Taxation

Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen

7114: State Drug Control and Illicit Drug Participation

Henry Saffer and Frank Chaloupka

7113: Lending Booms, Reserves, and the Sustainability of Short-Term Debt: Inferences from the Pricing of Syndicated Bank Loans

Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody

7112: Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets

Martin Gaynor and William Vogt

7111: Equity and Resources: An Analysis of Education Finance Systems

Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson

7110: Government as a Discriminating Monopolist in the Financial Market: The Case of China

Roger Gordon and Wei Li

7109: Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

7108: Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?

Alberto Alesina and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

7107: Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff