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6906: What Drives Venture Capital Fundraising?

Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

6905: Alcohol

Philip J Cook and Michael J. Moore

6904: Two Waves of Globalisation: Superficial Similarities, Fundamental Differences

Richard Baldwin and Philippe Martin

6903: Understanding Tax Evasion Dynamics

Eduardo Engel and James Hines

6902: Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America: Cracks in the Bell Curve

Orley Ashenfelter and Cecilia Rouse

6901: Imperfect Labor Contracts and International Trade

Gene Grossman

6900: From the Invisible Handshake to the Invisible Hand? How Import Competition Changes the Employment Relationship

Marianne Bertrand

6899: The Core-Periphery Model and Endogenous Growth: Stabilising and De-Stabilising Integration

Richard Baldwin and Rikard Forslid

6898: Learning by Doing and Aggregate Fluctuations

Russell Cooper and Alok Johri

6897: Designing Hospital Antitrust Policy to Promote Social Welfare

Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan

6896: Does Where You Are Admitted Make a Difference? An Analysis of Medicare Data

Frank Sloan, Gabriel Picone, Donald H. Taylor, Jr. and Shin-Yi Chou

6895: Your Money and Your Life: The Value of Health and What Affects It

David Cutler and Elizabeth Richardson

6894: Managed Care and Medical Technology Growth

Laurence Baker and Joanne Spetz

6893: When Industries Become More Productive, Do Firms?

James Levinsohn and Amil Petrin

6892: What Will Technology Do to Financial Structure?

Frederic Mishkin and Philip E. Strahan

6891: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Varadarajan Chari and Patrick Kehoe

6890: Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance: An Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation

Paul Ellickson, Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg

6889: Competitive Devaluations: A Welfare-Based Approach

Giancarlo Corsetti, Paolo Pesenti, Nouriel Roubini and Cédric Tille

6888: The Lives of the Painters of Modern Life: The Careers of Artists in France from Impressionism to Cubism

David Galenson

6887: Does Publicly Provided Health Insurance Improve the Health of Low-Income Children in the United States

Robert Kaestner, Ted Joyce and Andrew Racine

6886: Risks to Lenders and Borrowers in International Capital Markets

Benjamin Hermalin and Andrew Rose

6885: Capitalization of Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence from Stock Price Reactions to the 1997 Rate Reduction

Mark H. Lang and Douglas Shackelford

6884: An Information-Based Model of Foreign Direct Investment: The Gains from Trade Revisited

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen

6883: Is Europe Going Too Far?

Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg

6882: Balancing Incentives: The Tension Between Basic and Applied Research

Iain Cockburn, Rebecca Henderson and Scott Stern

6881: General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber

6880: Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels

Geert Bekaert and Jun Liu

6879: Productivity Differences

Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilbotti

6878: Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

Jennifer Hunt

6877: Factor Adjustment, Quality Change, and Productivity Growth for U.S. Manufacturing

Jeffrey Bernstein, Theofanis Mamuneas and Panos Pashardes

6876: The Location and Characteristics of U.S. Affiliates in Asia

Robert Lipsey

6875: Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective

Bengt Holmstrom

6874: Financial Markets' Assessment of EMU

David S. Bates

6873: Explaining Rising Income and wage Inequality Among the College Educated

Caroline Hoxby and Bridget Terry

6872: Did Community Rating Induce an Adverse Selection Death Spiral? Evidencefrom New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut

Thomas Buchmueller and John DiNardo

6871: Statistical Discrimination in a Competitive Labor Market

Jonathan B. Berk

6870: The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

6869: The Effects of Class Size and Composition on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Natural Population Variation

Caroline Hoxby

6868: CEO Incentives and Firm Size

George P. Baker and Brian J. Hall

6867: Fixed vs. Floating Exchange Rates: How Price Setting Affects the Optimal Choice of Exchange-Rate Regime

Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

6866: Demographics and Medical Care Spending: Standard and Non-Standard Effects

David Cutler and Louise Sheiner

6865: Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the Second Best in Health Care Markets

Martin Gaynor, Deborah Haas-Wilson and William Vogt

6864: Exchange Rates and Jobs: What Do We Learn from Job Flows?

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

6863: In a World Without Borders: The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

Austan Goolsbee

6862: What If Alexander Hamilton Had Been Argentinean? A Comparison of the Early Monetary Experiences of Argentina and the United States

Michael Bordo and Carlos Vegh

6861: Trade, Investment, and Growth: Nexus, Analysis, and Prognosis

Kala Krishna, Ataman Ozyildirim and Norman Swanson

6860: Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts

Martin Feldstein and Daniel Altman

6859: Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men

Dora Costa

6858: Malthus to Solow

Gary Hansen and Edward Prescott

6857: Firm Behavior and Market Access in a Free Trade Area with Rules of Origin

Jiandong Ju and Kala Krishna

6856: The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples

Nada Eissa and Hilary Hoynes

6855: Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950

Dora Costa

6854: Changing Pensions in Cross-Section and Panel Data: Analysis with Employer Provided Plan Descriptions

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

6853: What is Driving US and Canadian Wages: Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?

Paul Beaudry and David Green

6852: Three Sides of Harberger Triangles

James Hines

6851: Empirical Implications of Physician Authority in Pharmaceutical Decisionmaking

Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg

6850: Contagion, Bank Lending Spreads and Output Fluctuations

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Joshua Aizenman and Alexander Hoffmaister

6849: Geography and Economic Development

John Luke Gallup, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew D. Mellinger

6848: The Size and Scope of Government: Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

6847: Conflict of Interest in the Issuance of Public Securities: Evidence from Venture Capital

Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

6846: Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?

Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner

6845: Real-Time Multivariate Density Forecast Evaluation and Calibration: Monitoring the Risk of High-Frequency Returns on Foreign Exchange

Francis Diebold, Jinyong Hahn and Anthony S Tay

6844: How Relevant is Volatility Forecasting for Financial Risk Management?

Peter Christoffersen and Francis Diebold

6843: Emerging Market Crises: An Asset Markets Perspective

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

6842: Estate and Gift Taxes and Incentives for Inter Vivos Giving in the United States

James Poterba

6841: Inequality

Jan Eeckhout and Boyan Jovanovic

6840: Discrimination in the Small Business Credit Market

David Blanchflower, Phillip Levine and David Zimmerman

6839: Individual Risk and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in an Investment-Based Social Security Program

Martin Feldstein and Elena Ranguelova

6838: Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Under Managed Care

Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

6837: Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures

Brian J. Hall

6836: Distance to Hospitals and Children's Access to Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?

Janet Currie and Patricia Reagan

6835: Did Late Nineteenth Century U.S. Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry

Douglas Irwin

6834: What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis? Part II: The Policy Debate

Giancarlo Corsetti, Paolo Pesenti and Nouriel Roubini

6833: What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis? Part I: A Macroeconomic Overview

Giancarlo Corsetti, Paolo Pesenti and Nouriel Roubini

6832: Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Marianne Bertrand, Erzo Luttmer and Sendhil Mullainathan

6831: The Strategic Use of Tying to Preserve and Create Market Power in Evolving Industries

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

6830: Executive Compensation and Incentives: The Impact of Takeover Legislation

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

6829: Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-experimental Causal Studies

Rajeev Dehejia and Sadek Wahba

6828: Taxes and Income Distribution in Chile: Some Unpleasant Redistributive Arithmetic

Eduardo Engel, Alexander Galetovic and Claudio Raddatz

6827: European Technology Policy

Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez and Samuel Kortum

6826: Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market

Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone

6825: Measuring Adverse Selection in Managed Health Care

Richard G. Frank, Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire

6824: Under What Circumstances, Past and Present, Have International Rescues of Countries in Financial Distress Been Successful?

Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz

6823: Covering Up Trading Losses: Opportunity-Cost Accounting as an Internal Control Mechanism

Edward Kane and Kimberly DeTrask

6822: Estimating Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions

Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg

6821: Does Mercosur Need a Single Currency

Barry Eichengreen

6820: Nonprofit Business Activity and the Unrelated Business Income Tax

James Hines

6819: Trust and Opportunism in Close Corporations

Paul G. Mahoney

6818: The Evolution of Price Dispersion in the European Car Market

Pinelopi Goldberg and Frank Verboven

6817: Price Indexes for Medical Care Goods and Services: An Overview of Measurement Issues

Ernst R. Berndt, David Cutler, Richard G. Frank, Zvi Griliches and Joseph Newhouse

6816: Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

Magnus Blomstrom and Fredrik Sjöholm

6815: Do Endowments Predict the Location of Production? Evidence from National and International Data

Jeffrey R. Bernstein and David Weinstein

6814: Inherited Wealth, Corporate Control and Economic Growth: The Canadian Disease

Randall Morck, David A. Stangeland and Bernard Yeung

6813: Immigration and Welfare Magnets

George Borjas

6812: Putty-Clay and Investment: A Business Cycle Analysis

Simon Gilchrist and John Williams

6811: Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Oded Galor and David Weil

6810: Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs

Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

6809: Organizational Flexibility and Employment Dynamics at Young and Old Plants

Jeffrey Campbell and Jonas Fisher

6808: Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Wages, Employment, Claims, and Denials

Patricia Anderson and Bruce Meyer

6807: Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan