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7460: Searching for Non-Linear Effects of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Industrial and Developing Countries

Francesco Giavazzi, Tullio Jappelli and Marco Pagano

7459: Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Shocks

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Jonas Fisher

7458: Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs?

Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody

7457: A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Tests for Publication Bias

Orley Ashenfelter, Colm Harmon and Hessel Oosterbeek

7456: From Bismarck to Maastricht: The March to European Union and the Labor Compact

Alan Krueger

7455: Togetherness: Spouses' Synchronous Leisure, and the Impact of Children

Daniel Hamermesh

7454: Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets

Daniel P. Kessler and Lawrence Katz

7453: The Impact of State Taxes on Self-Insurance

Bin Ke, Kathy Petroni and Douglas Shackelford

7452: Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

John Bound and Sarah Turner

7451: Intertemporal Tax Discontinuities

Douglas Shackelford and Robert E. Verrecchia

7450: Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government

Eric Hanushek and Julie A. Somers

7449: Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence

John Knowles, Nicola Persico and Petra Todd

7448: Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth

Peter Rousseau and Richard Sylla

7447: Coase v. the Coasians

Simon Johnson and Andrei Shleifer

7446: Financial Sector Inefficiencies and Coordinate Failures: Implications for Crisis Management

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

7445: The Share Price Effects of Dividend Taxes and Tax Imputation Credits

Trevor S. Harris, Robert Hubbard and Deen Kemsley

7444: How Large are the Social Returns to Education? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist

7442: The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession

Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone

7441: Indian Manufacturing Industry: Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle

Charles R. Hulten and Sylaja Srinivasan

7440: Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly

Michael Hurd, Daniel McFadden and Angela Merrill

7439: A Heuristic Method for Extracting Smooth Trends from Economic Time Series

Julio Rotemberg

7438: The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations

Eugene White

7437: Firm-Level Investment in France and the United States: An Exploration of What We Have Learned in Twenty Years

Jacques Mairesse, Bronwyn Hall and Benoît Mulkay

7435: The Choice of Organizational Form in Gasoline Retailing and The Costs of Laws Limiting that Choice

Asher Blass and Dennis Carlton

7434: G3 Exchange Rate Relationships: A Recap of the Record and a Review of Proposals for Change

Richard Clarida

7433: Do Taxes Affect Corporate Debt Policy? Evidence from US Corporate Tax Return Data

Roger Gordon and Young Lee

7432: One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade

Andrew Rose

7431: A Theory of Bank Capital

Douglas Diamond and Raghuram Rajan

7430: Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation and Financial Fragility: A Theory of Banking

Douglas Diamond and Raghuram Rajan

7429: Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Under NAFTA

Anne O. Krueger

7428: Investor Protection: Origins, Consequences, and Reform

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

7427: The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States

Marcello Estevão and Saul Lach

7426: Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility? An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes

Stephen Cecchetti and Michael Ehrmann

7425: Optimal Monetary Impulse-Response Functions in a Matching Model

Brett Katzman, John Kennan and Neil Wallace

7424: New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy

7423: The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner

7422: Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion

Susan Dynarski

7421: Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing

Marcello Estevão and Saul Lach

7420: The Future of Monetary Policy: The Central Bank as an Army With Only a Signal Corps

Benjamin M. Friedman

7419: Output-based Pay: Incentives or Sorting?

Edward Lazear

7418: Exchange Rates and Financial Fragility

Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann

7417: Macroeconomic Implications of the Beliefs and Behavior of Foreign Exchange Traders

Yin-Wong Cheung and Menzie Chinn

7416: Traders, Market Microstructure and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Yin-Wong Cheung and Menzie Chinn

7415: Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

Andrea Ichino and Giovanni Maggi

7414: Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance?: The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing

Morris M. Kleiner, Jonathan Leonard and Adam M. Pilarski

7413: How Effective are Capital Controls?

Sebastian Edwards

7412: The Transition to Smoking Cessation: Evidence from Multiple Failure Duration Analysis

John Tauras

7411: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model Between 1400 and 2000: When It Explained Factor Price Convergence, When It Did Not, and Why

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

7410: Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?

Scott Stern

7409: Optimal Portfolio Choice for Long-Horizon Investors with Nontradable Labor Income

Luis Viceira

7408: Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Real Exchange Rates

Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Eiji Fujii

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