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6806: Contagion and Trade: Why Are Currency Crises Regional?

Reuven Glick and Andrew Rose

6805: Welfare for the Elderly: The Effects of SSI on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

6804: Undertstanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation: The Role of Differentiating Goods

Robert Feenstra, James Markusen and Andrew Rose

6803: Aggregate Productivity Growth: Lessons from Microeconomic Evidence

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and C.J. Krizan

6802: The Case for a Populist Banker

Andres Velasco and Vincenzo Guzzo

6801: Who Should Buy Long-Term Bonds?

John Campbell and Luis Viceira

6800: Capital Flows, Real Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls: Some Latin American Experiences

Sebastian Edwards

6799: Price Indexes for Acute Phase Treatment of Depression

Ernst R. Berndt, Susan H. Busch and Richard G. Frank

6798: Unintended Consequences? Welfare Reform and the Working Poor

Ann Dryden Witte, Magaly Queralt, Tasneem Chipty and Harriet Griesinger

6797: Long-Horizon Uncovered Interest Rate Parity

Guy Meredith and Menzie Chinn

6796: The Asian Liquidity Crisis

Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco

6795: Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: The POUM Hypothesis

Roland Benabou and Efe Ok

6794: Social Security Pension Reform in China

Martin Feldstein

6793: Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor

Christina Romer and David Romer

6792: All School Finance Equalizations Are Not Created Equal

Caroline Hoxby

6791: Establishing a Monetary Union

Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf

6790: Inflation Targeting as a Monetary Policy Rule

Lars Svensson

6789: Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government

Gary Becker and Casey Mulligan

6788: The Effects of Capital Subsidization on Israeli Industry

Arie Bregman, Melvyn Fuss and Haim Regev

6787: Market Access, Economic Geography, and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Assessment

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

6786: Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach

Robert Witt and Ann Dryden Witte

6785: An Account of Global Factor Trade

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

6784: The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime

John Donohue and Steven Levitt

6783: Paper Tigers? A Model of the Asian Crisis

Giancarlo Corsetti, Paolo Pesenti and Nouriel Roubini

6782: Volatility and the Welfare Costs of Financial Market Integration

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

6781: Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools

Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy

6780: Incentive Effects of Social Security on Labor Force Participation: Evidence in Germany and Across Europe

Axel Borsch-Supan

6779: Public School Segregation in Metropolitan Areas

Charles Clotfelter

6778: Migration and Pension

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

6777: The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Labor Force Transitions of Older Workers

John Bound, Michael Schoenbaum, Todd Stinebrickner and Timothy Waidmann

6776: Environmental Regulation and Productivity: Evidence from Oil Refineries

Eli Berman and Linda Bui

6775: Displaced Capital

Valerie Ramey and Matthew Shapiro

6774: Population Age Structure and Asset Returns: An Empirical Investigation

James Poterba

6773: Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise

David L. Carr, James Markusen and Keith Maskus

6772: Coding Geographic Areas Across Census Years: Creating Consistent Definitions of Metropolitan Areas

David Jaeger, Susanna Loeb, Sarah Turner and John Bound

6771: Long-term Debt and Optimal Policy in the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

John Cochrane

6770: Income Inequality and Poverty

Martin Feldstein

6769: The Effects of Daycare Reconsidered

Karen Norberg

6768: An Historical Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules

John Taylor

6767: Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime

Gerardo della Paolera and Alan Taylor

6766: School Finance Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of SAT Scores

David Card and A. Payne

6765: Constraints on Large-Block Shareholders

Clifford G. Holderness and Dennis P. Sheehan

6764: The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants

Guillermina Jasso, Mark Rosenzweig and James Smith

6763: Elasticities of Substitution in Real Business Cycle Models with Home Production

John Campbell and Sydney Ludvigson

6762: Health Insurance and the Labor Market

Jonathan Gruber

6761: Tools or Toys? The Impact of High Technology on Scholarly Productivity

Daniel Hamermesh and Sharon M. Oster

6760: Policy Rules for Open Economies

Laurence Ball

6759: Tax Reform Evaluation Using Nonparametric Methods: Sweden 1980 - 1991

Sören Blomquist, Matias Eklöf and Whitney Newey

6758: Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crisis

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

6757: The Educational Attainment of Immigrants: Trends and Implications

Julian R. Betts and Magnus Lofstrom

6756: Interest Rate Volatility, Capital Controls, and Contagion

Sebastian Edwards

6755: Health Care for the Elderly: How Much? Who Will Pay for It?

Victor Fuchs

6754: Staggered Price and Wage Setting in Macroeconomics

John Taylor

6753: Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment: A QuUality LadderModel Interpretation

Tor Klette and Zvi Griliches

6752: The Structure of Foreign Trade

Elhanan Helpman

6751: Horizontal Mergers in the Paper Industry

Martin Pesendorfer

6750: The Last American Shoe Manufacturers: Changing the Method of Pay to Survive Foreign Competition

Richard Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner

6749: Employment versus Wage Adjustment and the US Dollar

Jose Campa and Linda Goldberg

6748: Medical Care at the End of Life: Diseases, Treatment Patterns, and Costs

Alan M. Garber, Thomas E. MaCurdy and Mark C. McClellan

6747: "Overreaction" of Asset Prices in General Equilibrium

S. Aiyagari and Mark Gertler

6746: Redistributive Public Employment

Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir and William Easterly

6745: Valuation and Return Dynamics of New Ventures

Jonathan B. Berk, Richard Green and Vasant Naik

6744: Physician Fees and Procedure Intensity: The Case of Cesarean Delivery

Jonathan Gruber, John Kim and Dina Mayzlin

6743: Love or Money? The Effects of Owner Motivation in the California Wine Industry

Fiona M. Scott Morton and Joel M. Podolny

6742: Currency Hedging and Goods Trade

Shang-Jin Wei

6741: Diversity and Trade

Gene Grossman and Giovanni Maggi

6740: Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

6739: The Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

James Andreoni and Arik Levinson

6738: Was There Really an Earlier Period of International Financial Integration Comparable to Today?

Michael Bordo, Barry Eichengreen and Jongwoo Kim

6737: Understanding the Effects of a Shock to Government Purchases

Wendy Edelberg, Martin Eichenbaum and Jonas Fisher

6736: Discrete-Time Models of Bond Pricing

David Backus, Silverio Foresi and Chris Telmer

6735: Risky Habits: On Risk Sharing, Habit Formation, and the Interpretation of International Consumption Correlations

Jeffrey Fuhrer and Michael Klein

6734: Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Theory and Evidence

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Phillip Swagel

6733: Multinationals and the Gains from International Diversification

Patrick F. Rowland and Linda Tesar

6732: Supply Side Hysterisis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance System

Thomas Lemieux and W. Bentley Macleod

6731: Taxes and the Quality of Capital

Austan Goolsbee

6730: Impacts of the Basle Capital Standard on Japanese Banks' Behavior

Takatoshi Ito and Yuri Sasaki

6729: How Did the Dollar Peg Fail in Asia?

Takatoshi Ito, Eiji Ogawa and Yuri Sasaki

6728: "Tax Sparing" and Direct Investment in Developing Countries

James Hines

6727: The Quality of Goverment

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

6726: Foundations of Incomplete Contracts

Oliver Hart and John Moore

6725: The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Successes: Organizational Structure, Incentives, and Complementarities

Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

6724: Dating the Integration of World Equity Markets

Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey and Robin L. Lumsdaine

6723: Institutional Investors and Equity Prices

Paul Gompers and Andrew Metrick

6722: Social Security Money's Worth

John Geanakoplos, Olivia Mitchell and Stephen Zeldes

6721: Double Trouble: On the Value of Twins-Based Estimation of the Return to Schooling

John Bound and Gary Solon

6720: International Trade Aspects of Competition Policy

Sadao Nagaoka

6719: The Economics of Social Security Reform

Peter Diamond

6718: Education, Earnings, and the "Canadian G.I. Bill"

Thomas Lemieux and David Card

6717: Improper Churn: Social Costs and Macroeconomic Consequences

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

6716: Continuing Progress? Trends in Occupational Segregation in the United States Over the 1970s and 1980s

Francine Blau, Patricia Simpson and Deborah Anderson

6715: Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice: An Economist's View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews

Eli Berman

6714: Extended Benefits and the Duration of UI Spells: Evidence from the New Jersey Extended Benefit Program

David Card and Phillip Levine

6713: Would a Privatized Social Security System Really Pay a Higher Rate of Return

John Geanakoplos, Olivia Mitchell and Stephen Zeldes

6712: The Division and Size of Gains from Liberalization of Service Networks

Keshab Bhattarai and John Whalley

6711: Import Peneteration and the Politics of Trade Protection

Giovanni Maggi and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

6710: Health, Government, and Irving Fisher

Victor Fuchs

6709: Recent Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage: Are Bad Jobs Getting Worse?

Henry S. Farber and Helen Levy

6708: Tax Arbitrage and Labor Supply

Jonas Agell and Mats Persson

6707: Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?

Werner Antweiler, Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor