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6706: Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime's Worth of Difference?

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

6705: Derivatives Usage in Risk Management by US and German Non-Financial Firms: A Comparative Survey

Gordon Bodnar and Gunther Gebhardt

6704: Does Exchange Rate Stability Increase Trade and Capital Flows?

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

6703: Capital Mobility in a Second Best World -- Moral Hazard With Costly Financial Intermediation

Joshua Aizenman

6702: Diffusion Indexes

James Stock and Mark Watson

6701: Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets

Martin Gaynor and Deborah Haas-Wilson

6700: On the Dynamics of Trade Reform

Rui Albuquerque and Sergio Rebelo

6699: Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data

James Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, Jeffrey Smith and Petra Todd

6698: Proofs and Prototypes for Sale: The Tale of University Licensing

Richard Jensen and Marie Thursby

6697: Oil Prices and the Terms of Trade

David Backus and Mario Crucini

6696: Research, Innovation, and Productivity: An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level

Bruno Crépon, Emmanuel Duguet and Jacques Mairesse

6695: Incentives in Organizations

Robert Gibbons

6694: Risk and Exchange Rates

Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

6693: Tax Reform and the Dutch Labor Market: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach

Lans Bovenberg, Johan Graafland and Ruud de Mooij

6692: The Causes of American Business Cycles: An Essay in Economic Historiography

Peter Temin

6691: Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

Eric Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

6690: Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

Eric Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

6689: Least-Present-Value-of-Revenue Auctions and Highway Franchising

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

6688: The Impact of Transfer Pricing on Intrafirm Trade

Kimberly Clausing

6687: The Portfolio Flows of International Investors, I

Kenneth Froot, Paul G.J. O'Connell and Mark S. Seasholes

6686: Efficient Unemployment Insurance

Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer

6685: Why Do Countries Subsidize Investment and Not Employment?

Clemens Fuest and Bernd Huber

6684: The A-K Model: It's Past, Present, and Future

Laurence Kotlikoff

6683: Risk Premia and Term Premia in General Equilibrium

Andrew Abel

6682: EMU: Ready, or Not?

Maurice Obstfeld

6681: Effects of Pensions on Saving: Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

6680: The Onset of the East Asian Financial Crisis

Steven Radelet and Jeffrey Sachs

6679: Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families: Evidence from the Gulf War

Joshua Angrist and Iv John H. Johnson

6678: A Simple Approach for Deciding When to Invest

Jonathan B. Berk

6677: Prices and Productivity in Managed Care Insurance

David Cutler, Mark McClellan and Joseph Newhouse

6676: Are Investment Incentives Blunted by Changes in Prices of Capital Goods?

Kevin Hassett and Robert Hubbard

6675: Nominal Income Targeting in an Open-Economy Optimizing Model

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

6674: The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options

Brian J. Hall

6673: LAPM: A Liquidity-based Asset Pricing Model

Bengt Holmstrom and Jean Tirole

6672: Converting Hospitals from Not-for-profit to For-profit Status

David Cutler and Jill R. Horwitz

6671: On the Won and Other East Asian Currencies

Menzie Chinn

6670: Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Daron Acemoglu and Joshua Angrist

6669: Capital Flows and the Behavior of Emerging Market Equity Returns

Geert Bekaert and Campbell Harvey

6668: Trade Flows and Wage Premiums: Does Who or What Matter?

Mary Lovely and J. David Richardson

6667: Sales Taxes and Prices: An Empirical Analysis

Timothy Besley and Harvey Rosen

6666: Testing for Market Microstructure Effects in Intraday Volatility: A Reassessment of the Tokyo FX Experiment

Torben G. Anderson, Tim Bollerslev and Ashish Das

6665: State Versus Private Ownership

Andrei Shleifer

6664: Dunning Delinquent Dads: The Effects of Child Support Enforcement on Child Support Receipt by Never Married Women

Richard Freeman and Jane Waldfogel

6663: Paasche vs. Laspeyres: The Elasticity of Substitution and Bias in Measures of TFP Growth

Alwyn Young

6662: The Complexity of Job Mobility Among Young Men

Derek Neal

6661: Do Foreign Investors Destabilize Stock Markets? The Korean Experience in 1997

Hyuk Choe, Bong-Chan Kho and René Stulz

6660: Some Costs and Benefits of Price Stability in the United Kingdom

Hasan Bakhshi, Andrew Haldane and Neal Hatch

6659: Fiscal Institutions and Public Sector Labor Markets

James Poterba and Kim Rueben

6658: Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence

Daron Acemoglu

6657: Alternative Estimates of Productivity Growth in the NICs: A Comment on the Findings of Chang-Tai Hsieh

Alwyn Young

6656: Are Insiders' Trades Informative?

Josef Lakonishok and Inmoo Lee

6655: Financial Consolidation: Dangers and Opportunities

Frederic Mishkin

6654: Notes on Growth Accounting

Robert Barro

6653: Meals on Wheels: Restaurant and Home Meal Production and the Exemption of Food from Sales and Value Added Taxes

Aled ab Iorwerth and John Whalley

6652: Investment, Fundamentals and Finance

Simon Gilchrist and Charles Himmelberg

6651: Minimum Wages and Training Revisited

David Neumark and William Wascher

6650: Is Job Stability in the US Falling? Reconciling Trends in the Current Population Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics

David Jaeger and Ann Stevens

6649: Bank Capital and Portfolio Management: The 1930's Capital Crunch and Scramble to Shed Risk

Charles W. Calormiris and Berry Wilson

6648: Performance Evaluation with Transactions Data: The Stock Selection of Investment Newsletters

Andrew Metrick

6647: Accounting for Growth

Jeremy Greenwood and Boyan Jovanovic

6646: A Frictionless View of U.S. Inflation

John Cochrane

6645: How Will Defined Contribution Pension Plans Affect Retirement Income?

Andrew Samwick and Jonathan Skinner

6644: Fee Speech: Adverse Selection and the Regulation of Mutual Funds

Sanjiv Das and Rangarajan K. Sundaram

6643: Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War

Robert Margo

6642: Provide, Provide: The Economics of Aging

Victor Fuchs

6641: Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational, and International Risk Sharing

Robert Shiller

6640: Tax Reform and Target Savings

Andrew Samwick

6639: On the Regulation of Fee Structures in Mutual Funds

Sanjiv Das and Rangarajan K. Sundaram

6638: Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada

Kevin Murphy, W. Craig Riddell and Paul Romer

6637: What Drives Deregulation? Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

6636: What Hides Behind an Umemployment Rate: Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Unemployment

Olivier Blanchard and Pedro Portugal

6635: A Direct Approach to Arbitrage-Free Pricing of Credit Derivatives

Sanjiv Das and Rangarajan K. Sundaram

6634: The Other Side of the Tradeoff: The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation

Rajesh Aggarwal and Andrew Samwick

6633: Capital Movements, Asset Values, and Banking Policy in Globalized Markets

Edward Kane

6632: What Do Technology Shocks Do?

John Shea

6631: Poisson-Guassian Processes and the Bond Markets

Sanjiv Das

6630: The Immigrant and Native-born Wage Distributions: Evidence from United States Censuses

Kristin Butcher and John DiNardo

6629: The Effects of Alcohol Regulation on Physical Child Abuse

Sara Markowitz and Michael Grossman

6628: Overcoming Informational Barriers to International Resource Allocation: Prices and Group Ties

James Rauch and Alessandra Casella

6627: Optimal Investment, Growth Options, and Security Returns

Jonathan Berk, Richard Green and Vasant Naik

6626: Efforts and Wages: A New Look at the Inter-Industry Wage Differentials

Edward Leamer and Christopher Thornberg

6625: Corporate Ownership Around the World

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez- de-Silane and Andrei Shleifer

6624: Comparing Capital Mobility Across Provincial and National Borders

John Helliwell and Ross McKitrick

6623: Derivatives in International Capital Flows

Peter Garber

6622: Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans

Jeffrey Bernstein and David Sappington

6621: Taxation and the Labor Supply: Decisions of the Affluent

Robert Moffitt and Mark Wilhelm

6620: Current Account Reversals and Currency Crises: Empirical Regularities

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Assaf Razin

6619: Notes on the Role of TARGET in a Stage III Crisis

Peter Garber

6618: Interest-Rate Rules in an Estimated Sticky Price Model

Julio Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

6617: Junior Can't Borrow: A New Perspective on the Equity Premium Puzzle

George M. Constantinidies, John B. Donaldson and Rajnish Mehra

6616: Capital Gains Tax Rules, Tax Loss Trading and Turn-of-the-Year Returns

James Poterba and Scott Weisbenner

6615: Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies

James Hines

6614: Coveting Thy Neighbor's Manuafacturing: The Dilemma of State Income Apportionment

Austan Goolsbee and Edward L. Maydew

6613: Crime and the Timing of Work

Daniel Hamermesh

6612: Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?

Alberto Alesina and David Dollar

6611: Approximate Equilibrium Asset Prices

Fernando Restoy and Philippe Weil

6610: The Pay-As-You-Go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device

Hans-Werner Sinn

6609: International Trade and American Wages in General Equilibrium, 1967 - 1995

James Harrigan

6608: The Liquidity Effect and Long-Run Neutrality

Ben Bernanke and Ilian Mihov

6607: A Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Univariate Models for Forecasting Macroeconomic Time Series

James Stock and Mark Watson