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6975: The Effect of Patronage Politics on City Government in American Cities, 1900-1910

Rebecca Menes

6974: The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants

Kristin Butcher and Anne Piehl

6973: Investment Plans and Stock Returns

Owen Lamont

6972: Contract-Theoretic Approaches to Wages and Displacement

Wouter J. den Haan, Garey Ramey and Joel Watson

6971: Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Framework for Price and Output Measurement

Irving Shapiro, Matthew Shapiro and David Wilcox

6970: Reforming Social Security: A Practical and Workable System of Personal Retirement Accounts

Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. and Michael J. Graetz

6969: Measuring Product-Market Integration

Michael M. Knetter and Matthew J. Slaughter

6968: Foreign Portfolio Investors Before and During a Crisis

Woochan Kim and Shang-Jin Wei

6967: Economic, Financial, and Fundamental Global Risk In and Out of the EMU

Wayne Ferson and Campbell Harvey

6966: Has Job Security Vanished in Large Corporations?

Steven Allen, Robert L. Clark and Sylvester J. Schieber

6965: International Experiences with Different Monetary Policy Regimes

Frederic Mishkin

6964: The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Breakup: Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch?

Robert Gordon

6963: The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design

Alvin Roth and Elliott Peranson

6962: Banks as Liquidity Providers: An Explanation for the Co-Existence of Lending and Deposit-Taking

Anil Kashyap, Raghuram Rajan and Jeremy Stein

6961: The Distribution of Exchange Rate Volatility

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Paul Labys

6960: Economic Analysis of Law

Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell

6959: Poisoned Grapes, Mad Cow, and Protectionism

Eduardo Engel

6958: Tobacco Advertising: Economic Theory and International Evidence

Henry Saffer and Frank Chaloupka

6957: Personnel Economics: Past Lessons and Future Directions

Edward Lazear

6956: Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights

Steven Shavell and Tanguy van Ypersele

6955: Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance

Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu

6954: Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem

Rajeev Dehejia

6953: Quantitative Asset Pricing Implications of Endogenous Solvency Constraints

Fernando Alvarez and Urban Jermann

6952: Efficient Competition With Small Numbers -- With Applications to Privatisation and Mergers

Kala Krishna and Torben Tranaes

6951: Stock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and the Dual Class Equity: The Creation and Agency Costs of Seperating Control from Cash Flow Rights

Lucian Bebchuk, Reinier Kraakman and George Triantis

6950: Violence and the U.S. Prohibition of Drugs and Alcohol

Jeffrey Miron

6949: Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?

Antonio Rangel and Richard Zeckhauser

6948: Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations

Christina Romer

6947: Do Subsidies to Commercial R&D Reduce Market Failures? Microeconomic Evaluation Studies

Tor Klette, Jarle Møen and Zvi Griliches

6946: Labor-Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy

Kenneth F. Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter

6945: Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

6944: Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics

Steven Levitt and Jack Porter

6943: Early Test Scores, Socioeconomic Status and Future Outcomes

Janet Currie and Duncan Thomas

6942: Why Not Africa?

Richard Freeman and David L. Lindauer

6941: Measuring the Economic Effects of Military Base Closures

Mark A. Hooker and Michael M. Knetter

6940: The Effects of Prices and Policies on the Demand for Marijuana: Evidence from the National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse

Matthew C. Farrelly, Jeremy Bray, Gary A. Zarkin, Brett W. Wendling and Rosalie Pacula

6939: Do Higher Cigarette Prices Encourage Youth to Use Marijuana?

Frank Chaloupka, Rosalie Pacula, Matthew C. Farrelly, Lloyd D. Johnston and Patrick M. O'Malley

6938: The 'Lemons Effect' in Corporate Freeze-Outs

Lucian Bebchuk and Marcel Kahan

6937: Price, Clean Indoor Air, and Cigarette Smoking: Evidence from the Longitudinal Data for Young Adults

John Tauras and Frank Chaloupka

6936: A Dynamic Oligopoly with Collusion and Price Wars

Chaim Fershtman and Ariel Pakes

6935: Recent G3 Current Account Imbalances: How Important are Structural Factors?

Richard Clarida and Joe Prendergast

6934: Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance

Aaron Edlin

6933: Contingent Protection as Better Insurance

Ronald Fischer and Thomas Prusa

6932: Prices and Coupons for Breakfast Cereals

Aviv Nevo and Catherine Wolfram

6931: The IT Revolution and the Stock Market

Jeremy Greenwood and Boyan Jovanovic

6930: Public Policies and Private Saving in Mexico

Martin Feldstein

6929: An Options-Based Analysis of Emerging Market Exchange Rate Expectations: Brazil's Real Plan, 1994-1997

Jose Campa, P.H. Kevin Chang and James F. Refalo

6928: Unit Root Tests Are Useful for Selecting Forecasting Models

Francis Diebold and Lutz Kilian

6927: The Art of Labormetrics

Daniel Hamermesh

6926: Are Macroeconomic Forecasts Informative? Cointegration Evidence from the ASA-NBER Surveys

Yin-Wong Cheung and Menzie Chinn

6925: Inflation Stabilization and BOP Crises in Developing Countries

Guillermo Calvo and Carlos Vegh

6924: Wage Dynamics: Reconciling Theory and Evidence

Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Katz

6923: Foreign Ownership and Wages in the United States, 1987 - 1992

Zadia Feliciano and Robert Lipsey

6922: Green Tax Reform and Competitiveness

Erkki Koskela, Ronnie Schob and Hans-Werner Sinn

6921: The Core-Periphery Model with Forward-Looking Expectations

Richard Baldwin

6920: Job Loss and Retirement Behavior of Older Men

Sewin Chan and Ann Stevens

6919: Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth

Lucian Bebchuk and Christine Jolls

6918: The Costs of Annuitizing Retirement Payouts from Individual Accounts

James Poterba and Mark J. Warshawsky

6917: Prefunding Medicare

Martin Feldstein

6916: The Price of Alcohol, Wife Abuse, and Husband Abuse

Sara Markowitz

6915: Who Gains from Trade Reform? Some Remaining Puzzles

Ann Harrison and Gordon Hanson

6914: Controlling the Price Level

Robert Hall

6913: The Profits to Insider Trading: A Performance-Evaluation Perspective

Leslie A. Jeng, Andrew Metrick and Richard Zeckhauser

6912: Aggregate Job Destruction and Inventory Liquidation

Robert Hall

6911: The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Providers

Caroline Hoxby

6910: The Distributional Effects of Medicare

Julie Lee, Mark McClellan and Jonathan Skinner

6909: The Cyclical Behavior of Prices and Costs

Julio Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

6908: Worker Perceptions of Job Insecurity in the Mid-1990s: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations

Charles Manski and John D. Straub

6907: Self-Protection for Emerging Market Economies

Martin Feldstein

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