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6306: Central Bank Policy Rules: Conceptual Issues and Practical Considerations

Stephen Cecchetti

6305: Are Public Housing Projects Good for Kids?

Janet Currie and Aaron Yelowitz

6304: Patent Buy-Outs: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation

Michael Kremer

6303: The Effect of Means-Tested Income Support for the Elderly on Pre-Retirement Saving: Evidence from the SSI Program in the U.S

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

6302: Argentina and the World Capital Market: Saving, Investment, and International Capital Mobility in the Twentieth Century

Alan Taylor

6301: Predation, Efficiency, and Inequality

Herschel Grossman and Minseong Kim

6300: A Model of Crises in Emerging Markets

Michael Dooley

6299: band Labor Demand: Evidence from the South Coast Air Basin

Eli Berman and Linda Bui

6298: Death to the Log-Linearized Consumption Euler Equation! (And Very Poor Health to the Second-Order Approximation)

Christopher Carroll

6297: Stylized Facts of Patent Litigation: Value, Scope and Ownership

Jean Lanjouw and Mark Schankerman

6296: The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Jean Lanjouw and Josh Lerner

6295: Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

6294: Market Access and Welfare Effects of Piecemeal Policy Reform

Jiandong Ju and Kala Krishna

6293: The Competitive Effects of Transmission Capacity in a Deregulated Electricity Industry

Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell and Steven Stoft

6292: Transition Issues for the European Monetary Union

Willem Buiter and Anne Sibert

6291: The Alleged Instability of Nominal Income Targeting

Bennett McCallum

6290: The Past, Present, and Future of Macroeconomic Forecasting

Francis Diebold

6289: "Make Us a King": Anarchy, Predation, and the State

Herschel Grossman

6288: The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the Great Depression: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing, 1919-1937

Joshua Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom

6287: The Market and the Estimators: Forecasting the Cost of Medicare Catastrophic Coverage

Sherry Glied and Tama Brooks

6286: Debts and Deficits with Fragmented Fiscal Policymaking

Andres Velasco

6285: Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth

Charles Jones

6284: The Upcoming Slowdown in U.S. Economic Growth

Charles Jones

6283: Costly Capital Reallocation and the Effects of Government Spending

Valerie Ramey and Matthew Shapiro

6282: Apocalypse Now? Fundamental Tax Reform and Residential Housing Values

Donald Bruce and Douglas Holtz-Eakin

6281: The Redistributive Effects of Transfers

Keshab Bhattarai and John Whalley

6280: Discreteness and the Welfare Cost of Labor Supply Tax Distortions

Keshab Bhattarai and John Whalley

6279: Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination

Joseph Altonji and Charles R. Pierret

6278: A New Bankruptcy Procedure that Uses Multiple Auctions

Oliver Hart, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez- de-Silane and John Moore

6277: Avoiding Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Evidence from the Medicare as Secondary Payer Legislation

Sherry Glied and Mark Stabile

6276: Graduation to Health Insurance Coverage: 1981-1996

Sherry Glied and Mark Stabile

6275: Job Destruction and Propagation of Shocks

Wouter J. den Haan, Garey Ramey and Joel Watson

6274: Power in a Theory of the Firm

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

6273: Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry

Luigi Zingales

6272: Exceptional Exporter Performance: Cause, Effect, or Both?

Andrew Bernard and J. Jensen

6271: Learning in Cities

Edward Glaeser

6270: Geographic Concentration as a Dynamic Process

Guy Dumais, Glenn Ellison and Edward Glaeser

6269: Strategic Bidding in a Multi-Unit Auction: An Empirical Analysis of Bids to Supply Electricity

Catherine D. Wolfram

6268: Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia

David Bloom and Jeffrey Williamson

6267: Convergence Clubs and Subsistence Economies

Dan Ben-David

6266: Slowdowns and Meltdowns: Postwar Growth Evidence from 74 Countries

Dan Ben-David and David Papell

6265: Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Robert Fairlie and Bruce Meyer

6264: Aggregate Investment

Ricardo Caballero

6263: The Rate of Return to Corporate Capital and Factor Shares: New EstimatesUsing Revised National Income Accounts and Capital Stock Data

James Poterba

6262: International Trade and Labor-Demand Elasticities

Matthew J. Slaughter

6261: The Role of Discretion in the Criminal Justice System

Daniel P. Kessler and Anne Piehl

6260: Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation

Jerry Hausman

6259: On the Disutility and Discounting of Imprisonment and the Theory of Deterrence

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

6258: Generating Real Persistent Effects of Monetary Shocks: How Much Nominal Rigidity Do We Really Need?

Olivier Jeanne

6257: Econometric Models of Limit-Order Executions

Andrew Lo, A. Craig MacKinlay and June Zhang

6256: The Big Players in the Foreign Exchange Market: Do They Trade on Information or Noise?

Shang-Jin Wei and Jungshik Kim

6255: Why is Corruption So Much More Taxing Than Tax? Arbitrariness Kills

Shang-Jin Wei

6254: Monetary Policy Rules in Practice: Some International Evidence

Richard Clarida, Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler

6253: Technology and Bilateral Trade

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

6252: I Just Ran Four Million Regressions

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

6251: On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation

Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell

6250: Pricing and Hedging Derivative Securities in Incomplete Markets: An E-Aritrage Model

Dimitris Bertsimas, Leonid Kogan and Andrew Lo

6249: Persistence of Medicare Expenditures Among Elderly Beneficiaries

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

6248: Simulating U.S. Tax Reform

David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser

6247: Capital Mobility and Exchange Market Intervention in Developing Countries

Michael Dooley, Donald J. Mathieson and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

6246: Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment

Steven Davis and Magnus Henrekson

6245: Consumer Beliefs and Buyer and Seller Behavior in the Vehicle Inspection Market

Thomas N. Hubbard

6244: Growth, Distribution and Demography: Some Lessons from History

Jeffrey Williamson

6243: International Competition and Exchange Rate Shocks: A Cross-Country Industry Analysis of Stock Returns

John M. Griffin and René Stulz

6242: Impact of a Managed Behavioral Health Care Carve-Out: A Case Study of One HMO

Anne E. Brisson, Richard G. Frank, Elizabeth S. Notman and Julie A. Gazmararian

6241: Foreign Direct Investment as a Catalyst for Industrial Development

James Markusen and Anthony Venables

6240: Projected Retirement Wealth and Savings Adequacy in the Health and Retirement Study

James F. Moore and Olivia Mitchell

6239: Higher Tariffs, Lower Revenues? Analyzing the Fiscal Aspects of the "Great Tariff Debate of 1888"

Douglas Irwin

6238: Is Bank-Centered Corporate Governance Worth It? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Performance of Japanese Firms during the Asset Price Deflation

Jun-Koo Kang and René Stulz

6237: State Fiscal Institutions and the U.S. Municipal Bond Market

James Poterba and Kim Rueben

6236: Finance and Development in an Emerging Market: Argentina and the Interwar Period

Gerardo della Paolera and Alan Taylor

6235: Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing

Bee Yan Aw, Xiaomin Chen and Mark Roberts

6234: The Determinants and Implications of Corporate Cash Holdings

Tim Opler, Lee Pinkowitz, René Stulz and Rohan Williamson

6233: A Strategy for Launching the Euro

Maurice Obstfeld

6232: Liberalization and Incentives for Labor Migration: Theory with Applications to NAFTA

James Markusen and Steven Zahniser

6231: Trade versus Investment Liberalization

James Markusen

6230: Business Cycles Observed and Assessed: Why and How They Matter

Victor Zarnowitz

6229: The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System: A Proposal for a Partial Transition to a Funded System

Hans-Werner Sinn

6228: Evaluating Density Forecasts of Inflation: The Survey of Professional Forecasters

Francis Diebold, Anthony S Tay and Kenneth Wallis

6227: What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households?

B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Skinner and Steven Weinberg

6226: The Surprising Symmetry of Gross Job Flows

Christopher Foote

6225: Consumption vs. Production of Insurance

Tomas Philipson and George Zanjani

6224: Both Sides of Corporate Diversification: The Value Impacts of Geographic and Industrial Diversification

Gordon Bodnar, Charles Tang and Joseph Weintrop

6223: Trade and Security,I: Anarchy

James Anderson and Douglas Marcouiller

6222: Option Hedging Using Empirical Pricing Kernels

Joshua Rosenberg and Robert Engle

6221: Jobless Growth: Appropriability, Factor Substitution, and Unemployment

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

6220: The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control

Edward Glaeser and Erzo Luttmer

6219: Discount Rate Heterogeneity and Social Security Reform

Andrew Samwick

6218: Gradual Incorporation of Information into Stock Prices: Empirical Strategies

Sara Fisher Ellison and Wallace P. Mullin

6217: A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women

Dora Costa

6216: Trade and Environment: Bargaining Outcomes from Linked Negotiations

Lisandro Abrego, Carlo Perroni, John Whalley and Randall Wigle

6215: The Benefits of Privatization: Evidence from Mexico

Rafael La Porta and Florencio Lopez- de-Silane

6214: Social Security and Retirement in France

Didier Blanchet and Louis-Paul Pele

6213: Are CEOs Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey Liebman

6212: Young and Out in Germany: On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany

Wolfgang Franz, Joachim Inkmann, Winfried Pohlmeier and Volker Zimmermann

6211: Free Trade vs. Strategic Trade: A Peek into Pandora's Box

Gene Grossman and Giovanni Maggi

6210: Financial Constraints and Stock Returns

Owen Lamont, Christopher Polk and Jesus Saa-Requejo

6209: Immigrants and Natives in General Equilibrium Trade Models

Daniel Trefler

6208: Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement: Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's

Patricia Anderson, Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

6207: Where is the Market Going? Uncertain Facts and Novel Theories

John Cochrane