NBER Working Papers

From National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A..
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

6857: Firm Behavior and Market Access in a Free Trade Area with Rules of Origin

Jiandong Ju and Kala Krishna

6856: The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples

Nada Eissa and Hilary Hoynes

6855: Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950

Dora Costa

6854: Changing Pensions in Cross-Section and Panel Data: Analysis with Employer Provided Plan Descriptions

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

6853: What is Driving US and Canadian Wages: Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?

Paul Beaudry and David Green

6852: Three Sides of Harberger Triangles

James Hines

6851: Empirical Implications of Physician Authority in Pharmaceutical Decisionmaking

Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg

6850: Contagion, Bank Lending Spreads and Output Fluctuations

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Joshua Aizenman and Alexander Hoffmaister

6849: Geography and Economic Development

John Luke Gallup, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew D. Mellinger

6848: The Size and Scope of Government: Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

6847: Conflict of Interest in the Issuance of Public Securities: Evidence from Venture Capital

Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

6846: Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?

Samuel Kortum and Josh Lerner

6845: Real-Time Multivariate Density Forecast Evaluation and Calibration: Monitoring the Risk of High-Frequency Returns on Foreign Exchange

Francis Diebold, Jinyong Hahn and Anthony S Tay

6844: How Relevant is Volatility Forecasting for Financial Risk Management?

Peter Christoffersen and Francis Diebold

6843: Emerging Market Crises: An Asset Markets Perspective

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

6842: Estate and Gift Taxes and Incentives for Inter Vivos Giving in the United States

James Poterba

6841: Inequality

Jan Eeckhout and Boyan Jovanovic

6840: Discrimination in the Small Business Credit Market

David Blanchflower, Phillip Levine and David Zimmerman

6839: Individual Risk and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in an Investment-Based Social Security Program

Martin Feldstein and Elena Ranguelova

6838: Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Under Managed Care

Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

6837: Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures

Brian J. Hall

6836: Distance to Hospitals and Children's Access to Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?

Janet Currie and Patricia Reagan

6835: Did Late Nineteenth Century U.S. Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry

Douglas Irwin

6834: What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis? Part II: The Policy Debate

Giancarlo Corsetti, Paolo Pesenti and Nouriel Roubini

6833: What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis? Part I: A Macroeconomic Overview

Giancarlo Corsetti, Paolo Pesenti and Nouriel Roubini

6832: Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Marianne Bertrand, Erzo Luttmer and Sendhil Mullainathan

6831: The Strategic Use of Tying to Preserve and Create Market Power in Evolving Industries

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

6830: Executive Compensation and Incentives: The Impact of Takeover Legislation

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

6829: Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-experimental Causal Studies

Rajeev Dehejia and Sadek Wahba

6828: Taxes and Income Distribution in Chile: Some Unpleasant Redistributive Arithmetic

Eduardo Engel, Alexander Galetovic and Claudio Raddatz

6827: European Technology Policy

Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez and Samuel Kortum

6826: Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market

Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone

6825: Measuring Adverse Selection in Managed Health Care

Richard G. Frank, Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire

6824: Under What Circumstances, Past and Present, Have International Rescues of Countries in Financial Distress Been Successful?

Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz

6823: Covering Up Trading Losses: Opportunity-Cost Accounting as an Internal Control Mechanism

Edward Kane and Kimberly DeTrask

6822: Estimating Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions

Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg

6821: Does Mercosur Need a Single Currency

Barry Eichengreen

6820: Nonprofit Business Activity and the Unrelated Business Income Tax

James Hines

6819: Trust and Opportunism in Close Corporations

Paul G. Mahoney

6818: The Evolution of Price Dispersion in the European Car Market

Pinelopi Goldberg and Frank Verboven

6817: Price Indexes for Medical Care Goods and Services: An Overview of Measurement Issues

Ernst R. Berndt, David Cutler, Richard G. Frank, Zvi Griliches and Joseph Newhouse

6816: Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

Magnus Blomstrom and Fredrik Sjöholm

6815: Do Endowments Predict the Location of Production? Evidence from National and International Data

Jeffrey R. Bernstein and David Weinstein

6814: Inherited Wealth, Corporate Control and Economic Growth: The Canadian Disease

Randall Morck, David A. Stangeland and Bernard Yeung

6813: Immigration and Welfare Magnets

George Borjas

6812: Putty-Clay and Investment: A Business Cycle Analysis

Simon Gilchrist and John Williams

6811: Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Oded Galor and David Weil

6810: Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs

Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

6809: Organizational Flexibility and Employment Dynamics at Young and Old Plants

Jeffrey Campbell and Jonas Fisher

6808: Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Wages, Employment, Claims, and Denials

Patricia Anderson and Bruce Meyer

6807: Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

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