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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

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