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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

6606: Financial Crises in Emerging Markets

Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco

6605: What Does Affirmative Action Do?

Harry Holzer and David Neumark

6604: The Simple Economics of Labor Standards and the GATT

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

6603: Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans

Steven Caldwell, Melissa Favreault, Alla Gantman, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Thomas Johnson

6602: What Do Prosecutors Maximize? An Analysis of Drug Offenders and Concurrent Jurisdiction

Edward Glaeser, Daniel P. Kessler and Anne Piehl

6601: The Allocation of Publicly-Funded Biomedical Research

Frank Lichtenberg

6600: An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complimentarity in Organizational Design

Susan Athey and Scott Stern

6599: Performance of Operational Policy Rules in an Estimated Semi-Classical Structural Model

Bennett McCallum and Edward Nelson

6598: The US-China Bilateral Trade Balance: Its Size and Determinants

Robert Feenstra, Wen Hai, Wing Woo and Shunli Yao

6597: Another Look at Long-Run Money Demand

Laurence Ball

6596: Medicare from the Perspective of Generational Accounting

Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence Kotlikoff

6595: The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services

Susan Athey and Scott Stern

6594: Agency Problems and Dividend Policies Around the World

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

6593: The Demand for Money, Financial Innovation, and the Welfare Cost of Inflation: An Analysis with Household Data

Orazio Attanasio, Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli

6592: An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances

Steven Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

6591: What Are the Results of Product-Price Studies and What Can We Learn From Their Differences?

Matthew J. Slaughter

6590: Managing Annual Accounting Reports to Avoid State Taxes: An Analysis of Property-Casualty Insurers

Kathy R. Petroni and Douglas Shackelford

6589: Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining

Elhanan Helpman and Torsten Persson

6588: Education and Borrowing Constraints: Tests vs. Prices

Raquel Fernandez

6587: North American Economic Integration and Industry Location

Gordon Hanson

6586: Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

Rajeev Dehejia and Sadek Wahba

6585: Substitution over Time: Another Look at Life Cycle Labor Supply

Casey Mulligan

6584: The Economics of Taxing the Rich

Joel Slemrod

6583: Did Steve Forbes Scare the Municipal Bond Market?

Joel Slemrod and Timothy Greimel

6582: A General Model of the Behavioral Response to Taxation

Joel Slemrod

6581: Youth Labor Markets in the U.S.: Shopping Around vs. Staying Put

David Neumark

6580: A New Model of Quality

Kala Krishna and Tor Winston

6579: Globalization and the Market for Teammates

Edward Lazear

6578: Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor

Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mark Rider and Harvey Rosen

6577: The Role of Leasing under Adverse Selection

Igal Hendel and Alessandro Lizzeri

6576: Are "Real" Responses to Taxes Simply Income Shifting Between Corporate and Personal Tax Bases?

Roger Gordon and Joel Slemrod

6575: The Determinants of Income Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Controlled Experiment in Minnesota

Marsha Blumenthal, Charles Christian and Joel Slemrod

6574: Hedonic Analysis of Arthritis Drugs

Iain Cockburn and Aslam H. Anis

6573: Labor Market Information and Wage Differentials by Race and Sex

David Neumark

6572: How are Stock Prices Affected by the Location of Trade?

Kenneth Froot and Emil Dabora

6571: Understanding Increasing and Decreasing Wage Inequality

Andrew Bernard and J. Jensen

6570: Robustness of Simple Monetary Policy Rules under Model Uncertainty

Andrew Levin, Volker Wieland and John Williams

6569: Pharmaceutical Innovation, Mortality Reduction, and Economic Growth

Frank Lichtenberg

6568: Does Cultural Origin Affect Saving Behavior? Evidence from Immigrants

Christopher Carroll, Byung-Kun Rhee and Changyong Rhee

6567: Asset Holding and Consumption Volatility

Orazio Attanasio, James Banks and Sarah Tanner

6566: Revisiting European Unemployment: Unemployment, Capital Accumulation, and Factor Prices

Olivier Blanchard

6565: Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Jonathan Haskel and Matthew J. Slaughter

6564: Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others?

Robert Hall and Charles Jones

6563: Currency Crisis and Unemployment: Sterling in 1931

Barry Eichengreen and Olivier Jeanne

6562: Trade Policy and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dani Rodrik

6561: Outside Equity Financing

Stewart C. Myers

6560: Intertemporal Choice and the Cross-Sectional Variance of Marginal Utility

Orazio Attanasio and Tullio Jappelli

6559: The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace?

Maurice Obstfeld

6558: Productivity and the Decision to Export: Micro Evidence from Taiwan and South Korea

Bee Yan Aw, Sukkyun Chung and Mark Roberts

6557: International Trade and Per Capita Income Convergence: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis

Matthew J. Slaughter

6556: Subsidiarity and the European Union

Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

6555: Macroeconomic Policy and Institutions During the Transition to European Union Membership

William Branson, Jorge Braga de Macedo and Juergen von Hagen

6554: Parental Leave and Child Health

Christopher Ruhm

6553: Bad News Travels Slowly: Size, Analyst Coverage and the Profitability of Momentum Strategies

Harrison Hong, Terence Lim and Jeremy Stein

6552: Moral Hazard in Home Equity Conversion

Robert Shiller and Allan N. Weiss

6551: Adjusting to a New Technology: Experience and Training

Elhanan Helpman and Antonio Rangel

6550: Were the Good Old Days That Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression

Clifford G. Holderness, Randall S. Kroszner and Dennis P. Sheehan

6549: Why Do the Rich Save So Much?

Christopher Carroll

6548: The Effect of Old Age Assistance on Retirement

Leora Friedberg

6547: The Rise in Old Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

6546: A Distributional Analysis of an Environmental Tax Shift

Gilbert Metcalf

6545: Open-Economy Inflation Targeting

Lars Svensson

6544: Incentive Contracting and the Franchise Decision

Francine Lafontaine and Margaret Slade

6543: Forward-Looking Rules for Monetary Policy

Andrew Haldane and Nicoletta Batini

6542: Evaluating the Welfare State

James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

6541: An Examination of Gender and Race Differences in Youth Smoking Responsiveness to Price and Tobacco Control Policies

Frank Chaloupka and Rosalie Pacula

6540: Maintaining Social Security Benefits and Tax Rates through Personal Retirement Accounts: An Update Based on the 1998 Social Security Trustees Report

Martin Feldstein and Andrew Samwick

6539: A Re-Examination of the Conglomerate Merger Wave in the 1960s: An Internal Capital Markets View

Robert Hubbard and Darius Palia

6538: Export Entry and Exit by German Firms

Andrew Bernard and Joachim Wagner

6537: The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

6536: The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Non-Parametric Analysis

David Neumark, Mark Schweitzer and William Wascher

6535: Diversity and Immigration

Edward Lazear

6534: New Evidence on Pensions, Social Security, and the Timing of Retirement

Andrew Samwick

6533: Taxation and the Sources of Growth: Estimates from United States Multinational Corporations

Jason Cummins

6532: Does Government R&D Policy Mainly Benefit Scientists and Engineers?

Austan Goolsbee

6531: What Determines Individual Trade Policy Preferences?

Kenneth F. Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter

6530: Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: Liberalization, Overshooting, and Volatility

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

6529: On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation

Simon Evenett and Wolfgang Keller

6528: Business Cycle Fluctuations in U.S. Macroeconomic Time Series

James Stock and Mark Watson

6527: Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance

Esel Y. Yazici and Robert Kaestner

6526: Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries: To the Workers Go the Spoils?

Austan Goolsbee

6525: Taxes and Investment in Annuities

William Gentry and Joseph Milano

6524: Privatization in Emerging Markets

Joshua Aizenman

6523: Managed Care Provider Volume

Sarah Feldman and David Scharfstein