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6657: Alternative Estimates of Productivity Growth in the NICs: A Comment on the Findings of Chang-Tai Hsieh

Alwyn Young

6656: Are Insiders' Trades Informative?

Josef Lakonishok and Inmoo Lee

6655: Financial Consolidation: Dangers and Opportunities

Frederic Mishkin

6654: Notes on Growth Accounting

Robert Barro

6653: Meals on Wheels: Restaurant and Home Meal Production and the Exemption of Food from Sales and Value Added Taxes

Aled ab Iorwerth and John Whalley

6652: Investment, Fundamentals and Finance

Simon Gilchrist and Charles Himmelberg

6651: Minimum Wages and Training Revisited

David Neumark and William Wascher

6650: Is Job Stability in the US Falling? Reconciling Trends in the Current Population Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics

David Jaeger and Ann Stevens

6649: Bank Capital and Portfolio Management: The 1930's Capital Crunch and Scramble to Shed Risk

Charles W. Calormiris and Berry Wilson

6648: Performance Evaluation with Transactions Data: The Stock Selection of Investment Newsletters

Andrew Metrick

6647: Accounting for Growth

Jeremy Greenwood and Boyan Jovanovic

6646: A Frictionless View of U.S. Inflation

John Cochrane

6645: How Will Defined Contribution Pension Plans Affect Retirement Income?

Andrew Samwick and Jonathan Skinner

6644: Fee Speech: Adverse Selection and the Regulation of Mutual Funds

Sanjiv Das and Rangarajan K. Sundaram

6643: Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War

Robert Margo

6642: Provide, Provide: The Economics of Aging

Victor Fuchs

6641: Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational, and International Risk Sharing

Robert Shiller

6640: Tax Reform and Target Savings

Andrew Samwick

6639: On the Regulation of Fee Structures in Mutual Funds

Sanjiv Das and Rangarajan K. Sundaram

6638: Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada

Kevin Murphy, W. Craig Riddell and Paul Romer

6637: What Drives Deregulation? Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

6636: What Hides Behind an Umemployment Rate: Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Unemployment

Olivier Blanchard and Pedro Portugal

6635: A Direct Approach to Arbitrage-Free Pricing of Credit Derivatives

Sanjiv Das and Rangarajan K. Sundaram

6634: The Other Side of the Tradeoff: The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation

Rajesh Aggarwal and Andrew Samwick

6633: Capital Movements, Asset Values, and Banking Policy in Globalized Markets

Edward Kane

6632: What Do Technology Shocks Do?

John Shea

6631: Poisson-Guassian Processes and the Bond Markets

Sanjiv Das

6630: The Immigrant and Native-born Wage Distributions: Evidence from United States Censuses

Kristin Butcher and John DiNardo

6629: The Effects of Alcohol Regulation on Physical Child Abuse

Sara Markowitz and Michael Grossman

6628: Overcoming Informational Barriers to International Resource Allocation: Prices and Group Ties

James Rauch and Alessandra Casella

6627: Optimal Investment, Growth Options, and Security Returns

Jonathan Berk, Richard Green and Vasant Naik

6626: Efforts and Wages: A New Look at the Inter-Industry Wage Differentials

Edward Leamer and Christopher Thornberg

6625: Corporate Ownership Around the World

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

6624: Comparing Capital Mobility Across Provincial and National Borders

John Helliwell and Ross McKitrick

6623: Derivatives in International Capital Flows

Peter Garber

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