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6436: The Rise and Fall of a Barbarous Relic: The Role of Gold in the International Monetary SYstem

Michael Bordo and Barry Eichengreen

6435: The Tax Benefits of Not-for-Profit Hospitals

William Gentry and John R. Penrod

6434: Conditional Market Timing with Benchmark Investors

Connie Becker, Wayne Ferson, David Myers and Michael Schill

6433: Fundamental Tax Reform and Corporate Financial Policy

William Gentry and Robert Hubbard

6432: Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs

Henry Saffer and Frank Chaloupka

6431: Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy: Lessons for EMU

Maurice Obstfeld and Giovanni Peri

6430: Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection

Laurence Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser

6429: Market Potential, Increasing Returns, and Geographic Concentration

Gordon Hanson

6428: Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity

Laurence Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser

6427: Hedge Funds and the Asian Currency Crisis of 1997

Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann and James Park

6426: General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber

6425: The Rise of Multiunit Firms in U.S. Manufacturing

Sukkoo Kim

6424: The Emergence of the Euro as an International Currency

Richard Portes and Helene Rey

6423: Does Spending on Medical Services Change as HMOs Grow and Mature?

Patricia Born and Rosalie Pacula

6422: The New Empirics of Economic Growth

Steven Durlauf and Danny Quah

6421: Cooperatives vs. Outside Ownership

Oliver Hart and John Moore

6420: Nonlinear Aggregate Investment Dynamics: Theory and Evidence

Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

6419: The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View

Dora Costa

6418: Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960

John Donohue, James Heckman and Petra Todd

6417: Price Indexes for the Treatment of Depression

Richard G. Frank, Ernst R. Berndt and Susan H. Busch

6416: Vintage Capital and Inequality

Boyan Jovanovic

6415: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Polydrug Abuse in Heroin Addicts

Nancy M. Petry and Warren K. Bickel

6414: Fundamentals or Population Dynamics and the Geographic Distribution of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises, 1976-1989

Lynne Zucker, Michael Darby and Yusheng Peng

6413: High Water Marks

William Goetzmann, Jonathan Ingersoll, Jr. and Stephen Ross

6412: Positive Portfolio Factors

Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann and Mark Grinblatt

6411: The Demand for Cocaine and Marijuana by Youth

Frank Chaloupka, Michael Grossman and John Tauras

6410: Delayed Reward Discounting in Alcohol Abuse

Rudy E. Vuchinich and Cathy A. Simpson

6409: Reconciling Asymmetric Information and Divergent Expectations Theories of Litigation

Joel Waldfogel

6408: What Explains Changing Spreads on Emerging-Market Debt: Fundamentals or Market Sentiment?

Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody

6407: Income Alters the Relative Reinforcing Effects of Drug and Nondrug Reinforcers

Marilyn E. Carroll

6406: Does Drug Use Cause Poverty?

Robert Kaestner

6405: Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors

Robert Lipsey

6404: Measuring Real Investment: Trends in the United States and International Comparisons

Milka S. Kirova and Robert Lipsey

6403: Human Capital and Predation: A Positive Theory of Educational Policy

Herschel Grossman and Minseong Kim

6402: Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention: A Behavioral Economic Analysis

Kenneth Silverman and Elias Robles

6401: Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs?

Donald Kenkel and Ping Wang

6400: Monetary Policy Shocks: What Have We Learned and to What End?

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Charles Evans

6399: Capital Gains Taxation and Tax Avoidance: New Evidence from Panel Data

Alan Auerbach, Leonard E. Burman and Jonathan Siegel

6398: Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data

Leora Friedberg

6397: Unit Roots, Postwar Slowdowns and Long-Run Growth: Evidence from Two Structural Breaks

Dan Ben-David, Robin L. Lumsdaine and David Papell

6396: The Young Person's Guide to Neutrality, Price Level Indeterminacy, Interest Rate Pegs, and Fiscal Theories of the Price Level

Willem Buiter

6395: It's Not About the Money: Why Natural Experiments Don't Work on the Rich

Austan Goolsbee

6394: Career Concerns of Mutual Fund Managers

Judith Chevalier and Glenn Ellison

6393: Does Schooling Cause Growth or the Other Way Around?

Mark Bils and Pete Klenow

6392: The Business Cycle, Financial Performance, and the Retirement of Capital Goods

Austan Goolsbee

6391: Estimating the Impact of the GED on the Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments

John Tyler, Richard Murnane and John B. Willett

6390: International Capital Movements, Financial Volatility and Financial Instability

Frederic Mishkin

6389: Owner-Occupied Housing and the Composition of the Household Portfolio Over the Life-Cycle

Marjorie Flavin and Takashi Yamashita

6388: Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education

John Cawley, James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

6387: Measuring Market Power in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry

Aviv Nevo

6386: A Reanalysis of the Effect of the New Jersey Minimum Wage Increase on the Fast-Food Industry with Representative Payroll Data

David Card and Alan Krueger

6385: Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts

Stephen V. Cameron and James Heckman

6384: Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber

6383: Has U.S. Investment Abroad Become More Sensitive to Tax Rates?

Rosanne Altshuler, Harry Grubert and T. Scott Newlon

6382: International Portfolio Diversification and Labor/Leisure Choice

Urban Jermann

6381: Stock Market Volatility: Ten Years After the Crash

G. Schwert

6380: Perspectives on the Recent Currency Crisis Literature

Robert Flood and Nancy Marion

6379: Predictable Changes in Yields and Forward Rates

David Backus, Silverio Foresi, Abon Mozumdar and Liuren Wu

6378: Theories of the Distribution of Labor Earnings

Derek Neal and Sherwin Rosen

6377: Nonprofit Production and Competition

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

6376: Is Trade Policy for Sale? Congressional Voting on Recent Trade Bills

Robert Baldwin and Christopher S. Magee

6375: Human Behavior and the Efficiency of the Financial System

Robert Shiller

6374: Entrepreneurs, Income Taxes, and Investment

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

6373: Expandability, Reversibility, and Optimal Capacity Choice

Avinash Dixit and Robert Pindyck

6372: Consumption Smoothing through Fiscal Policy in OECD and EU Countries

Adriana Arreaza, Bent Sorensen and Oved Yosha

6371: Modeling Money

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Charles Evans

6370: Staying Afloat When the Wind Shifts: External Factors and Emerging-Market Banking Crises

Barry Eichengreen and Andrew Rose

6369: The Immediate Challenges for the European Central Bank

Rüdiger Dornbusch, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

6368: The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment

Raghuram Rajan, Henri Servaes and Luigi Zingales

6367: Has the Business Cycle Been Abolished?

Victor Zarnowitz

6366: The Introduction of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in India: "Heartless Exploitation of the Poor and Suffering"?

Jean Lanjouw

6365: Another Look at the Capitalization of Interest Subsidies: Evidence from Sweden

Tommy Berger, Peter Englund, Patric Hendershott and Bengt Turner

6364: Democracies Pay Higher Wages

Dani Rodrik

6363: Incentives and Social Capital: Are Homeowners Better Citizens?

Denise DiPasquale and Edward Glaeser

6362: School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start

Janet Currie and Duncan Thomas

6361: Do Sentencing Guidelines Raise the Cost of Punishment?

Jose Meade and Joel Waldfogel

6360: Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists: Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby

6359: Alcohol Regulation and Violence Towards Children

Sara Markowitz and Michael Grossman

6358: Institutional Arrangements and Fiscal Performance: The Latin American Experience

Ernesto Stein, Ernesto Talvi and Alejandro Grisanti

6357: The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

6356: Indexed Units of Account: Theory and Assessment of Historical Experience

Robert Shiller

6355: Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs

Paul Beaudry and Charles Blackorby

6354: Asset Pricing with Distorted Beliefs: Are Equity Returns Too Good To Be True?

Stephen Cecchetti, Pok-sang Lam and Nelson Mark

6353: The Introduction of Crack Cocaine and the Rise in Urban Crime Rates

Jeffrey Grogger and Mike Willis

6352: The Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets II: Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates

David Scharfstein

6351: International Home Bias in International Finance and Business Cycles

Karen Lewis

6350: Where Did All The Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict, and Growth Collapses

Dani Rodrik

6349: VAT Base Broadening, Self Supply, and The Informal Sector

John Piggott and John Whalley

6348: Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Consumption: Is There Really a Gateway Effect?

Rosalie Pacula

6347: The Japanese Open-End Fund Puzzle

Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann, Takato Hiraki, Toshiyuki Otsuki and Noriyoshi Shiraishi

6346: The Effects of Malpractice Pressure and Liability Reforms on Physicians' Perceptions of Medical Care

Daniel P. Kessler and Mark McClellan

6345: Inter vivos Transfers and Intended Bequests

Kathleen McGarry

6344: Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Real Exchange Rate Linkages in Developing Countries

Linda Goldberg and Michael Klein

6343: What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?

Rebecca Blank

6342: Estimating Adjustment Costs with Data on Heterogeneous Capital Goods

Austan Goolsbee and David B. Gross

6341: Electoral Institutions, Cabinet Negotiations, and Budget Deficits in the European Union

Mark Hallerberg and Juergen von Hagen

6340: Transfer Motives and Tax Policy

Louis Kaplow

6339: Quantitative Implications of the Home Bias: Foreign Underinvestment, Domestic Oversaving, and Corrective Taxation

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen

6338: Channeling Domestic Savings into Productive Investment Under Asymmetric Information: The Essential Role of Foreign Direct Investment

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen

6337: The Estate Tax and After-Tax Investment Returns

James Poterba