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5506: R&D, Production Structure and Productivity Growth: A Comparison of the US, Japanese and Korean Manufacturing Sectors

M. Ishaq Nadiri and Seongjun Kim

5505: Technical Trading Rule Profitability and Foreign Exchange Intervention

Blake Lebaron

5504: Adoption of Financial Technologies: Implications for Money Demand and Monetary Policy

Casey Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

5503: Labor Productivity: Structural Change and Cyclical Dynamics

Martin Neil Baily, Eric Bartelsman and John Haltiwanger

5502: Reflections on Ricardian Equivalence

Robert Barro

5501: Estimating the Productivity of Research and Development: An Exploration of GMM Methods Using Data on French & United States Manufacturing Firms

Jacques Mairesse and Bronwyn Hall

5500: Implied Volatility Functions: Empirical Tests

Bernard Dumas, Jeff Fleming and Robert E. Whaley

5499: Cash Flow and Investment: Evidence from Internal Capital Markets

Owen Lamont

5498: Pricing Strategy and Financial Policy

Sudipto Dasgupta and Sheridan Titman

5497: Getting Pegged: Comparing the 1879 and 1925 Gold Resumptions

Michael Bordo and Tamim Bayoumi

5496: Rational Capital Budgeting in an Irrational World

Jeremy Stein

5495: Explaining Domestic Content: Evidence from Japanese and U.S. Auto Production in the U.S

Deborah Swenson

5494: Determinants of Privatization Prices

Florencio Lopez- de-Silane

5493: Compensation Structure and Product Market Competition

John Abowd and Laurence Allain

5492: Cross-State Variation in Medicaid Programs and Female Labor Supply

Edward Montgomery and John Navin

5491: Globalization and Inequality Past and Present

Jeffrey Williamson

5490: Costly Pollution Abatement, Competitiveness, and Plant Location Decisions

James Markusen

5489: Beyond Arbitrage: "Good-Deal" Asset Price Bounds in Incomplete Markets

John Cochrane and Jesus Saa-Requejo

5488: Reciprocal Trade Liberalization

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

5487: Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France

David Card, Francis Kramarz and Thomas Lemieux

5486: Reputation Spillover Across Relationships with Enduring and Transient Beliefs: Reviving reputation Models of Debt

Harold Cole and Patrick Kehoe

5485: A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany

Alan Krueger and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

5484: Transferable Licenses vs. Nontransferable Licenses: What is the Difference?

Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan

5483: Multinational Production, Skilled Labor and Real Wages

James Markusen and Anthony Venables

5482: Bounded Rationality and Strategic Complementarity in a Macroeconomic Model: Policy Effects, Persistence and Multipliers

Antulio Bomfim and Francis Diebold

5481: Deterministic vs. Stochastic Trend in U.S. GNP, Yet Again

Francis Diebold and Abdelhak S. Senhadji

5480: Market Access and Welfare Effects of Free Trade Areas without Rules of Origin

Jiandong Ju and Kala Krishna

5479: Dynamic Equilibrium and Volatility in Financial Asset Markets

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

5478: Measuring Science: An Exploration

James Adams and Zvi Griliches

5477: How Precise are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?

Doug Staiger, James Stock and Mark Watson

5476: Trade and Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Jeffrey Frankel and David Romer

5475: Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment

Bruce Blonigen and Robert Feenstra

5474: Open Access Renewable Resources: Trade and Trade Policy in a Two-CountryModel

James Brander and M. Scott Taylor

5473: Domestic Distortions and the Deindustrialization Hypothesis

Paul Krugman

5472: The Welfare Implications of Trading Blocs among Countries with Different Endowments

Antonio Spilimbergo and Ernesto Stein

5471: The "Fundamental Transformation" in Macroeconomics

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

5470: Economic Growth and Social Capital in Asia

John Helliwell

5469: The Costs and Benefits of Going from Low Inflation to Price Stability

Martin Feldstein

5468: Sticky Prices, Inventories, and Market Power in Wholesale Gasoline Markets

Severin Borenstein and Andrea Shepard

5467: Sustainability of Persistent Current Account Deficits

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Assaf Razin

5466: Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine?

Daniel P. Kessler and Mark McClellan

5465: The Rise and Fall of Money Growth Targets as Guidelines for U.S. Monetary Policy

Benjamin M. Friedman

5464: The Channels of Monetary Transmission: Lessons for Monetary Policy

Frederic Mishkin

5463: A Time-Series Analysis of Crime and Drug Use in New York City

Hope Corman and Naci Mocan

5462: Financing Constraints and Corporate Investment: Response to Kaplan and Zingales

Steven Fazzari, Robert Hubbard and Bruce Petersen

5461: Threats without Binding Commitment

Steven Shavell and Kathryn Spier

5460: A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Scott Smart and Joel Waldfogel

5459: Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply

Chinhui Juhn and Kevin Murphy

5458: Rent-Shifting Export Subsidies with an Imported Intermediate Product

Jota Ishikawa and Barbara Spencer

5457: Japanese and U.S. Exports and Investment as Conduits of Growth

Jonathan Eaton and Akiko Tamura

5456: The L.A. Riot and the Economics of Urban Unrest

Denise DiPasquale and Edward Glaeser

5455: Wage Mobility in the United States

Moshe Buchinsky and Jennifer Hunt

5454: Searching for the Effect of Immigration on the Labor Market

George Borjas, Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz

5453: Universal Banking and the Performance of German Firms

Gary Gorton and Frank A. Schmid

5452: Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms

Michael Bruno and William Easterly

5451: Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About It?

Richard Freeman

5450: Labor Market Effects of School Quality: Theory and Evidence

David Card and Alan Krueger

5449: Budget Institutions and Fiscal Policy in the U.S. States

James Poterba

5448: What's the Use of Factor Contents?

Edward Leamer

5447: Intergenerational Redistribution with Short-Lived Governments

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

5446: Public Information and the Persistence of Bond Market Volatility

Charles Jones, Owen Lamont and Robin Lumsdaine

5445: Target Zones and Exchange Rates: An Empirical Investigation

Geert Bekaert and Stephen F. Gray

5444: Incentives in Basic Research

Edward Lazear

5443: Why, indeed, in America? Theory, History, and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth

Paul Romer

5442: The Efficiency of Self-Regulated Payments Systems: Learning From the Suffolk System

Charles Calomiris and Charles Kahn

5441: The Social Costs of Rent Control Revisited

Edward Glaeser

5440: The Trade Effects of U.S. Antidumping Actions

Thomas Prusa

5439: Nominal Wage Stickiness and Aggregate Supply in the Great Depression

Ben Bernanke and Kevin Carey

5438: Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education

Joseph Altonji and Charles R. Pierret

5437: Currency Crashes in Emerging Markets: Empirical Indicators

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

5436: Relational Investing: The Worker's Perspective

Edward Lazear and Richard Freeman

5435: Working for Nothing: The Supply of Volunteer Labor

Richard Freeman

5434: The Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Birth Weight: Measurement Error in Binary Variables

Robert Kaestner, Ted Joyce and Hassan Wehbeh

5433: Labor Mobility and Fiscal Coordination

Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen

5432: On the Costs of Inward-Looking Development: Historical Perspectives on Price Distortions, Growth, and Divergence in Latin American from 1930s - 1980s

Alan Taylor

5431: Regional Trading Arrangement: Natural or Super-Natural?

Jeffrey Frankel, Ernesto Stein and Shang-Jin Wei

5430: Why Is There More Crime in Cities?

Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

5429: Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments

Dora Costa

5428: Integrating Behavioral Choice into Epidemiological Models of the AIDS Epidemic

Michael Kremer

5427: In Search of Stolper-Samuelson Effects on U.S. Wages

Edward Leamer

5426: Education, Human Capital, and Growth: A Personal Perspective

Zvi Griliches

5425: U.S.-Mexico Integration and Regional Economies: Evidence from Border- City Pairs

Gordon Hanson

5424: Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality

Robert Feenstra and Gordon Hanson

5423: Repeat Use of Unemployment Insurance

Bruce Meyer and Dan Rosenbaum

5422: How Well do Foreign Exchange Markets Function: Might a Tobin Tax Help?

Jeffrey Frankel

5421: Tariff Phase-Outs: Theory and Evidence from GATT and NAFTA

Carsten Kowalczyk and Donald Davis

5420: A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Intergovernmental Aid

Thomas Nechyba

5419: Local Property and State Income Taxes: The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion

Thomas Nechyba

5418: The Effect of Pharmaceutical Utilization and Innovation on Hospitalization and Mortality

Frank Lichtenberg

5417: Wage Dispersion and Technical Progress

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

5416: Testing for Trade-Induced Investment-Led Growth

Richard Baldwin and Elena Seghezza

5415: Whither Flat Panel Displays?

Kala Krishna and Marie Thursby

5414: The Poverty of Nations: A Quantitative Exploration

Varadarajan Chari, Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan

5413: The Missing Piece in Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform

Martin Feldstein

5412: Trends in Regional Inequality in China

Tianlun Jian, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew Warner

5411: The Principle and Market Failure in Systems Competition

Hans-Werner Sinn

5410: Consumption, Stock Returns, and the Gains from International Risk-Sharing

Karen Lewis

5409: Cause-Specific Mortality among Medicare Enrollees

Jay Bhattacharya, Alan M. Garber and Thomas MaCurdy

5408: High Yields: The Spread on German Interest Rates

Carlo Favero, Francesco Giavazzi and Luigi Spaventa

5407: Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Countries

Sebastian Edwards