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5722: Technology, Factor Supplies and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model

James Harrigan

5721: Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations

Jordi Galí

5720: The Yen and Its East Asian Neighbors, 1980-1995: Cooperation or Competition?

Shinji Takagi

5719: Price Level Targeting vs. Inflation Targeting: A Free Lunch?

Lars Svensson

5718: Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill

Michael Kremer and Eric Maskin

5717: The Strategic Response by Pharmaceutical Firms to the Medicaid Most-Favored-Customer Rules

Fiona Scott Morton

5716: The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reductions of Standard Hours

Jennifer Hunt

5715: Is "Learning-by-Exporting" Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco

Sofronis Clerides, Saul Lach and James Tybout

5714: Country Fund Discounts, Asymmetric Information and the Mexican Crisis of 1994: Did Local Residents Turn Pessimistic Before International Investors?

Jeffrey Frankel and Sergio Schmukler

5713: The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults: A Rational Addiction Approach

Michael Grossman, Frank Chaloupka and Charles C. Brown

5712: Flows of Knowledge from Universities and Federal Labs: Modeling the Flowof Patent Citations Over Time and Across Institutional and Geographic Boundari

Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

5711: Risk-Shifting by Federally Insured Commercial Banks

Armen Hovakimian and Edward Kane

5710: Why Clashes Between Internal and External Stability Goals End in Currency Crises, 1797-1994

Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz

5709: Real Exchange Rate Levels, Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of 14 Countries

Menzie Chinn and Louis Johnston

5708: School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina

David Card and Alan Krueger

5707: Construction of the Earnings and Benefits File (EBF) for Use With the Health and Retirement Survey

Olivia Mitchell, Jan Olson and Thomas Steinmeier

5706: Does Economic Geography Matter for International Specialization?

Donald Davis and David Weinstein

5705: Incentives and Careers in Organizations

Robert Gibbons

5704: Inequality, Predation and Welfare

Herschel Grossman and Minseong Kim

5703: Chaos, Sunspots, and Automatic Stabilizers

Lawrence Christiano and Sharon Harrison

5702: Social Policy Dimensions of Economic Integration: Environmental and Labour Standards

Kym Anderson

5701: Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project

David Card and Philip Robins

5700: The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

5699: From Obscurity to Notoriety: A Biography of the Exchange Stabilization Fund

Anna Schwartz

5698: Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study

Robert Barro

5697: Why Are There Rich and Poor Countries? Symmetry-Breaking in the World Economy

Kiminori Matsuyama

5696: A Unified Treatment of Horizontal Direct Investment, Vertical Direct Investment, and the Pattern of Trade in Goods and Services

James Markusen, Anthony Venables, Denise Konan and Kevin H. Zhang

5695: Quota Licenses for Imported Capital Equipment: Could Bureaucrats Ever DoBetter than the Market?

Barbara Spencer

5694: International Conflict, Defense Spending and the Size of Countries

Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore

5693: Trade Liberalization and Income Distribution

Donald Davis

5692: Federal Reserve Private Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates

Christina Romer and David Romer

5691: Dynamic Complementarities: A Quantitative Analysis

Russell Cooper and Alok Johri

5690: Perceptions of Economic Insecurity: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations

Jeff Dominitz and Charles Manski

5689: Preliminary Injunctive Relief: Theory and Evidence from Patent Litigation

Jean Lanjouw and Josh Lerner

5688: The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe

Christopher Ruhm

5687: Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the Airline Industry

David Card

5686: Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives

Robert Hubbard and Jonathan Skinner

5685: Demand Shifts, Population Adjustments, and Labor Market Outcomes during the 1980s

John Bound and Harry Holzer

5684: Control of the Public Debt: A Requirement for Price Stability?

Michael Woodford

5683: Tax Policy and Investment

Kevin Hassett and Robert Hubbard

5682: Optimal Money Burning: Theory and Application to Corporate Dividend Policy

B. Douglas Bernheim and Lee Redding

5681: Contagious Currency Crises

Barry Eichengreen, Andrew Rose and Charles Wyplosz

5680: Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies: The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute

Kala Krishna and John Morgan

5679: Wage Subsidies for the Disadvantaged

Lawrence Katz

5678: Money and Exchange Rates in the Grossman-Weiss-Rotemberg Model

Fernando Alvarez and Andrew Atkeson

5677: Demographic Structure and the Political Economy of Public Education

James Poterba

5676: Relative Labor Productivity and the Real Exchange Rate in the Long Run: Evidence for a Panel of OECD Countries

Matthew Canzoneri, Robert Cumby and Behzad Diba

5675: Forecasting Exchange Rates and Relative Prices with the Hamburger Standard: Is What You Want What You Get With McParity?

Robert Cumby

5674: Elephants

Michael Kremer and Charles Morcom

5673: The Effects of the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldbe

5672: Performance Pay and Productivity

Edward Lazear

5671: Earnings and Expected Returns

Owen Lamont

5670: Application of Nationality-Adjusted Net Sales and Value Added Framework: The Case of Japan

Fukunari Kimura and Robert Baldwin

5669: An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance

John Cawley and Tomas Philipson

5668: International R&D Spillovers: A Re-Examination

Frank Lichtenberg and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

5667: The Determinants and Consequences of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Households

B. Douglas Bernheim and Daniel M. Garrett

5666: Exclusive Dealing

B. Douglas Bernheim and Michael Whinston

5665: Changes in U.S. Tariffs: Prices or Policies?

Douglas Irwin

5664: The Gender Pay Gap

Francine Blau

5663: Entry and Predation: British Shipping Cartels 1879-1929

Fiona Scott Morton

5662: United States Steel's Acquisition of the Great Northern Ore Properties: Vertical Foreclosure or Efficient Contractual Governance?

Joseph C. Mullin and Wallace P. Mullin

5661: Law and Finance

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

5660: Loan Commitments and Optimal Monetary Policy

Michael Woodford

5659: Growth Cycles

George Evans, Seppo Honkapohja and Paul Romer

5658: Inequality and Growth

Roland Benabou

5657: The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

5656: Technology and Jobs: Secular Changes and Cyclical Dynamics

Timothy Dunne, John Haltiwanger and Kenneth Troske

5655: The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers

Patrick Bayer, B. Douglas Bernheim and John Scholz

5654: Convergence to the Law of One Price Without Trade Barriers or Currency Fluctuations

David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

5653: Personal Bankruptcy and Credit Supply and Demand

Reint Gropp, John Scholz and Michelle White

5652: The Effects of Tax-Law Changes on Property-Casualty Insurance Prices

David Bradford and Kyle Logue

5651: Stepping Stone Mobility

Boyan Jovanovic and Yaw Nyarko

5650: The Aftermath of Appreciations

Ilan Goldfajn and Rodrigo Valdés

5649: The Litigious Plaintiff Hypothesis: Case Selection and Resolution

Theodore Eisenberg and Henry S. Farber

5648: Executive Compensation, Strategic Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation: Theory and Evidence

Rajesh Aggarwal and Andrew Samwick

5647: The Effects of Child-Bearing on Married Women's Labor Supply and Earnings: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment

Jaisri Gangadharan, Joshua Rosenbloom, Joyce Jacobson and James Wishart Pearre

5646: Long-Run PPP May Not Hold After All

Charles Engel

5645: Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy

John Cawley, Karen Conneely, James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

5644: Work, Welfare, and Family Structure: What Have We Learned?

Hilary Hoynes

5643: Local Labor Markets and Welfare Spells: Do Demand Conditions Matter?

Hilary Hoynes

5642: Public School Finance in a General Equilibrium Tiebout World: Equalization Programs, Peer Effects and Private School Vouchers

Thomas Nechyba

5641: Revenue-Raising vs. Other Approaches to Environmental Protection: The Critical Significance of Pre-Existing Tax Distortions

Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian Parry and Dallas Burtraw

5640: Insurance or Self-Insurance?: Variation, Persistence, and Individual Health Accounts

Matthew J. Eichner, Mark B. McClellan and David Wise

5639: An Analysis of Divisional Investment Policies

Hyun-Han Shin and René Stulz

5638: Arbitrage Opportunities in Arbitrage-Free Models of Bond Pricing

David Backus, Silverio Foresi and Stanley Zin

5637: Contracts and Money

Boyan Jovanovic and Masako Ueda

5636: Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Donald Davis

5635: Hyperbolic Discount Functions, Undersaving, and Savings Policy

David Laibson

5634: Imperfect Competition and the Effects of Energy Price Increases on Economic Activity

Julio Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

5633: Trade and Wages: Insights from the Crystal Ball

Robert Lawrence and Carolyn Evans

5632: Observations on International Labor Standards and Trade

Alan Krueger

5631: Is the Time-Series Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects Contaminated by Publication Bias?

David Neumark and William Wascher

5630: Borrowing Constraints and the Tenure Choice of Young Households

Donald Haurin, Patric Hendershott and Susan Wachter

5629: Expected Home Ownership and Real Wealth Accumulation of Youth

Donald Haurin, Patric Hendershott and Susan Wachter

5628: R&D Spillovers and Global Growth

Tamim Bayoumi, David Coe and Elhanan Helpman

5627: Relative Price Variability and Inflation: Evidence from US Cities

Guy Debelle and Owen Lamont

5626: Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions and Wage Equations

Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Kenneth Troske

5625: The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Model of Trade: Why Does It Fail? When Does It Work?

Donald Davis, David Weinstein, Scott Bradford and Kazushige Shimpo

5624: Perceptions of Equity and the Distribution of Income

Julio Rotemberg

5623: Affine Models of Currency Pricing

David Backus, Silverio Foresi and Chris Telmer