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5306: Generic Entry and the Pricing of Pharmaceuticals

Richard G. Frank and David Salkever

5305: Complementarities and Comovements

John Shea

5304: Comovement in Cities

John Shea

5303: The Antebellum Transportation Revolution and Factor-Price Convergence

Matthew J. Slaughter

5302: Labor Market Effects of Spinal Cord Injuries in the Dawn of the Computer Age

Alan Krueger and Douglas Kruse

5301: Saving and Growth: Evidence from Micro Data

Christina Paxson

5300: Money-Based versus Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization with Endogenous Fiscal Policy

Aaron Tornell and Andres Velasco

5299: The Underrepresentation of Women in Economics: A Study of Undergraduate Economics Students

Karen E. Dynan and Cecilia Elena Rouse

5298: Lump-Sum Distributions from Retirement Saving Plans: Receipt and Utilization

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

5297: Evaluating Mental Health Capitation Treatment: Lessons from Panel Data

Debra Dwyer, Olivia Mitchell, Robert Cole and Sylvia K. Reed

5296: Measuring Poverty Among the Elderly

Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson

5295: Scale Economies, Returns to Variety, and the Productivity of Public Infrastructure

Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Mary Lovely

5294: Where the Money Goes: Medical Expenditures in a Large Corporation

Mark B. McClellan and David Wise

5293: The Child Care Industry: Cost Functions, Efficiency, and Quality

Naci Mocan

5292: Tobin's q and Asset Returns: Implications for Business Cycle Analysis

Lawrence Christiano and Jonas Fisher

5291: Discrete Choice with Social Interactions I: Theory

William Brock and Steven Durlauf

5290: Consumption Taxes: Some Fundamental Transition Issues

David Bradford

5289: Stochastic Regime Switching and Stabilizing Policies within Regimes

Karen Lewis

5288: The Schooling Quality-Earnings Relationship: Using Economic Theory to Interpret Functional Forms Consistent with the Evidence

James Heckman, Anne Layne-Farrar and Petra Todd

5287: The Effects of Special Saving Programs on Saving and Wealth

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

5286: Sectoral Solow Residuals

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

5285: Models of Currency Crises with Self-Fulfilling Features

Maurice Obstfeld

5284: Macroeconomics Forecasts and Microeconomic Forecasters

Owen Lamont

5283: Is Regionalism Simply a Diversion? Evidence From the Evolution of the EC and EFTA

Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen

5282: Consumer Durables and Inertial Behavior: Estimation and Aggregation of (S,s) Rules

Orazio Attanasio

5281: Would Privatizing Social Security Raise Economic Welfare?

Martin Feldstein

5280: Asia-Pacific Capital Markets: Measurement of Integration and the Implications for Economic Activity

Menzie Chinn and Michael Dooley

5279: The Term Structure of Interest Rates and Its Role in Monetary Policy for The European Central Bank

Arturo Estrella and Frederic Mishkin

5278: Supplier Relations and Adoption of New Technology: Results of Survey Research in the U.S. Auto Industry

Susan Helper

5277: Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance

Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi

5276: Growth and Convergence in the Asia-Pacific Region: On the Role of Openness, Trade and Migration

Alan Taylor

5275: Rate Regulation and the Industrial Organization of Automobile Insurance

Susan J. Suponcic and Sharon Tennyson

5274: Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? An Examination of the Earnings-Quality Relationship

James Heckman, Anne Layne-Farrar and Petra Todd

5273: The Effects of Low Birthweight and Other Medical Risk Factors on Resource Utilization in the Pre-School Years

Hope Corman

5272: Open Regionalism in a World of Continental Trade Blocs

Shang-Jin Wei and Jeffrey Frankel

5271: State and Local Pension Plans

Olivia Mitchell and Roderick Carr

5270: More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Labor Market Outcomes

Phillip Levine, Tara A. Gustafson and Ann Velenchik

5269: Inside Money, Outside Money and Short Term Interest Rates

Varadarajan Chari, Lawrence Christiano and Martin Eichenbaum

5268: Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error?

Steven Levitt

5267: Do Financing Constraints Explain Why Investment is Correlated with Cash Flow?

Steven Kaplan and Luigi Zingales

5266: Forbidden Payment: Foreign Bribery and American Business After 1977

James Hines

5265: Is There an Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off in School Finance? Tiebout and a Theory of the Local Public Goods Producer

Caroline Hoxby

5264: An Empirical Analysis of the Welfare Magnet Debate Using the NLSY

Phillip Levine and David Zimmerman

5263: What Do Budget Deficits Do?

Laurence Ball and N. Gregory Mankiw

5262: Asset Pricing Lessons for Modeling Business Cycles

Michele Boldrin, Lawrence Christiano and Jonas Fisher

5261: Demographic Dynamics, Labor Force Participation and Household Asset Accumulation: Case of Japan

Albert Ando and Andrea Moro

5260: Machine Replacement and the Business Cycle: Lumps and Bumps

Russell Cooper, John Haltiwanger and Laura Power

5259: Globalization, Convergence and History

Jeffrey Williamson

5258: What Have Macroeconomists Learned about Business Cycles from the Study of Seasonal Cycles?

Jeffrey Miron and J. Joseph Beaulieu

5257: The Impact of Child Health and Family Inputs on Child Cognitive Develop-ment

Robert Kaestner and Hope Corman

5256: Organization Structure and Credibility: Evidence from Commercial Bank Securities Activities Before the Glass-Steagall Act

Randall S. Kroszner and Raghuram Rajan

5255: Trade and Production Networks of U.S. MNCs and Exports by Their Asian Affiliates

Robert Lipsey

5254: Labor Income Indices Designed for Use in Contracts Promoting Income Risk Management

Robert Shiller and Ryan Schneider

5253: Multinational Corporations, Outsourcing, and American Wage Divergence

Matthew J. Slaughter

5252: Unemployment Insurance and Precautionary Saving

Eric M. Engen and Jonathan Gruber

5251: Optimal Inflation Targets, `Conservative' Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts

Lars Svensson

5250: Factors Determining Participation of the Elderly in SSI

Kathleen McGarry

5249: Culture and Language

Edward Lazear

5248: Economic Issues in Vaccine Purchase Arrangements

David Salkever and Richard G. Frank

5247: Pricing Decisions in Franchised Chains: A Look at the Restaurant and Fast-Food Industry

Francine Lafontaine

5246: Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals

Patricia Born, William Gentry, W Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser

5245: The Causes and Consequences of Rate Regulation in the Auto Insurance Industry

Dwight Jaffee and Thomas Russell

5244: Bank Capital Regulation in General Equilibrium

Gary Gorton and Andrew Winton

5243: Present at the Revolution: Transformation of Technical Identity for a Large Incumbent Pharmaceutical Firm After the Biotechnological Breakthrough

Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby

5242: Trade, Spatial Separation, and the Environment

Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor

5241: Capital Markets Integration, Volatility and Persistence

Joshua Aizenman

5240: Race, Children's Cognitive Achievement and The Bell Curve

Janet Currie and Duncan Thomas

5239: Can Capital Controls Alter the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff?

Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen

5238: The Demand for Illicit Drugs

Henry Saffer and Frank Chaloupka

5237: Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

Steven Davis and Magnus Henrekson

5236: The Effects of Rising Female Labor Supply on Male Wages

Chinhui Juhn and Dae Il Kim

5235: Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Strategic TradePolicy

Steven Berry, James Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes

5234: Risk Taking by Mutual Funds as a Response to Incentives

Judith Chevalier and Glenn Ellison

5233: Stock Market Efficiency and Economic Efficiency: Is There a Connection?

James Dow and Gary Gorton

5232: Tax Reforms and Investment: A Cross-Country Comparison

Jason Cummins, Kevin Hassett and Robert Hubbard

5231: Beyond the Incidence of Training: Evidence from a National Employers Survey

Lisa Lynch and Sandra Black

5230: A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve

Sanders Korenman and Christopher Winship

5229: External Financing and Insurance Cycles

Anne Gron and Deborah Lucas

5228: Non-Employment and Health Insurance Coverage

Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian

5227: Options, the Value of Capital, and Investment

Andrew Abel, Avinash Dixit, Janice Eberly and Robert Pindyck

5226: Measuring the Intensity of Competition in Export Markets

Pinelopi Goldberg and Michael M. Knetter

5225: The Effects of Trade Policy Reform: What Do We Really Know?

Ann Harrison and Ana Revenga

5224: The Effect of New Jersey's Minimum Wage Increase on Fast-Food Employment: A Re-Evaluation Using Payroll Records

David Neumark and William Wascher

5223: Factors Affecting Labor Supply Decisions and Retirement Income

Robin L. Lumsdaine

5222: The Language Ability of U.S. Immigrants: Assimilation and Cohort Effects

Geoffrey Carliner

5221: Openness and Growth: A Time-Series, Cross-Country Analysis for Developing Countries

Ann Harrison

5220: The Seamless World: A Spatial Model of International Specialization

Paul Krugman and Anthony Venables

5219: After the Deluge: Do Fixed Exchange Rates Allow Inter-Temporal Volatility Tradeoffs?

Andrew Rose

5218: High-Income Families and the Tax Changes of the 1980s: The Anatomy of Behavioral Response

Joel Slemrod

5217: An Adverse Selection Model of Bank Asset and Liability Management with Implications for the Transmission of Monetary Policy

Jeremy Stein

5216: Disease Complementarities and the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions

William Dow, Jessica Holmes, Tomas Philipson and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

5215: Do National Borders Matter for Quebec's Trade?

John Helliwell

5214: Fiscal Expansions and Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

5213: Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Survey

Robert Barsky, Miles Kimball, F. Juster and Matthew Shapiro

5212: Does Monetary Policy Affect Real Economic Activity?: Why Do We Still Ask This Question?

Benjamin M. Friedman

5211: Growth Without Scale Effects

Alwyn Young

5210: The Political Economy of Branching Restrictions and Deposit Insurance: A Model of Monopolistic Competition among Small and Large Banks

Nicholas Economides, Robert Hubbard and Darius Palia

5209: Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth

Michael Bruno and William Easterly

5208: Who Works When? Evidence from the U.S. and Germany

Daniel Hamermesh

5207: Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum