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5106: The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations: The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989

Peter Cramton and Joseph Tracy

5105: The Effect of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Strikes and Wages

Peter Cramton, Morley Gunderson and Joseph Tracy

5104: Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to Elementary Price Indexes

Walter Diewert

5103: Price and Volume Measures in the System of National Accounts

Walter Diewert

5102: Wages and Foreign Ownership: A Comparative Study of Mexico, Venezuela and the United States

Brian Aitken, Ann Harrison and Robert Lipsey

5101: Internal Capital Markets and the Competition for Corporate Resources

Jeremy Stein

5100: Banks and Derivatives

Gary Gorton and Richard Rosen

5099: Transfer Behavior within the Family: Results from the Asset and Health Dynamics Survey

Kathleen McGarry and Robert Schoeni

5098: Globalization and the Inequality of Nations

Paul Krugman and Anthony Venables

5097: Why are Saving Rates so Different Across Countries?: An International Comparative Analysis

Sebastian Edwards

5096: Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions

Robert Merton

5095: World Income Components: Measuring and Exploiting International Risk Sharing Opportunities

Robert Shiller and Stefano Athanasoulis

5094: Sectoral Growth Across U.S. States: Factor Content, Linkages, and Trade

J. David Richardson and Pamela Smith

5093: Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric Approach

John DiNardo, Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux

5092: The Effects of Minimum Wages on Teenage Employment and Enrollment: Evidence from Matched CPS Surveys

David Neumark and William Wascher

5091: Optimal Investment with Costly Reversibility

Andrew Abel and Janice Eberly

5090: Generational Accounting in General Equilibrium

Hans Fehr and Laurence Kotlikoff

5089: The Annuitization of Americans' Resources: A Cohort Analysis

Alan Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence Kotlikoff, John Sabelhaus and David Weil

5088: The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses

William Gentry and Alison P. Hagy

5087: Generational Accounts, Aggregate Saving and Intergenerational Distribution

Willem Buiter

5086: Supply-Side Economics in a Global Economy

Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

5085: Settling for Coupons: Discount Contracts as Compensation and Punishment in Antitrust Lawsuits

Severin Borenstein

5084: Free Trade Agreements versus Customs Unions

Anne O. Krueger

5083: Credit Cycles

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and John Moore

5082: Does Public Insurance Crowd Out Private Insurance?

David Cutler and Jonathan Gruber

5081: Is There a Tradeoff between Unemployment and Productivity Growth?

Robert Gordon

5080: An Empirical Examination of the Fisher Effect in Australia

Frederic Mishkin and John Simon

5079: Benefits of Control, Managerial Ownership, and the Stock Returns of Acquiring Firms

Robert Hubbard and Darius Palia

5078: Mortgage Default Risk and Real Estate Prices: The Use of Index-Based Futures and Options in Real Estate

Karl Case, Robert Shiller and Allan N. Weiss

5077: Product Quality and Worker Quality

John Abowd, Francis Kramarz and Antoine Moreau

5076: The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination

Richard Murnane, John B. Willett and Frank Levy

5075: Two Fallacies Concerning Central Bank Independence

Bennett McCallum

5074: Endogenous Mortgage Choice, Borrowing Constraints and the Tenure Decision

William C. LaFayette, Donald Haurin and Patric Hendershott

5073: Are Apparent Productive Spillovers a Figment of Specification Error?

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

5072: The Effects of School and Family Characteristics on the Return to Education

Joseph Altonji and Thomas A. Dunn

5071: Selling Price and Selling Time: The Impact of Seller Motivation

Michel Glower, Donald Haurin and Patric Hendershott

5070: Wealth Accumulation and Housing Choices of Young Households: An Exploratory Investigation

Donald Haurin, Susan Wachter and Patric Hendershott

5069: Debt Usage and Mortgage Choice: Sensitivity to Default Insurance Costs

Patric Hendershott and William C. LaFayette

5068: Universities as a Source of Commercial Technology: A Detailed Analysis of University Patenting 1965-1988

Rebecca Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

5067: Production Functions: The Search for Identification

Zvi Griliches and Jacques Mairesse

5066: The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies, and Births

Phillip Levine, Amy B. Trainor and David Zimmerman

5065: Parental Leave Policies in Europe and North America

Christopher Ruhm and Jackqueline L. Teague

5064: Modern Approaches to Central Banking

Stanley Fischer

5063: Product Development and the Timing of Information Disclosure under U.S.and Japanese Patent Systems

Reiko Aoki and Thomas Prusa

5062: Cumulation and ITC Decision-Making: The Sum of the Parts is Greater thanthe Whole

Wendy L. Hansen and Thomas Prusa

5061: Exact Hedonic Price Indexes

Robert Feenstra

5060: Government Interventions and Productivity Growth in Korean ManufacturingIndustries

Jong-Wha Lee

5059: Public R&D Policies and Cost Behavior of the US Manufacturing Industries

Theofanis Mamuneas and M. Ishaq Nadiri

5058: Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence fromthe `Monday Effect'

David Card and Brian McCall

5057: How Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Economic Growth?

Eduardo Borensztein, Jose De Gregorio and Jong-Wha Lee

5056: Collusion over the Business Cycle

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

5055: Tax Avoidance and the Deadweight Loss of the Income Tax

Martin Feldstein

5054: Social Security and Saving: New Time Series Evidence

Martin Feldstein

5053: The Incidence of Payroll Taxation: Evidence from Chile

Jonathan Gruber

5052: Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical care, and Child Health

Janet Currie and Jonathan Gruber

5051: Estimating the Effects of Trade Policy

Robert Feenstra

5050: On the Number and Size of Nations

Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore

5049: Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

5048: North-South R&D Spillovers

David Coe, Elhanan Helpman and Alexander Hoffmaister

5047: Do Airlines in Chapter 11 Harm Their Rivals? Bankruptcy and Pricing Behavior in U.S. Airline Markets

Severin Borenstein and Nancy Rose

5046: The Quantitative Analytics of the Basic Neomonetarist Model

Miles Kimball

5045: Are Banks Dead? Or Are the Reports Greatly Exaggerated?

John H. Boyd and Mark Gertler

5044: Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment

David Neumark and Andrew Postlewaite

5043: The Rational Expectations Revolution: A Review Article of: Preston J. Miller, ed.:The Rational Expectations Revolution, Readings from the Front Line

Frederic Mishkin

5042: Aggregate Employment Dynamics: Building From Microeconomic Evidence

Ricardo Caballero, Eduardo Engel and John Haltiwanger

5041: Investment in New Activities and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty

Joshua Aizenman

5040: Quality Adjusted Cost Functions for Child Care Centers

Naci Mocan

5039: Economic Convergence and Economic Policies

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew Warner

5038: The Effects of Cocaine and Marijuana Use on Marriage and Marital Stability

Robert Kaestner

5037: The Effects of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment on Employment and Relative Wages

Robert Baldwin

5036: Multinational Firms and The New Trade Theory

James Markusen and Anthony Venables

5035: Quality-Adjusted Prices for the American Automobile Industry: 1906-1940

Daniel M.G. Raff and Manuel Trajtenberg

5034: To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care

Alan M. Garber

5033: Is the Japanese Extended Family Altruistically Linked? A Test based on Engel Curves

Fumio Hayashi

5032: Purchasing Power Disparity During the Floating Rate Period: Exchange Rate Volatility, Trade Barriers and Other Culprits

Shang-Jin Wei and David Parsley

5031: Some Lessons from the Yield Curve

John Campbell

5030: Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment?

Christopher Ruhm

5029: Exploring New Markets: Direct Investment, Contractual Relations and the Multinational Enterprise

Ignatius Horstmann and James Markusen

5028: Capital Income Taxation and Long Run Growth: New Perspectives

Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen

5027: Maximizing Predictability in the Stock and Bond Markets

Andrew Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay

5026: Crime and Social Interactions

Edward Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote and Jose Scheinkman

5025: International Trade and Business Cycles

Marianne Baxter

5024: Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study

David Neumark, Roy J. Bank and Kyle D. Van Nort

5023: Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a Natural Experiment

Nada Eissa

5022: Measuring Business Cycles Approximate Band-Pass Filters for Economic Time Series

Marianne Baxter and Robert King

5021: International Trade and Open Access Renewable Resources: The Small Open Economy Case

James Brander and M. Scott Taylor

5020: Strategic Trade Policy

James Brander

5019: The International Diversification Puzzle is Worse Than You Think

Marianne Baxter and Urban Jermann

5018: A Labor-Income-Based Measure of the Value of Human Capital: An Application to the States of the United States

Casey Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

5017: The Illusion of Failure: Trends in the Self-Reported Health of the U.S. Elderly

Timothy Waidmann, John Bound and Michael Schoenbaum

5016: Measuring Aggregate Human Capital

Casey Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

5015: The Deficit Gamble

Laurence Ball, Douglas Elmendorf and N. Gregory Mankiw

5014: Are Lifetime Jobs Disappearing? Job Duration in the United States: 1973-1993

Henry S. Farber

5013: Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities

Edward Glaeser, Jose Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer

5012: Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Smoking Among Young Adults

Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler

5011: Do Firms Smooth the Seasonal in Production in a Boom? Theory and Evidence

Stephen Cecchetti, Anil Kashyap and David Wilcox

5010: Differential Information and Dynamic Behavior of Stock Trading Volume

Hua He and Jiang Wang

5009: Tax Projections and the Budget: Lessons from the 1980s

Alan Auerbach

5008: Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes

Louis Kaplow

5007: Holdups, Standard Breach Remedies, and Optimal Investment

Aaron Edlin and Stefan Reichelstein