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5557: Institutions for Monetary Stability

Christina Romer and David Romer

5556: Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

5555: Drug Use and AFDC Participation: Is There a Connection?

Robert Kaestner

5554: A Survey of Corporate Governance

Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

5553: The Comovements Between Real Activity and Prices at Different Business Cycle Frequencies

Wouter J. Den Haan

5552: Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements?

John Whalley

5551: The Entry and Exit of Workers and the Growth of Employment: An Analysis of French Establishments

John Abowd, Patrick Corbel and Francis Kramarz

5550: Do Budget Rules Work?

James Poterba

5549: Trade Liberalization and Endogenous Growth: A q-Theory Approach

Richard Baldwin and Rikard Forslid

5548: Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin and Lori Taylor

5547: Understanding the 20th Century Growth in U.S. School Spending

Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin

5546: Business Fixed Investment and the Recent Business Cycle in Japan

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Kenneth West

5545: Environmental Regulation and Innovation: A Panel Data Study

Adam Jaffe and Karen Palmer

5544: Bounding the Effects of R&D: An Investigation Using Matched Establishment-Firm Data

James Adams and Adam Jaffe

5543: U.S. Trade Policy and Cigarette Smoking in Asia

Frank Chaloupka and Adit Laixuthai

5542: Sulfur Dioxide Compliance of a Regulated Utility

Don Fullerton, Shaun P. McDermott and Jonathan P. Caulkins

5541: Expectation Traps and Discretion

Varadarajan Chari, Lawrence Christiano and Martin Eichenbaum

5540: Why Does Inflation Differ Across Countries?

Marta Campillo and Jeffrey Miron

5539: Why Do People Dislike Inflation?

Robert Shiller

5538: Does Inflation "Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market"?

David Card and Dean Hyslop

5537: Why Do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments?

Dani Rodrik

5536: Race Differences in Labor Force Attachment and Disability Status

John Bound, Michael Schoenbaum and Timothy Waidmann

5535: What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program

James Heckman, Jeffrey Smith and Christopher Taber

5534: Technology and the Wage Structure

Steven Allen

5533: Balanced Budget Rules and Public Deficits: Evidence from the U.S. States

Henning Bohn and Robert P. Inman

5532: Monetary Cohabitation in Europe

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

5531: Intra-National versus International Trade: How Stubborn are Nations in Global Integration?

Shang-Jin Wei

5530: Exchange Rate Dynamics and Learning

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Aaron Tornell

5529: The Theory of Endowment, Intra-Industry, and Multinational Trade

James Markusen and Anthony Venables

5528: Free Entry and Social Inefficiency in Radio Broadcasting

Steven Berry and Joel Waldfogel

5527: Tax Avoidance and Value-Added vs. Income Taxation in an Open Economy

Roger Gordon and Søren Nielsen

5526: The Significance of International Tax Rules for Sourcing Income: The Relationship Between Income Taxes and Trade Taxes

John Mutti and Harry Grubert

5525: Labor Market Responses to Rising Health Insurance Costs: Evidence on Hours Worked

David Cutler and Brigitte Madrian

5524: Public Policy and Youth Smokeless Tobacco Use

Frank Chaloupka, Michael Grossman and John Tauras

5523: The 1995 NRC Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model

Ronald Ehrenberg and Peter J. Hurst

5522: The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children

Joseph Altonji, Fumio Hayashi and Laurence Kotlikoff

5521: Are Brothers Really Better? Sibling Sex Composition and Educational Achievement Revisited

Robert Kaestner

5520: Disinflation and the NAIRU

Laurence Ball

5519: Problems in the Measurement and Performance of Service-Sector Productivity in the United States

Robert Gordon

5518: The Effects of Industry Structure on Economic Exposure

Richard C. Marston

5517: Fiscal Policy and Monetary Union: Is There a Tradeoff between Federalism and Budgetary Restrictions?

Barry Eichengreen and Juergen von Hagen

5516: Measuring U.S. International Goods and Services Transactions

Robert Baldwin and Fukunari Kimura

5515: U.S. Imports, 1972-1994: Data and Concordances

Robert Feenstra

5514: Implicit Budget Deficits: The Case of a Mandated Shift to Community-Rated Health Insurance

David Bradford and Derrick A. Max

5513: Tax Principles and Capital Inflows: Is It Efficient to Tax Nonresident Income?

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen

5512: Social Security Privatization: A Structure for Analysis

Olivia Mitchell and Stephen Zeldes

5511: Second-Best Pollution Taxes

Don Fullerton

5510: Log-Rolling and Economic Interests in the Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Douglas Irwin and Randall S. Kroszner

5509: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff: A Quantitative Assessment

Douglas Irwin

5508: Fixed Costs: The Demise of Marginal q

Ricardo Caballero and John Leahy

5507: Inflation Targeting in a St. Louis Model of the 21st Century

Robert King and Alexander Wolman

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