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4906: Aging and Productivity, Rationality and Matching: Evidence from Economists

Daniel Hamermesh

4905: How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households

Thomas Kinnaman and Don Fullerton

4904: The Roles of Marketing, Product Quality and Price Competition in the Growth and Composition of the U.S. Anti-Ulcer Drug Industry

Ernst R. Berndt, Linda Bui, David Reiley and Glen Urban

4903: Resisting Migration: The Problems of Wage Rigidity and the Social Burden

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

4902: Free-Trade Taxation and Protectionist Taxation

Joel Slemrod

4901: The Competitive Crash in Large-Scale Commercial Computing

Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein

4900: IRAs and Household Saving Revisited: Some New Evidence

Orazio Attanasio and Thomas DeLeire

4899: From Superminis to Supercomputers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market

Shane Greenstein

4898: Speculative Attacks on Pegged Exchange Rates: An Empirical Exploration with Special Reference to the European Monetary System

Barry Eichengreen, Andrew Rose and Charles Wyplosz

4897: Optimal Environmental Taxation in the Presence of Other Taxes: General Equilibrium Analyses

Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence H. Goulder

4896: Environmental Taxation and the "Double Dividend:" A Reader's Guide

Lawrence H. Goulder

4895: Insulation of Pensions from Political Risk

Peter Diamond

4894: Why are Retail Prices in Japan so High?: Evidence from German Export Prices

Michael M. Knetter

4893: The Intertemporal Approach to the Current Account

Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

4892: Domestic Saving and International Capital Flows Reconsidered

Alan Taylor

4891: Cigarette Taxation and the Social Consequences of Smoking

W Viscusi

4890: Market Timing Ability and Volatility Implied in Investment Newletters' Asset Allocation Recommendations

John R. Graham and Campbell Harvey

4889: Unemployment Effects of Military Spending: Evidence from a Panel of States

Mark Hooker and Michael Knetter

4888: Measuring Money Growth When Financial Markets Are Changing

James Stock and Martin Feldstein

4887: Explaining Investment Dynamics in U.S. Manufacturing: A Generalized (S,s) Approach

Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

4886: Debt and Seniority: An Analysis of the Role of Hard Claims in Constraining Management

Oliver Hart and John Moore

4885: Fiscal Policies, Capital Formation, and Capitalism

Martin Feldstein

4884: Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance

Robert Hubbard, Jonathan Skinner and Stephen Zeldes

4883: Income Distribution and Public Education: A Dynamic Quantitative Evaluation of School Finance Reform

Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson

4882: Optimal Taxation of Human and Physical Capital in Endogenous Capital Models

Nouriel Roubini and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferrett

4881: Taxation and Endogenous Growth in Open Economies

Nouriel Roubini and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferrett

4880: Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John R. Penrod and Harvey Rosen

4879: Market Failure in Small Group Health Insurance

David Cutler

4878: The Attraction of Foreign Manufacturing Investments: Investment Promotion and Agglomeration Economies

Keith Head, John Ries and Deborah Swenson

4877: Electoral Competition and Special Interest Politics

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

4876: Foreign Investment with Endogenous Protection

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

4875: What Do We Know About Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

4874: Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition

Brandice J. Canes and Harvey Rosen

4873: Credit Markets and the Welfare Costs of Inflation

Jose De Gregorio and Federico Sturzenegger

4872: Immigration and Welfare, 1970-1990

George Borjas

4871: Estimating and Interpreting Forward Interest Rates: Sweden 1992 - 1994

Lars Svensson

4870: What Does the Political Economy Literature on Trade Policy (Not) Tell UsThat We Ought To Know?

Dani Rodrik

4869: The Effect of Taxes on Investment and Income Shifting to Puerto Rico

Harry Grubert and Joel Slemrod

4868: A Note on Subsidizing Gifts

Louis Kaplow

4867: The Seesaw Principle in International Tax Policy

Joel Slemrod, Carl Hansen and Roger Procter

4866: Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigrant Earnings in the 1980s?

George Borjas

4865: A Survey of Empirical Research on Nominal Exchange Rates

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

4864: Effective Tax Rates in Macroeconomics: Cross-Country Estimates of Tax Rates on Factor Incomes and Consumption

Enrique Mendoza, Assaf Razin and Linda Tesar

4863: Mark-Up Pricing in Mergers and Acquisitions

G. Schwert

4862: Distributional Effects on a Lifetime Basis

Don Fullerton and Diane Lim

4861: Equity and Time to Sale in the Real Estate Market

David Genesove and Christopher Mayer

4860: The Specie Standard as a Contingent Rule: Some Evidence for Core and Peripheral Countries, 1880-1990

Michael Bordo and Anna Schwartz

4859: Job Stability in the United States

Francis Diebold, David Neumark and Daniel Polsky

4858: Noise Trading, Delegated Portfolio Management, and Economic Welfare

James Dow and Gary Gorton

4857: An Asset Allocation Puzzle

Niko Canner, N. Gregory Mankiw and David Weil

4856: A Theory of the Welfare State

Hans-Werner Sinn

4855: Sticky Prices: New Evidence from Retail Catalogs

Anil Kashyap

4854: A Time to Sow and a Time to Reap: Growth Based on General Purpose Technologies

Elhanan Helpman and Manuel Trajtenberg

4853: State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment

Rebecca Blank, Christine C. George and Rebecca A. London

4852: A Major Risk Approach to Health Insurance Reform

Martin Feldstein and Jonathan Gruber

4851: Tax Policy and International Capital Flows

Martin Feldstein

4850: Issues Concerning Nominal Anchors for Monetary Policy

Robert Flood and Michael Mussa

4849: Threats and Promises

Jonathan Eaton and Maxim Engers

4848: Commercial Paper, Corporate Finance, and the Business Cycle: A Microeconomic Perspective

Charles Calomiris, Charles P. Himmelberg and Paul Wachtel

4847: Trade Liberalization and Trade Adjustment Assistance

K.C. Fung and Robert Staiger

4846: Differences in the Uses and Effects of Antidumping Law Across Import Sources

Robert Staiger and Frank A. Wolak

4845: Infrastructure and Public R&D Investments, and the Growth of Factor Productivity in US Manufacturing Industries

M. Ishaq Nadiri and Theofanis Mamuneas

4844: Investment in U.S. Education and Training

Jacob Mincer

4843: Time-Varying World Market Integration

Geert Bekaert and Campbell Harvey

4842: Passthrough of Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parity

Robert Feenstra and Jon D. Kendall

4841: Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand

Robert Feenstra and Clinton R. Shiells

4840: Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach

Glenn Ellison and Edward Glaeser

4839: Are Windfalls a Curse? A Non-Representative Agent Model of the Current Account and Fiscal Policy

Aaron Tornell and Philip Lane

4838: The Production of Human Capital and the Lifecycle of Earnings: Variations on a Theme

Jacob Mincer

4837: Why is Inflation Skewed? A Debt and Volatility Story

Joshua Aizenman and Ricardo Hausmann

4836: Trade, Multinationals, & Labor

Robert Lawrence

4835: Economic Consequences of a Changing Litigation Environment: The Case of Patents

Jean Lanjouw

4834: The Distribution of Exchange Rates in the EMS

Charles Engel and Craig Hakkio

4833: Models of Energy Use: Putty-Putty versus Putty-Clay

Andrew Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe

4832: Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited

David Card

4831: New Evidence on Workplace Education

Alan Krueger and Cecilia Rouse

4830: Home Equity Insurance

Robert Shiller and Allan N. Weiss

4829: How Wide is the Border?

Charles Engel and John Rogers

4828: The New Economics of Teachers and Education

Frederick Flyer and Sherwin Rosen

4827: Young Workers, Old Workers, and Convergence

Michael Kremer and Jim Thomson

4826: Costs, Institutional Mobility Barriers, and Market Structure: Advertising Agencies as Multiproduct Firms

Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

4825: Firing Costs, Employment Fluctuations and Average Employment: An Examination of Germany

Jennifer Hunt

4824: Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Amy Schwartz

4823: The Transfer of Human Capital

Boyan Jovanovic and Yaw Nyarko

4822: Optimal Regulation of Multiply-Regulated Industries: The Case of Physician Services

John A. Rizzo and Jody L. Sindelar

4821: The Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Balance Sheets

Anil Kashyap and Jeremy Stein

4820: The Tax Unit and Household Production

John Piggott and John Whalley

4819: Financial Intermediation and Aggregate Fluctuations: A Quantative Analysis

Russell Cooper and João Ejarque

4818: The Time Variation of Risk and Return in Foreign Exchange Markets: A General Equilibrium Perspective

Geert Bekaert

4817: Intermediate Goods and Business Cycles: Implications for Productivity and Welfare

Susanto Basu

4816: Reference Point Dependence for Specification Bias from Quality Upgrading

Eric Hutton and John Whalley

4815: Foreign Direct Investment, Exchange Rate Variability and Demand Uncertainty

Linda Goldberg and Charles Kolstad

4814: The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression: A Comparative Approach

Ben Bernanke

4813: Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey

Alan Gustman, Olivia Mitchell and Thomas L. Steinmeier

4812: Productivity Measurement for a Distribution Firm

Walter Diewert and Ann Marie Smith

4811: The Intertemporal Allocation of Consumption: Theory and Evidence

Orazio Attanasio

4810: The Welfare State and Competitiveness

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

4809: The Real Exchange Rate and Fiscal Policy During the Gold Standard PeriodEvidence from the United States and Great Britain

Graciela Kaminsky and Michael Klein

4808: Why Do Americans and Germans Work Different Hours?

Linda Bell and Richard Freeman

4807: Terms of Trade, Productivity, and the Real Exchange Rate

Jose De Gregorio and Holger C. Wolf