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4806: Pricing in International Markets: Lessons From The Economist

Atish Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf

4805: How Many Monies? A Genetic Approach to Finding Optimum Currency Areas

Atish Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf

4804: High-Cost Domestic Joint Ventures and International Competition: Do Domestic Firms Gain?

Ruth R. Raubitschek and Barbara Spencer

4803: A Working Model for Predicting the Consumption and Revenue Impacts of Large Increases in the U.S. Federal Cigarette Excise Tax

Jeffrey E. Harris

4802: An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy: New and Received Wisdom

Anders Forslund and Alan Krueger

4801: Over-the-Counter Derivatives and Systemic Risk to the Global Financial System

Michael Darby

4800: Leverage as a State Variable for Employment, Inventory Accumulation, andFixed Investment

Charles Calomiris, Athanasios Orphanides and Steven Sharpe

4799: Trade Barriers and Trade Flows across Countries and Industries

Jong-Wha Lee and Phillip Swagel

4798: Education, Income Distribution and Growth: The Local Connection

Roland Benabou

4797: Do Unions Make Enterprises Insolvent?

Richard Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner

4796: Why is Capital so Immobile Internationally?: Possible Explanations and Implications for Capital Income Taxation

Roger Gordon and Lans Bovenberg

4795: Is Consumption Growth Consistent with Intertemporal Optimization? Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Orazio Attanasio and Guglielmo Weber

4794: Work and Crime: An Exploration Using Panel Data

Ann Dryden Witte and Helen Tauchen

4793: Capital Flight, External Debt and Domestic Policies

Michael Dooley and Kenneth Kletzer

4792: Recent Private Capital Inflows to Developing Countries: Is the Debt Crisis History?

Michael Dooley, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Kenneth Kletzer

4791: The Ethnic and Racial Character of Self-Employment

Robert Fairlie and Bruce Meyer

4790: Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement

David Orden

4789: The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality

Ben Bernanke, Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist

4788: Efficient and Inefficient Sales of Corporate Control

Lucian Bebchuk

4787: Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Takeup Rates

Patricia Anderson and Bruce Meyer

4786: Effectiveness of Government Policy: An Experience from a National HealthCare System

Tetsuji Yamada, Tadashi Yamada, Chang Gun Kim and Haruko Noguchi

4785: Can State Taxes Redistribute Income?

Martin Feldstein and Marian Vaillant

4784: Mathematical Achievement in Eighth Grade: Interstate and Racial Differences

Victor Fuchs and Diane M. Reklis

4783: The Alternative Minimum Tax and the Behavior of Multinational Corporations

Andrew Lyon and Gerald Silverstein

4782: Waves of Creative Destruction: Customer Bases and the Dynamics of Innovation

Jeremy Stein

4781: Agglomeration and the Price of Land: Evidence from the Prefectures

Robert Dekle and Jonathan Eaton

4780: Investment with Uncertain Tax Policy: Does Random Tax Policy Discourage Investment?

Kevin Hassett and Gilbert Metcalf

4779: Technological Linkages, Market Structure, and Optimum Production Policies

Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Mary Lovely

4778: Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions: Overreaction or Drift?

Roni Michaely, Richard Thaler and Kent Womack

4777: Financial Decision-Making in Markets and Firms: A Behavioral Perspective

Werner F. M. De Bondt and Richard Thaler

4776: Internal versus External Capital Markets

Robert H. Gertner, David Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein

4775: Rental Adjustment & Valuation of Real Estate in Overbuilt Markets: Fundamental vs. Reported Office Market Values in Sydney Australia

Patric Hendershott

4774: Bubbles in Metropolitan Housing Markets

Jesse M. Abraham and Patric Hendershott

4773: Policy Transferability and Hysteresis: Daily and Weekly Hours in the BRD and the US

Daniel Hamermesh

4772: Trade and Industrial Policy Reform in Latin America

Sebastian Edwards

4771: Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption

Orazio Attanasio and Steven Davis

4770: Estimating a Wage Curve for Britain 1973-1990

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

4769: Macroeconomic Adjustment with Segmented Labor Markets

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

4768: On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

4767: Agglomeration Benefits and Location Choice: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the United States

Keith Head, John Ries and Deborah Swenson

4766: Mass Layoffs and Unemployment

Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

4765: What Ends Recessions?

Christina Romer and David Romer

4764: Taxes and Fringe Benefits Offered by Employers

William Gentry and Eric Peress

4763: Interstate Cigarette Bootlegging: Extent, Revenue Losses, and Effects of Government Intervention

Marie Thursby and Jerry Thursby

4762: How America Graduated from High School: 1910 to 1960

Claudia Goldin

4761: Toward a Modern Macroeconomic Model Usable for Policy Analysis

Eric Leeper and Christopher Sims

4760: Steel Protection in the 1980s: The Waning Influence of Big Steel?

Michael Moore

4759: Staggering and Synchronization in Price-Setting: Evidence from Multipro-duct Firms

Saul Lach and Daniel Tsiddon

4758: Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns

Jonathan Eaton and Akiko Tamura

4757: The Effect of the Minimum Wage When It Really Bites: A Reexamination of the Evidence from Puerto Rico

Alan Krueger

4756: Multifactor Models Do Not Explain Deviations from the CAPM

A. Craig MacKinlay

4755: Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Differentials Among Men and Women: A Longitudinal Analysis

David Card and Thomas Lemieux

4754: Changes in the Structure of Family Income Inequality in the United States and Other Industrial Nationa During the 1980s

McKinley Blackburn and David Bloom

4753: American Regionalism and Global Free Trade

Edward Leamer

4752: The Great Wars, The Great Crash, and the Unit Root Hypothesis: Some New Evidence About an Old Stylized Fact

Dan Ben-David and David Papell

4751: The MFA Paradox: More Protection and More Trade?

Joseph Finger and Ann Harrison

4750: The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance

Jonathan Gruber

4749: Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy: Do They Matter To The Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute?

Joseph P. Kalt

4748: The Impact of Wage Structure on Trends in U.S. Gender Wage Differentials 1975-1987

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

4747: The Political Economy of U.S. Export Subsidies for Wheat

Bruce Gardner

4746: The Political-Economy of U.S. Automobile Protection

Douglas Nelson

4745: Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry

Douglas Irwin

4744: Localization Economies, Vertical Organization and Trade

Gordon Hanson

4743: Information, Trading and Stock Returns: Lessons from Dually-Listed Securities

K.C. Chan, Wai-Ming Fong and René Stulz

4742: The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment: Theory and Evidence from the US

Richard Dickens, Stephen Machin and Alan Manning

4741: Downsizing and Productivity Growth: Myth or Reality?

Martin Neil Baily, Eric Bartelsman and John Haltiwanger

4740: The Legacy of Communist Labor Relations

David Blanchflower and Richard Freeman

4739: Learning By Doing and the Choice of Technology

Boyan Jovanovic and Yaw Nyarko

4738: Insignificant and Inconsequential Hysteresis: The Case of the U.S. Bilateral Trade

David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

4737: Anticipations of Foreign Exchange Volatility and Bid-Ask Spreads

Shang-Jin Wei

4736: On the Speed of Transition Central Europe

Philippe Aghion and Olivier Blanchard

4735: The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data

William Easterly and Stanley Fischer

4734: The Distribution of Public Sector Wage Premia: New Evidence Using Quantile Regression Methods

James Poterba and Kim Rueben

4733: British Unions in Decline: An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition

Richard Disney, Amanda Gosling and Stephen Machin

4732: Trade Unions and the Dispersion of Earnings in British Establishments, 1980-90

Amanda Gosling and Stephen Machin

4731: An Analysis of Fee-Shifting Based on the Margin of Victory: On FrivolousSuits, Meritorious Suits and the Role of Rule 11

Lucian Bebchuk and Howard F. Chang

4730: Externalities and Industrial Development

J. Vernon Henderson

4729: Training and the Growth of Wage Inequality

Jill Constantine and David Neumark

4728: Cities and Skills

Edward Glaeser and David Maré

4727: Transaction Costs in Dealer Markets: Evidence From The London Stock Exchange

Peter C. Reiss and Ingrid M. Werner

4726: A Comparison of Job Creation and Job Destruction in Canada and the United States

John Baldwin, Timothy Dunne and John Haltiwanger

4725: Capital Goods Imports and Long-Run Growth

Jong-Wha Lee

4724: The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis

Steven Kaplan and Richard S. Ruback

4723: Firm Diversification and CEO Compensation: Managerial Ability or Executive Entrenchment?

Nancy Rose and Andrea Shepard

4722: Testing Static Trade-off Against Pecking Order Models of Capital Structure

Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder and Stewart C. Myers

4721: Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance

Steven Levitt and James Poterba

4720: Implementing Option Pricing Models When Asset Returns Are Predictable

Andrew Lo and Jiang Wang

4719: Reconsidering the Costs of Business Cycles with Incomplete Markets

Andrew Atkeson and Christopher Phelan

4718: A Nonparametric Approach to Pricing and Hedging Derivative Securities Via Learning Networks

James M. Hutchinson, Andrew Lo and Tomaso Poggio

4717: A Stock Index Mutual Fund Without Net Capital Gains Realizations

Joel M. Dickson and John B. Shoven

4716: Trade, Wages and Revolving Door Ideas

Edward Leamer

4715: Trade and Circuses: Explaining Urban Giants

Alberto F. Ades and Edward Glaeser

4714: Evidence on Growth, Increasing Returns and the Extent of the Market

Alberto F. Ades and Edward Glaeser

4713: Regional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization

Gordon Hanson

4712: U.S. Interest Allocation Rules: Effects and Policy

Rosanne Altshuler and Jack Mintz

4711: Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration

Alan Taylor and Jeffrey Williamson

4710: U.S. Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800-1913

Robert Lipsey

4709: The U.S. Fiscal Problem: Where We Are, How We Got Here and Where We're Going

Alan Auerbach

4708: Alcohol Advertising and Motor Vehicle Fatalities

Henry Saffer

4707: The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History

Claudia Goldin