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4936: Eliciting Student Expectations of the Returns to Schooling

Jeff Dominitz and Charles Manski

4935: Historical Macroeconomics and American Macroeconomic History

Charles Calomiris and Christopher Hanes

4934: Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic

Charles Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason

4933: Physician Financial Incentives and Cesarean Section Delivery

Jonathan Gruber and Maria Owings

4932: Taxes, Technology Transfer, and the R&D Activities of Multinational Firms

James Hines

4931: International Patenting and Technology Diffusion

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

4930: Physician Payments and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Fee Policy

Janet Currie, Jonathan Gruber and Michael Fischer

4929: Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991

Dora Costa

4928: Fixes: Of The Forward Discount Puzzle

Robert Flood and Andrew Rose

4927: Foreign-Owned Firms and U.S. Wages

Robert Lipsey

4926: Technology and Trade

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

4925: Do Pensions Increase the Labor Supply of Older Men?

Christopher Ruhm

4924: Interest Allocation Rules, Financing Patterns, and the Operations of U.S. Multinationals

Kenneth Froot and James Hines

4923: Tests of Three Parity Conditions: Distinguishing Risk Premia and Systematic Forecast Errors

Richard C. Marston

4922: Wage Differentials in Italy: Market Forces, Institutions, and Inflation

Christopher L. Erikson and Andrea Ichino

4921: The Effect of Credit Market Competition on Lending Relationships

Mitchell Petersen and Raghuram Rajan

4920: Does Competition from HMOs Affect Fee-For-Service Physicians?

Laurence C. Baker

4919: A Model of Fiat Money and Barter

Fumio Hayashi and Akihiko Matsui

4918: An Economic Analysis of Works Councils

Richard Freeman and Edward Lazear

4917: High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms

John Abowd, Francis Kramarz and David Margolis

4916: Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why?

James Poterba

4915: Cadillac Contracts and Up-Front Payments: Efficient Investment Under Expectation Damages

Aaron Edlin

4914: Economic Conditions and Alcohol Problems

Christopher Ruhm

4913: Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born

George Borjas and Bernt Bratsberg

4912: Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities

George Borjas

4911: The Dynamics of Part-Time Work

Rebecca Blank

4910: Crime and the Job Market

Richard Freeman

4909: Democracy & Growth

Robert Barro

4908: How Different is Japanese Corporate Finance? An Investigation of the Information Content of New Security Issues

Jun-Koo Kang and René Stulz

4907: Investment Opportunities, Managerial Decisions, and the Security Issue Decision

Kooyul Jung, Yong-Cheol Kim and René Stulz

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