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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

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