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- 4557: Financing Apprenticeship Training: Evidence from Germany

- Dietmar Harhoff and Thomas J. Kane
- 4556: Foreign Competition, Market Power and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence

- George Borjas and Valerie Ramey
- 4555: The High Cost of Eating: Agricultural Protection and International Differences in Consumer Food Prices

- Robert Lipsey and Birgitta Swedenborg
- 4554: Understanding Risk and Return

- John Campbell
- 4553: The Japanese Trade Balance: Recent History and Future Prospects

- David Backus
- 4552: Is Housing Wealth a Sideshow?

- Jonathan Skinner
- 4551: The Effect of Convicton on Income Through the Life Cycle

- Daniel Nagin and Joel Waldfogel
- 4550: The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth

- Oded Galor and David Weil
- 4549: Econometric Estimates of Prices Indexes for Personal Computers in the 1990s

- Ernst R. Berndt, Zvi Griliches and Neal Rappaport
- 4548: Labor Adjustment Under Different Institutional Structures: A Case Study of Germany and The United States

- Susan Houseman and Katharine Abraham
- 4547: Rules, Discretion, and Central Bank Independence: The German Experience 1880-1989

- Bernhard Eschweiler and Michael Bordo
- 4546: A Comparison of the United States and Canadian Banking Systems in the Twentieth Century: Stability vs. Efficiency?

- Michael Bordo, Hugh Rockoff and Angela Redish
- 4545: Short-run and Long-run Expectations of the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate

- Takatoshi Ito
- 4544: Term, Inflation, and Foreign Exchange Risk Premia: A Unified Treatment

- Lars Svensson
- 4543: Multilateral Tariff Cooperation during the Formation of Customs Unions

- Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger
- 4542: Does Profit Sharing Affect Productivity?

- Douglas Kruse
- 4541: Earnings Inequality in Germany

- Katharine Abraham and Susan Houseman
- 4540: The Output Contributions of Computer Equipment and Personnel: A Firm- Level Analysis

- Frank Lichtenberg
- 4539: Welfare and the Well-Being of Children: The Relative Effectiveness of Cash and In-Kind Transfers

- Janet Currie
- 4538: Endogenous Growth, Public Capital, and the Convergence of Regional Manufacturing Industries

- Charles R. Hulten and Robert M. Schwab
- 4537: Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

- Dora Costa
- 4536: Market Structure and International Trade: Business Groups in East Asia

- Robert Feenstra, Tzu-Han Yang and Gary G. Hamilton
- 4535: The Efficiency Cost of Increased Progressivity

- Robert Triest
- 4534: International Capital Mobility in the 1990s

- Maurice Obstfeld
- 4533: Information and Economic Efficiency

- Richard Arnott, Bruce Greenwald and Joseph Stiglitz
- 4532: Does Central Bank Intervention Increase the Volatility of Foreign Exchange Rates?

- Kathryn Dominguez
- 4531: Collateral Damage: How Refinancing Constraints Exacerbate Regional Recessions

- Andrew Caplin, Charles Freeman and Joseph Tracy
- 4530: Aging in Germany and the United States: International Comparisons

- Axel Borsch-Supan
- 4529: Estimating Sectoral Cycles Using Cointegration and Common Features

- Robert Engle and João Issler
- 4528: An Evaluation of Recent Evidence on the Employment Effects of Minimum and Subminimum Wages

- David Card, Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger
- 4527: Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth

- Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman
- 4526: Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints

- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, David Joulfaian and Harvey Rosen
- 4525: On the Optimal Taxation of Capital Income

- Larry Jones, Rodolfo Manuelli and Peter Rossi
- 4524: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Asset Pricing Under Recursive Utility

- Larry Epstein and Angelo Melino
- 4523: Growth and the Effects of Inflation

- Larry Jones and Rodolfo Manuelli
- 4522: Currency Option Pricing in Credible Target Zones

- Bernard Dumas, Peter Jennergren and Bertil Naslund
- 4521: The Economic Reality of the Beauty Myth

- Susan Averett and Sanders Korenman
- 4520: A Test of Efficiency for the S&P Index Option Market Using Variance Forecasts

- Jaesun Noh, Robert Engle and Alex Kane
- 4519: Index-Option Pricing with Stochastic Volatility and the Value of Accurate Variance Forecasts

- Robert Engle, Alex Kane and Jaesun Noh
- 4518: Beauty and the Labor Market

- Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle
- 4517: Short-Run Independence of Monetary Policy Under Pegged Exchange Rates and Effects of Money on Exchange Rates and Interest Rates

- Alan Stockman and Lee Ohanian
- 4516: The Importance of Precautionary Motives in Explaining Individual and Aggregate Saving

- Robert Hubbard, Jonathan Skinner and Stephen Zeldes
- 4515: A Small Open Economy in Depression: Lessons from Canada in the 1930s

- Caroline Betts, Michael Bordo and Angela Redish
- 4514: Short-Term Contracts as a Monitoring Device

- Patrick Rey and Joseph Stiglitz
- 4513: Discrete Plant-Location Decisions in an Applied General-Equilibrium Model of Trade Liberalization

- James Markusen and Thomas Rutherford
- 4512: Anti-Competitive and Rent-Shifting Aspects of Domestic-Content Provisions in Regional Trade Blocks

- Florencio Lopez- de-Silane, James Markusen and Thomas Rutherford
- 4511: Trade Policy, Exchange Rates and Growth

- Sebastian Edwards
- 4510: Privatization of Social Security: Lessons from Chile

- Peter Diamond
- 4509: Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

- David Card and Alan Krueger
- 4508: The Selection Hypothesis and the Relationship between Trial and Plaintiff Victory

- Joel Waldfogel
- 4507: Optimal Awards and Penalties when the Probability of Prevailing Varies Among Plaintiffs

- A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
- 4506: International Capital Mobility, Public Investment and Economic Growth

- Richard Clarida
- 4505: The Consumer Price Index as a Measure of Inflation

- Michael F. Bryan and Stephen Cecchetti
- 4504: Fixed Exchange Rates as a Means to Price Stability: What Have We Learned

- Lars Svensson
- 4503: Fixing Exchange Rates: A Virtual Quest for Fundamentals

- Robert Flood and Andrew Rose
- 4502: Dynamic General Equilibrium Models with Imperfectly Competitive Product Markets

- Julio Rotemberg and Michael Woodford
- 4501: Did 401(k) Plans Replace Other Employer Provided Pensions?

- Leslie Papke, Mitchell Petersen and James Poterba
- 4500: The Dependent Economy Model with Both Traded and Non-Traded Capital Goods

- Philip L. Brock and Stephen J Turnovsky
- 4499: Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation

- William Easterly and Sergio Rebelo
- 4498: Fiscal Anarchy in the U.K.: Modelling Poll Tax Noncompliance

- Timothy Besley, Ian Preston and Michael Ridge
- 4497: The Impact of Alcohol Consumption and Marijuana Use on High School Graduation

- Tetsuji Yamada, Michael Kendix and Tadashi Yamada
- 4496: The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income: A Panel Study of the1986 Tax Reform Act

- Martin Feldstein
- 4495: European Exchange Rate Credibility Before the Fall

- Andrew Rose and Lars Svensson
- 4494: Sticking it Out: Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints

- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, David Joulfaian and Harvey Rosen
- 4493: International Business Cycles: Theory and Evidence

- David Backus, Patrick Kehoe and Finn Kydland
- 4492: Small Business and Job Creation: Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing theFacts

- Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh
- 4491: Estimates of the Returns to Schooling From Sibling Data: Fathers, Sons and Brothers

- Orley Ashenfelter and David Zimmerman
- 4490: Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model

- Varadarajan Chari, Lawrence Christiano and Patrick Kehoe
- 4489: Dynamic Pricing in Retail Gasoline Markets

- Severin Borenstein and Andrea Shepard
- 4488: Population Increase, Extralegal Appropriation, and the End of Colonialism

- Herschel Grossman and Murat Iyigun
- 4487: Measuring Noise in Inventory Models

- Steven Durlauf and Louis Maccini
- 4486: Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment

- Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti
- 4485: Credit Channel or Credit Actions? An Interpretation of the Postwar Transmission Mechanism

- Christina Romer and David Romer
- 4484: Self-Defeating Regional Concentration

- Kiminori Matsuyama and Takaaki Takahashi
- 4483: Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling

- David Card
- 4482: Lessons from the East Asian NICs: A Contrarian View

- Alwyn Young
- 4481: Could Stable Money Have Averted The Great Contraction?

- Michael Bordo, Ehsan Choudhri and Anna Schwartz
- 4480: Subjective Performance Measures in Optimal Incentive Contracts

- George Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin Murphy
- 4479: Limited Insurance Portability and Job Mobility: The Effects of Public Policy on Job-Lock

- Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian
- 4478: Trade, Jobs, and Wages

- Paul Krugman and Robert Lawrence
- 4477: Intergenerational Transfers, Aging, and Uncertainty

- David Weil
- 4476: Employment-Based Health Insurance and Job Mobility: Is There Evidence of Job-Lock?

- Brigitte Madrian
- 4475: Patent Protection: Of What Value and for How Long?

- Jean Lanjouw
- 4474: Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks

- William Easterly, Michael Kremer, Lant Pritchett and Lawrence Summers
- 4473: Better Late Than Early: Vertical Differentiation in the Adoption of a New Technology

- Prajit K. Dutta, Saul Lach and Aldo Rustichini
- 4472: Cross Sectional Efficiency and Labor Hoarding in an Matching Model of Unemployment

- Giuseppe Bertola and Ricardo Caballero
- 4471: Tests of Microstructural Hypotheses in the Foreign Exchange Market

- Richard Lyons
- 4470: Saving and Growth: A Reinterpretation

- Christopher Carroll and David Weil
- 4469: Health Insurance Availability and the Retirement Decision

- Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian
- 4468: Firms' Use of Outside Contractors: Theory and Evidence

- Katharine Abraham and Susan K. Taylor
- 4467: Optimal Transparency in a Dealership Market with an Application to Foreign Exchange

- Richard Lyons
- 4466: Scale, Scope and Spillovers: The Determinants of Research Productivity in the Pharmaceutical Industry

- Rebecca Henderson and Iain Cockburn
- 4465: A Domino Theory of Regionalism

- Richard Baldwin
- 4464: Getting Together and Breaking Apart: The Decline of Centralised Collective Bargaining

- Richard Freeman and Robert Gibbons
- 4463: Competitive Diffusion

- Boyan Jovanovic and Glenn MacDonald
- 4462: The Effect of Labor Market Rigidities on the Labor Force Behavior of Older Workers

- Michael Hurd
- 4461: Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies

- Kevin Lang and William T. Dickens
- 4460: Uncertain Demand, The Structure of Hospital Costs, and the Cost of EmptyHospital Beds

- Martin Gaynor and Gerard F. Anderson
- 4459: The World Price of Foreign Exchange Risk

- Bernard Dumas and Bruno Solnik
- 4458: Realignment Risk and Currency Option Pricing in Target Zones

- Bernard Dumas, Peter Jennergren and Bertil Naslund
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