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4977: Is There a `Credit Channel' for Monetary Policy?

Robert Hubbard

4976: CEO Pay and Firm Performance: Dynamics, Asymmetries, and Alternative Performance Measures

Paul Joskow and Nancy Rose

4975: Business Cycles and the Asset Structure of Foreign Trade

Marianne Baxter and Mario Crucini

4974: High Tech R&D Subsidies: Estimating the Effects of Sematech

Douglas Irwin and Pete Klenow

4973: Bureaucracy, Infrastructure, and Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Cities During the Progressive Era

James Rauch

4972: Competition Policy and International Trade

James Levinsohn

4971: The Operation and Collapse of Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes

Peter Garber and Lars Svensson

4970: Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition

Jerry Hausman

4969: Indicator Properties of the Paper-Bill Spread: Lessons from Recent Experiences

Benjamin M. Friedman and Kenneth Kuttner

4968: The Dynamics of Dual-Job Holding and Job Mobility

Christina Paxson and Nachum Sicherman

4967: Spillovers, Foreign Investment, and Export Behavior

Brian Aitken, Gordon Hanson and Ann Harrison

4966: Forecasting Transaction Rates: The Autoregressive Conditional Duration Model

Robert Engle and Jeffrey R. Russell

4965: Market Underreaction to Open Market Share Repurchases

David Ikenberry, Josef Lakonishok and Theo Vermaelen

4964: Getting Interventions Right: How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich

Dani Rodrik

4963: A Retrospective on the Debt Crisis

Michael Dooley

4962: International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy

Robert Staiger

4961: A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism

Louis Kaplow

4960: The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Benefits on Layoffs Using Firm and Individual Data

Patricia Anderson and Bruce Meyer

4959: Cross-Country Evidence on the Link Between Volatility and Growth

Garey Ramey and Valerie Ramey

4958: Hedging Options in a GARCH Environment: Testing the Term Structure of Stochastic Volatility Models

Robert Engle and Joshua Rosenberg

4957: The Size and Timing of Devaluations in Capital-Controlled Developing Countries

Robert Flood and Nancy Marion

4956: Unnatural Experiments? Estimating the Incidence of Endogenous Policies

Timothy Besley and Anne Case

4955: The Economic Benefits from Immigration

George Borjas

4954: Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: An Economic Analysis of Interest Restrictions and Usury Laws

Edward Glaeser and Jose Scheinkman

4953: Economic Effects of Quality Regulations in the Daycare Industry

Tasneem Chipty and Ann Dryden Witte

4952: Perspectives on PPP and Long-Run Real Exchange Rates

Kenneth Froot and Kenneth Rogoff

4951: Puzzles in International Financial Markets

Karen Lewis

4950: An Intergenerational Model of Wages, Hours and Earnings

Joseph Altonji and Thomas A. Dunn

4949: Education and Health: Where There's Smoke There's an Instrument

William Evans and Edward Montgomery

4948: Prices, Output and Hours: An Empirical Analysis Based on a Sticky Price Model

Julio Rotemberg

4947: Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?

Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

4946: Intellectual Capital and the Firm: The Technology of Geographically Localized Knowledge Spillovers

Lynne Zucker, Michael Darby and Jeff Armstrong

4945: Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, The Swedish Way

Anders Bjorklund and Richard Freeman

4944: The GATT's Contribution to Economic Recovery in Post-War Western Europe

Douglas Irwin

4943: Insurance Rationing and the Origins of Workers' Compensation

Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

4942: Can Having Fewer Partners Increase Prevalence of Aids?

Michael Kremer

4941: Disability Insurance Rejection Rates and the Labor Supply of Older Workers

Jonathan Gruber and Jeffrey D. Kubik

4940: International Trade Theory: The Evidence

Edward Leamer and James Levinsohn

4939: The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Does Arrest Matter?

Helen V. Tauchen and Ann Dryden Witte

4938: Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Bennett McCallum

4937: Using Expectations Data to Study Subjective Income Expectations

Jeff Dominitz and Charles Manski

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