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3506: Distortionary Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods

Charles Ballard and Don Fullerton

3505: A General Equilibrium Model of Housing, Taxes, and Portfolio Choice

James Berkovec and Don Fullerton

3504: Where Does the Meteor Shower Come From? The Role of Stochastic Policy Coordination

Takatoshi Ito, Robert Engle and Wen-Ling Lin

3503: Procyclical Labor Productivity and Competing Theories of the Business Cycle: Some Evidence from Interwar U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Ben Bernanke and Martin L. Parkinson

3502: Efficient Contracting and Market Power: Evidence from the U.S. Natural Gas Industry

Robert Hubbard and Robert J. Weiner

3501: Taxation and the Cost of Capital: The "Old" View, the "New" View and Another View

Hans-Werner Sinn

3500: Taxes, Tariffs, and The Global Corporation

James Levinsohn and Joel Slemrod

3499: International Impacts on Domestic Political Economy: A Case of Japanese General Elections

Takatoshi Ito

3498: New Trading Practices and Short-run Market Efficiency

Kenneth Froot and Andre F. Perold

3497: Capital Flows, Foreign Direct Investment, and Debt-Equity Swaps in Developing Countries

Sebastian Edwards

3496: The Globalization of Information and Capital Mobility

William Branson and Dwight M. Jaffee

3495: Interest Rate Spreads, Credit Constraints, and Investment Fluctuations: An Empirical Investigation

Mark Gertler, Robert Hubbard and Anil Kashyap

3494: Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Bruce Meyer, W Viscusi and David L. Durbin

3493: Explaining Fiscal Policies and Inflation in Developing Countries

Sebastian Edwards and Guido Tabellini

3492: The Effect of Veterans Benefits on Veterans' Education and Earnings

Joshua Angrist

3491: Sectoral Shifts and Cyclical Unemployment Reconsidered

S. Lael Brainard and David Cutler

3490: On the Accuracy of Producer Price Indexes for Pharmaceutical Preparations: An Audit Based on Detailed Firm-Specific Data

Ernst R. Berndt, Zvi Griliches and Joshua G. Rosett

3489: Fiscal Policy, Capital Accumulation, and Debt in an Open Economy

Stephen J Turnovsky and Partha Sen

3488: The Gold Standard, Deflation, and Financial Crisis in the Great Depression: An International Comparison

Ben Bernanke and Harold James

3487: The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transnission

Ben Bernanke

3486: On the Predictive Power of Interest Rates and Interest Rate Spreads

Ben Bernanke

3485: Trade, Knowledge Spillovers, and Growth

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

3484: The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence From Disvestitures

Steven Kaplan and Michael Weisbach

3483: Auctions with Endogenous Valuations, The Snowball Effect Revisited

Kala Krishna

3482: Search for a Theory of Money

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Randall Wright

3481: Asset Returns with Transactions Cost and Uninsured Risk: A Stage III Exercise

S. Aiyagari and Mark Gertler

3480: Learning and the Value of the Firm

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

3479: Recursive Linear Models of Dynamic Economies

Lars Hansen and Thomas Sargent

3478: Political Cycles in OECD Economies

Alberto Alesina and Nouriel Roubini

3477: Fiscal Paradise: Foreign Tax Havens and American Business

James Hines and Eric M. Rice

3476: Welfare and Customs Unions

Carsten Kowalczyk

3475: Monopoly and Trade Policy

Carsten Kowalczyk

3474: Labor Supply, Hours Constraints and Job Mobility

Joseph Altonji and Christina Paxson

3473: Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages

Sanders Korenman and David Neumark

3472: Wealth Depletion and Life Cycle Consumption by the Elderly

Michael Hurd

3471: Temporal Variation in the Interest-Rate Response to Money Announcements

V. Vance Roley and Simon M. Wheatley

3470: Exchange Rate Forecasting Techniques, Survey Data, and Implications for the Foreign Exchange Market

Jeffrey Frankel and Kenneth Froot

3469: Finite Lifetimes and Growth

Larry Jones and Rodolfo Manuelli

3468: The Predictability of Real Exchange Rate Changes in the Short and Long Run

Robert Cumby and John Huizinga

3467: Rational Speculative Bubbles in an Exchange Rate Target Zone

Willem Buiter and Paolo Pesenti

3466: The Foreign Exchange Risk Premium in a Target Zone with Devaluation Risk

Lars Svensson

3465: Investor Sentiment and the Closed-End Fund Puzzle

Charles Lee, Andrei Shleifer and Richard Thaler

3464: Stock Prices and Bond Yields: Can Their Comovements Be Explained in Terms of Present Value Models?

Robert Shiller and Andrea E. Beltratti

3463: Scale and Scope Effects on Advertising Agency Costs

Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

3462: Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada

Maria J. Hanratty and Rebecca Blank

3461: The Special Education Costs of Low Birthweight

Stephen Chaikind and Hope Corman

3460: The Politics of 1992: Fiscal Policy and European Integration

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

3459: A Cross Country Comparison of Seasonal Cycles and Business Cycles

J. Joseph Beaulieu and Jeffrey Miron

3458: Pensions and Wages: An Hedonic Price Theory Approach

Edward B. Montgomery, Kathryn Shaw and Mary Ellen Benedict

3457: International Trade and Investment under Different Rates of Time Preference

Kyoji Fukao and Koichi Hamada

3456: Monetary Overhang and Reforms in the 1940s

Rüdiger Dornbusch and Holger Wolf

3455: Taxes, Fringe Benefits and Faculty

Daniel Hamermesh and Stephen Woodbury

3454: The Dynamic Efficiency Cost of Not taxing Housing

Jonathan Skinner

3453: Popular Attitudes Towards Free Markets: The Soviet Union and the United States Compared

Robert Shiller, Maxim Boycko and Vladimir Korobov

3452: Fundamental Value and Market Value

William C. Brainard, Matthew Shapiro and John B. Shoven

3451: Do Stationary Risk Premia Explain It All? Evidence from the Term Struct

Martin Evans and Karen Lewis

3450: The Seasonal Cycle in U.S. Manufacturing

J. Joseph Beaulieu and Jeffrey Miron

3449: Human Resource Management Systems and the Performance of U.S. Manufacturing Businesses

Casey Ichniowski

3448: A Sorting Model of Labor Contracts: Implications for Layoffs and Wage-Tenure Profiles

Andrew Weiss and Ruqu Wang

3447: Women's Work, Women's Lives: A Comparative Economic Perspective

Francine Blau and Marianne A. Ferber

3446: Assuming The Can Opener: Hedonic Wage Estimates and the Value of Life

William T. Dickens

3445: Career Plans and Expectations of Young Women and Men: The Earnings Gap and Labor Force Participation

Francine Blau

3444: Employment and Earnings of Disadvantaged Young Men in a Labor Shortage Economy

Richard Freeman

3443: Capital Controls, Collection Costs, and Domestic Public Debt

Joshua Aizenman and Pablo Guidotti

3442: Measures of Prices and Price Competitiveness in International Trade in Manufactured Goods

Robert Lipsey, Linda Molinari and Irving B. Kravis

3441: Does Competition Between Currencies Lead to Price Level and Exchange Rate Stability?

Michael Woodford

3440: Monetary Contracting Between Central Banks and the Design of SustainableExchange-Rate Zones

Francisco Delgado and Bernard Dumas

3439: On The Behavior of Commodity Prices

Angus Deaton and Guy Laroque

3438: Participation Dynamics: Sunspots and Cycles

Satyajit Chatterjee, Russell Cooper and B Ravikumar

3437: Disability Transfers and the Labor Force Attachment of Older Men: Evidence from the Historical Record

John Bound

3436: Patterns of Aging in Thailand and Cote D'Ivoire

Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson

3435: The Role of Banks in Reducing the Costs of Financial Distress in Japan

Takeo Hoshi, Anil Kashyap and David Scharfstein

3434: Tax Policy and the Dividend Puzzle

B. Douglas Bernheim

3433: Technological Change and the Careers of Older Workers

Ann P. Bartel and Nachum Sicherman

3432: Real Business Cycle Theory: Wisdom or Whimsy?

Martin Eichenbaum

3431: A Theory of Corporate Financial Structure Based on the Seniority of Claims

Oliver Hart and John Moore

3430: Measuring Ignorance in the Market: A New Method with an Application to Physician Services

Martin Gaynor and Solomon Polachek

3429: Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Magnitude and Probability of Fines

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

3428: Medical Malpractice: An Empirical Examination of the Litigation Process

Henry S. Farber and Michelle White

3427: Univariate vs. Multivariate Forecasts of GNP Growth and Stock Returns: Evidence and Implications for the Persistence of Shocks, Detrending Methods

John Cochrane

3426: Did J.P. Morgan's Men Add Value? A Historical Perspective on Financial Capitalism

J. Bradford De Long

3425: Modeling American Marriage Patterns

David Bloom and Neil G. Bennett

3424: Sovereign Debt, Reputation, and Credit Terms

Jonathan Eaton

3423: Immigrant Participation in the Welfare System

George Borjas and Stephen Trejo

3422: Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital

McKinley Blackburn and David Bloom

3421: Ex-Day Behavior of Japanese Stock Prices: New Insights from New Methodology

Fumio Hayashi and Ravi Jagannathan

3420: Aging and Labor Force Participation: A Review of Trends and Explanations

David Wise and Robin L. Lumsdaine

3419: Economic Growth and Convergence across The United States

Robert Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

3418: Target Zones with Limited Reserves

Paul Krugman and Julio Rotemberg

3417: An Experimental Comparison of Dispute Rates in Alternative Arbitration Systems

Orley Ashenfelter, Janet Currie, Henry S. Farber and Matthew Spiegel

3416: Can Capital Income Taxes Survive in Open Economies?

Roger Gordon

3415: The Continued Interest Rate Vulnerability of Thrifts

Patric Hendershott and James D. Shilling

3414: Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth

Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy and Robert Tamura

3413: Human Capital, Product Quality, And Growth

Nancy Stokey

3412: Foreign Firms and Export Performance in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Debt Crisis

Magnus Blomstrom and Robert Lipsey

3411: Trends and Cycles in Foreign Lending

Barry Eichengreen

3410: Relaxing the External Constraint: Europe in the 1930s

Barry Eichengreen

3409: Jobfinding and Wages when Longrun Unemployment is Really Long: The Case of Spain

Alfonso Alba-Ramirez and Richard Freeman

3408: The Resurgence of Inventory Research: What Have We Learned?

Alan Blinder and Louis Maccini

3407: Views on the Likelihood of Financial Crisis

Benjamin M. Friedman