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2806: Initial Public Offerings: Investor Behavior and Underpricing

Robert Shiller

2805: Employer Behavior in the Face of Union Organizing Drives

Richard Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner

2804: Demographic Analysis of Birthweight-Specific Neonatal Mortality

Hope Corman, Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce

2803: The Joint Retirement Decision of Husbands and Wives

Michael Hurd

2802: Adjusting to an Aging Labor Force

Edward Lazear

2801: Fear of Nuclear War and Intercountry Differences in the Rate of Saving

Joel Slemrod

2800: Shirking or Productive Schmoozing: Wages and the Allocation of Time at Work

Daniel Hamermesh

2799: Markups in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing: A Short Run Econometric Analysis

Catherine Morrison Paul

2798: Why Does Stock Market Volatility Change Over Time?

G. Schwert

2797: The Dynamics of an Aging Population: The Case of Four OECD Countries

Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Robert Hagemann and Giuseppe Nicoletti

2796: The Effectiveness of Foreign-Exchange Intervention: Recent Experience

Maurice Obstfeld

2795: Mean Reversion in Stock Prices? A Reappraisal of the Empirical Evidence

Myung Jig Kim, Charles Nelson and Richard Startz

2794: The Baby Boom, The Baby Bust, and the Housing Market

N. Gregory Mankiw and David Weil

2793: Inflation, Index-Linked Bonds, and Asset Allocation

Zvi Bodie

2792: Retrospective Capital Gains Taxation

Alan Auerbach

2791: The Japanese Tax Reform and the Effective Rate of Tax on Japanese Corporate Investments

John B. Shoven

2790: Notes on Credibility and Stabilization

Rüdiger Dornbusch

2789: Substitution over Time in Work and Consumption

Robert Hall

2788: Estimating The Age-Productivity Profile Using Lifetime Earnings

Laurence Kotlikoff

2787: The Dynamics of Living Arrangements of the Elderly

Axel Borsch-Supan, Laurence Kotlikoff and John N. Morris

2786: Can The European Monetary System Be Copied Outside Europe? Lessons From Ten Years of Monetary Policy Coordination In Europe

Francesco Giavazzi and Alberto Giovannini

2785: Credibility, Debt and Unemployment: Ireland's Failed Stabilization

Rüdiger Dornbusch

2784: Forecasting Pre-World War I Inflation: The Fisher Effect Revisited

Robert Barsky and J. Bradford De Long

2783: Implications of the Illinois Reemployment Bonus Experiments For Theories of Unemployment and Policy Design

Bruce Meyer

2782: The Determinants of Employee Productivity and Earnings: Some New Evidence

Harry Holzer

2781: Tariffs, Capital Accumulation, and the Current Account in a Small Open Economy

Partha Sen and Stephen J Turnovsky

2780: Asset Prices and Time-Varying Risk

Robert Flood

2779: A Bequest-Constrained Economy: Welfare Analysis

Marc Nerlove, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

2778: Seigniorage in Europe

Vittorio U. Grilli

2777: Offset and Sterilization Under Fixed Exchange Rates With An Optimizing Central Bank

Nouriel Roubini

2776: Production Based Asset Pricing

John Cochrane

2775: Real Exchange Rates and Macroeconomics: A Selective Survey

Rüdiger Dornbusch

2774: Portfolio Choice and Asset Pricing With Nontraded Assets

Lars Svensson

2773: Current Account and Budget Deficits in an Intertemporal Model of Consumption and Taxation Smoothing. A Solution to the "Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle"?

Nouriel Roubini

2772: A Probability Model of The Coincident Economic Indicators

James Stock and Mark Watson

2771: The Simple Analytics of Debt-Equity Swaps

Elhanan Helpman

2770: Monetary Policy Strategies

Robert Flood and Peter Isard

2769: Intellectual Property Rights and North-South Trade

Judith C. Chin and Gene Grossman

2768: Unexpected Inflation, Real Wages, and Employment Determination in Union Contracts

David Card

2767: Sovereign Debt Buybacks Can Lower Bargaining Costs

Julio Rotemberg

2766: How Do Fixed-Exchange-Rates Regimes Work: The Evidence From The Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and The EMS

Alberto Giovannini

2765: Production, Sales, and the Change in Inventories: An Identity That Doesn`t Add Up

Jeffrey Miron and Stephen Zeldes

2764: Bank Runs in Open Economies and The International Transmission of Panics

Peter Garber and Vittorio U. Grilli

2763: Financial Capacity, Reliquification, and Production in an Economy with Long-Term Financial Arrangements

Mark Gertler

2762: Mean Reversion in Equilibrium Asset Prices

Stephen Cecchetti, Pok-sang Lam and Nelson Mark

2761: Differences In Income Elasticities and Trends in Real Exchange Rates

Paul Krugman

2760: The Effect of Multinational Firms' Operations on Their Domestic Employment

Irving B. Kravis and Robert Lipsey

2759: Voting on the Budget Deficit

Alberto Alesina and Guido Tabellini

2758: Financial Factors in Business Fluctuations

Mark Gertler and Robert Hubbard

2757: Theoretical Developments in the Light of Macroeconomic Policy and Empirical Research

Michael Bruno

2756: A Theory of Managed Trade

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

2755: Comparisons Between Public and Private Sector Union Wage Differentials: Does the Legal Environment Matter?

Joseph Tracy

2754: Testing Strategic Bargaining Models Using Stock Market Data

Joseph Tracy

2753: Altruism, Rivalry and Crowding-Out in the Nonprofit Firm's Supply of Charity Services: The Case of Hospitals

Richard G. Frank and David Salkever

2752: Pension Fund Investment Policy

Zvi Bodie

2751: Coalitions in the Uruguay Round: The Extent, Pros and Cons of Developing Country Participation 1,2

Colleen Hamilton and John Whalley

2750: Commodity Prices as a Leading Indicator of Inflation

James M. Boughton and William Branson

2749: Costs and Benefits of Prenatal Screening For Cystic Fibrosis

Alan M. Garber and Joseph P. Fenerty

2748: The Behavior of Home Buyers in Boom and Post-Boom Markets

Karl Case and Robert Shiller

2747: Marriage Bars: Discrimination Against Married Women Workers, 1920's to 1950's

Claudia Goldin

2746: Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birthweight Production Functions in New York City

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce

2745: Government Subsidies to Private Military R&D Investment: DOD's IR&D Policy

Frank Lichtenberg

2744: Human Resource Policies and Union-Nonunion Productivity Differences

Steven Allen

2743: The Political Economy of War Debts and Inflation

Herschel Grossman

2742: Does the Harberger Model Greatly Understate the Excess Burden of the Corporate Tax? - Another Model Says Yes

Jane Gravelle and Laurence Kotlikoff

2741: The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment

Lawrence Katz and Bruce Meyer

2740: Management of a Common Currency

Alessandra Casella and Jonathan Feinstein

2739: Can Inter-Industry Wage Differentials Justify Strategic Trade Policy?

Lawrence Katz and Lawrence Summers

2738: Latin America's Intraregional Trade: Evolution and Future Prospects

Sebastian Edwards and Miguel Savastano

2737: The Dynamic Effects of Aggregate Demand and Supply Disturbances

Olivier Blanchard and Danny Quah

2736: Multicountry Modeling of Financial Markets

Jon Cockerline, John Helliwell and Robert Lafrance

2735: Making Bequests Without Spoiling Children: Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility That Altruistic Bequests are not Equaliz

Laurence Kotlikoff and Assaf Razin

2734: Why Don't the Elderly Live With Their Children? A New Look

Laurence Kotlikoff and John Morris

2733: Are Estimated Tax Elasticities Really Just Tax Evasion Elasticities? The Case of Charitable Contributions

Joel Slemrod

2732: Technical Change, Learning, and Wages

Ann P. Bartel and Frank Lichtenberg

2731: Inflation, External Debt and Financial Sector Reform: A Quantitative Approach To Consistent Fiscal Policy With An Application to Turkey

Ritu Anand and Sweder van Wijnbergen

2730: The Sensitivity of Tests of the Intertemporal Allocation of Consumption to Near-Rational Alternatives

John Cochrane

2729: U.S. International Capital Flows: Perspectives From Rational Maximizing Models

Robert Hodrick

2728: Labor and Transfer Income and Older Women's Work: Estimates From the United States

Philip de Jong, Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe

2727: The Effect of Information Releases on the Pricing and Timing of Equity Issues: Theory and Evidence

Robert Korajczyk, Deborah Lucas and Robert McDonald

2726: Trade Dependency, Bargaining and External Debt

Joshua Aizenman

2725: Fiscal Deficits and Relative Prices in a Growing World Economy

Maurice Obstfeld

2724: Specialization, Transactions Technologies, and Money Growth

Harold Cole and Alan Stockman

2723: The Case of the Vanishing Revenues: Auction Quotas With Oligopoly

Kala Krishna

2722: Industrial Organization and Product Quality: Evidence From South Korean and Taiwanese Exports

Dani Rodrik

2721: Real and Monetary Determinants of Real Exchange Rate Behavior: Theory and Evidence From Developing Countries

Sebastian Edwards

2720: IR&D Project Data and Theories of R&D Investment

Frank Lichtenberg

2719: How Do the Elderly Form Expectations? An Analysis of Responses to New Information

B. Douglas Bernheim

2718: Econometrics and the Design of Economic Reform

Michael Bruno

2717: An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Models of Risky Decision Making

Joanna R. Baker, Pamela K. Lattimore and Ann D. Witte

2716: On the Existence and Interpretation of the "Unit Root" in U.S. GNP

J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence Summers

2715: The Survival of Noise Traders in Financial Markets

J. Bradford De Long, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence Summers and Robert Waldmann

2714: Interactions between Domestic and Foreign Investment

Robert Lipsey and Guy V.G. Stevens

2713: The Early History of Price Index Research

Walter Diewert

2712: Promises, Promises: The States' Experience With Income Tax Indexing

Daniel Feenberg and Harvey Rosen

2711: Carbon Monoxide in the Ambient Air and Blood Pressure: Evidence From NHANES II and the SAROAD System

Douglas Coate and Michael Grossman

2710: Banks as Social Accountants and Screening Devices for the Allocation of Credit

Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Weiss

2709: Income Distribution, Market Size, and Industrialization

Kevin Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

2708: Industrialization and the Big Push

Kevin Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

2707: Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence From Patent Records, 1790 - 1846

Kenneth Sokoloff