NBER Working Papers

From National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A..
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

3357: Volatiltiy and Links Between National Stock Markets

Mervyn King, Enrique Sentana and Sushil Wadhwani

3356: A Genral Model of Dynamic Labor Demand

Daniel Hamermesh

3355: Market Power, Economic Profitability and Productivity Growth Measurement: An Integrated Structural Approach

Catherine Morrison Paul

3354: Some Inefficiency Implication of Generational Politics and Exchange

Laurence Kotlikoff and Robert Rosenthal

3353: Product Market Competition, Union Organizing Activity, and Employer Resistence

John Abowd and Henry S. Farber

3352: The Effects of International Competiton on Collective Bargaining Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

John Abowd and Thomas Lemieux

3351: The NBER Immigration, Trade, and Labor Markets Data Files

John Abowd

3350: Valuation of Variance Forecast with Simulated Option Markets

Robert Engle, Che-Hsiung Hong and Alex Kane

3349: Testing the Positive Theory of Government Finance

David S. Bizer and Steven Durlauf

3348: Does Corporate Performance Improve After Mergers?

Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu and Richard C. Rubak

3347: On Uniform Import Tariffs in Developing Countries

Sebastian Edwards

3346: Labor Market Distortions and Structural Adjustments in Developing Countries

Sebastian Edwards and Alejandra Cox Edwards

3345: Provision of Child Care: Cost Functions for Profit-Making and Not-for-Profit Day Care Centers

Swati Mukerjee, Ann Dryden Witte and Sheila Hollowell

3344: Homework in Macoreconomics I: Basic Theory (Part I of II)

Jess Benhabib, Randall Wright and Richard Rogerson

3343: Health, Children, and Elderly Living Arrangements: A Multiperiod-Multinomial Probit Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors

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

3342: Going Different Ways: Unionism in the U.S. and Other Advanced O.E.C.D. Countries

David Blanchflower and Richard Freeman

3341: What is National Saving?: Alternative Measures in Historical and International Context

David Bradford

3340: Government Failures in Development

Anne O. Krueger

3339: Internal Net Worth and the Investment Process: An Application to U.S. Agriculture

Robert Hubbard and Anil Kashyap

3338: Public Policy and Economic Growth: Developing Neoclassical Implications

Robert King and Sergio Rebelo

3337: The Quality Dimension in Army Retention

Charles Brown

3336: Wage Levels and Method of Pay

Charles Brown

3335: Drawing Inferences From Statistics Based on Multi-Year Asset Returns

Matthew Richardson and James Stock

3334: Ownership, Agency and Wages: An Examination in the Fast Food Industry

Alan Krueger

3333: Capital Flight and Tax Competition: Are There Viable Solutions to Both Problems?

Alberto Giovannini and James Hines

3332: Systematic Movements in Real Exchange Rates in the G-5: Evidence on theIntegration of Internal and External Markets

Richard C. Marston

3331: Pensions and the U.S. Labor Market

Alan Gustman and Olivia Mitchell

3330: The Output, Employment, and Interest Rate Effects of Government Consumption

S. Aiyagari, Lawrence Christiano and Martin Eichenbaum

3329: The Welfare Economics of Cooperative and Noncooperative Fiscal Policy

Willem Buiter and Kenneth Kletzer

3328: Fiscal Policy Interdependence and Efficiency

Willem Buiter and Kenneth Kletzer

3327: Canada - U.S. Free Trade and Pressures for Tax Harmonization

Roger Gordon

3326: The Relation Between Firm Growth and Q with Multiple Capital Goods: Theory and Evidence from Panel Data on Japanese Firms

Fumio Hayashi and Tohru Inoue

3325: Long Run Policy Analysis and Long Run Growth

Sergio Rebelo

3324: Do Stock Prices Move Together Too Much?

Robert Pindyck and Julio Rotemberg

3323: Financial Innovation and Current Trends in U.S. Financial Markets

Frederic Mishkin

3322: An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction

Gary Becker, Michael Grossman and Kevin Murphy

3321: The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market

John Abowd and Richard Freeman

3320: Predicting Exchange Rate Crises: Mexico Revisited

Linda Goldberg

3319: Re-Interpreting the Failure of Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency Tests:Small Transaction Costs, Big Hysteresis Bands

Richard Baldwin

3318: Entry, Contestability, and Deregulated Airline Markets: An Event Study Analysis of People Express

Michael Whinston and Scott C. Collins

3317: World Real Interest Rates

Robert Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

3316: The Welfare Economics of Moral Hazard

Richard Arnott and Joseph Stiglitz

3315: Tariffs and Sectoral Adjustments in an Open Economy

Stephen J Turnovsky

3314: Risk Adjusted Deposit Insurance for Japanese Banks

Ryuzo Sato, Rama V. Ramachandran and Bohyong Kang

3313: Fiscal Policy and the External Deficit: Siblings, but not Twins

John Helliwell

3312: Does Labor Supply Explain Fluctuations in Average Hours Worked?

Joshua Angrist

3311: Risk and Return on Real Estate: Evidence from Equity REITs

K.C. Chan, Patric Hendershott and Anthony Sanders

3310: Tenure Choice of American Youth

Donald Haurin, Patric Hendershott and Dongwook Kim

3309: Real Rents and Household Formation: The Effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

Donald Haurin, Patric Hendershott and Dongwook Kim

3308: Incentive Conflict in the International Regulatory Agreement on Risk-Based Analysis

Edward Kane

3307: Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Investment

Robert Pindyck

3306: Is the Japanese Distribution System Really Inefficient?

Takatoshi Ito and Masayoshi Maruyama

3305: Measuring the Persistence of Expected Returns

John Campbell

3304: The International Comparison Program: Current Status and Problems

Irving B. Kravis and Robert Lipsey

3303: Do Publicly Traded Corporations Act in the Public Interest?

Roger Gordon

3302: From Stabilization to Growth

Rüdiger Dornbusch

3301: Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators: A Survey

Zvi Griliches

3300: Premature Liberalization, Incomplete Stabilization: the Ozal Decade in Turkey

Dani Rodrik

3299: Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Matter? Disentangling the Portfolio and Expectations Effects for the Mark

Kathryn Dominguez and Jeffrey Frankel

3298: Investment Tax Credit in an Open Economy

Partha Sen and Stephen J Turnovsky

3297: Predictable Stock Returns: Reality or Statistical Illusion?

Charles Nelson and Myung J. Kim

3296: Stock Returns and Real Activity: A Century of Evidence

G. Schwert

3295: Inventories and the Short-Run Dynamics of Commodity Prices

Robert Pindyck

3294: Specific Capital, Mobility, and Wages: Wages Rise with Job Seniority

Robert Topel

3293: American Firms Face Europe: 1992

Robert Lipsey

3292: Determinants of Saving and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan

Tetsuji Yamada, Tadashi Yamada and Guorn Liu

3291: Non-Cointegration and Econometric Evaluation of Models of Regional Shift and Share

Scott Brown, N. Edward Coulson and Robert Engle

3290: Were Japanese Stock Prices Too High?

Kenneth French and James Poterba

3289: Randomization in Optimal Income Tax Schedules

Dagobert Brito, Jonathan Hamilton, Steven M. Slutsky and Joseph Stiglitz

3288: Pareto Efficient Tax Structures

Dagobert Brito, Jonathan Hamilton, Steven M. Slutsky and Joseph Stiglitz

3287: Debt, Deficits and Inflation: An Application to the Public Finances of India

Willem Buiter and Urjit R. Patel

3286: The Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply

Robert Moffitt and Barbara Wolfe

3285: Does It Matter What We Trade? Trade and Industrial Policies When Labor Markets Don't Clear

William T. Dickens

3284: First Mover Advantages, Blockaded Entry, And the Economics of Uneven Development

James Markusen

3283: Endogenous Market Structures in International Trade

Ignatius Horstmann and James Markusen

3282: Was There a "Peso Problem" in the U.S. Term Structure of Interest Rates:1979-1982?

Karen Lewis

3281: Capital Market Integration: Issues of International Taxation

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

3280: The Effects of Colleges and Universities on Local Labor Markets

Patricia Beeson and Edward B. Montgomery

3279: Asset Prices under Habit Formation and Catching up with the Joneses

Andrew Abel

3278: Changing Effects of Monetary Policy on Real Economic Activity

Benjamin M. Friedman

3277: Distributing the Gains from Trade With Incomplete Information

Robert Feenstra and Tracy Lewis

3276: Trade and Uneven Growth

Robert Feenstra

3275: Increasing Returns and Economic Geography

Paul Krugman

3274: Asymmetries and Rigidities in Wage Adjustments by Firms

Harry Holzer and Edward B. Montgomery

3273: The Impact of Tax Reform on Charitable Giving: A 1989 Perspective

Charles Clotfelter

3272: A Positive Theory of Social Security

Guido Tabellini

3271: Are Nonconvexities Important For Understanding Growth?

Paul Romer

3270: Taxation and Housing Markets: Preliminary Evidence on the Effects of Recent Tax Reforms

James Poterba

3269: Why is Trade Reform so Unpopular? On Status Quo Bias in Policy Reforms

Raquel Fernandez and Dani Rodrik

3268: Rational Addictive Behavior and Cigarette Smoking

Frank Chaloupka

3267: Men, Women, and Addiction: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Frank Chaloupka

3266: Implications of Corporate Indebtedness for Monetary Policy

Benjamin M. Friedman

3265: Dynamic Optimal Income Taxation with Government Commitment

Dagobert Brito, Jonathan Hamilton, Steven M. Slutsky and Joseph Stiglitz

3264: Macroeconomic Convergence: International Transmission of Growth and Technical Progress

John Helliwell and Alan Chung

3263: Can Direct and Indirect Taxes Be Added for International Comparisons of Competitiveness?

Hans-Werner Sinn

3262: Pay, Performance, and Turnover of Bank CEOs

Jason R. Barro and Robert Barro

3261: Product Innovations, Price Indices and the (Mis)Measurement of Economic Performance

Manuel Trajtenberg

3260: The Effects of Mandating Benefits Packages

Olivia Mitchell

3259: The Informational Content of Initial Public Offerings

Ian Gale and Joseph Stiglitz

3258: Designing Policies to Open Trade

Robert Feenstra, Tracy Lewis and John McMillan