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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

3257: The Impact of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Personal Saving

Jonathan Skinner and Daniel Feenberg

3256: A Quick Refresher Course in Macroeconomics

N. Gregory Mankiw

3255: Federal Taxation and the Supply of State Debt

Gilbert Metcalf

3254: The Effect of Domestic Antidumping Law in the Presence of Foreign Monopoly

Robert Staiger and Frank A. Wolak

3253: Workers' Compensation Insurance and the Duration of Workplace Injuries

Alan Krueger

3252: What Makes an Entrepreneur? Evidence on Inheritance and Capital Constraints

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

3251: Unemployment and the Demand for Unions

David Blanchflower, Robert Crouchley, Saul Estrin and Andrew Oswald

3250: Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-Term Speculation

Kenneth Froot, David Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein

3249: Nominal Exchange Rate Patterns: Correlationswith Entry, Exit, and Invesment in U.S. Industry

Linda Goldberg

3248: Tax Harmonization and Tax Competition in Europe

Hans-Werner Sinn

3247: Short Rates and Expected Asset Returns

Kenneth Froot

3246: A Variance Decomposition for Stock Returns

John Campbell

3245: A Modern Look At Asset Pricing and Short-Term Interest Rates

Martin Evans and Paul Wachtel

3244: Export Restraints With Imperfect Competition: A Selective Survey

Kala Krishna

3243: Speculative Dynamics and the Role of Feedback Traders

David Cutler, James Poterba and Lawrence Summers

3242: Speculative Dynamics

David Cutler, James Poterba and Lawrence Summers

3241: A Convex Model of Equilibrium Growth

Larry Jones and Rodolfo Manuelli

3240: Reviving the Federal Statistical System: International Aspects

Robert Lipsey

3239: Faculty Turnover at American Colleges and Universities: Analysis of AAUP Data

Ronald Ehrenberg, Hirschel Kasper and Daniel Rees

3238: A North-South Model of Taxation and Capital Flow

Joel Slemrod

3237: The Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains Realizations: Evidence from a Panel of Taxpayers

Joel Slemrod and William Shobe

3236: The Sensitivity of Strategic and Corrective R&D Policy in Oligopolistic Industries

Robert Staiger and Kyle Bagwell

3235: The Sensitivity of Strategic and Corrective R&D Policy in Battles for Monopoly

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

3234: The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on Foreign Direct Investment to and from the United States

Joel Slemrod

3233: Are OSHA Health Inspections Effective? A Longitudinal Study in the Manufacturing Sector

Wayne Gray and Carol Adaire Jones

3232: A Note on Optimal Fines When Wealth Varies Among Individuals

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

3231: Industrial De-Diversification and its Consequences for Productivity

Frank Lichtenberg

3230: Making Altruism Pay in Auction Quotas

Kala Krishna

3229: Aggregate Employment Dynamcis and Lumpy Adjustment Costs

Daniel Hamermesh

3228: Competition and Human Capital Accumulation: A Theory of Interregional Specialization and Trade

Julio Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

3227: An Estimate of a Sectoral Model of Labor Mobility

Boyan Jovanovic and Robert Moffitt

3226: Joint Crowdout: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Federal Grants on State Government Expenditures and Charitable Donations

Lawrence B. Lindsey and Richard Steinberg

3225: The Vanishing Harberger Triangle

Hans-Werner Sinn

3224: Why Does High Inflation Raise Inflation Uncertainty?

Laurence Ball

3223: A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt

3222: Effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on Corporate Financial Policy and Organizational Form

Roger Gordon and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason

3221: Money and Business Cycles: A Real Business Cycle Interpretation

Charles Plosser

3220: Participation in a Currency Union

Alessandra Casella

3219: The Non-Neutrality of Inflation for International Capital Movements

Hans-Werner Sinn

3218: Target Zones and Interest Rate Variability

Lars Svensson

3217: The Demand For Money in the U.S. During the Great Depression: Estimates and Comparison with the Post War Experience

Dennis Hoffman and Robert Rasche

3216: The Impact of Corporate Restructuring on Industrial Research and Development

Bronwyn Hall

3215: Poverty Programs, Initiation Of Prenatal Care And The Rate Of Low Birthweight Births

Richard G. Frank, Donna Strobino, David Salkever and Catherine A. Jackson

3214: Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth

William Easterly

3213: Longitudinal Patterns of Compliance with OSHA Health and Safety Regulations in the Manufacturing Sector

Wayne Gray and Carol Adaire Jones

3212: Using Production Based Asset Pricing to Explain the Behavior of Stock Returns Over the Business Cycle

John Cochrane

3211: The Dynamic Relationship between Low Birthweight and Induced Abortion in New York City: An Aggregate Time-Series Analysis

Ted Joyce and Michael Grossman

3210: Endogenous Technological Change

Paul Romer

3209: A Simple Proof That Futures Markets are Almost Always Informationally Inefficient

Ian Gale and Joseph Stiglitz

3208: Job Training: Costs, Returns, and Wage Profiles

Jacob Mincer

3207: Human Capital Responses to Technological Change in the Labor Market

Jacob Mincer

3206: Oligopolistic Pricing and the Effects of Aggregate Demand on Economic Activity

Julio Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

3205: Japan's Saving Rate: New Data and Reflections

Fumio Hayashi

3204: The Long-Run Behavior of Velocity: The Institutional Approach Revisited

Michael Bordo and Lars Jonung

3203: The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women's Work

Claudia Goldin

3202: Taxation, Corporate Capital Structure, and Financial Distress

Mark Gertler and Robert Hubbard

3201: Quality Ladders and Product Cycles

Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

3200: Alcohol consumption and Tax Differentials Between Beer, Wine and Spirits

Henry Saffer

3199: Seigniorage and Political Instability

Alex Cukierman, Sebastian Edwards and Guido Tabellini

3198: Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War

Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo

3197: The Effects of Mergers on Prices, Costs, and Capacity Utilization in the U.S. Air Transportation Industry, 1970-84

Frank Lichtenberg and Moshe Kim

3196: Saving and Liquidity Constraints

Angus Deaton

3195: Time-Series Tests of a Non-Expected-Utility Model of Asset Pricing

Alberto Giovannini and Philippe Jorion

3194: Explaining Japan's Innovation and Trade: A model of Quality Competition and Dynamic Comparive Advantage

Gene Grossman

3193: Signaling and Accounting Information

Stewart C. Myers

3192: Market Responses To Coordinated Central Bank Intervention

Kathryn Dominguez

3191: Predictable Stock Returns in the United States and Japan: A Study of Long-Term Capital Market Integration

John Campbell and Yasushi Hamao

3190: Externalities and Growth Accounting

Jess Benhabib and Boyan Jovanovic

3189: Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income

Jeremy Greenwood and Boyan Jovanovic

3188: Real Wage Determinatioan in Collective BArgaining Agreements

Louis Christofides and Andrew Oswald

3187: Do Union Wealth Concessions Explain Takeover Premiums? The Evidence on Contract Wages

Joshua Rosett

3186: The Declining Economic Position of Less-Skilled American Males

McKinley Blackburn, David Bloom and Richard Freeman

3185: Transitional Dynamics and Economic Growth in the Neoclassical Model

Robert King and Sergio Rebelo

3184: Interstate Business Tax Differentials and New Firm Location: Evidence from Panel Data

Leslie Papke

3183: Economic Analysis and the Political Economy of Policy Formation

Michael Bruno

3182: Does Unmeasured Ability Explain Inter-Industry Wage Differentials?

Robert Gibbons and Lawrence Katz

3181: The Wage Curve

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

3180: Unionization and Employment Behavior

David Blanchflower, Neil Millward and Andrew Oswald

3179: Insider Power in Wage Determination

David Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald and Mario D. Garrett

3178: The "Gold Standard Paradox" and its Resolution

Willem Buiter and Vittorio U. Grilli

3177: Business Cycles and Fertility Dynamics in the U.S.: A Vector-Autoregressive Model

Naci Mocan

3176: Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Reform: Results from a CGE Model of Cameroon

Shantayanan Devarajan and Dani Rodrik