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2477: Productivity in American Whaling: The New Bedford Fleet in the Nineteenth Century

Lance Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Teresa Hutchins

2476: Real Rigidities and the Non-Neutrality of Money

Laurence Ball and David Romer

2475: Monetary Policy and Performance in the U.S., Japan and Europe, 1973-86

Stanley Fischer

2474: Recent Developments in Macroeconomics: A Very Quick Refresher Course

N. Gregory Mankiw

2473: Recent Developments in Macroeocnomics

Stanley Fischer

2472: The Case of the Negative Nominal Interest Rates: New Estimates of the Term Structure of Interest Rates During the Great Depression

Stephen Cecchetti

2471: The Dynamics of Housing Demand by the Elderly: Wealth, Cash Flow, and Demographic Effects

Jonathan Feinstein and Daniel McFadden

2470: A Dynamic Programming Model of Retirement Behavior

John Rust

2469: Quits, Moves, Spatial Equilibrium and Workplace Relocation

Jeffrey Zax

2468: The Politics of Ambiguity

Alberto Alesina and Alex Cukierman

2467: Dynamic Strategic Monetary Policies and Coordination in Interdependent Economies

Stephen J Turnovsky, Tamer Basar and Vasco d'Orey

2466: The Gains from Fiscal Cooperation in the Two Commodity Real Trade Model

Stephen J Turnovsky

2465: Industry Effects and Appropriability Measures in the Stock Markets Valuation of R&D and Patents

Iain Cockburn and Zvi Griliches

2464: The Flexible Exchange Rate System: Experience and Alternatives

Rüdiger Dornbusch and Jeffrey Frankel

2463: Pension Backloading, Wage Taxes, and Work Disincentives

Laurence Kotlikoff and David Wise

2462: The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation when Corporate and Noncorporate Firms Produce the Same Good

Jane Gravelle and Laurence Kotlikoff

2461: Some Notes on the Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets

Robert Fogel

2460: International Capital Mobility and Tax Evasion

Alberto Giovannini

2459: Trigger Strategies and Price Dynamics in Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets

Paul Krugman

2458: Information and Multi-Period Optimal Income Taxation with Government Commitment

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

2457: Patents, Citations and Innovations: Tracing the Links

Manuel Trajtenberg

2456: Means of Payment in Takeovers: Results for the U.K. and U.S

Robert S. Harris, Julian Franks and Colin Mayer

2455: U.S. Commercial Banks and the Developing Country Debt Crisis

Jeffrey Sachs and Harry Huizinga

2454: Wage Gaps vs. Output Gaps: Is There a Common Story for All of Europe?

Robert Gordon

2453: Symmetric Pass-Through of Tariffs and Exchange Rates Under Imperfect Competition: An Empirical Test

Robert Feenstra

2452: Quality Upgrading and its Welfare Cost in U.S. Steel Imports, 1969-74

Randi Boorstein and Robert Feenstra

2451: Welfare Dominance: An Application to Commodity Taxation

Shlomo Yitzhaki and Joel Slemrod

2450: What Do We Learn from Unit Roots in Macroeconomic Time Series?

Danny Quah

2449: Trade Policy under Endogenous Credibility

Charles Engel and Kenneth Kletzer

2448: Economic Development and the Timing and Components of Population Growth

David Bloom and Richard Freeman

2447: Factor Prices and Welfare Under Integrated Capital Markets

Carol Osler

2446: Investor Behavior in the October 1987 Stock Market Crash: Survey Evidence

Robert Shiller

2445: Predicting Criminal Recidivism Using "Split Population" Survival Time Models

Peter Schmidt and Ann Dryden Witte

2444: Nutrition and Infant Health in Japan

Tadashi Yamada, Tetsuji Yamada and Frank Chaloupka

2443: Lending to an Insecure Sovereign

Herschel Grossman

2442: Social Security and Earlier Retirement in Japan: Cross-Sectional Evidence

Tetsuji Yamada and Tadashi Yamada

2441: Portfolio Diversification, Real Interest Rates, and the Balance of Payments

Carol Osler

2440: Changes in the Cyclical Behavior of Individual Production Series

Christina Romer

2439: Pension Wealth, Age-Wealth Profiles and the Distribution of Net Worth

Ann A. McDermed, Robert L. Clark and Steven Allen

2438: The Farm Labor Force by Region, 1820-1860: Revised Estimates and Implications for Growth

Thomas Weiss

2437: Trade Deficits in the Long Run

Barry Eichengreen

2436: Permanent Income, Current Income, and Consumption

John Campbell and N. Gregory Mankiw

2435: The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing: State and Regional Results

William Branson and James P. Love

2434: Macroeconomic Effects of Price Controls: The Role of Market Structure

Elhanan Helpman

2433: The Effect of Mental Distress on Income: Results from a Community Survey

Richard G. Frank and Paul Gertler

2432: The Equilibrium and Optimal Timing of Price Changes

Laurence Ball and David Romer

2431: Credible Commitment and Exchange Rate Stability: Canada's Interwar Experience

Michael Bordo and Angela Redish

2430: Tax Neutrality and Intangible Capital

Don Fullerton and Andrew Lyon

2429: Risk, Uncertainty and Exchange Rates

Robert Hodrick

2428: Equilibrium Political Budget Cycles

Kenneth Rogoff

2427: Federal Deductibility and Local Property Tax Rates

Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Harvey Rosen

2426: Pensions, Efficiency Wages, and Job Mobility

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

2425: Inventories and the Propagation of Sectoral Shocks

Russell Cooper and John Haltiwanger

2424: Adjustment in the World Economy

Paul Krugman

2423: The Learning Curve and Optimal Production Under Uncertainty

Saman Majd and Robert Pindyck

2422: Bank Financing and Investment Decisions with Asymmetric Information

Deborah Lucas and Robert L. McDonald

2421: Bank Portfolio Choice with Private Information About Loan Quality: Theory and Implications for Regulation

Deborah Lucas and Robert L. McDonald

2420: Import Competition and the Stock Market Return to Capital

Gene Grossman and James Levinsohn

2419: Have Productivity Levels Converged? Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare in the Very Long Run

J. Bradford De Long

2418: The Costs of Conflict Resolution and Financial Distress: Evidence from the Texaco-Pennzoil Litigation

David Cutler and Lawrence Summers

2417: Trade in Nominal Assets: Monetary Policy, and Price Level and Exchange Rate Risk

Lars Svensson

2416: Commitment and the Modern Union: Assessing the Link Between Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Stability

Neil G. Bennett, Ann Klimas Blanc and David Bloom

2415: The Importance of Gifts and Inheritances Among the Affluent

Michael Hurd and Gabriela Mundaca

2414: Worker Knowledge of Pension Provisions

Olivia Mitchell

2413: Seigniorage, Operating Rules and the High Inflation Trap

Michael Bruno and Stanley Fischer

2412: The Equilibrium and Optimal Timing of Price Changes

Laurence Ball and David Romer

2411: The Marginal Value of Social Security

Michael Hurd

2410: Investment, Openness, and Country Risk

Joshua Aizenman

2409: Prospects for Liberalizing the International Trading System

Anne O. Krueger

2408: United States-Japan Economic Relations

Rachel McCulloch

2407: Transactions Costs and Internal Labor Markets

Sherwin Rosen

2406: Economic Incentives and Political Institutions: Spending and Voting in School Budget Agenda

Thomas Romer, Howard Rosenthal and Vincent Munley

2405: The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy

Daniel E. Ingberman and Robert P. Inman

2404: Energy, Obsolescence, and the Productivity Slowdown

Charles R. Hulten, James W. Robertson and Frank C. Wykoff

2403: Trade in Risky Assets

Lars Svensson

2402: What Do We Know About Worker Displacement in the U.S.?

Daniel Hamermesh

2401: Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Estimation of the Variance-Covariance Matrix for the Almost Ideal Demand System

Melvyn A. Fuss

2400: Can Futures Market Data Be Used to Understand the Behavior of Real Interest Rates?

Frederic Mishkin

2399: Contraction and Expansion: The Divergence of Private Sector and Public Sector Unionism in tht U.S

Richard Freeman

2398: Israel's Stabilization: A Two-Year Review

Michael Bruno and Sylvia Piterman

2397: Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income

Rebecca Blank

2396: Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's?

Rebecca Blank

2395: The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders

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

2394: Til Debt Do Us Part: The U.S. Capital Market and Foreign Lending, 1920-1955

Barry Eichengreen

2393: Prices of Single Family Homes Since 1970: New Indexes for Four Cities

Karl Case and Robert Shiller

2392: Asset Accumulation, Information, and the Life Cycle

Mervyn A. King and Jonathan I. Leape

2391: How Much Care Do the Aged Receive from Their Children? A Bimodal Picture of Contact and Assistance

Laurence Kotlikoff and John N. Morris

2390: U.S. and Swedish Direct Investment and Exports

Magnus Blomstrom, Robert Lipsey and Ksenia Kulchycky

2389: Fiscal Policies and the Stock Market: International Dimensions

Assaf Razin

2388: Dynamic Behavior of Imperfectly Competitive Economies with Multiple Equilibria

Russell Cooper

2387: Financing Constraints and Corporate Investment

Steven Fazzari, Robert Hubbard and Bruce Petersen

2386: Imperfect Competition and the Keynesian Cross

N. Gregory Mankiw

2385: Order Backlogs and Production Smoothing

Kenneth West

2384: The Impact of Monetary Targeting in the United States: 1976-1984

Carl Walsh

2383: Consumption Risk and International Asset Returns: Some Empirical Evidence

Robert Cumby

2382: Social Security Reforms and Poverty Among Older Dual-Earner Couples

Olivia Mitchell

2381: The Regularity of Business Cycles

Victor Zarnowitz

2380: Is it Risk? Explaining Deviations from Uncovered Interest Parity

Robert Cumby

2379: Debt Problems and the World Macro Economy

Rüdiger Dornbusch

2378: Argentina: Debt and Macroeconomic Instability

Rüdiger Dornbusch and Juan de Pablo