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806: Evaluating the Taxation of Risky Assets

Alan Auerbach

805: Compensating Wage Differentials for Mandatory Overtime

Ronald Ehrenberg and Paul L. Schumann

804: The Economics of Wage Floors

Jacob Mincer

803: Human Capital and Economic Growth

Jacob Mincer

802: Public Goods in Open Economies with Heterogeneous Individuals

Joseph Stiglitz

801: Macroeconomic Determinants of Real Exchange Rates

William Branson

800: "Double Dipping": The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement

Gary Burtless and Jerry Hausman

799: A General Equilibrium Model of Taxation with Endogenous Financial Behavior

Joel Slemrod

798: Issues in the Taxation of Foreign Source Income

Daniel J. Frisch

797: Tariffs as Insurance: Optimal Commercial Policy When Domestic Markets Are Incomplete

Jonathan Eaton and Gene Grossman

796: The Current Account in the Eacroeconomic Adjustment Process

Jeffrey D. Sachs

795: Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses

Claudia Goldin and Kenneth Sokoloff

794: Trade and Protection with Multistage Production

Avinash Dixit and Gene Grossman

793: Wages, Relative Prices, and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates

Richard C. Marston

792: Intergenerational and International Trade

Rüdiger Dornbusch

791: The OPEC Surplus and U.S.-LDC Trade

William Branson

790: Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment

Charles Brown, Curtis Gilroy and Andrew Kohen

789: Does Anticipated Aggregate Demand Policy Matter? Further Econometric results

Frederic Mishkin

788: Stochastic Problems in the Simulation of Labor Supply

Jerry Hausman

787: Should Private Pensions Be Indexed?

Martin Feldstein

786: Patents, R and D, and the Stock Market Rate of Return

Ariel Pakes

785: Real versus Financial Openness under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes

Michael Bruno

784: Domestic Tax Policy and Foreign Investment: Some Evidence

David G. Hartman

783: Seigniorage and Fixed Exchange Rates: An Optimal Inflation Tax Analysis

Stanley Fischer

782: Central Planning and Monetarism: Fellow Travelers?

Richard Portes

781: Unemployment, Unsatisfied Demand for Labor, and Compensation Growth in the United States, 1956-1980

James Medoff and Katharine Abraham

780: Government and Health Outcomes

Michael Grossman

779: Real Interest Rates, Home Goods, and Optimal External Borrowing

Rüdiger Dornbusch

778: The Effects of Incomes Policies on the Frequency and Size of Wage Changes

John Pencavel

777: Agency, Delayed Compensation, and the Structure of Executive Remuneration

Jonathan Eaton and Harvey Rosen

776: Currency Diversification and Export Competitiveness: A Model of the "Egyptian Disease"

Jorge Braga de Macedo

775: Monetary Aggregates as Targets: Some Theoretical Aspects

Charles Freedman

774: Prices and Terms of Trade for Developed-Country Exports of Manufactured Goods

Irving B. Kravis and Robert Lipsey

773: The International Economics of Transitional Growth: The Case of the United States

Laurence Kotlikoff, Edward Leamer and Jeffrey Sachs

772: The Effects of Pensions and Earnings on Retirement: A Review Essay

Olivia Mitchell and Gary Fields

771: The Interaction between Research and Public Policy: The Case of Unemployment Insurance

Daniel Hamermesh

770: Capital Mobility and the Scope for Sterilization: Mexico in the 1970s

Robert Cumby and Maurice Obstfeld

769: Collective Bargaining and Compulsory Arbitration: Prescriptions for the Blue Flu

Casey Ichniowski

768: Schooling and Health: The Cigarette Connection

Phillip Farrell and Victor Fuchs

767: Employee Valuation of Pension Claims and the Impact of Indexing Initiatives

James Pesando

766: Exchange Rate Determination and the Demand for Money

Craig Hakkio

765: Low-Cost Student Labor: The Use and Effects of the Subminimum Wage Provisions for Full-time Students

Richard Freeman, Wayne Gray and Casey Ichniowski

764: The Potential for Using Excise Taxes to Reduce Smoking

Eugene M. Lewit and Douglas Coate

763: Partial Retirement and the Analysis of Retirement Behavior

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

762: The Holding Period Distinction of the Capital Gains Tax

Steven Kaplan

761: The Index of Leading Indicators: "Measurement without Theory," Twenty-Five Years Later

Alan Auerbach

760: Anticipated Money, Inflation Uncertainty, and Real Economic Activity

John Makin

759: Anticipated and Unanticipated Oil Price Increases and the Current Account

Nancy Marion

758: Capital Gains Taxation in an Economy with an "Austrian Sector"

Dan Kovenock and Michael Rothschild

757: Tax Reform and Corporate Investment: A Microeconometric Simulation Study

Michael Salinger and Lawrence Summers

756: Permanent Income, Liquidity, and Expenditure on Automobiles: Evidence from Panel Data

Ben Bernanke

755: Accelerating Inflation, Nonassumable Fixed-Rate Mortgages, and Consumer Choice and Welfare

Patric Hendershott and Sheng Cheng Hu

754: Intergenerational Effects of the Distribution of Income and Wealth: The Utah Experience, 1850-1900

J. R. Kearl and Clayne L. Pope

753: Inflation, Tax Rules, and the Accumulation of Residential and Nonresidential Capital

Martin Feldstein

752: Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments

Richard Freeman

751: Have Black Labor Market Gains Post-1964 Been Permanent or Transitory?

Richard Freeman

750: Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market

Richard Freeman

749: Real Exchange Rate Overshooting and the Output Cost of Bringing Down Inflation

Willem Buiter and Marcus Miller

748: Aspects of the Optimal Management of Exchange Rates

Jacob A. Frenkel and Joshua Aizenman

747: Capital Structure Equilibrium under Incomplete Market Conditions

Lemma W. Senbet and Robert A. Taggart, Jr.

746: Tax Exporting and the Commerce Clause: Reflections on Commonwealth Edison

Charles E. McLure, Jr.

745: Financing Capital Formation in the 1980s: Issues for Public Policy

Benjamin M. Friedman

744: Price Inertia and Policy Ineffectiveness in the United States, 1890-1980

Robert Gordon

743: On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradeable

Robert Merton

742: Pigouvian Taxation with Administrative Costs

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

741: The Social versus the Private Incentive to Bring Suit in a Costly Legal System

Steven Shavell

740: The Effective Tax Rate and the Pretax Rate of Return

Martin Feldstein, James Poterba and Louis Dicks-Mireaux

739: Housing Finance in the United States in the Year 2001

Patric Hendershott and Kevin E. Villani

738: The Terminations Premium in Mortgage Coupon Rates: Evidence on the Integration of Mortgage and Bond Markets

Patric Hendershott and Kevin E. Villani

737: Implications of Corporate Capital Structure Theory for Banking Institutions

Yair E. Orgler and Robert A. Taggart, Jr.

736: Macroeconomic Adjustment and Foreign Trade of Centrally Planned Economies

John Burkett, Richard Portes and David Winter

735: The Impact of Collective Bargaining: Illusion or Reality?

Richard Freeman and James Medoff

734: Social Security and the Decision to Retire

Anthony J. Pellechio

733: Taxation and On-the-job Training Decisions

Harvey Rosen

732: Measurement Error and the Flow of Funds Accounts: Estimates of HouseholdAsset Demand Equations

Carl Walsh

731: Changes in the Provision of Correspondent-Banking Services and the Role of Federal Reserve Banks under the DIDMC Act

Edward Kane

730: An Examination of Empirical Tests of Social Security and Savings

Alan Auerbach and Laurence Kotlikoff

729: National Savings, Economic Welfare, and the Structure of Taxation

Alan Auerbach and Laurence Kotlikoff

728: Transition from Inflation to Price Stability

Peter Garber

727: On the Design of Contracts and Remedies for Breach

Steven Shavell

726: An Integrated View of Tests of Rationality, Market Efficiency, and the Short-Run Neutrality of Monetary Policy

Andrew Abel and Frederic Mishkin

725: Savings and Loan Usage of the Authority to Invest in Corporate Debt

Patric Hendershott and Kevin E. Villani

724: Tax Aspects of Corporate Pension Funding Policy

Jeremy I. Bulow

723: Inflation, Real Interest, and the Determinacy of Equilibrium in an Optimizing Framework

Maurice Obstfeld

722: The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization: The American Case, 1820-1850

Claudia Goldin and Kenneth Sokoloff

721: Bilateral Contracts

Jerry Green and Seppo Honkapohja

720: Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption

Robert Hall

719: The Efficiency of Decentralized Investment Management Systems

David S. Jones

718: The Allocation of Capital Between Residential and Nonresidential Uses: Taxes, Inflation and Capital Market Constraints

Patric Hendershott and Sheng Cheng Hu

717: The Effect of Unions on Productivity in the Public Sector: The Case of Libraries

Ronald Ehrenberg and Joshua L. Schwarz

716: A Comment on Feldstein's Fisher-Schultz Lecture

Ray Fair

715: Four Observations on Modern International Commercial Policy under Floating Exchange Rates

J. David Richardson

714: Risk Sharing through Breach of Contract Remedies

A. Mitchell Polinsky

713: Effects of Inflation on the Pattern of International Trade

Alan Stockman

712: The Sources of Labor Productivity Variation in U.S. Manufacturing, 1947-80

Ben Bernanke

711: Discontinuous Distributions and Missing Persons: The Minimum Wage and Unemployed Youth

Robert H. Meyer and David Wise

710: Test Scores, Educational Opportunities, and Individual Choice

Steven Venti and David Wise

709: Test Scores and Self-Selection of Higher Education: College Attendance versus College Completion

Steven Venti and David Wise

708: Inflation, Flexible Exchange Rates, and the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Robert Gordon

707: Economic Well-Being and Child Labor: The Inter action of Family and Industry

Claudia Goldin and Donald Parsons