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07-008: Simplified Mechanisms with Applications to Sponsored Search and Package Auctions

Paul Milgrom

07-007: State-Dependent or Time-Dependent Pricing: Does It Matter for Recent U.S. Inflation?

Pete Klenow and Oleksiy Kryvtsov

07-006: Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

07-005: Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment

Anusha Chari and Peter Henry

07-004: Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation

Peter Henry

07-003: Housing and Monetary Policy

John Taylor

07-002: Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes and Competition from the Internet

Austan Goolsbee and Joel Slemrod

07-001: U.S. Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim, from Fordney-McCumber to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962: A Political-Economic Analysis

Sandy Ye

06-046: Designing an Effective Program of State-Sponsored Human Embryonic Stem-Cell Research

Roger Noll

06-045: Rational Diverse Beliefs and Economic Volatility

Mordecai Kurz

06-044: Diverse Beliefs and Time Variability of Risk Premia

Mordecai Kurz and Maurizio Motolese

06-043: Understanding the Increased Time to the Baccalaureate Degree

John Bound and Sarah Turner

06-042: A Test of Confidence Enhanced Performance: Evidence from US College Debaters

Jonathan Meer and Edward Van Wesep

06-041: How Much do Real Estate Brokers Add? A Case Study

B. Douglas Bernheim and Jonathan Meer

06-040: How Far to the Border?: The Extent and Impact of Cross-Border Casual Cigarette Smuggling

Michael Lovenheim

06-039: Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Towards Linking Policy Research and Practice in 'STIG Systems'

Philippe Aghion, Paul David and Dominique Foray

06-038: The Historical Origins of 'Open Science’: An Essay on Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution

Paul David

06-037: When Should Control Be Shared?

Eva Meyersson Milgrom, Paul Milgrom and Ravi Singh

06-036: The Value of Intellectual Property Rights to Firms

Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers

06-035: Priorities for Telecommunications Reform in Mexico

Roger Noll

06-034: Trade Marks and Performance in UK Firms: Evidence of Schumpeterian Competition through Innovation

Christine Greenhalgh and Mark Rogers

06-033: Isolating the Causal Impact of Community College Enrollment on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes in Texas

Darwin Miller

06-032: China's Competition Policy Reforms: The Antimonopoly Law and Beyond

Bruce Owen, Wenton Zheng and Su Sun

06-031: Who Cares for the Elderly? Intrafamily Resource Allocation and Migration in Mexico

Francisca Antman

06-030: Information Acquisition and Reputation Dynamics

Qingmin Liu

06-029: The Causes and Consequences of Ballot Order-Effects

Marc Meridith and Yuval Salant

06-028: Economics of Patent Pools When Some (but not all) Patents are Essential

Daniel Quint

06-027: A MultiDimensional Signaling Model of Campaign Finance

Brendan Daley and Erik Snowberg

06-026: Cyclical Wage Movements in Emerging Markets Compared to Developed Economies: A Contractual Approach

Nan Li

06-025: The Effect of EmployerProvided General Training on Turnover: Examination of Tuition Reimbursement Programs

Colleen Flaherty

06-024: Separating Psychological Costs from Time Costs: Female Labor Supply and Participation in Food Stamps and WIC

Colleen Flaherty and Kevin Mumford

06-023: All-Pay Contests

Ron Siegel

06-022: Price Control In Franchised Chains: The Case Of McDonald's Dollar Menu

Itai Ater and Oren Rigbi

06-021: Implicit Social Security Tax Rates over the Life Cycle

Gopi Goda

06-020: The Optimal Tax Treatment of Families with Children

Kevin Mumford

06-019: Optimal Payment Cards Fees

Assaf Eilat

06-018: Selling to Overconfident Consumers

Michael Grubb

06-017: The Effect of Access Regulation on Broadbnd Deployment

Amitay Alter

06-016: Broadcasting and Team Sports

Roger Noll

06-015: The Net Neutrality Debate: Twenty Five Years after United States v. AT&T and 120 Years after the Act to Regulate Commerce

Bruce Owen

06-014: Growth and Poverty Reduction Under Globalization: The Systematic Impact of Exchange Rate Misalignment

Yasuyuki Sawada and Pan Yotopoulos

06-013: Are Burdensome Registration Procedures an Important Barrier on Firm Creation? Evidence from Mexico

David Kaplan, Eduardo Piedra and Enrique Seira

06-012: Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and Risk Sharing: A Joint Test

Doireann Fitzgerald

06-011: Sports Economics at Fifty

Roger Noll

06-010: Europe's Universities and Innovation - Past, Present and Future

Paul David

06-009: Linking Policy Research and Practice in 'STIG Systems': Many Obstacles, but Some Ways Forward

Philippe Aghion, Paul David and Dominique Foray

06-006: Mandatory versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

06-004: Economic Policy Analysis and the Internet: Coming to Terms with a Telecommunications Anomaly

Paul David

06-001: Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies

Igor Livshits, James (Jim) MacGee and Michele Tertilt

05-030: The Effects of Temptation on the Optimal Provision of Education

Soohyung Lee