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05-022: The Tale of Two Traverses: Innovation and Accumulation in the First Two Centuries of U.S. Economic Growth

Paul David

05-021: Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers?

Trond Petersen, Vemund Snartland and Eva Milgrom

05-020: Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Guillermina Jasso and Eva Milgrom

05-019: The Rise and Fall of Third-party High-speed Access

Gregory Rosston

05-018: Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States

Shane Greenstein

05-017: Appropriability and Commercialization: Evidence from MIT Inventions

Emmanuel Dechenaux, Brent Goldfarb, Scott Shane and Marie Thursby

05-016: Public Enforcement of Law

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

05-015: Reflections on the Patent System and IPR Protection in the Past, Present and Future

Paul David

05-014: Whither Japan's Corporate Governance?

Masahiko Aoki

05-013: Mechanisms of Endogenous Institutional Change

Masahiko Aoki

05-012: Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth

Mikhail Golosov, Larry Jones and Michele Tertilt

05-011: Digital Information Network Technologies, Organization Performance and Productivity

Alexandre Caldas, Paul David and Orges Ormanidhi

05-010: Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them: An Application to the Internet

Austan Goolsbee and Pete Klenow

05-009: Income Mobility of Individuals In China and the United States

Niny Khor and John Pencavel

05-008: Discrete Time Duration Models with Group-level Heterogeneity

Anders Frederiksen, Bo Honoré and Luojia Hu

05-007: Rising Wage Inequality: Does the Return to Management Tell the Whole Story?

Anders Frederiksen and Odile Poulsen

05-006: The Impact of "Deregulation" on Regulator Behavior: An Empirical Analysis of the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Gregory Rosston, Scott Savage and Bradley Wimmer

05-005: Economic Analysis of Law

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

05-004: The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

05-002: China's New Exchange Rate Policy: Will China Follow Japan into a Liquidity Trap?

Ronald McKinnon

05-001: Can the Modular Helium Reactor Compete in the Hydrogen Economy

Geoffrey Rothwell

04-037: Corner Solutions, Crises, and Capital Controls: A Theory and an Empirical Analyas on the Optimal Exchane Rate Regime in Emerging Economies

Yasuyuki Swada and Pan Yotopoulos

04-036: A Life Cycle Perspective on Changes in Earnings Inequality Among Married Men and Women

John Pencavel

04-035: The Political Economy of Law: Decision-Making by Judicial, Legislative, Executive and Administrative Agencies

Mat McCubbins, Roger Noll and Barry Weingast

04-034: Hyperbolic Discounting and Uniform Savings Floor

Benjamin Malin

04-033: Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel

04-032: Production Targets

Guillermo Caruana and Liran Einav

04-031: Estimating Risk Preferences from Deductible Choice

Alma Cohen and Liran Einav

04-030: Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete too Much?

Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund

04-029: Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties: A Story of Increased Gender Inequality?

Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan

04-028: The Politics and Economics of Implementing State-Sponsored Embryonic Stem-Cell Research

Roger Noll

04-027: Does Education Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann

04-026: Does Education Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann

04-025: The Market for Teacher Quality

Eric Hanushek, John Kain, Steven Rivkin and Daniel O'Brien

04-024: Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making with School Choice

Eric Hanushek, John Kain, Steven Rivkin and Gregory Branch

04-023: Expectations, Bond Yields and Monetary Policy

Albert Chun

04-021: Exchange Rate or Wage Changes in International Adjustment? Japan and China versus the United States

Ronald McKinnon

04-020: Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

Pol Antras, Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

04-019: Firm Fragmentation and Urban Patterns

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Pierre Daniel Sarte and Raymond Owens

04-018: Choice From Lists

Ariel Rubinstein and Yuval Salunt

04-017: The Economic Impact of Wireless Number Portability

Minjung Park

04-016: Retraining the Unemployed in a Matching Model with Turbulence

Felix Reichling

04-015: Corporate Board Structure, Managerial Self-Dealing, and Common Agency

Vinicius Carrasco

04-014: Evidence on the Returns to Secondary Vocational Education

Jonathan Meer

04-013: Monetary Union with Voluntary Participation

William Fuchs and Francesco Lippi

04-012: Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private Evaluations

William Fuchs

04-011: Consumer Bankruptcy: A Fresh Start

Igor Livshits, James (Jim) MacGee and Michele Tertilt

04-010: Competition Policy in Emerging Economies

Bruce Owen

04-009: A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

04-008: "Buyer Power" and Economic Policy

Roger Noll

04-007: Cost Contingency as the Standard Deviation of the Cost Estimate for Cost Engineering

Reed Hundt and Gregory Rosston

04-006: Measuring the Ex-Ante Social Cost of Aggregate Volatility

Mordecai Kurz

04-005: Cost Contingency as the Standard Deviation of the Cost Estimate for Cost Engineering

Geoffrey Rothwell

04-004: Simulating Code Growth in Libre (Open-Source) Mode

Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul David

04-003: Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production

Jean-Michel Dalle, Paul David, Rishab Ghosh and W Steinmueller

04-002: Simulating Code Growth in Libre (Open-Source) Mode

Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul David

04-001: Towards a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific collaboration: Providing its 'soft' foundations may be the hardest part

Paul David

03-040: Antitrust in China: The Problem of Incentive Compatibility

Bruce Owen, Su Sun and Wentong Zheng

03-039: Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution: From Keeping 'Nature's Secrets' to the Institutionalization of 'Open Science'

Paul David

03-038: Optimal Fines and Auditing When Wealth is Costly to Observe

A. Mitchell Polinsky

03-037: The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment when Wealth is Unobservable

A. Mitchell Polinsky

03-036: The Lovely but Lonely Vickrey Auction

Lawrene M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom

03-035: Ascending Proxy Auctions

Lawrene M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom

03-034: The Clock-Proxy Auction: A Practical Combinatorial Auction Design

Lawrene M. Ausubel, Peter Crampton and Paul Milgrom

03-033: Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush

Karen Clay and Gavin Wright

03-032: A Flexible Economy? Entrepreneurship and Productivity in New Zealand

John McMillan

03-030: How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru

John McMillan and Pablo Zoido

03-028: Faculty Retirement Incentives by Colleges and Universities

John Pencavel

03-027: Assigning Broadband Rights

Bruce Owen

03-026: Confusing Success with Access: "Correctly" Measuring Concentration of Ownership and Control in Mass Media and Online Services

Bruce Owen

03-025: Prediction Markets

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

03-023: Identifying Direct and Indirect Effects. Estimating th Costs of Motherhood Using Matching Estimators

Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper

03-007: Accounting for Stock Options

Jeremy Bulow and John B. Shoven