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274: Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence

Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Raymond Fisman and Francesco Trebbi

273: What Insights Do Taxi Rides Offer into Federal Reserve Leakage?

David Andrew Finer

272: Is Aggregate Market Power Increasing? Production Trends Using Financial Statements

James Traina

271: Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century

Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick

270: How Does Financial-Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?

Matthias Breuer

269: Diagnosing the Italian Disease

Bruno Pellegrino and Luigi Zingales

268: Is Pollution Value-Maximizing? The DuPont Case

Roy Shapira and Luigi Zingales

267: Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value

Oliver D. Hart and Luigi Zingales

266: Origins of Impersonal Markets in Commercial and Communication Revolutions of Europe

Prateek Raj

265: Towards a Political Theory of the Firm

Luigi Zingales

264: When Do Legislators Follow Constituent Opinion? Evidence from Matched Roll Call and Referendum Votes

John Matsusaka

263: Public Policy and the Initiative and Referendum: A Survey with Some New Evidence

John Matsusaka

262: Why Do Managers Fight Shareholder Proposals? Evidence from SEC No-Action Letter Decisions

John Matsusaka, Oguzhan Ozbas and Irene Yi

261: Demand for (Un)Biased News: The Role of Government Control in Online News Markets

Andrey Simonov and Justin Rao

260: When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru

259: Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry

Mara Faccio and Luigi Zingales

258: The Job Rating Game: The Effects of Revolving Doors on Analyst Incentives

Elisabeth Kempf

257: Declining Labor and Capital Shares

Simcha Barkai

256: The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct

Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru

255: The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards

Koichiro Ito and James M. Sallee

254: Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage

Marika Cabral, Michael Geruso and Neale Mahoney

253: Human Capital Investment, Inequality and Growth

Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel

252: Some Basic Economics of National Security

Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel

251: International Health Economics

Mark L. Egan and Tomas Philipson

250: Competitive Discounts and Antitrust Policy

Kevin M. Murphy, Edward Snyder and Robert H. Topel

249: Economics of National Security: Some Basic Economies of National Security

Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel

248: The Prison Boom & The Lack of Black Progress After Smith & Welch

Derek A. Neal and Armin Rick

247: The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy

Soren Anderson, Ryan Kellogg, Ashley Langer and James M. Sallee

246: Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

Mark L. Egan, Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas Philipson

245: Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange and Matthew Notowidigdo

244: Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869 - 1928

Matthew Aaron Gentzkow, Nathan Petek, Jesse Shapiro and Michael Sinkinson

243: Does Labor Supply Matter During a Recession? Evidence from the Seasonal Cycle

Casey B. Mulligan

242: Has Economic Policy Uncertainty Hampered the Recovery?

Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

241: Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: The Role of Implementation and Enforcement

Hans B. Christensen, Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz

240: Simple Analytics and Empirics of the Government Spending Multiplier and Other "Keynesian" Paradoxes

Casey B. Mulligan

239: Understanding Small Business Heterogeneity

Erik Hurst and Benjamin Pugsley

238: Are Household Surveys Like Tax Forms: Evidence from Income Underreporting of the Self-Employed

Erik Hurst, Geng Li and Benjamin Pugsley

237: Can Medical Progress be Sustained? Implications of the Link Between Development and Output Markets

Anup Malani and Tomas Philipson

236: Wage Determination and Employment in Sweden Since the Early 1990s – Wage Formation in a New Setting

Peter Fredriksson and Robert H. Topel

235: Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden

Richard Freeman, Brigitta Swedenborg and Robert H. Topel

234: On the Economics of Climate Policy

Gary Becker, Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel

233: Global Antitrust Enforcement: An Empirical Assessment of the Influence of Protectionism

Pierre-Yves Crémieux and Edward Snyder

232: Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?

Cory S. Capps, Dennis Carlton and Guy David

231: Proof of Common Impact in Antitrust Litigation: The Value of Regression Analysis

Pierre-Yves Crémieux, Ian Simmons and Edward Snyder

230: Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov and Joshua Rauh

229: Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

Steven N. Kaplan and Joshua Rauh

228: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg

227: Why Do Firms Own Production Chains?

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

226: Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

Raghuram Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan

225: Mortality Inequality

Sam Peltzman