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205: Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South

Hoyt Bleakley

204: Intellectual Property & External Consumption Effects: Generalizations From Health Care Markets

Tomas Philipson, Anupam B. Jena and Stéphane Mechoulan

203: Catastrophic Risks, a Catastrophic Event and Credit Markets

Mark J. Garmaise and Tobias J. Moskowitz

202: Bank Mergers and Crime: The Real and Social Effects of Credit Market Competition

Mark J. Garmaise and Tobias J. Moskowitz

201: Do Liquidation Values Affect Financial Contracts? Evidence From Commercial Loan Contracts and Zoning Regulations

Efraim Benmelech, Mark J. Garmaise and Tobias J. Moskowitz

200: The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico

Steven Davis and Luis Rivera-Batiz

199: Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of the FDA: The Case of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts

Tomas Philipson, Ernst R. Berndt, Adrian H. B. Gottschalk and Matthew W. Strobeck

198: Intellectual Property & External Consumption Effects: Generalizations From Health Care Markets

Tomas Philipson and Stéphane Mechoulan

197: Theft and Taxes

Mihir A. Desai, Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales

196: Solution to Japan's Breaking Problems: What might work and what definitely will fail?

Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap

195: Conscription as Regulation

Casey B. Mulligan and Andrei Shleifer

194: Targeting Employees for Corporate Crime and Preventing Their Indemnification

Wallace P. Mullin and Christopher Snyder

193: The Economics of Open-Access Journals

Mark McCabe and Christopher Snyder

192: The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality

Gary Becker

191: Economics Of Corporate Governance Reform

Randall S. Kroszner

190: Population and Regulation

Casey B. Mulligan and Andrei Shleifer

189: What do Aggregate Consumption Euler Equations Say about the Capital Income Tax Burden?

Casey B. Mulligan

188: Why do Only 5.5% of Black Men Marry White Women?

Linda Wong

187: An Empirical Study of Darwin's Theory of Mate Choice

Linda Wong

186: Characteristics, Contracts and Actions: Evidence From Venture Capitalist Analyses

Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg

185: The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

Steven N. Kaplan and Bengt Holmstrom

184: The Corporate Governance Role of the Media

Luigi Zingales and Alexander Dyck

183: Banks and Markets: The Changing Character of European Finance

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

182: Peoples Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes

Luigi Zingales, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Guiso

181: Illegal Sports Bookmakers

Koleman Strumpf

180: Social Security and Democracy

Casey B. Mulligan and Ricard Gil Sala-I-Martin X.

179: Remembrance and Appreciation Roundtable – George J. Stigler (1911-1991): Scholar, Father, Dissertation Advisor, Referee, Textbook Writer and Policy Analyst

Claire Friedland, Craufurd Goodwin, Claire H. Hammond, J. Daniel Hammond, David Levy, Steven G. Medema, Michele I. Naples, Warren Samuels and Stephen M. Stigler

178: The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between-Patent Competition in The US Pharmaceuticals Industry

Frank Lichtenberg and Tomas Philipson

177: Offsetting Behavior and Medical Breakthroughs

Sam Peltzman

176: Cooperative Technology Adoption Under Global Competition: The Case of Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry

Serguey Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama and David Rose

175: Bidder Discounts and Target Premia in Takeovers

Serguey Braguinsky and Boyan Jovanovic

174: The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

173: Does Local Financial Development Matter?

Luigi Zingales

172: Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison

Luigi Zingales

171: Economic Limits on "Rational" Democratic Redistribution

Casey B. Mulligan

170: A Century of Labor-Leisure Distortions

Casey B. Mulligan

169: Offsetting Behavior and Medical Breakthroughs

Sam Peltzman

168: It's What You Know, Not How You Learned to Teach It: Evidence from a Study of the Effects of Knowledge an d Pedagogy on Student Achievement

William B. Vogt and Robert Strauss

167: Could we Tell if Health Insurance Mandates Cause Unemployment? A Note on the Literature

William B. Vogt and Jayanta Bhattacharya

166: A Simple Model of Pharmaceutical Price Dynamics, version 1.1

William B. Vogt and Jayanta Bhattacharya

165: The Veterans' Bonus of 1936 and the Abortive Recovery from the Great Depression

Lester G. Telser

164: Competition, Monopoly, and Aftermarkets

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

163: Entrepreneurial Ability, Market Selection and Setting Up an Infant Industry-Theory and Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Textile Industry

Atsushi Ohyama, Serguey Braguinsky and Kevin M. Murphy

162: The Effects of School Quality on the Youth Labor Market

Sam Peltzman and Kevin M. Murphy

161: Teaching Microeconomics in Wonderland

B. Peter Pashigian

160: Status, Lotteries, and Inequality

Gary Becker, Ivan Werning and Kevin M. Murphy

159: Merit Motives & Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse

Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas Philipson

158: Obstacles To Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms

Randall S. Kroszner

157: Can Monopoly Unionism Explain Publicly Induced Retirement?

Casey B. Mulligan

156: Alcohol

Philip J. Cook and Michael Moore