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224: Media versus Special Interests

Alexander Dyck, David A. Moss and Luigi Zingales

223: Long Term Persistence

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

222: Why are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Michael Gibbs, Alec Robert Levenson and Cindy Zoghi

221: Mergers of Equals & Unequals

Valerie Smeets, Kathryn Ierulli and Michael Gibbs

220: Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000

Steven Davis, Cheryl Grim, J. Haltiwanter and M. Streitwieser

219: TheRole of Private Schools in Education Markets

Derek A. Neal

218: Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?

Tomas Philipson and Eric Sun

217: Cost-Benefit Analysis of the FDA: The Case of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts

Tomas Philipson, Ernst R. Berndt, Adrian H. B. Gottschalk and Eric Sun

216: Intellectual Property and Marketing

Tomas Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla

215: How has CEO Turnover Changed? Increasingly Performance Sensitive Boards and Increasingly Uneasy CEOs

Steven N. Kaplan and Bernadette A. Minton

214: Who Blows The Whistle on Corporate Fraud

Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales

213: Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities

Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin

212: What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970

E. Han Kim, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales

211: Malaria in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

Hoyt Bleakley

210: Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

E. Han Kim, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales

209: The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Institutions, Human Capital, or Constituencies?

Luigi Zingales and Raghuram Rajan

208: Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

Luigi Zingales, Luigi Guiso and Paola Sapienza

207: Theft and Taxes

Mihir A. Desai, Alexander Dyck and Luigi Gonzales

206: Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Ricardo Caballero, Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap

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