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155: Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign contributions and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation

Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann

154: Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security

Casey B. Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

153: Firm Responses to Growing Inequality in Income and the Cost of Time

B. Peter Pashigian and Jeanne-Mey Sun

152: Immigrant Earnings: Language Skills, Linguistic Concentrations and the Business Cycle

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

151: Is the Financial System Politically Independent? Perspectives on the Political Economy of Banking and Financial Regulation

Randall S. Kroszner

150: Bankers on Boards: Monitoring Conflicts of Interest & Lender Liability

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

149: A Model of Destination Language Acquistion: Application to Male Immigrants in Canada

Barry Chiswick

148: The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Barry Chiswick

147: Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Barry Chiswick

146: The Rise in Old Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care

Tomas Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla

145: The Strategic Use Of Tying To Preserve And Create Market Power In Evolving Industries

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

144: Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government

Gary Becker and Casey B. Mulligan

143: Contracts, Externalities, and Incentives in Shopping Malls: An Empirical Analysis

B. Peter Pashigian and Eric Gould

142: Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall

Sam Peltzman

141: Defense Procurement Fraud, Penalties, and Contractor Influence

Jonathan M. Karpoff, Scott D. Lee and Valaria P. Vendrzyk

140: The Absorption of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Israel, 1990 - 1995

Yoram Weiss and Zvi Eckstein

139: Social Status and Economic Performance: A Survey

Yoram Weiss and Chaim Fershtman

138: Ethic Norms and Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades

Timur Kuran

137: Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

Douglas A. Irwin and Randall S. Kroszner

136: The Political Economy of Deregulation: Evidence From the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions in the United States

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

135: Potato Paradoxes

Sherwin Rosen

134: The Future of Old-Age Longevity: Competitive Pricing of Morality Contingent Claims

Charles Mullin and Tomas Philipson

133: Austrian and Neoclassical Economics: Any Gains From Trade?

Sherwin Rosen

132: An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance

John Cawley and Tomas Philipson

131: Were the Good Old Days That Good? The Evolution of Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression

Clifford G. Holderness, Randall S. Kroszner and Dennis P. Sheehan

130: On the Great Depression

Lester G. Telser

129: Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance

Tomas Philipson and Gary Becker

128: Regulation and Investment Behavior: Evidence From the Electric Utility Industry

Thomas P. Lyon and John Mayo

127: Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns and the Importance of Deterrence

John R. Lott and David B. M. Mustard

126: Interest Group Competition and the Organization of Congress: Theory And Evidence from Financial Services Political Action Committees

Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann

125: Early Weather Information, Cost That May Be Sunk, And The Ensuing Rate of Return

D. Erik Craft

124: Log-Rolling and Economic Interests in the Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Douglas A. Irwin and Randall S. Kroszner

123: Products Liability and Prescription Drug Prices in Canada and the United States

Richard L. Manning

122: Self-Regulation and Social Welfare: The Political Economy of Corporate Environmentalism

John Maxwell, Thomas P. Lyon and Steven C.. Hackett

121: A Simple Explanation for Why Campaign Expenditures are Increasing: The Government is Getting Bigger

John R. Lott

120: Ticket Pricing

Sherwin Rosen and Andy Rosenfield

119: Regulatory Incentives and the Thrift Crisis: Dividends, Mutual-to-Stock Conversions, and Financial Distress

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

118: Do Campaign Donations Alter How a Politician Votes?

Stephen G. Bronars and John R. Lott

117: Testing Whether Predatory Commitments are Credible

John R. Lott and Tim C. Opler

116: Fatal Encounters: An Economic Theory of Accidental Injury with Application to New Zealand's No-Fault System

John C. Hause

115: Internalizing Agglomeration Economies: The Pricing of Space in Shopping Malls

B. Peter Pashigian and Eric Gould

114: Political Influence on the Central Bank- International Evidence

Alex Cukierman and Steven Webb

113: Public School Choice: Some Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988

Barbara Schneider, Kathryn S. Schiller and James S. Coleman

112: Have Changing Liability Rules Compensated Workers Twice for Occupational Hazards?: Earnings Premiums and Cancer Risks

John R. Lott and Richard L. Manning

111: You Keep On Knocking But You Can't Come In: Evaluating Restrictions On Access To Input Joint Ventures

Dennis Carlton and Steven C. Salop

110: Do Minimum Length of Schooling Requirements for Professional Licenses Increase Quality?

John R. Lott

109: Externalities and Corporate Objectives in a World with Diversified Shareholder/Consumers

Robert G. Hansen and John R. Lott

108: Political Economy of Public Education: Non-college-bound Students

Sam Peltzman

107: Antitrust and Higher Education

Dennis Carlton, Gustavo E. Bamberger and Roy J. Epstein

106: Public Employment, Taxes and the Welfare State in Sweden

Sherwin Rosen