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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

105: The Bias Towards Zero in Aggregate Perceptions: An Explanation Based on Rationally Calculating Individuals

Gertrud M. Fremling and John R. Lott

104: Individual Compensation and Firm Performance: The Economics of Team Incentives

Kenneth J. McLaughlin

103: The Role of Firewalls in Universal Banks: Evidence from Commercial Bank Securities Activities before the Glass-Steagall Act

Randall S. Kroszner and Raghuram Rajan

102: Much Ado About Nothing? Capital Market Reactions to Changes in Antitrust Precedent Concerning Exclusive Territories

Sherry A. Glied and Randall S. Kroszner

101: Catalogue of the George Joseph Stigler Manuscripts in Special Collections, Regenstein Library, University of Chicago

Claire Friedland

100: Managerial Compensation, Control, and Investment

Sherwin Rosen

99: On the Great Depression

Lester G. Telser

98: On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference

Gary Becker and Casey B. Mulligan

97: How Reelection Constituencies Matter

Thomas Stratmann

96: Economic Impact of International Migration and the Economic Performance of Migrants

Robert LaLonde and Robert H. Topel

95: The Effect of Catholic Secondary Schooling on Educational Attainment

Derek A. Neal

94: The New Economics of Teachers and Education

Frederick Flyer and Sherwin Rosen

93: Measuring the Benefits of Homeowning: Effects on Children

Richard K. Green and Michelle J. White

92: Trade Politics and the Semi-conductor Industry

Douglas A. Irwin

91: The Social Costs of Regulation and Lack of Competition in Sweden

Stefan Fölster and Sam Peltzman

90: Corporate Bankruptcy as a Filtering Device: Chapter 11 Reorganizations and Out-of-Court Debt Restructuring

Michelle J. White

89: Government and the Stock Market: The Effects of Antitrust

George Bittlingmayer

88: The Design of Schools as Output-Driven Organizations

James S. Coleman

87: The Output and Stock Price Effects of Loose Antitrust: Experience under the NRA

George Bittlingmayer

86: The 1920's Boom and the Great Crash

George Bittlingmayer

85: Voucher Privatization

Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny

84: Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk

Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny

83: The Market for Engineers

Jaewoo Ryoo and Sherwin Rosen

82: Why Has the Pricing of New Cars Changed?

B. Peter Pashigian and Brian Bowen

81: Inter-industry Mobility and the Cyclical Upgrading of Labor

Mark Bils and Kenneth J. McLaughlin

80: Litigation under the English and American Rules: Theory and Evidence

James W. Hughes and Edward Snyder

79: The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge

Gary Becker and Kevin M. Murphy

78: The Political Economy of the Decline of American Public Education

Sam Peltzman

77: Rigid wages?

Kenneth J. McLaughlin

76: Damage Schedules and Their Potential in Mitigating Adverse Selection in the Products Liability System

Gregg Niehaus and Edward Snyder

75: Strategic Trade Policy and Welfare: The Empirical Consequences of Foreign Ownership

Andrew R. Dick