New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

Week of June 21, 2010 - June 28, 2010

• Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries
  Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman #16118 (IO   ITI)
  
• Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program
  Matthew J. Kotchen #16117 (EEE)
  
• Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy
  Erin T. Mansur #16116 (EEE)
  
• HIV and Fertility Revisited
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Belgi Turan #16115 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Evaluating the Slow Adoption of Energy Efficient Investments: Are Renters Less Likely to Have Energy Efficient Appliances?
  Lucas W. Davis #16114 (EEE)
  
• Twins or Strangers? Differences and Similarities between Industrial and Academic Science
  Henry Sauermann and Paula E. Stephan #16113 (LS   PR)
  
• Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Medicaid Expansions on Take-up and Crowd-out
  John C. Ham, I. Serkan Ozbeklik, and Lara Shore-Sheppard #16112 (CH   HC   PE)
  
• Climate Policy and Labor Markets
  Olivier Deschenes #16111 (EEE)
  
• Building Bridges Between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy
  James J. Heckman #16110 (LS   TWP)
  
• Belts and Suspenders: Interactions Among Climate Policy Regulations
  Arik Levinson #16109 (EEE)
  
• U.S. War Costs: Two Parts Temporary, One Part Permanent
  Ryan D. Edwards #16108 (DAE   EFG   PE)
  
• The Political Economy of the Subprime Mortgage Credit Expansion
  Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi #16107 (POL)
  
• US Trade and Wages: The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory
  Lawrence Edwards and Robert Z. Lawrence #16106 (ITI)
  
• Do Developed and Developing Countries Compete Head to Head in High-tech?
  Lawrence Edwards and Robert Z. Lawrence #16105 (ITI)
  
• Markets for Anthropogenic Carbon Within the Larger Carbon Cycle
  Severin Borenstein #16104 (EEE)
  
• International Business Cycle Synchronization in Historical Perspective
  Michael D. Bordo and Thomas F. Helbling #16103 (DAE)
  
• Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
  Robert T. Jensen and Nolan H. Miller #16102 (AG   HC)
  
• Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package
  Gilbert E. Metcalf, Aparna Mathur, and Kevin A. Hassett #16101 (EEE   PE)
  
• How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation?
  V. Kerry Smith #16100 (EEE)
  
• Nominal Rigidities and Retail Price Dispersion in Canada over the Twentieth Century
  Ross D. Hickey and David S. Jacks #16098 (DAE)
  
• Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and the Support for Public Education
  Sean Corcoran and William N. Evans #16097 (CH   ED   PE)
  
• Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
  Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory, and Patrick M. Kline #16096 (LS   PE)
  
• Optimal Monetary Stabilization Policy
  Michael Woodford #16095 (EFG   ME)
  
• The Dynamics of Optimal Risk Sharing
  Patrick Bolton and Christopher Harris #16094 (AP   CF)
  
• The Optimal Inflation Rate in New Keynesian Models
  Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Johannes F. Wieland #16093 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Monetary Theory from a Chinese Historical Perspective
  Zheng Xueyi, Yaguang Zhang, and John Whalley #16092 (ME)
  
• Overborrowing, Financial Crises and 'Macro-prudential' Taxes
  Javier Bianchi and Enrique G. Mendoza #16091 (EFG   IFM)
  
• The Potential Global and Developing Country Impacts of Alternative Emission Cuts and Accompanying Mechanisms for the Post Copenhagen
  Huifang Tian and John Whalley #16090 (EEE   ITI)
  
• Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
  David N. Figlio, Mark Rush, and Lu Yin #16089 (CH   ED)
  
• Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970
  Ryan D. Edwards #16088 (AG   HE)
  
• Understanding Policy in the Great Recession: Some Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic
  John H. Cochrane #16087 (AP   EFG)
  
• States in Fiscal Distress
  Robert P. Inman #16086 (PE   POL)
  
• Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?
  Mario J. Crucini, Mototsugu Shintani, and Takayuki Tsuruga #16081 (IFM   ME)
  

Week of June 14, 2010 - June 20, 2010

• Competing for Attention in Financial Markets
  Bruce Ian Carlin, Shaun William Davies, and Andrew Miles Iannaccone #16085 (CF   IO)
  
• Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?
  Richard Baldwin and Dany Jaimovich #16084 (ITI)
  
• Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
  Daron Acemoglu, Tarek A. Hassan, and James A. Robinson #16083 (DAE   POL   AG)
  
• Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings
  Daron Acemoglu and David Autor #16082 (LS)
  
• Adverse Selection, Reputation and Sudden Collapses in Secondary Loan Markets
  V.V. Chari, Ali Shourideh, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones #16080 (CF   EFG)
  
• Do Global Banks Spread Global Imbalances? The Case of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-09
  Viral V. Acharya and Philipp Schnabl #16079 (CF   IFM)
  
• Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement
  Jacob L. Vigdor and Helen F. Ladd #16078 (CH   ED)
  
• The Effect of Hospital Nurse Staffing on Patient Health Outcomes: Evidence from California’s Minimum Staffing Regulation
  Andrew Cook, Martin Gaynor, Melvin Stephens, Jr., and Lowell Taylor #16077 (HC   LS)
  
• Income and the Utilization of Long-Term Care Services: Evidence from the Social Security Benefit Notch
  Gopi Shah Goda, Ezra Golberstein, and David C. Grabowski #16076 (AG   HC   HE   PE)
  
• Measuring Business Cycles by Saving for a Rainy Day
  Mario J. Crucini and Mototsugu Shintani #16075 (EFG   IFM)
  
• DSGE Models for Monetary Policy Analysis
  Lawrence J. Christiano, Mathias Trabandt, and Karl Walentin #16074 (EFG)
  
• Composition of Wealth, Conditioning Information, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
  Nikolai Roussanov #16073 (AP)
  
• Effects of Welfare Reform on Illicit Drug Use of Adult Women
  Hope Corman, Dhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, and Dhiman Das #16072 (HE)
  
• Business Cycles With A Common Trend in Neutral and Investment-Specific Productivity
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martín Uribe #16071 (EFG)
  
• School accountability and teacher mobility
  Li Feng, David N. Figlio, and Tim Sass #16070 (CH   ED)
  
• Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative
  Nava Ashraf, Günther Fink, and David N. Weil #16069 (HE)
  
• Financial Innovation and Financial Fragility
  Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny #16068 (AP   CF)
  
• Oil, Automobiles, and the U.S. Economy: How Much have Things Really Changed?
  Valerie A. Ramey and Daniel J. Vine #16067 (EFG   ME)
  
• Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being
  Courtney C. Coile and Phillip B. Levine #16066 (AG   LS   PE   CF)
  

Week of June 7, 2010 - June 13, 2010

• In Search of Real Rigidities
  Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki #16065 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• The GED
  James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Nicholas S. Mader #16064 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Risk Aversion and Wealth: Evidence from Person-to-Person Lending Portfolios
  Daniel Paravisini, Veronica Rappoport, and Enrichetta Ravina #16063 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• Field Experiments in Labor Economics
  John A. List and Imran Rasul #16062 (ED   LS)
  
• Indian Equity Markets: Measures of Fundamental Value
  Rajnish Mehra #16061 (AP)
  
• The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment
  Thomas Chaney, David Sraer, and David Thesmar #16060 (CF)
  
• The Great Trade Collapse of 2008-09: An Inventory Adjustment?
  George Alessandria, Joseph P. Kaboski, and Virgiliu Midrigan #16059 (EFG   IFM   ITI)
  
• Aggregate Idiosyncratic Volatility
  Geert Bekaert, Robert J. Hodrick, and Xiaoyan Zhang #16058 (AP   IFM)
  
• Segregation and Tiebout Sorting: Investigating the Link between Investments in Public Goods and Neighborhood Tipping
  H. Spencer Banzhaf and Randall P. Walsh #16057 (EEE)
  
• Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers
  David N. Figlio and Cassandra M.D. Hart #16056 (CH   ED)
  
• Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on Education Outcomes: Setting the Stage for Future Research
  David J. Harding, Lisa Gennetian, Christopher Winship, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, and Jeffrey R. Kling #16055 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• The Optimal Rate of Inflation
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe #16054 (EFG   ME)
  
• Distributional Implications of Alternative U.S. Greenhouse Gas Control Measures
  Sebastian Rausch, Gilbert E. Metcalf, John M. Reilly, and Sergey Paltsev #16053 (EEE)
  
• External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility
  John D. Burger, Alessandro Rebucci, Francis E. Warnock, and Veronica Cacdac Warnock #16052 (IFM)
  
• Are Increasing 5-Year Survival Rates Evidence of Success Against Cancer? A reexamination using data from the U.S. and Australia
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #16051 (AG   EFG   HC   HE   PR)
  
• Ambiguity and Climate Policy
  Antony Millner, Simon Dietz, and Geoffrey Heal #16050 (EEE   PE)
  
• Contracts between Legal Persons
  Lewis A. Kornhauser and W. Bentley MacLeod #16049 (LE)
  
• Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
  W. Bentley MacLeod #16048 (LE   LS)
  
• Are Leading Indicators of Financial Crises Useful for Assessing Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Crisis
  Jeffrey A. Frankel and George Saravelos #16047 (IFM)
  
• Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
  Thomas J. Holmes and John J. Stevens #16046 (ITI   PR)
  
• Decomposition Methods in Economics
  Nicole Fortin, Thomas Lemieux, and Sergio Firpo #16045 (LS)
  
• Does Foreign Exchange Reserve Decumulation Lead to Currency Appreciation?
  Kathryn M.E. Dominguez, Rasmus Fatum, and Pavel Vacek #16044 (IFM)
  
• Growth Accounting with Misallocation: Or, Doing Less with More in Singapore
  John Fernald and Brent Neiman #16043 (EFG   IFM   PR)
  

Week of May 31, 2010 - June 6, 2010

• Chasing Noise
  Brock Mendel and Andrei Shleifer #16042 (AP   CF)
  
• CEO Overconfidence and Innovation
  Alberto Galasso and Timothy S. Simcoe #16041 (PR)
  
• Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine: An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States
  David O. Meltzer and Jeanette W. Chung #16040 (HC)
  
• An Empirical Model for Strategic Network Formation
  Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler, Guido W. Imbens, and Karthik Kalyanaraman #16039 (LS   TWP)
  
• Investment under Uncertainty: Testing the Options Model with Professional Traders
  John A. List and Michael S. Haigh #16038 (IO)
  
• Measuring the Economic Effect of Global Warming on Viticulture Using Auction, Retail, and Wholesale Prices
  Orley C. Ashenfelter and Karl Storchmann #16037 (EEE   IO   CH)
  
• How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Non-Market Valuation? An Example from the Preference Reversal Literature
  Jonathan E. Alevy, John List, and Wiktor Adamowicz #16036 (PE)
  
• Rare Disasters and Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Beliefs
  Hui Chen, Scott Joslin, and Ngoc-Khanh Tran #16035 (AP)
  
• Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfalls
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy #16034 (DAE   IFM   ITI)
  
• Evidence on the Determinants of the Choice between Wage Posting and Wage Bargaining
  Robert E. Hall and Alan B. Krueger #16033 (EFG)
  
• The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals
  Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler, and John Van Reenen #16032 (ED   EFG   HE   IO   LS   PE   PR)
  
• Self-Fulfilling Credit Market Freezes
  Lucian A. Bebchuk and Itay Goldstein #16031 (CF   EFG   LE   ME)
  
• Where Are The Health Care Entrepreneurs? The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care
  David M. Cutler #16030 (HC   HE   IO   PR)
  
• FDI in the Banking Sector
  Beatriz de Blas and Katheryn Niles Russ #16029 (ITI)
  
• Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
  Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth #16028 (LS)
  
• The Labor Market in the Great Recession
  Michael W. Elsby, Bart Hobijn, and Aysegul Sahin #15979 (EFG   LS   ME)
  

Week of May 24, 2010 - May 30, 2010

• Global shocks, economic growth and financial crises: 120 years of New Zealand experience
  Michael D. Bordo, David Hargreaves, and Mizuho Kida #16027 (ME)
  
• Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment: Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
  Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher #16026 (CH, ED, HE)
  
• How Much is Social Capital Worth?
  John F. Helliwell and Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh #16025 (PE, POL)
  
• Understanding Creativity
  David W. Galenson #16024 (AG)
  
• The Cost of Debt
  Jules H. van Binsbergen, John Graham, and Jie Yang #16023 (CF)
  
• Rationalizing Trading Frequency and Returns
  Yosef Bonaparte and Russell Cooper #16022 (EFG)
  
• Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India
  Robert T. Jensen #16021 (AG)
  
• Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis
  Emine Boz and Enrique G. Mendoza #16020 (IFM)
  
• Human Resource Management and Productivity
  Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen #16019 (IO, LS, PR)
  
• Building Social Capital Through MicroFinance
  Benjamin Feigenberg, Erica M. Field, and Rohini Pande #16018 (LS, POL)
  
• Recruiting Effective Math Teachers: How Do Math Immersion Teachers Compare?: Evidence from New York City
  Donald Boyd, Pam Grossman, Karen Hammerness, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Mathew Ronfeldt, and James Wyckoff #16017 (ED)
  
• Program Evaluation and Research Designs
  John DiNardo and David S. Lee #16016 (LS, PE)
  
• Measure for Measure: The relationship between measures of instructional practice in middle school English Language Arts and teachers’ value-added scores
  Pam Grossman, Susanna Loeb, Julia Cohen, Karen Hammerness, James Wyckoff, Donald Boyd, and Hamilton Lankford #16015 (ED)
  
• Characterizing Markets for Biopharmaceutical Innovations: Do Biologics Differ from Small Molecules?
  Mark Trusheim, Murray L. Aitken, and Ernst R. Berndt #16014 (HC, PR)
  
• The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality: Evidence from Britain
  Damon Clark and Heather Royer #16013 (ED, HE, LS)
  
• The Impact of an Individual Health Insurance Mandate On Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts
  Jonathan T. Kolstad and Amanda E. Kowalski #16012 (AG, HC)
  
• Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly
  Robert Kaestner and Nasreen Khan #16011 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• GDP, Technical Change, and the Measurement of Net Income: the Weitzman Model Revisited
  Charles R. Hulten and Paul Schreyer #16010 (PR)
  
• Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime: An Application of the “Market for Offenses Model”
  Isaac Ehrlich and Tetsuya Saito #16009 (HE, LE, PE)
  
• Build America Bonds
  Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali, and Yuhang Xing #16008 (AP, PE)
  
• Diagnosing Consumer Confusion and Sub-Optimal Shopping Effort: Theory and Mortgage-Market Evidence
  Susan E. Woodward and Robert E. Hall #16007 (EFG, IO)
  
• The Collapse of International Trade During the 2008-2009 Crisis: In Search of the Smoking Gun
  Andrei A. Levchenko, Logan T. Lewis, and Linda L. Tesar #16006 (IFM, ITI)
  
• The Risk Content of Exports: A Portfolio View of International Trade
  Julian di Giovanni and Andrei A. Levchenko #16005 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
  Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Kjell G. Salvanes #16004 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Econometric Methods for Research in Education
  Costas Meghir and Steven G. Rivkin #16003 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy?
  Benjamin Jones #16002 (ED, EFG, PR)
  
• Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It
  Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Gita Khun-Jush, and Lant Pritchett #16001 (LS)
  
• A Sexually Unbalanced Model of Current Account Imbalances
  Qingyuan Du and Shang-Jin Wei #16000 (IFM)
  
• Credit Default Swaps and the Empty Creditor Problem
  Patrick Bolton and Martin Oehmke #15999 (CF)
  

Week of May 17, 2010 - May 23, 2010

• The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice
  Raj Chetty and Adam Szeidl #15998 (AG, AP, EFG, PE)
  
• Financial Development and City Growth: Evidence from Northeastern American Cities, 1790-1870
  Howard Bodenhorn and David Cuberes #15997 (DAE)
  
• Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers
  Irene Brambilla, Rafael Dix Carneiro, , and Guido Porto #15996 (ITI)
  
• Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills
  Irene Brambilla, Daniel Lederman, and Guido Porto #15995 (ITI)
  
• Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy
  Duha Tore Altindag and Naci H. Mocan #15994 (HE, LE)
  
• Value versus Growth: Time-Varying Expected Stock Returns
  Huseyin Gulen, Yuhang Xing, and Lu Zhang #15993 (AP, CF)
  
• Asset Liquidity and the Cost of Capital
  Hernán Ortiz-Molina and Gordon M. Phillips #15992 (AP, CF)
  
• Dynamic Text-Based Industry Classifications and Endogenous Product Differentiation
  Gordon M. Phillips and Gerard Hoberg #15991 (CF, IO)
  
• Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence From Teachers
  C. Kirabo Jackson #15990 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Valuing Incremental Highway Capacity in a Network
  H. Allen Klaiber and V. Kerry Smith #15989 (EEE)
  
• The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium
  Jack Favilukis, Sydney C. Ludvigson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh #15988 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Risk and the CEO Market: Why Do Some Large Firms Hire Highly-Paid, Low-Talent CEOs?
  Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix #15987 (CF, LS)
  
• Optimal Interest-Rate Rules in a Forward-Looking Model, and Inflation Stabilization versus Price-Level Stabilization
  Marc P. Giannoni #15986 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality: The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
  Michael W. Klein, Christoph Moser, and Dieter M. Urban #15985 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment
  Richard Crump, Gopi Shah Goda, and Kevin Mumford #15984 (CH, PE)
  
• Worker replacement
  Guido Menzio and Espen R. Moen #15983 (EFG)
  
• Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries: 1900-2003
  Price V. Fishback #15982 (DAE)
  
• Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War
  Daniel Berger, William Easterly, Nathan Nunn, and Shanker Satyanath #15981 (DAE, EFG, ITI, POL)
  
• Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
  Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, and Julia Tobias #15980 (PE, POL)
  

Week of May 10, 2010 - May 16, 2010

• Why Has California’s Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach
  Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn #15978 (EEE)
  
• Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives
  Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer #15977 (LS)
  
• Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-owned Industry
  Sanghamitra Das, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, and Rohini Somanathan #15976 (ITI)
  
• Persuasion and empathy in salesperson-customer interactions
  Julio J. Rotemberg #15975 (IO)
  
• Global Banks and International Shock Transmission: Evidence from the Crisis
  Nicola Cetorelli and Linda S. Goldberg #15974 (EFG, IFM)
  
• The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
  Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan #15973 (EFG)
  
• Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)?
  Jason Abrevaya and Daniel S. Hamermesh #15972 (LS)
  
• The Housing Cycle and Prospects for Technical Progress
  Casey B. Mulligan #15971 (EFG, PE)
  
• Interracial Friendships in College
  Braz Camargo, Ralph Stinebrickner, and Todd R. Stinebrickner #15970 (ED, LS)
  
• The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Pharmaceutical Prices and Demand
  Dhaval Dave and Henry Saffer #15969 (HC, HE, LE)
  
• Did Bankruptcy Reform Cause Mortgage Default to Rise?
  Wenli Li, Michelle J. White, and Ning Zhu #15968 (LE)
  
• On the Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods - Experimental Evidence from the Lab
  Astrid Dannenberg, Andreas Lange, and Bodo Sturm #15967 (EEE, PE)
  
• The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools
  Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Matthew Ronfeldt, and James Wyckoff #15966 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• A Cluster-Grid Projection Method: Solving Problems with High Dimensionality
  Kenneth L. Judd, Lilia Maliar, and Serguei Maliar #15965 (EFG, TWP)
  
• Pop Internationalism: Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?
  Fernando Ferreira and Joel Waldfogel #15964 (IO, ITI, LE)
  
• Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds
  Damon Jones #15963 (PE)
  
• Disability Risk, Disability Insurance and Life Cycle Behavior
  Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri #15962 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
  John J. Horton, David G. Rand, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #15961 (LE, LS)
  
• Borders, Ethnicity and Trade
  Jenny C. Aker, Michael W. Klein, Stephen A. O'Connell, and Muzhe Yang #15960 (IFM)
  
• Market Structure and Innovation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automobile Industry
  Aamir Rafique Hashmi and Johannes Van Biesebroeck #15959 (IO, PR)
  

Week of May 3, 2010 - May 9, 2010

• Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization
  Daron Acemoglu, Gino Gancia, and Fabrizio Zilibotti #15958 (EFG, ITI, POL)
  
• An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade
  Thomas J. Holmes and John J. Stevens #15957 (ITI, PR)
  
• An Autopsy of the U.S. Financial System
  Ross Levine #15956 (CF, IFM, PE)
  
• A Dynamic Model of Housing Demand: Estimation and Policy Implications
  Patrick Bajari, Phoebe Chan, Dirk Krueger, and Daniel Miller #15955 (EFG, IO, PE)
  
• The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data
  Philip S. Babcock and Mindy Marks #15954 (ED)
  
• Binge Drinking and Risky Sex among College Students
  Jeffrey S. DeSimone #15953 (HE)
  
• Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts
  Ulf Axelson, Tim Jenkinson, Per Strömberg, and Michael S. Weisbach #15952 (CF)
  
• Measurement Errors in Investment Equations
  Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello, and Antonio F. Galvao Jr. #15951 (CF)
  
• Do anomalies exist ex ante?
  Jin Ginger Wu and Lu Zhang #15950 (AP, CF)
  
• The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
  Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann #15949 (CH, ED, EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Characteristic Timing
  Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson #15948 (AP, CF)
  
• Local Labor Markets
  Enrico Moretti #15947 (LS)
  
• The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
  Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis, and Enrico Moretti #15946 (CH, LS)
  
• Short Criminals: Stature and Crime in Early America
  Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn Moehling, and Gregory N. Price #15945 (DAE, LS)
  
• Theory, General Equilibrium and Political Economy in Development Economics
  Daron Acemoglu #15944 (DAE, POL)
  
• Breadth vs. Depth: The Timing of Specialization in Higher Education
  Ofer Malamud #15943 (ED, LS)
  
• Who Pays Cigarette Taxes? The Impact of Consumer Price Search
  Philip DeCicca, Donald S. Kenkel, and Feng Liu #15942 (HE)
  
• Excise Tax Avoidance: The Case of State Cigarette Taxes
  Philip DeCicca, Donald S. Kenkel, and Feng Liu #15941 (HE)
  
• The Other Side of Value: Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium
  Robert Novy-Marx #15940 (AP)
  

Week of April 26, 2010 - May 2, 2010

• Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment
  Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn #15939 (EEE)
  
• On the Sources of Aggregate Fluctuations in Emerging Economies
  Roberto Chang and Andrés Fernández #15938 (IFM)
  
• Locked Up by a Lockup: Valuing Liquidity as a Real Option
  Andrew Ang and Nicolas P.B. Bollen #15937 (AP)
  
• Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing
  Robert E. Lipsey, Fredrik Sjöholm, and Jing Sun #15936 (IFM, ITI, PR)
  
• Can Pollution Tax Rebates Protect Low-Income Families? The Effects of Relative Wage Rates
  Don Fullerton and Holly Monti #15935 (EEE, PE)
  
• Fiscal Rules in India: Are They Effective?
  Willem H. Buiter and Urjit R. Patel #15934 (IFM, ME)
  
• Client-Based Entrepreneurship
  James E. Rauch and Joel Watson #15933 (LE)
  
• Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-state Tuition at State Colleges and Universities
  Aimee Chin and Chinhui Juhn #15932 (CH, ED)
  
• Unemployment Fiscal Multipliers
  Tommaso Monacelli, Roberto Perotti, and Antonella Trigari #15931 (EFG)
  
• Innovators: Filmmakers
  David W. Galenson #15930 (AG)
  
• Reading the Recent Monetary History of the U.S., 1959-2007
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez #15929 (EFG)
  
• Fortune or Virtue: Time-Variant Volatilities Versus Parameter Drifting in U.S. Data
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo Guerrón-Quintana, and Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez #15928 (EFG)
  
• Excessive Volatility in Capital Flows: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach
  Olivier Jeanne and Anton Korinek #15927 (IFM)
  
• Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples
  James R. Markusen #15926 (ITI)
  
• Religious Identity and Economic Behavior
  Daniel J. Benjamin, James J. Choi, and Geoffrey W. Fisher #15925 (AP, LS, POL)
  
• Credit within the firm
  Luigi Pistaferri, Luigi Guiso, and Fabiano Schivardi #15924 (LS)
  
• Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
  Erik Snowberg and Justin Wolfers #15923 (AP, EFG, IO)
  
• Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India
  Emily Oster and M. Bryce Millett #15922 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities: Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate
  Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker #15921 (EEE)
  
• Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters
  Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson, Robert Barro, and José Ursúa #15920 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Balance Sheet Adjustments in the 2008 Crisis
  Zhiguo He, In Gu Khang, and Arvind Krishnamurthy #15919 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• Leadership: A Personnel Economics Approach
  Edward P. Lazear #15918 (IO, LS, PR)
  
• Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns
  Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang #15912 (AP, CF, LE)
  

Week of April 19, 2010 - April 25, 2010

• The dark side of outside directors: Do they quit when they are most needed?
  Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Angie Low, and René M. Stulz #15917 (CF)
  
• Ideological Segregation Online and Offline
  Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro #15916 (IO, POL)
  
• Household Location and Schools in Metropolitan Areas with Heterogeneous Suburbs; Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy
  Eric A. Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz #15915 (CH, ED, PE)
  
• Earnings, Consumption and Lifecycle Choices
  Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri #15914 (EFG, LS)
  
• Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
  Gary Charness and Peter J. Kuhn #15913 (LS)
  
• Trust and Well-being
  John F. Helliwell and Shun Wang #15911 (HC, PE, POL)
  
• Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure
  Sergey Chernenko, C. Fritz Foley, and Robin Greenwood #15910 (CF)
  
• Tapping the Supercomputer Under Your Desk: Solving Dynamic Equilibrium Models with Graphics Processors
  Eric M. Aldrich, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, A. Ronald Gallant, and Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez #15909 (EFG)
  
• Simple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy
  John B. Taylor and John C. Williams #15908 (EFG, ME)
  
• Decoupling and Recoupling
  Anton Korinek, Agustín Roitman, and Carlos A. Végh #15907 (IFM)
  
• A Corporate Beauty Contest
  John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, and Manju Puri #15906 (CF, LS)
  
• Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations: Lessons from the Internet
  Shane Greenstein #15905 (IO, PR)
  
• Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
  Maureen L. Cropper, Yi Jiang, Anna Alberini, and Patrick Baur #15904 (EEE)
  
• Putting Per-Capita Income Back into Trade Theory
  James R. Markusen #15903 (ITI)
  
• A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950–2010
  Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee #15902 (EFG, ME, PE)
  

Week of April 12, 2010 - April 18, 2010

• Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market
  Richard Rogerson and Robert Shimer #15901 (EFG)
  
• Deep Financial Integration and Volatility
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sørensen, and Vadym Volosovych #15900 (CF, IFM, ITI, PR)
  
• Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers: Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives
  Christoph Böhringer, Andreas Lange, and Thomas F. Rutherford #15899 (EEE)
  
• Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr #15898 (ED, LS)
  
• The Marginal Products of Residential and Non-Residential Capital Through 2009
  Casey B. Mulligan and Luke Threinen #15897 (EFG, PE, PR)
  
• Household Leverage and the Recession of 2007 to 2009
  Atif R. Mian and Amir Sufi #15896 (CF, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• The Effect of State Workers' Compensation Program Changes on the Use of Federal Social Security Disability Insurance
  Melissa P. McInerney and Kosali I. Simon #15895 (HC, HE)
  
• Education Policy and Crime
  Lance Lochner #15894 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Quantifying the Impact of Financial Development on Economic Development
  Jeremy Greenwood, Juan M. Sanchez, and Cheng Wang #15893 (EFG)
  
• Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States
  John Bound, Michael F. Lovenheim, and Sarah Turner #15892 (ED, LS)
  
• Understanding the mechanisms of economic development
  Angus S. Deaton #15891 (EFG)
  
• The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a DSGE Model with Recursive Preferences
  Jules van Binsbergen, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Ralph S.J. Koijen, and Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez #15890 (EFG)
  
• Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
  Sandra E. Black and Paul J. Devereux #15889 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Pass-Through of Oil Prices to Japanese Domestic Prices
  Etsuro Shioji and Taisuke Uchino #15888 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being
  John F. Helliwell and Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh #15887 (PE, POL)
  
• Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
  Hai Fang, Karen N. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #15886 (LS)
  
• Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing
  Lucas W. Davis and Erich Muehlegger #15885 (EEE, IO, PE)
  
• The Shanxi Banks
  Randall Morck and Fan Yang #15884 (CF)
  
• Beauty Contests and Irrational Exuberance: A Neoclassical Approach
  George-Marios Angeletos, Guido Lorenzoni, and Alessandro Pavan #15883 (AP, EFG)
  
• Trade-in-goods and trade-in-tasks: An Integrating Framework
  Richard Baldwin and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud #15882 (ITI)
  
• Intra-firm Trade and Product Contractibility (Long Version)
  Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott #15881 (ITI)
  
• Has medical innovation reduced cancer mortality?
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #15880 (HC, HE, PR)
  
• How Has the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Evolved Over Time?
  Jean Boivin, Michael T. Kiley, and Frederic S. Mishkin #15879 (EFG, ME)
  
• Why Should Inventories Rise When Demand Falls in Housing and Other Markets?
  Edward P. Lazear #15878 (EFG, IO, PR)
  
• Public Safety through Private Action: An economic assessment of BIDs, locks, and citizen cooperation
  Philip J. Cook and John MacDonald #15877 (LE)
  

Week of April 5, 2010 - April 11, 2010

• Surfing the Waves of Globalization: Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma
  Joshua Aizenman, Menzie D. Chinn, and Hiro Ito #15876 (IFM)
  
• Diet, Health and Work Intensity in England and Wales, 1700-1914
  Bernard Harris, Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, and Sok Chul Hong #15875 (PR)
  
• Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates: Challenges and Policy
  Steven Raphael #15874 (LE)
  
• The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship
  Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher #15873 (CH, PE)
  
• One for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated Driving
  C. Kirabo Jackson and Emily Greene Owens #15872 (HE, PE)
  
• Monetary Policy and Unemployment
  Jordi Galí #15871 (EFG, ME)
  
• Economic Growth with Bubbles
  Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura #15870 (EFG)
  
• Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires
  Jasjit Singh and Ajay K. Agrawal #15869 (PR)
  
• The Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis: Real Exchange Rates and their Long-Run Equilibrium
  Yanping Chong, Òscar Jordà, and Alan M. Taylor #15868 (IFM)
  
• Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
  Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann #15867 (ED, EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Investor Overconfidence and the Forward Premium Puzzle
  Craig Burnside, Bing Han, David Hirshleifer, and Tracy Yue Wang #15866 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil
  Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller #15865 (DAE, EEE, LE, POL)
  
• Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight
  Shu Wen Ng, Edward C. Norton, David K. Guilkey, and Barry M. Popkin #15864 (HC, HE)
  
• Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda
  Douglas Gollin and Richard Rogerson #15863 (PE, PR)
  
• The Trend of Mean BMI Values of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986 Indicates that the Obesity Epidemic Began Earlier than Hitherto Thought
  John Komlos and Marek Brabec #15862 (HE)
  
• Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations
  Jeffrey Brown, Stephen G. Dimmock, Jun-Koo Kang, and Scott Weisbenner #15861 (AP, CF, ED, PE)
  
• Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey
  Hanming Fang and Andrea Moro #15860 (LS, PE)
  
• Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios
  Laurent E. Calvet and Paolo Sodini #15859 (AP, EFG)
  
• Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes
  Richard Frank and Thomas G. McGuire #15858 (HE)
  
• Using Innovations Surveys for Econometric Analysis
  Jacques Mairesse and Pierre Mohnen #15857 (PR)
  
• The Politics of Monetary Policy
  Alberto F. Alesina and Andrea Stella #15856 (POL)
  
• The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #15836 (EEE, IFM)
  
• Leverage and Asset Bubbles: Averting Armageddon with Chapter 11?
  Marcus Miller and Joseph E. Stiglitz #15817 (ME)
  

Week of March 29, 2010 - April 4, 2010

• Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State
  Jonathan Gruber and Samuel A. Kleiner #15855 (   AG   HC   HE   LS   PE)
  
• The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance
  Robert W. Hahn and Robert N. Stavins #15854 (EEE)
  
• Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
  Jennifer Hunt #15853 (LS)
  
• Optimal price setting with observation and menu costs
  Fernando E. Alvarez, Francesco Lippi, and Luigi Paciello #15852 (EFG, ME)
  
• Harmonizing and Combining Large Datasets – An Application to Firm-Level Patent and Accounting Data
  Grid Thoma, Salvatore Torrisi, Alfonso Gambardella, Dominique Guellec, Bronwyn H. Hall, and Dietmar Harhoff #15851 (PR)
  
• Modeling Financial Contagion Using Mutually Exciting Jump Processes
  Yacine Aït-Sahalia, Julio Cacho-Diaz, and Roger J.A. Laeven #15850 (AP)
  
• Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in Public Places
  Christopher Carpenter, Sabina Postolek, and Casey Warman #15849 (HE)
  
• Corporate Bond Default Risk: A 150-Year Perspective
  Kay Giesecke, Francis A. Longstaff, Stephen Schaefer, and Ilya Strebulaev #15848 (AP)
  
• Tax buyouts
  Marco Del Negro, Fabrizio Perri, and Fabiano Schivardi #15847 (EFG, PE)
  
• Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber
  N. Gregory Mankiw #15846 (PE)
  
• Civic Capital as the Missing Link
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #15845 (EEE, POL)
  
• Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium
  Jared C. Carbone and V. Kerry Smith #15844 (EEE)
  
• The economic crisis and medical care usage
  Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider, and Peter Tufano #15843 (AG)
  
• Globalization, Pass-Through and Inflation Dynamic
  Pierpaolo Benigno and Ester Faia #15842 (IFM, ME)
  
• The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  Jessica Wolpaw Reyes #15841 (HC, LE)
  
• Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health
  Anna Aizer and Laura Stroud #15840 (CH, HE)
  
• Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
  Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher Malloy #15839 (AP, CF, PE, POL, PR)
  
• Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences: Answers and Questions
  David Galenson #15838 (AG)
  
• Leverage, Moral Hazard and Liquidity
  Viral V. Acharya and S. Viswanathan #15837 (AP, CF)
  

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