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New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of March 27, 2000

• From Benign Neglect to Malignant Preoccupation: U.S. Balance-of-Payments Policy in the 1960s
  Barry Eichengreen #7630 (IFM)
  
• Dimensions of Credit Risk and Their Relationship to Economic Capital Requirements
  Mark Carey #7629 (CF, ME)
  
• Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates
  Emmanuel Saez #7628 (PE)
  
• What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure
  Robert F. Schoeni and Rebecca M. Blank #7627 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Taxes, High-Income Executives, and the Perils of Revenue Estimation in the New Economy
  Austan Goolsbee #7626 (PE)
  
• Can Subsidies for MARs be Procompetitive?
  Kala Krishna, Suddhasatwa Roy, and Marie C. Thursby #7624 (ITI)
  
• Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment: Japan, the United States, and Sweden
  Robert E. Lipsey, Eric D. Ramstetter, and Magnus Blomström #7623 (ITI)
  
• Pricing Upward-Only Adjusting Leases
  Brent W. Ambrose, Patric H. Hendershott, and Malgorzata M. Klosek #7622 (AP)
  
• The Determinants of Trust
  Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara #7621 (PE)
  
• Government Ownership of Banks
  Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #7620 (CF, PE)
  
• Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using the Estimated Propensity Score
  Keisuke Hirano, Guido W. Imbens, and Geert Ridder #T0251 (TWP)
  

Week of March 20, 2000

New Book Chapters

• Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables
  Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Harvey S. Rosen, and Robert Weathers #7619 (PE)
  
• Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Countries
  Frederic S. Mishkin #7618 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Monetary Policy Strategies for Latin America
  Frederic S. Mishkin and Miguel A. Savastano #7617 (EFG,IFM, ME)
  
• Federalism with and without Political Centralization: China versus Russia
  Olivier Blanchard and Andrei Shleifer #7616 (CF)
  
• Covariance Risk, Mispricing, and the Cross Section of Security Returns
  Kent D. Daniel, David Hirshleifer, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam #7615 (AP)
  
• Using Options to Divide Value in Corporate Bankruptcy
  Lucian Arye Bebchuk #7614 (LE)
  
• Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation
  Andrew W. Lo, Harry Mamaysky, and Jiang Wang #7613 (AP)
  
• The Influence of Federal Laboratory R&D on Industrial Research
  James D. Adams, Eric P. Chiang, and Jeffrey L. Jensen #7612 (PR)
  
• Low Wage Services: Interpreting the US - German Difference
  Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat #7611 (LS)
  
• Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment: Germany vs. the US
  Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat #7610 (LS)
  
• Expectations Hypotheses Tests
  Geert Bekaert and Robert J. Hodrick #7609 (AP)
  
• From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor
  Dora L. Costa #7608 (DAE, LS)
  
• Designing Stabilization Policy in a Monetary Union
  Russell W. Cooper and Hubert Kempf #7607 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?
  David Neumark and Scott Adams #7606 (LS)
  
• Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change
  Dora L. Costa #7605 (A, DAE, HC)
  
• Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do
  Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan #7604 (CF, LS)
  
• Local Revenue Hills: A General Equilibrium Specification with Evidence from Four U.S. Cities
  Andrew Haughwout, Robert Inman, Steven Craig, and Thomas Luce #7603 (PE)
  

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• The following are new or updated chapters for forthcoming books:
  • "Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Postwar Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?"
    David Card and Thomas Lemieux

Week of March 13, 2000

New Book Chapters

• Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century
  J. Bradford DeLong #7602 (DAE, ME)
  
• The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers
  Phillip B. Levine #7601 (CH)
  
• The Simple Economics of Open Source
  Josh Lerner and Jean Triole #7600 (PR)
  
• Using the EITC to Help Poor Families: New Evidence and a Comparison with the Minimum Wage
  David Neumark and William Wascher #7599 (LS, PE)
  
• The First Year of the Eurosystem: Inflation Targeting or Not?
  Lars E.O. Svensson #7598 (IFM, ME)
  
• How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier #7597 (A, LS, PE)
  
• The Taxation of Executive Compensation
  Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman #7596 (CF, LS, PE)
  
• Do After-Tax Returns Affect Mutual Fund Inflows?
  Daniel Bergstresser and James Poterba #7595 (AP, PE)
  
• Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa
  Marianne Bertrand, Douglas Miller, Sendhil Mullainathan #7594 (A, LS)
  
• Testing Parental Altruism: Implications of a Dynamic Model
  Kathleen McGarry #7593 (A)
  
• Why a Funded Pension System is Useful and Why It is Not Useful
  Hans-Werner Sinn #7592 (A, PE)
  
• Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?
  Alan B. Krueger and Mikael Lindahl #7591 (EFG)
  
• Have Individual Stocks Become More Volatile? An Empirical Exploration of Idiosyncratic Risk
  John Y. Campbell, Martin Lettau, Burton G. Malkiel and Yexiao Xu #7590 (AP, EFG)
  
• Asset Pricing at the Millennium
  John Y. Campbell #7589 (AP, CF, EFG, ME)
  
• Retirement Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier #7588 (A, LS)
  
• The Visible Hand, The Invisible Hand and Efficiency
  Eitan Goldman and Gary Gorton #7587 (CF)
  
• Germany's Economic Unification: An Assessment after Ten Years
  Hans-Werner Sinn #7586 (PE)
  

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• The following are new or updated chapters for forthcoming books:
  • "Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics"
    Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
  • "Market Discipline in the Governance of U.S. Bank Holding Companies: Monitoring vs. Influencing"
    Robert R. Bliss and Mark J. Flannery
  • "Revealing Comparative Advantage: Chaotic or Coherent Patterns Across Time and Sector and U.S. Trading Partner?"
    J. David Richardson and Chi Zhang
  • "Youth Smoking in the U.S.: Evidence and Implications"
    Jonathan Gruber and Jonathan Zinman
  • "Measuring Product-Market Integration"
    Michael M. Knetter and Matthew J. Slaughter
  • "Determinants and effects of MNC growth: The Swedish case revisited"
    Birgitta Swedenborg
  • "Total Resource Productivity: Accounting for Changing Environmental Quality"
    Frank M. Gollop and Gregory P. Swinand
  • "Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans: How Bad Can it Get?"
    Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  • "The Optimal Choice of Exchange-Rate Regime: Price-Setting Rules and Internationalized Production"
    Michael B. Devereux and Charles Engel
  • "Monetary Policy Strategies for Latin America"
    Frederic S. Mishkin and Miguel A. Savastano
  • "Inferring Relative Factor Price Changes from Quantitative Data"
    Robert Baldwin
  • "The Determinants of Juvenile Crime"
    Steven D. Levitt and Lance Lochner
  • "The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers"
    Philip B. Levine
  • "Youths at Nutritional Risk: Malnourished or Misnourished?"
    Jay Bhattacharya and Janet Currie
  • "Teens and Traffic Safety"
    Thomas S. Dee and William N. Evans

Week of March 6, 2000

• Self-Confidence and Social Interactions
  Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole #7585 (CH)
  
• A Dynamic Model of Differential Human Capital and Criminal Activity
  H. Naci Mocan, Stephen C. Billups, and Jody Overland #7584 (CH)
  
• Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition
  Robert J. Lemke, Ann Dryden Witte, Magaly Queralt and Robert Witt #7583 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Obstacles to Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms
  Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan #7582 (ME)
  
• Medium-Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration
  Menzie D. Chinn and Eswar S. Prasad #7581 (IFM)
  
• Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
  Charles F. Manski #7580 (LS)
  
• Elected versus Appointed Regulators: Theory and Evidence
  Stephen Coate and Timothy Besley #7579 (IO, PE)
  
• Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?
  David Card and John E. DiNardo #7578 (LS)
  
• Potential Pitfalls for the Purchasing-Power-Parity Puzzle? Sampling and Specification Biases in Mean-Reversion Tests
  Alan M. Taylor #7577 (DAE, IFM, ITI)
  
• Does Growing Inequality Reduce Tax Progressivity? Should It?
  Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija #7576 (PE)
  
• Globalization and International Public Finance
  Michael Kremer and Paras Mehta #7575 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Guaranteed Income: SSI and the Well-Being of the Elderly Poor
  Kathleen McGarry #7574 (A, PE)
  
• South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809
  Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss #H0123 (DAE)
  

Week of February 28, 2000

• Labor Markets in Professional Sports
  Sherwin Rosen and Allen Sanderson #7573 (LS)
  
• Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment: A Barrier to Trade?
  Barbara J. Spencer and Larry D. Qiu #7572 (ITI)
  
• The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy
  N. Gregory Mankiw #7571 (EFG, ME)
  
• Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle
  Angus Deaton, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Christina Paxson #7570 (A, PE)
  
• The Shape of Twentieth Century Economic History
  J. Bradford DeLong #7569 (ME, DAE)
  
• Long Run Effects of Social Security Reform Proposals on Lifetime Progressivity
  Julia Lynn Coronado, Don Fullerton and Thomas Glass #7568 (A, PE)
  
• Daily Momentum and Contrarian Behavior of Index Fund Investors
  William N. Goetzmann and Massimo Massa #7567 (AP)
  
• Global Real Estate Markets - Cycles and Fundamentals
  Bradford Case, William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst #7566 (AP)
  
• A Century of Global Stock Markets
  Philippe Jorion and William N. Goetzmann #7565 (AP)
  
• Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
  Jennifer Hunt #7564 (LS)
  
• The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales #7563 (CF)
  
• Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector
  Christopher J. Ruhm and Carey Borkoski #7562 (HC, LS, PE)
  
• The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
  Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer #7561 (LS)
  
• Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities
  Jeffrey R. Brown #7560 (A, PE)
  
• Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility
  Ben Bernanke and Mark Gertler #7559 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• The Importance of Measurement Error in the Cost of Capital
  Austan Goolsbee #7558 (PE)
  
• Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment
  David H. Autor #7557 (LS)
  
• Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses
  Richard H. Steckel and Carolyn M. Moehling #H0122 (DAE)
  

Week of February 21, 2000

• Single Peaked Vs. Diversified Capitalism: The Relation Between Economic Institutions and Outcomes
  Richard B. Freeman #7556 (LS)
  
• Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations
  Leemore Dafny and Jonathan Gruber #7555 (C, HC, PE)
  
• On the Fundamentals of Self-Fulfilling Speculative Attacks
  Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo #7554 (IFM)
  
• Tax Subsidies for Health Insurance: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits
  Jonathan Gruber #7553 (HC, PE)
  
• Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)
  Wesley M. Cohen, Richard R. Nelson, and John P. Walsh #7552 (P)
  
• Inflation Dynamics: A Structural Econometric Analysis
  Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler #7551 (EFG, ME)
  
• What do we know about Macroeconomics that Fisher and Wicksell did not?
  Olivier Blanchard #7550 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Information in the High Yield Bond Spread for the Business Cycle: Evidence and Some Implications
  Mark Gertler and Cara S. Lown #7549 (A, EFG, ME)
  
• Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options
  Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy #7548 (CF, LS, PE)
  
• A Monetary Explanation of the Great Stagflation of the 1970s
  Robert B. Barsky and Lutz Kilian #7547 (ME)
  
• The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy: A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms
  Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales #7546 (CF)
  
• Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
  Eli Berman and Zaur Rzakhanov #7545 (A, C, ITI, LS)
  
• Labor- and Capital- Augmenting Technical Change
  Daron Acemoglu #7544 (EFG)
  
• The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance
  Melissa A. Thomasson #7543 (DAE, HC, PE)
  
• Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth
  Lalith Munasinghe and Nachum Sicherman #7542 (LS)
  

Week of February 14, 2000

• The Growth Costs of Malaria
  F. Desmond McCarthy, Holger Wolf, and Yi Wu #7541 (EFG)
  
• Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They are and How to Acquire Them
  Dani Rodrik #7540 (EFG)
  
• Have Falling Tariffs and Transportation Costs Raised U.S. Wage Inequality?
  Jonathan E. Haskel and Matthew J. Slaughter #7539 (ITI)
  
• Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box
  Paul A. David and Bronwyn H. Hall #7538 (P)
  
• Medical Liability, Managed Care, and Defensive Medicine
  Daniel P. Kessler and Mark B. McClellan #7537 (A, HC, LE)
  
• Strategic Trade Policy with Endogenous Choice of Quality and Asymmetric Costs
  Dongsheng Zhou, Barbara J. Spencer and Ilan Vertinsky #7536 (ITI)
  
• Cigarettes and Alcohol: Substitutes or Complements?
  Sandra L. Decker and Amy Ellen Schwartz #7535 (HE)
  
• Resuscitating Real Business Cycles
  Robert G. King and Sergio T. Rebelo #7534 (EFG)
  
• How Liability Law Affects Medical Productivity
  Daniel P. Kessler and Mark B. McClellan #7533 (A, HC, LE)
  

Week of February 11, 2000

• Capital Gains Realizations of the Rich and Sophisticated
  Alan J. Auerbach and Jonathan M. Siegel #7532 (PE)
  
• Can Output Losses Following International Financial Crises be Avoided?
  Michael P. Dooley #7531 (IFM)
  
• Income Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility
  Michael Kremer and Daniel Chen #7530 (C, EFG)
  
• U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts: From Mexico to LTCM
  Bong-Chan Kho, Dong Lee, and René M. Stulz #7529 (AP, CF, IFM)
  
• Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837
  Peter L. Rousseau #7528 (DAE, ME)
  
• The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz #7527 (LS)
  
• How Large is the Bias in Self-Reported Disability?
  Hugo Benítez-Silva, Moshe Buchinsky, Hiu Man Chan, Sofia Cheidvasser, and John Rust #7526 (A, LS)
  
• The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households, 1960-1995
  Daniel R. Feenberg and James M. Poterba #7525 (PE)
  
• How Do UK-Based Foreign Exchange Dealers Think Their Market Operates?
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie D. Chinn, and Ian W. Marsh #7524 (IFM)
  
• Tunnelling
  Simon Johnson, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #7523 (CF)
  
• Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development
  Phillip B. Levine and David J. Zimmerman #7522 (C, LS, PE)
  
• Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement
  Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise #7521 (LS, A)
  
• The Progressivity of Social Security
  Julia Lynn Coronado, Don Fullerton, and Thomas Glass #7520 (A, PE)
  
• The Effects of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution
  David Neumark, Mark Schweitzer, and William Wascher #7519 (LS)
  
• Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange
  Antonio Rangel #7518 (A, PE)
  
• The European Central Bank and the Euro: The First Year
  Martin Feldstein #7517 (IFM)
  
• How Should Monetary Policy be Conducted in an Era of Price Stability?
  Lars E.O. Svensson #7516 (PE)
  

Week of February 4, 2000

• Fiscal Shocks in an Efficiency Wage Model
  Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Jonas D.M. Fisher #7515 (EFG, ME)
  
• Capital Movements, Banking Insolvency, and Silent Runs in the Asian Financial Crisis
  Edward J. Kane #7514 (CF)
  
• Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting
  Simon P. Anderson, and Stephen Coate #7513 (PE)
  
• The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence and Implications
  Jon Gruber and Emmanuel Saez #7512 (PE)
  
• Sticky-Price Models of the Business Cycle: Specification and Stability
  Peter N. Ireland #7511 (ME)
  
• Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions: The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions
  Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, and Jane Waldfogel #7510 (LS)
  
• Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion
  Wolfgang Keller #7509 (ITI, P)
  
• Sorting and Long-Run Inequality
  Raquel Fernández and Richard Rogerson #7508 (EFG, LS)
  
• Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence
  Jonathan Gruber, and Botond Köszegi #7507 (A, C, LS, PE)
  
• Youth Smoking in the U.S.: Prices and Policies
  Jonathan Gruber #7506 (C, HE)
  
• Two Generalizations of a Deposit-Refund System
  Don Fullerton and Ann Wolverton #7505 (PE)
  
• Medicare Reform: The Larger Picture
  Victor R. Fuchs #7504 (A, HC)
  
• The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
  Vernon Henderson #7503 (EFG, PE)
  
• Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy
  Steven J. Davis and Magnus Henrekson #7502 (LS)
  

Week of January 21, 2000

• The Effect of Unions on Employment: Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay
  Adriana Cassoni, Steven G. Allen, and Gaston J. Labadie #7501 (LS)
  
• The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers
  Sara Markowitz #7500 (HE)
  
• Tax Base Variability and Procyclical Fiscal Policy
  Ernesto Talvi and Carlos A. Vegh #7499 (IFM)
  
• Money as Stock: Price Level Determination with no Money Demand
  John H. Cochrane #7498 (AP,ME)
  
• Estimating Exchange Rate Exposures: Some "Weighty" Issues
  Gordon M. Bodnar and M.H. Franco Wong #7497 (IFM)
  
• The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the U.S.
  Alberto Alesina #7496 (PE)
  
• Do Patents Matter?: Empirical Evidence after GATT
  Jean O. Lanjouw and Iain Cockburn #7495 (P)
  
• If at First You Don't Succeed...: Profits, Prices and Market Structure in a Model of Quality with Unknowable Consumer Heterogeneity
  Kala Krishna and Tor Winston #7494 (I0)
  
• Identification through Heteroskedasticity: Measuring "Contagion" between Argentinean and Mexican Sovereign Bonds
  Roberto Rigobon #7493 (IFM)
  
• Searching for Non-Linear Effects of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Industrial and Developing Countries
  Francesco Giavazzi, Tullio Jappelli, and Marco Pagano #7460 (IFM)
  
• Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Shocks
  Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Jonas D.M. Fisher #7459 (EFG,ME)
  
• External Treatment Effects and Program Implementation Bias
  Tomas J. Philipson #T0250 (TWP)
  
• On Optimal Instrumental Variables Estimation of Stationary Time Series Models
  Kenneth D. West #T0249 (TWP)
  

Week of January 14, 2000

• The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System
  Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey Liebman #7492 (A, PE)
  
• Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
  Bruce D. Meyer and Dan T. Rosenbaum #7491 (C, LS, PE)
  
• Robust Monetary Policy Under Model Uncertainty in a Small Model of the U.S. Economy
  Alexei Onatski and James H. Stock #7490 (ME, EFG)
  
• Market Efficiency in an Irrational World
  Kent Daniel and Sheridan Titman #7489 (AP)
• Exchange Rate Returns Standardized by Realized Volatility are (Nearly) Gaussian
  Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis X. Diebold, and Paul Labys #7488 (AP)
  
• Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA
  David G. Blanchflower and Andrew H. Oswald #7487 (LS)
  
• Self-Employment in OECD Countries
  David G. Blanchflower #7486 (LS)
  
• Trade, Income Inequality, and Government Policies: Redistribution of Income or Education Subsidies
  Eckhard Janeba #7485 (ITI)
  
• Endogenous R&D Spillovers and Industrial Research Productivity
  James D. Adams #7484 (P)
  
• Causes of the Korean Financial Crisis: Lessons for Policy
  Joon-Ho Hahm and Frederic S. Miskin #7483 (IFM)
  
• Understanding Inflation: Implications for Monetary Policy
  Stephen F. Cecchetti and Erica L. Groshen #7482 (ME)
  
• Criminal Violence and Alcohol Beverage Control: Evidence from an International Study
  Sara Markowitz #7481 (HE)
• Does Product Market Competition Reduce Agency Costs?
  Ravi Jagannathan and Shaker B. Srinivasan #7480 (AP, P)
  
• What's Driving the New Economy: The Benefits of Workplace Innovation
  Sandra E. Black and Lisa M. Lynch #7479 (LS)
  
• 150 Years of Patent Protection
  Josh Lerner #7478 (P)
  
• 150 Years of Patent Office Practice
  Josh Lerner #7477 (P)
• Preserving the Ocean Circulation: Implications for Climate Policy
  Klaus Keller, Kelvin Tan, François M.M. Morel, and David F. Bradford #7476 (PE)
  
• Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign Contributions and the Reqards to Legislator Reputation
  Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann #7475 (LE)
  
• The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
  Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat #7474 (LS)
  
• Tax Avoidance, Evasion, and Administration
  Joel Slemrod and Shlomo Yitzhaki #7473 (PE)
• Changes in Job Stability and Job Security: A Collective Effort to Untangle, Reconcile, and Interpret the Evidence
  David Neumark #7472 (P)
  
• Total Factor Productivity: A Short Biography
  Charles R. Hulten #7471 (P)
  
• The Role of Commitment in Dynamic Contracts: Evidence from Life Insurance
  Igal Hendel and Alessandro Lizzeri #7470 (P)
  
• Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates
  Bruce Sacerdote #7469 (LE, LS)
• Growth Theory
  Boyan Jovanovic #7468 (P)
  
• Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector: The Case of Bank Branches
  Ann P. Bartel #7467 (LS, P)
  
• Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange Rate
  Michael W. Klein, Scott Schuh, and Robert K. Triest #7466 (IFM)
  
• Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment
  Timothy Dunne, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, and Kenneth Troske #7465 (P, EFG)
• Do Equity Financing Cycles Matter? Evidence from Biotechnology Alliances
  Josh Lerner and Alexander Tsai #7464 (CF, P)
  
• Are Americans More Altruistic than the Japanese? A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives
  Charles Yuji Horioka, Hideki Fujisaki, Wako Watanabe, and Takatsugo Kouno #7463 (PE)
  
• What Causes Fluctuations in the Terms of Trade?
  Marianne Baxter and Michael A. Kouparitsas #7462 (ITI)
  
• Keynesian Macroeconomics without the LM Curve
  David Romer #7461 (ME)
• Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs?
  Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody #7458 (IFM)
  
• Estimation of Limited-Dependent Variable Models with Dummy Endogenous Regressors: Simple Strategies for Empirical Practice
  Joshua D. Angrist #T0248 (TWP)
  
• A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Test for Publication Bias
  Orley Ashenfelter, Colm Harmon, and Hessel Oosterbeek #7457 (LS)
  
• From Bismarck to Maastrict: The March to European Union and the Labor Compact
  Alan B. Krueger #7456 (LS)
• Togetherness: Spouses' Synchronous Leisure, and the Impact of Children
  Daniel S. Hamermesh #7455 (LS)
  
• Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets
  Daniel P. Kessler and Lawrence Katz #7454 (LE, LS)
  
• The Impact of State Taxes on Self-Insurance
  Bin Ke, Kathy R. Petroni and Douglas A. Shackelford #7453 (PE)
  
• Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?
  John Bound and Sarah Turner #7452 (LS)
• Intertemporal Tax Discontinuities
  Douglas A. Shackelford and Robert E. Verrecchia #7451 (PE)
  
• Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government
  Eric A. Hanushek and Julie A. Somers #7450 (C, LS, PE)
  
• Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
  John Knowles, Nicola Persico and Petra Todd #7449 (LS, PE)
  
• Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
  Peter L. Rousseau and Richard Sylla #7448 (DAE, EFG, ME)
• Coase v. the Coasians
  Simon Johnson and Andrei Shleifer #7447 (CF, PE)
  
• Financial Sector Inefficiencies and Coordinate Failures Implications for Crisis Management
  Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman #7446 (IFM)
  
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