New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

Week of Sep 20, 2010 - Sept 27, 2010

• The End of the Great Depression 1939-41: Policy Contributions and Fiscal Multipliers
  Robert J. Gordon and Robert Krenn #16380 (EFG)
  
• An Intensive Exploration of Technology Diffusion
  Diego A. Comin and Martí­ Mestieri #16379 (DAE   EFG   ITI   PR)
  
• Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
  Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn #16378 (EFG   ITI   PR)
  
• Managing Credit Booms and Busts: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach
  Olivier Jeanne and Anton Korinek #16377 (IFM)
  
• On the Economic Consequences of Index-Linked Investing
  Jeffrey Wurgler #16376 (AP   CF)
  
• The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy
  Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard and Per Krusell #16375 (EFG)
  
• Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run: The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility
  Pierpaolo Benigno, Luca Antonio Ricci, and Paolo Surico #16374 (EFG   LS   ME   PR)
  
• The Power of Asking: How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism
  James Andreoni and Justin M. Rao #16373 (PE)
  
• Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities
  James Andreoni and A. Abigail Payne #16372 (PE)
  
• The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute
  Soren T. Anderson #16371 (EEE)
  
• Automobile Fuel Economy Standards: Impacts, Efficiency, and Alternatives
  Soren T. Anderson, Carolyn Fischer, Ian Parry, and James M. Sallee #16370 (EEE   PE)
  
• Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity
  Ji-Woong Chung, Berk A. Sensoy, Lea H. Stern, and Michael S. Weisbach #16369 (CF   LS)
  
• Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gerard Roland #16368 (EFG   POL   PR)
  
• Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
  Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca M. Henderson #16367 (PR)
  
• Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials
  Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson #16366 (LE   PE)
  
• The Lessons from the Banking Panics in the United States in the 1930s for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
  Michael D. Bordo and John Landon-Lane #16365 (DAE   ME)
  
• Prices are Sticky After All
  Patrick J. Kehoe and Virgiliu Midrigan #16364 (EFG   ME)
  
• Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight
  Eric M. Leeper, Alexander W. Richter, and Todd B. Walker #16363 (EFG)
  
• A Comparison of Monetary Anchor Options, Including Product Price Targeting, for Commodity-Exporters in Latin America
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #16362 (IFM)
  
• The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
  Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, and Pierre Yared #16361 (POL)
  
• Auctions with Resale When Private Values Are Uncertain: Evidence from the Lab and Field
  Andreas Lange, John A. List, and Michael K. Price #16360 (IO)
  

Week of Sep 13, 2010 - Sep 20, 2010

• The Effects of College Counseling on High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
  Christopher Avery #16359 (ED)
  
• Why Does the Treasury Issue Tips? The Tips-Treasury Bond Puzzle
  Matthias Fleckenstein, Francis A. Longstaff, and Hanno Lustig #16358 (AP   ME)
  
• Does Labor Supply Matter During a Recession? Evidence from the Seasonal Cycle
  Casey B. Mulligan #16357 (EFG   LS)
  
• Financing Direct Democracy: Revisiting the Research on Campaign Spending and Citizen Initiatives
  John M. de Figueiredo, Chang Ho Ji, and Thad Kousser #16356 (LE   PE   POL)
  
• The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage: An Educational Cascade
  Richard Sutch #16355 (DAE)
  
• Multivariate Fractional Regression Estimation of Econometric Share Models
  John Mullahy #16354 (HC   HE   TWP)
  
• Fat Tails, Thin Tails, and Climate Change Policy
  Robert S. Pindyck #16353 (EEE   IO   PE)
  
• Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time
  Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow #16352 (EFG)
  
• The Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from the 2009 ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program
  Atif Mian and Amir Sufi #16351 (EFG   ME   POL)
  
• Did France Cause the Great Depression?
  Douglas A. Irwin #16350 (DAE   IFM   ME)
  
• The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation
  Nicolai V. Kuminoff, V. Kerry Smith, and Christopher Timmins #16349 (EEE)
  
• Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Discounted Expected Utility with a Disproportionate Preference for Certainty
  James Andreoni and Charles Sprenger #16348 (PE)
  
• Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets
  James Andreoni and Charles Sprenger #16347 (PE)
  
• International Differences in Fiscal Policy During the Global Crisis
  Agustín S. Bénétrix and Philip R. Lane #16346 (IFM   PE)
  
• U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Intervention during the Volcker-Greenspan Era
  Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz #16345 (DAE   ME)
  
• When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
  Jeffrey G. Williamson #16344 (DAE)
  
• Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments
  Sylvain Chassang, Gerard Padro i Miquel, and Erik Snowberg #16343 (HE   LS   PR   TWP)
  
• The Consumption Response to Seasonal Income: Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits
  Melvin Stephens, Jr. and Takashi Unayama #16342 (ME   PE)
  
• Scientific Productivity and Academic Promotion: A Study on French and Italian Physicists
  Francesco Lissoni, Jacques Mairesse, Fabio Montobbio, and Michele Pezzoni #16341 (PR)
  

Week of Sep 7, 2010 - Sep 13, 2010

• Must Love Kill the Family Firm?
  Vikas Mehrotra, Randall Morck, Jungwook Shim, and Yupana Wiwattanakantang #16340 (CF)
  
• Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation: the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative
  Robert T. Deacon, Dominic P. Parker, and Christopher Costello #16339 (EEE)
  
• Unitization of spatially connected renewable resources
  Daniel T. Kaffine and Christopher J. Costello #16338 (EEE)
  
• Two Monetary Tools: Interest Rates and Haircuts
  Adam Ashcraft, Nicolae Gárleanu, and Lasse Heje Pedersen #16337 (AP   EFG   ME)
  
• The Value Spread: A Puzzle
  Frederico Belo, Chen Xue, and Lu Zhang #16336 (AP   CF)
  
• The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: An Experiment
  Steven N. Kaplan, Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Berk A. Sensoy #16335 (AP   CF)
  
• After the Fall
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Vincent R. Reinhart #16334 (IFM   ME)
  
• Paying to Learn: The Effect of Financial Incentives on Elementary School Test Scores
  Eric P. Bettinger #16333 (ED)
  
• Assessing Inherent Model Bias: An Application to Native Displacement in Response to Immigration
  Giovanni Peri and Chad Sparber #16332 (ITI   LS)
  
• The Idea Gap in Pink and Black
  Lisa D. Cook and Chaleampong Kongcharoen #16331 (PR)
  
• Does Drinking Impair College Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach
  Scott E. Carrell, Mark Hoekstra, and James E. West #16330 (ED   HE   LS   PE)
  
• How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
  Jonathan Reuter and Eric Zitzewitz #16329 (AG   AP)
  
• The Importance of Being an Optimist: Evidence from Labor Markets
  Ron Kaniel, Cade Massey, and David T. Robinson #16328 (CF   PR)
  
• Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach
  Fatih Guvenen and Anthony Smith #16327 (AP   EFG   LS   PE)
  
• Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
  A. Kerem Coşar, Nezih Guner, and James Tybout #16326 (ITI   PR)
  
• Competition and the Ratchet Effect
  Gary Charness, Peter Kuhn, and Marie-Claire Villeval #16325 (LS)
  
• Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's “Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation”
  Gary D. Libecap #16324 (DAE   EEE)
  
• The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Christian Helmers #16323 (EEE   PR)
  
• Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
  Pravin Krishna, Devashish Mitra, and Asha Sundaram #16322 (ITI)
  
• Exchange Market Pressure and Absorption by International Reserves: Emerging Markets and Fear of Reserve Loss During the 2008-09 Crisis
  Joshua Aizenman and Michael M. Hutchison #16260 (IFM   ITI)
  

Week of Aug 30, 2010 - Sep 6, 2010

• Bundling Among Rivals: A Case of Pharmaceutical Cocktails
  Claudio Lucarelli, Sean Nicholson, and Minjae Song #16321 (HC   IO)
  
• Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
  Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi, and Esteban F. Klor #16320 (ED   LS   POL)
  
• The Nature of Excess: Using Randomized Treatments to Investigate Price Dynamics
  Omar Al-Ubaydli, John A. List, and Michael K. Price #16319 (AP)
  
• Analyzing the Welfare Impacts of Full-line Forcing Contracts
  Justin Ho, Katherine Ho, and Julie Holland Mortimer #16318 (IO)
  
• The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
  Xi Chen and William D. Nordhaus #16317 (EEE   IO   PR)
  
• Why Do Household Portfolio Shares Rise in Wealth?
  Jessica A. Wachter and Motohiro Yogo #16316 (AP)
  
• Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes
  Alessandra Casella, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, and Thomas R. Palfrey #16315 (PE   POL)
  
• Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History
  Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin #16314 (DAE   EFG   ITI)
  
• Firm Entry, Trade, and Welfare in Zipf's World
  Julian di Giovanni and Andrei A. Levchenko #16313 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Broker Incentives and Mutual Fund Market Segmentation
  Diane Del Guercio, Jonathan Reuter, and Paula A. Tkac #16312 (AG   AP   IO)
  
• Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy
  Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #16311 (EFG   PE)
  
• Financial Policies and the Financial Crisis: How Important Was the Systemic Credit Contraction for Industrial Corporations?
  Kathleen M. Kahle and René M. Stulz #16310 (CF)
  
• Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis
  Murillo Campello, Erasmo Giambona, John R. Graham, and Campbell R. Harvey #16309 (CF   EFG   IFM)
  
• Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields
  Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker #16308 (EEE)
  
• Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program
  Meredith Fowlie #16307 (EEE)
  
• An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice
  Eduardo Fajnzylber, V. Joseph Hotz, and Seth G. Sanders #16306 (CH)
  
• The Economics of Carbon Offsets
  James B. Bushnell #16305 (EEE)
  
• Solving the Multi-Country Real Business Cycle Model Using Ergodic Set Methods
  Serguei Maliar, Lilia Maliar, and Kenneth L. Judd #16304 (EFG   PE   TWP)
  
• Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation
  Charles D. Kolstad #16303 (EEE)
  
• Are Options on Index Futures Profitable for Risk Averse Investors? Empirical Evidence
  George M. Constantinides, Michal Czerwonko, Jens Carsten Jackwerth, and Stylianos Perrakis #16302 (AP)
  

Week of Aug 23, 2010 - Aug 30, 2010

• Specialization: Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002
  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov #16301 (IFM   ITI   PR)
  
• Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young
  John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, and Javier Miranda #16300 (EFG   LS   PR)
  
• Income Inequality and Local Government in the United States, 1970-2000
  Leah Platt Boustan, Fernando Ferreira, Hernan Winkler, and Eric Zolt #16299 (PE   POL)
  
• Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment
  Pascaline Dupas #16298 (CH)
  
• Pricing and Reimbursement in U.S. Pharmaceutical Markets
  Ernst R. Berndt and Joseph P. Newhouse #16297 (HC   IO   PR)
  
• Giving Mom a Break: The Impact of Higher EITC Payments on Maternal Health
  William N. Evans and Craig L. Garthwaite #16296 (HE   LS   PE)
  
• Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
  Yi Qian #16295 (PR)
  
• Does Ethnicity Pay
  Yasheng Huang, Li Jin, and Yi Qian #16294 (PR)
  
• Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies across Countries and of Schools within Countries
  Richard B. Freeman, Stephen Machin, and Martina Viarengo #16293 (ED   LS)
  
• To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation
  Alex Bryson and Richard B. Freeman #16292 (LS)
  
• Fraternity Membership & Frequent Drinking
  Jeffrey S. DeSimone #16291 (HE)
  
• Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
  Rahul Anand and Eswar S. Prasad #16290 (IFM   ME)
  
• Empirical Evidence on the Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated U.S. Tax Policy Shocks
  Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn #16289 (EFG   PE)
  
• From Beijing to Bentonville: Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?
  Keith Head, Ran Jing, and Deborah L. Swenson #16288 (ITI)
  
• Cigarette Excise Taxation: The Impact of Tax Structure on Prices, Revenues, and Cigarette Smoking
  Frank J. Chaloupka, IV, Richard Peck, John A. Tauras, Xin Xu, and Ayda Yurekli #16287 (HE)
  
• Industry Dynamics: Foundations For Models with an Infinite Number of Firms
  Gabriel Y. Weintraub, C. Lanier Benkard, and Benjamin Van Roy #16286 (IO)
  
• Comparative Statics in Markets for Indivisible Goods
  Andrew Caplin and John V. Leahy #16285 (EFG)
  
• A Graph Theoretic Approach to Markets for Indivisible Goods
  Andrew Caplin and John V. Leahy #16284 (EFG)
  
• A State-Dependent Model of Intermediate Goods Pricing
  Brent Neiman #16283 (IFM   ITI   ME)
  
• The Market for Borrowing Corporate Bonds
  Paul Asquith, Andrea S. Au, Thomas R. Covert, and Parag A. Pathak #16282 (AP)
  
• Putting the Co in Education: Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz #16281 (DAE   ED)
  
• The Insurance Value of State Tax-and-Transfer Programs
  Hilary W. Hoynes and Erzo F.P. Luttmer #16280 (PE)
  
• Do Social Connections Reduce Moral Hazard? Evidence from the New York City Taxi Industry
  C. Kirabo Jackson and Henry S. Schneider #16279 (LE   LS   PE)
  
• Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation
  Tara Watson #16278 (CH   HE   LS)
  
• Does Culture Matter?
  Raquel Fernández #16277 (EFG   LE   LS   PE   POL)
  
• Protection Reduction and Diversion: PTAs and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes
  Thomas J. Prusa and Robert Teh #16276 (ITI)
  
• Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe
  Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, and Andreas Peichl #16275 (EFG   PE)
  
• The Economic History of the American Economic Review: A Century's Explosion of Economics Research
  Robert A. Margo #16274 (DAE)
  
• Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services
  Chunding Li, John Whalley, and Yan Chen #16273 (ITI)
  
• The Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms
  Alicia M. Robb and David T. Robinson #16272 (CF   PR)
  
• What Does Financial Literacy Training Teach Us?
  Bruce Ian Carlin and David T. Robinson #16271 (CF   ED   PE)
  
• A Semiparametric Approach for Analyzing Nonignorable Missing Data
  Hui Xie, Yi Qian, and Leming Qu #16270 (PR)
  
• International Aspects of the Great Depression and the Crisis of 2007: Similarities, Differences, and Lessons
  Richard S. Grossman and Christopher M. Meissner #16269 (DAE)
  

Week of Aug 16, 2010 - Aug 23, 2010

• Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change
  Louis Kaplow #16268 (EEE   PE)
  
• The Evolution of Brand Preferences: Evidence from Consumer Migration
  Bart J. Bronnenberg, Jean-Pierre H. Dube, and Matthew Gentzkow #16267 (IO)
  
• Immigration: America's nineteenth century "law and order problem"?
  Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn M. Moehling, and Anne Morrison Piehl #16266 (DAE   LE   LS)
  
• The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring
  Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, and John C. Haltiwanger #16265 (EFG   LS)
  
• Globalization, the Business Cycle, and Macroeconomic Monitoring
  S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis X. Diebold, M. Ayhan Kose, and Marco E. Terrones #16264 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• Predictive Regressions: A Present-value Approach
  Jules H. van Binsbergen and Ralph S.J. Koijen #16263 (AP   HC)
  
• What Goods Do Countries Trade? A Quantitative Exploration of Ricardo's Ideas
  Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, and Ivana Komunjer #16262 (ITI)
  
• Has the European Union Achieved a Single Pharmaceutical Market?
  Aysegul Timur, Gabriel Picone, and Jeffrey S. DeSimone #16261 (HC   HE)
  
• The Dynamic Effects of Currency Union on Trade
  Paul Bergin and Ching-Yi Lin #16259 (IFM)
  
• Public Monopoly and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s Entry Decisions
  Katja Seim and Joel Waldfogel #16258 (IO   PE)
  

Week of Aug 9, 2010 - Aug 16, 2010

• The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr #16257 (LS)
  
• Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr #16256 (LS)
  
• Asset Allocation
  Jessica Wachter #16255 (AP)
  
• Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
  Robert C. Feenstra, Robert E. Lipsey, Lee G. Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, James Harrigan, J. Bradford Jensen, Lori Kletzer, Catherine Mann, Peter K. Schott, and Greg C. Wright #16254 (IFM)
  
• Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse: Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
  Mona Haddad, Ann Harrison, and Catherine Hausman #16253 (ITI)
  
• The Trend of BMI Values of US Adults by Centiles, birth cohorts 1882-1986
  John Komlos and Marek Brabec #16252 (DAE   HE)
  
• Insurers' Negotiating Leverage and the External Effects of Medicare Part D
  Darius N. Lakdawalla and Wesley Yin #16251 (HC   HE)
  
• The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
  Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin #16250 (CH   ED   HE)
  
• Investing in Local Currency Bond Markets
  John D. Burger, Francis E. Warnock, and Veronica Cacdac Warnock #16249 (IFM)
  
• The Performance Effects of IT-Enabled Knowledge Management Practices
  Peter Cappelli #16248 (PR)
  
• Government Purchases Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Economic and Political Inequality
  Ruediger Bachmann and Jinhui Bai #16247 (EFG)
  

Week of Aug 2, 2010 - Aug 9, 2010

• Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?
  Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod #16246 (EFG   ME   PE)
  
• Repairing a Mortgage Crisis: HOLC Lending and its Impact on Local Housing Markets
  Charles Courtemanche and Kenneth A. Snowden #16245 (DAE)
  
• The Anatomy of a Residential Mortgage Crisis: A Look Back to the 1930s
  Kenneth A. Snowden #16244 (CF   DAE)
  
• Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the Crisis: An Update
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #16243 (IFM)
  
• Covered Farm Mortgage Bonds in the Late Nineteenth Century U.S.
  Kenneth A. Snowden #16242 (AP   CF   DAE)
  
• Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle: The Chilling Effect of Recession
  Matthew E. Kahn and Matthew J. Kotchen #16241 (EEE   PE   POL)
  
• Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools
  Jonah E. Rockoff, Douglas O. Staiger, Thomas J. Kane, and Eric S. Taylor #16240 (ED   LS)
  
• Sadness, Suicidality and Grades
  Jeffrey S. DeSimone #16239 (ED   HE)
  
• Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence From the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
  James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, and Adam Yavitz #16238 (   CH   ED)
  
• Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics
  Veronica Guerrieri, Daniel Hartley, and Erik Hurst #16237 (AP   EFG   LS   PE)
  
• Foreign Wars, Domestic Markets: England, 1793-1815
  David S. Jacks #16236 (DAE)
  
• The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities
  Steven Shavell #16235 (LE   PE)
  
• Corrective Taxation versus Liability
  Steven Shavell #16234 (EEE   LE   PE)
  
• Income Differences and Prices of Tradables
  Ina Simonovska #16233 (ITI)
  
• Do Citizens Want the Truth about Terrorist Threats Regardless of the Consequences?
  V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, and H. Allen Klaiber #16232 (EEE)
  
• Why has the yen failed to become a dominant invoicing currency in Asia? A firm-level analysis of Japanese Exporters' invoicing behavior
  Takatoshi Ito, Satoshi Koibuchi, Kiyotaka Sato, and Junko Shimizu #16231 (IFM   ME)
  
• Can Cheap Credit Explain the Housing Boom?
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joshua D. Gottlieb, and Joseph Gyourko #16230 (EFG)
  
• Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration
  Abdurrahman Aydemir and George J. Borjas #16229 (LS)
  
• Central Banks and the Financial System
  Francesco Giavazzi and Alberto Giovannini #16228 (ME)
  
• Do Differences in School's Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps in Math, Science, and Reading? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
  Victor Lavy #16227 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• Leverage Constraints and the International Transmission of Shocks
  Michael B. Devereux and James Yetman #16226 (IFM)
  

Week of Jul 26, 2010 - Aug 2, 2010

• Do Bad Report Cards Have Consequences? Impacts of Publicly Reported Provider Quality Information on the CABG Market in Pennsylvania
  Justin Wang, Jason Hockenberry, Shin-Yi Chou, and Muzhe Yang #16225 (HE)
  
• Fiscal and Migration Competition
  Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka #16224 (IFM   POL)
  
• Econometric Measures of Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors
  Monica Billio, Mila Getmansky, Andrew W. Lo, and Loriana Pelizzon #16223 (AP)
  
• Hard Times
  John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Christopher Polk #16222 (AP)
  
• Innovation and Welfare: Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions
  Jordi Jaumandreu and Jacques Mairesse #16221 (PR)
  
• Micro-evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives
  Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse #16220 (PR)
  
• The Valuation of Long-Dated Assets
  Ian Martin #16219 (AP)
  
• Monetary Policy and the Uncovered Interest Parity Puzzle
  David K. Backus, Federico Gavazzoni, Christopher Telmer, and Stanley E. Zin #16218 (AP   EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Rethinking the Area Approach: Immigrants and the Labor Market in California, 1960-2005.
  Giovanni Peri #16217 (ITI   LS)
  
• Law and Finance c. 1900
  Aldo Musacchio #16216 (DAE)
  
• Managerial Miscalibration
  Itzhak Ben-David, John R. Graham, and Campbell R. Harvey #16215 (CF)
  
• Why Don't Issuers Choose IPO Auctions? The Complexity of Indirect Mechanisms
  Ravi Jagannathan, Andrei Jirnyi, and Ann Sherman #16214 (AP   CF)
  
• Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome
  Heidi L. Williams #16213 (AG   HC   PR)
  
• How Well Are Social Security Recipients Protected from Inflation?
  Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov #16212 (AG   PE)
  
• Does Stock Market Performance Influence Retirement Expectations?
  Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov #16211 (AG   PE)
  
• A Lintner Model of Dividends and Managerial Rents
  Bart M. Lambrecht and Stewart C. Myers #16210 (CF)
  
• An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability
  Howard F. Chang and Hilary Sigman #16209 (LE)
  
• The Central-Bank Balance Sheet as an Instrument of Monetary Policy
  Vasco Curdia and Michael Woodford #16208 (EFG   ME)
  
• Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude
  Charles F. Manski #16207 (PE   POL)
  
• CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and the Crisis of 2007-2009
  Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace #16206 (AP)
  
• Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving
  Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Jonathan Zinman #16205 (AG)
  
• Money and Interest Rates in the United States during the Great Depression
  Peter F. Basile, John Landon-Lane, and Hugh Rockoff #16204 (DAE)
  
• An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
  R. Quentin Grafton, Clay Landry, Gary D. Libecap, Sam McGlennon, and Robert O'Brien #16203 (DAE   EEE)
  
• Fetters of Gold and Paper
  Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin #16202 (DAE   IFM)
  

Week of Jul 19, 2010 - Jul 26, 2010

• Investing in Our Young People
  Flavio Cunha and James J. Heckman #16201 (CH   ED)
  
• Credit Traps
  Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman #16200 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model without Capital
  Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Jianjun Miao #16199 (PE)
  
• Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program
  Hilary Williamson Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #16198 (CH   LS   PE)
  
• Are Consumers Affected by Durable Goods Makers’ Financial Distress? The Case of Auto Manufacturers
  Ali Hortaçsu, Gregor Matvos, Chad Syverson, and Sriram Venkataraman #16197 (CF   IO)
  
• Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities
  Rachel Glennerster, Edward Miguel, and Alexander Rothenberg #16196 (PE   POL)
  
• Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s
  Ernesto Aguayo-Tellez, Jim Airola, and Chinhui Juhn #16195 (ITI   LS)
  
• Are Building Codes Effective at Saving Energy? Evidence from Residential Billing Data in Florida
  Grant D. Jacobson and Matthew J. Kotchen #16194 (EEE   PE)
  
• What Does Health Reform Mean for the Healthcare Industry? Evidence from the Massachusetts Special Senate Election
  Mohamad Al-Ississ and Nolan H. Miller #16193 (HC)
  
• Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data
  David Card, Francesco Devicienti, and Agata Maida #16192 (LS)
  
• The Behavior of Intoxicated Investors: The role of institutional investors in propagating the crisis of 2007-2008
  Alberto Manconi, Massimo Massa, and Ayako Yasuda #16191 (CF)
  
• Monetization and Growth in Colonial New England, 1703-1749
  Peter L. Rousseau and Caleb Stroup #16190 (DAE)
  
• Evaluating Conditions in Major Chinese Housing Markets
  Jing Wu, Joseph Gyourko, and Yongheng Deng #16189 (PE)
  
• Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter?
  Sergey Lychagin, Joris Pinkse, Margaret E. Slade, and John Van Reenen #16188 (IO   PR)
  
• Trading Complex Assets
  Bruce I. Carlin and Shimon Kogan #16187 (AP   CF)
  
• Nonlinearities and the Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Prices
  James D. Hamilton #16186 (EEE   EFG)
  

Week of Jul 12, 2010 - Jul 19, 2010

• Preference Signaling in Matching Markets
  Peter Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle #16185 (LS)
  
• Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy: The Role of Market-Based Regulation
  Roberton C. Williams III #16184 (EEE   PE)
  
• The Predictability of Returns with Regime Shifts in Consumption and Dividend Growth
  Anisha Ghosh and George M. Constantinides #16183 (AP   EFG)
  
• Is the Distance to Default a Good Measure in Predicting Bank Failures? Case Studies
  Kimie Harada, Takatoshi Ito, and Shuhei Takahashi #16182 (IFM   ME)
  
• Ambiguity and Asset Markets
  Larry G. Epstein and Martin Schneider #16181 (AP   EFG)
  
• A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary
  James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev, and Adam Yavitz #16180 (CH   ED)
  
• How Do Employers React to A Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco
  Carrie Hoverman Colla, William H. Dow, and Arindrajit Dube #16179 (HC   HE)
  
• Stronger Risk Controls, Lower Risk: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies
  Andrew Ellul and Vijay Yerramilli #16178 (CF)
  
• Financial Connections and Systemic Risk
  Franklin Allen, Ana Babus, and Elena Carletti #16177 (CF)
  
• Yesterday's Heroes: Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking
  Ing-Haw Cheng, Harrison Hong, and Jose A. Scheinkman #16176 (CF)
  
• The Role of Mortgage Brokers in the Subprime Crisis
  Antje Berndt, Burton Hollifield, and Patrik Sandås #16175 (AP)
  
• Off the Cliff and Back? Credit Conditions and International Trade during the Global Financial Crisis
  Davin Chor and Kalina Manova #16174 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis
  David Card, Jochen Kluve, and Andrea Weber #16173 (LS)
  
• Effects of Overweight on Risky Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Girls
  Susan Averett, Hope Corman, and Nancy Reichman #16172 (HE)
  
• The ABCDs of Health: Explaining the Reduction in AIDS in Uganda
  Marcella M. Alsan and David M. Cutler #16171 (HC   HE)
  
• The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at End of Life
  Samuel Marshall, Kathleen M. McGarry, and Jonathan S. Skinner #16170 (AG   HC)
  
• A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of the Tax Multiplier
  Ryan Chahrour, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, and Martín Uribe #16169 (EFG   PE)
  
• On Graduation from Default, Inflation and Banking Crisis: Elusive or Illusion?
  Rong Qian, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff #16168 (IFM   ME)
  
• Human capital and the Indian software industry
  Ashish Arora and Surendra K. Bagde #16167 (PR)
  
• Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services
  Shane Greenstein and Ryan C. McDevitt #16166 (IO   PR)
  
• Implementation of Monetary Policy: How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates?
  Benjamin M. Friedman and Kenneth N. Kuttner #16165 (ME)
  
• Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service
  Martin Gaynor, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, and Carol Propper #16164 (HC)
  
• A Review of War Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Ryan D. Edwards #16163 (EFG   PE)
  

Week of Jul 5, 2010 - Jul 12, 2010

• Calling Recessions in Real Time
  James D. Hamilton #16162 (EFG)
  
• America's settling down: How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 – 1930
  Tomas Cvrcek #16161 (DAE)
  
• Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections
  Henry S. Farber #16160 (LE   LS   POL)
  
• Self-Fulfilling Risk Panics
  Philippe Bacchetta, Cédric Tille, and Eric van Wincoop #16159 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• Spillovers from Climate Policy
  Stephen P. Holland #16158 (EEE)
  
• Transitional Dynamics of Dividend and Capital Gains Tax Cuts
  François Gourio and Jianjun Miao #16157 (CF   EFG   PE)
  
• Going Soft: How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
  Ashish Arora, Lee G. Branstetter, and Matej Drev #16156 (ITI   PR)
  
• Medicare Part D and the Financial Protection of the Elderly
  Gary V. Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber #16155 (AG   HC   HE   PE)
  
• Business Cycles, Consumption and Risk-Sharing: How Different Is China?
  Chadwick C. Curtis and Nelson Mark #16154 (IFM)
  
• Consumption-Based Asset Pricing with Higher Cumulants
  Ian Martin #16153 (AP)
  
• The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Luke N. Condra, Joseph H. Felter, Radha K. Iyengar, and Jacob N. Shapiro #16152 (ITI   LS   PE   POL)
  
• Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure
  Hui Chen #16151 (AP)
  
• Financial Conditions Indexes: A Fresh Look after the Financial Crisis
  Jan Hatzius, Peter Hooper, Frederic S. Mishkin, Kermit L. Schoenholtz, and Mark W. Watson #16150 (EFG   ME)
  
• Understanding Overeating and Obesity
  Christopher J. Ruhm #16149 (HC   HE   PE)
  
• The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
  Rachel A. Gordon, Robert Kaestner, Sanders Korenman, and Kristin Abner #16148 (CH   HE)
  
• Limiting Emissions and Trade: Some Basic Ideas
  Kala Krishna #16147 (EEE)
  
• Maternal Health and the Baby Boom
  Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti #16146 (DAE   EFG)
  
• Managing Markets for Toxic Assets
  Christopher L. House and Yusufcan Masatlioglu #16145 (AP   EFG   ME)
  
• Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization
  David Albouy #16144 (PE)
  

Week of Jun 28, 2010 - Jul 5, 2010

• Uncertainty and Economic Activity: Evidence from Business Survey Data
  Ruediger Bachmann, Steffen Elstner, and Eric R. Sims #16143 (EFG   ME)
  
• The Trade Performance of Asian Economies During and Following the 2008 Financial Crisis
  Jing Wang and John Whalley #16142 (ITI)
  
• From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
  Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr #16141 (LS   PR)
  
• Lotteries in Student Assignment: An Equivalence Result
  Parag A. Pathak and Jay Sethuraman #16140 (ED)
  
• Health and Health Insurance Trajectories of Mexicans in the US
  Neeraj Kaushal and Robert Kaestner #16139 (HE   PE)
  
• Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years
  Guy Michaels, Ashwini Natraj, and John Van Reenen #16138 (ITI   LS   PR)
  
• Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance
  David N. Figlio and Deborah Fletcher #16137 (AG   CH   ED   PE)
  
• GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages
  Martin L. Weitzman #16136 (EEE)
  
• Fertility in New York State in the Civil War Era
  Michael R. Haines and Avery M. Guest #16135 (DAE)
  
• The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  J. David Hacker and Michael R. Haines #16134 (DAE)
  
• Inequality and Infant and Childhood Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century
  Michael R. Haines #16133 (DAE)
  
• Binge Drinking & Sex in High School
  Jeffrey S. DeSimone #16132 (HE)
  
• Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
  Matthew E. Kahn #16131 (EEE)
  
• Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
  Alessandro Barattieri, Susanto Basu, and Peter Gottschalk #16130 (EFG   LS   ME)
  
• Dividends, Share Repurchases, and Tax Clienteles: Evidence from the 2003 Reductions in Shareholder Taxes
  Jennifer Blouin, Jana Raedy, and Douglas Shackelford #16129 (PE)
  
• Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices
  Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi #16128 (AP   EFG   POL)
  
• A Score Based Approach to Wild Bootstrap Inference
  Patrick M. Kline and Andres Santos #16127 (TWP   LS)
  
• Privatization and Nationalization Cycles
  Roberto Chang, Constantino Hevia, and Norman Loayza #16126 (IFM)
  
• Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: A Survey
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #16125 (IFM)
  
• The Performance of Alternative Monetary Regimes
  Laurence M. Ball #16124 (ME)
  
• Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
  Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins #16123 (EEE   PE)
  
• Aggregate Risk and the Choice between Cash and Lines of Credit
  Viral V. Acharya, Heitor Almeida, and Murillo Campello #16122 (CF)
  
• Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy
  Hilary Sigman #16121 (EEE)
  
• Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy: The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase-Ins
  Roberton C. Williams III #16120 (EEE   PE)
  
• Buy coal? Deposit markets prevent carbon leakage
  Bård Harstad #16119 (EEE   PE   POL)
  
• Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection
  Gopi Shah Goda and Colleen Flaherty Manchester #16099 (AG   PE)
  
• Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?
  Mario J. Crucini, Mototsugu Shintani, and Takayuki Tsuruga #16081 (IFM   ME)
  

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