Papers Issued in 2008

• w14613 December 2008 A Theory of Firm Scope
  Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom
• w14615 December 2008 The Value of Risk: Measuring the Service Output of U.S. Commercial Banks
  Susanto Basu, Robert Inklaar, and J. Christina Wang
• w14614 December 2008 Risk Bearing, Implicit Financial Services and Specialization in the Financial Industry
  J. Christina Wang and Susanto Basu
• w14616 December 2008 A General-Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output
  J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu, and John G. Fernald
• w14617 December 2008 Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
  Michael Elsby, Bart Hobijn, and Aysegul Sahin
• w14618 December 2008 Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms: An Experimental Investigation
  Clayton Featherstone and Muriel Niederle
• w14620 December 2008 Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing
  Michael Woodford
• w14619 December 2008 Hospitals As Hotels: The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand
  Dana Goldman and John A. Romley
• w14621 December 2008 Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation and the Great Moderation: An Alternative Interpretation
  Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko
• w14625 December 2008 An Empirical Model of Subprime Mortgage Default From 2000 to 2007
  Patrick Bajari, Chenghuan Sean Chu, and Minjung Park
• w14622 December 2008 Behavioral Welfare Economics
  B. Douglas Bernheim
• w14623 December 2008 Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation
  Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg
• w14624 December 2008 Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions
  Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile
• w14627 December 2008 New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences
  Bruce Blonigen
• w14626 December 2008 Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy
  Wolfgang Keller and Stephen R. Yeaple
• w14629 December 2008 Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree
  Bernard Dumas and Andrew Lyasoff
• w14628 December 2008 A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
  John William Hatfield and Gerard Padró i Miquel
• w14580 December 2008 Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?
  Loretti I. Dobrescu, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alberto F. Motta
• w14600 December 2008 "Currency Manipulation" and World Trade
  Robert W. Staiger and Alan O. Sykes
• w14599 December 2008 The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
  Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner
• w14601 December 2008 Forecast Evaluation of Small Nested Model Sets
  Kirstin Hubrich and Kenneth D. West
• w14602 December 2008 Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries: Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology
  Matthew J. Higgins, Paula E. Stephan, and Jerry G. Thursby
• w14610 December 2008 An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
  Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, and Francis Kramarz
• w14603 December 2008 Endogenous Presidentialism
  James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik
• w14604 December 2008 Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands
  Peter Blair Henry and Conrad Miller
• w14605 December 2008 Trading Frictions and House Price Dynamics
  Andrew Caplin and John Leahy
• w14606 December 2008 Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
  Eli Berman, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Joseph H. Felter
• w14607 December 2008 Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation
  Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger
• w14608 December 2008 National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment
  Steven Cantrell, Jon Fullerton, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger
• w14609 December 2008 Informed Trading, Liquidity Provision, and Stock Selection by Mutual Funds
  Zhi Da, Pengjie Gao, and Ravi Jagannathan
• w14611 December 2008 The Effects of Capacity on Sales Under Alternative Vertical Contracts
  Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Holland Mortimer, and Richard Mortimer
• w14612 December 2008 Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08
  Markus K. Brunnermeier
• w14548 December 2008 What is a Company Really Worth? Intangible Capital and the "Market to Book Value" Puzzle
  Charles R. Hulten and Xiaohui Hao
• w14576 December 2008 Evidence of Improved Monitoring and Insolvency Resolution after FDICIA
  Edward J. Kane, Rosalind Bennett, and Robert Oshinsky
• w14577 December 2008 Superstar Extinction
  Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Jialan Wang
• w14579 December 2008 The Flypaper Effect
  Robert P. Inman
• w14583 December 2008 Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows
  Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner
• w14581 December 2008 Equity Depletion from Government-Guaranteed Debt
  Robert E. Hall
• w14578 December 2008 The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses
  Justine S. Hastings and Ebonya L. Washington
• w14582 December 2008 The Value of Making Commitments Externally: Evidence from WTO Accessions
  Man-Keung Tang and Shang-Jin Wei
• w14584 December 2008 Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects, and Markups
  Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti
• w14585 December 2008 The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence
  Timothy J. Besley and Torsten Persson
• w14586 December 2008 What Can Survey Forecasts Tell Us About Informational Rigidities?
  Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko
• w14587 December 2008 Banking Crises: An Equal Opportunity Menace
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
• w14588 December 2008 The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry
  Justin Ho, Katherine Ho, and Julie Holland Mortimer
• w14589 December 2008 Well-being and Trust in the Workplace
  John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang
• w14590 December 2008 Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions
  Susan Athey, Jonathan Levin, and Enrique Seira
• w14591 December 2008 Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women
  Dhaval M. Dave, Sandra Decker, Robert Kaestner, and Kosali I. Simon
• w14592 December 2008 Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
  Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur, and John McHale
• w14593 December 2008 Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups
  Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh and John F. Helliwell
• w14594 December 2008 Innovation and Productivity in SMEs: Empirical Evidence for Italy
  Bronwyn H. Hall, Francesca Lotti, and Jacques Mairesse
• w14595 December 2008 Learning the Wealth of Nations
  Francisco J. Buera, Alexander Monge-Naranjo, and Giorgio E. Primiceri
• w14596 December 2008 Opting Out of the Great Inflation: German Monetary Policy After the Break Down of Bretton Woods
  Andreas Beyer, Vitor Gaspar, Christina Gerberding, and Otmar Issing
• w14597 December 2008 Predictability and 'Good Deals' in Currency Markets
  Richard M. Levich and Valerio Poti
• w14598 December 2008 Media Coverage of Political Scandals
  Riccardo Puglisi and James M. Snyder, Jr.
• w14546 December 2008 Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
  Marcos Chamon and Eswar Prasad
• w14558 December 2008 Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
  M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar S. Prasad, and Marco E. Terrones
• w14559 December 2008 Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision
  Michael A. Spencer, Stephen K. Swallow, Jason F. Shogren, and John A. List
• w14544 December 2008 Mispricing of S&P 500 Index Options
  George M. Constantinides, Jens Carsten Jackwerth, and Stylianos Perrakis
• w14545 December 2008 Mandates and the Affordability of Health Care
  Sherry A. Glied
• w14552 December 2008 An Exploration of Local R&D Spillovers in France
  Jacques Mairesse and Benoit Mulkay
• w14531 December 2008 Credit Constraints, Heterogeneous Firms, and International Trade
  Kalina Manova
• w14535 December 2008 Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform
  Helena Skyt Nielsen, Torben Sørensen, and Christopher R. Taber
• w14538 December 2008 Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico
  Justine S. Hastings and Lydia Tejeda-Ashton
• w14556 December 2008 A Resource Belief-Curse? Oil and Individualism
  Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch
• w14547 December 2008 Can Structural Small Open Economy Models Account for the Influence of Foreign Disturbances?
  Alejandro Justiniano and Bruce Preston
• w14549 December 2008 Bankruptcy: Past Puzzles, Recent Reforms, and the Mortgage Crisis
  Michelle J. White
• w14550 December 2008 Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children
  Brian Jacob and Jens Ludwig
• w14551 December 2008 What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?
  Andrew Mountford and Harald Uhlig
• w14553 December 2008 The Slow Decline of East Germany
  Harald Uhlig
• w14554 December 2008 Task Trade between Similar Countries
  Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
• w14555 December 2008 Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age
  Hugh Rockoff
• w14557 December 2008 The Evolution of Corporate Ownership After IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection
  C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood
• w14560 December 2008 Did Economics Cause World War II?
  Robert J. Gordon
• w14565 December 2008 International Trade in Used Durable Goods: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA
  Lucas W. Davis and Matthew E. Kahn
• w14561 December 2008 Inflation Targeting and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets
  Joshua Aizenman, Michael Hutchison, and Ilan Noy
• w14562 December 2008 Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance
  Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick
• w14566 December 2008 The Timing of Labor Demand
  Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and José Varejão
• w14563 December 2008 The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited
  Alan S. Blinder and Jeremy B. Rudd
• w14564 December 2008 Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality
  Jonah E. Rockoff and Lesley J. Turner
• w14567 December 2008 Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation: Evidence from US and Italy
  Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, and Lorenzo Carbonari
• w14568 December 2008 The Cost of Primary Care Doctors
  Sherry A. Glied, Ashwin Prabhu, and Norman H. Edelman
• w14569 December 2008 An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008
  Michael D. Bordo
• w14570 December 2008 The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery
  Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig
• w14571 December 2008 Forecasting Stock Market Returns: The Sum of the Parts is More than the Whole
  Miguel A. Ferreira and Pedro Santa-Clara
• w14575 December 2008 The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function
  James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons
• w14572 December 2008 Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
  Leemore Dafny
• w14573 December 2008 Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers
  Kasey Buckles and Daniel M. Hungerman
• w14574 December 2008 Delegated Asset Management, Investment Mandates, and Capital Immobility
  Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong
• w14515 December 2008 Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing
  Yongmin Chen, Ignatius J. Horstmann, and James R. Markusen
• w14516 December 2008 The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design
  Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Fernando Ferreira, and Jesse Rothstein
• w14517 December 2008 Intermediary Asset Pricing
  Zhiguo He and Arvind Krishnamurthy
• w14518 December 2008 Did Mergers Help Japanese Mega-Banks Avoid Failure? Analysis of the Distance to Default of Banks
  Kimie Harada and Takatoshi Ito
• w14519 December 2008 Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in EMU: Evidence from an Estimated Model
  Ulf Söderström
• w14520 December 2008 The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
  Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer
• w14521 December 2008 Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances
  Ricardo J. Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi, and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
• w14522 December 2008 Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns
  Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Amanda E. Kowalski, and Heidi Williams
• w14543 December 2008 Asset Pricing Tests with Long Run Risks in Consumption Growth
  George M. Constantinides and Anisha Ghosh
• w14523 December 2008 An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal
  Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley
• w14524 December 2008 High Birth Weight and Cognitive Outcomes
  Resul Cesur and Inas Rashad
• w14525 December 2008 Impossible Frontiers
  Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo
• w14526 December 2008 Dynamic Merger Review
  Volker Nocke and Michael D. Whinston
• w14527 December 2008 Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers
  Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
• w14528 December 2008 Emerging Market Currency Excess Returns
  Stephen Gilmore and Fumio Hayashi
• w14529 December 2008 Business Cycles in the Euro Area
  Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, and Lucrezia Reichlin
• w14530 December 2008 Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program
  David Neumark and Jed Kolko
• w14532 December 2008 Bretton Woods and the Great Inflation
  Michael D. Bordo and Barry Eichengreen
• w14533 December 2008 Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time
  Joshua Aizenman, Menzie D. Chinn, and Hiro Ito
• w14534 December 2008 Inflation Determination with Taylor Rules: Is New Keynesian Analysis Critically Flawed?
  Bennett T. McCallum
• w14539 December 2008 Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"
  Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
• w14536 December 2008 Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions
  Richard H. Steckel
• w14537 December 2008 Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005
  Chiaki Moriguchi
• w14540 December 2008 Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities
  Jeffrey B. Liebman, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and David G. Seif
• w14541 December 2008 More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan
  Ming-Jen Lin, Nancy Qian, and Jin-Tan Liu
• w14542 December 2008 The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade: Why Are They Below Historical Effects of Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?
  Jeffrey A. Frankel
• w14510 November 2008 Monetary Policy Trade-Offs in an Estimated Open-Economy DSGE Model
  Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laséen, Jesper Lindé, and Lars E.O. Svensson
• w14511 November 2008 Term Length and Political Performance
  Ernesto Dal Bó and Martín Rossi
• w14512 November 2008 Tobit at Fifty: A Brief History of Tobin's Remarkable Estimator, of Related Empirical Methods, and of Limited Dependent Variable Econometrics in Health Economics
  Kohei Enami and John Mullahy
• w14513 November 2008 No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity
  John Mullahy and Stephanie A. Robert
• w14514 November 2008 A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance
  Casey B. Mulligan
• w14505 November 2008 Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets
  Andrew Sweeting
• w14506 November 2008 The Strategic Timing Incentives of Commercial Radio Stations: An Empirical Analysis Using Multiple Equilibria
  Andrew Sweeting
• w14493 November 2008 The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century
  Sibylle H. Lehmann and Kevin H. O'Rourke
• w14494 November 2008 Taxing Corporate Income
  Alan J. Auerbach, Michael P. Devereux, and Helen Simpson
• w14495 November 2008 Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish
  Irene Brambilla, Guido Porto, and Alessandro Tarozzi
• w14496 November 2008 Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds
  Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali, and Yuhang Xing
• w14497 November 2008 China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries
  Gordon H. Hanson and Raymond Robertson
• w14507 November 2008 Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development
  John F. Helliwell
• w14498 November 2008 The Future of American Fertility
  Samuel H. Preston and Caroline Sten Hartnett
• w14499 November 2008 Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
  Angus Deaton and Alan Heston
• w14500 November 2008 Price Momentum In Stocks: Insights From Victorian Age Data
  Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels, and Ravi Jagannathan
• w14501 November 2008 Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence
  Ernst Fehr, Oliver D. Hart, and Christian Zehnder
• w14502 November 2008 On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
  Pascal Courty and Gerald R. Marschke
• w14503 November 2008 Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry
  Steven Berry and Panle Jia
• w14504 November 2008 Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources
  Meredith Fowlie, Christopher R. Knittel, and Catherine Wolfram
• w14508 November 2008 Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
  Ernesto Dal Bó and Marko Terviö
• w14509 November 2008 An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s
  Diego A. Comin
• w14483 November 2008 Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization
  Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky
• w14473 November 2008 Carry Trades and Currency Crashes
  Markus K. Brunnermeier, Stefan Nagel, and Lasse H. Pedersen
• w14475 November 2008 Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
  Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer
• w14476 November 2008 Why the European Securities Market is Not Fully Integrated
  Alberto Giovannini
• w14477 November 2008 Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary
  Alla Lileeva and Johannes Van Biesebroeck
• w14478 November 2008 Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy
  Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, and Stephen Redding
• w14479 November 2008 The Euro and Structural Reforms
  Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna, and Vincenzo Galasso
• w14480 November 2008 Self-Enforcing Stochastic Monitoring and the Separation of Debt and Equity Claims
  Harold L. Cole
• w14481 November 2008 Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, and Katherine Terrell
• w14482 November 2008 Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes
  Janet Currie, Mark Stabile, Phongsack Manivong, and Leslie L. Roos
• w14484 November 2008 Luddites and the Demographic Transition
  Kevin H. O'Rourke, Ahmed S. Rahman, and Alan M. Taylor
• w14485 November 2008 Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?
  Jonah E. Rockoff, Brian A. Jacob, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger
• w14486 November 2008 The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey
  Renée Adams, Benjamin E. Hermalin, and Michael S. Weisbach
• w14487 November 2008 Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments
  Alessandra Casella
• w14488 November 2008 Capital Structure and Debt Structure
  Joshua D. Rauh and Amir Sufi
• w14489 November 2008 How Central Bankers See It: The First Decade of ECB Policy and Beyond
  Stephen G. Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz
• w14491 November 2008 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization
  Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
• w14490 November 2008 The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor
  Gordon H. Hanson
• w14492 November 2008 Understanding Crude Oil Prices
  James D. Hamilton
• w14471 November 2008 Mental Health Parity Legislation, Cost-Sharing and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions
  Dhaval M. Dave and Swati Mukerjee
• w14462 November 2008 The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects
  Dora L. Costa
• w14463 November 2008 An Arbitrage-Free Generalized Nelson-Siegel Term Structure Model
  Jens H.E. Christensen, Francis X. Diebold, and Glenn D. Rudebusch
• w14464 November 2008 Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies
  Suzanne Scotchmer
• w14465 November 2008 What Happened To The Quants In August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data
  Amir E. Khandani and Andrew W. Lo
• w14466 November 2008 Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women
  Dhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, and Hope Corman
• w14467 November 2008 The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
  Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• w14468 November 2008 The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis
  Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi
• w14469 November 2008 Identification and Estimation of 'Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models
  Bryan S. Graham and James Powell
• w14470 November 2008 Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping
  David Card, Alexandre Mas, and Jesse Rothstein
• w14472 November 2008 Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas
  David Albouy
• w14474 November 2008 Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
  Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin
• w14447 October 2008 Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints
  Debopam Bhattacharya and Pascaline Dupas
• w14448 October 2008 Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
  Louis Putterman and David N. Weil
• w14449 October 2008 When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?
  Quamrul H. Ashraf, Ashley Lester, and David N. Weil
• w14450 October 2008 How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?
  Shanjun Li, Roger von Haefen, and Christopher Timmins
• w14451 October 2008 Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability
  Asher A. Blass, Saul Lach, and Charles F. Manski
• w14452 October 2008 Income Dispersion and Counter-Cyclical Markups
  Chris Edmond and Laura Veldkamp
• w14457 October 2008 Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency
  Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole
• w14453 October 2008 The US as the "Demander of Last Resort" and its Implications on China's Current Account
  Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak
• w14454 October 2008 The Euro and Firm Restructuring
  Matteo Bugamelli, Fabiano Schivardi, and Roberta Zizza
• w14446 October 2008 Market Responses to the Panic of 2008
  Casey Mulligan and Luke Threinen
• w14455 October 2008 Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance
  Randall D. Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor, and Mark E. Votruba
• w14456 October 2008 Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa
  Anne Case, Anu Garrib, Alicia Menendez, and Analia Olgiati
• w14458 October 2008 Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Jeff Larrimore
• w14459 October 2008 The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
  Alon Cohen and Assaf Razin
• w14460 October 2008 China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations
  Huifang Tian and John Whalley
• w14461 October 2008 Testing the Melitz Model of Trade: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports
  Gordon H. Hanson and Chong Xiang
• w14441 October 2008 Auction Design and Tacit Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions
  Patrick Bajari and Jungwon Yeo
• w14430 October 2008 Are Structural VARs with Long-Run Restrictions Useful in Developing Business Cycle Theory?
  V. V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan
• w14431 October 2008 Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
  Yan Dong and John Whalley
• w14433 October 2008 Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index
  Rachel Griffith, Ephraim Leibtag, Andrew Leicester, and Aviv Nevo
• w14432 October 2008 Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture
  Judson Jaffe and Robert N. Stavins
• w14434 October 2008 Identification with Imperfect Instruments
  Aviv Nevo and Adam M. Rosen
• w14435 October 2008 Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
  Tracy A. Falba, William T. Gallo, and Jody L. Sindelar
• w14445 October 2008 Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements
  Brian G. Knight and Chun-Fang Chiang
• w14436 October 2008 Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors: A Validation Study of Homescan
  Liran Einav, Ephraim Leibtag, and Aviv Nevo
• w14443 October 2008 What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
  Henry Sauermann and Wesley M. Cohen
• w14437 October 2008 Real Exchange Rate Movements and the Relative Price of Non-traded Goods
  Caroline M. Betts and Timothy J. Kehoe
• w14444 October 2008 Sudden Stops, Financial Crises and Leverage: A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin's Q
  Enrique G. Mendoza
• w14438 October 2008 Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
  Barry Eichengreen and Katharina Steiner
• w14440 October 2008 Realization Utility
  Nicholas C. Barberis and Wei Xiong
• w14439 October 2008 Portfolio Substitution and the Revenue Cost of Exempting State and Local Government Interest Payments from Federal Income Tax
  James M. Poterba and Arturo Ramirez Verdugo
• w14442 October 2008 Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement
  Jesse Rothstein
• w14411 October 2008 Using Samples of Unequal Length in Generalized Method of Moments Estimation
  Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter
• w14412 October 2008 The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships without Kinship
  Eric Hilt and Katharine E. O'Banion
• w14413 October 2008 The impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare-Medicaid Dual-eligible Beneficiaries' Prescription Utilization and Expenditures
  Anirban Basu, Wesley Yin, and G. Caleb Alexander
• w14414 October 2008 Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices
  Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Mark R. Cullen
• w14415 October 2008 Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom
  Victor Lavy, M. Daniele Paserman, and Analia Schlosser
• w14416 October 2008 Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India
  Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova
• w14417 October 2008 Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Pierre Yared
• w14418 October 2008 The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
  Maurice Kugler and Eric Verhoogen
• w14419 October 2008 Urban Inequality
  Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew G. Resseger, and Kristina Tobio
• w14420 October 2008 A Faith-based Initiative: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate Current Account Adjustment?
  Menzie D. Chinn and Shang-Jin Wei
• w14421 October 2008 Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage
  Meredith Fowlie
• w14422 October 2008 Can a Lender of Last Resort Stabilize Financial Markets? Lessons from the Founding of the Fed
  Asaf Bernstein, Eric Hughson, and Marc D. Weidenmier
• w14423 October 2008 The Changing Incidence of Geography
  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov
• w14424 October 2008 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: The Inefficient Performance and Persistence of Commodity Trading Advisors
  Geetesh Bhardwaj, Gary B. Gorton, and K. Geert Rouwenhorst
• w14425 October 2008 External Economies and International Trade Redux
  Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
• w14426 October 2008 Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy
  David von Below and Torsten Persson
• w14427 October 2008 The True Cost of Social Security
  Alexander W. Blocker, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Stephen A. Ross
• w14428 October 2008 Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy
  Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder
• w14429 October 2008 Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana
  Matthew J. Kotchen and Laura E. Grant
• w14405 October 2008 Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses
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