Papers Issued in 2009

• w15621 December 2009 The Greenness of China: Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
  Siqi Zheng, Rui Wang, Edward L. Glaeser, and Matthew E. Kahn
• w15616 December 2009 Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply
  Raj Chetty
• w15617 December 2009 Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records
  Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Tore Olsen, and Luigi Pistaferri
• w15622 December 2009 Measuring the Returns to R&D
  Bronwyn H. Hall, Jacques Mairesse, and Pierre Mohnen
• w15623 December 2009 The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations
  Tanjim Hossain and John A. List
• w15624 December 2009 The Micro-Macro Disconnect of Purchasing Power Parity
  Paul R. Bergin, Reuven Glick, and Jyh-Lin Wu
• w15619 December 2009 Connective Capital as Social Capital: The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms
  Casey Ichniowski and Kathryn L. Shaw
• w15625 December 2009 The Trade Creation Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the Remarkable Case of Spain
  Giovanni Peri and Francisco Requena
• w15626 December 2009 Estimated Impact of the Fed's Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program
  Johannes C. Stroebel and John B. Taylor
• w15627 December 2009 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity
  Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
• w15628 December 2009 New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?
  Costas Arkolakis, Arnaud Costinot, and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
• w15629 December 2009 Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving
  Stefano DellaVigna, John A. List, and Ulrike Malmendier
• w15620 December 2009 Estimation of De Facto Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate Regimes
  Jeffrey A. Frankel and Daniel Xie
• w15612 December 2009 Playing With Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes and Competition From the Internet
  Austan Goolsbee, Michael Lovenheim, and Joel B. Slemrod
• w15604 December 2009 Trade, Multinational Production, and the Gains from Openness
  Natalia Ramondo and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
• w15603 December 2009 The Effects of Product Liability Exemption in the Presence of the FDA
  Tomas J. Philipson, Eric C. Sun, and Dana Goldman
• w15599 December 2009 Composition of International Capital Flows: A Survey
  Koralai Kirabaeva and Assaf Razin
• w15600 December 2009 The Good, the Bad and the Average: Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools
  Victor Lavy, Olmo Silva, and Felix Weinhardt
• w15601 December 2009 The (Dis)saving Behavior of the Aged in Japan
  Charles Y. Horioka
• w15602 December 2009 Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
  Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
• w15605 December 2009 The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe
  Richard Hornbeck
• w15606 December 2009 Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines
  Ronald G. Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Mirinda L. Martin, Joyce B. Main, and Thomas Eisenberg
• w15607 December 2009 Integrating Retirement Models
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier
• w15608 December 2009 How Do Retirees Value Life Annuities? Evidence from Public Employees
  John Chalmers and Jonathan Reuter
• w15609 December 2009 What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments
  Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, and David H. Reiley, Jr.
• w15610 December 2009 Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players
  Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, and Sally E. Sadoff
• w15615 December 2009 Recent Russian Debate on Moving from VAT to Sales Taxes and Its Global Implications
  Vera Kononova and John Whalley
• w15613 December 2009 How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments
  Yan Dong and John Whalley
• w15614 December 2009 Reputation, Altruism, and the Benefits of Seller Charity in an Online Marketplace
  Daniel Elfenbein, Raymond Fisman, and Brian McManus
• w15618 December 2009 Insider Econometrics: Empirical Studies of How Management Matters
  Casey Ichniowski and Kathryn L. Shaw
• w15586 December 2009 Testing for Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets
  Alma Cohen and Peter Siegelman
• w15587 December 2009 The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution
  Alberto F. Alesina, Guido Cozzi, and Noemi Mantovan
• w15588 December 2009 Risk-Adjusted Gamma Discounting
  Martin L. Weitzman
• w15589 December 2009 Is a WIC Start a Better Start? Evaluating WIC's Impact on Infant Health Using Program Introduction
  Hilary W. Hoynes, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens
• w15590 December 2009 Pain at the Pump: The Differential Effect of Gasoline Prices on New and Used Automobile Markets
  Meghan R. Busse, Christopher R. Knittel, and Florian Zettelmeyer
• w15591 December 2009 Momentum Cycles and Limits to Arbitrage Evidence from Victorian England and Post-Depression US Stock Markets
  Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels, and Ravi Jagannathan
• w15592 December 2009 Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth
  Robert C. Feenstra, Benjamin R. Mandel, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, and Matthew J. Slaughter
• w15593 December 2009 Measuring the Gains from Trade under Monopolistic Competition
  Robert C. Feenstra
• w15594 December 2009 Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith and the Crisis of 1772
  Hugh Rockoff
• w15595 December 2009 Utility from Accumulation
  Louis Kaplow
• w15596 December 2009 Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States
  John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel
• w15597 December 2009 Migration and the Welfare State: A Dynamic Political-Economy Theory
  Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka, and Benjarong Suwankiri
• w15598 December 2009 Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
  Petra Moser and Alessandra Voena
• w15574 December 2009 An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer
  Eric C. Sun, Anupam B. Jena, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Carolina M. Reyes, Tomas J. Philipson, and Dana P. Goldman
• w15577 December 2009 Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
  Gilbert Cette, Yusuf Kocoglu, and Jacques Mairesse
• w15575 December 2009 Banking System Control, Capital Allocation, and Economy Performance
  Randall Morck, M. Deniz Yavuz, and Bernard Yeung
• w15576 December 2009 The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
  Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
• w15578 December 2009 The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia
  Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Rafael Santos
• w15579 December 2009 Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
  Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Luis Serven
• w15580 December 2009 The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices
  Martin Berka and Mario J. Crucini
• w15581 December 2009 The Economics of Labor Coercion
  Daron Acemoglu and Alexander Wolitzky
• w15582 December 2009 Public versus Private Risk Sharing
  Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri
• w15583 December 2009 Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women
  Alexander M. Gelber and Joshua W. Mitchell
• w15584 December 2009 The Great Depression Analogy
  Michael D. Bordo and Harold James
• w15585 December 2009 Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits
  W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber, Jason Bell, and Caroline Cecot
• w15560 December 2009 National Borders, Conflict and Peace
  Enrico Spolaore
• w15550 December 2009 Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
  Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels
• w15551 December 2009 A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions
  Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler
• w15552 December 2009 The Real Effects of Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Financial Crisis
  Murillo Campello, John Graham, and Campbell R. Harvey
• w15553 December 2009 How Much Consumption Insurance Beyond Self-Insurance?
  Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante
• w15554 December 2009 Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists
  Dirk Krueger, Fabrizio Perri, Luigi Pistaferri, and Giovanni L. Violante
• w15555 December 2009 Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry
  Steven L. Puller, Anirban Sengupta, and Steven N. Wiggins
• w15556 December 2009 Exports and Financial Shocks
  Mary Amiti and David E. Weinstein
• w15557 December 2009 Distance, Trade, and Income - The 1967 to 1975 Closing of the Suez Canal as a Natural Experiment
  James Feyrer
• w15558 December 2009 Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure: Historical Experience in the Western United States
  Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe
• w15559 December 2009 "Do the Right Thing:" The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation
  Ernesto Dal Bó and Pedro Dal Bó
• w15561 December 2009 Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Co-movement
  Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston
• w15562 December 2009 Using Inflation to Erode the U.S. Public Debt
  Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion
• w15563 December 2009 What Ties Return Volatilities to Price Valuations and Fundamentals?
  Alexander David and Pietro Veronesi
• w15564 December 2009 Employers' Preferences for Gender, Age, Height and Beauty: Direct Evidence
  Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen
• w15565 December 2009 Quantitative Easing: A Rationale and Some Evidence from Japan
  Volker Wieland
• w15566 December 2009 Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources
  John Bound, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah Turner
• w15571 December 2009 The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
  Alison F. Del Rossi and W. Kip Viscusi
• w15572 December 2009 Profiting from Regulation: An Event Study of the EU Carbon Market
  James B. Bushnell, Howard Chong, and Erin T. Mansur
• w15567 December 2009 Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
  Viral V. Acharya, Hyun Song Shin, and Tanju Yorulmazer
• w15568 December 2009 The Internal Governance of Firms
  Viral V. Acharya, Stewart C. Myers, and Raghuram Rajan
• w15569 December 2009 Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking
  Viral V. Acharya, Yakov Amihud, and Lubomir Litov
• w15573 December 2009 Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s
  Eugene N. White
• w15570 December 2009 Investment Shocks and Business Cycles
  Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti
• w15549 November 2009 Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
  Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, and Parag Pathak
• w15541 November 2009 International Trade and Domestic Regulation
  Robert W. Staiger and Alan O. Sykes
• w15543 November 2009 Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty
  Nicholas E. Burger and Charles D. Kolstad
• w15542 November 2009 How Debt Markets have Malfunctioned in the Crisis
  Arvind Krishnamurthy
• w15544 November 2009 The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics
  Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson
• w15545 November 2009 Tractability in Incentive Contracting
  Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix
• w15546 November 2009 A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
  John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, and Ian Schmutte
• w15547 November 2009 Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines
  Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro
• w15548 November 2009 A Concordance Between Ten-Digit U.S. Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product Classes and Industries
  Justin R. Pierce and Peter K. Schott
• w15522 November 2009 Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization
  Ofer Malamud
• w15523 November 2009 Currency Carry Trade Regimes: Beyond the Fama Regression
  Richard Clarida, Josh Davis, and Niels Pedersen
• w15524 November 2009 From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons
  Miguel Almunia, Agustín S. Bénétrix, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Gisela Rua
• w15525 November 2009 Current Account Fact and Fiction
  David Backus, Espen Henriksen, Frederic Lambert, and Christopher Telmer
• w15526 November 2009 Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
  Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu, and Serdar Ozkan
• w15527 November 2009 Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
  Daniel S. Hamermesh and Gerard A. Pfann
• w15528 November 2009 Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade
  Katheryn N. Russ and Diego Valderrama
• w15531 November 2009 The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement
  Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob
• w15529 November 2009 Trust and Delegation
  Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann, Bing Liang, and Christopher Schwarz
• w15530 November 2009 Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry
  James R. Markusen and Frank Stähler
• w15532 November 2009 Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry
  Ashish Arora and Anand Nandkumar
• w15533 November 2009 Jump-Robust Volatility Estimation using Nearest Neighbor Truncation
  Torben G. Andersen, Dobrislav Dobrev, and Ernst Schaumburg
• w15534 November 2009 Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth: A Long Run View
  Michael D. Bordo, Christopher M. Meissner, and David Stuckler
• w15535 November 2009 Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform
  Richard T. Boylan and Naci H. Mocan
• w15536 November 2009 Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
  Edward L. Glaeser, Stuart S. Rosenthal, and William C. Strange
• w15537 November 2009 The State of Corporate Governance Research
  Lucian A. Bebchuk and Michael S. Weisbach
• w15538 November 2009 When Safe Proved Risky: Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
  Marcin Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl
• w15539 November 2009 Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program
  Daniel L. Millimet and Rusty Tchernis
• w15540 November 2009 Bayesian Persuasion
  Emir Kamenica and Matthew Gentzkow
• w15511 November 2009 Innovators: Songwriters
  David Galenson
• w15496 November 2009 By How Much Does GDP Rise if the Government Buys More Output?
  Robert E. Hall
• w15495 November 2009 Regulation, Allocation, and Leakage in Cap-and-Trade Markets for CO2
  James B. Bushnell and Yihsu Chen
• w15494 November 2009 Foreign Demand for Domestic Currency and the Optimal Rate of Inflation
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martín Uribe
• w15508 November 2009 The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth
  James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony B. Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff
• w15497 November 2009 Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
  David Card and Gordon Dahl
• w15498 November 2009 Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
  William Kerr and Ramana Nanda
• w15499 November 2009 Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size
  William Kerr and Ramana Nanda
• w15500 November 2009 Human Capital In China
  Haizheng Li, Barbara M. Fraumeni, Zhiqiang Liu, and Xiaojun Wang
• w15501 November 2009 The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors
  William Kerr
• w15503 November 2009 Import Competition and Quality Upgrading
  Mary Amiti and Amit K. Khandelwal
• w15502 November 2009 Art and Money
  William N. Goetzmann, Luc Renneboog, and Christophe Spaenjers
• w15504 November 2009 An Empirical Evaluation of the Long-Run Risks Model for Asset Prices
  Ravi Bansal, Dana Kiku, and Amir Yaron
• w15505 November 2009 On Quality Bias and Inflation Targets
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe
• w15506 November 2009 Risk Price Dynamics
  Jaroslav Borovička, Lars Peter Hansen, Mark Hendricks, and José A. Scheinkman
• w15516 November 2009 Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
  Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey A. Frankel
• w15507 November 2009 The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States
  Giovanni Peri
• w15509 November 2009 The Gravity of Knowledge
  Wolfgang Keller and Stephen R. Yeaple
• w15510 November 2009 Heterogeneity in the effect of regulation on entrepreneurship and entry size
  Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi
• w15512 November 2009 Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870-2008
  Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor
• w15513 November 2009 Decentralized Trading with Private Information
  Mikhail Golosov, Guido Lorenzoni, and Aleh Tsyvinski
• w15514 November 2009 Anchors Away: How Fiscal Policy Can Undermine the Taylor Principle
  Eric M. Leeper
• w15515 November 2009 Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
  Christian Laux and Christian Leuz
• w15517 November 2009 A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment
  Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom, and Salal Humair
• w15518 November 2009 The Carry Trade and Fundamentals: Nothing to Fear But FEER Itself
  Òscar Jordà and Alan M. Taylor
• w15519 November 2009 The Feldstein-Horioka fact
  Domenico Giannone and Michele Lenza
• w15520 November 2009 Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860
  Jeremy Atack and Robert A. Margo
• w15521 November 2009 Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities
  David Card, Christian Dustmann, and Ian Preston
• w15485 November 2009 The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States
  David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen
• w15474 November 2009 The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality
  James Feyrer
• w15475 November 2009 The Global 1970s and the Echo of the Great Depression
  Alan M. Taylor
• w15476 November 2009 The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale
  Phillip Leslie and Alan Sorensen
• w15472 November 2009 Mortgage Default, Foreclosure, and Bankruptcy
  Wenli Li and Michelle J. White
• w15473 November 2009 Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr
• w15470 November 2009 Micro, Macro, and Strategic Forces in International Trade Invoicing
  Linda S. Goldberg and Cédric Tille
• w15471 November 2009 The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
  James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, and Adam Yavitz
• w15477 November 2009 Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
  Alejandrina Salcedo, Todd Schoellman, and Michèle Tertilt
• w15478 November 2009 Thirty Years of Currency Crises in Argentina: External Shocks or Domestic Fragility?
  Graciela Kaminsky, Amine Mati, and Nada Choueiri
• w15479 November 2009 Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Alp Simsek
• w15480 November 2009 Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Children's Academic Achievement
  Ann Huff Stevens and Jessamyn Schaller
• w15481 November 2009 The Chinese Warrants Bubble
  Wei Xiong and Jialin Yu
• w15482 November 2009 Dynamic Debt Runs
  Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong
• w15483 November 2009 Unequal We Stand: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006
  Jonathan Heathcote, Fabrizio Perri, and Giovanni L. Violante
• w15484 November 2009 Hoarding International Reserves Versus a Pigovian Tax-Cum-Subsidy Scheme: Reflections on the Deleveraging Crisis of 2008-9, and a Cost Benefit Analysis
  Joshua Aizenman
• w15486 November 2009 Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
  Carol McAusland and Peter J. Kuhn
• w15487 November 2009 A Preferred-Habitat Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
  Dimitri Vayanos and Jean-Luc Vila
• w15469 November 2009 Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication Among Older Americans
  Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Vilsa Curto
• w15488 November 2009 Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support
  Robert A. Moffitt and John Karl Scholz
• w15489 November 2009 The Role of Search in University Productivity: Inside, Outside, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions
  James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons
• w15490 November 2009 Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
  Eric J. Bartelsman, John C. Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta
• w15491 November 2009 Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance
  Peter H. Lindert
• w15492 November 2009 The Economics of Trade Agreements in the Linear Cournot Delocation Model
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger
• w15493 November 2009 Family Bonding with Universities
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen
• w15462 October 2009 Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?
  Todd M. Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles
• w15459 October 2009 Can Learnability Save New-Keynesian Models?
  John H. Cochrane
• w15456 October 2009 Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes Under Colombia's Health Insurance Program for the Poor
  Grant Miller, Diana M. Pinto, and Marcos Vera-Hernández
• w15457 October 2009 The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns
  Nicolae Gârleanu, Leonid Kogan, and Stavros Panageas
• w15458 October 2009 Paulson's Gift
  Pietro Veronesi and Luigi Zingales
• w15460 October 2009 Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements
  Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger
• w15461 October 2009 Cheaper By the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance
  Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber, and Danielle Li
• w15463 October 2009 Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
  James J. Heckman, Daniel A. Schmierer, and Sergio S. Urzua
• w15464 October 2009 Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing
  Valerie A. Ramey
• w15465 October 2009 The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism
  Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi, and Esteban F. Klor
• w15466 October 2009 Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences
  Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Gustavo Manso
• w15467 October 2009 Why are the 2000s so different from the 1970s? A structural interpretation of changes in the macroeconomic effects of oil prices
  Olivier J. Blanchard and Marianna Riggi
• w15468 October 2009 Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS
  Margaret Kyle and Anita McGahan
• w15435 October 2009 What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population
  Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai
• w15438 October 2009 Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending
  Alberto F. Alesina and Silvia Ardagna
• w15436 October 2009 Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity
  Zhenxiang Zhao and Robert Kaestner
• w15437 October 2009 Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns
  Ajay K. Agrawal, Iain M. Cockburn, and Carlos Rosell
• w15439 October 2009 Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities
  Robert Kaestner and Benjamin Yarnoff
• w15440 October 2009 The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century
  Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal
• w15441 October 2009 Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
  Shurojit Chatterji, Sayantan Ghosal, Sean Walsh, and John Whalley
• w15442 October 2009 International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
  Wolfgang Keller
• w15443 October 2009 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
  William R. Kerr
• w15444 October 2009 Delocation and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger
• w15445 October 2009 The WTO: Theory and Practice
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger
• w15446 October 2009 The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges
  Caroline M. Hoxby
• w15447 October 2009 Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU
  Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Edward J. Kane, and Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez
• w15434 October 2009 Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry
  Leemore Dafny, Mark Duggan, and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
• w15448 October 2009 India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005
  Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
• w15449 October 2009 Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting on Compensation Plans: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation
  Martijn Cremers and Roberta Romano
• w15450 October 2009 Rational Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle
  Marcin Kacperczyk, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Laura Veldkamp
• w15451 October 2009 The Environment and Directed Technical Change
  Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hemous
• w15452 October 2009 Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters
  Eduardo Borensztein, Olivier Jeanne, and Damiano Sandri
• w15453 October 2009 Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?
  John List and Charles Mason
• w15454 October 2009 A Theory of Banks, Bonds, and the Distribution of Firm Size
  Katheryn N. Russ and Diego Valderrama
• w15455 October 2009 Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates
  Simon Johnson, William Larson, Chris Papageorgiou, and Arvind Subramanian
• w15416 October 2009 Two Perspectives on Preferences and Structural Transformation
  Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson, and Ákos Valentinyi
• w15417 October 2009 Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
  Francesco Giavazzi, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Michel Serafinelli
• w15418 October 2009 One TV, One Price?
  Jean Imbs, Haroon Mumtaz, Morten O. Ravn, and Hélène Rey
• w15419 October 2009 Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
  Jeffrey A. Frankel
• w15420 October 2009 The Economics of Open Air Markets
  John A. List
• w15421 October 2009 Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
  Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel B. Slemrod
• w15422 October 2009 Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement
  W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch
• w15423 October 2009 Where Does Energy R&D Come From? Examining Crowding Out from Environmentally-Friendly R&D
  David Popp and Richard G. Newell
• w15424 October 2009 Inflation targeting and private sector forecasts
  Stephen G. Cecchetti and Craig Hakkio
• w15425 October 2009 FINANCIAL CRISES AND LIQUIDITY SHOCKS: A Bank-Run Perspective
  Guillermo A. Calvo
• w15426 October 2009 Executive Compensation: Facts
  Gian Luca Clementi and Thomas F. Cooley
• w15427 October 2009 Adaptive Consumption Behavior
  Peter Howitt and Ömer Özak
• w15428 October 2009 Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
  Diego A. Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven
• w15429 October 2009 Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code
  Gilbert E. Metcalf
• w15430 October 2009 An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr and Steven D. Levitt
• w15431 October 2009 Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation
  Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Adam Samaha
• w15433 October 2009 Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income
  Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin
• w15432 October 2009 Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Vincenzo Quadrini
• w15405 October 2009 Optimal taxation in the presence of bailouts
  Stavros Panageas
• w15406 October 2009 Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States
  George J. Borjas and Rachel M. Friedberg
• w15407 October 2009 Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity
  Alan J. Auerbach and William G. Gale
• w15408 October 2009 Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
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