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2000
- 7660 Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts
by Steven N. Kaplan & Per Stromberg
- 7659 Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are not Valid Measures of Financing Constraints
by Steven N. Kaplan & Luigi Zingales
- 7658 Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
by David Card & Thomas Lemieux
- 7657 Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol
by Brian R. Copeland & M. Scott Taylor
- 7656 The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from Project STAR
by Alan Krueger & Diane Whitmore
- 7655 Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis
by David Card & Thomas Lemieux
- 7654 Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies: What Does it Cost?
by A. Lans Bovenberg & Lawrence H. Goulder
- 7653 The Bail-In Problem: Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means
by Barry Eichengreen & Christof Ruehl
- 7652 Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Instability: An Historical Analysis
by Michael D. Bordo & Michael J. Dueker & David C. Wheelock
- 7651 Social Security Incentives for Retirement
by Courtney Coile & Jonathan Gruber
- 7650 American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures
by Dora L. Costa
- 7649 Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles
by Louis Kaplow
- 7648 Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy Introduction
by Carlo Carraro & Gilbert E. Metcalf
- 7647 What Have We Learned from the Reagan Deficits and Their Disappearance?
by Benjamin M. Friedman
- 7646 Economic Reforms and Labor Markets: Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile
by Sebastian Edwards & Alejandra Cox Edwards
- 7645 Controls on Capital Inflows: Do they Work?
by Jose De Gregorio & Sebastian Edwards & Rodrigo O. Valdes
- 7644 Capital Gains Taxes and Stock Reactions to Quarterly Earnings Announcements
by Jennifer L. Blouin & Jana Smith Raedy & Douglas A. Shackelford
- 7643 Universities as Research Partners
by Bronwyn H. Hall & Albert N. Link & John T. Scott
- 7642 Trade and the Rate of Income Convergence
by Dan Ben-David & Ayal Kimhi
- 7641 Ohlin Versus Stolper-Samuelson?
by Douglas A. Irwin
- 7640 Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?
by Douglas A. Irwin
- 7639 Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America
by Douglas A. Irwin
- 7638 How Did the United States Become a Net Exporter of Manufactured Goods?
by Douglas A. Irwin
- 7637 Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?
by David H. Autor
- 7636 Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?
by Edward L. Glaeser & Matthew E. Kahn & Jordan Rappaport
- 7635 Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates
by George J. Borjas
- 7634 Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking
by George P. Baker & Thomas N. Hubbard
- 7633 Growth and Business Cycles
by Larry Jones & Rodolfo Manuelli & Henry Siu
- 7632 When Did Globalization Begin?
by Kevin H. O'Rourke & Jeffrey G. Williamson
- 7631 The Meaning of Patent Citations: Report on the NBER/Case-Western Reserve Survey of Patentees
by Adam B. Jaffe & Manuel Trajtenberg & Michael S. Fogarty
- 7630 From Benign Neglect to Malignant Preoccupation: U.S. Balance-of-Payments Policy in the 1960s
by Barry Eichengreen
- 7629 Dimensions of Credit Risk and Their Relationship to Economic Capital Requirements
by Mark Carey
- 7628 Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates
by Emmanuel Saez
- 7627 What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure
by Robert F. Schoeni & Rebecca M. Blank
- 7626 Taxes, High-Income Executives, and the Perils of Revenue Estimation in the New Economy
by Austan Goolsbee
- 7625 Trading Volume: Definitions, Data Analysis, and Implications of Portfolio Theory
by Andrew W. Lo & Jiang W. Wang
- 7624 Can Subsidies for MARs be Procompetitive?
by Kala Krishna & Suddhasatwa Roy & Marie C. Thursby
- 7623 Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment: Japan, the United States, and Sweden
by Robert E. Lipsey & Eric D. Ramstetter & Magnus Blomstrom
- 7622 Pricing Upward-Only Adjusting Leases
by Brent W. Ambrose & Patric H. Hendershott & Malgorzata M. Klosek
- 7621 The Determinants of Trust
by Alberto Alesina & Eliana La Ferrara
- 7620 Government Ownership of Banks
by Rafael La Porta & Florencio Lopezde-Silanes & Andrei Shleifer
- 7619 Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables
by Douglas Holtz-Eakin & Harvey S. Rosen & Robert Weathers
- 7618 Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Countries
by Frederic S. Mishkin
- 7617 Monetary Policy Strategies for Latin America
by Frederic S. Mishkin & Miguel A. Savastano
- 7616 Federalism with and without Political Centralization: China versus Russia
by Olivier Blanchard & Andrei Shleifer
- 7615 Covariance Risk, Mispricing, and the Cross Section of Security Returns
by Kent D. Daniel & David Hirshleifer & Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
- 7614 Using Options to Divide Value in Corporate Bankruptcy
by Lucian Arye Bebchuk
- 7613 Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation
by Andrew W. Lo & Harry Mamaysky & Jiang Wang
- 7612 The Influence of Federal Laboratory R&D on Industrial Research
by James D. Adams & Eric P. Chiang & Jeffrey L. Jensen
- 7611 Low Wage Services: Interpreting the US - German Difference
by Richard B. Freeman & Ronald Schettkat
- 7610 Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment: Germany vs. the US
by Richard B. Freeman & Ronald Schettkat
- 7609 Expectations Hypotheses Tests
by Geert Bekaert & Robert J. Hodrick
- 7608 From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor
by Dora L. Costa
- 7607 Designing Stabilization Policy in a Monetary Union
by Russell W. Cooper & Hubert Kempf
- 7606 Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?
by David Neumark & Scott Adams
- 7605 Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change
by Dora L. Costa
- 7604 Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do
by Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan
- 7603 Local Revenue Hills: A General Equilibrium Specification with Evidence from Four U.S. Cities
by Andrew Haughwout & Robert Inman & Steven Craig & Thomas Luce
- 7602 Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford DeLong
- 7601 The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers
by Phillip B. Levine
- 7600 The Simple Economics of Open Source
by Josh Lerner & Jean Triole
- 7599 Using the EITC to Help Poor Families: New Evidence and a Comparision with the Minimum Wage
by David Neumark & William Wascher
- 7598 The First Year of the Eurosystem: Inflation Targeting or Not?
by Lars E.O. Svensson
- 7597 How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?
by Alan L. Gustman & Thomas L. Steinmeier
- 7596 The Taxation of Executive Compensation
by Brian J. Hall & Jeffrey B. Liebman
- 7595 Do After-Tax Returns Affect Mutual Fund Inflows?
by Daniel Bergstresser & James Poterba
- 7594 Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa
by Marianne Bertrand & Douglas Miller & Sendhil Mullainathan
- 7593 Testing Parental Altruism: Implications of a Dynamic Model
by Kathleen McGarry
- 7592 Why a Funded Pension System is Useful and Why It is Not Useful
by Hans-Werner Sinn
- 7591 Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?
by Alan B. Krueger & Mikael Lindahl
- 7590 Have Individual Stocks Become More Volatile? An Empirical Exploration of Idiosyncratic Risk
by John Y. Campbell & Martin Lettau & Burton G. Malkiel & Yexiao Xu
- 7589 Asset Pricing at the Millennium
by John Y. Campbell
- 7588 Retirement Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study
by Alan L. Gustman & Thomas L. Steinmeier
- 7587 The Visible Hand, the Invisible Hand and Efficiency
by Eitan Goldman & Gary Gorton
- 7586 Germany's Economic Unification: An Assessment after Ten Years
by Hans-Werner Sinn
- 7585 Self-Confidence and Social Interactions
by Roland Benabou & Jean Tirole
- 7584 A Dynamic Model of Differential Human Capital and Criminal Activity
by H. Naci Mocan & Stephen C. Billups & Jody Overland
- 7583 Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition
by Robert J. Lemke & Ann Dryden Witte & Magaly Queralt & Robert Witt
- 7582 Obstacles to Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms
by Randall S. Kroszner & Philip E. Strahan
- 7581 Medium-Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration
by Menzie D. Chinn & Eswar S. Prasad
- 7580 Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
by Charles F. Manski
- 7579 Elected versus Appointed Regulators: Theory and Evidence
by Stephen Coate & Timothy Besley
- 7578 Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?
by David Card & John E. DiNardo
- 7577 Potential Pitfalls for the Purchasing-Power-Parity Puzzle? Sampling and Specification Biases in Mean-Reversion Tests of the Law of One Price
by Alan M. Taylor
- 7576 Does Growing Inequality Reduce Tax Progressivity? Should It?
by Joel Slemrod & Jon Bakija
- 7575 Globalization and International Public Finance
by Michael Kremer & Paras Mehta
- 7574 Guaranteed Income: SSI and the Well-Being of the Elderly Poor
by Kathleen McGarry
- 7573 Labor Markets in Professional Sports
by Sherwin Rosen & Allen Sanderson
- 7572 Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment: A Barrier to Trade?
by Barbara J. Spencer & Larry D. Qiu
- 7571 The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy
by N. Gregory Mankiw
- 7570 Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle
by Angus Deaton & Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas & Christina Paxson
- 7569 The Shape of Twentieth Century Economic History
by J. Bradford DeLong
- 7568 Long Run Effects of Social Security Reform Proposals on Lifetime Progressivity
by Julia Lynn Coronado & Don Fullerton & Thomas Glass
- 7567 Daily Momentum and Contrarian Behavior of Index Fund Investors
by William N. Goetzmann & Massimo Massa
- 7566 Global Real Estate Markets - Cycles and Fundamentals
by Bradford Case & William N. Goetzmann & K. Geert Rouwenhorst
- 7565 A Century of Global Stock Markets
by Philippe Jorion & William N. Goetzmann
- 7564 Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
by Jennifer Hunt
- 7563 The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
by Luigi Guiso & Paola Sapienza & Luigi Zingales
- 7562 Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector
by Christopher Ruhm & Carey Borkoski
- 7561 The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
by Robert W. Fairlie & Bruce D. Meyer
- 7560 Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities
by Jeffrey R. Brown
- 7559 Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility
by Ben Bernanke & Mark Gertler
- 7558 The Importance of Measurement Error in the Cost of Capital
by Austan Goolsbee
- 7557 Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment
by David H. Autor
- 7556 Single Peaked Vs. Diversified Capitalism: The Relation Between Economic Institutions and Outcomes
by Richard B. Freeman
- 7555 Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations
by Leemore Dafny & Jonathan Gruber
- 7554 On the Fundamentals of Self-Fulfilling Speculative Attacks
by Craig Burnside & Martin Eichenbaum & Sergio T. Rebelo
- 7553 Tax Subsidies for Health Insurance: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits
by Jonathan Gruber
- 7552 Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)
by Wesley M. Cohen & Richard R. Nelson & John P. Walsh
- 7551 Inflation Dynamics: A Structural Econometric Analysis
by Jordi Gali & Mark Gertler
- 7550 What do we know about Macroeconomics that Fisher and Wicksell did not?
by Olivier Blanchard
- 7549 The Information in the High Yield Bond Spread for the Business Cycle: Evidence and Some Implications
by Mark Gertler & Cara S. Lown
- 7548 Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options
by Brian J. Hall & Kevin J. Murphy
- 7547 A Monetary Explanation of the Great Stagflation of the 1970s
by Robert Barsky & Lutz Kilian
- 7546 The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy: A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms
by Raghuram G. Rajan & Luigi Zingales
- 7545 Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
by Eli Berman & Zaur Rzakhanov
- 7544 Labor- and Capital- Augmenting Technical Change
by Daron Acemoglu
- 7543 The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance
by Melissa A. Thomasson
- 7542 Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth
by Lalith Munasinghe & Nachum Sicherman
- 7541 The Growth Costs of Malaria
by Desmond McCarthy & Holger Wolf & Yi Wu
- 7540 Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They are and How to Acquire Them
by Dani Rodrik
- 7539 Have Falling Tariffs and Transportation Costs Raised U.S. Wage Inequality?
by Jonathan E. Haskel & Matthew J. Slaughter
- 7538 Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box
by Paul A. David & Bronwyn H. Hall
- 7537 Medical Liability, Managed Care, and Defensive Medicine
by Daniel P. Kessler & Mark B. McClellan
- 7536 Strategic Trade Policy with Endogenous Choice of Quality and Asymmetric Costs
by Dongsheng Zhou & Barbara J. Spencer & Ilan Vertinsky
- 7535 Cigarettes and Alcohol: Substitutes or Complements?
by Sandra L. Decker & Amy Ellen Schwartz
- 7534 Resuscitating Real Business Cycles
by Robert G. King & Sergio T. Rebelo
- 7533 How Liability Law Affects Medical Productivity
by Daniel P. Kessler & Mark B. McClellan
- 7532 Capital Gains Realizations of the Rich and Sophisticated
by Alan J. Auerbach & Jonathan M. Siegel
- 7531 Can Output Losses Following International Financial Crises be Avoided?
by Michael P. Dooley
- 7530 Income-distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility
by Michael Kremer & Daniel Chen
- 7529 U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts: From Mexico to LTCM
by Rene M. Stulz
- 7528 Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837
by Peter L. Rousseau
- 7527 The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz
- 7526 How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?
by Hugo Benitez-Silva & Moshe Buchinsky & Hiu Man Chan & Sofia Cheidvasser & John Rust
- 7525 The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households, 1960-1995
by Daniel R. Feenberg & James M. Poterba
- 7524 How Do UK-Based Foreign Exchange Dealers Think Their Market Operates?
by Yin-Wong Cheung & Menzie D. Chinn & Ian W. Marsh
- 7523 Tunnelling
by Simon Johnson & Rafael La Porta & Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes & Andrei Shleifer
- 7522 Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development
by Phillip B. Levine & David J. Zimmerman
- 7521 Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement
by Steven F. Venti & David A. Wise
- 7520 The Progressivity of Social Security
by Julia Lynn Coronado & Don Fullerton & Thomas Glass
- 7519 The Effects of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution
by David Neumark & Mark Schweitzer & William Wascher
- 7518 Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange
by Antonio Rangel
- 7517 The European Central Bank and the Euro: The First Year
by Martin Feldstein
- 7516 How Should Monetary Policy be Conducted in an Era of Price Stability?
by Lars E.O. Svensson
- 7515 Fiscal Shocks in an Efficiency Wage Model
by Craig Burnside & Martin Eichenbaum & Jonas D.M. Fisher
- 7514 Capital Movements, Banking Insolvency, and Silent Runs in the Asian Financial Crisis
by Edward J. Kane
- 7513 Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting
by Simon P. Anderson & Stephen Coate
- 7512 The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence and Implications
by Jon Gruber & Emmanuel Saez
- 7511 Sticky-Price Models of the Business Cycle: Specification and Stability
by Peter N. Ireland
- 7510 Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions: The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions
by Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn & Jane Waldfogel
- 7509 Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion
by Wolfgang Keller
- 7508 Sorting and Long-Run Inequality
by Raquel Fernandez & Richard Rogerson
- 7507 Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence
by Jonathan Gruber & Botond Koszegi
- 7506 Youth Smoking in the U.S.: Prices and Policies
by Jonathan Gruber
- 7505 Two Generalizations of a Deposit-Refund System
by Don Fullerton & Ann Wolverton
- 7504 Medicare Reform: The Larger Picture
by Victor R. Fuchs
- 7503 The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
by J. Vernon Henderson
- 7502 Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy
by Steven J. Davis & Magnus Henrekson
- 7501 The Effect of Unions on Employment: Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay
by Adriana Cassoni & Steven G. Allen & Gaston J. Labadie
- 7500 The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers
by Sara Markowitz
- 7499 Tax Base Variability and Procyclical Fiscal Policy
by Ernesto Talvi & Carlos A. Vegh
- 7498 Money as Stock: Price Level Determination with no Money Demand
by John H. Cochrane
- 7497 Estimating Exchange Rate Exposures: Some "Weighty" Issues
by Gordon M. Bodnar & M.H. Franco Wong
- 7496 The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the U.S
by Alberto Alesina
- 7495 Do Patents Matter?: Empirical Evidence after GATT
by Jean O. Lanjouw & Iain Cockburn
- 7494 If at First You Don't Succeed...: Profits, Prices and Market Structure in a Model of Quality with Unknowable Consumer Heterogeneity
by Kala Krishna & Tor Winston
- 7493 Identification through Heteroskedasticity: Measuring "Contagion: betweenArgentinean and Mexican Sovereign Bonds
by Roberto Rigobon
- 7492 The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System
by Martin Feldstein & Jeffrey Liebman
- 7491 Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
by Bruce D. Meyer & Dan T. Rosenbaum
- 7490 Robust Monetary Policy Under Model Uncertainty in a Small Model of the U.S. Economy
by Alexei Onatski & James H. Stock
- 7489 Market Efficiency in an Irrational World
by Kent Daniel & Sheridan Titman
- 7488 Exchange Rate Returns Standardized by Realized Volatility are (Nearly) Gaussian
by Torben G. Andersen & Tim Bollerslev & Francis X. Diebold & Paul Labys
- 7487 Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA
by David G. Blanchflower & Andrew J. Oswald
- 7486 Self-Employment in OECD Countries
by David G. Blanchflower
- 7485 Trade, Income Inequality, and Government Policies: Redistribution of Income or Education Subsidies?
by Eckhard Janeba
- 7484 Endogenous R&D Spillovers and Industrial Research Productivity
by James D. Adams
- 7483 Causes of the Korean Financial Crisis: Lessons for Policy
by Joon-Ho Hahm & Frederic S. Mishkin
- 7482 Understanding Inflation: Implications for Monetary Policy
by Stephen G. Cecchetti & Erica L. Groshen
- 7481 Criminal Violence and Alcohol Beverage Control: Evidence from an International Study
by Sara Markowitz
- 7480 Does Product Market Competition Reduce Agency Costs?
by Ravi Jagannathan & Shaker B. Srinivasan
- 7479 What's Driving the New Economy: The Benefits of Workplace Innovation
by Sandra E. Black & Lisa M. Lynch
- 7478 150 Years of Patent Protection
by Josh Lerner
- 7477 150 Years of Patent Office Practice
by Josh Lerner
- 7476 Preserving the Ocean Circulation: Implications for Climate Policy
by Klaus Keller & Kelvin Tan & Francois M.M. Morel & David F. Bradford
- 7475 Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign Contributions and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation
by Randall S. Kroszner & Thomas Stratmann
- 7474 The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
by Richard B. Freeman & Ronald Schettkat
- 7473 Tax Avoidance, Evasion, and Administration
by Joel Slemrod & Shlomo Yitzhaki
- 7472 Changes in Job Stability and Job Security: A Collective Effort to Untangle, Reconcile, and Interpret the Evidence
by David Neumark
- 7471 Total Factor Productivity: A Short Biography
by Charles R. Hulten
- 7470 The Role of Commitment in Dynamic Contracts: Evidence from Life Insurance
by Igal Hendel & Alessandro Lizzeri
- 7469 Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates
by Bruce Sacerdote
- 7468 Growth Theory
by Boyan Jovanovic
- 7467 Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector: The Case of Bank Branches
by Ann P. Bartel
- 7466 Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange Rate
by Michael W. Klein & Scott Schuh & Robert K. Triest
- 7465 Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment
by Timothy Dunne & John Haltiwanger & Lucia Foster
- 7464 Do Equity Financing Cycles Matter? Evidence from Biotechnology Alliances
by Josh Lerner & Alexander Tsai
- 7463 Are Americans More Altruistic than the Japanese? A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives
by Charles Yuji Horioka & Hideki Fujisaki & Wako Watanabe & Takatsugu Kouno