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Prices in U.S. Broadband Services
Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases
Medicare Part D and the Financial Protection of the Elderly
Credit Conditions and International Trade during the Global Financial Crisis
How Well Are Social Security Recipients Protected from Inflation?
Information and Employee Evaluation
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The Impact of Health Insurance Reform in Massachusetts
Congressional Support for Subprime Lending
Rational Choice, Voter Turnout, and Union Elections
Dividends, Share Repurchases, and Tax Incentives
Uncertainty and Economic Activity
The Importance of Sticky Wages
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Medicare Part D, Prescription Drug Utilization, and the Health of the Elderly
School Accountability and Teacher Mobility
Oil, Automobiles, and the U.S. Economy
Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and Support for Public Education
International Business Cycle Synchronization in Historical Perspective
Health Impacts of the Zambian Malaria Initiative
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Build America Bonds
Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection
The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts
How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment
Wage Posting versus Wage Bargaining
The Costs and Benefits of Corporate Borrowing
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Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage
Bankruptcy Reform in 2005 Exacerbated the Mortgage Crisis
Agricultural Commodities and the U.S. Ethanol Mandate
The Internet and the Organization of Innovation
Health, Income, and Education among Military Retirees
Analyzing Five Decades of U.S. Monetary Policy
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The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services
The Impact of Non-Linear Electricity Pricing
Evidence on the Effects of Nurses' Strikes
Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas?
Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance
The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations
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Home Computers and Human Capital
Forecasting Flu Diffusion Taking Account of Avoidance Tactics
Federal Mortgage Modification Programs
Explaining the Rise in Educational Gradients in Mortality
Evidence from a Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark
Evidence on the Long-Run Elasticity of Labor Supply
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Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants
Securitization in the 1920s
Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers
Reponses to Recycling Laws and Bottle Deposits
Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Modeling College Major Choices
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Terms-of-Trade Gains, Tariff Changes, and Productivity Growth
The Real Effects of Financial Constraints
Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving
Growth in a Time of Debt
The Effect of WIC on Infant Health
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Household Spending Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate
Stock Market Fluctuations and Retirement Decisions
Credit Booms and Financial Instability
High Quality Schools and the Educational Achievement Gap
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States
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Peer Comparisons Reduce Residential Energy Use
Help with Aid Applications Raises College Attendance
Private Information about Health Risks Can Undermine Insurance Markets
Intracompany Governance and Innovation
Economic Analysis in Developing Nations: Two Studies from Kenya
Consolidation in the Health Insurance Industry Contributes Little to Rising Premiums
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Growing up in a Recession
Cognition and Economic Outcomes
How Regressive is a Price on Carbon?
Non-Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation Rates
Grazing, Goods, and Girth
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The Refinancing Boom and the Financial Crisis
The Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls
Where You Are Sent and for How Long Influences Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Low Life Expectancy in the United States
The Repo Market and the Start of the Financial Crisis
International Differences in Decentralization and Productivity
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House Prices, Home Equity-based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
Capital Market Integration and Wages
Conditional Cash Penalties in Education
Automobiles on Steroids
Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline
Global Savings and Investment
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Game Theory and Major League Sports
The Global Expansion of Higher Education
Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R and D
The Geography of Venture Capital Expansion
The Roots of Protectionism in the Great Depression
World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions
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The Professors Gender May Perpetuate the Gender Gap
Lifecycle Funds in 401(K) Plans
Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools
Poor Working Conditions Affect Long-Term Health
Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market?
When Are Analyst Recommendation Changes Influential?
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Corporate Debt Maturity and the Real Effects of the 2007 Credit Crisis
Five Decades of Poverty
The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa
Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts
Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior
July 2009 Issue
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Forced Sales and House Prices
Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?
The Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education
Why Do Foreign Firms Leave U.S. Equity Markets?
The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe
Disclosure and the Cost of Capital
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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s?
Depression Babies and Risk-Taking
Teaching the Tax Code
The Governance and Performance of Research Universities
Central Bank Policies Are More Transparent
Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance
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The Effect of a Gasoline Tax on Carbon Emissions
Coverage under Medicare Part D
A Tale of Two Islands
Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Long-Run Effects of Unions on Firms
Social Security, Retirement, and Youth Employment
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Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How?
The Internet, Wages, and Consumer Welfare
Immigration and Wage Inequality
Regulation of Pollution Sources
The Euro, Wages, and Prices
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Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?
Explaining the Credit Crunch
Do Private Equity Firms "Create Value"?
What Happened to the Airline Industry?
Understanding Crude Oil Prices
Exchange Rates and Prices
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Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?
American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing
Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data
Currency Crises and Sudden Stops
Air Pollution and Infant Health
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Domestic Debt Helps to Explain External Defaults
Changes in Social Security Have Affected Retirement
Benefits of New Pharmaceuticals Significantly Exceed their Costs
Welfare Reform Has Led to More Work but Less Education
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
Taller Folks Earn More
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Climate Change and Economic Growth over The Last Half Century
The Causes of Rising Income Inequality
Gasoline Prices Affect Fuel Economy
Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
Happiness Is More Evenly Distributed Among Americans
Gold Standard Does Not Always Bring Credibility
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Public Pensions are Underfunded
The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation
Having Good Teeth Can Pay Off
Capital Inflows and Reserve Accumulation
Latin American Industrialization after 1870
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Housing Busts May Lower Household Mobility
Total Compensation Reflects Growth in Productivity
The Federal Student Aid Process is Not Efficient
Hours Spent in Homemaking Have Changed Little This Century
How Costly is Diversity?
Reforming Social Security With Progressive Personal Accounts
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The Link Between Foreclosures and House Prices
Understanding Bank Runs
Derivatives Markets for Home Prices
Unemployment Insurance Provides Needed Liquidity
What Drives Retail Price Movements?
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Medicare Part D Saves Money for Many Participants
Why do Foreigners Invest in the United States?
Gender Differences: The Role of Institutions
Macroeconomic Crises Since 1870
A Black Swan In The Money Market
Mentoring Reduces Turnover Among Teachers in New York City
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School Ties and Mutual Fund Success
The Increasing Prevalence of Obesity
Tax Effects on Foreign Portfolio Investment
A Theory of Military Dictatorships
Exchange Rates Can Forecast Commodity Prices
Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity
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Origins of the Current Mortgage Problems
Is a Listing on the NYSE Less Attractive?
The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Adult Crime
Do Professional Currency Managers Beat the Benchmark?
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Do Assassinations Change History?
401(k) Plans, Lifetime Earnings, and Wealth at Retirement
Tax Increases Reduce GDP
Does Globalization Weaken Monetary Policy?
Stocks Rise Around Earnings Announcements
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When Taxpayers Ignore Less Visible Taxes
The Rise and Fall of the College Graduate Wage Premium
Higher U.S. Investment Yields Won't Allow Continued Large U.S. Current Account Deficit
Parents Respond to School Performance Fact Sheets
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Is the U.S. Population Behaving Healthier?
Cable Television Raises Womens Status in India
Why Supbprime Auto Loans Default
Exchange Controls And International Trade
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Anti-Depressants Reduce Suicide
Why is the Developed World Obese?
The Changing Nature of Marriage and Divorce
Hidden Taxes Are Easier to Raise
Higher Health Spending Saves Lives
Did Bankruptcy Reform Increase Financial Distress?
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Who Benefits from Inflation Targeting?
Current Account Surpluses And The Correction Of Global Imbalances
Ranking Affects the Financial Resources of Public Colleges
Europe's Lagging Service Sector
Measuring Happiness and Satisfaction
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Public Insurance Expansions Crowd Out Private Health Insurance
Teacher Credentials Don't Matter for Student Achievement
Treasury Debt and Corporate Bond Rates
Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
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What Drives the Political Slant of Daily Newspapers?
The Effect of Congressional Majorities on Financial Variables
The Declining Gain from International Portfolio Diversification
The Return to Capital in China
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TV Appearance and Electoral Success
The Impact of Terrorism on the Office Real Estate Market
Teacher Incentives and Student Performance
Drug Co-Payments Increase Hospital Outpatient Spending
Welfare Recipients Respond to Complex Incentives
Has Globalization Changed Inflation?
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No Child Left Behind Rules Raise Student Performance
Effects of Immigration on African-American Employment and Incarceration
Cigarette Regulations Reduce Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Simplification Raises Saving Rates
Higher Tax Rates Reduce Working Hours In OECD Countries
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Retirement Saving Versus Mortgage Paydowns
What Makes Foreign Firms Attractive to U.S. Investors?
Tax Incentives Raised Business Investment
Changing Business Volatility
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Why Do House Prices Rise Faster in Some Cities?
The Effects of Education on Health
Globalization And Poverty
Cost Effects of Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment
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The Impact of the Euro and Prospects for the Dollar
Where Did All the Leisure Go?
Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools?
New Evidence on Gender Differences in Promotions and Pay
Spreading the Gains from Immigration
Why Some Diplomats Park Illegally
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Why Do Women Outnumber Men in College?
Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
Global Diversification Through Multinational Shares
Police Pay and Performance
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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Abortion and Selection
The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates
Intensive Care Reduces Disability after Cardiovascular Disease
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International Capital Flows Alter U.S. Interest Rates
Black-White Test Scores: Neighborhoods, Not Schools, Matter Most
New Laboratory Procedures Increase Life Expectancy
The Career Effects Of Graduating In A Recession
Will Super-High Chinese Growth Continue?
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Media Bias and Voting
Electoral Outcomes and Financial Markets
The Evolution of Top Incomes
A Healthy Economy Can Break Your Heart
The Allies, Spain, And Oil In World War II
Generous Benefits Raise Long-Term Unemployment
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Improved Neighborhoods Don't Raise Academic Achievement
Teacher-Student Matching Increases Teacher Effectiveness
Incentives to R&D Directors Improve Corporate R&D Performance
No Decline in Long-Term Employment
Intangible Capital and Economic Growth
The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees
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Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income
TV, Fast Foods, and Childhood Obesity
A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market
The Earned Income Tax Credit Raises Employment
Macroeconomic Derivatives
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Do Mutual Fund Investors Care About Fees?
Why High Earners Work Longer Hours
Comparing Government Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries
The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing
June 2006 Issue
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Canada's Universal Childcare Hurt Children and Families
Megan's Law Hits Local Property Prices
The Safety and Efficacy of the FDA
Why Poverty Persists
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Economic Progress of Immigrants
Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina
Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement
Matching Incentives Raise Saving
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Medicare and Its Impact
Is There a Housing Buble?
Economic Explanations of Increased Obesity
The Effects of Communism on Popular Preferences
What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth?
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How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues
America's Unsustainable Current Account Deficit
Do Macro Variables, Asset Markets, Or Surveys Forecast Inflation Better?
What Do Parents Value in Education?
Service Offshoring Raises U.S. Productivity
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How Do House Prices Affect Consumption?
Do Women Shy Away From Competition?
Do Medicare Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know?
Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking?
Mutual Fund Switching Lowers Investors' Returns
No Evidence that Aid Stimulates Growth
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"Acting White"
The Costs of International Capital Controls
Why South African Incomes Declined
The Happiness of Nations
Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending
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Is China Mercantilist?
The Effect of Brown v. Board of Education on Blacks' Earnings
The Mexican Workforce in the United States
Social Security and Early Retirement
Great Inventions Come Later in Life
The Value of Health and Longevity
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Productivity Growth and Employment
Changing Work Behavior of Married Women
Fundamentals and Systematic Risk in Stock Returns
Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Policies, and Risky Sexual Behaviors
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Moving to Opportunity?
Is Religion Good for You?
Tax Progressivity and Share Ownership
Foreign Investment in China
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Manmade Scarcity Drives Up Housing Prices
Junk Food Availability in Schools Raises Obesity
Interactions of U.S. and European Financial Markets
New Hospital Residents and Increased Mortality
Intellectual Property Rights and International Technology Transfer
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Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums
Does Overseas Investing Reduce Domestic Investment?
Why Obesity Lowers Wages
Good Teachers Raise Student Achievement
U.S. Consulates Raise Exports
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Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
The Work Effects of Tax Cuts on Low-Income Single Mothers
Dynamic Scoring: A Back-of-the-Envelope Guide
Financial Development Helps the Poor in Poor Countries
Trade Openness Reduces Financial Vulnerability
Alcohol Policies and Sexually Transmitted Disease Among Youth
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Fighting Deflation in the U.S. and Japan
The Effect of Newer Drugs on Survival
The Productivity Slowdown of the 1970s
The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality
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Does Poverty Cause Terrorism?
CEO Overconfidence, Corporate Investment, and the Market's Reaction
Do Federal Government Trust Funds Raise National Saving?
How Insurance Affects Hospital Care of Accident Victims
The Effect of Price Controls on Pharmaceutical Research
Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use Respond to Price Changes
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Bulls, Bears, and Retirement Behavior
Effects of Co-payment on Prescription Drug Demand
How Households Responded to Tax Rebates of 2001
The Lock-in Effect of California's Proposition 13
New Drugs and HIV Mortality
Globalization and Poverty in Mexico
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Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks?
Do Real Estate Agents Exploit their Information Advantage?
Does Prekindergarten Improve School Preparation and Performance?
Is Segregation in Southern Schools Increasing?
Corporate Governance, Economic Entrenchment, and Growth
Does International Food Aid Harm the Poor?
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Does the U.S. Outsource Polluting Industries?
The Cost of Entrenched Boards
School Accountability Raises Educational Performance
Better Health Increases Foreign Direct Investment
Why Do Firms Pay Dividends?
SEC Regulation FD Raises the Cost of Capital for Small Firms
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The Economics of Derivatives
Investing in Commodity Futures
Measuring the Growth from Better and Better Goods
The Economics of World War I
Changing Demographics of U.S. Science-Engineering PhDs
Antidumping in Historical Perspective
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Is the Current Account Deficit Sustainable?
Affirmative Action and Highly Qualified Minority Students
Effects of Taxes on Labor Income
Pension Assumptions and Earnings Manipulation
The Effect of Opening Equity Markets on Economic Volatility
Democracy, Dictators, and Growth
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Are Perks Really Managerial Excess?
The Changing Path to Corporate Leadership
Can Markets Predict the Future?
Do Hospital Report Cards Matter?
Did the ADA Reduce Employment of the Disabled?
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Increasing Retirement Account Participation
Who Gains from Innovation?
Do Fathers Prefer Sons?
Capital Taxes are Passed on to Workers and Consumers
Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets
Are Equity Investors Fooled by Inflation?
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The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Work
Mexico's Problems: Don't Blame NAFTA
How the 1960s' Riots Hurt African-Americans
Self-Employment: More May Not Be Better
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Lower Tax Rates Spurred Dividend Growth
Are Political Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices?
Work and Family Rise Among College Graduate Women
Serial Default and Capital Flows
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Asbestos and the Future of Mass Litigation
The Effect of Gasoline Taxes on Work Effort
The Net Benefit of Debt Relief
Dual-Class Companies
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Education Level Drives City Growth
Illiquidity Raises Investment Risk
Financial Reform Changed Stock Markets in Latin America
Taxation and Corporate Payout Policy
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Retirement and the Evolution of Pension Structure
The Economic Efficiency of Cancer Drugs
Motivating Employees with Stock and Involvement
The Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales: Online Book Reviews
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The Alternative Minimum Tax and Effective Marginal Tax Rates
Taxing Corporate Capital Gains
Good Versus Bad Deflation: Lessons from the Gold Standard Era
How College Savings Can Reduce Wealth
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Why is Manhattan Housing So Expensive?
The Trouble with Stock Options
Long-Term Care Insurance and Nursing Home Use
Divorce Laws and Family Violence
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Local Revenue Hills: Evidence From Four U.S. Cities
Bank Concentration and Crises
The Regulation of Labor
Business Cycles No Longer Linked
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Advance Directives and Medical Care at the End of Life
The Economic Decline in Africa
Flexible Exchange Rates Reduce Economic Volatility
Does School Choice Increase School Quality?
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Mutual Fund Portfolio Contagion
New Drugs and Increased Longevity
Private Insurance Replaces Medicaid Cutbacks for Immigrants
Coordinated Currency Interventions Temporarily Move Exchange Rates
State Education Subsidies Shift Students to Public Universities
Is Manual Labor Bad for your Health?
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Religion and Economic Growth
Auto Insurance and Traffic Fatalities
What Works in Securities Laws?
Increased Life Expectancies Imply Reduced Inter-country Inequality
Advertising and Price Effects on Adolescent Drinking
Incentives and Invention in Universities
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Teacher Incentives
The Misallocation Of Credit In Japan
Do Tax Subsidies Increase Health Insurance among the Uninsured?
The Flattening of Corporate Management
Multinationals, Wages, and Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Incapacitation, Concentration, and Juvenile Crime
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Employer Replies to Racial Names
Tax Credits Don't Spur College Attendance
What Happened to Wages in Mexico Since NAFTA?
How Deregulation Spurs Growth
Trade Links Move Stock Markets
Does Inflation Targeting Matter?
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Labor Dispute Caused Poor Quality Products
Student Aid Packages and College Choices
Big Firms Lose Value in Acquisitions
Responses to Health Insurance Premium Increases
Capital Account Liberalization, The Cost of Capital, and Economic Growth
Teacher Certification Raises Salaries but not Quality
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Social Security Causes Earlier Retirement
Do Incentives Cause Teachers to Cheat?
Union Membership and Wage Variation
Rules Change Entrepreneurial Activity
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How School Administrators Cheat the Accountability Rules
The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety
Why Economic Downturns have Favorable Effects on Mortality
Wage Compression Limits Quality of Public Sector Workers
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Is Health Insurance Affordable to the Uninsured?
Does the World Trade Organization Actually Promote World Trade?
What Causes House Price Fluctuations?
Does Alcohol and Marijuana Use Alter Teen Sexual Behavior
Information Technology Spillovers
Effects of Multinational Company Investments
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Eating Your Way to Higher Test Scores
The Information in Equity Analyst Reports
Lower Social Security Benefits Reduced Mortality
The Internet Changes the Labor Market
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Does Grant Aid Attract More Students than Loans?
Transparency Encourages Foreign Investment
Abortion Legalization Reduces Adolescent Substance Abuse
What Drives Cross-Border Equity Flows?
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An Economic Analysis Of Adult Obesity
The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos
Multinationals' Sensitivity to Tax Rules
Why Companies Pay for College
Pollution Abatement in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Government Internet Subsidies and Student Achievement
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The Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans
What Reduced Crime in New York City
Public Disability Insurance and Private Health Insurance
Explaining the Flood of Asbestos Cases
School Spending Raises Property Values
Does Confidential Proxy Voting Matter?
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Effects of the Tax Cut on Saving
Impact of Devaluations on Commodity Firms
Whose Employment is Affected by Unions?
The G.I. Bill, World War II, and the Education of Black Americans
Credit Access Cuts Child Labor in Developing Countries
Social Insurance Programs Have Large Labor Supply Effects
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Has Inequality Really Increased?
Is Trade Good for the Enviroment?
Generous Bankruptcy Rules Limit Small Firm Credit
Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity
Women and Post-WWII Wages
Government Size and Taxpayer Cheating
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Mandatory Medigap Standards Reduce Insurance Protection
The Powerful Anti-takeover Force of Staggered Boards
Newer Drugs Cut Health Care Costs
The Higher Education Labor Market
Economic Growth is Reducing Global Poverty
Is Art a Good Investment?
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Poverty and Low Education Don't Cause Terrorism
The Small Cost of Accountability
Does In-Service Teacher Training Raise Student Achievement?
Drug Treatment is a Crime Fighting Tool
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School Choice Raises Student Achievement
Global Links Raise Asian Countries' Productivity
Alcohol and Drug Use Increases Suicidal Behaviors
The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequity
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Income Declines after Divorce
Globalization Reduces Child Labor in Vietnam
Looting Mexican Banks
Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?
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Who Underreacts to Cash Flow News?
Higher Alcohol Prices and Student Drinking
A Rehabilitation of Monetary Policy in the 1950s
The Retirement Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs
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401(k) Plans Raise Total Saving
Why Don't Americans Hold More Foreign Stock?
Orphan Drugs Cure Rare Diseases
Buying a Car on the Internet
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The Path of Least Resistance in 401(k) Plans
Higher Downside Risk Brings Greater Returns
Taxes and Health Insurance
Value of S & P Membership is Growing
Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
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Globalization Reduces Inequality in China
Does Social Security Redistribute to Low Income Groups?
Why do Death Rates Decline?
Measuring the Stress of Financial Traders
Aging and Housing Equity
Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
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Why Are Foreign Firms Listed In The U.S. Worth More?
Incentive Effects of HMO Contracts
Tax Rates and Tax Evasion
Hospital Ownership Affects Heart Attack Care
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Health Care Report Cards May Fail Patients
Favorable Effects of Imprisoning Drug Offenders
Incomes and Mortality Patterns
No Gain from Reducing G-3 Currency Volatility
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California's Failed Electric Power Industry Reforms
Corporate Governance and Shareholder Returns
U.S. Monetary Policy During the 1990s
Lessons from the Uninsured Self-Employed
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Terrorism Reduces Basque GDP
The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform
College Drinking and Drug Use
Religion Shapes Financial Rules and Growth
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Benefits of Newer Prescription Drugs Exceed their Costs
Technology and Productivity Growth
Financial Liberalization Spurs Growth
Growth and Recovery in East Asia
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How the Fed Responds to Stock Market Moves
Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?
Lessons from the U.S./Canada Free Trade Agreement
Do Lending Booms Lead to Financial Crises?
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Favorable Long-Term Effects of Head Start
Yes Virginia, There is a New Economy
Redistribution, Inequality, and Happiness
How Corruption Causes Currency Crises
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How Technology Spreads
Effects of Welfare Time Limits
School Style Can Raise Achievement
The Geographic Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits
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Why Tropical Countries are Underdeveloped
Child Care Regulations Yield Mixed Results
Productivity Growth And The New Economy
Foreign Direct Investors in Three Financial Crises
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Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools
Stock Options For Undiversified Executives
How High are VC Returns?
Capital Mobility in Emerging Market Countries
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High Income Taxes Inhibit the Growth of Small Firms
Tax Rules Raise Firm Health Benefits
Peer Effects in the Classroom
More Working Hours Raise Future Earnings
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Estate Taxes Appear to Increase Avoidance and to
Reduce Wealth Accumulation
What Drives R and D Productivity?
The Tax Code Affects the International Location of Assets Held in U.S. Financial Services Firms
Building Schools Can Increase Wages in Emerging Market Countries
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Internet Access Increases Stock Trading
Fewer Guns Mean Fewer Gun Homicides
Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children?
How Fast Has China Grown?
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Internet Car Retailing
Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security
School Choice Raises Demand for Teachers with Select Characteristics
How Financial Crises Spread
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The New Economy in Historic Perspective
Does the Tax Code Influence CEO Compensation?
Hope Program Increases College Attendance, but also Widens Racial Gap
Explaining the Mysteries of International Trade
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Indemnity vs. HMO Plans: Why the Cost Difference?
College Financial Aid and Antitrust Action
Product Prices Link Business Cycles among Major Industrialized Countries
Foreign Direct Investment Changes Ownership, not Location
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Dramatic Rise in Teenage Smoking
Recent CPI Revisions
Federal Spending Brings No Extra Care
Open Equity Markets Raise Growth
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Mothers and Others: Who invests in Children's Health?
Tax Policy Does Not Explain Option Growth
Tunneling Directs Profits to Controlling Shareholders
Do Controls On Capital Inflows Work?
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Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement
Changing Patterns of Income and Happiness
Liability Law Changes Raise Medical Productivity
Sentencing for Homicides in the U.S.
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Marijuana Prices and Use
Taxes Discourage Mutual Fund Investors
High Income Taxpayers are More Responsive to Marginal Tax Rates
An Investment-Based Social Security System Can Benefit Low-Income Groups
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Individual Stocks Have Become More Volatile
Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants Impair Undergraduate Performance
International Differences in Investor Protection
The History of the U.S. as a Monetary Union
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Social Security Does Not Redistribute Income
Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs?
The Effects of Repealing Prevailing Wage Laws
Schooling Spending Differences are not the Source of Income Inequality
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Aid to College Students Raises Attendance and Completion
Temporary Workers Raise Manufacturing Productivity Measure
On the Spread and Impact of Antidumping
Investor Protection Raises Company Share Values
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Employee Drug Testing is Effective
Many Households Are Underinsured
Crises Increased by Excessive Short-Term Debt
Hospital Competition Improves Quality and Lowers Cost
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Incentives Increase Work by Single Mothers
Social Security Reform Can Make Things Worse
Asian Crisis Hurt Banks Less than was Thought
Medicare Spending for the Very Old Outpaces All Other
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Poverty and Mistreatment of Children go Hand in Hand
What Determines Quality Health Care, and How can we Measure It?
Taxes on Wireless Services Burden the Economy
How Government Spending Slows Growth
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On the Payoff to Attending an Elite College
The Market for Catastrophe Risk
Reducing Accidents is Key to Lower Child Mortality
Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor
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Early Withdrawal Does Not Negate 401(k) Importance
The Japanese Banking System is in Transition
Social Security Increases Wealth Inequality
Corrupt Governments Receive no less Foreign Aid
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Living Standards Rise Faster than Official Estimates
Common Elements in Financial Crises
Bribery Does Not Reduce Bureaucracy
Direct Investment is a Steady Source of Foreign Capital
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New Facts in Finance, and Portfolio Advice for a Multifactor World
Fiscal Incentives Raise Student Disability Rates
Banks are Key to Full Mexican Recovery
Higher Beer Prices Would Reduce Campus Violence
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Stock Market Movements and Investor Demand
Social Security Earnings Reduce Work by the Elderly
Higher Alcohol Prices May Lower Spousal Abuse
Inequality and Growth
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The Health Effects of Medicaid Coverage for Children are Unclear
Reforming Social Security with Personal Accounts
Stimulating Commercialization in Government Laboratories
Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers From Illegal Immigration?
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How People Choose their College Helps to Explain
Increasing Income Inequality among College-Educated Workers
Do Higher Cigarette Prices Encourage Youth To Use Marijuana?
Herd Mentality Takes over in Market Crisis
Proposed Social Security Reforms Have Little Effect on Income Distribution
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Venture Capital Spurs Innovation
Equal Prescriptions for Unequal Patients
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts
The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce
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Married Women Work Less Because of the EITC
True Price of Depression Treatment is Declining
Past International Rescues were More Successful than Recent Ones
Immigrants Tend to Live in High Welfare Benefit States
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All School Finance Equalizations Are Not Created Equal
Cleaner Air Results in Higher Home Prices
The Value of Tax Breaks for Not-for-Profit Hospitals
An Experience-Rated UI System Reduces Claims
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Institutional Investors Drive Large Cap Prices
More Efficient Tax Systems Lead to Bigger Government
Lower Medicaid Fees Lead to Fewer Cesarean Births
An Historical Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules
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Two Percent Personal Accounts Could Restore Social Security Solvency
The Portfolio Flows of International Investors
Canadian Unemployment Benefits Encourage Unemployment
Effects of Financial Market Integration
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The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options
Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of The Americans With Disabilities Act
Effects of Pensions on Savings: Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study
Minimum Wages and Training Revisited
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Quality Differences in Managed Care and Fee-for-Services
Stock Repurchases are Linked to Executive Stock Options
Bad News Travels Slowly
Higher Benefits - Public or Private - Encourage Retirement
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Did Foreign Investors Cause Asian Market Problem?
Lessons from Latin American Capital Flows
Sound Monetary Policy Supports a Healthy Economy
Sentence Enhancements Reduce Crime
Widows Choose to Live Alone
Economic Benefit of Heart Attack Treatments Outweigh the Cost
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Demographic Groups Differ in Response to Substance Abuse Policies
The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment
Shorter Hours Raise Living Standard of the Poor
Immigrants Enjoy Better Social Security Returns than U.S. Native
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Shares of Debt-Ridden Takeover Targets Perform Well
Higher Tax on Beer Can Reduce Physical Child Abuse
Price Indexes for the Treatment of Depression
Has U.S. Investment Abroad Become More Sensitive to Tax Rates?
Changing Market Explains Higher College Costs
Fewer Young People Will Not Solve Problem of Youth Employment
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A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight
Retirement Assets Will Come Largely from 401(k) Plans
Demographics Linked to Asian Miracle
Monetary Policy Rules in Practice: Some International Evidence
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FCC Taxes Create Significant Efficiency Losses to the U.S. Economy
Housing Projects not as Bad for Kids as Alternatives
Supplemental Security Income Rules Reduces Saving
Recent Changes in Wages and Profits
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Managed Care Has Slowed Growth in Medical Spending
Giving Workers a Voice Increases Productivity
Young People in U. S. and Europe are Increasingly Happy
Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What Is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?
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Social Security Induces Early Retirement Around the World
Minimum Wage Reduces Jobs for Low-Wage Workers in France and U.S.
U.S. Anti-Boycott Legislation Works
Inflation Targeting Has Been A Successful Monetary Policy Strategy
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In the Long Term, the U.S. Still Faces Deficits
Zero Inflation Would Reduce Tax Distortions
Environmental Regulation Affects Technology Choice
The Benefits of Privatization: Evidence From Mexico
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CEO Pay is Linked to Firm Performance Via Stock Options
Juvenile Crime Rates are Related to Punishment
Women's Place in Home and Labor Market Has Improved
Benefits of R and D Spill Over to Trading Partners
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Recent Immigrants Less Likely to go to Prison than Natives
Free Trade, Growth, and Convergence
Openness Spreads the Benefits of R and D
Social Security Work Incentives are Unfair for Older Retirees
Does Public Radio Compete with Commercial Radio?
Minimum Wages Redistribute Income Among Low Income Families
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Medicaid Expansion Reduced Obstetrical Care for the Newly Eligible
By How Much Do Stocks Outperform Bonds?
Monetary Policy Affects Illiquid Banks More than Others
Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth?
Financial Ed Results in Higher Savings
Medical Costs Rose Most Rapidly for the Very Old and the Very Young
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Milwaukee Voucher Program Improved Math Performance
Trade Openness Raises Economic Growth
Prefunding Social Security Would Avoid Need for Massive Tax Increases in 21st Century
Higher Youth Wages Mean Lower Crime Rates
Employee Participation Cuts Production Costs
Medicaid Health Insurance Lowers Private Saving
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How Annuities Are Changing
Tough Licensing of Dentists Does Not Improve Dental Health
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
Corruption Deters Foreign Investment
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Medicare Benefits Wealthy Most
How Has Computer Use Changed the Labor Market?
Multinationals Do Not Appear to Export U.S. Jobs
Lending Cycles Exacerbate Business Cycles
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Are Some Mutual Fund Managers Better than Others?
A 17 Percent Sales Tax Could Replace all Income and Estate Taxes
From Governments to Business, Trust is Key to Success
Capital and Institutions Stimulate Growth
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Lojack Benefits All Car Owners in its Area
Tax on Consumption Isn't Quite What You Might Think
Orchestrating Impartiality
A Century of Global Stock Markets