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• Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS
  Margaret Kyle and Anita McGahan #15468 (HE, ITI, PR)
  
• 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 #15467 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences
  Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Gustavo Manso #15466 (PR)
  
• The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism
  Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi, and Esteban F. Klor #15465 (LS, PE, POL)
  
• Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing
  Valerie A. Ramey #15464 (EFG, ME)
  
• Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
  James J. Heckman, Daniel A. Schmierer, and Sergio S. Urzua #15463 (TWP)
  
• Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?
  Todd M. Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles #15462 (AP, EFG, ME, PE)
  
• 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 #15461 (CH, ED, PE)
  
• Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements
  Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger #15460 (ITI)
  
• Can Learnability Save New-Keynesian Models?
  John H. Cochrane #15459 (EFG)
  
• Paulson's Gift
  Pietro Veronesi and Luigi Zingales #15458 (AP, CF)
  
• The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns
  Nicolae Gârleanu, Leonid Kogan, and Stavros Panageas #15457 (AP, EFG)
  
• High-Powered Incentives in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia’s Régimen Subsidiado
  Grant Miller, Diana M. Pinto, and Marcos Vera-Hernández #15456 (CH, HC, HE)
  

• Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates
  Simon Johnson, William Larson, Chris Papageorgiou, and Arvind Subramanian #15455 (EFG, IFM)
  
• A Theory of Banks, Bonds, and the Distribution of Firm Size
  Katheryn N. Russ and Diego Valderrama #15454 (ITI)
  
• Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?
  John List and Charles Mason #15453 (EEE, PE)
  
• Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters
  Eduardo Borensztein, Olivier Jeanne, and Damiano Sandri #15452 (IFM)
  
• The Environment and Directed Technical Change
  Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hemous #15451 (EEE, EFG, PE)
  
• Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle
  Marcin Kacperczyk, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Laura Veldkamp #15450 (AP, EFG)
  
• Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting on Compensation Plans: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation
  Martijn Cremers and Roberta Romano #15449 (CF)
  
• India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005
  Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari #15448 (CF, IFM, ITI, POL, EFG)
  
• Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU
  Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Edward J. Kane, and Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez #15447 (CF)
  
• The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges
  Caroline M. Hoxby #15446 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• The WTO: Theory and Practice
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #15445 (ITI)
  
• Delocation and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #15444 (ITI)
  
• Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
  William R. Kerr #15443 (PR)
  
• International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
  Wolfgang Keller #15442 (EFG, IO, ITI, PR)
  
• Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
  Shurojit Chatterji, Sayantan Ghosal, Sean Walsh, and John Whalley #15441 (EEE)
  
• The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century
  Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal #15440 (DAE)
  
• Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities
  Robert Kaestner and Benjamin Yarnoff #15439 (HE)
  
• Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending
  Alberto F. Alesina and Silvia Ardagna #15438 (POL)
  
• Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns
  Ajay K. Agrawal, Iain M. Cockburn, and Carlos Rosell #15437 (PR)
  
• Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity
  Zhenxiang Zhao and Robert Kaestner #15436 (HE)
  
• 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 #15435 (AG, LS)
  
• Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry
  Leemore Dafny, Mark Duggan, and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan #15434 (HC, IO, PE)
  

• Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income
  Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin #15433 (EFG, PR)
  
• Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Vincenzo Quadrini #15432 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation
  Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Adam Samaha #15431 (LE)
  
• An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr and Steven D. Levitt #15430 (ED, LS)
  
• Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #15429 (EEE, PE)
  
• Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
  Diego A. Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven #15428 (EFG, IFM, ITI, PR)
  
• Adaptive Consumption Behavior
  Peter Howitt and Ömer Özak #15427 (EFG)
  
• Executive Compensation: Facts
  Gian Luca Clementi and Thomas F. Cooley #15426 (CF)
  
• FINANCIAL CRISES AND LIQUIDITY SHOCKS: A Bank-Run Perspective
  Guillermo A. Calvo #15425 (IFM)
  
• Inflation targeting and private sector forecasts
  Stephen G. Cecchetti and Craig Hakkio #15424 (ME)
  
• Where Does Energy R&D Come From? Examining Crowding Out from Environmentally-Friendly R&D
  David Popp and Richard G. Newell #15423 (EEE, PR)
  
• Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement
  W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch #15422 (LE)
  
• Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
  Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel B. Slemrod #15421 (EFG, ME, PE)
  
• The Economics of Open Air Markets
  John A. List #15420 (IO, PE)
  
• Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #15419 (IFM)
  
• One TV, One Price?
  Jean Imbs, Haroon Mumtaz, Morten O. Ravn, and Hélène Rey #15418 (IFM, IO, ITI)
  
• Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
  Francesco Giavazzi, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Michel Serafinelli #15417 (IFM, POL)
  
• Two Perspectives on Preferences and Structural Transformation
  Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson, and Ákos Valentinyi #15416 (EFG)
  

• Family Ties and Political Participation
  Alberto F. Alesina and Paola Giuliano #15415 (POL)
  
• Crises and Liquidity in Over-the-Counter Markets
  Ricardo Lagos, Guillaume Rocheteau, and Pierre-Olivier Weill #15414 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
  Janet Currie and Reed Walker #15413 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
  
• Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability
  Daniel Carvell, Janet Currie, and W. Bentley MacLeod #15412 (HE, LE)
  
• Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
  André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio #15411 (DAE)
  
• Moral Hazard Matters: Measuring Relative Rates of Underinsurance Using Threshold Measures
  Jean Marie Abraham, Thomas DeLeire, and Anne Beeson Royalty #15410 (HE)
  
• The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities
  Hernán D. Rozenfeld, Diego Rybski, Xavier Gabaix, and Hernán A. Makse #15409 (EFG)
  
• Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
  Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez #15408 (DAE, LS, PE)
  
• Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity
  Alan J. Auerbach and William G. Gale #15407 (EFG, PE)
  
• Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States
  George J. Borjas and Rachel M. Friedberg #15406 (LS)
  
• Optimal taxation in the presence of bailouts
  Stavros Panageas #15405 (AP, EFG, PE)
  
• Why are we in a recession? The Financial Crisis is the Symptom not the Disease!
  Ravi Jagannathan, Mudit Kapoor, and Ernst Schaumburg #15404 (EFG)
  

• Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game
  Charles Calomiris #15403 (CF, DAE, POL)
  
• Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals
  Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli #15402 (POL)
  
• Are Hard Pegs Ever Credible in Emerging Markets? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
  Kris James Mitchener and Marc D. Weidenmier #15401 (DAE, IFM)
  
• Power Fluctuations and Political Economy
  Daron Acemoglu, Mikhail Golosov, and Aleh Tsyvinski #15400 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• Disasters Risk and Business Cycles
  François Gourio #15399 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
  Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney, and David Neumark #15398 (LS)
  
• U.S. Trade Policy Since 1934: An Uneven Path Toward Greater Trade Liberalization
  Robert E. Baldwin #15397 (ITI, POL)
  
• Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment
  Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang, and Li-An Zhou #15396 (PE)
  
• The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs: How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement
  Courtney Coile and Phillip B. Levine #15395 (AG, LS)
  
• When is the government spending multiplier large?
  Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo #15394 (EFG)
  
• Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
  Lee Branstetter and Kamal Saggi #15393 (ITI, PR)
  
• Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D
  Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter #15392 (AG, HE)
  
• Son Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada
  Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, and Kevin Milligan #15391 (CH)
  
• Music for a Song: An Empirical Look at Uniform Song Pricing and its Alternatives
  Ben Shiller and Joel Waldfogel #15390 (IO)
  

• Credit Crises, Money and Contractions: an historical view
  Michael D. Bordo and Joseph G. Haubrich #15389 (DAE, IFM)
  
• The formation of inflation expectations: an empirical analysis for the UK
  David G. Blanchflower and Conall MacCoille #15388 (ME)
  
• Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor
  David Deming and Susan Dynarski #15387 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage
  Ian Ayres, Sophie Raseman, and Alice Shih #15386 (EEE)
  
• Evaluating Monetary Policy
  Lars E.O. Svensson #15385 (EFG, ME)
  
• Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis
  René M. Stulz #15384 (CF)
  
• The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability
  Darius N. Lakdawalla and Seth A. Seabury #15383 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk due to Intermittent Portfolio Re-balancing?
  Yi-Li Chien, Harold L. Cole, and Hanno Lustig #15382 (AP, EFG)
  
• On the Scholes Liquidation Problem
  David B. Brown, Bruce Ian Carlin, and Miguel Sousa Lobo #15381 (AP)
  
• The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
  David A. Weiner, Byron F. Lutz, and Jens Ludwig #15380 (CH, HE)
  
• Financial Crises and Economic Activity
  Stephen G. Cecchetti, Marion Kohler, and Christian Upper #15379 (ME)
  
• Persistence of Civil Wars
  Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea Vindigni #15378 (POL)
  
• Clusters of Entrepreneurship
  Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto #15377 (EFG)
  
• The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US cities
  Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner #15376 (EEE)
  
• Methods versus Substance: Measuring the Effects of Technology Shocks on Hours
  José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Frank Schorfheide, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Maxym Kryshko, and Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis #15375 (EFG, ME)
  
• Riding the Wave of Trade: Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
  Michael Huberman and Christopher M. Meissner #15374 (DAE)
  
• The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes
  Robert S. Pindyck and Neng Wang #15373 (EEE, EFG, PE)
  
• Measuring How Risk Tradeoffs Adjust With Income
  Mary F. Evans and V. Kerry Smith #15372 (EEE)
  
• The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
  Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny, and Max M. Schanzenbach #15371 (HC, LE)
  
• Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
  Huifang Tian and John Whalley #15370 (EEE)
  

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