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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES JOB LOSS: EAT, DRINK AND TRY TO BE MERRY? Partha Deb William T. Gallo Padmaja Ayyagari Jason M. Fletcher Jody L. Sindelar Working Paper 15122 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15122 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This work was supported b...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SIN TAXES: DO HETEROGENEOUS RESPONSES UNDERCUT THEIR VALUE? Padmaja Ayyagari Partha Deb Jason Fletcher William T. Gallo Jody L. Sindelar Working Paper 15124 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15124 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This work...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CREDIT CONSTRAINTS, CYCLICAL FISCAL POLICY AND INDUSTRY GROWTH Philippe Aghion David Hemous Enisse Kharroubi Working Paper 15119 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15119 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank, Roel Beetsma, Andrea Caggese...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES COST CONTAINMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO MITIGATING PRICE VOLATILITY Gilbert E. Metcalf Working Paper 15125 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15125 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 ¸˛Joshua Lund-Wilde has provide...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GLOBALLY CORRELATED NOMINAL FLUCTUATIONS Espen Henriksen Finn E. Kydland Roman Sustek Working Paper 15123 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15123 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 An older version of this paper was circulated under the title...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CONDITIONAL CASH PENALTIES IN EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE LEARNFARE EXPERIMENT Thomas Dee Working Paper 15126 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15126 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 I would like to thank seminar participants at Brown Univ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ORGANIZATION OF FIRMS ACROSS COUNTRIES Nicholas Bloom Raffaella Sadun John Van Reenen Working Paper 15129 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15129 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 Helpful comments on earlier drafts of the paper have come...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TOBACCO USE, TAXATION AND SELF CONTROL IN ADOLESCENCE Jason M. Fletcher Partha Deb Jody L. Sindelar Working Paper 15130 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15130 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This work was supported by Grant Number RL1AA01...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE END OF GATEKEEPING: UNDERWRITERS AND THE QUALITY OF SOVEREIGN BOND MARKETS, 1815-2007 Marc Flandreau Juan H. Flores Norbert Gaillard Sebastián Nieto-Parra Working Paper 15128 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15128 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 0213...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NUDGING FARMERS TO USE FERTILIZER: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA Esther Duflo Michael Kremer Jonathan Robinson Working Paper 15131 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15131 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 The views expressed he...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A BARGAIN AT TWICE THE PRICE? CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL PRICES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Yaa Akosa Antwi Martin Gaynor William B. Vogt Working Paper 15134 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15134 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 The views expressed h...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MONETARY-FISCAL POLICY INTERACTIONS AND FISCAL STIMULUS Troy Davig Eric M. Leeper Working Paper 15133 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15133 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Ignazio Angeloni, Dale Henderson, Jim Nason, and seminar...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WORLD MARKETS FOR MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS Isil Erel Rose C. Liao Michael S. Weisbach Working Paper 15132 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15132 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We would like to thank Andrew Karolyi, Rene Stulz, and partic...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INVESTMENT TOURNAMENTS: WHEN SHOULD A RATIONAL AGENT PUT ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET? Michael Schwarz Sergei Severinov Working Paper 15136 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15136 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We are grateful to Bob Gibbons, E...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SPLENDID ASSOCIATIONS OF FAVORED INDIVIDUALS: FEDERAL AND STATE COMMERCIAL BANKING POLICY IN THE FEDERALIST ERA Howard Bodenhorn Working Paper 15135 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15135 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 ¸˛I thank Farley G...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHEN DOES LIBERTARIAN PATERNALISM WORK? Bruce Ian Carlin Simon Gervais Gustavo Manso Working Paper 15139 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15139 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do n...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MEDICAL LICENSING BOARD CHARACTERISTICS AND PHYSICIAN DISCIPLINE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS Marc T. Law Zeynep K. Hansen Working Paper 15140 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15140 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We are grateful to the Federat...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DISEASE AND DEVELOPMENT REVISITED David E. Bloom David Canning Günther Fink Working Paper 15137 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15137 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We are grateful to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson for sharing their d...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF CREDIT PROTECTION ON STOCK PRICES IN THE PRESENCE OF CREDIT CRUNCHES Galina Hale Assaf Razin Hui Tong Working Paper 15141 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15141 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 The views expressed herein are ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HE WHO COUNTS ELECTS: DETERMINANTS OF FRAUD IN THE 1922 COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Isaías N. Chaves Leopoldo Fergusson James A. Robinson Working Paper 15127 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15127 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We ar...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES COLLECTIVE MORAL HAZARD, MATURITY MISMATCH AND SYSTEMIC BAILOUTS Emmanuel Farhi Jean Tirole Working Paper 15138 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15138 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Fernando Alvarez, Bruno Biais, Markus Brunnerm...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE SLIDE TO PROTECTIONISM IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION: WHO SUCCUMBED AND WHY? Barry Eichengreen Douglas A. Irwin Working Paper 15142 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15142 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 For helpful comments we thank two ref...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES REVENUE OR RECIPROCITY? FOUNDING FEUDS OVER EARLY U.S. TRADE POLICY Douglas A. Irwin Working Paper 15144 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15144 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This paper was prepared for the NBER Conference "Founding Cho...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ROLE OF ADVISORY SERVICES IN PROXY VOTING Cindy R. Alexander Mark A. Chen Duane J. Seppi Chester S. Spatt Working Paper 15143 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15143 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 The authors thank, without implicatin...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FEDERAL LIFE SCIENCES FUNDING AND UNIVERSITY R&D Margaret E. Blume-Kohout Krishna B. Kumar Neeraj Sood Working Paper 15146 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15146 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We are very grateful to Bhaven Sampat and Pi...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MORAL AND SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS TO STRATEGIC DEFAULT ON MORTGAGES Luigi Guiso Paola Sapienza Luigi Zingales Working Paper 15145 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15145 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We would like to thank the University of C...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES USING GENETIC LOTTERIES WITHIN FAMILIES TO EXAMINE THE CAUSAL IMPACT OF POOR HEALTH ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Jason M. Fletcher Steven F. Lehrer Working Paper 15148 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15148 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We a...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SEAM BIAS, MULTIPLE-STATE, MULTIPLE-SPELL DURATION MODELS AND THE EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS OF DISADVANTAGED WOMEN John C. Ham Xianghong Li Lara Shore-Sheppard Working Paper 15151 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15151 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Jul...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY DO THE ELDERLY SAVE? THE ROLE OF MEDICAL EXPENSES Mariacristina De Nardi Eric French John Bailey Jones Working Paper 15149 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15149 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 An older and less complete version of th...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IDENTIFYING HETEROGENEITY IN ECONOMIC CHOICE MODELS Jeremy T. Fox Amit Gandhi Working Paper 15147 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15147 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 Thanks to Steven Durlauf, James Heckman, Salvador Navarro, Philip Ren...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HEDGING PRICE VOLATILITY USING FAST TRANSPORT David L. Hummels Georg Schaur Working Paper 15154 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15154 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Jason Abrevaya, Jack Barron, Donald Davis, Kanda Naknoi, Chong...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT AND FISCAL STIMULUS IN THE SHORT AND LONG RUNS Eric M. Leeper Todd B. Walker Shu-Chun Susan Yang Working Paper 15153 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15153 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Juan Contreras, Pau...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE GROWTH OF LOW SKILL SERVICE JOBS AND THE POLARIZATION OF THE U.S. LABOR MARKET David H. Autor David Dorn Working Paper 15150 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15150 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Daron Acemoglu, Joshua Angris...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES VALUING PUBLIC GOODS USING HAPPINESS DATA: THE CASE OF AIR QUALITY Arik Levinson Working Paper 15156 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15156 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This research is part of a project funded by the National Science ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY DON'T LENDERS RENEGOTIATE MORE HOME MORTGAGES? REDEFAULTS, SELF-CURES AND SECURITIZATION Manuel Adelino Kristopher Gerardi Paul S. Willen Working Paper 15159 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15159 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We t...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE 2007 SUBPRIME MARKET CRISIS THROUGH THE LENS OF EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK AUCTIONS FOR SHORT-TERM FUNDS Nuno Cassola Ali Hortacsu Jakub Kastl Working Paper 15158 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15158 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We wo...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHANGING THE PRICE OF MARRIAGE: EVIDENCE FROM BLOOD TEST REQUIREMENTS Kasey S. Buckles Melanie E. Guldi Joseph Price Working Paper 15161 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15161 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We gratefully acknowledge the ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DOES HEALTH INSURANCE MAKE YOU FAT? Jay Bhattacharya Kate Bundorf Noemi Pace Neeraj Sood Working Paper 15163 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15163 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Michael Grossman and the participants at the NBER...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE POTATO'S CONTRIBUTION TO POPULATION AND URBANIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM AN HISTORICAL EXPERIMENT Nathan Nunn Nancy Qian Working Paper 15157 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15157 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank David Canning, Gre...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DYNAMICS OF FISCAL FINANCING IN THE UNITED STATES Eric M. Leeper Michael Plante Nora Traum Working Paper 15160 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15160 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Timothy Cogley, Shu-Chun S. Yang, and participa...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SELECTION STORIES: UNDERSTANDING MOVEMENT ACROSS HEALTH PLANS David M. Cutler Bryan Lincoln Richard J. Zeckhauser Working Paper 15164 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15164 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We are grateful to the GIC for pr...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SOME UNPLEASANT GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM IMPLICATIONS OF EXECUTIVE INCENTIVE COMPENSATION CONTRACTS John B. Donaldson Natalia Gershun Marc P. Giannoni Working Paper 15165 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15165 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 T...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CREATIVE ACCOUNTING OR CREATIVE DESTRUCTION? FIRM-LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN CHINESE MANUFACTURING Loren Brandt Johannes Van Biesebroeck Yifan Zhang Working Paper 15152 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15152 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AND WITHIN COUNTRIES Daron Acemoglu Melissa Dell Working Paper 15155 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15155 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank conference participants at the 2009 American Economic As...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHANGING RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL HEALTH WORKFORCE Till Bärnighausen David E. Bloom Working Paper 15168 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15168 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Larry Rosenberg, Sherry A. Glied, and Peter...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES REBALANCING GROWTH IN ASIA Eswar S. Prasad Working Paper 15169 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15169 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This research was supported by the Asian Development Bank. An earlier version of this paper was presente...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MARKET VALUATION OF ACCRUED SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS John Geanakoplos Stephen P. Zeldes Working Paper 15170 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15170 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Ryan Chahrour, Ben Marx, Theodore Papageorgiou, an...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHEN CONSENSUS CHOICE DOMINATES INDIVIDUALISM: JENSEN'S INEQUALITY AND COLLECTIVE DECISIONS UNDER UNCERTAINTY Charles F. Manski Working Paper 15172 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15172 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This research was s...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SUBGAME PERFECT IMPLEMENTATION WITH ALMOST PERFECT INFORMATION AND THE HOLD-UP PROBLEM Philippe Aghion Drew Fudenberg Richard T. Holden Working Paper 15167 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15167 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We owe spec...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AUTOMOBILES ON STEROIDS: PRODUCT ATTRIBUTE TRADE-OFFS AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS IN THE AUTOMOBILE SECTOR Christopher R. Knittel Working Paper 15162 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15162 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This paper has ben...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POLICY RESPONSES TO EXCHANGE-RATE MOVEMENTS Laurence M. Ball Working Paper 15173 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15173 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 I am grateful for research assistance from Connor Larr and for suggestions from econom...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LATIN AMERICA'S DECLINE: A LONG HISTORICAL VIEW Sebastian Edwards Working Paper 15171 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15171 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 ¸˛I thank Alberto Naudon and Jéssica Roldán for their excellent assistance and co...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LOCAL DIVIDEND CLIENTELES Bo Becker Zoran IvkoviScott Weisbenner Working Paper 15175 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15175 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Heitor Almeida, Vidhan Goyal, Denis Gromb, Christian Leuz, Andrew Metric...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A QUALITY-ADJUSTED PRICE INDEX FOR COLORECTAL CANCER DRUGS Claudio Lucarelli Sean Nicholson Working Paper 15174 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15174 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 Excellent research assistance was provided by Brigid Fa...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECTS OF THE LENGTH OF THE TAX-LOSS CARRYBACK PERIOD ON TAX RECEIPTS AND CORPORATE MARGINAL TAX RATES John R. Graham Hyunseob Kim Working Paper 15177 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15177 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank Pe...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INSULATION IMPOSSIBLE: FISCAL SPILLOVERS IN A MONETARY UNION Russell Cooper Hubert Kempf Dan Peled Working Paper 15176 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15176 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 Russell Cooper is grateful to the NSF for financ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A NOTE ON ADAPTING PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING AND SELECTION MODELS TO CHOICE BASED SAMPLES James J. Heckman Petra E. Todd Working Paper 15179 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15179 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This research was supporte...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE UNDER-REPORTING OF TRANSFERS IN HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS: ITS NATURE AND CONSEQUENCES Bruce D. Meyer Wallace K. C. Mok James X. Sullivan Working Paper 15181 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15181 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This research...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY DID SOME BANKS PERFORM BETTER DURING THE CREDIT CRISIS? A CROSS-COUNTRY STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION Andrea Beltratti René M. Stulz Working Paper 15180 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15180 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 J...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EMPIRICS ON THE ORIGINS OF PREFERENCES: THE CASE OF COLLEGE MAJOR AND RELIGIOSITY Miles S. Kimball Colter M. Mitchell Arland D. Thornton Linda C. Young-Demarco Working Paper 15182 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15182 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 021...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE LONG AND SHORT (OF) QUALITY LADDERS Amit Khandelwal Working Paper 15178 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15178 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 I am especially grateful to my dissertation committee, Irene Brambilla, Penny Goldberg and ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRODUCT RECALLS, IMPERFECT INFORMATION, AND SPILLOVER EFFECTS: LESSONS FROM THE CONSUMER RESPONSE TO THE 2007 TOY RECALLS Seth M. Freedman Melissa Schettini Kearney Mara Lederman Working Paper 15183 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15183 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenu...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INCOME MISATTRIBUTION UNDER FORMULA APPORTIONMENT James R. Hines, Jr. Working Paper 15185 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15185 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 I thank Fan Fei and Owen Kearney for outstanding research assistance, various...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SOCIAL TIES AND THE JOB SEARCH OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS Deepti Goel Kevin Lang Working Paper 15186 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15186 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We thank the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network for fu...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ESTIMATION OF DSGE MODELS WHEN THE DATA ARE PERSISTENT Yuriy Gorodnichenko Serena Ng Working Paper 15187 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15187 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 This paper was presented at Brown University, the University o...
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