THE LATEST WORKING PAPERS (NBER)
THE LATEST WORKING PAPERS
National Bureau of Economic Research
Week of February 18, 2008
The following NBER Working Papers that match your selections
were released in electronic format this week. Abbreviations
in parentheses refer to NBER Research Programs. (visit
http://www.nber.org/programs.html for Program information.)
1. On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions
by Matthew Cary , Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman , Ioannis Giotis , Kurtis Heimerl , Anna R. Karlin , Claire Mathieu , Michael Schwarz #13788 (IO)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13788
2. The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle
by Erik Hurst #13789 (AG EFG LS PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13789
3. Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations
by George Alessandria, Joseph Kaboski, Virgiliu Midrigan #13790 (IFM ITI)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13790
4. Educating Urban Children
by Richard J. Murnane #13791 (ED)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13791
5. Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment
by Selim Elekdag, Rene Lalonde, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir, Paolo Pesenti #13792 (IFM ITI)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13792
6. Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents’ Identity and Behavior
by Christopher Ruebeck, Susan Averett, Howard Bodenhorn #13793 (CH LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13793
7. Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults
by Cristina Arellano, Narayana R. Kocherlakota #13794 (EFG IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13794
8. Varieties and the Transfer Problem: The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment
by Giancarlo Corsetti, Philippe Martin, Paolo Pesenti #13795 (IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13795
9. How Much Value Do Real Estate Brokers Add? A Case Study
by B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Meer #13796 (PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13796
10. Optimal Provision of Multiple Excludable Public Goods
by Hanming Fang, Peter Norman #13797 (PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13797
11. Liquidity Production in 21st Century Banking
by Philip Strahan #13798 (CF)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13798
12. Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
by Wolfram Schlenker, Michael Roberts #13799 (EEE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13799
13. Who Values the Social Security Annuity? New Evidence on the Annuity Puzzle
by Jeffrey R. Brown, Marcus D. Casey, Olivia S. Mitchell #13800 (AG PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13800
14. Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis
by Susan Dynarski, Judith E. Scott-Clayton #13801 (ED PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13801
15. Liquidity Risk and Syndicate Structure
by Evan Gatev, Philip Strahan #13802 (CF)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13802
16. Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors
by Lubos Pastor, Robert F. Stambaugh #13804 (AP)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13804
17. Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates
by Emmanuel Farhi, Xavier Gabaix #13805 (AP EFG IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13805
18. Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns
by Robin Greenwood, Dimitri Vayanos #13806 (AP)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13806
19. Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality
by Juan Carlos Hallak, Peter K. Schott #13807 (ITI)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13807
20. Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables
by Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Richard J. Zeckhauser #13808 (PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13808
21. The Divergence of Legal Procedures
by Aron Balas, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer #13809 (LE POL)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13809
22. The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
by Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, Bas ter Weel #13810 (CH ED LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13810
23. Measuring Financial Asset Return and Volatility Spillovers, With Application to Global Equity Markets
by Francis X. Diebold, Kamil Yilmaz #13811 (AP IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13811
24. Note on The Cross-Section of Foreign Currency Risk Premia and Consumption Growth Risk
by Hanno Lustig, Adrien Verdelhan #13812 (AP IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13812
25. Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
by Leah Platt Boustan #13813 (DAE LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13813
26. International Trade in Durable Goods: Understanding Volatility, Cyclicality, and Elasticities
by Charles Engel, Jian Wang #13814 (EFG IFM ITI)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13814
27. A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
by Michael D. Bordo, Harold James #13815 (ME IFM POL)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13815
28. Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?
by John H. Tyler, Magnus Lofstrom #13816 (ED)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13816
29. Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance
by Richard Frank, Karine Lamiraud #13817 (HC)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13817
30. Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
by David Neumark, Brandon Wall, Junfu Zhang #13818 (IO LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13818
31. Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle
by Giuseppe Moscarini, Francis G. Vella #13819 (EFG)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13819
32. Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar
by Linda S. Goldberg, Cédric Tille #13820 (IFM ITI ME)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13820
33. Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants
by Jeffrey Grogger, Gordon H. Hanson #13821 (ITI LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13821
34. Learning in the Credit Card Market
by Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, David Laibson #13822 (AG AP LE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13822
35. The Origins of Industrial Scientific Discoveries
by James D. Adams, J. Roger Clemmons #13823 (PR)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13823
36. Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs
by Annamaria Lusardi #13824 (AG)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13824
37. High Frequency Market Microstructure Noise Estimates and Liquidity Measures
by Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Jialin Yu #13825 (AP)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13825
38. Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development
by Michael Baker, Kevin Milligan #13826 (CH LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13826
39. Toward an Efficiency Rationale for the Public Provision of Private Goods
by Hanming Fang, Peter Norman #13827 (PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13827