Articles from NBER Reporter (June 22, 2005)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A key issue in slum upgrading is whether residents are made better off by improving housing in situ, or by being relocated.			141
A large fraction of business groups around the world are run by families. Bertrand, Johnson, Samphantharak, and Schoar analyze how the structure of the families behind these business groups affects the groups' organization, governance, and performance.			234
Acemoglu receives John Bates Clark Medal.		Brief Article	159
Adalet and Eichengreen analyze the pre-1970 history of international capital flows and current account reversals, contrasting it with recent experience.		Brief Article	137
Aitken, Almeida, Harris, and McInish examine the orders of active and passive institutional investors across five (bid) steps of the limit order book; they also test recent theories of order aggressiveness in limit order placement decisions.			99
All data sources indicate that black-white skill gaps diminished over most of the twentieth century.		Brief Article	132
Although evidence suggests that institutional investors play a role in monitoring management, not all institutions are equally willing or able to serve this function.			102
Analyses in the economics of aging.			206
Andrade, Chang, and Seasholes examine the relationship between trading shocks and asset prices.		Brief Article	146
Asset pricing with imperfect trading.			247
Bebchuk and Grinstein study the extent to which decisions to expand the size of public companies--by issuing new equity to finance acquisitions or investments, or by avoiding dividends or repurchases--are followed by increases in executive pay.			194
Behavioral finance.	Stein, Jeremy C.		2504
Behavioral responses to taxation.			165
Bernanke to chair CEA.			166
Berndt, Gottschalk, and Strobeck focus on the interactions between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the biopharmaceutical companies that perform drug R and D.			143
Bessembinder, Maxwell, and Venkataraman estimate trade execution costs for a sample of institutional (insurance company) trades in corporate bonds before and after the initiation of public transaction reporting for some bonds through the TRACE system in July 2002.			193
Bettinger and Long attempt to measure the effects of collegiate class size on student outcomes such as persistence, subsequent course selection, and major choice.		Brief Article	227
Blanchflower and Oswald provide evidence for the existence of a wage curve--a microeconometric association between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate--in modern U.S. data.			110
Boeri and Garibaldi.			218
Brock and Taylor demonstrate that a key empirical finding in environmental economics, The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), and the core model of modern macroeconomics, the Solow Model, are intimately related.			159
Brunnermeier and Pedersen's model links a security's market liquidity--that is, the ease of trading it--to traders' funding liquidity--that is, their availability of funds.		Brief Article	134
Card and Rothstein study the effects of school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using large microdata samples for the 1998-2001 test cohorts.		Brief Article	173
Chaudhury, Hammer, Kremer, Muralidharan, and Rogers report results from surveys in which enumerators made surprise visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru, and Uganda and recorded whether teachers and health workers were present.		Brief Article	180
Chetty and Looney assess the potential welfare gain from introducing social safety nets in developing economies.			132
Chun.		Brief Article	113
Clarida, Goretti, and Taylor find evidence of threshold behavior in current account adjustment for the G7 countries, such that the dynamics of adjustment towards equilibrium depend upon whether the current-account/ net output ratio breaches estimated, country-specific current account surplus or deficit thresholds.		Brief Article	89
Competitive high-ranking positions still are occupied largely by men, and women in academia remain scarce in engineering and sciences.			224
Conyon, Core, and Guay examine U.S. and U.K. CEO pay and incentives from 1997 to 2003.			222
Corporate finance.			206
Corporate governance.			230
Corruption by the politically connected often is blamed for economic ills, particularly in less developed economies.			210
Current account imbalances.			404
Currie and Stabile examine U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most common child mental health problem.			178
Davig and Leeper estimate regime-switching rules for monetary and tax policy over the post-war period in the United States and impose that estimated policy process on a model with nominal rigidities.			136
Davydenko and Franks study how bankruptcy codes and creditors' rights affect distressed reorganizations in different countries.			183
Decker, Dushi, and Deb estimate the effect of gaining Medicare coverage at age 65 on the use of health services and on health outcomes.			103
Desai, Dyck, and Zingales analyze the interaction between corporate taxes and corporate governance.			179
DeSimone and Schumacher examine the effect of HIV/AIDS infection risks on the earnings of registered nurses (RNs) and other health care workers.			142
DeSimone and Schumacher examine the effect of HIV/AIDS infection risks on the earnings of registered nurses (RNs) and other health care workers.			145
Djankov, McLiesh, and Shleifer investigate cross-country determinants of private credit, using new data on legal creditor rights and private and public credit registries in 129 countries.		Brief Article	114
Does the center country of the International Monetary System enjoy an "exorbitant privilege" that significantly weakens its external constraint, as has been asserted in some European quarters?		Brief Article	197
Does the media affect voting? DellaVigna and Kaplan address this question by looking at the entry of Fox News into cable markets.			187
Doi, Ihori, and Mitsui analyze sustainability issues with Japan's fiscal policy and then discuss the debt management policy based on the maturity structure of government bonds.			212
Dooley, Folkerts-Landau, and Garber set out the political economy behind Asian governments' participation in a revived Bretton Woods System.			100
Dyck, Moss, and Zingales argue that profit-seeking media firms can play an important role in reducing the influence of powerful economic interests on policymaking.		Brief Article	201
Dynarski.		Brief Article	171
East Asian seminar on economics focuses on fiscal policy and management.			433
Economic fluctuations and growth research meeting.			172
Education program.			175
Environmental economics.			183
Existing studies of the effects of college quality on earnings typically rely on a single proxy variable for college quality.		Brief Article	131
Experiments provide a controlled environment in which factors can be isolated and studied more easily than in the real world, but often they are challenged on their applicability to the real world.		Brief Article	210
Faruqee, Laxton, Muir, and Pesenti re-examine the issues surrounding global rebalancing through the lens of a dynamic, multi-region model of the world economy.			256
Fiscal incentives are closely related to extra-budgetary revenues.		Brief Article	114
Frazzini and Lamont use mutual fund flows as a measure of individual investor sentiment for different stocks.			83
Freeman.		Brief Article	220
Gabaix.		Brief Article	112
Gale and Orszag provide new estimates of the effects of fiscal policy on national saving and interest rates.			155
Garleanu, Pedersen, and Poteshman model the demand-pressure effect on prices when options cannot be hedged perfectly.			129
Giertz.		Brief Article	137
Gilbert.		Brief Article	173
Goldberg.			151
Grossman and Helpman develop a novel model of campaigns, elections, and policymaking in which the ex ante objectives of national party leaders differ from the ex post objectives of elected legislators.			112
Guvenen.		Brief Article	153
Health care.			187
Health economics.			154
High ratios of external debt to GDP in selected Asian countries have contributed to the initiation, propagation, and severity of the financial and economic crises in recent years, reflecting runaway fiscal deficits and excessive foreign borrowing by the private sector.			196
Higher education.			191
Hong and Yu develop and test a theory of seasonality in asset prices based on the idea that speculative trading generates a price premium.		Brief Article	164
House and Shapiro consider the economy's reaction to a temporary tax subsidy for investment.			237
How private health insurance pools risk.	Pauly, Mark		2481
Hur.		Brief Article	84
In addition to spending a vast amount of resources on Research and Development (R and D), the pharmaceutical industry is engaged in a substantial amount of marketing of their products, through both detailing to doctors and direct-to-consumer advertising to patients.			246
In September 2002, a new market in "Economic Derivatives" was launched Mowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases.		Brief Article	167
In the last two decades, the role of patents in the U.S. innovation system has changed profoundly.			100
In two recent studies, Bradley et al. (2002, 2005) examined the consequences of breast cancer for women's labor market attachment.			226
Innovation policy and the economy.			156
International seminar on macroeconomics.			310
International Trade in East Asia.			231
Is the U.S. capital market integrated geographically?			213
John, Litov, and Yeung study how the investor protection environment affects corporate managers' incentives to take value-enhancing risks.			115
Johnson.		Brief Article	224
Joyce.		Brief Article	185
Kaestner and Guardado study the effect of plausibly exogenous changes in Medicare reimbursement--caused by geographical reclassification--on hospital staffing (nurses) and patient outcomes.			196
Kedia and Philippon study the consequences of earnings management for the allocation of resources among farms.		Brief Article	142
Kedia and Philippon study the consequences of earnings management for the allocation of resources among firms, and argue that fraudulent accounting has important economic consequences.		Brief Article	152
Koh.			276
Kopczuk.			188
Kotlikoff, Fehr, and Jokisch develop a dynamic, life-cycle, general equilibrium model to study the interdependent demographic, fiscal, and economic transition path of China, Japan, the United States, and the EU.			336
Kwan.		Brief Article	132
Labor studies.			147
Lane and Milesi-Ferretti highlight the increased dispersion in net external positions in recent years, particularly among industrial countries.			113
Larcker, Richardson, Seary, and Tuna ask whether links between inside and outside directors have an impact on CEO compensation.			207
Llanto.		Brief Article	127
Long.		Brief Article	125
Lorenzoni.		Brief Article	156
Mann and Pluck prepare new estimates of the elasticity of U.S. trade flows using bilateral trade data for 31 countries, different measures of expenditure, and including alternative proxies for global supply-cum-variety.			175
Market microstructure.			209
Matsudaira.		Brief Article	301
Mauzerall, Sultan, Kim, and Bradford present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States.			240