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CEPR Discussion Papers

Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?	Fabrizio Coricelli Nigel Driffield Sarmistha Pal Isabelle Roland	IM	DP7617	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7617
Services Trade and Policy	Joseph Francois Bernard Hoekman	IT	DP7616	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7616
Fiscal stimulus and the promise of future spending cuts	Volker Wieland	IM	DP7615	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7615
Asset Prices, Exchange Rates and the Current Account	Marcel Fratzscher Luciana Juvenal Lucio Sarno	IM	DP7614	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7614
Competition with exclusive contracts and market-share discounts	Giacomo Calzolari Vincenzo Denicolo	IO	DP7613	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7613
The Macroeconomics of Model T	Reto Foellmi Tobias Wuergler Josef Zweimüller	IO LE PP	DP7612	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7612
Testing the "Waterbed" Effect in Mobile Telephony	Christos D. Genakos Tommaso Valletti	IO	DP7611	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7611
Do trade missions increase trade?	Keith Head John Ries	IT	DP7609	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7609
Exports and Financial Shocks Mary Amiti David E. Weinstein IT DP7590 PDF www.cepr.org/DP7590

CEPR Discussion Papers

Japan's Lost Decade: Does Money have a Role?	Fabio Canova Tobias Menz	IM	DP7608	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7608
The Limits to Fiscal Stimulus	Willem H. Buiter	IM	DP7607	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7607
Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis: Products of Common Causes	Maurice Obstfeld Kenneth Rogoff	IM	DP7606	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7606
Reversing unconventional monetary policy: technical and political considerations	Willem H. Buiter	IM	DP7605	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7605
On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas	Christian A. L. Hilber Frédéric Robert-Nicoud	IT PP	DP7604	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7604
Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe	Daniel S. Hamermesh Gerard Antonie Pfann	LE	DP7603	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7603
Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency	Pierre Cahuc Edouard Challe	LE	DP7602	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7602
Krueger/Schiff/Valdés Revisited: Agricultural Price and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries since 1960	Kym Anderson	IT	DP7601	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7601
Two and a Half Theories of Trade	J. Peter Neary	IT	DP7600	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7600
Social Networks	Joan De Martí Yves Zenou	LE PP	DP7599	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7599
Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment	Alejandro Justiniano Giorgio E. Primiceri Andrea Tambalotti	IM	DP7598	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7598
Do expectations matter? The Great Moderation revisited	Fabio Canova Luca Gambetti	IM	DP7597	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7597
A Touch of Sophistication: FDI and Unit Values of Exports	Torfinn Harding Beata Smarzynska-Javorcik	IT	DP7596	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7596
Illegal immigration and media exposure: Evidence on individual attitudes	Giovanni Facchini Anna Maria Mayda Riccardo Puglisi	LE	DP7593	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7593
Individual attitudes towards skilled migration: an empirical analysis across countries	Giovanni Facchini Anna Maria Mayda	LE	DP7592	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7592

New Resources from the Library

·         National Climatic Data Center Online Document Library contains a plethora of climate data – local, national, and world.   Free

access due to US Federal Depository Library status; not available from off-campus.

·         RAND Reports covering social and economic policy issues in the U.S. and overseas, international policy, and national security. Many are available full-text in PDF format for free.

·         Tax Analysts includes Tax Notes Today, Tax Notes, State Tax Today, Worldwide Tax Daily, and Worldwide Tax Treaties. Subscribed by WU Law Library; available campus-wide.

·         Morningstar Investment Research Center provides research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and exchange-traded funds.

·         Morningstar Document Research  (formerly known as 10K Wizard) streamlines financial and legal research with pinpoint accuracy targeting the exact information needed from SEC EDGAR filings, stock data, and international reports.  Note: on-campus access only; not available via proxy server.

CEPR Discussion Papers

Asset fire sales and purchases and the international transmission of financial shocks	Chotibhak Jotikasthira Christian T. Lundblad Tarun Ramadorai	FE IM	DP7595	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7595
Does the Fed Respond to Oil Price Shocks?	Lutz Kilian Logan Lewis	IM	DP7594	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7594
Spain's International Position, 1850-1913	Leandro Prados de la Escosura	IM	DP7591	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7591
Does Terrorism Work?	Eric D. Gould Esteban F. Klor	PP	DP7589	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7589
The design and efficiency of loyalty rewards	Ramon Caminal	IO	DP7588	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7588
Markets and linguistic diversity	Ramon Caminal	IO	DP7587	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7587
Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007	Nauro F. Campos Vitaliy Kuzeyev Ahmad Saleh	PP	DP7586	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7586
The role of central bank transparency for guiding private sector forecasts	Michael Ehrmann Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger Marcel Fratzscher	IM	DP7585	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7585
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments	Patrick W. Schmitz	IO	DP7584	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7584

CEPR Discussion Papers

Immigration and Swiss House Prices	Kathrin Degen Andreas M Fischer	IM	DP7583	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7583
Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists	Dirk Krueger Fabrizio Perri Luigi Pistaferri Giovanni L Violante	IM PP	DP7582	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7582
Limitations on the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance at the Zero Lower Bound	Andrew Levin J David López-Salido Edward Nelson Tack Yun	IM	DP7581	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7581
Allocation of Prizes in Contests with Participation Constraints	Reut Megidish Aner Sela	IO	DP7580	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7580
Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil	Francesco Caselli Guy Michaels	DE IM PP	DP7579	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7579
Tractability in Incentive Contracting	Alex Edmans Xavier Gabaix	FE	DP7578	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7578
Heterogeneous firms or heterogeneous workers? Implications for the exporter premium and the impact of labor reallocation on productivity	Alfonso Irarrazabal Andreas Moxnes Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe	IT	DP7577	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7577

New Resources from the Library

·         PressDisplay:  Full-color, full-page collection of today's newspapers from around the world; a rolling file of the most current 60 days for most papers. 3 concurrent users; please sign out when finished.

·         Roper Center: public opinion polling data 1935 – present; the Weidenbaum Center has subscribed to a one-year membership (through November 14, 2010) for all of Washington University.

·         Bibliography of British and Irish History:  an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day.

 

 

New ebooks, added to the catalog, but not to the Databases pages in the website, to Find it!, or announced on What’s New (usually!); subject librarians will or have added them to their Research Guides, as appropriate:

 

·         The group effect : social cohesion and health outcomes

·         Why cooperate?: the incentive to supply global public goods

·         Citizenship : a very short introduction

·         Behind the development banks : Washington politics, world poverty, and the wealth of nations

CEPR Discussion Papers, 11/23/09

Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets	Michiel Bijlsma Jan Boone Gijsbert Zwart
Testing the Monetary Policy Rule in the US: a Reconsideration of the Fed's Behaviour	Patrick Minford Zhirong Ou
Nutrition and Risk Sharing Within the Household	Pierre Dubois Ethan Ligon
Skewness in Stock Returns, Periodic Cash Payouts, and Investor Heterogeneity	Rui Albuquerque
The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations	John Bluedorn Akos Valentinyi Michael Vlassopoulos
Monitoring Managers: Does it Matter?	Francesca Cornelli Zbigniew Kominek Alexander P. Ljungqvist
Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870-2008	Moritz Schularick Alan M. Taylor
Inequality and Aggregate Savings in the Neoclassical Growth Model	Reto Foellmi
The Carry Trade and Fundamentals: Nothing to Fear But FEER Itself	Òscar Jordà Alan M. Taylor
Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry	James R. Markusen Frank Stähler
Ethnic Identity and Social Distance in Friendship Formation	Joan De Martí Yves Zenou
Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism	Eleonora Patacchini Yves Zenou
From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons	Miguel Almunia Agustín Bénétrix Barry Eichengreen Kevin H. O Rourke Gisela Rua

CEPR Discussion Papers

Communication, Renegotiation, and the Scope for Collusion	David J. Cooper Kai-Uwe Kühn
Competition and Quality Upgrading	Mary Amiti Amit Khandelwal
International Competition and Inflation: A New Keynesian Perspective	Luca Guerrieri Christopher Gust J David López-Salido
A Dynamic Quality Ladder Model with Entry and Exit: Exploring the Equilibrium Correspondence Using the Homotopy Method	Ron N. Borkovsky Ulrich Doraszelski Yaroslav Kryukov
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility	Roland Bénabou Jean Tirole
Technological adoption in health care	Pedro Luis Pita Barros Xavier Martinez-Giralt
Short-Selling Bans around the World: Evidence from the 2007-09 Crisis	Alessandro Beber Marco Pagano
Credit Ratings Failures and Policy Options	Marco Pagano Paolo Volpin
Estimated Interest Rate Rules: Do they Determine Determinacy Properties?	Henrik Jensen
Political Support and Tax Compliance: A Social Interaction Approach	Chaim Fershtman Vilen Lipatov
Gravity in the Weightless Economy	Wolfgang Keller Stephen R Yeaple
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital	Jackline Wahba Yves Zenou
Liquidity cycles and make/take fees in electronic markets	Thierry Foucault Ohad Kadan Eugene Kandel
On Quality Bias and Inflation Targets	Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé Martín Uribe
Foreign Demand for Domestic Currency and the Optimal Rate of Inflation	Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé Martín Uribe
Depression Econometrics: A FAVAR Model of Monetary Policy During the Great Depression	Pooyan Amir Ahmadi Albrecht Ritschl
Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000	Alejandrina Salcedo Todd Schoellman Michèle Tertilt

Roper Center Polling Data!

New Resource: Roper Center Polling Data

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy has subscribed to a one-year membership (through November 14, 2010) for all of Washington University.

• This membership includes on demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys using RoperExpress. Search the catalog of data set holdings.
• Membership also offers access to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. (free registration required)

These combined services permit you to locate questions and topline results in iPOLL and then download the documentation and datafiles for the studies. Please see these user responsibilities.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy has subscribed to a one-year membership (through November 14, 2010) for all of Washington University.

• This membership includes on demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys using RoperExpress. Search the catalog of data set holdings.
• Membership also offers access to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. (free registration required)

These combined services permit you to locate questions and topline results in iPOLL and then download the documentation and datafiles for the studies. Please see these user responsibilities.

CEPR Discussion Papers 11/9/09

Dynamic Female Labor Supply	Zvi Eckstein Osnat Lifshitz	LE	DP7548	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7548
A Preferred-Habitat Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates	Dimitri Vayanos Jean-Luc Vila	FE	DP7547	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7547
Tear Down this Wall: On the Persistence of Borders in Trade	Volker Nitsch Nikolaus Wolf	IT	DP7545	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7545
A Banking Explanation of the US Velocity of Money: 1919-2004	Szilárd Benk Max Gillman Michal Kejak	IM	DP7544	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7544
Macroeconomic Forecasting and Structural Change	Antonello D'Agostino Luca Gambetti Domenico Giannone	IM	DP7542	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7542
How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions?	Patrick Arni Rafael Lalive Jan C. van Ours	LE PP	DP7541	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7541
Foreign Currency Borrowing by Small Firms	Martin Brown Steven Ongena Pinar Yesin	FE	DP7540	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7540
The 'Puzzles' Methodology: en route to Indirect Inference?	Vo Phuong Mai Le Patrick Minford Michael R. Wickens	IM	DP7539	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7539
Unequal We Stand: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006	Jonathan Heathcote Fabrizio Perri Giovanni L Violante	IM LE PP	DP7538	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7538
How much nominal rigidity is there in the US Economy? Testing a New Keynesian DSGE model using indirect inference	Vo Phuong Mai Le Patrick Minford Michael R. Wickens	IM	DP7537	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7537
Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes	Francesco Giavazzi Fabio Schiantarelli Michel Serafinelli	IM	DP7536	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7536
Cross-border spillovers from fiscal stimulus	Giancarlo Corsetti André Meier Gernot Müller	IM	DP7535	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7535
Micro, Macro, and Strategic Forces in International Trade Invoicing	Linda S. Goldberg Cédric Tille	IM	DP7534	PDF	www.cepr.org/DP7534