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A Theory of Firm Scope

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (2): 483-513
Hart, Oliver, and Bengt Holmstrom
January 2010
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Readme: Instructions for Reproducing Acemoglu and Dell (2010) Geospatial Data Construction (Program Files) Table 1: Labor Income Inequality (All Individuals) and Table 2: Inequality Decomposition, Theil Index (Males 18-55) (Program Files) Table 3: Proximity to Paved Roads (Program Files) All Publicly Available Data
Development Economics, Macroeconomics, Political Economy

Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2(1), pp. 169–188
Daron Acemoglu, Melissa Dell
January 2010
Public Economics, Financial Economics

Dimensions of Tax Design: The Mirrlees Review

Oxford University Press, 2010
James Mirrlees, Stuart Adam, Timothy Besley, Richard Blundell, Stephen Bond, Robert Chote, Malcolm Gammie, Paul Johnson, Gareth Myles, James Poterba
January 2010
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment

Jonathan Gruber
January 2010

Monetary Theory and Electronic Money: Reflections on the Kenyan Experience

Economic Quarterly 96(1): 83-122
William Jack, Tavneet Suri, Robert M. Townsend
January 2010

Volatility and Growth: Credit Constraints and the Composition of Investment

Journal of Monetary Economics 57:3
George-Marios Angeletos, Philippe Aghion, Abhijit Banerjee, Kalina Manova
December 2009
Pension Reform: A Short Guide

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Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics

Pension Reform: A Short Guide

Oxford University Press
Nicholas Barr, Peter Diamond
December 2009
Macroeconomics

The 'Other' Imbalance and the Financial Crisis

Prepared for the Bank of Italy's Pablo Baffi Lecture
Ricardo Caballero
December 2009
Households as Corporate Firms: An Analysis of Household Finance Using Integrated Household Surveys and Corporate Financial Accounting

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Households as Corporate Firms: An Analysis of Household Finance Using Integrated Household Surveys and Corporate Financial Accounting

Econometric Society Monograph Series No. 46; Cambridge University Press
Krislert Samphantharak, Robert M. Townsend
December 2009
Development Economics

Parochial Politics: Ethnic Perferences and Politican Corruption

Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande
December 2009
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Getting the Facts Straight on Health Care Reform

New England Journal of Medicine, 361(26)
Jonathan Gruber
December 2009
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

The Case for a Two-Tier Health System

Pathways, Winter 2009, 10-13
Jonathan Gruber
December 2009
Development Economics

Investment Efficiency and the Distribution of Wealth

World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 27940
Abhijit Banerjee
December 2009
American Economic Review

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Appendix Data and Replication Archive
Labor Economics, Market Design

Strategyproofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

American Economic Review, Vol. 99(5): 1954–1978
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
December 2009

Noisy Business Cycles

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009
George-Marios Angeletos, Jennifer La'O
December 2009
Macroeconomics

Knightian uncertainty and its implications for the TARP

Financial Times Economists Forum
Ricardo Caballero
November 2009
Development Economics

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 124(4)
Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Rohini Pande and Petia Topolova
November 2009
Political Economy, Economic Theory

Fully Sincere Voting

Games and Economic Behavior, 67(2), 720-735
Alexander Wolitzky
November 2009