NBER Papers in Law and Economics for 2011

The Latest NBER Working Papers and Chapters for Forthcoming NBER Books 2011

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Week of Nov 14, 2011 – Nov 21, 2011

• Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
  Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O’Connell #17596 (LS PR)
• Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937-38
  Douglas A. Irwin #17595 (DAE ME)
• Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of 2008-2009
  Gita Gopinath, Oleg Itskhoki, and Brent Neiman #17594 (EFG IFM ITI ME)
• The Leverage Effect Puzzle: Disentangling Sources of Bias at High Frequency
  Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Jianqing Fan, and Yingying Li #17592 (AP)
• Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
  Eric A. Hanushek, Susanne Link, and Ludger Woessmann #17591 (ED LS PE POL)
• Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Style
  Antoinette Schoar and Luo Zuo #17590 (CF)
• Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal
  Daniel M. Hungerman #17589 (CH LS PE)
• Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models, with Applications in Health Economics
  John Mullahy #17588 (HC HE TWP)
• The Welfare Economics of Default Options: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of 401(k) Plans
  B. Douglas Bernheim, Andrey Fradkin, and Igor Popov #17587 (PE)
• Sovereign CDS and Bond Pricing Dynamics in the Euro-area
  Giorgia Palladini and Richard Portes #17586 (AP IFM)
• Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked
  Julio J. Rotemberg #17585 (PE)
• Rising Labor Productivity during the 2008-9 Recession
  Casey Mulligan #17584 (EFG PE PR)
• Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings, and the Liquidity Trap
  Veronica Guerrieri and Guido Lorenzoni #17583 (EFG ME)
• Feedback Effects and the Limits to Arbitrage
  Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein, and Wei Jiang #17582 (AP CF)
• The Determinants and Long-term Projections of Saving Rates in Developing Asia
  Charles Yuji Horioka and Akiko Terada-Hagiwara #17581 (AG IFM)