September

15

Aaron Fix

Wataru Hirata

Fix: "Exclusive Dealing Conracts with Price Guarantees"

Hirata: "A Model of Securitization-Induced Economic Crises - On Investor's Belief and Asset Price Expectation"

29

Luigi Pascali

Matteo Cacciatore

Pascali: "Financial Markets and Growth: An Instrumental Variable Approach Using the Jewish Population in the Italian Renaissance"

Cacciatore: "International Trade, Labor Markets and Macroeconomic Dynamics"

October

6

Anna Blank

Shannon Phillips

Blank: "The Role of Occupational Structure in Inequality"

Phillips: "Child Human Capital and Mortality Risk: Why Widows Remarry"

13

Paul Batten

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

Batten: "Estimating a General Lifecycle Consumption Model"

Sanzenbacher: "Will Welfare Recipients' Wages Grow?"

20

Murat Mungan

Madhavi Pundit

Mungan: "A Utilitarian Justification for Heightened Standards of Proof in Criminal Trials"

Pundit: "Trade in Intermediate Goods and the Comovement of Businss Cycles"

27

Wei Sun

"A Dynamic Analysis of Long-Term Care Insurance Decisions"

November

3

Isabella Blengini

Kwok Ho Chan

Blengini: "International Portfolio Choice"

Chan: "Intergenerational Transfers in China: Altruism or Exchange?"

10

Alessandro Barattieri

Rucha Bhate

Barattieri: "Estimating Trade and Investment Flows: Partners and Volumes"

Bhate: "Capital Flows and Economic Growth in Developing Countries - The Allocation Puzzle Revisited'

17

Frank Georges

Caglar Yurtseven

Georges: "Full-line Forcing: Welfare improving or Not?"

Yurtseven: "Consumer Satisfaction and Demand"

24

Shoghik Hovhannisyan

Samson Alva

Hovhannisyan: "The Impact of Immigration on Economic Growth: Evidence from US Industries"

Alva: "Information Goods Exchange in Closed Peer-to-Peer Networks"

December

1

Farooq Pasha

Nadia Karamcheva

Pasha: "Real Business Cycles of Pakistan: Are They Any Different From Other Developing Countries?"

Karamcheva: "Evaluating the Wage-Pension Trade-Off in a Dynamic Model of Search and Savings

8

Chuanliang Jiang

Radoslav Raykov

Jiang: "Predictive Gains from Model Combination and Quantile Combination"

Raykov: "Asymptotic Efficiency Results for the Men-Proposing Mechanism with Tie-Breaking"