National Bureau of Economic Research Latest Working Papers during the week of July 14, 2014

The following NBER Working Papers were released in electronic format this week. Abbreviations in parentheses refer to NBER Research Programs. (visit http://www.nber.org/programs.html for Program information.)

1.  International Banking and Liquidity Risk Transmission:  Lessons from Across Countries by Claudia Buch, Linda S. Goldberg #20286 (IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20286?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

2.  Identifying Long-Run Risks: A Bayesian Mixed-Frequency Approach
by Frank Schorfheide, Dongho Song, Amir Yaron #20303 (AP EFG ME)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20303?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

3.  Holy Cows or Cash Cows? by Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg #20304 (DEV EFG) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20304?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

4.  Firms’ Sickness Costs and Workers’ Sickness Absences by Rene Boeheim, Thomas Leoni #20305 (AG) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20305?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

5.  The Persistence and Heterogeneity of Health among Older Americans
by Florian Heiss, Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise #20306 (AG) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20306?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

6.  The Micro and Macro of Disappearing Routine Jobs: A Flows Approach
by Guido Matias Cortes, Nir Jaimovich, Christopher J. Nekarda, Henry E. Siu #20307 (EFG LS) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20307?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

7.  Expanding the School Breakfast Program: Impacts on Children’s  Consumption, Nutrition and Health by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Mary Zaki #20308 (CH ED PE) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20308?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

8.  Social Structure and Institutional Design: Evidence from a Lab  Experiment in the Field by Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Horacio Larreguy #20309 (DEV POL) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20309?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

9.  Loans on Sale: Credit Market Seasonality, Borrower Need, and Lender Rent Seeking by Justin Murfin, Mitchell Petersen #20310 (CF IO) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20310?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

10.  An Econometric Evaluation of Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap by Brian G. Knight #20311 (POL) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20311?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

11.  Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing? by Francine Lafontaine, Kathryn Shaw #20312 (LS PR) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20312?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

12.  Do Large Modern Retailers Pay Premium Wages? by Brianna Cardiff-Hicks, Francine Lafontaine, Kathryn Shaw #20313 (LS) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20313?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

13.  A Model of the Twin Ds: Optimal Default and Devaluation by Seunghoon Na, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Martin Uribe, Vivian Z. Yue #20314 (EFG IFM ME) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20314?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

14.  Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistle-blowing: a Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports by Sylvain Chassang, Gerard Padro i Miquel #20315 (DEV POL) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20315?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

15.  A Surplus of Ambition: Can Europe Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem? by Barry Eichengreen, Ugo Panizza #20316 (IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20316?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

16.  The Gradients of Power: Evidence from the Chinese Housing Market
by Hanming Fang, Quanlin Gu, Li-An Zhou #20317 (PE) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20317?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

17.  Applying Insights from Behavioral Economics to Policy Design
by Brigitte C. Madrian #20318 (AG CH DEV ED EEE HC HE LE LS PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20318?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

18.  Risk and Ambiguity in Models of Business Cycles by David Backus, Axelle Ferriere, Stanley Zin #20319 (AP EFG) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20319?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

19.  Time Preferences and Consumer Behavior by David Bradford, Charles Courtemanche, Garth Heutel, Patrick McAlvanah, Christopher Ruhm #20320 (EEE HE) http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20320?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

20.  When Incentives Matter Too Much: Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information by Thomas Ahn, Jacob L. Vigdor #20321 (ED LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W20321?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

 

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