Annual ReportsDiscussion Papers
After nearly 20 years of production, we are no longer publishing Discussion Papers, effective December 31, 2007.
Discussion Paper 145 (October 2006)
Learning Your Earning: Are Labor Income Shocks Really Very Persistent?
Fatih Guvenen
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Discussion Paper 144 (October 2006)
Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change:
A Theoretical Analysis of Rising Inequality
Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu
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Discussion Paper 143 (December 2005)
Optimal Welfare-to-Work Programs
Nicola Pavoni, Giovanni L. Violante
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Discussion Paper 142 (August 2004)
Search, Money, and Inflation under Private Information
Huberto M. Ennis
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Discussion Paper 141 (November 2003)
Urban Structure and Growth
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Mark L. J. Wright
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Discussion Paper 140 (Revised May 2004)
Dynamic Optimal Taxation with Private Information
Stefania Albanesi, Christopher Sleet
Published In: Review of Economic Studies
(Vol. 73, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 1-30)
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Discussion Paper 139 (October 2001)
Capital Accumulation in a Model of Growth and Creative Destruction
Klaus Walde
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Discussion Paper 138 (December 2000)
Does the Progressivity of Taxes Matter for Economic Growth?
Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Krishna B. Kumar
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Discussion Paper 137 (January 2001)
The Social Discount Rate
Andrew Caplin, John Leahy
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Discussion Paper 136 (August 2000)
Time Inconsistent Preferences and Social Security
Ayse Imrohoroglu, Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Douglas H. Joines
Published In: Quarterly Journal of Economics
(Vol. 118, No. 2, May 2003, pp. 745-784)
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Discussion Paper 135 (June 2000)
Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration
Marcus Berliant, Robert R. Reed III, Ping Wang
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Discussion Paper 134 (March 2000)
Bad Politicians
Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli
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Discussion Paper 133 (December 1999)
Political Economy of Taxation in an Overlapping-Generations Economy
Marco Bassetto
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Discussion Paper 132 (December 1999)
Efficient Investment in Children
S. Rao Aiyagari, Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri
Published In: Journal of Economic Theory
(Vol. 102, No. 2, February 2002, pp. 290-321)
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Discussion Paper 131 (August 1999)
Keynesian Conundrum: Multiplicity and Time Consistent Stabilization
Bill Dupor
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