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• Preferential Trade Agreements and the World Trade System: A Multilateralist View
  Pravin Krishna #17840 (ITI)
  
• U.S. International Equity Investment
  John Ammer, Sara B. Holland, David C. Smith, and Francis E. Warnock #17839 (IFM)
  
• Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows during the 2007-2009 Crisis
  Viral V. Acharya and Nada Mora #17838 (CF   ME)
  
• The Households Effects of Government Consumption
  Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon #17837 (IFM)
  
• Ben Bernanke and the Zero Bound
  Laurence M. Ball #17836 (EFG   ME)
  
• Gold Standard Gravity
  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov #17835 (ITI)
  
• Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
  Susan Dynarski and Mark Wiederspan #17834 (CH   ED   PE)
  
• Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Thresholds
  Francesco Caselli, Thomas E. Cunningham, Massimo Morelli, and Inés Moreno de Barreda #17833 (PE   POL)
  
• Credit Supply and House Prices: Evidence from Mortgage Market Segmentation
  Manuel Adelino, Antoinette Schoar, and Felipe Severino #17832 (AP   CF)
  
• Resolving Debt Overhang: Political Constraints in the Aftermath of Financial Crises
  Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi #17831 (CF   EFG   POL)
  
• What explains high unemployment? The aggregate demand channel
  Atif R. Mian and Amir Sufi #17830 (CF   EFG   ME)
  
• Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising?
  Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz #17829 (LE)
  
• China’s Financial System: Opportunities and Challenges
  Franklin Allen, Jun “QJ” Qian, Chenying Zhang, and Mengxin Zhao #17828 (CF)
  
• Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges
  Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Claudia Goldin #17827 (DAE   ED   PE)
  
• China's Potential Future Growth and Gains from Trade Policy Bargaining: Some Numerical Simulation Results
  Chunding Li and John Whalley #17826 (ITI)
  
• Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector
  Emek Basker #17825 (IO   PR)
  
• Were They Prepared for Retirement? Financial Status at Advanced Ages in the HRS and AHEAD Cohorts
  James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise #17824 (AG)
  
• Practical Monetary Policy: Examples from Sweden and the United States
  Lars E.O. Svensson #17823 (ME)
  
• Does Macro-Pru Leak? Evidence from a UK Policy Experiment
  Shekhar Aiyar, Charles W. Calomiris, and Tomasz Wieladek #17822 (CF   EFG   ME)
  
• Numeracy, financial literacy, and financial decision-making
  Annamaria Lusardi #17821 (AG)
  
• What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
  Daron Acemoglu and David Autor #17820 (ED)
  

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