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Public Policy Discussion Papers

p-04-4 “Massachusetts Business Taxes: Unfair? Inadequate? Uncompetitive?”
by Robert Tannenwald

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p-04-5 “Educational Opportunity and Income Inequality”
by Igal Hendel, Joel Shapiro, and Paul Willen

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p-04-6 “Financial Development, Financial Constraints, and the Volatility of Industrial Output”
by Borja Larrain

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p-04-7 “Do Bank Mergers Affect Federal Reserve Check Volume?”
by Joanna Stavins

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p-04-8 “Is Poland the Next Spain?”
by Francesco Caselli and Silvana Tenreyro

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p-04-9 “Interstate Fiscal Disparity in State Fiscal Year 1999”
by Robert Tannenwald and Nicholas Turner

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p-04-10 “Social Security and Unsecured Debt”
by Erik Hurst and Paul Willen

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Working Papers

w-04-3 “Trade Liberalization and the Politics of Financial Development”
by Matías Braun and Claudio Raddatz

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w-04-4 “Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle is the Trend”
by Mark Aguiar and Gita Gopinath

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w-04-5 “Defaultable Debt, Interest Rates, and the Current Account”
by Mark Aguiar and Gita Gopinath

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w-04-6 “Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility”
by Ricardo Caballero, Kevin N. Cowan, Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, and Alejandro Micco

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w-04-7 “A General-Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output”
by J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu, and John G. Fernald

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w-04-8 “Incomplete Markets and Trade”
by Paul Willen

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