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WORKING PAPERS - 2002

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01-02 
Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance
James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and            Andrew Metrick  
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02-02 
For Better or For Worse: Default effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior 
James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and            Andrew Metrick  
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03-02 
Consumer Sentiment: Its Rationality and Usefulness in Forecasting Expenditure--Evidence from the Michigan Micro Data
Nicholas S. Souleles
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04-02 
Packaging Liquidity: Blind Auctions and Liquidity Provision 
Kenneth A. Kavajecz and Donald B. Keim
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05-02 
A Simple Model of Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing and Its Implications for the FAMA-French Three-Factor Model 
Michael J. Brennan, Ashley W. Wang and Yihong Xia
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06-02 
The Structure of the US Equity Markets 
Marshall E. Blume
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07-02 
Credibility of Management Forecasts 
Jonathan L. Rogers and Phillip C. Stocken
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08-02 
On Replicating the S&P 500 Index 
Marshall E. Blume and Roger M. Edelen
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09-02 
Micro Effects of Macro Announcements: Real-Time Price Discovery in Foreign Exchange 
Torben G. Anderson, Tim Bollerslev, Francis X. Diebold and Clara Vega
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10-02 
Modeling and Forecasting Realized Volatility
Torben G. Anderson, Tim Bollerslev, Francis X. Diebold and Paul Labys
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11-02
Technical Analysis and Liquidity Provision
Kenneth A. Kavajecz and Elizabeth R. Odders-White
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12-02 
On the Relationship Between the Conditional Mean and the Volativity of Stock Returns: A Latent VAR APproach
Michael W. Brandt and Qiang Kang
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13-02 
The Effects of a Baby Boom on Stock Prices and Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Social Security
Andrew B. Abel
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14-02 

Price Discovery in the U.S. Treasury Market:
The Impact of Orderflow and Liquidity on the Yield Curve

Michael W. Brandt
Kenneth A. Kavajecz


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15-02 

The Positive Role of Overconfidence
and Optimism in Investment Policy

Simon Gervais, J. B. Heaton and Terrance Odean

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16-02 

Asset Pricing Implications of Firms' Financing Constraints
Joao Gomes, Amir Yaron and Lu Zhang.

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17-02

Asset Pricing and Business Cycles with Costly External Finance
Joao Gomes, Amir Yaron and Lu Zhang.

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18-02

Corporate Bankruptcy Reorganizations: Estimates from a Bargaining Model
Hulya Eraslan

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19-02

Weather Forecasting for Weather Derivatives
Sean D. Campbell and Francis X. Diebold
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