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WORKING PAPERS - 2006

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  01-06

Demand-Based Option Pricing

Nicolae Garleanu, Lasse Heje Pedersen and Allen Poteshman

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02-06

Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk

Refer S. Gurkaynak and Justin Wolfers

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03-06

High-Water Marks: High Risk Apetites? Convex Compensation, Long Horizons and Portfolio Choice
Stavros Panageas and Mark. M. Westerfield

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04-06

Capital Gains Taxes, Pricing Spreads and Arbitrage: Evidence from Cross-Listed Firms in the U.S.

Jennifer Blouin, Luzi Hail and Michelle Yetman

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05-06

Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender

Justin Wolfers

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06-06
Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

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07-06
Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

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08-06
Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice

Justin Wolfers

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09-06
Asset Prices When Agents are Market-to-Market
Gary B. Gorton, Ping He and Lixin Huang

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10-06
Agency-Based Asset Pricing
Gary B. Gorton and Ping He

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11-06
Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

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12-06
Does Firm Value Move Too Much to be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Cash Flow?
Borja Larrain and Motohiro Yogo

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13-06
Equity Premia with Benchmark Levels of Consumption: Closed-Form Results
Andrew B. Abel

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14-06
Valuation in Over-the-Counter Markets
Darrell Duffie, Nicolae Garleanu, Lasse Heje Pedersen

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15-06
The Welfare Cost of Bank Capital Requirements
Skander Van den Heuvel

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16-06
Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure
Michael L. Lemmon, Michael R. Roberts, and Jaime F. Zender

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17-06
Evidence on the Tradeoff Between Risk and Return for IPO anmd SEO Firms
Alon Brav, Roni Michaely, Michael Roberts and Rebecca Zarutskie

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18-06
The Dividend Policies of Private Firms: Insights into Smoothing, Agency Costs and Information Asymmetry
Roni Michaely and Michael R. Roberts

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19-06
Is Financial Contracting Costly? An Empirical Analysis of Debt Covenants and Corporate Investment
Sudheer Chava and Michael R. Roberts

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20-06
Predatory Lending in a Rational World
Philip Bond, David k. Musto and Bilge Yilmaz

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21-06
Takeover Defenses and Managerial Incentives under Alternative Legal Regimes
Richard E. Kihlstrom and Michael L. Wachter

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22-06
Directors' Ownership in the U. S. Mutual Fund Industry
Qi Chen, Itay Goldstein and Wei Jiang

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23-06
Costly Communication, Shareholder Activism, and Limits to Arbitrage: Evidence from Closed-End Funds
Michael Bradley, Alon Brav, Itay Goldstein and Wei Jiang

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24-06
The Benefits of Volume-Conditional Order-Crossing
Dean P. Foster, Simon Gervais and Krishna Ramaswamy

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25-06
Stale or Sticky Stock Prices? Non-Trading, Predictability and Mutual Fund Returns
Marshall E. Blume and Donald B. Keim

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26-06
Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement
Laura Veldkamp and Justin Wolfers

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27-06
Technological Growth, Asset Pricing and Consumption Risk
Stavros Panageas and Jianfeng Yu

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