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WORKING PAPERS - 2008

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  01-08

The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates - Evidence from Consumer Credit Data
Sumit Agarwal, Chunlin Liu and Nicholas Souleles

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02-08

Net Worth Housing Equity in Retirement
Todd Sinai and Nicholas Souleles

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03-08

Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors (Revised 11-07)
Lubos Pastor and Robert Stambaugh

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04-08

Levered Returns
Joao Gomes and Lukas Schmid

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05-08

A Multiplicative Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium
Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabaix and Augustin Landier

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06-08

Institutional Investors, Credit Supply, Uncertainty and the Leverage of the Firm
Massimo Massa, Ayako Yasuda, and Lei Zhang

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07-08

Governance Through Exit and Voice: A Theory of Multiple Blockholders
Alex Edmans and Gustavo Manso

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08-08

Blockholders, Market Efficiency, an Managerial Myopia
Alex Edmans

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09-08

Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing and Risky Assets
Motohiro Yogo

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10-08

Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run?
Lubos Pastor and Robert Stambaugh

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11-08

Oil Futures in a Production Economy with Investment Constraints
Leonid Kogan, Dmitry Livdan and Amir Yaron

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12-08

Risks for the Long Run: Estimation and Inference
Ravi Bansal, Dana Kiku and Amir Yaron

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13-08

Diversification and its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status
Nikolai Roussanov

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14-08

What's Vol Got to do with it?
Itamar Drechsler and Amir Yaron

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