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Economic Quarterly

Fourth Quarter 2014

The Dropout Option in a Simple Model of College Education

Ali K. Ozdagli and Nicholas Trachter

Fourth Quarter 2014

Loan Guarantees for Consumer Credit Markets

Kartik B. Athreya, Xuan S. Tam and Eric R. Young

Fourth Quarter 2014

Optimal Institutions in Economies with Private Information: Exclusive Contracts, Taxes, and Bankruptcy Law

Borys Grochulski and Yuzhe Zhang

Third Quarter 2014

The Impact of the Durbin Amendment on Merchants: A Survey Study

Zhu Wang, Scarlett Schwartz and Neil Mitchell

Third Quarter 2014

How Can Consumption-Based Asset-Pricing Models Explain Low Interest Rates?

Felipe F. Schwartzman

Third Quarter 2014

Should Greece Remain in the Eurozone?

Robert L. Hetzel

Second Quarter 2014

The Real Bills Views of the Founders of the Fed

Robert L. Hetzel

Second Quarter 2014

Large U.S. Bank Holding Companies During the 2007-09 Financial Crisis: An Overview of the Data

Peter Debbaut and Huberto M. Ennis

Second Quarter 2014

Flows To and From Working Part Time for Economic Reasons and the Labor Market Aggregates During and After the 2007-09 Recession

Maria E. Canon, Marianna Kudlyak, Guannan Luo and Marisa Reed

First Quarter 2014

A Business Cycle Analysis of Debt and Equity Financing

Marios Karabarbounis, Patrick Macnamara and Roisin McCord

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Lisa Davis (804) 697-8179