1.  The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm
by Serguey Braguinsky, Lee G. Branstetter, Andre Regateiro #17265 (PR)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17265

2.  Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927
by Raghuram G. Rajan, Rodney Ramcharan #17266 (CF DAE POL)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17266

3.  The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics
by Michael D. Bordo, Hugh Rockoff #17267 (DAE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17267

4.  Tax Expenditures, the Size and Efficiency of Government, and Implications for Budget Reform
by Leonard E. Burman, Marvin Phaup #17268 (PE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17268

5.  Why Did U.S. Banks Invest in Highly-Rated Securitization Tranches?
by Isil Erel, Taylor D. Nadauld, Rene M. Stulz #17269 (CF)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17269

6.  Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout
by Kerwin Kofi Charles, Melvin Stephens Jr. #17270 (LS POL)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17270

7.  Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
by Enrico Spolaore, Romain Wacziarg #17271 (IFM POL)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17271

8.  Country Heterogeneity and the International Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy
by Carlo Favero, Francesco Giavazzi, Jacopo Perego #17272 (IFM ME)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17272

9.  "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health
by Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, Joachim Winter #17273 (AG HE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17273

10.  Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Laurence M. Ball, Nicolas De Roux, Marc Hofstetter #17274 (EFG IFM LS ME)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17274

11.  Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
by Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn #17275 (LS)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17275

12.  The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment
by Farley Grubb #17276 (DAE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17276

13.  International Risk Cycles
by Francois Gourio, Michael Siemer, Adrien Verdelhan #17277 (AP EFG IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17277

14.  Carry Trades and Risk
by Craig Burnside #17278 (AP EFG IFM)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17278

15.  The Importance of the Meaning and Measurement of "Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act
by Richard V. Burkhauser, Sean Lyons, Kosali I. Simon #17279 (HC HE)
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W17279