The Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota is excited to present a new working paper series called Minnesota Economic Research Reports.  The reports will feature cutting edge research by our faculty and graduate students.  All papers are downloadable in pdf format.  Any questions or concerns can be sent to econlib@econ.umn.edu .

Faculty or students in the department who are interested in posting papers to the MERR series should contact Wendy Williamson at wendy@umn.edu .

Number	Paper	Authors
2007-1	Nonseparable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems	Grochulski, Borys Kocherlakota, Narayana
2007-2	Object-Based Unawareness	Board, Oliver Chung, Kim-Sau
2007-3	The International Diversification Puzzle Is Not as Bad as You Think	Heathcote, Jonathan Perri, Fabrizio
2007-4	On the Mechanics of Firm Growth	Luttmer, Erzo
2008-1	Advertising, Entry Deterrence, and Industry Innovation	Qi, Shi
2008-2	Persuasion and Limited Communication	Sher, Itai