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Summers and Joel Yellin for suggestions and comments. We thank Doug Galbi and Roberto Perotti for excellent research assistance, and the NSF for financial support. This paper is part of NBER'a research program in Economic Fluctuations. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors and not thoae of

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