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"Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Spring 2011" contents include: Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications by Annamaria Lusardi (George Washington University), Daniel Schneider (Princeton University), and Peter Tufano (Harvard University); Let's Twist Again: A High-Frequency Event-Study Analysis of Operation Twist and Its Implications for QE2 by Eric Swanson (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco); and, An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy by N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl (Harvard University). This title also contains: The Evolution of Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession by Laurence Ball (Johns Hopkins University) and Sandeep Mazumder (Wake Forest University); What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession by Michael Burda (Humboldt University) and Jennifer Hunt (McGill University); and, Job Search, Emotional Well-Being, and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data by Alan Krueger (Princeton University) and Andreas Mueller (Stockholm University).