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May 2001, Volume 91, Issue 2
- 91-96 Behavior Policies and Teen Traffic Safety
by William N. Evans & Thomas S. Dee - 97-102 Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War
by Thomas Lemieux & David Card - 103-106 Designing Programs for Heterogeneous Populations: The Value of Covariate Information
by Charles F. Manski - 107-111 Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects
by Edward Vytlacil & James J. Heckman - 112-118 Reconciling Conflicting Evidence on the Performance of Propensity-Score Matching Methods
by Petra E. Todd & Jeffrey A. Smith - 119-124 Propensity-Score Matching with Instrumental Variables
by Christopher Taber & Hidehiko Ichimura - 125-129 Interactions between Unmarried Fathers and Their Children: The Role of Paternity Establishment and Child-Support Policies
by H. Elizabeth Peters & Laura M. Argys - 130-134 The Effect of Child-Support Policies on Visitations and Transfers
by Rocio Ribero & Daniela Del Boca - 135-139 New Estimates of the Impact of Child Disability on Maternal Employment
by Elizabeth T. Powers - 140-144 Signals of Child Achievement as Determinants of Child Support
by Alison Aughinbaugh - 145-149 The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program
by Yona Rubinstein & James J. Heckman - 150-154 As Ye Sweep, So Shall Ye Reap
by Greg J. Duncan & Rachel Dunifon & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn - 155-158 Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings
by Herbert Gintis & Samuel Bowles & Melissa Osborne - 159-163 Understanding, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Earnings in the Immigrant Labor Market
by Richard A. Fry & Anthony P. Carnevale & B. Lindsay Lowell - 164-168 Black-White Earnings Differentials: Privatization versus Deregulation
by Wayne K. Talley & James Peoples - 169-173 Market Structure and Racial Earnings: Evidence from Job-Changers
by Richard U. Agesa & Jacqueline Agesa & Gary A. Hoover - 174-177 Racial Differences in Transportation Access to Employment in Chicago and Los Angeles, 1980 and 1990
by Samuel L. Myers & Chanjin Chung & Lisa Saunders - 178-183 Annual Income and Identity Formation among Persons of Mexican Descent
by Patrick L. Mason - 184-188 Assessing the Property Rights and Transaction-Cost Theories of Firm Scope
by Michael D. Whinston - 189-194 Empirical Strategies in Contract Economics: Information and the Boundary of the Firm
by George Baker & Thomas N. Hubbard - 195-199 Do Firm Boundaries Matter?
by Sendhil Mullainathan & David Scharfstein - 200-205 Organizational Design: Decision Rights and Incentive Contracts
by Susan Athey & John Roberts - 206-211 The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms
by Raghuram G. Rajan & Luigi Zingales - 212-218 Bringing the Market inside the Firm?
by George Baker & Robert Gibbons & Kevin J. Murphy - 219-225 Interest Rates and Inflation
by Fernando Alvarez & Robert E. Lucas & Warren E. Weber - 226-231 NAIRU Uncertainty and Nonlinear Policy Rules
by Laurence H. Meyer & Eric T. Swanson & Volker W. Wieland - 232-237 The Taylor Rule and Optimal Monetary Policy
by Michael Woodford - 238-242 Fewer Monies, Better Monies
by Rudi Dornbusch - 243-247 Why Not a Global Currency?
by Kenneth Rogoff - 248-252 Optimal Monetary Policy in Open versus Closed Economies: An Integrated Approach
by Richard Clarida & Jordi Gali & Mark Gertler - 253-257 Should Central Banks Respond to Movements in Asset Prices?
by Ben S. Bernanke & Mark Gertler - 258-262 Should Monetary Policy Respond Strongly to Output Gaps?
by Bennett T. McCallum - 263-267 The Role of the Exchange Rate in Monetary-Policy Rules
by John B. Taylor - 268-273 Price and Quality of Desktop and Mobile Personal Computers: A Quarter-Century Historical Overview
by Ernst R. Berndt & Neal J. Rappaport - 274-280 The Acceleration of Variety Growth
by Mark Bils & Peter J. Klenow - 281-286 Productivity Change in Health Care
by David M. Cutler & Mark McClellan - 287-291 Internet Peering
by Jean-Jacques Laffont - 292-296 Advances in Routing Technologies and Internet Peering Agreements
by Stanley Besen - 297-301 Access Pricing, Bypass, and Universal Service
by Mark Armstrong - 302-307 Cable Modems and DSL: Broadband Internet Access for Residential Customers
by Jerry A. Hausman & J. Gregory Sidak & HalJ. Singer - 308-312 Do We Have a New E-conomy?
by MartinNeil Baily & Robert Z. Lawrence - 313-317 Projecting the Economic Impact of the Internet
by Robert E. Litan & Alice M. Rivlin - 318-322 E-Commerce: Measurement and Measurement Issues
by Barbara M. Fraumeni - 323-327 Schooling Data, Technological Diffusion, and the Neoclassical Model
by Angel de la Fuente & Rafael Domenech - 328-335 Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers
by Francesco Caselli & Wilbur John Coleman - 336-341 Why Wait? A Century of Life before IPO
by Boyan Jovanovic & Peter L. Rousseau - 342-346 Appeasement: Can It Work?
by Jack Hirshleifer - 347-352 The Creation of Effective Property Rights
by Herschel I. Grossman - 353-357 Guns, Butter, and Openness: On the Relationship between Security and Trade
by Stergios Skaperdas & Constantinos Syropoulos - 358-362 Commercial Policy in a "Fragmented" World
by Eric W. Bond - 363-366 The Role of International Fragmentation in the Development Process
by Ronald W. Jones & Sugata Marjit - 367-370 Trade and Exposure
by Kathryn M. E. Dominguez & Linda L. Tesar - 371-375 International Trade and Business Cycles: Is Vertical Specialization the Missing Link?
by M. Ayhan Kose & Kei-Mu Yi - 376-380 Coping with Terms-of-Trade Shocks: Pegs versus Floats
by Christian Broda - 381-385 Dollarization
by Alberto Alesina & Robert J. Barro - 386-390 National Money as a Barrier to International Trade: The Real Case for Currency Union
by Andrew K. Rose & Eric van Wincoop - 391-395 Exchange-Rate Hedging: Financial versus Operational Strategies
by George Allayannis & Jane Ihrig & James P. Weston - 396-399 A Reexamination of Exchange-Rate Exposure
by Kathryn M. E. Dominguez & Linda L. Tesar - 400-405 Gender Differences in the Labor-Market Effects of the Dollar
by Linda Goldberg & Joseph Tracy - 406-412 The Empirical Importance of Precautionary Saving
by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas & Jonathan A. Parker - 413-417 How Important Are Idiosyncratic Shocks? Evidence from Labor Supply
by Kjetil Storesletten & Chris I. Telmer & Amir Yaron - 418-421 Interest Elasticity in a Life-Cycle Model with Precautionary Savings
by Marco Cagetti - 422-425 Banks and Liquidity
by Douglas W. Diamond & Raghuram G. Rajan - 426-430 Venture Capitals As Principals: Contracting, Screening, and Monitoring
by Steven N. Kaplan & Per Stromberg - 431-435 A Reason for Quantity Regulation
by Edward L. Glaeser & Andrei Shleifer - 436-439 Financial Intermediation without Exclusivity
by Tano Santos & Jose A. Scheinkman - 440-445 Research in Economic Education: Five New Initiatives
by Michael K. Salemi - 446-451 Teaching Economics at the Start of the 21st Century: Still Chalk-and-Talk
by William E. Becker & Michael Watts - 452-457 Assessing the Economic Understanding of U.S. High School Students
by William B. Walstad & Ken Rebeck - 461-462 Minutes of the Annual Meeting
by John J. Siegfried - 462-471 Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
by John J. Siegfried - 472-474 Report of the Secretary for 2000
by John J. Siegfried - 475-475 Report of the Treasurer for the Year Ending December 31, 2000
by John J. Siegfried - 476-476 Report of the Finance Committee
by John J. Siegfried - 477-485 Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
by Orley Ashenfelter - 486-488 Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
by John McMillan - 489-491 Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
by Alan B. Krueger - 492-494 Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
by John J. Siegfried - 495-496 Report of the Committee on Economic Education
by William B. Walstad - 497-501 Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
by William Darity Jr. & Cecilia A. Conrad - 502-507 Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
by Beth Allen - 508-508 Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the AER
by John Taylor - 509-511 American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
by Charles E. Scott & John J. Siegfried
March 2001, Volume 91, Issue 1
- 1-32 Information Technology and the U.S. Economy
by Dale W. Jorgenson - 33-53 The Personal Discount Rate: Evidence from Military Downsizing Programs
by Saul Pleeter & John T. Warner - 54-78 Dividends and Expropriation
by Larry H. P. Lang & Mara Faccio & Leslie Young - 79-98 Naive Diversification Strategies in Defined Contribution Saving Plans
by Richard H. Thaler & Shlomo Benartzi - 99-127 Who Should Buy Long-Term Bonds?
by LuisM. Viceira & John Y. Campbell - 128-148 The Effects of Investing Social Security Funds in the Stock Market When Fixed Costs Prevent Some Households from Holding Stocks
by Andrew B. Abel - 149-166 Habit Persistence, Asset Returns, and the Business Cycle
by Lawrence J. Christiano & Michele Boldrin & Jonas D. M. Fisher - 167-186 Monetary Policy and Multiple Equilibria
by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe & Jess Benhabib & Martin Uribe - 187-207 What Hides Behind an Unemployment Rate: Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Labor Markets
by Pedro Portugal & Olivier Blanchard - 208-224 Local Discouragement and Global Collapse: A Theory of Coordination Avalanches
by Curtis R. Taylor & Thomas D. Jeitschko - 225-239 The Provision of Public Goods under Alternative Electoral Incentives
by Nicola Persico & Alessandro Lizzeri - 240-259 Proofs and Prototypes for Sale: The Licensing of University Inventions
by Marie Thursby & Richard Jensen - 260-271 Gamma Discounting
by Martin L. Weitzman - 272-286 Race, Roosevelt, and Wartime Production: Fair Employment in World War II Labor Markets
by William J. Collins - 287-294 Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century
by Joseph M. Prince & Richard H. Steckel - 295-304 The Market Evaluation of Criminality: Evidence from the Auction of British Convict Labor in America, 1767-1775
by Farley Grubb - 305-319 Household Debt and the Tax Reform Act of 1986
by Dean M. Maki - 320-334 State-Owned and Privately Owned Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Profitability, Leverage, and Labor Intensity
by Paul H. Malatesta & Kathryn L. DeWenter - 335-341 Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness
by Robert J. MacCulloch & Rafael Di Tella & Andrew J. Oswald - 342-347 Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment: Comment
by Hessel Oosterbeek & Edwin Leuven - 348-349 Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment: Reply
by Masanori Hashimoto
December 2000, Volume 90, Issue 5
- 1093-1109 Does Exchange-Rate Stability Increase Trade and Welfare?
by Eric van Wincoop & Philippe Bacchetta - 1110-1124 Market Contagion: Evidence from the Panics of 1854 and 1857
by Cormac O Grada & Morgan Kelly - 1125-1135 Monetary Aggregates and Output
by Finn E. Kydland & Scott Freeman - 1136-1159 Endogenous Business Cycles and the Dynamics of Output, Hours, and Consumption
by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe - 1160-1183 Does Schooling Cause Growth?
by Peter J. Klenow & Mark Bils - 1184-1208 Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations
by Dennis D. Kimko & Eric A. Hanushek - 1209-1238 Does Competition among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?
by Caroline M. Hoxby - 1239-1254 "Globalization" and Vertical Structure
by John McLaren - 1255-1275 Diversity and Trade
by Giovanni Maggi & Gene M. Grossman - 1276-1296 Economic Integration and Political Disintegration
by Enrico Spolaore & Alberto Alesina & Romain Wacziarg - 1297-1322 The Determinants of Equilibrium Unemployment
by Eran Yashiv - 1323-1345 Aggregate Employment Fluctuations with Microeconomic Asymmetries
by Jonas D. M. Fisher & Jeffrey R. Campbell - 1346-1361 Performance Pay and Productivity
by Edward P. Lazear - 1362-1396 Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Comment
by William Wascher & David Neumark - 1397-1420 Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Reply
by Alan B. Krueger & David Card - 1421-1431 Central-Bank Credibility: Why Do We Care? How Do We Build It?
by Alan S. Blinder - 1432-1446 Nominal Wage Rigidity and Industry Characteristics in the Downturns of 1893, 1929, and 1981
by Christopher Hanes - 1447-1463 Money, Sticky Wages, and the Great Depression
by Christopher J. Erceg & Michael D. Bordo & Charles L. Evans - 1464-1476 Output Fluctuations in the United States: What Has Changed since the Early 1980's?
by Gabriel Perez-Quiros & Margaret M. McConnell - 1477-1490 Social Interactions and the Institutions of Local Government
by William C. Strange & Robert W. Helsley - 1491-1507 Social Limits to Redistribution
by Hans Peter Gruner & Giacomo Corneo - 1508-1519 Tax Competition When Governments Lack Commitment: Excess Capacity as a Countervailing Threat
by Eckhard Janeba - 1520-1534 Selective versus Universal Vouchers: Modelling Median Voter Preferences in Education
by Edwin G. West & Zhiqi Chen - 1535-1535 Erratum: A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century
by R. A. Mundell
September 2000, Volume 90, Issue 4
- 715-741 Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians
by Cecilia Rouse & Claudia Goldin - 742-764 Wage Shocks and North American Labor-Market Integration
by Raymond Robertson - 765-786 Mentoring and Diversity
by Christopher Avery & Susan Athey & Peter Zemsky - 787-805 Asset Pricing with Distorted Beliefs: Are Equity Returns Too Good to Be True?
by Pok-sang Lam & Stephen G. Cecchetti & Nelson C. Mark - 806-828 Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
by David N. Weil & Oded Galor - 829-846 Endogenous Growth and Cross-Country Income Differences
by Peter Howitt - 847-868 Aid, Policies, and Growth
by David Dollar & Craig Burnside - 869-887 A Reassessment of the Relationship between Inequality and Growth
by Kristin J. Forbes - 888-908 Intelligence, Social Mobility, and Growth
by Jose V. Rodriguez Mora & John Hassler - 909-926 A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution
by Jaume Ventura & Francesco Caselli - 927-943 Meetings with Costly Participation
by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal & Martin J. Osborne & Matthew A. Turner - 944-960 Motivating Wealth-Constrained Actors
by David E. M. Sappington & Tracy R. Lewis - 961-972 Demand Reduction in Multiunit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment
by David Lucking-Reiley & John A. List - 973-979 Does Culture Matter in Economic Behavior? Ultimatum Game Bargaining among the Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon
by Joseph Henrich - 980-994 Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
by Simon Gachter & Ernst Fehr - 995-1004 Asset Markets: How They Are Affected by Tournament Incentives for Individuals
by R. Mark Isaac & Duncan James - 1005-1011 Losing Sleep at the Market: The Daylight Saving Anomaly
by Lisa A. Kramer & Mark J. Kamstra & Maurice D. Levi - 1012-1018 Private Information and Trade Timing
by Lones Smith - 1019-1033 A Preference Regime Model of Bull and Bear Markets
by Pascal St-Amour & Stephen Gordon - 1034-1054 Learning and Forgetting: The Dynamics of Aircraft Production
by C. Lanier Benkard - 1055-1071 Optimal Risk Adjustment in Markets with Adverse Selection: An Application to Managed Care
by Thomas G. McGuire & Jacob Glazer - 1072-1091 Fair Shares: Accountability and Cognitive Dissonance in Allocation Decisions
by James Konow
June 2000, Volume 90, Issue 3
- 327-340 A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century
by Robert A. Mundell - 341-355 Saving and Growth with Habit Formation
by Jody Overland & Christopher D. Carroll & David N. Weil - 356-366 Tax Policy and Aggregate Demand Management under Catching Up with the Joneses
by Harald Uhlig & Lars Ljungqvist - 367-390 Habit Formation in Consumption and Its Implications for Monetary-Policy Models
by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer - 391-406 Habit Formation in Consumer Preferences: Evidence from Panel Data
by Karen E. Dynan - 407-428 What Do a Million Observations on Banks Say about the Transmission of Monetary Policy?
by Jeremy C. Stein & Anil K. Kashyap - 429-457 Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates
by David H. Romer & Christina D. Romer - 458-481 What Inventory Behavior Tells Us about Business Cycles
by James A. Kahn & Mark Bils - 482-498 Job Destruction and Propagation of Shocks
by Garey Ramey & Wouter J. den Haan & Joel Watson - 499-525 Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Auctions
by Jeroen M. Swinkels & Wolfgang Pesendorfer - 526-549 Ownership Risk, Investment, and the Use of Natural Resources
by Robert T. Deacon & Henning Bohn - 550-570 Standardization in Decentralized Economies
by Michel Benaim & Emmanuelle Auriol - 571-583 The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefit System
by Peter Kooreman - 584-604 A Time-Series Analysis of Crime, Deterrence, and Drug Abuse in New York City
by H. Naci Mocan & Hope Corman - 605-620 A Theory of Rigid Extremists and Flexible Moderates with an Application to the U.S. Congress
by Joseph E. Harrington & S. Brock Blomberg - 621-639 Sovereign Debt as Intertemporal Barter
by Brian D. Wright & Kenneth M. Kletzer - 640-648 Role Models and Arguments for Affirmative Action
by Kim-Sau Chung - 649-666 Political Influence and the Dynamic Consistency of Policy
by Jaewoo Lee & Michelle R. Garfinkel - 667-680 The Role of a Variable Input in the Relationship between Investment and Uncertainty
by Kwanho Shin & Jaewoo Lee - 681-686 Optimal Income Taxation: An Example with a U-Shaped Pattern of Optimal Marginal Tax Rates: Comment
by Michel Strawczynski & Momi Dahan - 687-694 Capital Mobility in NeoClassical Models of Growth: Comment
by Petr Duczynski - 695-704 Herd Behavior and Investment: Comment
by Peter Sorensen & Marco Ottaviani - 705-706 Herd Behavior and Investment: Reply
by Jeremy C. Stein & David S. Scharfstein
May 2000, Volume 90, Issue 2
- 1-16 International Financial Crises: Causes, Prevention, and Cures
by Lawrence H. Summers - 17-21 Crisis and Risk Management
by Myron S. Scholes - 22-27 Tunneling
by Simon Johnson - 28-31 U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts: From Mexico to LTCM
by Dong Lee & Bong-Chan Kho & Rene M. Stulz - 32-37 Floating, Fixed, or Super-Fixed? Dollarization Joins the Menu of Exchange-Rate Options
by Rachel McCulloch & Blake LeBaron - 38-42 Conflicting Demands on the International Monetary Fund
by Anne O. Krueger - 43-47 Rules and Authorities in International Monetary Arrangements: The Role of the Central Bank
by Robert Z. Aliber - 48-52 Why Did the Ruble Collapse in August 1998?
by Padma Desai - 53-58 The Polish Zloty, 1990-1999: Success and Underperformance
by Domenico Mario Nuti - 59-64 Capital-Markets Crises and Economic Collapse in Emerging Markets: An Informational-Frictions Approach
by Enrique G. Mendoza & Guillermo A. Calvo - 65-70 Mirage of Floating Exchange Rates
by Carmen M. Reinhart - 71-75 Exchange-Rate Policy for Developing Countries
by Andres Velasco & Roberto Chang - 76-80 Telling Better Stories in Introductory Macro
by David Colander - 81-84 Eight Reasons Why Real versus Nominal Interest Rates Is the Most Important Concept in Macroeconomics Principles Courses
by Peter E. Kennedy - 85-89 The Principles of Macroeconomics at the Millennium
by Michael Parkin - 90-94 Teaching Modern Macroeconomics at the Principles Level
by John B. Taylor - 95-99 The First Year of the Eurosystem: Inflation Targeting or Not?
by Lars E. O. Svensson - 100-104 Pitfalls of Forward-Looking Monetary Policy
by Michael Woodford - 105-109 Inflation Targeting in Emerging-Market Countries
by Frederic S. Mishkin - 110-115 Requiem for the Representative Consumer? Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior
by Christopher D. Carroll - 116-119 Testing the (S, s) Model
by Erik Hurst & Christopher Foote & John Leahy - 120-125 The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy
by N. Gregory Mankiw - 126-130 Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development
by James A. Robinson & Daron Acemoglu - 131-134 Ethnicity and Development in Africa: A Reappraisal
by Robert H. Bates - 135-139 Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels
by Dilip Mookherjee & Pranab K. Bardhan