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Winter 2008, Volume 22, Issue 1
- 67-84 Has Economic Analysis Improved Regulatory Decisions?
by Robert W. Hahn & Paul C. Tetlock - 85-102 Is the Food And Drug Administration Safe And Effective?
by Tomas J. Philipson & Eric Sun - 103-128 Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation
by Thomas W. Hazlett - 129-152 Biological Measures of the Standard of Living
by Richard H. Steckel - 153-176 Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
by Barry T. Hirsch - 177-198 Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
by Jeffrey R. Brown - 199-216 Dispelling Some Misconceptions about Agricultural Trade Liberalization
by Stephen Tokarick - 217-234 Markets: Ready-Mixed Concrete
by Chad Syverson - 235-242 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2007, Volume 21, Issue 4
- 3-24 The Case for Forecast Targeting as a Monetary Policy Strategy
by Michael Woodford - 25-46 Macroeconomic Modeling for Monetary Policy Evaluation
by Jordi Galí & Mark Gertler - 47-68 How the World Achieved Consensus on Monetary Policy
by Marvin Goodfriend - 69-90 The Evolution of Central Bank Governance around the World
by Christopher Crowe & Ellen E. Meade - 91-114 Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources
by Edward P. Lazear & Kathryn L. Shaw - 115-134 Human Resources from an Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained
by Jeffrey Pfeffer - 135-150 Paying Respect
by Tore Ellingsen & Magnus Johannesson - 151-174 The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice
by Siwan Anderson - 175-200 Bankruptcy Reform and Credit Cards
by Michelle J. White - 201-216 Markets: Preserving Funeral Markets with Ready-to-Embalm Laws
by David E. Harrington - 217-228 Retrospectives: Léon Walras and the Nobel Peace Prize
by Agnar Sandmo - 229-236 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2007, Volume 21, Issue 3
- 3-24 Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations
by Gary S. Becker & Julio Jorge Elías - 25-36 Producing Organ Donors
by David H. Howard - 37-58 Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
by Alvin E. Roth - 59-80 Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?
by Jonathan Skinner - 81-104 Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior
by Shlomo Benartzi & Richard Thaler - 105-130 Firms in International Trade
by Andrew B. Bernard & J. Bradford Jensen & Stephen J. Redding & Peter K. Schott - 131-154 Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization
by David Hummels - 155-176 Does Antitrust Need to be Modernized?
by Dennis W. Carlton - 177-198 The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth
by Emek Basker - 199-222 Natural Disasters, Economic Development, and Humanitarian Aid
by David Strömberg - 223-238 Human Capital and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers
by Efraim Benmelech & Claude Berrebi - 239-246 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2007, Volume 21, Issue 2
- 3-26 The American Family and Family Economics
by Shelly Lundberg & Robert A. Pollak - 27-52 Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
by Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers - 53-70 The Economics of Lesbian and Gay Families
by Dan A. Black & Seth G. Sanders & Lowell J. Taylor - 71-90 Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century
by Roland G. Fryer Jr. - 91-108 Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family
by Donald Cox - 109-128 Disagreement and the Stock Market
by Harrison Hong & Jeremy C. Stein - 129-152 Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market
by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler - 153-174 What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World?
by Steven D. Levitt & John A. List - 175-194 Hedge Funds: Past, Present, and Future
by René M. Stulz - 195-214 How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
by William T. Dickens & Lorenz Goette & Erica L. Groshen & Steinar Holden & Julian Messina & Mark E. Schweitzer & Jarkko Turunen & Melanie E. Ward - 215-226 Retrospectives: Edgeworth's Hedonimeter and the Quest to Measure Utility
by David Colander - 227-238 Markets: Gift Cards
by Jennifer Pate Offenberg - 239-246 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2007, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 3-24 How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective
by Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez - 25-48 Cheating Ourselves: The Economics of Tax Evasion
by Joel Slemrod - 49-68 Taxing Consumption and Other Sins
by James R. Hines Jr. - 69-90 Tax Reform Unraveling
by Michael J. Graetz - 91-116 The Goals and Promise of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
by John C. Coates IV - 117-140 Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe
by Luca Enriques & Paolo Volpin - 141-168 The Economic Lives of the Poor
by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo - 169-190 Payday Lending
by Michael A. Stegman - 191-208 Daron Acemoglu: 2005 John Bates Clark Medalist
by Robert Shimer - 209-226 Markets: Cartel Behavior and Amateurism in College Sports
by Lawrence M. Kahn - 227-236 Retrospectives: From Usury to Interest
by Joseph Persky - 237-244 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2006, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 3-28 Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory Is Shaping Policy
by V. V. Chari & Patrick J. Kehoe - 29-46 The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer
by N. Gregory Mankiw - 47-66 The Real Effects of European Monetary Union
by Philip R. Lane - 67-88 The European Central Bank, the Euro, and Global Financial Markets
by Kathryn M. E. Dominguez - 89-110 Interview with Robert A. Mundell
by Howard R. Vane & Chris Mulhearn - 111-132 Avoiding Invalid Instruments and Coping with Weak Instruments
by Michael P. Murray - 133-156 The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap
by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz & Ilyana Kuziemko - 157-176 The London Congestion Charge
by Jonathan Leape - 177-188 How Richard Nixon Pressured Arthur Burns: Evidence from the Nixon Tapes
by Burton A. Abrams - 189-202 What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970
by E. Han Kim & Adair Morse & Luigi Zingales - 203-218 Markets: The U.S. Lodging Industry
by Arturs Kalnins - 219-232 Policy Watch: Examining the Justification for Residential Recycling
by Thomas C. Kinnaman - 233-240 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2006, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 3-26 The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links
by Steven J. Davis & R. Jason Faberman & John Haltiwanger - 27-46 Changes in Labor Force Participation in the United States
by Chinhui Juhn & Simon Potter - 47-70 Unemployment Insurance: Strengthening the Relationship between Theory and Policy
by Walter Nicholson & Karen Needels - 71-96 The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding
by David H. Autor & Mark G. Duggan - 97-120 The Determinants of Mortality
by David Cutler & Angus Deaton & Adriana Lleras-Muney - 121-142 The Economics of HIV/AIDS in Low-Income Countries: The Case for Prevention
by David Canning - 143-160 Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists
by Paul Oyer - 161-172 Does the Academic Labor Market Initially Allocate New Graduates Efficiently?
by Valerie Smeets & Frédèric warzynski & Tom Coupé - 173-186 An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis
by Jahn K. Hakes & Raymond D. Sauer - 187-194 Retrospectives: The Coining of "Privatization" and Germany's National Socialist Party
by Germá Bel - 195-208 Markets: Continuity and Change in the International Diamond Market
by Debora L. Spar - 209-216 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2006, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 3-22 Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?
by David S. Landes - 23-48 Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?
by Luigi Guiso & Paola Sapienza & Luigi Zingales - 49-72 Religion and Economy
by Rachel M. McCleary & Robert J. Barro - 73-96 The Role of Family in Family Firms
by Marianne Bertrand & Antoinette Schoar - 97-118 Purple America
by Stephen Ansolabehere & Jonathan Rodden & James M. Snyder Jr. - 119-144 Myths and Realities of American Political Geography
by Edward L. Glaeser & Bryce A. Ward - 145-170 People Flows in Globalization
by Richard B. Freeman - 171-192 Price Changes in the Euro Area and the United States: Some Facts from Individual Consumer Price Data
by Emmanuel Dhyne & Luis J. Alvarez & Herve Le Bihan & Giovanni Veronese & Daniel Dias & Johannes Hoffmann & Nicole Jonker & Patrick Lunnemann & Fabio Rumler & Jouko Vilmunen - 193-206 Assassinations: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Israeli Counterterrorism Policy Using Stock Market Data
by Asaf Zussman & Noam Zussman - 207-220 Markets: The Fulton Fish Market
by Kathryn Graddy - 221-236 History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice
by Avner Greif - 237-244 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2006, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 3-24 Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
by Daniel Kahneman & Alan B. Krueger - 25-46 Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics
by Rafael Di Tella & Robert MacCulloch - 47-68 Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations
by Hilary W. Hoynes & Marianne E. Page & Ann Huff Stevens - 69-90 Poor People in Rich Nations: The United States in Comparative Perspective
by Timothy Smeeding - 91-116 Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries
by Nazmul Chaudhury & Jeffrey Hammer & Michael Kremer & Karthik Muralidharan & F. Halsey Rogers - 117-132 Addressing Absence
by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo - 133-151 The Economy of the Early Roman Empire
by Peter Temin - 153-174 Electronic Trading in Stock Markets
by Hans R. Stoll - 175-187 What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success
by Liran Einav & Leeat Yariv - 189-205 Markets: Beer in Germany and the United States
by William James Adams - 207-220 Policy Watch: Debt Relief
by Serkan Arslanalp & Peter Blair Henry - 221-234 Anomalies: Utility Maximization and Experienced Utility
by Daniel Kahneman & Richard H. Thaler - 235-242 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2005, Volume 19, Issue 4
- 3-24 The Vulcanization of the Human Brain: A Neural Perspective on Interactions Between Cognition and Emotion
by Jonathan D. Cohen - 25-42 Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making
by Shane Frederick - 43-66 Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes
by Ernst Fehr & Jean-Robert Tyran - 67-92 Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals and Misperceptions
by Charles Himmelberg & Christopher Mayer & Todd Sinai - 93-114 The American Mortgage in Historical and International Context
by Richard K. Green & Susan M. Wachter - 115-134 Accounting for Stock Options
by Jeremy Bulow & John B. Shoven - 135-144 The Original Management Incentive Schemes
by Richard T. Holden - 145-150 A Natural Experiment in Monetary Policy Covering Three Episodes of Growth and Decline in the Economy and the Stock Market
by Milton Friedman - 151-170 Intelligence Failures: An Organizational Economics Perspective
by Luis Garicano & Richard A. Posner - 171-192 The Degradation of Reported Corporate Profits
by Mihir A. Desai - 193-206 Oil for What?—Illicit Iraqi Oil Contracts and the U.N. Security Council
by Paul Heaton - 207-224 Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
by Thomas C. Leonard - 225-232 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 233-233 Evaluating Public Goods and Regulations: Comments
by Lawrence H. Goulder & Ian W. H. Parry & Roberton C. Williams III - 233-234 On the (Ir)relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy: Response
by Louis Kaplow
Summer 2005, Volume 19, Issue 3
- 3-18 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government—What We Don't Know Could Hurt Us: Some Reflections on the Measurement of Economic Activity
by Katharine G. Abraham - 19-42 Eight Questions about Corruption
by Jakob Svensson - 43-60 Political Selection
by Timothy Besley - 61-88 Law, Endowments and Property Rights
by Ross Levine - 89-108 The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty
by Barry R. Weingast - 109-130 Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments: On Morals and Why They Matter to a Liberal Society of Free People and Free Markets
by Jerry Evensky - 131-145 Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist
by Nava Ashraf & Colin F. Camerer & George Loewenstein - 147-162 Affirmative Action and Its Mythology
by Roland G. Fryer Jr. & Glenn C. Loury - 163-180 Dividend Taxation and Corporate Governance
by Randall Morck & Bernard Yeung - 181-198 Steven D. Levitt: 2003 John Bates Clark Medalist
by James M. Poterba - 199-215 History Lessons: The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the United States Since 1850
by Joseph P. Ferrie - 217-232 Policy Watch: Reform of the U.S. Postal Service
by R. Richard Geddes - 233-240 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 241-242 The Limits of Free Trade: Comment
by Avinash Dixit & Gene Grossman - 242-244 Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization: Response
by Paul A. Samuelson - 244-245 Chairing the Federal Reserve: Comment
by Robert W. Dimand - 245-245 Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History: Comment
by Jonathan H. Sunshine - 245-245 Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting: Correction
by Timothy J. Feddersen
Spring 2005, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 3-9 Shortfalls in the Long Run: Predictions about the Social Security Trust Fund
by James R. Hines Jr. & Timothy Taylor - 11-32 Saving Social Security
by Peter A. Diamond & Peter R. Orszag - 33-55 Structural Reform of Social Security
by Martin Feldstein - 57-73 Intellectual Property: The Law and Economics Approach
by Richard A. Posner - 75-98 Probabilistic Patents
by Mark A. Lemley & Carl Shapiro - 99-120 The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond
by Josh Lerner & Jean Tirole - 121-138 Copying and Copyright
by Hal R. Varian - 139-158 Lessons About Markets from the Internet
by Glenn Ellison & Sara Fisher Ellison - 159-184 Fussing and Fuming over Fannie and Freddie: How Much Smoke, How Much Fire?
by W. Scott Frame & Lawrence J. White - 185-206 Direct Democracy Works
by John G. Matsusaka - 207-220 Data Watch: Tort-uring the Data
by Eric Helland & Jonathan Klick & Alexander Tabarrok - 221-228 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 229-229 Irreversibility: Comments
by Bernard Wasow - 229-230 Are We Consuming Too Much? Response
by Kenneth J. Arrow & Partha Dasgupta & Lawrence Goulder
Winter 2005, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 3-7 What is Economic Sociology and Should any Economists Care?
by Robert Gibbons - 9-32 Identity and the Economics of Organizations
by George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton - 33-50 The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes
by Mark Granovetter - 51-70 Ecologies of Organizations: Diversity and Identity
by Michael T. Hannan - 71-86 A Sociological Perspective on Gender and Career Outcomes
by Barbara F. Reskin & Denise D. Bielby - 87-106 Russian Retrospectives on Reforms from Yeltsin to Putin
by Padma Desai - 107-130 Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
by Elizabeth Brainerd & David M. Cutler - 131-150 The Role of Oligarchs in Russian Capitalism
by Sergei Guriev & Andrei Rachinsky - 151-174 A Normal Country: Russia After Communism
by Andrei Shleifer & Daniel Treisman - 175-198 The Making of an Economist Redux
by David Colander - 199-220 Child Labor in the Global Economy
by Eric V. Edmonds & Nina Pavcnik - 221-232 Data Watch: The American Time Use Survey
by Daniel S. Hamermesh & Harley Frazis & Jay Stewart - 233-240 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 241-242 Weather and the Salem Witch Trials: Comments
by Franklin G. Mixon Jr. - 242-243 Rationality and Voting: Comments
by Philip Jones & John Hudson - 243-243 Antitrust Enforcement: Comments
by Jonathan B. Baker
Fall 2004, Volume 18, Issue 4
- 3-26 The Economic Future of Europe
by Olivier Blanchard - 27-48 The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View
by Alberto Alesina & Roberto Perotti - 49-68 Why are European Countries Diverging in their Unemployment Experience?
by Gilles Saint-Paul - 69-92 How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru
by John Mcmillan & Pablo Zoido - 93-114 The Muddles over Outsourcing
by Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya - 115-134 Oil and the Macroeconomy Since the 1970s
by Robert B. Barsky & Lutz Kilian - 135-158 The Purchasing Power Parity Debate
by Alan M. Taylor & Mark P. Taylor - 159-175 On the (Ir)Relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy
by Louis Kaplow - 177-200 Urban Sprawl
by Thomas J. Nechyba & Randall P. Walsh - 201-214 Policy Watch: Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States
by Howard Kunreuther & Erwann Michel-Kerjan - 215-222 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Summer 2004, Volume 18, Issue 3
- 3-24 The Capital Asset Pricing Model
by André F. Perold - 25-46 The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence
by Eugene F. Fama & Kenneth R. French - 47-70 Economic Policy and Prospects in Iraq
by Christopher Foote & William Block & Keith Crane & Simon Gray - 71-90 Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation
by Timur Kuran - 91-115 Development, Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa since 1950
by Tarik M. Yousef - 117-133 Media, Education and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World
by Matthew A. Gentzkow & Jesse M. Shapiro - 135-146 Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization
by Paul A. Samuelson - 147-172 Are We Consuming Too Much?
by Kenneth Arrow & Partha Dasgupta & Lawrence Goulder & Gretchen Daily & Paul Ehrlich & Geoffrey Heal & Simon Levin & Karl-Göran Mäler & Stephen Schneider & David Starrett & Brian Walker - 173-192 Should We Fear Derivatives?
by René M. Stulz - 193-214 Women in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?
by Donna K. Ginther & Shulamit Kahn - 215-222 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 223-224 Activist Antitrust? Comments
by Mikhail S. Kouliavtsev - 224-225 Does Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare? Assessing the Evidence: Comments
by Gregory J. Werden - 225-226 Does Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare? Assessing the Evidence: Response
by Robert W. Crandall & Clifford Winston
Spring 2004, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 3-28 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Lessons from Past Productivity Booms
by Roger W. Ferguson & William L. Wascher - 29-50 Consumer Confidence and Consumer Spending
by Sydney C. Ludvigson