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Spring 2004, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 51-66 How Should We Measure Consumer Confidence?
by Jeff Dominitz & Charles F. Manski - 67-88 Latin America's Growth and Equity Frustrations During Structural Reforms
by José Antonio Ocampo - 89-106 Latin America since the 1990s: Rising from the Sickbed?
by Arminio Fraga - 107-126 Prediction Markets
by Justin Wolfers & Eric Zitzewitz - 127-141 Historical Presidential Betting Markets
by Paul W. Rhode & Koleman S. Strumpf - 143-160 Making a Name: Women's Surnames at Marriage and Beyond
by Claudia Goldin & Maria Shim - 161-182 Manager-Investor Conflicts in Mutual Funds
by Paul G. Mahoney - 183-204 Asbestos and the Future of Mass Torts
by Michelle J. White - 205-226 State Budget Deficit Dynamics and the California Debacle
by Steven M. Sheffrin - 227-238 Prospects in the Academic Labor Market for Economists
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg - 239-255 Policy Watch: Trade Adjustment Assistance
by Katherine Baicker & Marit M. Rehavi - 257-261 Retrospectives: How Joan Robinson and B. L. Hallward Named Monopsony
by Robert J. Thornton - 263-270 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Winter 2004, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 3-26 Japan's Financial Crisis and Economic Stagnation
by Takeo Hoshi & Anil K. Kashyap - 27-50 Competition in Japan
by Michael E. Porter & Mariko Sakakibara - 51-74 Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?
by Casey B. Mulligan & Ricard Gil & Xavier Sala-i-Martin - 75-98 Constitutions and Economic Policy
by Torsten Persson & Guido Tabellini - 99-112 Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting
by Timothy J. Feddersen - 113-128 Legislative Organization
by Keith Krehbiel - 129-162 Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History
by Christina D. Romer & David H. Romer - 163-190 Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not
by Steven D. Levitt - 191-214 Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn't It More Affordable?
by John M. Quigley & Steven Raphael - 215-228 Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe
by Emily Oster - 229-240 Retrospectives: Gender in Classical Economics
by Robert W. Dimand & Evelyn L. Forget & Chris Nyland - 241-248 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Fall 2003, Volume 17, Issue 4
- 3-26 Does Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare? Assessing the Evidence
by Robert W. Crandall & Clifford Winston - 27-50 The Case for Antitrust Enforcement
by Jonathan B. Baker - 51-74 The Unholy Trinity of Financial Contagion
by Graciela L. Kaminsky & Carmen M. Reinhart & Carlos A. Végh - 75-98 Restructuring Sovereign Debt
by Barry Eichengreen - 99-118 The Mirage of Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Market Countries
by Guillermo A. Calvo & Frederic S. Mishkin - 119-144 Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?
by Alan B. Krueger & Jitka Maleckova - 145-166 Escaping from a Liquidity Trap and Deflation: The Foolproof Way and Others
by Lars E.O. Svensson - 167-190 The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change
by Ronald Lee - 191-202 Anomalies: The Law of One Price in Financial Markets
by Owen A. Lamont & Richard H. Thaler - 203-217 Policy Watch: The Economics of Fuel Economy Standards
by Paul R. Portney & Ian W.H. Parry & Howard K. Gruenspecht & Winston Harrington - 219-226 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 227-235 Comments
by Luigi L. Pasinetti & Franklin M. Fisher & Jesus Felipe & Robert L. Greenfield & Avi J. Cohen & William H. Kaempfer & Anton D. Lowenberg & Lance E. Davis & Stanley Engerman
Summer 2003, Volume 17, Issue 3
- 3-22 Halving Global Poverty
by Timothy Besley & Robin Burgess - 23-48 Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?
by William Easterly - 49-70 The Trouble with Stock Options
by Brian J. Hall & Kevin J. Murphy - 71-92 Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
by Lucian Arye Bebchuk & Jesse M. Fried - 93-118 Why Have Americans Become More Obese?
by David M. Cutler & Edward L. Glaeser & Jesse M. Shapiro - 119-140 The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy
by Robert A. Moffitt - 141-157 The Economics and Law of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
by Kaushik Basu - 159-176 In Honor of Matthew Rabin: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
by Colin Camerer & Richard H. Thaler - 177-194 Retrospectives: Who Invented Instrumental Variable Regression?
by James H. Stock & Francesco Trebbi - 195-202 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Spring 2003, Volume 17, Issue 2
- 3-26 The Fall of Enron
by Paul M. Healy & Krishna G. Palepu - 27-50 Corporate Earnings: Facts and Fiction
by Baruch Lev - 51-72 Corporate Conflicts of Interest
by Joel S. Demski - 73-83 Contracts Between Art and Commerce
by Richard E. Caves - 85-97 Some Economics of Ticket Resale
by Pascal Courty - 99-111 Awards, Success and Aesthetic Quality in the Arts
by Victor Ginsburgh - 113-124 Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement: Napster and Beyond
by William Landes & Douglas Lichtman - 125-148 Health Care Costs: On the Rise Again
by Sherry Glied - 149-172 Perspectives from the President's Commission on Social Security Reform
by John F. Cogan & Olivia S. Mitchell - 173-186 Policy Watch: The Expanding Reach of the Individual Alternative Minimum Tax
by Leonard E. Burman & William G. Gale & Jeffrey Rohaly - 187-197 History Lessons: Sanctions - Neither War nor Peace
by Lance Davis & Stanley Engerman - 199-206 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Winter 2003, Volume 17, Issue 1
- 3-22 The Consumer Price Index: Conceptual Issues and Practical Suggestions
by Charles L. Schultze - 23-44 Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the Consumer Price Index
by Jerry Hausman - 45-58 Toward a Cost-of-Living Index: Progress and Prospects
by Katharine G. Abraham - 59-82 The Efficient Market Hypothesis and Its Critics
by Burton G. Malkiel - 83-104 From Efficient Markets Theory to Behavioral Finance
by Robert J. Shiller - 105-130 Why is There so Little Money in U.S. Politics?
by Stephen Ansolabehere & John M. de Figueiredo & James M. Snyder Jr - 131-154 Durable Goods Theory for Real World Markets
by Michael Waldman - 155-180 Beyond Incentive Pay: Insiders' Estimates of the Value of Complementary Human Resource Management Practices
by Casey Ichniowski & Kathryn Shaw - 181-198 An Interview with Edmond Malinvaud
by Alan B. Krueger - 199-214 Retrospectives: Whatever Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies?
by Avi J. Cohen - 215-222 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 223-224 Econometrics and Software: Comments
by B. D. McCullough & H. D. Vinod - 224-226 Instrumental Variables: Comments
by A. Buse - 226-227 The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Comments
by Dean Baker
Fall 2002, Volume 16, Issue 4
- 3-24 School Vouchers: A Critical View
by Helen F. Ladd - 25-44 How Vouchers Could Change the Market for Education
by Derek Neal - 45-66 Pharmaceuticals in U.S. Health Care: Determinants of Quantity and Price
by Ernst R. Berndt - 67-90 Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World
by Michael Kremer - 91-114 The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures
by Thomas J. Kane & Douglas O. Staiger - 115-136 The NAIRU in Theory and Practice
by Laurence Ball & N. Gregory Mankiw - 137-160 Trends in Aggregate Concentration in the United States
by Lawrence J. White - 161-184 Productivity Growth in World Agriculture: Sources and Constraints
by Vernon W. Ruttan - 185-205 Decentralization of Governance and Development
by Pranab Bardhan - 207-218 Retrospectives: Economists and the Fed: Beginnings
by Perry Mehrling - 219-226 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 227-230 Pricing and Cost of Electronics Journals: Comment
by Joop Dirkmaat - 230-232 Pricing and Cost of Electronics Journals: Comment
by Robert E. Kohn - 232-238 Pricing and Cost of Electronics Journals: Response
by Theodore Bergstrom
Summer 2002, Volume 16, Issue 3
- 3-30 The Inheritance of Inequality
by Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis - 31-44 Intergenerational Inequality: A Sociological Perspective
by Robert Erikson & John H. Goldthorpe - 45-58 Economic Interpretations of Intergenerational Correlations
by Nathan D. Grawe & Casey B. Mulligan - 59-66 Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility
by Gary Solon - 67-88 Economic Reforms in India Since 1991: Has Gradualism Worked?
by Montek S. Ahluwalia - 89-108 Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?
by Gaurav Datt & Martin Ravallion - 109-130 Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link
by Tirthankar Roy - 131-152 Perspectives on the U.S. Current Account Deficit and Sustainability
by Catherine L. Mann - 153-170 The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies
by John McMillan & Christopher Woodruff - 171-195 The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract
by Oliver E. Williamson - 197-215 Retrospectives: The Origins of Neoclassical Microeconomics
by Robert B. Ekelund Jr & Robert F. Hébert - 217-224 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 225-226 Wheat from Chaff: Meta-Analysis as Quantitative Literature Review: Comment
by Robert S. Goldfarb & H. O. Stekler - 226-227 Wheat from Chaff: Meta-Analysis as Quantitative Literature Review: Reply
by David Neumark - 227-229 Wheat from Chaff: Meta-Analysis as Quantitative Literature Review: Response
by T. D. Stanley
Spring 2002, Volume 16, Issue 2
- 3-22 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The New Economy: Post Mortem or Second Wind?
by Martin Neil Baily - 23-46 Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics
by Richard R. Nelson & Sidney G. Winter - 47-66 Evolution and Game Theory
by Larry Samuelson - 67-88 Evolution of Social Behavior: Individual and Group Selection
by Theodore C. Bergstrom - 89-106 Evolution and Human Nature
by Arthur J. Robson - 107-129 The Role of Economics in Climate Change Policy
by Warwick J. McKibbin & Peter J. Wilcoxen - 131-154 The Economics of Patents: Lessons from Recent U.S. Patent Reform
by Nancy T. Gallini - 155-174 Oligopsony and Monopsonistic Competition in Labor Markets
by Alan Manning & Ted To - 175-195 Deposit Insurance Around the Globe: Where Does It Work?
by Asli Demirguc-Kunt & Edward J. Kane - 197-206 Retrospectives: Captains of Industry
by Robert Dixon - 207-217 Policy Watch: The Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan
by Roger Feldman & Kenneth E. Thorpe & Bradley Gray - 219-226 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 227-229 Defending Expected Utility Theory: Comment
by Richard Watt - 229-230 Response [Anomalies: Risk Aversion]
by Matthew Rabin & Richard H. Thaler
Winter 2002, Volume 16, Issue 1
- 3-28 Transition Economies: Performance and Challenges
by Jan Svejnar - 29-50 The Political Economy of Transition
by Gérard Roland - 51-76 Institutional Determinants of Labor Reallocation in Transition
by Tito Boeri & Katherine Terrell - 77-100 The Great Divide and Beyond: Financial Architecture in Transition
by Erik Berglof & Patrick Bolton - 101-124 Competition and Corporate Governance in Transition
by Saul Estrin - 125-146 Environmental Policy Since Earth Day I: What Have We Gained?
by A. Myrick Freeman III - 147-168 Confronting the Environmental Kuznets Curve
by Susmita Dasgupta & Benoit Laplante & Hua Wang & David Wheeler - 169-189 What Really Matters in Auction Design
by Paul Klemperer - 191-211 The Trouble With Electricity Markets: Understanding California's Restructuring Disaster
by Severin Borenstein - 213-224 Policy Watch: U.S. Disability Policy in a Changing Environment
by Richard V. Burkhauser & Mary C. Daly - 225-240 Data Watch: Research Data from Transition Economies
by Randall K. Filer & Jan Hanousek - 241-248 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Fall 2001, Volume 15, Issue 4
- 3-10 Symposium on Econometric Tools
by Alan B. Krueger - 11-28 Nonparametric Density and Regression Estimation
by John DiNardo & Justin L. Tobias - 29-42 Semiparametric Censored Regression Models
by Kenneth Y. Chay & James L. Powell - 43-56 Binary Response Models: Logits, Probits and Semiparametrics
by Joel L. Horowitz & N. E. Savin - 57-67 Mismeasured Variables in Econometric Analysis: Problems from the Right and Problems from the Left
by Jerry Hausman - 69-85 Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments
by Joshua D. Angrist & Alan B. Krueger - 87-100 Applications of Generalized Method of Moments Estimation
by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge - 101-115 Vector Autoregressions
by James H. Stock & Mark W. Watson - 117-128 The New Econometrics of Structural Change: Dating Breaks in U.S. Labour Productivity
by Bruce E. Hansen - 129-141 The Bootstrap and Multiple Imputations: Harnessing Increased Computing Power for Improved Statistical Tests
by David Brownstone & Robert Valletta - 143-156 Quantile Regression
by Roger Koenker & Kevin F. Hallock - 157-168 GARCH 101: The Use of ARCH/GARCH Models in Applied Econometrics
by Robert Engle - 169-182 Teaching Statistics and Econometrics to Undergraduates
by William E. Becker & William H. Greene - 183-198 Free Labour for Costly Journals?
by Theodore C. Bergstrom - 199-208 Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Classical Creed
by Joseph Persky - 209-217 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 219-221 A Public Choice Explanation for the Budget Surplus: Comment
by Russell S. Sobel - 221-221 The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the United States: Response
by Alberto Alesina - 221-222 Revolutions in Economic Thought
by Kurt W. Rothschild - 222-222 No History of Ideas, Please, We're Economists: Response
by Mark Blaug
Summer 2001, Volume 15, Issue 3
- 3-22 The Life-Cycle Model of Consumption and Saving
by Martin Browning & Thomas F. Crossley - 23-45 A Theory of the Consumption Function, with and without Liquidity Constraints
by Christopher D. Carroll - 47-68 The Hyberbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation
by George-Marios Angeletos & David Laibson & Andrea Repetto & Jeremy Tobacman & Stephen Weinberg - 69-88 The WTO as a Mechanism for Securing Market Access Property Rights: Implications for Global Labor and Environmental Issues
by Kyle Bagwell & Robert W. Staiger - 89-112 Labor Standards: Where Do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda?
by Drusilla K. Brown - 113-130 Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide
by Daniel C. Esty - 131-150 Wheat from Chaff: Meta-analysis as Quantitative Literature Review
by T. D. Stanley - 151-172 International Productivity Comparisons Built from the Firm Level
by Martin Neil Baily & Robert M. Solow - 173-194 Institutional Economics: Then and Now
by Malcolm Rutherford - 195-210 Economic Education in U.S. High Schools
by William B. Walstad - 211-231 An Interview with William J. Baumol
by Alan B. Krueger - 233-246 The Early Development of Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States
by B. Zorina Khan & Kenneth L. Sokoloff - 247-256 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 257-258 The Production Function and Productivity: Comment
by Duncan K. Foley & Thomas R. Michl - 258-259 Response from Robert J. Gordon
by Robert J. Gordon - 259-259 Response from Stephen E. Oliner and Daniel E. Sichel
by Stephen D. Oliner & Daniel E. Sichel - 259-260 Sociology and Social Interactions: Comment
by Jonathon E. Mote
Spring 2001, Volume 15, Issue 2
- 3-24 Exchange Rate Regimes: Is the Bipolar View Correct?
by Stanley Fischer - 25-44 An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft
by Richard J. Gilbert & Michael L. Katz - 45-62 The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do to Defend Its Market Position?
by Benjamin Klein - 63-80 Exclusivity and Tying in U.S. v. Microsoft: What We Know, and Don't Know
by Michael D. Whinston - 81-102 Capital Structure
by Stewart C. Myers - 103-120 New Evidence and Perspectives on Mergers
by Gregor Andrade & Mark Mitchell & Erik Stafford - 121-144 Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the United States: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s
by Bengt Holmstrom & Steven N. Kaplan - 145-168 The Venture Capital Revolution
by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner - 169-192 The Record and Prospects of the All-Volunteer Military in the United States
by John T. Warner & Beth J. Asch - 193-212 Tobacco at the Crossroads: The Past and Future of Smoking Regulation in the United States
by Jonathan Gruber - 213-238 Early Childhood Education Programs
by Janet Currie - 239-253 The National Longitudinal Surveys
by Michael R. Pergamit - 255-262 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Winter 2001, Volume 15, Issue 1
- 3-12 Economics and Electronic Commerce
by Severin Borenstein & Garth Saloner - 13-23 The Implications of Electronic Commerce for Fiscal Policy (and Vice Versa)
by Austan Goolsbee - 25-40 Wiring the Labor Market
by David H. Autor - 41-54 The Internet and the Investor
by Brad M. Barber & Terrance Odean - 55-68 Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce
by David Lucking-Reiley & Daniel F. Spulber - 69-80 The Emerging Landscape for Retail E-Commerce
by Yannis Bakos - 81-83 A Symposium on the North American Economy
by J. Bradford De Long - 85-106 Life Is Not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth
by Nora Lustig - 107-124 Canada: Life beyond the Looking Glass
by John F. Helliwell - 125-144 The Impact of NAFTA on the United States
by Mary E. Burfisher & Sherman Robinson & Karen Thierfelder - 145-164 No History of Ideas, Please, We're Economists
by Mark Blaug - 165-188 Insiders versus Outsiders
by Assar Lindbeck & Dennis J. Snower - 189-204 In Honor of Andrei Shleifer: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
by Olivier Blanchard - 205-218 Policy Watch: Death Watch for the Estate Tax?
by William G. Gale & Joel B. Slemrod - 219-232 Anomalies: Risk Aversion
by Matthew Rabin & Richard H. Thaler - 233-241 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Fall 2000, Volume 14, Issue 4
- 3-22 The Resurgence of Growth in the Late 1990s: Is Information Technology the Story?
by Stephen D. Oliner & Daniel E. Sichel - 23-48 Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance
by Erik Brynjolfsson & Lorin M. Hitt - 49-74 Does the "New Economy" Measure Up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
by Robert J. Gordon - 75-99 Gender Differences in Pay
by Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn