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Summer 1997, Volume 11, Issue 3
- 119-138 Restructuring, Competition and Regulatory Reform in the U.S. Electricity Sector
by Paul L. Joskow - 139-158 FDICIA after Five Years
by George J. Benston & George G. Kaufman - 159-174 A Nobel Prize for Game Theorists: The Contributions of Harsanyi, Nash and Selten
by Faruk Gul - 175-186 Policy Watch: The Family and Medical Leave Act
by Christopher J. Ruhm - 195-197 Correspondence [Econometrics and Presidential Elections]
by Bartels, Larry - 197-198 Response [Econometrics and Presidential Elections]
by Fair, Ray C
Spring 1997, Volume 11, Issue 2
- 3-19 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: What Central Bankers Could Learn from Academics--And Vice Versa
by Alan S. Blinder - 21-40 Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts
by Peter Gottschalk - 41-54 Changes in Earnings Inequality: The Role of Demand Shifts
by George E. Johnson - 55-74 Factor Proportions and Relative Wages: The Supply-Side Determinants of Wage Inequality
by Robert H. Topel - 75-96 Institutional Changes and Rising Wage Inequality: Is There a Linkage?
by Nicole M. Fortin & Thomas Lemieux - 97-116 Inflation Targeting: A New Framework for Monetary Policy?
by Ben S. Bernanke & Frederic S. Mishkin - 117-136 The Growth of Temporary Services Work
by Lewis M. Segal & Daniel G. Sullivan - 137-152 The Perseverance of Paul Samuelson's Economics
by Mark Skousen - 153-160 Credo of a Lucky Textbook Author
by Paul A. Samuelson - 161-178 In Honor of David Card: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
by Richard B. Freeman
Winter 1997, Volume 11, Issue 1
- 3-10 Reflections on the Natural Rate Hypothesis
by Joseph Stiglitz - 11-32 The Time-Varying NAIRU and Its Implications for Economic Policy
by Robert J. Gordon - 33-49 The NAIRU, Unemployment and Monetary Policy
by Douglas Staiger & James H. Stock & Mark W. Watson - 51-72 What We Know and Do Not Know about the Natural Rate of Unemployment
by Olivier Blanchard & Lawrence F. Katz - 73-92 Theory Ahead of Language in the Economics of Unemployment
by Richard Rogerson - 93-108 Time to Ditch the NAIRU
by James K. Galbraith - 109-126 Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases
by Linda Babcock & George Loewenstein - 127-149 An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory
by Robert Gibbons - 151-167 Capacity Utilization
by Carol Corrado & Joe Mattey - 169-177 Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform
by Rebecca M. Blank - 179-189 Retrospectives: Classical Family Values: Ending the Poor Laws as They Knew Them
by Joseph Persky - 191-200 Anomalies: The Equity Premium Puzzle
by Jeremy J. Siegel & Richard H. Thaler
Fall 1996, Volume 10, Issue 4
- 3-8 Symposium on Primary and Secondary Education
by Francine D. Blau - 9-30 Measuring Investment in Education
by Eric A. Hanushek - 31-50 School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina
by David Card & Alan B. Krueger - 51-72 Are Efficiency and Equity in School Finance Substitutes or Complements?
by Caroline Minter Hoxby - 73-90 Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives
by R. Glenn Hubbard & Jonathan S. Skinner - 91-112 How Retirement Saving Programs Increase Saving
by James M. Poterba & Steven F. Venti & David A. Wise - 113-138 The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving
by Eric M. Engen & William G. Gale & John Karl Scholz - 139-158 Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage
by Shelly Lundberg & Robert A. Pollak - 159-177 Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What Is the Evidence?
by Brent R. Moulton - 179-186 The American Economic Association Dues Structure
by Richard O. Beil & David N. Laband - 187-193 Classroom Games: Information Cascades
by Lisa R. Anderson & Charles A. Holt
Summer 1996, Volume 10, Issue 3
- 3-21 A Successful Accident: Recollections and Speculations about the CEA
by Herbert Stein - 23-39 The CEA: An Inside Voice for Mainstream Economics
by Charles L. Schultze - 41-53 Keynesianism, Pennsylvania Avenue Style: Some Economic Consequences of the Employment Act of 1946
by J. Bradford De Long - 55-66 Different Approaches for Dealing with Social Security
by Edward M. Gramlich - 67-88 Proposals to Restructure Social Security
by Peter A. Diamond - 89-102 Econometrics and Presidential Elections
by Ray C. Fair - 103-118 Cheap Talk
by Joseph Farrell & Matthew Rabin - 119-134 Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts
by W. Kip Viscusi - 135-152 Market Microstructure and Intermediation
by Daniel F. Spulber - 153-158 Trends in Multi-authored Papers in Economics
by John Hudson - 159-167 Policy Watch: Medicare
by Joseph P. Newhouse - 169-180 Data Watch: The Redesigned Current Population Survey
by Anne E. Polivka
Spring 1996, Volume 10, Issue 2
- 3-24 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor
by Mancur Olson - 25-44 How Far Has the Transition Progressed?
by Peter Murrell - 45-66 Stabilization and Growth in Transition Economies: The Early Experience
by Stanley Fischer & Ratna Sahay & Carlos A. Vegh - 67-86 Privatization Is Transition--Or Is It?
by Josef C. Brada - 87-103 The Roles of the State and the Market in Establishing Property Rights
by Andrzej Rapaczynski - 105-122 The Economics of Convention
by H. Peyton Young - 123-139 Inflows of Capital to Developing Countries in the 1990s
by Guillermo A. Calvo & Leonardo Leiderman & Carmen M. Reinhart - 141-153 Discovering Diversity in Introductory Economics
by Robin L. Bartlett - 155-168 Data Watch: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics
by Charles Brown & Greg J. Duncan & Frank P. Stafford - 169-177 Retrospectives: The Origins of the Representative Agent
by James E. Hartley - 179-187 Classroom Games: Understanding Bayes' Rule
by Charles A. Holt & Lisa R. Anderson - 189-198 Policy Watch: The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform
by Betsey A. Kuhn
Winter 1996, Volume 10, Issue 1
- 3-24 Help Wanted: Economists, Crime and Public Policy
by John J. DiIulio - 25-42 Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do about It?
by Richard B. Freeman - 43-67 Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses
by Isaac Ehrlich - 69-85 The Computational Experiment: An Econometric Tool
by Finn E. Kydland & Edward C. Prescott - 87-104 The Empirical Foundations of Calibration
by Lars Peter Hansen & James J. Heckman - 105-120 Macroeconomics and Methodology
by Christopher A. Sims - 121-140 Social Psychology, Unemployment and Macroeconomics
by William A. Darity & Arthur H. Goldsmith - 141-157 Dynamic Revenue Estimation
by Alan J. Auerbach - 159-175 Analyzing the Airwaves Auction
by R. Preston McAfee & John McMillan - 177-186 Does Studying Economics Discourage Cooperation? Watch What We Do, Not What We Say or How We Play
by Anthony M. Yezer & Robert S. Goldfarb & Paul J. Poppen - 187-192 Do Economists Make Bad Citizens?
by Robert H. Frank & Thomas D. Gilovich & Dennis T. Regan - 193-203 Classroom Games: Trading in a Pit Market
by Charles A. Holt
Fall 1995, Volume 9, Issue 4
- 3-10 Symposium on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
by Frederic S. Mishkin - 11-26 The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: An Empirical Framework
by John B. Taylor - 27-48 Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission
by Ben S. Bernanke & Mark Gertler - 49-72 Monetary, Credit and (Other) Transmission Processes: A Monetarist Perspective
by Allan H. Meltzer - 73-96 The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates
by Maurice Obstfeld & Kenneth Rogoff - 97-118 Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
by Michael E. Porter & Claas van der Linde - 119-132 Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?
by Karen Palmer & Wallace E. Oates & Paul R. Portney - 133-154 Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages
by Andrew Weiss - 155-173 Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy
by Timur Kuran - 175-192 The Economic Case against Drug Prohibition
by Jeffrey A. Miron & Jeffrey Zwiebel - 193-206 Women in the Economics Profession
by Shulamit B. Kahn - 207-216 Retrospective: The Convergence Debate between David Hume and Josiah Tucker
by Bruce Truitt Elmslie - 217-226 The Flypaper Effect
by James R. Hines & Richard H. Thaler
Summer 1995, Volume 9, Issue 3
- 3-13 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The Economist vs. Madmen in Authority
by Isabel V. Sawhill - 15-32 Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?
by Richard B. Freeman - 33-55 Income Inequality and Trade: How to Think, What to Conclude
by J. David Richardson - 57-80 How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers
by Adrian Wood - 81-82 Symposium on Consumption Smoothing in Developing Countries
by Anne Case - 83-102 Consumption Insurance: An Evaluation of Risk-Bearing Systems in Low-Income Economies
by Robert M. Townsend - 103-114 Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing
by Jonathan Morduch - 115-127 Nonmarket Institutions for Credit and Risk Sharing in Low-Income Countries
by Timothy Besley - 129-152 Some Lessons from the Yield Curve
by John Y. Campbell - 153-167 An Introduction to the Wage Curve
by David G. Blanchflower & Andrew J. Oswald - 169-188 The Stories We Tell: A Reconsideration of AS/AD Analysis
by David Colander - 189-197 Retrospectives: Schumpeter, David Wells, and Creative Destruction
by Michael Perelman - 199-208 Policy Watch: Did Nasdaq Market Makers Implicitly Collude?
by William G. Christie & Paul H. Schultz
Spring 1995, Volume 9, Issue 2
- 3-22 The Economic Benefits from Immigration
by George J. Borjas - 23-44 The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth
by Rachel M. Friedberg & Jennifer Hunt - 45-62 Tackling the European Migration Problems
by Klaus F. Zimmermann - 63-84 The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research
by Gary Burtless - 85-110 Assessing the Case for Social Experiments
by James J. Heckman & Jeffrey A. Smith - 111-130 Forty Years of Public Economics: A Personal Perspective
by Jacques H. Dreze - 131-148 Feminism and Economics
by Julie A. Nelson - 149-168 The Promise of Public Sector-Sponsored Training Programs
by Robert J. LaLonde - 169-189 The Boundaries of Multinational Enterprises and the Theory of International Trade
by James R. Markusen - 191-208 Cliometrics and the Nobel
by Claudia Goldin - 209-219 Anomalies: Ultimatums, Dictators and Manners
by Colin F. Camerer & Richard H. Thaler - 221-231 The Ethology of Homo Economicus
by Joseph Persky - 243-244 Unhooking Household Saving and Business Investment
by Guy, Frederick - 245-246 Declining Population Growth as a Cause of the Depression
by Barber, Clarence L
Winter 1995, Volume 9, Issue 1
- 3-26 An Introduction to Vote-Counting Schemes
by Jonathan Levin & Barry Nalebuff - 27-38 The Single Transferable Vote
by Nicolaus Tideman - 39-49 Approval Voting
by Robert J. Weber - 51-64 Optimal Voting Rules
by Peyton Young - 65-75 Using District Magnitude to Regulate Political Party Competition
by Douglas W. Rae - 77-89 Analysis of Democratic Institutions: Structure, Conduct and Performance
by Roger B. Myerson - 91-98 How to Judge Voting Schemes
by Amartya Sen - 99-120 Time for Revisionism on Rent Control?
by Richard Arnott - 121-140 Value-Added Taxation: A Tax Whose Time Has Come?
by Gilbert E. Metcalf - 141-152 Distributed Computation as an Economic System
by Bernardo A. Huberman & Tad Hogg - 153-163 Who Gets on the AEA Program?
by C. Elton Hinshaw & John J. Siegfried - 165-182 In Honor of Lawrence H. Summers, Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
by James M. Poterba - 183-193 Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform
by Steven D. Levitt - 195-202 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 203-205 American and European Economists: Correspondence
by Vives, Xavier - 205-206 American and European Economists: Correspondence
by Barmbold, Jens & Bindseil, Ulrich & Haucap, Justus - 207-207 American and European Economists: Response
by Eichenberger, Reiner & Frey, Bruno S - 207-209 The Economic Case against Higher Alcohol Taxes
by Heien, Dale - 210-212 The Economic Case against Higher Alcohol Taxes: Response
by Grossman, Michael
Fall 1994, Volume 8, Issue 4
- 3-17 The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should Care
by Paul R. Portney - 19-43 Valuing the Environment through Contingent Valuation
by W. Michael Hanemann - 45-64 Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number?
by Peter A. Diamond & Jerry A. Hausman - 65-90 Economic Incentives and the Defense Procurement Process
by William P. Rogerson - 91-110 Competition Policy, Rivalries, and Defense Industry Consolidation
by William E. Kovacic & Dennis E. Smallwood - 111-128 The Allocation of Resources in the Presence of Indivisibilities
by Herbert Scarf - 129-144 Nonprofit Organizations in the Health Sector
by Richard G. Frank & David S. Salkever - 145-160 Intergenerational Transfers and the Accumulation of Wealth
by William G. Gale & John Karl Scholz - 161-181 Distinguished Fellow: Herbert Scarf's Contributions to Economics
by Kenneth J. Arrow & Timothy J. Kehoe - 183-193 Policy Watch: Proposals for Time-Limited Welfare
by Rebecca M. Blank - 195-200 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 201-203 The Case of the Missing Currency: Correspondence
by Sumner, Scott - 203-205 The Case of the Missing Currency: Correspondence
by Pieper, Paul - 205-206 Income-Contingent College Loans: Correspondence
by Chapman, Bruce J
Summer 1994, Volume 8, Issue 3
- 3-11 Symposium on Health Care Reform
by Joseph P. Newhouse - 13-29 A Guide to Health Care Reform
by David M. Cutler - 31-43 Issues Every Plan to Reform Health Care Financing Must Confront
by Henry J. Aaron - 45-53 Universal Health Insurance in the Clinton Plan: Coverage as a Tax-Financed Public Good
by Mark V. Pauly - 55-60 Public Finance Principles and National Health Care Reform
by Richard Zeckhauser - 61-66 Two Improvements on the Clinton Framework
by Peter A. Diamond - 67-73 A Skeptic's View of Global Budget Caps
by James M. Poterba - 75-96 Economic FAQs About the Internet
by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason & Hal Varian - 97-119 Computer Network Resources for Economists
by William L. Goffe - 121-143 Universal Banking
by George J. Benston - 145-162 Selling Spectrum Rights
by John McMillan - 163-178 Corporate Diversificaton
by Cynthia A. Montgomery - 179-187 Trends in the Publication of Empirical Economics
by David Figlio - 189-195 Retrospectives: Fixed Capital, Railroad Economics and the Critique of the Market
by Michael Perelman
Spring 1994, Volume 8, Issue 2
- 3-21 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Public Policy, Values, and Consciousness
by Henry J. Aaron - 23-46 Completing China's Move to the Market
by Dwight H. Perkins - 47-70 Enterprise Reform in Chinese Industry
by Gary H. Jefferson & Thomas G. Rawski - 71-92 China's Macroeconomic Performance and Management during Transition
by Shahid Yusuf - 93-115 Systems Competition and Network Effects
by Michael L. Katz & Carl Shapiro - 117-131 Choosing How to Compete: Strategies and Tactics in Standardization
by Stanley M. Besen & Joseph Farrell - 133-150 Network Externality: An Uncommon Tragedy
by S. J. Liebowitz & Stephen E. Margolis - 151-164 The Usefulness of Core Theory in Economics
by Lester G. Telser - 165-176 The Politics of Market Socialism
by Andrei Shleifer & Robert W. Vishny - 177-181 On the Workability of Market Socialism
by Pranab Bardhan & John E. Roemer - 183-192 Nobel Laureate: Gary S. Becker: Ideas about Facts
by Victor R. Fuchs - 193-200 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 201-204 Evaluating Coase
by Williamson, Oliver E - 204-207 On the Costs of Inflation: Israel's Example
by Plessner, Yakir - 207-208 Ethics and The Invisible Hand
by Jones, Lamar B
Winter 1994, Volume 8, Issue 1
- 3-22 The Origins of Endogenous Growth
by Paul M. Romer - 23-44 Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth
by Gene M. Grossman & Elhanan Helpman - 45-54 Perspectives on Growth Theory
by Robert M. Solow - 55-72 Endogenous Growth Theory: Intellectual Appeal and Empirical Shortcomings
by Howard Pack - 73-94 Generational Accounting: A Meaningful Way to Evaluate Fiscal Policy
by Alan J. Auerbach & Jagadeesh Gokhale & Laurence J. Kotlikoff - 95-111 Should Generational Accounts Replace Public Budgets and Deficits?
by Robert Haveman - 113-131 Economics in the Laboratory
by Vernon L. Smith - 133-151 Issues in the Design of Environmental Excise Taxes
by Thomas A. Barthold - 153-163 Facts and Myths about Refereeing
by Daniel S. Hamermesh - 165-179 How Are the Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles by Leading Economists
by Joshua S. Gans & George B. Shepherd - 181-190 The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
by John T. Addison & McKinley L. Blackburn - 191-198 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 199-200 National Science Foundation Grants for Economics: Correspondence
by Friedman, Milton - 200-201 National Science Foundation Grants for Economics: Correspondence
by Merz, Thomas E & Joyce, B Patrick & Davutyan, Nurhan - 201-203 National Science Foundation Grants for Economics: Correspondence
by Laband, David N. - 203-205 National Science Foundation Grants for Economics: Response
by Griliches, Zvi
Fall 1993, Volume 7, Issue 4
- 3-10 Symposium on Global Climate Change
by Richard Schmalensee - 11-25 Reflections on the Economics of Climate Change
by William D. Nordhaus - 27-46 Costs of Reducing Global Carbon Emissions
by John P. Weyant - 47-63 Global Warming Policy: A Public Finance Perspective
by James M. Poterba - 65-86 Global Environmental Risks
by Graciela Chichilnisky & Geoffrey Heal