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December 2001, Volume 91, Issue 5
- 1350-1368 Learning from Experience and Learning from Others: An Exploration of Learning and Spillovers in Wartime Shipbuilding
by Rebecca Achee Thornton & Peter Thompson - 1369-1401 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
by Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson & James A. Robinson - 1402-1422 Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory and Ten Intuitive Contradictions
by Jacob K. Goeree & Charles A. Holt - 1423-1453 An Account of Global Factor Trade
by Donald R. Davis & David E. Weinstein - 1454-1477 Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life Cycle of Products
by Gilles Duranton & Diego Puga - 1478-1497 Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees
by Hao Li & Sherwin Rosen & Wing Suen - 1498-1507 Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards
by John A. List - 1508-1520 Information Cascades: Replication and an Extension to Majority Rule and Conformity-Rewarding Institutions
by Angela A. Hung & Charles R. Plott - 1521-1538 Minimax Play at Wimbledon
by Mark Walker & John Wooders - 1539-1545 GARP for Kids: On the Development of Rational Choice Behavior
by William T. Harbaugh & Kate Krause & Timothy R. Berry - 1546-1555 A Test of Game-Theoretic and Behavioral Models of Play in Exchange and Insurance Environments
by Cary A. Deck - 1556-1563 Reversing the Keynesian Asymmetry
by John Bennett & Manfredi M. A. La Manna - 1564-1579 Iceland's Natural Experiment in Supply-Side Economics
by Marco Bianchi & Bjorn R. Gudmundsson & Gylfi Zoega - 1580-1593 International Coordination of Trade and Domestic Policies
by Josh Ederington - 1594-1607 Monetary Policy and Market Interest Rates
by Tore Ellingsen & Ulf Soderstrom - 1608-1620 Output and Welfare Effects of Inflation with Costly Price and Quantity Adjustments
by Leif Danziger - 1621-1630 Inflation Is Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomenon: Richmond vs. Houston in 1864
by Richard C. K. Burdekin & Marc D. Weidenmier
September 2001, Volume 91, Issue 4
- 755-777 Rising U.S. Earnings Inequality and Family Labor Supply: The Covariance Structure of Intrafamily Earnings
by Dean R. Hyslop - 778-794 Estimating the Effect of Unearned Income on Labor Earnings, Savings, and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of Lottery Players
by Guido W. Imbens & Donald B. Rubin & Bruce I. Sacerdote - 795-813 Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
by Esther Duflo - 814-831 The Division of Spoils: Rent-Sharing and Discrimination in a Regulated Industry
by Sandra E. Black & Philip E. Strahan - 832-857 What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth among U.S. Households?
by B. Douglas Bernheim & Jonathan Skinner & Steven Weinberg - 858-876 Increasing Returns versus National Product Differentiation as an Explanation for the Pattern of U.S.-Canada Trade
by Keith Head & John Ries - 877-908 Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?
by Werner Antweiler & Brian R. Copeland & M. Scott Taylor - 909-923 Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach
by Lars-Hendrik Roller & Leonard Waverman - 924-937 Social Culture and Economic Performance
by Hanming Fang - 938-963 A Theory of Political Transitions
by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson - 964-985 Monetary Policy Rules Based on Real-Time Data
by Athanasios Orphanides - 986-1005 Testing for the Lucas Critique: A Quantitative Investigation
by Jesper Linde - 1006-1030 Quantifying Quality Growth
by Mark Bils & Peter J. Klenow - 1031-1054 World Income Components: Measuring and Exploiting Risk-Sharing Opportunities
by Stefano G. Athanasoulis & Robert J. Shiller - 1055-1062 The Declining Price Anomaly in Dutch Dutch Rose Auctions
by Gerard J. van den Berg & Jan C. van Ours & Menno P. Pradhan - 1063-1071 Creating Modern Art: The Changing Careers of Painters in France from Impressionism to Cubism
by David W. Galenson & Bruce A. Weinberg - 1072-1083 The Law of One Price in Scandinavian Duty-Free Stores
by Marcus Asplund & Richard Friberg - 1084-1094 VAT Base Broadening, Self Supply, and the Informal Sector
by John Piggott & John Whalley - 1095-1102 Estimating the Value of Political Connections
by Raymond Fisman - 1103-1115 The Political Geography of Tax H(e)avens and Tax Hells
by Nico A. Hansen & Anke S. Kessler - 1116-1125 Individual Risk in an Investment-Based Social Security System
by Martin Feldstein & Elena Ranguelova - 1126-1134 Longevity Expectations and Death: Can People Predict Their Own Demise?
by V. Kerry Smith & Donald H. Taylor & Frank A. Sloan - 1135-1148 Technological Change, Depletion, and the U.S. Petroleum Industry
by John T. Cuddington & Diana L. Moss - 1149-1159 Intertemporal Depletion of Resource Sites by Spatially Distributed Users
by Gerard Gaudet & Michel Moreaux & Stephen W. Salant - 1160-1167 Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement across Industries and Countries: Comment
by Anders Sorensen - 1168-1169 Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement across Industries and Countries: Reply
by Andrew B. Bernard & Charles I. Jones - 1170-1179 An Asset Allocation Puzzle: Comment
by Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou & James V. Jordan & Roland Portait - 1180-1183 Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics: Comment
by William Robert Nelson
June 2001, Volume 91, Issue 3
- 351-378 Economic Choices
by Daniel McFadden - 379-398 Rules, Communication, and Collusion: Narrative Evidence from the Sugar Institute Case
by David Genesove & Wallace P. Mullin - 399-427 Auctions with Resale Markets: An Application to U.S. Forest Service Timber Sales
by Philip A. Haile - 428-453 Vertical Integration, Market Foreclosure, and Consumer Welfare in the Cable Television Industry
by Tasneem Chipty - 454-474 Information Gatekeepers on the Internet and the Competitiveness of Homogeneous Product Markets
by Michael R. Baye & John Morgan - 475-484 Costly Predation and the Distribution of Competence
by John Conlisk - 485-508 A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks
by Rachel E. Kranton & Deborah F. Minehart - 509-524 The Value of Information in Efficient Risk-Sharing Arrangements
by Edward E. Schlee - 525-541 Optimal Incentives for Teams
by Yeon-Koo Che & Seung-Weon Yoo - 542-558 The Optimal Allocation of Prizes in Contests
by Benny Moldovanu & Aner Sela - 559-573 Competition and Custom in Economic Contracts: A Case Study of Illinois Agriculture
by H. Peyton Young & Mary A. Burke - 574-595 Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the United States
by David Altig - 596-610 Is a Uniform Social Policy Better? Fiscal Federalism and Factor Mobility
by Roberto Perotti - 611-618 Demand Systems with and without Errors
by Arthur Lewbel - 619-630 Using Engel's Law to Estimate CPI Bias
by Bruce W. Hamilton - 631-647 Does Buffer-Stock Saving Explain the Smoothness and Excess Sensitivity of Consumption?
by Sydney C. Ludvigson & Alexander Michaelides - 648-662 Monetary Instability, the Predictability of Prices, and the Allocation of Investment: An Empirical Investigation Using U.K. Panel Data
by Paul Beaudry & Mustafa Caglayan & Fabio Schiantarelli - 663-680 Business Fixed Investment and "Bubbles": The Japanese Case
by Robert S. Chirinko & Huntley Schaller - 681-692 The Response of Expenditures to Anticipated Income Changes: Panel Data Estimates
by Martin Browning & M. Dolores Collado - 693-708 Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise
by David L. Carr & James R. Markusen & Keith E. Maskus - 709-723 Optimal Regional Redistribution under Asymmetric Information
by Massimo Bordignon & Paolo Manasse & Guido Tabellini - 724-730 How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment
by Tracy R. Lewis & David E. M. Sappington - 731-738 How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment
by Dieter Balkenborg - 739-745 How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Reply
by Rohan Pitchford
May 2001, Volume 91, Issue 2
- 1-11 Struggling to Understand the Stock Market
by Robert E. Hall - 12-17 Human Capital and Growth
by Robert J. Barro - 18-23 The Legacy of U.S. Educational Leadership: Notes on Distribution and Economic Growth in the 20th Century
by Lawrence F. Katz & Claudia Goldin - 24-28 Black-White Achievement Differences and Governmental Interventions
by Eric A. Hanushek - 29-33 Input Trade and the Location of Production
by Ronald W. Jones & Ronald Findlay - 34-38 Why Did Productivity Fall So Much during the Great Depression?
by Lee E. Ohanian - 39-44 Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of Specialized Inventors in the 19th-Century United States
by Kenneth L. Sokoloff & Naomi R. Lamoreaux - 45-50 Sharing Ambiguity
by Larry G. Epstein - 51-54 Pitfalls of a Minimax Approach to Model Uncertainty
by Christopher A. Sims - 55-59 Minimax Estimation and Forecasting in a Stationary Autoregression Model
by Gary Chamberlain - 60-66 Robust Control and Model Uncertainty
by Thomas J. Sargent & LarsPeter Hansen - 67-72 Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data
by Sendhil Mullainathan & Marianne Bertrand - 73-78 In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies
by Joseph Henrich - 79-84 Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh & Steven D. Levitt - 85-90 Youth Smoking in the 1990's: Why Did It Rise and What Are the Long-Run Implications?
by Jonathan Gruber - 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