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Spring 2000, Volume 14, Issue 2
- 191-204 Policy Watch: The Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Advent of Broad Banking
by James R. Barth & R. Dan Brumbaugh & James A. Wilcox - 205-213 Classroom Games: Making Money
by Susan K. Laury & Charles A. Holt - 215-224 Data Watch: The U.S. National Income and Product Accounts
by Joel Popkin - 225-232 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 233-239 Correspondence
by Richard Brooks & Susan Helper & Patrick Bolton & David S. Scharfstein & Andrew Kamarck & Peter R. Orszag & Coleman Bazelon & Kent Smetters
Winter 2000, Volume 14, Issue 1
- 3-5 Reflections on Economics at the Turn of the Millennium
by Alan B. Krueger & J. Bradford De Long & Timothy Taylor - 7-26 The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800
by Richard A. Easterlin - 27-42 What the Change of System from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean
by Jànos Kornai - 43-60 Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking
by William E. Kovacic & Carl Shapiro - 61-82 American Government Finance in the Long Run: 1790 to 1990
by John Joseph Wallis - 83-94 The Triumph of Monetarism?
by J. Bradford De Long - 95-108 The Neoclassical Advent: American Economics at the Dawn of the 20th Century
by Joseph Persky - 109-119 Teaching Economics in the 21st Century
by William E. Becker - 121-132 New Millennium Economics: How Did It Get This Way, and What Way Is It?
by David Colander - 133-141 From Homo Economicus to Homo Sapiens
by Richard H. Thaler - 143-150 The Future of Microeconomic Theory
by Beth Allen - 151-158 Toward a Macroeconomics of the Medium Run
by Robert M. Solow - 159-168 Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century
by Robert E. Lucas - 169-175 Can America Stay on Top?
by Paul Krugman - 177-186 How Far Will International Economic Integration Go?
by Dani Rodrik - 187-198 Anti-Poverty Policy for Families in the Next Century: From Welfare to Work--and Worries
by David T. Ellwood - 199-206 Environmental Problems and Policy: 2000-2050
by Paul R. Portney - 207-214 Worker Protection Policies in the New Century
by Bernard E. Anderson - 215-222 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 223-228 Correspondence
by Richard C. Leone & Bernard Wasow & Earl L. Grinols & David Mustard & William R. Eadington & William Walter Brown & Christina D. Romer
Fall 1999, Volume 13, Issue 4
- 3-20 Global Financial Instability: Framework, Events, Issues
by Frederic S. Mishkin - 21-42 International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability
by Kenneth Rogoff - 43-64 Restoring Banking Stability: Beyond Supervised Capital Requirements
by Gerard Caprio & Patrick Honohan - 65-84 How Effective Are Capital Controls?
by Sebastian Edwards - 85-104 On the Need for an International Lender of Last Resort
by Stanley Fischer - 105-124 Are Preferential Trading Arrangements Trade-Liberalizing or Protectionist?
by Anne O. Krueger - 125-144 Survey Measures of Expected U.S. Inflation
by Lloyd B. Thomas - 145-168 Executive Compensation: Six Questions That Need Answering
by John M. Abowd & David S. Kaplan - 169-192 On the Complexities of Complex Economic Dynamics
by J. Barkley Rosser - 193-212 Measuring Returns on Investments in Collectibles
by Benjamin J. Burton & Joyce P. Jacobsen - 213-228 Discounting Inside the Washington D.C. Beltway
by Coleman Bazelon & Kent Smetters - 229-248 In Honor of the Nobel Laureates Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes: A Partial Differential Equation That Changed the World
by Robert A. Jarrow - 249-258 Retrospectives: Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association
by Bradley W. Bateman & Ethan B. Kapstein - 259-268 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 269-272 Correspondence
by Jonathan Willner & David J. Smyth
Summer 1999, Volume 13, Issue 3
- 3-22 Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?
by Paul Collier & Jan Willem Gunning - 23-40 Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa
by Angus Deaton - 41-66 Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Benno J. Ndulu & Stephen A. O'Connell - 67-88 Health and Schooling Investments in Africa
by T. Paul Schultz - 89-114 Africa's Economic Performance: Limitations of the Current Consensus
by John Sender - 115-134 The Labor Market for New Ph.D. Economists
by John J. Siegfried & Wendy A. Stock - 135-138 The Changing Distributions of New Ph.D. Economists and Their Employment: Implications for the Future
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg - 139-145 It's Better Being an Economist (But Don't Tell Anyone)
by Richard B. Freeman - 147-151 The Link from Graduate Education in Economics to the Labor Market
by W. Lee Hansen - 153-156 Implications of the Labor Market for Graduate Education in Economics
by Anne O. Krueger - 157-172 The Social Experiment Market
by David Greenberg & Mark Shroder & Matthew Onstott - 173-192 The Economics of Casino Gambling
by William R. Eadington - 193-204 Policy Watch: The Marriage Penalty
by James Alm & Stacy Dickert-Conlin & Leslie A. Whittington - 205-216 Data Watch: Research Data in the Economics of Education
by Thomas S. Dee & William N. Evans & Sheila E. Murray - 217-226 Classroom Games: Rent-Seeking and the Inefficiency of Non-market Allocations
by Jacob K. Goeree & Charles A. Holt - 227-234 Recommendations for Further Reading
by David Felix - 235-242 Correspondence
by Frederick Guy & Neil Perry & Andrei Shleifer & Andrew Metrick & Martin L. Weitzman & Barbara R. Bergmann & David Laidler & George S. Tavlas
Spring 1999, Volume 13, Issue 2
- 3-18 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Reflections on Managing Global Integration
by Lawrence H. Summers - 19-22 Introduction to the Symposium on Business Cycles
by J. Bradford De Long - 23-44 Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations
by Christina D. Romer - 45-68 Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective
by Susanto Basu & Alan M. Taylor - 69-90 Theory and History behind Business Cycles: Are the 1990s the Onset of a Golden Age?
by Victor Zarnowitz - 91-99 The Law and Economics of the Economic Expert Witness
by Richard A. Posner - 101-112 The Economist in Tort Litigation
by Robert Thornton & John Ward - 113-120 Going for the Gold: Economists as Expert Witnesses
by Michael J. Mandel - 121-144 The Structure of Foreign Trade
by Elhanan Helpman - 145-166 Healthy Bodies and Thick Wallets: The Dual Relation between Health and Economic Status
by James P. Smith - 167-188 Three Sides of Harberger Triangles
by James R. Hines - 189-210 Hedge Funds and the Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management
by Franklin R. Edward - 211-220 Classroom Games: Strategic Interaction on the Internet
by Marko Grobelnik & Charles A. Holt & Vesna Prasnikar - 221-230 Retrospectives: American Economists in the Progressive Era on the Minimum Wage
by Robert E. Prasch - 231-237 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran - 239-246 Correspondence
by Arthur B. Kennickell & F. Thomas Juster & James P. Smith & Frank P. Stafford
Winter 1999, Volume 13, Issue 1
- 3-12 The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium
by Charles T. Clotfelter - 13-36 Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education
by Gordon C. Winston - 37-62 The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940
by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz - 63-84 The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work
by Thomas J. Kane & Cecilia Elena Rouse - 85-98 Tenure Issues in Higher Education
by Michael S. McPherson & Morton Owen Schapiro - 99-116 Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg - 117-140 Will Aging Baby Boomers Bust the Federal Budget?
by Ronald Lee & Jonathan Skinner - 141-164 Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets
by Martin Gaynor & Deborah Haas-Wilson - 165-180 Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize
by Agnar Sandmo - 181-194 Policy Watch: Developments in Antitrust Economics
by Jonathan B. Baker - 195-204 Retrospectives: Say's Law
by William J. Baumol - 205-214 Classroom Games: A Market for Lemons
by Charles A. Holt & Roger Sherman - 223-225 Correspondence
by Reinard Schuessler & Robert W. Dimand
Fall 1998, Volume 12, Issue 4
- 3-8 Symposium on Globalization in Perspective: An Introduction
by Dani Rodrik - 9-30 The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace?
by Maurice Obstfeld - 31-50 Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy
by Robert C. Feenstra - 51-72 Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past
by Jeffrey G. Williamson - 73-94 The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited
by Bengt Holmstrom & John Roberts - 95-114 Corporate Finance, the Theory of the Firm, and Organizations
by Patrick Bolton & David S. Scharfstein - 115-132 Incentives in Organizations
by Robert Gibbons - 133-150 State versus Private Ownership
by Andrei Shleifer - 151-174 The Historical Background of the Communist Manifesto
by George R. Boyer - 177-183 CSWEP: 25 Years at a Time
by Robin L. Bartlett - 185-189 Two Cheers for CSWEP?
by Barbara R. Bergmann - 191-195 The Reasons for CSWEP
by Carolyn Shaw Bell - 197-199 A Comment on CSWEP
by Milton Friedman - 201-210 Policy Watch: Government Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Regulation
by Robert W. Hahn - 211-222 Was the Monetarist Tradition Invented?
by George S. Tavlas
Summer 1998, Volume 12, Issue 3
- 3-20 Economics of the Endangered Species Act
by Gardner M. Brown & Jason F. Shogren - 21-34 Conflicts and Choices in Biodiversity Preservation
by Andrew Metrick & Martin L. Weitzman - 35-52 Takings, Compensation and Endangered Species Protection on Private Lands
by Robert Innes & Stephen Polasky & John Tschirhart - 53-68 An Interim Evaluation of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Trading
by Richard Schmalensee & Paul L. Joskow & A. Denny Ellerman & Juan Pablo Montero & Elizabeth M. Bailey - 69-88 What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading
by Robert N. Stavins - 89-110 U.S. Industry Adjustment to Economic Deregulation
by Clifford Winston - 111-130 Deregulation and the Labor Market
by James Peoples - 131-150 Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth
by Edward N. Wolff - 151-170 Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades
by Sushil Bikhchandani & David Hirshleifer & Ivo Welch - 171-182 Foreign Students in U.S. Doctoral Programs
by Nahid Aslanbeigui & Veronica Montecinos
Spring 1998, Volume 12, Issue 2
- 3-22 Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The Private Uses of Public Interests: Incentives and Institutions
by Joseph Stiglitz - 23-40 Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets
by John Yinger - 41-62 Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
by Helen F. Ladd - 63-90 Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender
by William A. Darity & Patrick L. Mason - 91-100 What Has Economics to Say about Racial Discrimination?
by Kenneth J. Arrow - 101-116 Detecting Discrimination
by James J. Heckman - 117-126 Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Beyond Market Interactions
by Glenn C. Loury - 127-138 Urban Diversity and Economic Growth
by John M. Quigley - 139-160 Are Cities Dying?
by Edward L. Glaeser - 161-174 Space: The Final Frontier
by Paul Krugman - 175-192 The Past, Present, and Future of Macroeconomic Forecasting
by Francis X. Diebold - 193-210 Forging Ahead and Falling Behind: The Rise and Relative Decline of the First Industrial Nation
by Nicholas Crafts - 211-222 Who Is a Member of the AEA?
by John J. Siegfried - 223-234 Real and Money Wage Rates
by John T. Dunlop
Winter 1998, Volume 12, Issue 1
- 3-26 Consumer Prices, the Consumer Price Index, and the Cost of Living
by Michael J. Boskin - 27-36 Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index
by Katharine G. Abraham & John S. Greenlees & Brent R. Moulton - 37-46 Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done?
by Angus Deaton - 47-58 Index Number Issues in the Consumer Price Index
by W. Erwin Diewert - 59-68 Quality Change in Price Indexes
by William D. Nordhaus - 69-78 The Consumer Price Index: A Research Agenda and Three Proposals
by Robert A. Pollak - 79-96 Did We Lose the War on Poverty?
by Dale W. Jorgenson - 97-114 Has Poverty Gotten Worse?
by Robert K. Triest - 115-136 Job Displacement
by Lori G. Kletzer - 137-156 Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children
by Jane Waldfogel - 157-170 Rankings of U.S. Economics Departments
by Richard Dusansky & Clayton J. Vernon - 171-186 Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics
by V. V. Chari - 187-196 Data Watch: The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study Household Surveys
by Margaret E. Grosh & Paul Glewwe - 197-205 Retrospectives: Price Indexes and General Exchange Values
by Joseph Persky - 207-218 Classroom Games: Speculation and Bubbles in an Asset Market
by Sheryl B. Ball & Charles A. Holt - 219-227 Policy Watch: The Introduction of Indexed Government Debt in the United States
by David W. Wilcox - 229-236 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Bernard Saffran
Fall 1997, Volume 11, Issue 4
- 3-21 EMU: Why and How It Might Happen
by Charles Wyplosz - 23-42 The Political Economy of the European Economic and Monetary Union: Political Sources of an Economic Liability
by Martin Feldstein - 43-64 Rethinking Federalism
by Robert P. Inman & Daniel L. Rubinfeld - 65-72 Devolution, Grants, and Fiscal Competition
by Richard A. Musgrave - 73-81 Tiebout? Or Not Tiebout? The Market Metaphor and America's Devolution Debate
by John D. Donahue - 83-92 Federalism as a Commitment to Reserving Market Incentives
by Yingyi Qian & Barry R. Weingast - 93-112 Meddling Through: Regulating Local Telephone Competition in the United States
by Robert G. Harris & C. Jeffrey Kraft - 113-126 European Telecommunications Markets on the Verge of Full Liberalization
by Leonard Waverman & Esen Sirel - 127-138 The Frontier of Telecommunications Deregulation: Small Countries Leading the Pack
by Pablo T. Spiller & Carlo G. Cardilli - 139-152 Austrian and Neoclassical Economics: Any Gains from Trade?
by Sherwin Rosen - 153-165 Austrian Economics, Neoclassicism, and the Market Test
by Leland B. Yeager - 167-188 Progress in Behavioral Game Theory
by Colin F. Camerer - 189-197 Retrospectives: The Economics of Leon Hirsch Keyserling
by W. Robert Brazelton - 199-208 Policy Watch: Medicaid and Uninsured Women and Children
by Jonathan Gruber - 209-215 Classroom Games: Voluntary Provision of a Public Good
by Charles A. Holt & Susan K. Laury
Summer 1997, Volume 11, Issue 3
- 3-17 Divergence, Big Time
by Lant Pritchett - 19-36 On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution
by Charles I. Jones - 37-54 Labor Market Rigidities: At the Root of Unemployment in Europe
by Horst Siebert - 55-74 Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities: Europe versus North America
by Stephen Nickell - 75-94 The Future Information Infrastructure in Economics
by William L. Goffe & Robert P. Parks - 95-104 The AEA's Electronic Publishing Plans: A Progress Report
by Hal R. Varian - 105-118 Bridging the Gap between the Public's and Economists' Views of the Economy
by Robert J. Blendon - 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