The Economists' Voice

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2009, Volume 6, Issue 12

• ARMs, Not Subprimes, Caused the Mortgage Crisis
  by Stan J. Liebowitz [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Samuelson: Broad Public Access is Worth Some Risk
  by Paul N. Courant [Downloadable!]
• The Allocation of Permits in U.S. Climate Change Legislation
  by Don Fullerton & Daniel H. Karney [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Brad Delong: Tell the Whole Story
  by Sven E. Wilson [Downloadable!]

• Fixing Bankers' Pay
  by Lucian Bebchuk [Downloadable!]
• Whither Financial Reform?
  by Robert E. Litan [Downloadable!]
• A Recipe for Ratings Reform
  by Charles W. Calomiris [Downloadable!]
• Finding the Sweet Spot for Effective Regulation
  by R. Glenn Hubbard [Downloadable!]
• How Little We Know
  by Russell Roberts [Downloadable!]
• Government Guarantees: Why the Genie Needs to Be Put Back in the Bottle
  by Matthew Richardson & Viral V. Acharya [Downloadable!]
• Financial Regulatory Reform: The Politics of Denial
  by Richard A. Posner [Downloadable!]

• Is Macroeconomics Off Track?
  by Casey B. Mulligan [Downloadable!]
• Where Is Internet Policy Really Headed?
  by Robert Hahn [Downloadable!]
• The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick
  by Pamela Samuelson [Downloadable!]
• The Truth about Redistribution: Republicans Receive, Democrats Disburse
  by Gary Richardson [Downloadable!]
• Obama's Gamble: Doubling Down on a Flawed Insurance Model
  by John Cogan & Daniel Kessler & R. Glenn Hubbard [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Edlin and Jaffee: From Banking Crisis to Currency Crisis
  by John Thornton [Downloadable!]

• The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement
  by Paul N. Courant [Downloadable!]
• The Fundamental Nature of Recessions: A Contracting and Restructuring Perspective
  by Bradford Cornell [Downloadable!]
• The NFL Should Auction Possession in Overtime Games
  by Yeon-Koo Che & Terrence Hendershott [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Edlin and Phelps: A Better Employer Wage Subsidy
  by Timothy J. Bartik [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Edlin and Jaffee: Back to Basics
  by Stephen M. Miller [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Jamus Jerome Lim: Markets Can Cure Spam Zombies
  by Marshall Van Alstyne & Sarah Zatko [Downloadable!]
• Comment on John Thanassoulis: Now is the Right Time to Regulate Bankers' Pay
  by Jonathan Carmel [Downloadable!]

• Reply to Jonathan Carmel's Comment on Ronen Avraham: Private and Competitive Regulation of Medicine
  by Ronen Avraham [Downloadable!]
• GDP Fetishism
  by Joseph E. Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Is CARS a Clunker?
  by Burton A. Abrams & George R. Parsons [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Ronen Avraham: Private and Competitive Regulation of Medicine
  by Jonathan Carmel [Downloadable!]
• Private and Competitive Regulation of Medicine
  by Ronen Avraham [Downloadable!]
• The Long Pedigree of Interventionism
  by J. Bradford Delong [Downloadable!]

• Unlearned Lessons from the Housing Bubble
  by Robert J. Shiller [Downloadable!]
• Après Bush, Le Déluge?
  by Alan J. Auerbach & William G. Gale [Downloadable!]
• Changing Social Ethos is the Key
  by John E. Roemer [Downloadable!]
• Toxic Tests
  by Lucian A. Bebchuk [Downloadable!]
• How to Measure the Effectiveness of U.S. Merger Policy
  by Dennis W. Carlton [Downloadable!]
• Avoiding the Next Crisis
  by Ravi Jagannathan & John Boyd [Downloadable!]

• Why U.S. Financial Markets Need a Public Credit Rating Agency
  by M. Ahmed Diomande & James S. Heintz & Robert N. Pollin [Downloadable!]
• America's Socialism for the Rich
  by Joseph E. Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Preventing Children's Tobacco Consumption
  by Michael Adams [Downloadable!]
• Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus Plan
  by Scott J. Wallsten [Downloadable!]
• Expanding Housing Demand Efficiently and Equitably
  by Robert I. Lerman [Downloadable!]
• Life Boats for the Banks--Let the Holding Companies Swim
  by Michael Cragg & George Oldfield [Downloadable!]

• Spring Is Here, but Contain Your Excitement
  by Joseph E. Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Sumner, Edlin, and Dasgupta: Quantitative Lending Directives are Needed
  by Robin E. Pope [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Edlin and Jaffee: Show Me the General Theory
  by Dirk H. Ehnts [Downloadable!]
• Getting Serious about Job Creation: Part I
  by Aaron S. Edlin & Edmund Phelps [Downloadable!]
• Now Is the Right Time to Regulate Bankers' Pay
  by John Thanassoulis [Downloadable!]
• The Elephant in the Room: Coping with the Long-Term Problem of Medicare Costs
  by Andrew J. Rettenmaier & Thomas R. Saving [Downloadable!]

• Adaptive Partial Drug Approval: A Health Policy Proposal
  by Charles F. Manski [Downloadable!]
• Show Me The Money
  by Aaron S. Edlin & Dwight M. Jaffee [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Brad Delong: Can We Generate Controlled Reflation in a Liquidity Trap?
  by Scott Sumner [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Luigi Zingales: Why not Consider Maximum Reserve Ratios?
  by Swapan Dasgupta [Downloadable!]
• Comment on Robert Barro: The Little Learned of Multipliers from 1943-44
  by Sherman J. Maisel [Downloadable!]
• Comment on John Quigley: Wrong Incentives in the Mortgage Industry and a Solution
  by José G. Montalvo [Downloadable!]
• Bankruptcy is Best to Save GM
  by Joshua Rauh & Luigi Zingales [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Notes on Keynes and a Reply to Greg Hill
  by Robert J. Barro [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Robert J. Barro's "Voodoo Multipliers" Misunderstands Keynes
  by Greg Hill [Downloadable!]

• In Praise of More Primitive Finance
  by Amar Bhidé [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Comment on Glaeser and Gyourko
  by Lok Sang Ho [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Is There Research Economist Support for the Stimulus Bill?
  by Eric Bennett Rasmusen [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Reinstating the Rational Voter
  by Jamus Jerome Lim [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Regarding Voting for Charity's Sake
  by Lea Kosnik [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Are Stocks the Best Investment for the Long Run?
  by Zvi Bodie [Downloadable!]
• Making Sense of the Aggregator Bank
  by Lawrence M. Ausubel & Peter Cramton [Downloadable!]
• And a Little Child Shall Lead Them—Economic Recovery in 3 Easy Steps
  by William S. Barnett [Downloadable!]

• Should the Randomistas Rule?
  by Martin Ravallion [Downloadable!]
• Demand Side Voodoo Economics
  by Robert J. Barro [Downloadable!]
• Only Four Ways Out
  by Brad Delong [Downloadable!]
• Yes We Can, Secretary Geithner
  by Luigi Zingales [Downloadable!]
• No Substitute for the "P" Word in Financial Rescue
  by Lawrence M. Ausubel & Peter Cramton [Downloadable!]
• Abundant but Neglected: Awards as Incentives
  by Bruno S. Frey & Susanne Neckermann [Downloadable!]

• A Statement on the Appropriate Role for Research and Development in Climate Policy
  by Kenneth J. Arrow & Linda Cohen & Paul A. David & Robert W. Hahn & Charles D. Kolstad & Lee Lane & W. David Montgomery & Richard R. Nelson & Roger G. Noll & Anne E. Smith [Downloadable!]
• Eurozone: The High Cost of Complacency
  by Eloi Laurent [Downloadable!]
• Dogville or an Illustration of Some Properties of General Equilibrium
  by Heike Harmgart & Steffen Huck [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Is Delong Having his Cake and Eating it Too?
  by Brian Schreiner [Downloadable!]
• Is Trillion the New Billion?
  by Robert Hahn & Peter Passell [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Comment on Dolan and Recent Fed Policy
  by Scott Sumner [Downloadable!]

• Letter: The Moral Hazard of Bailing Out Borrowers
  by Allen H. Barton [Downloadable!]
• It Doesn't Take Nostradamus
  by Joseph E. Stiglitz [Downloadable!]

• Recent Stock Declines: Panic or the Purge of "Irrational Exuberance"?
  by Christopher D. Carroll [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Paying for a Dirty and Leaky Bucket: Further Comments on the Bailout
  by Edward B. Barbier [Downloadable!]
• Is the Treasury Impotent?
  by Casey B. Mulligan [Downloadable!]
• Deflation: Are We Still Sure "It" Cannot Happen Here?
  by Edwin Dolan [Downloadable!]
• Stocks for the Long Run
  by J. Bradford Delong [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Comment on Stiglitz's "Turn Left for Sustainable Growth"
  by P. K. Rao [Downloadable!]

• The Next Collapse: U.S. Price Inflation
  by Janine Aron & John Muellbauer [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Should Liberals (or Anyone Else) Really Support Social Security "Personal Accounts"?
  by Max J. Skidmore [Downloadable!]
• Taxes under Obama and McCain
  by William G. Gale & Benjamin Harris [Downloadable!]
• Vote for Charity's Sake
  by Aaron S. Edlin & Andrew Gelman & Noah Kaplan [Downloadable!]
• Paulson's Latest and an Alternative: Why the Treasury Should Buy Common, Not Preferred, Stock and Why LIBOR Deposit Guarantees Could Backfire
  by Jonathan Carmel [Downloadable!]
• Plan B
  by Luigi Zingales [Downloadable!]
• The Case against Housing Price Supports
  by Edward L. Glaeser & Joseph Gyourko [Downloadable!]
• Compensation and Incentives in the Mortgage Business
  by John M. Quigley [Downloadable!]
• What if the Median Voter Were a Failing Student?
  by Bryan Caplan [Downloadable!]

• Letter: The Bailout and What Next
  by Lok Sang Ho [Downloadable!]
• Letter: The Dangers of Forgetting Moral Hazard
  by Manfredo A. Dix [Downloadable!]
• Pitfalls of the Paulson Plan
  by Jonathan Carmel [Downloadable!]
• Quashing the Financial Firestorm
  by Aaron S. Edlin [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Republican Opposition to Debt Reduction in Financial Crises--The Great Depression and Today
  by Howard L. Rosenthal [Downloadable!]
• We Aren't Done Yet: Comments on the Financial Crisis and Bailout
  by Joseph Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Letter: How to Drink the Sub-Prime Kool-Aid
  by Hal R. Varian [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Another Take on "Why Paulson is Wrong"
  by Allen H. Barton [Downloadable!]
• Good Bailouts and Bad
  by David O. Beim [Downloadable!]
• Please Think This Over
  by Edward E. Leamer [Downloadable!]
• A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
  by Lucian A. Bebchuk [Downloadable!]
• Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan
  by Lawrence M. Ausubel & Peter Cramton [Downloadable!]
• Questioning the Treasury's $700 Billion Blank Check: An Open Letter to Secretary Paulson
  by Aaron S. Edlin [Downloadable!]
• Dr. StrangeLoan: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Financial Collapse
  by Aaron S. Edlin [Downloadable!]
• Why Paulson is Wrong
  by Luigi Zingales [Downloadable!]
• Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns
  by Dwight M. Jaffee & Mark Perlow [Downloadable!]

• Turn Left for Sustainable Growth
  by Joseph Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Regulation after Bush
  by Robert Hahn & Peter Passell [Downloadable!]
• Letter: The Spence Commission and the Washington Consensus
  by John Williamson [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Two Paise and Trust
  by Romar Correa [Downloadable!]
• A New Way to Address Climate Change: A Global Refunding System
  by Hans Gersbach [Downloadable!]
• Want to Monitor Medicare's New Drug Benefit Program? Start by Sending a Check for $120,000
  by Dana P. Goldman & Daniel L. McFadden [Downloadable!]

• Securing the Means of Payment: The Ultimate Requisite of a Modern Economy
  by Lester G. Telser [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Why Are Economists Indeed So Unscientific?
  by Susanna Sällström Matthews [Downloadable!]
• The Rush to Re-Regulate
  by Robert Hahn & Peter Passell [Downloadable!]
• Spence Christens a New Washington Consensus
  by Dani Rodrik [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Baker's "Own to Rent" Proposal is Economically Inefficient
  by Nicholas Weaver [Downloadable!]
• Letter: What Economists Can Contribute to the Global Warming Debate
  by Eric Bennett Rasmusen [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Hedge Funds Race to the Bottom
  by Anthony D'Amato [Downloadable!]

• Rethinking the Roles of Banks: A Call for Narrow Banking
  by Oz Shy & Rune Stenbacka [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Zombies May Mean Attention Bonds Will Not Cure Spam
  by Jamus Jerome Lim [Downloadable!]
• Microsoft: Predator or Prey?
  by Robert Hahn & Peter Passell [Downloadable!]
• The Emperor's Dangerous Clothes
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Climate Change Debate Needs Two Sides
  by Jeffrey H. Fischer [Downloadable!]
• Hedge Fund Wizards
  by Dean P. Foster & H. Peyton Young [Downloadable!]

• Subprime Borrowers Deserve an Own to Rent Transition
  by Dean Baker [Downloadable!]
• Better that the Fed Regulates Subprime Mortgages
  by Robert Hahn & Peter Passell [Downloadable!]
• It's No Time to Regulate Wireless Telephony
  by John W. Mayo [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Magin Begs Liberals to Think Twice about Social Security Privatization—I Say, "Think Thrice"
  by Richard H. Serlin [Downloadable!]
• Pension Reform as the Triumph of Form over Substance
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff [Downloadable!]

• Financial Hypocrisy
  by Joseph E. Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Why Liberals Should Enthusiastically Support Social Security Personal Accounts
  by Konstantin Magin [Downloadable!]

• A Christmas Warning
  by Aaron S. Edlin [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Why Urgent Emissions Reductions are Needed
  by Steffen Kallbekken & Torben K. Mideksa [Downloadable!]
• Time to Change U.S. Climate Policy
  by Robert Hahn & Peter Passell [Downloadable!]
• Give Freakonomics a Chance
  by Ian Ayres [Downloadable!]

• Reforming the IMF
  by John Morgan [Downloadable!]
• Do Voluntary Carbon Offsets Work?
  by Joshua S. Gans [Downloadable!]
• Letter: What Underlies the Inequality of "Garrison America"?
  by Harlan Green [Downloadable!]
• The Gender Pay Gap
  by Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn [Downloadable!]
• The Fed's Real Job
  by Lester G. Telser [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Observation-Based Analysis and Industry Studies
  by Frank Giarratani [Downloadable!]
• Reply to Kendall: Asking v. Story-Spinning
  by Barbara R. Bergmann [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Why Not Just Ask the Dolphins?
  by Todd D. Kendall [Downloadable!]

• Proposal for a New Climate Change Treaty System
  by Scott Barrett [Downloadable!]
• California's Bold New Climate Policy
  by Lawrence H. Goulder [Downloadable!]
• Letter: The Other Problems with the Stern Report
  by Rognvaldur Hannesson [Downloadable!]
• Climate Change: The Uncertainties, the Certainties and What They Imply About Action
  by Thomas C. Schelling [Downloadable!]
• Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Policy
  by Kenneth J. Arrow [Downloadable!]
• A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol
  by Sheila M. Olmstead & Robert N. Stavins [Downloadable!]

• Letter: Observation, Theory-Building, and Theory-Testing
  by Adrian E. Tschoegl [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Why Are Economists So Unscientific?
  by David Heigham [Downloadable!]
• Curing Spam: Rights, Signals & Screens
  by Marshall W. Van Alstyne [Downloadable!]
• Garrison America
  by Samuel Bowles & Arjun Jayadev [Downloadable!]
• Needed: A New Empiricism
  by Barbara R. Bergmann [Downloadable!]
• The President's New Executive Order on Regulation
  by Robert W. Hahn & Robert E. Litan [Downloadable!]

• Deconstructing the China Price
  by Peter Navarro [Downloadable!]
• Dirty Money: What the Underworld Understands that Economists Do Not
  by Raymond W. Baker & Jennifer Nordin [Downloadable!]
• The Case for Public Funding and Public Oversight of Clinical Trials
  by Tracy R. Lewis & Jerome H. Reichman & Anthony D. So [Downloadable!]
• Housing Collapse? Bring It On!
  by Aaron S. Edlin [Downloadable!]
• Is a Recession Ahead? The Models Say Yes, but the Mind Says No
  by Edward E. Leamer [Downloadable!]

• Freak-Freakonomics
  by Ariel Rubinstein [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Pay-As-You-Drive Is More Apt to Reduce Accidents than Global Warming
  by Peter R. Nagelhout [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Is Professor Quigley Too Cynical?
  by Mary E. Pope-Handy [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Current Insurance Pricing Unduly Limits Car Ownership
  by Patrick Butler [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Replacing Payroll with Sales Taxes Shifts Risks from Firms to Governments
  by Robin E. Pope [Downloadable!]
• If Voters Won't Go for Taxing Oil to Conserve Energy, How Do We Do It?
  by Aaron S. Edlin [Downloadable!]
• Do Economists Agree on Anything? Yes!
  by Robert Whaples [Downloadable!]

• Advance Disclosure of Managers' Stock Trades: A Proposal to Improve Executive Compensation
  by Jesse Fried [Downloadable!]
• American Inequality: From IT Bust to Big Government Boom
  by James K. Galbraith & J. Travis Hale [Downloadable!]
• Why We Can Do Better than New Source Review
  by Shi-Ling Hsu [Downloadable!]
• The Discretion of Judges and Corporate Executives: An Insider's View of the Disney Case
  by John Donohue [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Informed Investors Have Limited Ability to Push Prices to Efficiency
  by Richard H. Serlin [Downloadable!]
• Letter: On Valuing Ecosystem Services
  by Nick Wills-Johnson [Downloadable!]
• Letter: What Will Stiglitz's Global Warming Remedy Really Cost?
  by Harry D. Saunders [Downloadable!]

• Letter: Believe It or Not, What We Need Now Are Higher Gas Prices
  by James F. Casey [Downloadable!]
• What To Do about Fannie and Freddie?
  by Edward L. Glaeser & Dwight M. Jaffee [Downloadable!]
• How to Deal with Terrorism
  by Bruno S. Frey [Downloadable!]
• A New Agenda for Global Warming
  by Joseph Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Contrary to Robert Shiller's Predictions, Stock Market Investors Made Much Money in the Past Decade: What Does This Tell Us?
  by J. Bradford DeLong & Konstantin Magin [Downloadable!]
• Letter: How High Is the Top Tax Rate on U.S. Capital Gains?
  by Henning Bohn [Downloadable!]

• Toying with Death and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under
  by Joshua S. Gans & Andrew Leigh [Downloadable!]
• The Economics of Net Neutrality
  by Robert W. Hahn & Scott Wallsten [Downloadable!]
• Letter: Consider the Consumer Side of the Market for Catastrophe Insurance
  by Gloria E. Helfand [Downloadable!]
• The (Legal) Pains of Vioxx: Why Product Liability Can Make Products More Dangerous
  by Omri Ben-Shahar [Downloadable!]
• Taxes on Investment Income Remain Too High and Lead to Multiple Distortions
  by Martin Feldstein [Downloadable!]
• Are Economists Smarter?
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff [Downloadable!]
• Grading the President's Tax Reform Panel's Plan
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff [Downloadable!]
• Reply: Transfers vs. Economic Costs in the Iraq War
  by Joseph Stiglitz [Downloadable!]
• Reply: The Death Penalty Once More
  by Paul H. Rubin [Downloadable!]

• Should Governments Provide Catastrophe Insurance?
  by Dwight M. Jaffee & Thomas Russell [Downloadable!]
• Letter: A Reply to Rubin on the Death Penalty
  by John Donohue & Justin J. Wolfers [Downloadable!]
• Reply to Donohue and Wolfers on the Death Penalty and Deterrence
  by Paul H. Rubin [Downloadable!]
• The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence
  by John Donohue & Justin J. Wolfers [Downloadable!]
• China's New Exchange Rate Policy: Will China Follow Japan into a Liquidity Trap?
  by Ronald I. McKinnon [Downloadable!]
• Froth in the Silicon Valley Housing Market?
  by John M. Quigley [Downloadable!]

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