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September 2009, Volume 47, Issue 3
- 729-770 Toward a Theory of Regulation for Developing Countries: Following Jean-Jacques Laffont's Lead
by Antonio Estache & Liam Wren-Lewis - 771-780 A Review of Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
by Lant Pritchett - 781-800 Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law-Growth Nexus
by Mark J. Roe & Jordan I. Siegel
June 2009, Volume 47, Issue 2
- 315-372 Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field
by Stefano DellaVigna - 373-447 Can the West Save Africa?
by William Easterly - 448-474 Gender Differences in Preferences
by Rachel Croson & Uri Gneezy - 475-481 A Review of Michael Tomz's Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries
by Mark Gersovitz
March 2009, Volume 47, Issue 1
- 5-86 Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
by Guido W. Imbens & Jeffrey M. Wooldridge - 87-122 Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
by Janet Currie - 123-135 The Age of Milton Friedman
by Andrei Shleifer - 136-158 Globalization and the Welfare State: A Review of Hans-Werner Sinn's Can Germany Be Saved?
by Dennis J. Snower & Alessio J. G. Brown & Christian Merkl - 159-170 What Do (and Don't) We Know about the Value Added Tax? A Review of Richard M. Bird and Pierre-Pascal Gendron's The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries
by Michael Keen
December 2008, Volume 46, Issue 4
- 871-909 The Economic Effects of Energy Price Shocks
by Lutz Kilian - 910-945 Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence
by Alan S. Blinder & Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher & Jakob De Haan & David-Jan Jansen - 946-973 A Review of Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
by Robert C. Allen - 974-982 Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Review of Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles's Obesity, Business and Public Policy
by Tomas J. Philipson & Richard A. Posner - 983-988 A Review of Tito Boeri, Lans Bovenberg, Benoît Coeuré, and Andrew Roberts's Dealing with the New Giants and Peter J. Orszag, Mark Iwry, and William G. Gale's Aging Gracefully
by Olivia S. Mitchell
September 2008, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 571-606 Covering the Uninsured in the United States
by Jonathan Gruber - 607-668 The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic Development
by Eric A. Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann - 669-684 Real Business Cycle Views of the Great Depression and Recent Events: A Review of Timothy J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott's Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century
by Peter Temin - 685-703 Horizons of Understanding: A Review of Ray Fair's Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works
by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde - 704-717 The Efficacy of Information Policy: A Review of Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil's Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency
by Clifford Winston
June 2008, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 285-332 The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
by Andrei Shleifer & Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes & Rafael La Porta - 333-383 Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data
by Janet Currie & Firouz Gahvari - 384-395 Is the U.S. Labor Market Really That Exceptional? A Review of Richard Freeman
by Stephen Nickell - 396-406 The Enigma of India
by Kaushik Basu - 407-411 A Review of David Colander's The Making of an Economist, Redux
by Daniel S. Hamermesh
March 2008, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 3-56 Economic Forecasting
by Graham Elliott & Allan Timmermann - 57-94 What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality?
by Sudhir Anand & Paul Segal - 95-144 Relative Income, Happiness, and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
by Andrew E. Clark & Paul Frijters & Michael A. Shields - 145-150 A Review of Janos Kornai
by Gerard Roland
December 2007, Volume 45, Issue 4
- 887-935 Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation
by Peter Blair Henry - 936-972 The Obstinate Passion of Foreign Exchange Professionals: Technical Analysis
by Lukas Menkhoff & Mark P. Taylor - 973-1000 Interesting Questions in Freakonomics
by John DiNardo - 1001-1010 A True Development Round? A Review of Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton's Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
by Robert Z. Lawrence - 1011-1023 Children in the Vanguard of the U.S. Welfare State: A Review of Janet Currie's The Invisible Safety Net and Jane Waldfogel's What Children Need
by Eugene Smolensky
September 2007, Volume 45, Issue 3
- 595-628 Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement
by W. Bentley MacLeod - 629-685 Vertical Integration and Firm Boundaries: The Evidence
by Francine Lafontaine & Margaret Slade - 686-702 A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
by William D. Nordhaus - 703-724 A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
by Martin L. Weitzman - 725-741 A Review of Avner Greif's Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade
by Gregory Clark
June 2007, Volume 45, Issue 2
- 331-372 Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites?
by Tarun Khanna & Yishay Yafeh - 373-399 Automobile Externalities and Policies
by Ian W. H. Parry & Margaret Walls & Winston Harrington - 400-409 Global Capital Markets in the Long Run: A Review of Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor's Global Capital Markets
by Jeffrey G. Williamson - 410-418 A Review of Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman's Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market
by Olivier Blanchard - 419-428 Optimal Executive Compensation versus Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
by Michael S. Weisbach
March 2007, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 5-38 Making Famine History
by Cormac Ó Gráda - 39-82 Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries
by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Nina Pavcnik - 83-126 A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L Friedman's The World is Flat
by Edward E. Leamer - 127-146 Whither Russia? A Review of Andrei Shleifer's A Normal Country
by Ekaterina Zhuravskaya - 147-213 The Big One: A Review of Richard Posner's Catastrophe: Risk and Response
by Edward A. Parson
December 2006, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 869-924 Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
by Gordon H. Hanson - 925-972 Regulating Infrastructure: The Impact on Risk and Investment
by Graeme Guthrie - 973-987 Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion? A Review of the World Bank's Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform
by Dani Rodrik - 988-1004 How Big a Problem is Too Big to Fail? A Review of Gary Stern and Ron Feldman's Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts
by Frederic S. Mishkin - 1005-1013 Economics and the Biologists: A Review of Geerat J. Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History
by Joel Mokyr
September 2006, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 589-630 Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms
by Elhanan Helpman - 631-661 Extending the Bounds of Rationality: Evidence and Theories of Preferential Choice
by Jörg Rieskamp & Jerome R. Busemeyer & Barbara A. Mellers - 662-693 Reviews of the 2006 Economic Report of the President
by Alan Auerbach & Rebecca Blank & Martin Feldstein & Michael Katz & Kenneth Rogoff - 694-711 Advancing Beyond Advances in Behavioral Economics
by Drew Fudenberg - 712-721 Behavioral Economics Comes of Age: A Review Essay on Advances in Behavioral Economics
by Wolfgang Pesendorfer
June 2006, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 325-366 Regulation, Competition and Liberalization
by Mark Armstrong & David E.M. Sappington - 367-390 Decentralization, Hierarchies, and Incentives: A Mechanism Design Perspective
by Dilip Mookherjee - 391-404 Schumpeter Redux: A Review of Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales's Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists
by Richard Sylla - 405-414 A Review of Steven Shavell's Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law
by Richard A. Posner - 415-419 A Review of Peter Isard's Globalization and the International Financial System: What's Wrong and What Can be Done?
by Barry Eichengreen
December 2004, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 1009-1055 Field Experiments
by Glenn W. Harrison & John A. List - 1056-1093 Job Information Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Inequality
by Yannis M. Ioannides & Linda Datcher Loury - 1094-1097 Financial Crises: Review of Eichengreen and Tirole
by Stanley Fischer - 1098-1101 Review of The New Financial Order by Shiller
by Stephen A. Ross - 1102-1115 The Unity of Auction Theory: Milgrom's Masterclass
by Eric Maskin
September 2004, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 691-751 Trade Costs
by James E. Anderson & Eric van Wincoop - 752-782 International Technology Diffusion
by Wolfgang Keller - 783-804 Rational Exuberance
by Stephen F. Le Roy - 805-810 Review of Mokyr's Gifts of Athena
by Hal R. Varian - 811-821 Celebrating Ned
by Axel Leijonhufvud - 822-837 The Years of Emerging Market Crises: A Review of Feldstein
by John Williamson
June 2004, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 367-403 Modeling Knowledge in Economic Analysis
by Larry Samuelson - 404-456 Success and Failure of Reform: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture
by Scott Rozelle & Johan F.M. Swinnen - 457-486 Economic Insights from Internet Auctions
by Patrick Bajari & Ali Hortaçsu - 487-493 Whose Line Is It? Plagiarism in Economics
by Gary A. Hoover - 494-500 On The Politics of Property Rights by Haber, Razo, and Maurer
by Robert H. Bates
March 2004, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 7-71 Trade, Growth, and the Environment
by Brian R. Copeland & M. Scott Taylor - 72-115 Trade Liberalization and Poverty: The Evidence So Far
by L. Alan Winters & Neil McCulloch & Andrew McKay - 116-144 Empirical Studies of Financial Innovation: Lots of Talk, Little Action?
by W. Scott Frame & Lawrence J. White - 145-170 The Chinese Saving Puzzle and the Life-Cycle Hypothesis
by Franco Modigliani & Shi Larry Cao
December 2003, Volume 41, Issue 4
- 1095-1136 Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint
by János Kornai & Eric Maskin & Gérard Roland - 1137-1187 The Economic Design of Sporting Contests
by Stefan Szymanski - 1188-1239 Which Is the Fairest One of All? A Positive Analysis of Justice Theories
by James Konow - 1240-1255 Sraffa, Wittgenstein, and Gramsci
by Amartya Sen - 1256-1271 Meltzer's History of the Federal Reserve
by David Laidler
September 2003, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 763-787 Auctions and the Price of Art
by Orley Ashenfelter & Kathryn Graddy - 788-829 Forecasting Output and Inflation: The Role of Asset Prices
by James H. Stock & Mark W.Watson - 830-862 Price Regulation of Access to Telecommunications Networks
by Ingo Vogelsang - 863-884 The Marketization of New Zealand Schools: Assessing Fiske and Ladd
by Alan Woodfield & Philip Gunby - 885-899 Globalization and the Politics of International Finance: The Stiglitz Verdict
by Kaushik Basu
June 2003, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 401-425 The Rise of the Regulatory State
by Edward L. Glaeser & Andrei Shleifer - 426-477 What Is Wrong with Taylor Rules? Using Judgment in Monetary Policy through Targeting Rules
by Lars E. O. Svensson - 478-539 Forecasting Volatility in Financial Markets: A Review
by Ser-Huang Poon & Clive W.J. Granger - 540-544 Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter
by Steven D. Levitt - 545-565 On Networks and Markets by Rauch and Casella, eds
by Ezra W. Zuckerman - 566-574 Review of Hoshi and Kashyap's Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan
by Juro Teranishi
March 2003, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 7-73 Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States
by Timothy Besley & Anne Case - 74-112 The Gains from Pension Reform
by Assar Lindbeck & Mats Persson - 113-158 Health, Inequality, and Economic Development
by Angus Deaton - 159-201 Measurement Error in the Consumer Price Index: Where Do We Stand?
by David E. Lebow & Jeremy B. Rudd - 202-206 Review of The Ordinary Business of Life by Backhouse
by Samuel Brittan
December 2002, Volume 40, Issue 4
- 1105-1166 Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States
by Rebecca M. Blank - 1167-1201 Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons for the Economics of Education
by George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton - 1202-1214 Anatomy of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
by Steven Raphael - 1215-1220 Review of Shleifer's Inefficient Markets
by Jeffrey Zwiebel - 1221-1229 Review of Grossman and Helpman's Special Interest Politics
by David P. Baron
September 2002, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 739-792 Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey
by Simeon Djankov & Peter Murrell - 793-836 Growth in Transition: What We Know, What We Don't, and What We Should
by Nauro F. Campos & Abrizio Coricelli - 837-880 Modern Hyper- and High Inflations
by Stanley Fischer & Ratna Sahay & Carlos A. Végh - 881-906 Equality, Efficiency, and Market Fundamentals: The Dynamics of International Medical-Care Reform
by David M. Cutler - 907-918 Review of Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth
by Romain Wacziarg
June 2002, Volume 40, Issue 2
- 351-401 Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review
by Shane Frederick & George Loewenstein & Ted O'Donoghue - 402-435 What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
by Bruno S. Frey & Alois Stutzer - 436-482 Schools and Skills in Developing Countries: Education Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes
by Paul Glewwe - 483-509 Who Talks to Whom? Intra- and Interdisciplinary Communication of Economics Journals
by Rik Pieters & Hans Baumgartner - 510-519 States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay
by James A. Robinson
March 2002, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 7-72 Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
by Daron Acemoglu - 73-124 Delegated Monitors, Large and Small: Germany's Banking System, 1800–1914
by Timothy W. Guinnane - 125-138 Looking Inside the Labor Market: A Review Article
by Peter Howitt - 139-154 Can We Trust Social Capital?
by Joel Sobel - 155-162 Review of Skidelsky's John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain
by J. Bradford Delong
December 2001, Volume 39, Issue 4
- 1079-1100 Financial Contracting
by Oliver Hart - 1101-1136 Education for Growth: Why and for Whom?
by Mikael Lindahl & Alan B. Krueger - 1137-1176 The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach
by Melissa Osborne & Herbert Gintis & Samuel Bowles - 1177-1203 Business and Social Networks in International Trade
by James E. Rauch - 1204-1214 A Ricardo-Sraffa Paradigm Comparing Gains from Trade in Inputs and Finished Goods
by Paul A. Samuelson - 1215-1223 Review of de Soto's The Mystery of Capital
by Christopher Woodruff
September 2001, Volume 39, Issue 3
- 767-767 The School-to-Work Transition: A Cross-National Perspective: Corrigendum
by Paul Ryan - 771-799 Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of "Secondary" Data-Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries As a Case Study
by Andrea Brandolini & Anthony B. Atkinson - 800-838 The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals
by Thomas A. Gresik - 839-868 Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market: Is It Effective and, If So, How Does It Work?
by Mark P. Taylor & Lucio Sarno - 869-896 Economics of Alliances: The Lessons for Collective Action
by Keith Hartley & Todd Sandler - 897-901 An Early Application of the Average Total Cost Concept
by F. M. Scherer
June 2001, Volume 39, Issue 2
- 321-389 From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization
by Jeffry M. Netter & William L. Megginson - 390-431 Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function
by Christopher A. Pissarides & Barbara Petrongolo - 432-478 Silver Signals: Twenty-Five Years of Screening and Signaling
by John G. Riley - 479-535 Perfect Competition and the Creativity of the Market
by Joseph M. Ostroy & Louis Makowski - 536-561 Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography
by J.Peter Neary - 562-566 A Review of Monetary Policy Rules
by Christopher A. Sims
March 2001, Volume 39, Issue 1
- 7-10 Economics Online
by John McMillan & Drucilla Ekwurzel - 11-33 The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior
by Arthur J. Robson - 34-92 The School-to-Work Transition: A Cross-National Perspective
by Paul Ryan - 93-104 Review of Meritocracy and Economic Inequality Edited by Kenneth Arrow, Sameul Bowles, and Steven Durlaf
by Charles Brown - 105-119 Fitness and Age: Review of Carroll and Hannan's Demography of Corporations and Industries
by Boyan Jovanovic
December 2000, Volume 38, Issue 4
- 827-874 Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics
by Kenneth I. Wolpin & Mark R. Rosenzweig - 875-914 Renewable Natural Resource Management and Use without Markets
by Gardner M. Brown - 915-925 The "New Political Economy": Recent Books by Allen Drazen and by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
by Gilles Saint-Paul - 926-935 A Review of O'Rourke and Williamson's Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy
by C. Knick Harley
September 2000, Volume 38, Issue 3
- 483-568 Assessing Affirmative Action
by David Neumark & Harry Holzer - 569-594 Understanding Productivity: Lessons from Longitudinal Microdata
by Mark Doms & Eric J. Bartelsman - 595-613 The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
by Oliver E. Williamson - 614-626 The Emigration of German-Speaking Economists after 1933
by F. M. Scherer - 627-633 A Review of Markets for Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey
by Peter Cramton
June 2000, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 287-331 Preferential Trade Liberalization: The Traditional Theory and New Developments
by Arvind Panagariya - 332-382 Developments in Non-expected Utility Theory: The Hunt for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk
by Chris Starmer - 383-404 What Do We Say about Ourselves and What Does It Mean? Yet Another Look at Economics Department Research
by Jerry G. Thursby - 405-411 Review of Sargent's The Conquest of American Inflation
by Ramon Marimon
March 2000, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 11-44 Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why?
by James R. Tybout - 45-76 The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
by Steven Shavell & A. Mitchell Polinsky - 77-114 Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences
by Dominik H. Enste & Friedrich Schneider
December 1999, Volume 37, Issue 4
- 1565-1565 Corrigenda: The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software
by H. D. Vinod & B. D. McCullough - 1569-1614 The Microfinance Promise
by Jonathan Morduch - 1615-1660 Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories
by Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa & Eve Caroli & Philippe Aghion - 1661-1707 The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective
by Mark Gertler & Jordi Gali & Richard Clarida
September 1999, Volume 37, Issue 3
- 1067-1082 Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory
by Roger B. Myerson - 1083-1119 Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards
by Kaushik Basu - 1120-1149 An Essay on Fiscal Federalism
by Wallace E. Oates - 1150-1175 Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: An International Perspective
by Robert J. Flanagan
June 1999, Volume 37, Issue 2
- 567-567 Corrigendum: The Economics of Wagering Markets
by Raymond D. Sauer - 571-608 Trying to Explain Home Bias in Equities and Consumption
by Karen K. Lewis - 609-632 Adam Smith: Critical Theorist?
by Keith Tribe - 633-665 The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software
by H. D. Vinod & B. D. McCullough
March 1999, Volume 37, Issue 1
- 7-63 The Provision of Incentives in Firms
by Canice Prendergast - 64-111 Explaining African Economic Performance
by Jan Willem Gunning & Paul Collier - 112-156 The New Growth Evidence
by Jonathan Temple - 157-183 The Young Person's Guide to Writing Economic Theory
by William Thomson
December 1998, Volume 36, Issue 4
- 1941-1941 Corrigenda [Do People Play Nash Equilibrium? Lessons from Evolutionary Game Theory]
by George J. Mailath - 1941-1941 Corrigenda [Introduction to the Economics of Religion]
by Laurence R. Iannaccone - 1947-1982 Industrial Organization and New Findings on the Turnover and Mobility of Firms
by Richard E. Caves - 1983-2020 Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
by Anne O. Krueger - 2021-2064 The Economics of Wagering Markets
by Raymond D. Sauer - 2065-2107 Nonrenewable Resource Scarcity
by Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer - 2108-2165 Empirical Approaches to the Measurement of Welfare
by Daniel T. Slesnick
September 1998, Volume 36, Issue 3
- 1347-1374 Do People Play Nash Equilibrium? Lessons from Evolutionary Game Theory
by George J. Mailath - 1375-1386 How Foundations Came to Be
by Paul A. Samuelson - 1387-1425 Economists' Views about Parameters, Values, and Policies: Survey Results in Labor and Public Economics
by Victor R. Fuchs & Alan B. Krueger & James M. Poterba - 1426-1464 Urban Spatial Structure
by Alex Anas & Richard Arnott & Kenneth A. Small - 1465-1495 Introduction to the Economics of Religion
by Laurence R. Iannaccone - 1496-1501 Archiving the History of Economics
by E. Roy Weintraub et al.
June 1998, Volume 36, Issue 2
- 669-721 Nonparametric Regression Techniques in Economics
by Adonis Yatchew - 722-765 Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century
by Price V. Fishback - 766-817 Health, Nutrition, and Economic Development
by John Strauss & Duncan Thomas