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Summer 2015, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 61-80 Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans
by Benjamin A. Olken - 81-98 Pre-analysis Plans Have Limited Upside, Especially Where Replications Are Feasible
by Lucas C. Coffman & Muriel Niederle - 99-120 Law, Regulation, and the Business Climate: The Nature and Influence of the World Bank Doing Business Project
by Timothy Besley - 121-140 How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules
by Mary Hallward-Driemeier & Lant Pritchett - 141-164 The Microeconomic Dimensions of the Eurozone Crisis and Why European Politics Cannot Solve Them
by Christian Thimann - 165-184 E-Books: A Tale of Digital Disruption
by Richard J. Gilbert - 185-208 The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Its Effects on American Indian Economic Development
by Randall K. Q. Akee & Katherine A. Spilde & Jonathan B. Taylor - 209-216 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2015, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 3-24 A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
by Austan D. Goolsbee & Alan B. Krueger - 25-52 The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
by W. Scott Frame & Andreas Fuster & Joseph Tracy & James Vickery - 53-80 An Assessment of TARP Assistance to Financial Institutions
by Charles W. Calomiris & Urooj Khan - 81-106 AIG in Hindsight
by Robert McDonald & Anna Paulson - 107-122 Legal, Political, and Institutional Constraints on the Financial Crisis Policy Response
by Phillip Swagel - 123-150 Understanding the Increase in Disability Insurance Benefit Receipt in the United States
by Jeffrey B. Liebman - 151-172 The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands
by Pierre Koning & Maarten Lindeboom - 173-190 Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the United Kingdom
by James Banks & Richard Blundell & Carl Emmerson - 191-212 Reforming LIBOR and Other Financial Market Benchmarks
by Darrell Duffie & Jeremy C. Stein - 213-238 Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance
by Rainer Böhme & Nicolas Christin & Benjamin Edelman & Tyler Moore - 239-258 Systematic Bias and Nontransparency in US Social Security Administration Forecasts
by Konstantin Kashin & Gary King & Samir Soneji - 259-266 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2015, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 3-28 The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson - 29-46 Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality
by Charles I. Jones - 47-66 What Do We Know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States?
by Wojciech Kopczuk - 67-88 Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty - 89-114 The Superiority of Economists
by Marion Fourcade & Etienne Ollion & Yann Algan - 115-138 The Case for Paying College Athletes
by Allen R. Sanderson & John J. Siegfried - 139-162 Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs
by David H. Howard & Peter B. Bach & Ernst R. Berndt & Rena M. Conti - 163-180 The Window Tax: A Case Study in Excess Burden
by Wallace E. Oates & Robert M. Schwab - 181-192 Matthew Gentzkow, Winner of the 2014 Clark Medal
by Andrei Shleifer - 193-206 Retrospectives: The Marginal Cost Controversy
by Brett M. Frischmann & Christiaan Hogendorn - 207-214 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 215-216 Fair Trade Coffee: Correspondence
by Victor V. Claar & Colleen E. Haight
Fall 2014, Volume 28, Issue 4
- 3-22 Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors
by Matthew O. Jackson - 23-48 From Micro to Macro via Production Networks
by Vasco M. Carvalho - 49-76 Community Networks and the Process of Development
by Kaivan Munshi - 77-98 How Can Scandinavians Tax So Much?
by Henrik Jacobsen Kleven - 99-120 Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little?
by Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson - 121-148 Taxing across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits
by Gabriel Zucman - 149-168 Tax Morale
by Erzo F. P. Luttmer & Monica Singhal - 169-192 The Economics of Guilds
by Sheilagh Ogilvie - 193-212 The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure, and Human Capital Accumulation
by Joshua Goodman - 213-226 Retrospectives: The Cold-War Origins of the Value of Statistical Life
by H. Spencer Banzhaf - 227-234 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 235-236 The Missing Middle: Correspondence
by James Tybout
Summer 2014, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 3-24 The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism
by Ryan Decker & John Haltiwanger & Ron Jarmin & Javier Miranda - 25-48 Entrepreneurship as Experimentation
by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf - 49-70 Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
by Thomas Astebro & Holger Herz & Ramana Nanda & Roberto A. Weber - 71-88 The Lewis Model: A 60-Year Retrospective
by Douglas Gollin - 89-108 The Missing "Missing Middle"
by Chang-Tai Hsieh & Benjamin A. Olken - 109-126 Informality and Development
by Rafael La Porta & Andrei Shleifer - 127-148 Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence
by Aart Kraay & David McKenzie - 149-168 Page Limits on Economics Articles: Evidence from Two Journals
by David Card & Stefano DellaVigna - 169-188 What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics
by Raj Chetty & Emmanuel Saez & Laszlo Sandor - 189-204 The Effects of an Anti-grade-Inflation Policy at Wellesley College
by Kristin F. Butcher & Patrick J. McEwan & Akila Weerapana - 205-216 The Research Productivity of New PhDs in Economics: The Surprisingly High Non-success of the Successful
by John P. Conley & Ali Sina Onder - 217-236 The Economics of Fair Trade
by Raluca Dragusanu & Daniele Giovannucci & Nathan Nunn - 237-248 Evaluating Counterterrorism Spending
by John Mueller & Mark G. Stewart - 249-256 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2014, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 3-28 Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics
by Hal R. Varian - 29-50 High-Dimensional Methods and Inference on Structural and Treatment Effects
by Alexandre Belloni & Victor Chernozhukov & Christian Hansen - 51-74 Political Campaigns and Big Data
by David W. Nickerson & Todd Rogers - 75-98 Privacy and Data-Based Research
by Ori Heffetz & Katrina Ligett - 99-118 Slicing Up Global Value Chains
by Marcel P. Timmer & Abdul Azeez Erumban & Bart Los & Robert Stehrer & Gaaitzen J. de Vries - 119-142 Five Facts about Value-Added Exports and Implications for Macroeconomics and Trade Research
by Robert C. Johnson - 143-152 Raj Chetty: 2013 Clark Medal Recipient
by Martin Feldstein - 153-176 Fluctuations in Uncertainty
by Nicholas Bloom - 177-196 The Market for Blood
by Robert Slonim & Carmen Wang & Ellen Garbarino - 197-212 Retrospectives: The Cyclical Behavior of Labor Productivity and the Emergence of the Labor Hoarding Concept
by Jeff E. Biddle - 213-220 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 221-226 Correction and Update: The Economic Effects of Climate Change
by Richard S. J. Tol - 227-230 Farewell to Notes
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2014, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 3-26 US Manufacturing: Understanding Its Past and Its Potential Future
by Martin Neil Baily & Barry P. Bosworth - 27-48 Competing in Advanced Manufacturing: The Need for Improved Growth Models and Policies
by Gregory Tassey - 49-72 Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors
by Susan Helper & Rebecca Henderson - 73-98 Global Biofuels: Key to the Puzzle of Grain Market Behavior
by Brian Wright - 99-120 Agricultural Biotechnology: The Promise and Prospects of Genetically Modified Crops
by Geoffrey Barrows & Steven Sexton & David Zilberman - 121-146 Agriculture in the Global Economy
by Julian M. Alston & Philip G. Pardey - 147-166 American Farms Keep Growing: Size, Productivity, and Policy
by Daniel A. Sumner - 167-188 From Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar: Germany's Resurgent Economy
by Christian Dustmann & Bernd Fitzenberger & Uta Sch?nberg & Alexandra Spitz-Oener - 189-208 When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, Worldviews, and Policy Innovations
by Dani Rodrik - 209-234 An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data
by Jonathan A. Schwabish - 235-242 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2013, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 3-16 A Century of US Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability
by Ben S. Bernanke - 17-44 Central Bank Design
by Ricardo Reis - 45-64 The Federal Reserve and Panic Prevention: The Roles of Financial Regulation and Lender of Last Resort
by Gary Gorton & Andrew Metrick - 65-86 Shifts in US Federal Reserve Goals and Tactics for Monetary Policy: A Role for Penitence?
by Julio J. Rotemberg - 87-104 Does the Federal Reserve Care about the Rest of the World?
by Barry Eichengreen - 105-120 An Interview with Paul Volcker
by Martin Feldstein - 121-140 Market Reasoning as Moral Reasoning: Why Economists Should Re-engage with Political Philosophy
by Michael J. Sandel - 141-164 Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics
by Luigino Bruni & Robert Sugden - 165-186 Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe's Early Rise to Riches
by Nico Voigtl?nder & Hans-Joachim Voth - 187-210 The Economics of Slums in the Developing World
by Benjamin Marx & Thomas Stoker & Tavneet Suri - 211-218 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 219-222 Correction: The Composition and Drawdown of Wealth in Retirement
by James Poterba & Steven Venti & David Wise
Summer 2013, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 3-20 The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
by Facundo Alvaredo & Anthony B. Atkinson & Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez - 21-34 Defending the One Percent
by N. Gregory Mankiw - 35-56 It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent
by Steven N. Kaplan & Joshua Rauh - 57-78 The Pay of Corporate Executives and Financial Professionals as Evidence of Rents in Top 1 Percent Incomes
by Josh Bivens & Lawrence Mishel - 79-102 Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility
by Miles Corak - 103-124 Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?
by Adam Bonica & Nolan McCarty & Keith T. Poole & Howard Rosenthal - 125-144 What Is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists
by Enrico Spolaore - 145-166 Political Credit Cycles: The Case of the Eurozone
by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde & Luis Garicano & Tano Santos - 167-192 Cross of Euros
by Kevin H. O'Rourke & Alan M. Taylor - 193-212 Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity and the Case for Temporary Inflation in the Eurozone
by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé & Martin Uribe - 213-228 Retrospectives: John Maynard Keynes, Investment Innovator
by David Chambers & Elroy Dimson - 229-236 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2013, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 3-28 The Growth of Finance
by Robin Greenwood & David Scharfstein - 29-50 Finance: Function Matters, Not Size
by John H. Cochrane - 51-72 Moore's Law versus Murphy's Law: Algorithmic Trading and Its Discontents
by Andrei A. Kirilenko & Andrew W. Lo - 73-96 An International Look at the Growth of Modern Finance
by Thomas Philippon & Ariell Reshef - 97-108 Asset Management Fees and the Growth of Finance
by Burton G. Malkiel - 109-132 Investing in Preschool Programs
by Greg J. Duncan & Katherine Magnuson - 133-152 What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools?
by Julie Berry Cullen & Steven D. Levitt & Erin Robertson & Sally Sadoff - 153-172 Beyond BA Blinders: Lessons from Occupational Colleges and Certificate Programs for Nontraditional Students
by James E. Rosenbaum & Janet Rosenbaum - 173-192 Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice
by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson - 193-218 Latin America's Social Policy Challenge: Education, Social Insurance, Redistribution
by Santiago Levy & Norbert Schady - 219-238 The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
by Shai Bernstein & Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar - 239-246 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2013, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 3-22 The Case against Patents
by Michele Boldrin & David K. Levine - 23-44 Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History
by Petra Moser - 45-66 The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators, and Super-Aggregators
by Andrei Hagiu & David B. Yoffie - 67-86 Of Smart Phone Wars and Software Patents
by Stuart Graham & Saurabh Vishnubhakat - 87-102 Markets for Pollution Allowances: What Are the (New) Lessons?
by Lawrence H. Goulder - 103-122 The SO 2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment
by Richard Schmalensee & Robert N. Stavins - 123-146 Carbon Markets 15 Years after Kyoto: Lessons Learned, New Challenges
by Richard G. Newell & William A. Pizer & Daniel Raimi - 147-172 Moving Pollution Trading from Air to Water: Potential, Problems, and Prognosis
by Karen Fisher-Vanden & Sheila Olmstead - 173-196 Thirty Years of Prospect Theory in Economics: A Review and Assessment
by Nicholas C. Barberis - 197-222 The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later
by Aviva Aron-Dine & Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein - 223-230 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2012, Volume 26, Issue 4
- 3-26 From Exxon to BP: Has Some Number Become Better Than No Number?
by Catherine L. Kling & Daniel J. Phaneuf & Jinhua Zhao - 27-42 Contingent Valuation: A Practical Alternative When Prices Aren't Available
by Richard T. Carson - 43-56 Contingent Valuation: From Dubious to Hopeless
by Jerry Hausman - 57-74 The End of Cheap Chinese Labor
by Hongbin Li & Lei Li & Binzhen Wu & Yanyan Xiong - 75-102 Labor Market Outcomes and Reforms in China
by Xin Meng - 103-124 Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future
by Xiaodong Zhu - 125-146 Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China
by Dennis Tao Yang - 147-170 How Did China Take Off?
by Yasheng Huang - 171-184 Amy Finkelstein: 2012 John Bates Clark Medalist
by Jonathan Levin & James Poterba - 185-196 Retrospectives: Irving Fisher's Appreciation and Interest (1896) and the Fisher Relation
by Robert W. Dimand & Rebeca Gomez Betancourt - 197-204 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2012, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 3-26 A Search and Matching Approach to Labor Markets: Did the Natural Rate of Unemployment Rise?
by Mary C. Daly & Bart Hobijn & Aysegül Sahin & Robert G. Valletta - 27-48 Who Suffers during Recessions?
by Hilary Hoynes & Douglas L. Miller & Jessamyn Schaller - 49-68 The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
by Philip R. Lane - 69-86 Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes since 1800
by Carmen M. Reinhart & Vincent R. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff - 87-110 The Economics of Spam
by Justin M. Rao & David H. Reiley - 111-136 Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure
by Bruce D. Meyer & James X. Sullivan - 137-156 The New Demographic Transition: Most Gains in Life Expectancy Now Realized Late in Life
by Karen N. Eggleston & Victor R. Fuchs - 157-176 Groups Make Better Self-Interested Decisions
by Gary Charness & Matthias Sutter - 177-202 Deleveraging and Monetary Policy: Japan since the 1990s and the United States since 2007
by Kazuo Ueda - 203-224 The Relationship between Unit Cost and Cumulative Quantity and the Evidence for Organizational Learning-by-Doing
by Peter Thompson - 225-232 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2012, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 3-18 The Journal of Economic Perspectives at 100 (Issues)
by David Autor - 19-26 The Journal of Economic Perspectives and the Marketplace of Ideas: A View from the Founding
by Joseph E. Stiglitz - 27-40 From the Desk of the Managing Editor
by Timothy Taylor - 41-64 The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade
by Gordon H. Hanson - 65-90 Putting Ricardo to Work
by Jonathan Eaton & Samuel Kortum - 91-118 Gains from Trade When Firms Matter
by Marc J. Melitz & Daniel Trefler - 119-140 Globalization and U.S. Wages: Modifying Classic Theory to Explain Recent Facts
by Jonathan Haskel & Robert Z. Lawrence & Edward E. Leamer & Matthew J. Slaughter - 141-163 Why Is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States So High and Why Does It Matter?
by Melissa S. Kearney & Phillip B. Levine - 167-188 Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring
by Filipe R. Campante & Davin Chor - 189-206 Using Internet Data for Economic Research
by Benjamin Edelman - 207-218 Jonathan Levin: 2011 John Bates Clark Medalist
by Liran Einav & Steve Tadelis - 223-236 Retrospectives: The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression
by Jeff Biddle - 237-244 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2012, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 3-28 Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
by Hunt Allcott & Michael Greenstone - 29-48 Creating a Smarter U.S. Electricity Grid
by Paul L. Joskow - 49-66 Prospects for Nuclear Power
by Lucas W. Davis - 67-92 The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation
by Severin Borenstein - 93-118 Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
by Christopher R. Knittel - 119-138 How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?
by Catherine Wolfram & Orie Shelef & Paul Gertler - 139-164 The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?
by David J. Deming & Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz - 165-192 Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much--Or Not Enough?
by Christopher Avery & Sarah Turner - 193-216 American Higher Education in Transition
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg - 217-242 Compensation for State and Local Government Workers
by Maury Gittleman & Brooks Pierce - 243-250 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2011, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 3-30 Neuroeconomic Foundations of Economic Choice--Recent Advances
by Ernst Fehr & Antonio Rangel - 31-56 It's about Space, It's about Time, Neuroeconomics and the Brain Sublime
by Marieke van Rooij & Guy Van Orden - 57-82 Molecular Genetics and Economics
by Jonathan P. Beauchamp & David Cesarini & Magnus Johannesson & Matthijs J. H. M. van der Loos & Philipp D. Koellinger & Patrick J. F. Groenen & James H. Fowler & J. Niels Rosenquist & A. Roy Thurik & Nicholas A. Christakis - 83-94 Genes, Eyeglasses, and Social Policy
by Charles F. Manski - 95-118 The Composition and Drawdown of Wealth in Retirement
by James Poterba & Steven Venti & David Wise - 119-142 Insuring Long-Term Care in the United States
by Jeffrey R. Brown & Amy Finkelstein - 143-164 Annuitization Puzzles
by Shlomo Benartzi & Alessandro Previtero & Richard H. Thaler - 165-190 The Case for a Progressive Tax: From Basic Research to Policy Recommendations
by Peter Diamond & Emmanuel Saez - 191-210 When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior
by Uri Gneezy & Stephan Meier & Pedro Rey-Biel - 211-222 Retrospectives: X-Efficiency
by Michael Perelman - 223-230 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2011, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 3-16 Why Economists Should Conduct Field Experiments and 14 Tips for Pulling One Off
by John A. List - 17-38 Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
by Jens Ludwig & Jeffrey R. Kling & Sendhil Mullainathan - 39-62 The Role of Theory in Field Experiments
by David Card & Stefano DellaVigna & Ulrike Malmendier - 63-82 Field Experiments with Firms
by Oriana Bandiera & Iwan Barankay & Imran Rasul - 83-106 Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
by Michael A. Clemens - 107-128 Eight Questions about Brain Drain
by John Gibson & David McKenzie - 129-152 Migrant Remittances
by Dean Yang - 153-172 Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis
by Douglas Almond & Janet Currie - 173-196 Internal Migration in the United States
by Raven Molloy & Christopher L. Smith & Abigail Wozniak - 197-216 Esther Duflo: 2010 John Bates Clark Medalist
by Christopher Udry - 217-230 Retrospectives: Hume on Money, Commerce, and the Science of Economics
by Margaret Schabas & Carl Wennerlind - 231-238 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor