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February 2007, Volume 117, Issue 517
- 1-10 The empirics of microfinance: what do we know?
by Niels Hermes & Robert Lensink - 11-51 Using Repayment Data to Test Across Models of Joint Liability Lending
by Christian Ahlin & RobertM. Townsend - 52-84 Social connections and group banking
by DeanS. Karlan - 85-106 The effect of social capital on group loan repayment: evidence from field experiments
by Alessandra Cassar & Luke Crowley & Bruce Wydick - 107-133 Financial performance and outreach: a global analysis of leading microbanks
by Robert Cull & Asli Demirguç-Kunt & Jonathan Morduch - 134-161 Firm heterogeneity, exporting and foreign direct investment
by David Greenaway & Richard Kneller - 162-169 Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Allan Drazen - 169-174 Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by William Easterly - 174-179 Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Enrico Spolaore - 179-183 Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Edward L. Glaeser
January 2007, Volume 117, Issue 516
- 1-44 Welfare reform in European countries: a microsimulation analysis
by Herwig Immervoll & Henrik Jacobsen Kleven & Claus Thustrup Kreiner & Emmanuel Saez - 45-67 Retail Mergers, Buyer Power and Product Variety
by Roman Inderst & Greg Shaffer - 68-93 Spillovers in Industrial Districts
by Luigi Guiso & Fabiano Schivardi - 94-119 Collective female labour supply: theory and application
by Olivier Donni - 120-145 Collusion and Equilibrium Selection in Auctions
by Anthony M. Kwasnica & Katerina Sherstyuk - 146-173 The road not taken: how psychology was removed from economics, and how it might be brought back
by Luigino Bruni & Robert Sugden - 174-195 Friedman Meets Hosios: Efficiency in Search Models of Money
by Aleksander Berentsen & Guillaume Rocheteau & Shouyong Shi - 196-215 Bonds or Loans? the Effect of Macroeconomic Fundamentals
by Galina Hale - 216-239 Output Costs, Currency Crises and Interest Rate Defence of a Peg
by Amartya Lahiri & Carlos A. Végh - 240-251 Optimum and Risk-Class Pricing of Annuities
by Eytan Sheshinski - 252-269 Inequality, democracy and the protection of property rights
by Mark Gradstein - 270-286 The Dynamics of Neighbourhood Watch and Norm Enforcement
by Steffen Huck & Michael Kosfeld - 287-305 Time allocation within the Family: Welfare implications of life in a couple
by Hélène Couprie
November 2006, Volume 116, Issue 515
- 347-350 Profiling: Introduction to the Feature
by Charles F. Manski - 351-367 Generalising the Hit Rates Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement, With an Application to Vehicle Searches in Wichita
by Nicola Persico & Petra Todd - 368-384 Crime minimisation and racial bias: what can we learn from police search data?
by Jeff Dominitz & John Knowles - 385-401 Search Profiling With Partial Knowledge of Deterrence
by Charles F. Manski - 402-426 Assessing Racial Profiling
by Steven N. Durlauf - 427-440 Profiling Problems With Partially Identified Structure
by William A. Brock - 441-458 Welfare work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences
by Robert Moffitt - 459-479 Profiling in Bargaining Over College Tuition
by Dennis Epple & Richard Romano & Sinan Sarpaca & Holger Sieg - 480-498 The Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination
by Lawrence E. Blume - 499-507 The Theory of Corporate Finance
by D avid W ebb
October 2006, Volume 116, Issue 514
- 869-902 Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique
by Oriana Bandiera & Imran Rasul - 903-923 The Theory of Human Capital Revisited: on the Interaction of General and Specific Investments
by Anke S. Kessler & Christoph Lülfesmann - 924-942 Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition
by Martin Ravallion & Dominique van de Walle - 943-968 Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons
by Jean-Yves Duclos & David E. Sahn & Stephen D. Younger - 969-990 Economic Growth in an Interdependent World Economy
by Roger E. A. Farmer & Amartya Lahiri - 991-1013 Are Homeowners Really More Unemployed?
by Jakob Roland Munch & Michael Rosholm & Michael Svarer - 1014-1036 Asymmetry in Procurement Auctions: Evidence from Snow Removal Contracts
by Véronique Flambard & Isabelle Perrigne - 1037-1056 Inequality Aversion in a Variety of Games - An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis
by Werner Güth & Stefan Napel - 1057-1087 City Structure, Job Search and Labour Discrimination: Theory and Policy Implications
by Harris Selod & Yves Zenou - 1088-1115 Risk and Household Grain Management in Developing Countries
by Albert Park
July 2006, Volume 116, Issue 513
- 627-658 Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil
by Marcos A. Rangel - 659-679 Intergenerational Mobility and Marital Sorting
by John Ermisch & Marco Francesconi & Thomas Siedler - 680-701 Paycheque Receipt and the Timing of Consumption
by Stephens Melvin - 702-720 Entry and Strategic Information Display in Credit Markets
by Jan Bouckaert & Hans Degryse - 721-737 Labour Supply and Saving Under Uncertainty
by Martin Flodén - 738-750 Is there a Threat Effect of Labour Market Programmes? A Study of ALMP in the Danish UI System
by Lars Pico Geerdsen - 751-772 On the Early Holocene: Foraging to Early Agriculture
by Nicolas Marceau & Gordon Myers - 773-790 Aid, Governance and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings for the 1990s
by Philipp Harms & Matthias Lutz - 791-811 Equity Prices, Productivity Growth and 'The New Economy'
by Jakob B Madsen & E Philip Davis - 812-842 Financial and Capital Markets' Responses to Changes in the Central Bank's Target Interest Rate: The Case of Japan
by Yuzo Honda & Yoshihiro Kuroki - 843-867 Catalysing Private Capital Flows: Do IMF Programmes Work as Commitment Devices?
by Ashoka Mody & Diego Saravia
June 2006, Volume 116, Issue 512
- 181-184 Monetary policy and the sterling exchange rate
by David Cobham - 185-207 The Overvaluation of Sterling Since 1996: How the Policy makers Responded and Why
by David Cobham - 208-231 Should Central Banks Target Consumer Prices or the Exchange Rate?
by Tatiana Kirsanova & Campbell Leith & Simon Wren-Lewis - 232-244 United Kingdom Inflation Targeting and the Exchange Rate
by Christopher Allsopp & Amit Kara & Edward Nelson - 245-285 Wages, Mobility and Firm Performance: Advantages and Insights from Using Matched Worker-Firm Data
by John M. Abowd & Francis Kramarz & Sébastien Roux - 286-305 On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility
by David Blake & Les Mayhew - 306-325 Where Economics and Philosophy Meet: Review of the Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy with Responses from the Authors
by Peter J. Boettke & Christopher J. Coyne & John Davis & Francesco Guala & Alain Marciano & Jochen Runde & Margaret Schabas - 326-327 Stochastic Volatility: Selected Readings
by G iuseppe C avaliere - 327-328 The European Central Bank - Credibility, Transparency and Centralization
by A ndreas F reytag - 328-331 Exchange Rates Under The East Asian Dollar Standard: Living With Conflicted Virtue
by D omenico L ombardi - 331-332 The Experiment in the History of Economics
by R oger E. B ackhouse - 332-333 Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production
by C olin R owat - 333-335 Electricity Deregulation: Choices and Challenges
by D avid N ewbery - 335-336 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by O fer H. A zar
April 2006, Volume 116, Issue 511
- 355-381 A Theory of Consumer Boycotts under Symmetric Information and Imperfect Competition
by Robert Innes - 382-407 Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs: Variable Markups and 'the End of Work'
by Gilles Saint-Paul - 408-433 Has Monetary Policy become more Efficient? a Cross-Country Analysis
by Stephen G. Cecchetti & Alfonso Flores-Lagunes & Stefan Krause - 434-456 Closed and Open Economy Models of Business Cycles with Marked Up and Sticky Prices
by Robert J. Barro & Silvana Tenreyro - 457-477 Money in an Estimated Business Cycle Model of the Euro Area
by Javier Andrés & J. David López-Salido & Javier Vallés - 478-506 Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies
by Michael B. Devereux & Philip R. Lane & Juanyi Xu - 507-528 Shocking Escapes
by Bruce McGough - 529-557 Risk, Return and Portfolio Allocation under Alternative Pension Systems with Incomplete and Imperfect Financial Markets
by David Miles & Ales Cerny - 558-580 Gender and Say: a Model of Household Behaviour with Endogenously Determined Balance of Power
by Kaushik Basu - 581-604 Relational Costs and the Production of Social Capital: Evidence from Carpooling
by Kerwin Kofi Charles & Patrick Kline - 605-625 Commercial Broadcasting and Local Content: Cultural Quotas, Advertising and Public Stations
by Martin Richardson
March 2006, Volume 116, Issue 510
- 1-9 A Sceptic's Comment on the Study of Economics
by Ariel Rubinstein - 10-23 Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects
by Orley Ashenfelter - 24-33 Happiness and Public Policy: a Challenge to the Profession
by Richard Layard - 34-45 Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?
by John F. Helliwell - 46-62 The Efficacy of Choice Threats Within School Accountability Systems: Results from Legislatively Induced Experiments
by Martin R. West & Paul E. Peterson - 63-76 Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences- in-Differences Evidence Across Countries
by Eric A. Hanushek & Ludger Wössmann - 77-92 Paying for Primary Schools: Admission Constraints, School Popularity or Congestion?
by Stephen Gibbons & Stephen Machin - 93-109 Child Support and Partnership Dissolution
by Ian Walker & Yu Zhu - 110-129 Consumer Demand and the Role of Labour Supply and Durables
by Iftikhar Hussain - 130-148 The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle and Involuntary Early Retirement: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
by Sarah Smith - 149-171 Bank Loans Versus Bond Finance: Implications for Sovereign Debtors
by Misa Tanaka - 172-189 Company Dividends and Ownership Structure: Evidence from UK Panel Data
by Tehmina Khan - 190-208 Corporate Cross-Holdings of Equity, Leverage and Pensions: Simulation and Empirical Evidence from the UK
by Kamakshya Trivedi & Garry Young
February 2006, Volume 116, Issue 509
- 1-9 Feature: IT Diffusion and Industry and Labour-Market Dynamics
by Bas Weel - 10-28 Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies
by Gerard J. Berg - 29-44 The Growth of Network Computing: Quality-Adjusted Price Changes for Network Servers
by John Van Reenen - 45-72 The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
by Lex Borghans & Bas Weel - 73-93 New technologies, organisation and age: firm-level evidence
by Patrick Aubert & Eve Caroli & Muriel Roger - 94-118 Reforming Public Pensions in the US and the UK
by Peter Diamond - 119-135 UK Real-Time Macro Data Characteristics
by Anthony Garratt & Shaun P Vahey - 136-155 Coalition Theory and its Applications: A Survey
by Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay & Kalyan Chatterjee - 172-174 Economic Liberalisation. Distribution and Poverty: Latin America in the 1990s
by Gilberto Libanio
January 2006, Volume 116, Issue 508
- 1-20 Institutions and the Resource Curse
by Halvor Mehlum & Karl Moene & Ragnar Torvik - 21-44 Scale Effects in Markets with Search
by Barbara Petrongolo & Christopher Pissarides - 45-83 Job Search with Nonparticipation
by Paul Frijters & Bas van der Klaauw - 84-100 A Generalised Model of Monopsony
by Alan Manning - 101-127 Decentralisation and Accountability in Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries
by Pranab Bardhan & Dilip Mookherjee - 128-154 On the Relation Between Organisational Practices and New Technologies: the Role of (Time Based) Competition
by Philippe Askenazy & David Thesmar & Mathias Thoenig - 155-174 Gpt-Driven, Endogenous Growth
by Kenneth I. Carlaw & Richard G. Lipsey - 175-199 Mistake #37: The Effect of Previously Encountered Prices on Current Housing Demand
by Uri Simonsohn & George Loewenstein - 200-222 The Neighbourhood is Not What it Used to be
by Oddbjørn Raaum & Kjell G. Salvanes & Erik O. Sørensen - 223-245 Transaction Costs and the Robustness of the Coase Theorem
by Luca Anderlini & Leonardo Felli - 246-265 Read My Lips, Watch for Leaps: Preference Equilibrium and Political Instability
by Chaim Fershtman & Aviad Heifetz - 266-282 The Effect of Discounting on Policy Choices in Inflation Targeting Regimes
by SGB Henry & Mathan Satchi & David Vines - 283-308 Nominal Wage Flexibility, Wage Indexation and Monetary Union
by Lars Calmfors & Asa Johansson - 309-326 Stabilising Properties of Discretionary Monetary Policies in a Small Open Economy
by Alfred V. Guender - 327-354 Advantageous Effects of Regulatory Adverse Selection in the Life Insurance Market
by Mattias K. Polborn & Michael Hoy & Asha Sadanand
November 2005, Volume 115, Issue 507
- 297-299 The Labour Market Effects of Immigration
by Christian Dustmann & Tim Hatton & Ian Preston - 300-323 Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?
by David Card - 324-341 The Impact of Immigration on the British Labour Market
by Christian Dustmann & Francesca Fabbri & Ian Preston - 342-358 Immigration and Inter-Regional Mobility in the UK, 1982-2000
by Timothy J. Hatton & Massimiliano Tani - 359-376 Job Search Methods and Their Success: A Comparison of Immigrants and Natives in the UK
by Paul Frijters & Michael A. Shields & Stephen Wheatley Price - 377-396 Can Private Learn from Public Governance?
by Bruno S. Frey & Matthias Benz - 397-412 Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours: Was Thorsten Veblen Right?
by Samuel Bowles & Yongjin Park
October 2005, Volume 115, Issue 506
- 799-832 The Employment Effects of Severance Payments with Wage Rigidities
by Pietro Garibaldi & Giovanni L. Violante - 833-859 Fair pay and a Wage-Bill Argument for low Real Wage Cyclicality and Excessive Employment Variability
by Jonathan P. Thomas - 860-878 International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
by Alexander Hijzen & Holger Görg & Robert C. Hine - 879-906 Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoptees as a Natural Experiment
by Erik Plug & Wim Vijverberg - 907-927 Wage Rigidity and Monetary Union
by Harris Dellas & George Tavlas - 928-948 Equal Size, Equal Role? Interest Rate Interdependence Between the Euro Area and the United States
by Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher - 949-968 Consumer Choice and Competition Policy: a Study of UK Energy Markets
by Monica Giulietti & Catherine Waddams Price & Michael Waterson - 969-986 Capital Adjustment Patterns In Swedish Manufacturing Firms: What Model Do They Suggest?
by Mikael Carlsson & Stefan Laséen - 987-1004 How Rising Competition Among Microfinance Institutions Affects Incumbent Lenders
by Craig McIntosh & Alain Janvry & Elisabeth Sadoulet - 1005-1015 Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect
by Shubhashis Gangopadhyay & Maitreesh Ghatak & Robert Lensink - 1016-1031 Verifiable Offers and the Relationship Between Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations
by Charles J. Thomas & Bart J. Wilson - 1032-1053 Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry and Efficiency
by Talbot Page & Louis Putterman & Bulent Unel - 1054-1076 Fair Procedures: Evidence from Games Involving Lotteries
by Gary E Bolton & Jordi Brandts & Axel Ockenfels - 1077-1102 Relative Performance Evaluation Contracts and Asset Market Equilibrium
by Sandeep Kapur & Allan Timmermann - 1103-1120 Securities Transaction Tax and Market Volatility
by Frank M. Song & Junxi Zhang
July 2005, Volume 115, Issue 505
- 551-578 Strange Bids: Bidding Behaviour in the United Kingdom's Third Generation Spectrum Auction
by Tilman Börgers & Christian Dustmann - 579-582 A Comment on 'Strange Bids: Bidding Behaviour in the United Kingdom's Third Generation Spectrum Auction' by Tilman Borgers and Christian Dustmann
by Dan Maldoom - 583-601 Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach
by Michael R. Baye & Dan Kovenock & Casper G. Vries - 602-630 The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions on the Transition Rate from Unemployment to Employment
by Jaap H. Abbring & Gerard J. Berg & Jan C. Ours - 631-648 Equilibrium Search With Time-Varying Unemployment Benefits
by James Albrecht & Susan Vroman - 649-670 TFP Growth in British and German Manufacturing, 1950-1996
by Nicholas Crafts & Terence C. Mills - 671-688 Productivity Improvements in Public Organisations
by Hans Gersbach & Marten Keil - 689-702 Learning to like what you have - explaining the endowment effect
by Steffen Huck & Georg Kirchsteiger & Jörg Oechssler - 703-721 Insecure Property and Technological Backwardness
by Francisco M. Gonzalez - 722-744 Why Does the Yield Curve Predict Output and Inflation?
by Arturo Estrella - 745-766 Does Conservatism Matter? A Time-Series Approach to Central Bank Behaviour
by Helge Berger & Ulrich Woitek - 767-797 A Three-Regime Model of Speculative Behaviour: Modelling the Evolution of the S&P 500 Composite Index
by Chris Brooks & Apostolos Katsaris
June 2005, Volume 115, Issue 504
- 159-192 Computability and Evolutionary Complexity: Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
by Sheri M. Markose - 193-210 The Complexity of Exchange
by Robert Axtell - 211-224 Complex Evolutionary Systems and the Red Queen
by Arthur J. Robson - 225-243 Complexity and Empirical Economics
by Steven N. Durlauf - 244-261 Abuse of Market Power
by John Vickers - 262-276 Alan Peacock and Cultural Economics
by Ruth Towse
April 2005, Volume 115, Issue 503
- 271-304 Memory and Anticipation
by B. Douglas Bernheim & Raphael Thomadsen - 305-318 Overconfident: Do You Put Your Money On It?
by Erik Hoelzl & Aldo Rustichini - 319-342 The Industry Effects of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
by Gert Peersman & Frank Smets - 343-367 Sargent-Wallace meets Krugman-Flood-Garber, or: why sovereign debt swaps do not avert macroeconomic crises
by Joshua Aizenman & Kenneth M. Kletzer & Brian Pinto - 368-390 Strategic Complementarities and the Twin Crises
by Itay Goldstein - 391-422 Globalisation vs Skill-Biased Technological Change: Implications for Unemployment and Wage Inequality
by Mark P. Moore & Priya Ranjan - 423-448 Unemployment dynamics in Britain
by Simon Burgess & Hélène Turon - 449-476 The Economic Impact Of The Coal Boom And Bust
by Dan Black & Terra McKinnish & Seth Sanders - 477-504 Cities and Specialisation: Evidence from South Asia
by Marcel Fafchamps & Forhad Shilpi - 505-532 Tropic Trust Versus Nordic Trust: Experimental Evidence From Tanzania And Sweden
by Håkan J. Holm & Anders Danielson
March 2005, Volume 115, Issue 502
- 1-31 New Developments in Monetary Economics: Two ghosts, Two Eccentricities, a Fallacy, a Mirage and a Mythos
by Willem H. Buiter - 32-61 The Properties of Automatic "GETS" Modelling
by David F. Hendry & Hans-Martin Krolzig - 62-81 The Internationalisation of Public Welfare Policy
by James Banks & Richard Disney & Alan Duncan & John Van Reenen - 82-98 Incentives Information and Efficiency in the UK Mortgage Market
by David Miles - 99-117 Property Taxation and the Economy after the Barker Review
by John Muellbauer - 118-132 Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries
by Andrew Clark & Fabrice Etilé & Fabien Postel-Vinay & Claudia Senik & Karine Van der Straeten - 133-160 Identifying and Interpreting Regional Convergence Clusters across Europe
by Luisa Corrado & Ron Martin & Melvyn Weeks - 161-175 Endogenous Business Cycles With Frictional Labour Markets
by Nigar Hashimzade & Salvador Ortigueira - 176-189 An Experiment on Risky Choice Amongst Households
by Ian Bateman & Alistair Munro - 190-207 Wage Uncertainty and the Labour Supply of Self-Employed Workers
by Simon C. Parker & Yacine Belghitar & Tim Barmby - 208-227 The Effect of Women's Rights on Women's Welfare: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
by Silvia Pezzini
February 2005, Volume 115, Issue 501
- 1-6 Introduction
by Paul Gregg & Jane Waldfogel - 7-28 Parental leave and child health across OECD countries
by Sakiko Tanaka - 29-47 Maternity leave, early maternal employment and child health and development in the US
by Lawrence M. Berger & Jennifer Hill & Jane Waldfogel - 48-80 The Effects of a Mother's Return to Work Decision on Child Development in the UK
by Paul Gregg & Elizabeth Washbrook & Carol Propper & Simon Burgess - 81-107 Outside Offers And The Gender Pay Gap: Empirical Evidence From the UK Academic Labour Market
by David Blackaby & Alison L Booth & Jeff Frank - 108-129 An Indicator of Monthly GDP and an Early Estimate of Quarterly GDP Growth
by James Mitchell & Richard J. Smith & Martin R. Weale & Stephen Wright & Eduardo L. Salazar - 130-133 Abram Bergson, Economist
by Paul A. Samuelson
January 2005, Volume 115, Issue 500
- 1-27 Unemployment in the OECD Since the 1960s. What Do We Know?
by Stephen Nickell & Luca Nunziata & Wolfgang Ochel - 28-67 The Rise and Fall of Unionised Labour Markets: A Political Economy Approach
by Woojin Lee & John E. Roemer - 68-87 A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour
by Sylvain E. Dessy & Stéphane Pallage - 88-110 Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty
by Omer Moav - 111-143 Economic Implications of Bull and Bear Regimes in UK Stock and Bond Returns
by Massimo Guidolin & Allan Timmermann - 144-165 Consumption and Habits: Evidence from Panel Data
by Raquel Carrasco & José M. Labeaga & J. David López-Salido - 166-184 Should Courts Enforce Credit Contracts Strictly?
by Alberto Zazzaro - 185-199 Producing and Manipulating Information
by Robert Dur & Otto H. Swank - 200-223 The Decision Maker Matters: Individual Versus Group Behaviour in Experimental Beauty-Contest Games
by Martin G. Kocher & Matthias Sutter - 224-246 Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise
by Bernard M. S. van Praag & Barbara E. Baarsma - 247-270 Inflation and Balanced-Path Growth with Alternative Payment Mechanisms
by Max Gillman & Michal Kejak
November 2004, Volume 114, Issue 499
- 391-396 Introduction to feature: the price of access to better neighbourhoods
by Paul Cheshire & Stephen Sheppard - 397-424 Capitalising the Value of Free Schools: The Impact of Supply Characteristics and Uncertainty
by Paul Cheshire & Stephen Sheppard - 425-440 Schools and Housing Markets: An Examination of School Segregation and Performance in Connecticut
by John M. Clapp & Stephen L. Ross