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May 2006, Volume 96, Issue 2
- 337-341 Has Government Investment Crowded Out Private Investment in India?
by Pritha Mitra - 342-347 Why Is Russian GDP Growth Slowing?
by Padma Desai - 348-352 Who Are China's Entrepreneurs?
by Simeon Djankov & Yingyi Qian & Gérard Roland & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya - 353-357 The Multitask Theory of State Enterprise Reform: Empirical Evidence from China
by Chong-En Bai & Jiangyong Lu & Zhigang Tao - 358-362 Institutional Entrepreneurs
by David Daokui Li & Junxin Feng & Hongping Jiang - 363-367 Executive Turnover and Firm Performance in China
by Takao Kato & Cheryl Long - 368-374 Factor Reallocation in Eastern Germany after Reunification
by Michael C. Burda - 375-382 The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market after Reunification
by Dennis J. Snower & Christian Merkl - 383-387 Regional Labor Markets, Network Externalities and Migration: The Case of German Reunification
by Harald Uhlig - 388-393 The Return to Capital in Ghana
by Christopher Udry & Santosh Anagol - 394-399 War and Institutions: New Evidence from Sierra Leone
by John Bellows & Edward Miguel - 400-404 Asian Growth and African Development
by Marcos de Carvalho Chamon & Michael R. Kremer - 405-410 Sudden Stops and Phoenix Miracles in Emerging Markets
by Guillermo A. Calvo & Alejandro Izquierdo & Ernesto Talvi - 411-416 Lessons from the Debt-Deflation Theory of Sudden Stops
by Enrique G. Mendoza - 417-421 On Overborrowing
by Martín Uribe - 422-426 China's Exchange Rate Policy Dilemma
by Morris Goldstein & Nicholas Lardy - 427-431 China's Exchange Rate Trap: Japan Redux?
by Ronald McKinnon - 432-436 The Parallel-Currency Approach to Asian Monetary Integration
by Barry Eichengreen - 437-441 Requiring a Math Skills Unit: Results of a Randomized Experiment
by Susan Pozo & Charles A. Stull - 442-446 Technology Improves Learning in Large Principles of Economics Classes: Using Our WITS
by Sheryl B. Ball & Catherine Eckel & Christian Rojas - 447-452 Incentives and Student Learning: A Natural Experiment with Economics Problem Sets
by Wayne A. Grove & Tim Wasserman - 453-457 Matriculation in U.S. Economics Ph.D. Programs: How Many Accepted Americans Do Not Enroll?
by T. Aldrich Finegan & Wendy A. Stock & John J. Siegfried - 458-466 Attrition in Economics Ph.D. Programs
by Wendy A. Stock & T. Aldrich Finegan & John J. Siegfried - 467-474 Time-to-Degree for the Economics Ph.D. Class of 2001-2002
by Wendy A. Stock & John J. Siegfried - 477-478 Minutes of the Annual Meeting
by John J. Siegfried - 479-489 Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
by John J. Siegfried - 490-492 Report of the Secretary for 2005
by John J. Siegfried - 493-496 Report of the Treasurer
by John J. Siegfried - 510-511 Editor, Journal of Economic Literature
by Roger Gordon - 512-513 Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives
by Andrei Shleifer - 514-515 Report of the Director, Job Openings for Economists
by John J. Siegfried - 516-518 Report of the Committee on Economic Education
by William Walstad - 519-526 Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
by Francine D. Blau - 527-530 American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
by Charles E. Scott & John J. Siegfried
March 2006, Volume 96, Issue 1
- 5-29 Free Markets and Fettered Consumers
by Daniel McFadden - 30-53 Money in a Theory of Banking
by Douglas W. Diamond & Raghuram G. Rajan - 54-81 Were There Regime Switches in U.S. Monetary Policy?
by Christopher A. Sims & Tao Zha - 82-92 Odious Debt
by Seema Jayachandran & Michael Kremer - 93-113 Advertising Content
by Simon P. Anderson & Régis Renault - 114-126 Managing Growth to Achieve Efficient Coordination in Large Groups
by Roberto A. Weber - 127-151 An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
by Shamena Anwar & Hanming Fang - 152-175 Estimating Average and Local Average Treatment Effects of Education when Compulsory Schooling Laws Really Matter
by Philip Oreopoulos - 176-194 The Long-Term Impact of Military Service on Health: Evidence from World War II and Korean War Veterans
by Kelly Bedard & Olivier Deschênes - 195-221 The Evolution of Managerial Expertise: How Corporate Culture Can Run Amok
by Dan Bernhardt & Eric Hughson & Edward Kutsoati - 222-235 Why Beauty Matters
by Markus M. Mobius & Tanya S. Rosenblat - 236-256 Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807–1994
by Thomas Piketty & Gilles Postel-Vinay & Jean-Laurent Rosenthal - 257-279 Inequality, Lobbying, and Resource Allocation
by Joan Esteban & Debraj Ray - 280-289 Putting Risk in Its Proper Place
by Louis Eeckhoudt & Harris Schlesinger - 290-302 Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality
by Gerard J. van den Berg & Maarten Lindeboom & France Portrait - 303-320 Can Rational Expectations Sticky-Price Models Explain Inflation Dynamics?
by Jeremy Rudd & Karl Whelan - 321-338 On the Workings of a Cartel: Evidence from the Norwegian Cement Industry
by Lars-Hendrik Röller & Frode Steen - 339-351 Benefit-Cost in a Benevolent Society
by Theodore C. Bergstrom - 352-368 Do Technological Improvements in the Manufacturing Sector Raise or Lower Employment?
by Yongsung Chang & Jay H. Hong - 369-386 Politically Connected Firms
by Mara Faccio - 387-393 Persistent Distortionary Policies with Asymmetric Information
by Matthew F. Mitchell & Andrea Moro - 394-404 National Treatment in the GATT
by Henrik Horn - 405-421 Do Labor Issues Matter in the Determination of U.S. Trade Policy? An Empirical Reevaluation
by Xenia Matschke & Shane M. Sherlund - 422-434 Information Gathering, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Approach
by Patrick W. Schmitz - 435-447 The New York Times and the Market for Local Newspapers
by Lisa M. George & Joel Waldfogel - 448-452 Social Value of Public Information: Comment: Morris and Shin (2002) Is Actually Pro-Transparency, Not Con
by Lars E. O. Svensson - 453-455 Social Value of Public Information: Morris and Shin (2002) Is Actually Pro-Transparency, Not Con: Reply
by Stephen Morris & Hyun Song Shin & Hui Tong - 456-456 International Protection of Intellectual Property: Corrigendum
by Gene M. Grossman & Edwin L.-C. Lai
December 2005, Volume 95, Issue 5
- 1355-1368 Fact-Free Learning
by Enriqueta Aragones & Itzhak Gilboa & Andrew Postlewaite & David Schmeidler - 1369-1385 Contracting on Time
by Sergei Guriev & Dmitriy Kvasov - 1386-1402 A Model of Positive Self-Image in Subjective Assessments
by Luís Santos-Pinto & Joel Sobel - 1403-1426 Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets: An Internet Experiment
by Mathias Drehmann & Jörg Oechssler & Andreas Roider - 1427-1443 Herd Behavior in a Laboratory Financial Market
by Marco Cipriani & Antonio Guarino - 1444-1463 Services as Experience Goods: An Empirical Examination of Consumer Learning in Automobile Insurance
by Mark Israel - 1464-1491 A Spatial Theory of Trade
by Esteban Rossi-Hansberg - 1492-1524 The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation
by Matthias Doepke & Fabrizio Zilibotti - 1525-1547 How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes?
by Leemore S. Dafny - 1548-1572 Crises and Capital Requirements in Banking
by Alan D. Morrison & Lucy White - 1573-1590 Annuities and Individual Welfare
by Thomas Davidoff & Jeffrey R. Brown & Peter A. Diamond - 1591-1604 Cooperation under the Shadow of the Future: Experimental Evidence from Infinitely Repeated Games
by Pedro Dal Bó - 1605-1630 Tax-Motivated Trading by Individual Investors
by Zoran Ivković & James Poterba & Scott Weisbenner - 1631-1638 On the Irrelevance of Input Prices for Make-or-Buy Decisions
by David E. M Sappington - 1639-1652 Estimating the Value of Proposal Power
by Brian Knight - 1653-1672 Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy, and the Process of Development
by Matteo Cervellati & Uwe Sunde - 1673-1687 The Impact of Outsourcing to China on Hong Kong's Labor Market
by Chang-Tai Hsieh & Keong T. Woo - 1688-1699 Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions
by Dean S. Karlan - 1700-1711 Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others
by Bruce Hay & Kathryn E. Spier - 1712-1730 Are Banks Really Special? New Evidence from the FDIC-Induced Failure of Healthy Banks
by Adam B. Ashcraft - 1731-1737 Bubbles and Experience: An Experiment
by Martin Dufwenberg & Tobias Lindqvist & Evan Moore - 1738-1744 Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Comment
by Kate L. Antonovics & Arthur S. Goldberger - 1745-1751 Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Reply
by Jere R. Behrman & Mark R. Rosenzweig - 1752-1752 The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy: Corrigendum
by N. Gregory Mankiw
September 2005, Volume 95, Issue 4
- 913-935 Matching with Contracts
by John William Hatfield & Paul R. Milgrom - 936-959 Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design
by Peter M. DeMarzo & Ilan Kremer & Andrzej Skrzypacz - 960-980 Fairness and Redistribution
by Alberto Alesina & George-Marios Angeletos - 981-1004 Legislative Bargaining under Weighted Voting
by James M. Snyder Jr. & Michael M. Ting & Stephen Ansolabehere - 1005-1030 The Political Economy of Corporate Governance
by Marco Pagano & Paolo F. Volpin - 1031-1053 The Market for News
by Sendhil Mullainathan & Andrei Shleifer - 1054-1073 Incomplete Contracts and the Product Cycle
by Pol Antràs - 1074-1091 Secrecy and Safety
by Andrew F. Daughety & Jennifer F. Reinganum - 1092-1118 Optimal Expectations
by Markus K. Brunnermeier & Jonathan A. Parker - 1119-1143 Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations
by Jonathan A. Parker & Bruce Preston - 1144-1166 Unnatural Selection: Perverse Incentives and the Misallocation of Credit in Japan
by Joe Peek & Eric S. Rosengren - 1167-1189 Homeownership, Community Interactions, and Segregation
by Karla Hoff & Arijit Sen - 1190-1213 History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India
by Abhijit Banerjee & Lakshmi Iyer - 1214-1236 How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs
by Petra Moser - 1237-1258 The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions That Use Test Scores to Rank Schools
by Kenneth Y. Chay & Patrick J. McEwan & Miguel Urquiola - 1259-1275 Effective Exchange Rates and the Classical Gold Standard Adjustment
by Luis A. V. Catão & Solomos N. Solomou - 1276-1289 Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline Tax?
by Ian W. H. Parry & Kenneth A. Small - 1290-1299 Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting
by Partha Dasgupta & Eric Maskin - 1300-1309 When Optimal Choices Feel Wrong: A Laboratory Study of Bayesian Updating, Complexity, and Affect
by Gary Charness & Dan Levin - 1310-1326 Does School Choice Lead to Sorting? Evidence from Tiebout Variation
by Miguel Urquiola - 1327-1340 Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers
by Kevin Lang & Michael Manove & William T. Dickens - 1341-1348 State "Currencies" and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar: Reply—Including a New View from Canada
by Farley W. Grubb - 1349-1350 Meetings with Costly Participation: Comment
by Francesco De Sinopoli & Giovanna Iannantuoni - 1351-1354 Meetings with Costly Participation: Reply
by Martin J. Osborne & Jeffrey S. Rosenthal & Matthew A. Turner
June 2005, Volume 95, Issue 3
- 477-509 Are Two Heads Better Than One? Team versus Individual Play in Signaling Games
by David J. Cooper & John H. Kagel - 510-529 Sunspots in the Laboratory
by John Duffy & Eric O'N. Fisher - 530-545 The Willingness to Pay–Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations
by Charles R. Plott & Kathryn Zeiler - 546-579 The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth
by Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson & James Robinson - 580-601 Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice
by Rodrigo R. Soares - 602-615 International Unions
by Alberto Alesina & Ignazio Angeloni & Federico Etro - 616-636 Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents
by Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak - 637-658 Long-Term Contracting with Markovian Consumers
by Marco Battaglini - 659-681 Equilibrium Investment and Asset Prices under Imperfect Corporate Control
by James Dow & Gary Gorton & Arvind Krishnamurthy - 682-703 State "Currencies" and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar: Clarifying Some Confusions
by Ronald W. Michener & Robert E. Wright - 704-723 The Variety and Quality of a Nation's Exports
by David Hummels & Peter J. Klenow - 724-738 Understanding European Real Exchange Rates
by Mario J. Crucini & Chris I. Telmer & Marios Zachariadis - 739-764 House Prices, Borrowing Constraints, and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle
by Matteo Iacoviello - 765-779 Some Evolutionary Foundations for Price Level Rigidity
by Gilles Saint-Paul - 780-795 Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment
by Robin Burgess & Rohini Pande - 796-816 Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars
by José G. Montalvo & Marta Reynal-Querol - 817-830 Does Competition for Capital Discipline Governments? Decentralization, Globalization, and Public Policy
by Hongbin Cai & Daniel Treisman - 831-849 The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence
by Emmanuel Saez & Michael R. Veall - 850-861 Conglomerate Entrenchment under Optimal Financial Contracting
by Antoine Faure- Grimaud & Roman Inderst - 862-877 The Wrong Kind of Transparency
by Andrea Prat - 878-889 The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and Why Such Failures Are Rare)
by C. Nicholas McKinney & Muriel Niederle & Alvin E. Roth - 890-896 Heterogeneous Patience and the Term Structure of Real Interest Rates
by Yvan Lengwiler - 897-901 Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: Comment
by Glenn W. Harrison & Eric Johnson & Melayne M. McInnes & E. Elisabet Rutström - 902-912 Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: New Data without Order Effects
by Charles A. Holt & Susan K. Laury
May 2005, Volume 95, Issue 2
- 1-18 The Economics of Governance
by Oliver E. Williamson - 7-7 Editors' Introduction
by J. David Baldwin & Ronald L. Oaxaca - 8-8 Foreword
by Daniel L. McFadden - 19-24 Complementarities between Outsourcing and Foreign Sourcing
by Gene M. Grossman & Elhanan Helpman & Adam Szeidl - 25-32 Property Rights and the International Organization of Production
by Pol Antràs - 33-38 Foreign Direct Investment and the Domestic Capital Stock
by Mihir A. Desai & C. Fritz Foley & James R. Hines Jr. - 39-43 Federalism and the Democratic Transition: Lessons from South Africa
by Robert P. Inman & Daniel L. Rubinfeld - 44-49 From Education to Democracy?
by Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson & James A. Robinson & Pierre Yared - 50-55 Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes?
by Dani Rodrik & Romain Wacziarg - 56-60 The Labor-Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration
by George J. Borjas - 61-65 Fellowship Stipend Support and the Supply of Science and Engineering Students: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
by Richard B. Freeman - 66-70 Skill-Sorting, Self-Selectivity, and Immigration Policy Regime Change: Two Surveys of Chinese Graduate Students' Intention to Study Abroad
by Yiu Por Chen - 71-75 The Increased Frequency and Duration of the Postdoctorate Career Stage
by Paula Stephan & Jennifer Ma - 76-82 Does Monetary Policy Affect Relative Educational Unemployment Rates?
by Philip N. Jefferson - 83-87 Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?
by Lisa Barrow & Cecilia Elena Rouse - 88-93 Tax-Transfer Policy and Labor-Market Outcomes
by Nada Eissa & Austin Nichols - 94-98 Implicit Discrimination
by Marianne Bertrand & Dolly Chugh & Sendhil Mullainathan - 99-103 Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination
by Rebecca M. Blank - 104-111 "Dysfunctional Identities" Can Be Rational
by Hanming Fang & Glenn C. Loury - 112-117 Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination and Occupational Attainment
by Joseph G. Altonji - 118-121 Learning and Statistical Discrimination
by Lawrence E. Blume - 122-126 Optimal Search Profiling with Linear Deterrence
by Charles F. Manski - 127-131 Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security
by Nicola Persico & Petra E. Todd - 132-136 Racial Profiling as a Public Policy Question: Efficiency, Equity, and Ambiguity
by Steven N. Durlauf - 137-141 Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses
by Robert H. Frank - 142-146 Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age
by Thomas J. Kniesner & W. Kip Viscusi - 147-151 Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others?
by Sara J. Solnick & David Hemenway - 152-157 Do Faculty Serve as Role Models? The Impact of Instructor Gender on Female Students
by Eric P. Bettinger & Bridget Terry Long - 158-165 A Teacher Like Me: Does Race, Ethnicity, or Gender Matter?
by Thomas S. Dee - 166-171 Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students
by Donald Boyd & Hamilton Lankford & Susanna Loeb & James Wyckoff - 172-176 Does Teaching Enhance Research in Economics?
by William E. Becker & Peter E. Kennedy - 177-183 Views of Teaching and Research in Economics and Other Disciplines
by William B. Walstad & Sam Allgood - 184-188 Involving Undergraduates in Research To Encourage Them To Undertake Ph.D. Study in Economics
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg - 189-193 Vanishing Children: From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Developed Countries
by Alicia Adsera - 194-198 Parental Child Care in Single-Parent, Cohabiting, and Married-Couple Families: Time-Diary Evidence from the United Kingdom
by Charlene M. Kalenkoski & David C. Ribar & Leslie S. Stratton - 199-203 Resource and Peer Impacts on Girls' Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
by Diane Whitmore - 204-208 Infertility Insurance Mandates and Fertility
by Lucie Schmidt - 209-213 Charity Care, Risk Pooling, and the Decline in Private Health Insurance
by Michael Chernew & David Cutler & Patricia Seliger Keenan - 214-218 The Consequences of the Growth of Health Insurance Premiums
by Katherine Baicker & Amitabh Chandra - 219-223 Effects of Insurance Coverage on Use of Care and Health Outcomes for Nonpoor Young Women
by Mark V. Pauly - 224-228 Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance
by Amy Finkelstein & Kathleen McGarry & Amir Sufi - 229-233 Health and Wealth among the Poor: India and South Africa Compared
by Anne Case & Angus Deaton - 234-237 Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies
by Dana Goldman & James P. Smith - 238-242 What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking, and Other Health-Related Behaviors?
by David M. Cutler & Edward Glaeser - 243-247 The Volume–Outcome Effect, Scale Economies, and Learning-by-Doing
by Martin Gaynor & Harald Seider & William B. Vogt - 248-252 Access to Care, Provider Choice, and the Infant Health Gradient
by Anna Aizer & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Mark Stabile - 253-257 Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity
by Darius Lakdawalla & Tomas Philipson & Jay Bhattacharya - 258-262 The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data
by Douglas Almond & Bhashkar Mazumder - 263-266 An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Policies on Youth Risky Sexual Behaviors
by Sara Markowitz & Robert Kaestner & Michael Grossman - 267-272 Heavy Alcohol Use and the Commission of Nuisance Crime: Evidence from Underage Drunk Driving Laws
by Christopher S. Carpenter - 273-277 Are Alcohol Tax Hikes Fully Passed Through to Prices? Evidence from Alaska
by Donald S. Kenkel - 278-281 The Net Effect of an Alcohol Tax Increase on Death Rates in Middle Age
by Philip J. Cook & Jan Ostermann & Frank A. Sloan - 282-287 Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Gasoline Taxes: An Econometrically Based Multi-market Study
by Antonio M. Bento & Lawrence H. Goulder & Emeric Henry & Mark R. Jacobsen & Roger H. von Haefen - 288-293 Is Pay-as-You-Drive Insurance a Better Way to Reduce Gasoline than Gasoline Taxes?
by Ian W. H. Parry - 294-299 The Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption
by Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams III - 300-304 Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
by Don Fullerton & Li Gan - 305-308 Moore's Law, Competition, and Intel's Productivity in the Mid-1990s
by Ana Aizcorbe - 309-313 The Influence of Technology on Foreign Direct Investment
by Jane Ihrig - 314-317 Returning to the Returns to Computer Use
by Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia & Cindy Zoghi - 318-322 Implications of Intellectual Property Rights for Dynamic Gains from Trade
by Michelle Connolly & Diego Valderrama - 323-328 Regulation and the High Cost of Housing in California
by John M. Quigley & Steven Raphael - 329-333 Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?
by Edward L. Glaeser & Joseph Gyourko & Raven E. Saks - 334-339 Metropolitan-Specific Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Supply of Housing, and Their Sources
by Richard K. Green & Stephen Malpezzi & Stephen K. Mayo - 340-345 The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy
by Tania Singer & Ernst Fehr