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Volume 87, issue 6 , 1997
An Outline of My Main Contributions to Economic Science pp. 3-12
Maurice Allais
Econometrics and the Welfare State pp. 13-15
Trygve Haavelmo
The Accounts of Society pp. 17-29
Richard Stone
Volume 87, issue 5 , 1997
Exchange Economies and Loss Exposure: Experiments Exploring Prospect Theory and Competitive Equilibria in Market Environments pp. 801-28
Mikhail Myagkov and Charles R Plott
Anomalous Behavior in Public Goods Experiments: How Much and Why? pp. 829-46
Thomas R Palfrey and Jeffrey E Prisbrey
Information Cascades in the Laboratory pp. 847-62
Lisa R. Anderson and Charles A. Holt
Contagion and Bank Failures during the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic pp. 863-83
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R Mason
Interactions between the Seasonal and Business Cycles in Production and Inventories pp. 884-92
Stephen Cecchetti , Anil K Kashyap and David W. Wilcox
Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 893-910
Charles Carlstrom and Timothy S. Fuerst
Credibility of Optimal Monetary Delegation pp. 911-20
Henrik Jensen
The Welfare State and Competitiveness pp. 921-39
Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti
A Coalition-Formation Approach to Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs pp. 940-56
John Burbidge , James A. DePater , Gordon M. Meyers and Abhijit Sengupta
The Economics of Split-Ticket Voting in Representative Democracies pp. 957-76
Varadarajan Chari , Larry E. Jones and Ramon Marimon
Political Institutions and Sorting in a Tiebout Model pp. 977-92
Ken Kollman , John H Miller and Scott E Page
Evidence of Nominal Wage Stickiness from Microdata pp. 993-1008
Shulamit Kahn
Intergenerational Income Mobility in Sweden Compared to the United States pp. 1009-18
Anders Bjorklund and Markus Jantti
Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Comment pp. 1019-32
Mark D. Partridge
Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries: Comment pp. 1033-39
Subhash C. Ray and Evangelia Desli
Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries: Reply pp. 1040-43
Rolf Fare , Shawna Grosskopf and Mary Norris
Volume 87, issue 4 , 1997
Technology, Factor Supplies, and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model pp. 475-94
James Harrigan
The International Transmission of Financial Shocks: The Case of Japan pp. 495-505
Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren
A Political-Economic Analysis of Free-Trade Agreements pp. 506-19
Philip . Levy
An Empirical Assessment of the Proximity-Concentration Trade-off between Multinational Sales and Trade pp. 520-44
S Lael Brainard
The Decision to Export in Colombia: An Empirical Model of Entry with Sunk Costs pp. 545-64
Mark J. Roberts and James R. Tybout
Privatization in Eastern Germany: Management Selection and Economic Transition pp. 565-97
Isaac John Alexander Dyck
Competition or Compensation: Supplier Incentives under the American and Japanese Subcontracting Systems pp. 598-618
Curtis R. Taylor and Steven N Wiggins
Demand Uncertainty and Price Maintenance: Markdowns as Destructive Competition pp. 619-41
Raymond Deneckere , Howard P Marvel and James Peck
Public Policy towards R&D in Oligopolistic Industries pp. 642-62
Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary
Secret Reserve Prices in a Bidding Model with a Resale Option pp. 663-84
Ignatius J. Horstmann and Chantale LaCasse
Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment pp. 685-704
Ching-to Albert Ma and Thomas G McGuire
The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Labor-Market Activity: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations pp. 705-27
Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin
Transaction Costs and Price Volatility: Evidence from Commission Deregulation pp. 728-37
Charles M Jones and Paul J Seguin
Risk Aversion and Stock Price Sensitivity to Dividends pp. 738-45
May Hagiwara and Miguel A Herce
The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out pp. 746-55
Bruno S. Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Long-Run Neutrality and Superneutrality in an ARIMA Framework: Comment pp. 756-59
Alfred A. Haug and Robert F. Lucas
Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes: Comment pp. 760-67
Robert C. Feenstra
Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes: Reply pp. 768
Zvi Griliches and Iain M. Cockburn
Volume 87, issue 3 , 1997
Equity and Time to Sale in the Real Estate Market pp. 255-69
David Genesove and Christopher Mayer
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime pp. 270-90
Steven Levitt
The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: A Study of Steel Finishing Lines pp. 291-313
Casey Ichniowski , Kathryn Shaw and Giovanna Prennushi
Productivity under Group Incentives: An Experimental Study pp. 314-41
Haig R Nalbantian and Andrew Schotter
Long-Run Implications of Investment-Specific Technological Change pp. 342-62
Jeremy Greenwood , Zvi Hercowitz and Per Krusell
Technological Progress, Mobility, and Economic Growth pp. 363-82
Oded Galor and Daniel Tsiddon
On the Speed of Convergence in Endogenous Growth Models pp. 383-99
Salvador Ortigueira and Manuel Santos
Size, Sunk Costs, and Judge Bowker's Objection to Free Trade pp. 400-420
John Edward McLaren
Using International and Japanese Regional Data to Determine When the Factor Abundance Theory of Trade Works pp. 421-46
Donald R. Davis , David Weinstein , Scott Bradford and Kazushige Shimpo
Firm-Specific Assets and the Link between Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment pp. 447-65
Bruce A. Blonigen
Volume 87, issue 2 , 1997
Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations pp. 1-12
D. Gale Johnson
The IMF and Russia pp. 13-16
Yegor T. Gaidar
Argentina's Convertibility Plan and the IMF pp. 17-22
Domingo F Cavallo and Joaquin A Cottani
Applied Economics in Action: IMF Programs pp. 23-27
Stanley Fischer
IMF Surveillance pp. 28-31
Michael Mussa
Asset Inequality Matters: An Assessment of the World Bank's Approach to Poverty Reduction pp. 32-37
Nancy Birdsall and Juan Luis Londono
Project Analysis and the World Bank pp. 38-42
Glenn Paul Jenkins
Trade Liberalization Reforms and the World Bank pp. 43-48
Sebastian Edwards
What Do Economists Know That Policymakers Need To? pp. 49-53
James W Fox
The Evolution of Economic Policymaking in Africa pp. 54-57
Jerome M Wolgin
Speed of Policy Reform and Outcomes pp. 58-62
Samuel L Skogstad and Stephen S Everhart
Project Evaluation Training and Public Investment in Chile pp. 63-67
Ernesto R Fontaine
Highway Franchising: Pitfalls and Opportunities pp. 68-72
Eduardo M.R.A. Engel , Ronald David Fischer and Alexander Galetovic
Trade Reform and Uniform Import Tariffs: The Chilean Experience pp. 73-77
Vittorio Corbo
The CPI Commission: Findings and Recommendations pp. 78-83
Boskin, Michael J, et al
Quality Change and New Products pp. 84-88
Robert J. Gordon and Zvi Griliches
Implications of Overstating Inflation for Indexing Government Programs and Understanding Economic Progress pp. 89-93
Michael J Boskin and Dale W Jorgenson
The Council of Economic Advisers: From Stabilization to Resource Allocation pp. 99-102
Martin S. Feldstein
Presidents and Economists: The Council of Economic Advisers pp. 103-06
Roger B Porter
It Ain't the Things You Don't Know That Hurt You, It's the Things You Know That Ain't So pp. 107-08
Robert M. Solow
Looking out for the National Interest: The Principles of the Council of Economic Advisers pp. 109-13
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Consumption Taxes and Saving: The Role of Uncertainty in Tax Reform pp. 114-19
Eric M Engen and William G Gale
Neglected Effects on the Uses Side: Even a Uniform Tax Would Change Relative Goods Prices pp. 120-25
Don Fullerton and Diane Lim Rogers
The Long-Run Dynamics of Fundamental Tax Reform pp. 126-32
Dale W Jorgenson and Peter J Wilcoxen
Developing Policy Analysis of Fundamental Tax Reform pp. 133-37
Peter M Taylor
How Different Are Income and Consumption Taxes? pp. 138-42
Robert Glenn Hubbard
The Future of Fundamental Tax Reform pp. 143-46
Alan Auerbach
Potential Disruption from the Move to a Consumption Tax pp. 147-50
Robert Ernest Hall
Deconstructing the Income Tax pp. 151-55
Joel Slemrod
Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government pp. 156-59
Richard A Musgrave
Choice, Exchange, and Public Finance pp. 160-63
Richard E. Wagner
Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government: The International Perspective pp. 164-68
Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht
Reconciling Normative and Positive Theories of Government pp. 169-72
Joseph Cordes
Levels of Economic Activity across Countries pp. 173-77
Robert Ernest Hall and Charles . Jones
I Just Ran Two Million Regressions pp. 178-83
Xavier Sala--Martin
Fundamental pp. 184-88
Jeffrey D Sachs and Andrew M. Warner
Credible Economic Liberalizations and Overborrowing pp. 189-93
Ronald McKinnon and Huw Pill
Per Capita Income Convergence and the Role of International Trade pp. 194-99
Matthew J Slaughter
International Labor Flows and National Wages pp. 200-204
Stanley L Engerman and Ronald W Jones
Trade Policy, Growth, and Income Distribution pp. 205-10
Sebastian Edwards
Preferences, Domains, and Sustainability pp. 211-13
Peter B. Kenen
Currency Areas, Common Currencies, and EMU pp. 214-16
Robert A. Mundell
Political and Institutional Commitment to a Common Currency pp. 217-20
Michael Mussa
Fiscal Aspects of Monetary Integration pp. 221-23
Rüdiger Dornbusch
The Common Unresolved Problem with the EMS and EMU pp. 224-26
Dominick Salvatore
EMU as a Device for Collective Fiscal Retrenchment pp. 227-29
Ronald McKinnon
Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In? pp. 230-32
Robert M. Solow
A Core of Practical Macroeconomics pp. 233-35
John B. Taylor
Some Thoughts on Practical Stabilization Policy pp. 236-39
Martin Eichenbaum
Is There a Core of Practical Macroeconomics That We Should All Believe? pp. 240-43
Alan S. Blinder
Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics? pp. 244-46
Olivier Blanchard
National Voluntary Content Standards for Pre-College Economics Education pp. 247-53
John J. Siegfried and Bonnie T Meszaros
An Appraisal of Economics Content in the History, Social Studies, Civics, and Geography National Standards pp. 254-59
Stephen Buckles and Michael Watts
The Effect of National Standards and Curriculum-Based Exams on Achievement pp. 260-64
John H Bishop
Valuing Alternative-Fuel Vehicles in Southern California pp. 265-71
Camilla Kazimi
Federal Housing Assistance, Residential Relocation, and Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Baltimore pp. 272-77
Helen F. Ladd and Jens Ludwig
A Vector-Autoregression Analysis of State-Government Expenditure pp. 278-82
Therese A McCarty and Stephen J Schmidt
The Rise and Downward Trend of the Natural Rate pp. 283-89
Edmund S. Phelps and Gylfi Zoega
The Rise and Persistence of Rigidities pp. 290-94
Gilles Saint-Paul
Unemployment and Nonemployment pp. 295-300
Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel
Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the United States: A Secular Perspective pp. 301-05
William Alexander Darity , Jason Dietrich and David K Guilkey
The Racial Unemployment Gap in Long-Run Perspective pp. 306-10
Robert W. Fairlie and William A Sundstrom
Occupational Gains of Black Women since the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Long-Term or Episodic? pp. 311-14
Augustin Kwasi Fosu
Recent Perspectives on African-Americans in Post-Industrial Labor Markets pp. 315-20
James B Stewart
Challenges of China's Economic System for Economic Theory pp. 321-27
Gregory Chow
Income, Growth, and Economic Freedom pp. 328-32
Stephen T. Easton and Michael A Walker
Trust in Large Organizations pp. 333-38
La Porta, Rafael, et al
The Reform of the Welfare State and Public Opinion pp. 339-43
János Kornai
Russian Dilemmas pp. 344-48
Axel Leijonhufvud and Christof Ruhl
Policy Performance and Output Growth in the Transition Economies pp. 349-53
Marcelo Selowsky and Ricardo Martin
The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand pp. 354-58
Timothy M. Frye and Andrei Shleifer
Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Incentives pp. 359-64
David M. Kreps
Social Norms and the Law: An Economic Approach pp. 365-69
Richard A Posner
Incentives and Social Norms in Household Behavior pp. 370-77
Assar Lindbeck
Power of Incentives in Private versus Public Organizations pp. 378-82
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit
Measuring Government Performance: Lessons from a Federal Job-Training Program pp. 383-88
Pascal Courty and Gerald Roger Marschke
Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies pp. 389-95
James J. Heckman , Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Andrew Smith
Exploring the "Present through the Past": Career and Family across the Last Century pp. 396-99
Claudia Goldin
Cliometrics after Forty Years pp. 400-403
Avner Greif
The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present pp. 404-08
James J. Heckman
Notes on Cliometrics' Fortieth pp. 409-11
John R Meyer
Cliometrics--Forty Years Later pp. 412-14
Douglass C. North
Vertical Integration as a Self-Enforcing Contractual Arrangement pp. 415-20
Benjamin Klein and Kevin M. Murphy
Deregulation, the Evolution of Corporate Governance Structure, and Survival pp. 421-25
Stacey R Kole and Kenneth Lehn
The Firm in Economic Theory: A Quiet Revolution pp. 426-29
Harold Demsetz
Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect: Fisher's Introductory Text pp. 430-32
James Tobin
One Little Piece of Irving Fisher pp. 433-35
Robert M. Solow
Irving Fisher's Self-Stabilizing Money pp. 436-38
Robert Ernest Hall
Irving Fisher: Modern Behavioral Economist pp. 439-41
Richard H. Thaler
Irving Fisher and Modern Macroeconomics pp. 442-44
Robert W. Dimand
Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect pp. 445-47
William Barber
The Effect of Insurance Coverage on Breast Cancer Patients' Treatment and Hospital Choices pp. 448-53
Jean M Mitchell and Jack Hadley
Women and Substance Use: Are Women Less Susceptible to Addiction? pp. 454-59
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
The Allocation of Resources in Intergenerational Households: Adult Children and Their Elderly Parents pp. 460-64
Liliana E Pezzin and Barbara Steinberg Schone
Volume 87, issue 1 , 1997
Trade Policy and Economic Development: How We Learn pp. 1-22
Anne O Krueger
The Macroeconomic Effects of War Finance in the United States: World War II and the Korean War pp. 23-40
Lee Edward Ohanian
True Measures of GDP and Convergence pp. 41-64
Steve Dowrick and John C. Quiggin
Replicating Ricardian Equivalence Tests with Simulated Series pp. 65-79
Emanuela Cardia
Measuring the Liquidity Effect pp. 80-97
James Hamilton
Optimal Inflation Targets, "Conservative" Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts pp. 98-114
Lars E. O. Svensson
Aggregate Employment Dynamics: Building from Microeconomic Evidence pp. 115-37
Ricardo J. Caballero , Eduardo M.R.A. Engel and John Haltiwanger
Capital-Account Liberalization as a Signal pp. 138-54
Leonardo Bartolini and Allan Drazen
Excess Volatility and Closed-End Funds pp. 155-69
Jeffrey Pontiff
The International Diversification Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think pp. 170-80
Marianne Baxter and Urban Joseph Jermann
An Asset Allocation Puzzle pp. 181-91
Niko Canner , N. Gregory Mankiw and David N. Weil
The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance pp. 192-205
Jonathan Gruber
Welfare-Improving Health Expenditure Subsidies pp. 206-21
William Jack and Louise Sheiner
Disease Eradication: Private versus Public Vaccination pp. 222-30
Pierre Yves Geoffard and Tomas J Philipson
A Solution to the Problem of Externalities When Agents Are Well-Informed: Comment pp. 231-35
Steffen Ziss
Resolving Differences in Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept: Comment pp. 236-40
Gwendolyn C Morrison
Resolving Differences in Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept: Reply pp. 241-44
Jason Shogren and Dermot James Hayes
Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxes: Comment pp. 245-51
Don Fullerton
Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation: Reply pp. 252-53
Lans Bovenberg and Ruud Aloysius de Mooij