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Volume 93, issue 5 , 2003
Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics pp. 1449-1475
Daniel Kahneman
Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning pp. 1476-1498
Albert Marcet and Juan Pablo Nicolini
Pension Wealth and Household Saving: Evidence from Pension Reforms in the United Kingdom pp. 1499-1521
Orazio Attanasio and Susann Rohwedder
Interactions of Commitment and Discretion in Monetary and Fiscal Policies pp. 1522-1542
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit and Luisa Lambertini
Stochastic Technical Progress, Smooth Trends, and Nearly Distinct Business Cycles pp. 1543-1559
Julio Rotemberg
Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration, and Juvenile Crime pp. 1560-1577
Brian A. Jacob and Lars Lefgren
A Reconsideration of Hedonic Price Indexes with an Application to PC's pp. 1578-1596
Ariel Pakes
Valuing Biodiversity from an Economic Perspective: A Unified Economic, Ecological, and Genetic Approach pp. 1597-1614
William A. Brock and Anastasios Xepapadeas
Fundamentals, Panics, and Bank Distress During the Depression pp. 1615-1647
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Assessing the Importance of Tiebout Sorting: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990 pp. 1648-1677
Paul W. Rhode and Koleman S. Strumpf
Inefficient Foreign Borrowing: A Dual- and Common-Agency Perspective pp. 1678-1702
Jean Tirole
Price Ceilings as Focal Points for Tacit Collusion: Evidence from Credit Cards pp. 1703-1729
Christopher R. Knittel and Victor Stango
Kin Groups and Reciprocity: A Model of Credit Transactions in Ghana pp. 1730-1751
Eliana La Ferrara
Pregnancy and the Demand for Cigarettes pp. 1752-1763
W. David Bradford
Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment pp. 1764-1777
Kenneth Burdett , Ricardo Lagos and Randall Wright
Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union, 1748–1811: A Quest for Monetary Stability or a Usurpation of State Sovereignty for Personal Gain? pp. 1778-1798
Farley Grubb
Returns to Education: Evidence from U.K. Twins pp. 1799-1812
Dorothe Bonjour , Lynn F. Cherkas , Jonathan E. Haskel , Denise Donna Hawkes and Tim D. Spector
Socioeconomic Status and Child Health: Why Is the Relationship Stronger for Older Children? pp. 1813-1823
Janet Currie and Mark Stabile
Clubs with Entrapment pp. 1824-1829
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit
Uncoupled Dynamics Do Not Lead to Nash Equilibrium pp. 1830-1836
Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell
Volume 93, issue 4 , 2003
The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control pp. 1027-1046
Edward Ludwig Glaeser and Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Social Security Investment in Equities pp. 1047-1074
Peter A. Diamond and John Geanakoplos
On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: Facts and Theory pp. 1075-1090
Luis M B Cabral and José Mata
Inequality and Growth: Why Differential Fertility Matters pp. 1091-1113
David de la Croix and Matthias Doepke
Interpreting Aggregate Wage Growth: The Role of Labor Market Participation pp. 1114-1131
Richard Blundell , Howard Reed and Thomas M. Stoker
Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India pp. 1132-1151
Rohini Pande
Are Mergers Beneficial to Consumers? Evidence from the Market for Bank Deposits pp. 1152-1172
Dario Focarelli and Fabio Panetta
To Float or to Fix: Evidence on the Impact of Exchange Rate Regimes on Growth pp. 1173-1193
Eduardo Levy-Yeyati and Federico Sturzenegger
Network Effects, Congestion Externalities, and Air Traffic Delays: Or Why Not All Delays Are Evil pp. 1194-1215
Christopher Mayer and Todd Sinai
International Business Cycles: World, Region, and Country-Specific Factors pp. 1216-1239
Ayhan Kose , Christopher Otrok and Charles H. Whiteman
Technological Change and the Stock Market pp. 1240-1267
John Preston Laitner and Dmitriy L. Stolyarov
Plants and Productivity in International Trade pp. 1268-1290
Andrew B. Bernard , Jonathan Eaton , J. Bradford Jensen and Samuel Kortum
The Economic Significance of National Border Effects pp. 1291-1312
Carolyn L. Evans
Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective Than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System pp. 1313-1327
Dan A. Black , Jeffrey Andrew Smith , Mark C. Berger and Brett J. Noel
Information, Decisions, and Productivity: On-Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking pp. 1328-1353
Thomas N. Hubbard
Upward Bias in the Estimated Returns to Education: Evidence from South Africa pp. 1354-1368
Tom Hertz
Inflation Persistence and Relative Contracting pp. 1369-1372
Steinar Holden and John C. Driscoll
The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance pp. 1373-1384
Melissa Thomasson
Why Dowries? pp. 1385-1398
Maristella Botticini and Aloysius Siow
The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Century pp. 1399-1413
Alexander J. Field
Wage Adjustment Under Low Inflation: Evidence from U.S. History pp. 1414-1424
Christopher Hanes and John Allan James
Competition, Risk, and Managerial Incentives pp. 1425-1436
Michael Raith
Elephants: Comment pp. 1437-1445
Erwin Bulte , Richard D. Horan and Jason Shogren
Elephants: Reply pp. 1446-1448
Michael Kremer and Charles Morcom
Volume 93, issue 3 , 2003
Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics pp. 465-508
Vernon L. Smith
Optimal Pricing Mechanisms with Unknown Demand pp. 509-529
Ilya Segal
Animal Spirits Through Creative Destruction pp. 530-550
Patrick Francois and Huw Lloyd-Ellis
Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design, and Information pp. 551-572
George P. Baker and Thomas N. Hubbard
Wages and Employment in the United States and Germany: What Explains the Differences? pp. 573-602
Paul Beaudry and David A. Green
Dynamic Speculative Attacks pp. 603-621
Christophe Chamley
The Performance of Forecast-Based Monetary Policy Rules Under Model Uncertainty pp. 622-645
Andrew Theo Levin , Volker Wieland and John C. Williams
Optimal Design of Research Contests pp. 646-671
Yeon-Koo Che and Ian Gale
What Do Bargainers' Preferences Look Like? Experiments with a Convex Ultimatum Game pp. 672-685
James Andreoni , Marco Castillo and Ragan Petrie
One Size Fits All? Heckscher-Ohlin Specialization in Global Production pp. 686-708
Peter K. Schott
A Theory of Defensive Skill-Biased Innovation and Globalization pp. 709-728
Mathias Thoenig and Thierry A. Verdier
School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach pp. 729-747
Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Tayfun Sönmez
Multiproduct Quality Competition: Fighting Brands and Product Line Pruning pp. 748-774
Justin P. Johnson and David Peter Myatt
Information, International Substitutability, and Globalization pp. 775-791
James E. Rauch and Vitor Trindade
Do Government Grants to Private Charities Crowd Out Giving or Fund-raising? pp. 792-812
James Andreoni and A. Abigail Payne
Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: Why Is Social Security Good for the Environment? pp. 813-834
Antonio Rangel
Relational Incentive Contracts pp. 835-857
Jonathan Levin
Does Banning Affirmative Action Lower College Student Quality? pp. 858-872
Jimmy Chan and Erik Eyster
Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study pp. 873-892
B D McCullough and Hrishikesh D. Vinod
The Carrot or the Stick: Rewards, Punishments, and Cooperation pp. 893-902
James Andreoni , William Harbaugh and Lise Vesterlund
Risk Sharing and Industrial Specialization: Regional and International Evidence pp. 903-918
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan , Bent E. Sorensen and Oved Yosha
Simple Menus of Contracts in Cost-Based Procurement and Regulation pp. 919-926
William P. Rogerson
Caballero Meets Bewley: The Permanent-Income Hypothesis in General Equilibrium pp. 927-936
Neng Wang
Consequences of Bank Distress During the Great Depression pp. 937-947
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
An Empirical Analysis of the Risk Properties of Human Capital Returns pp. 948-964
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
Collusive Practices in Repeated English Auctions: Experimental Evidence on Bidding Rings pp. 965-979
Owen R. Phillips , Dale J. Menkhaus and Kalyn Todd Coatney
Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Comment pp. 980-994
Bruce A. Blonigen , Ronald Davies and Keith Head
Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Reply pp. 995-1001
David L. Carr , James R. Markusen and Keith E. Maskus
An Asset Allocation Puzzle: Comment pp. 1002-1008
Haim Shalit and Shlomo Yitzhaki
Endogenous Growth Without Scale Effects: Comment pp. 1009-1017
Chol-Won Li
Volume 93, issue 2 , 2003
Globalization and Its Challenges pp. 1-30
Stanley Fischer
Editors' Introduction pp. 7-7
J. David Baldwin and Ronald L. Oaxaca
Foreword pp. 8-8
Peter A. Diamond
The Future of the IMF pp. 31-38
Ricardo J. Caballero
The World Bank of the Future pp. 39-44
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ruimin He
The Future of the IMF and World Bank: Panel Discussion pp. 45-50
Stanley Fischer , Allan H. Meltzer , Jeffrey D. Sachs and Nicholas H. Stern
Trade Structure, Industrial Structure, and International Business Cycles pp. 51-56
Marianne Baxter and Michael Kouparitsas
How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles? pp. 57-62
Ayhan Kose , Eswar Prasad and Marco E. Terrones
Why Has the U.S. Economy Become Less Correlated with the Rest of the World? pp. 63-69
Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri
Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Messy or Messier? pp. 70-74
Anne Krueger
Sovereign Debt Restructuring pp. 75-79
Randall S. Kroszner
Is Aggregation a Problem for Sovereign Debt Restructuring? pp. 80-84
Barry Julian Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody
Will the Sovereign Debt Market Survive? pp. 85-90
Andrei Shleifer
Capital-Account Liberalization, the Cost of Capital, and Economic Growth pp. 91-96
Peter Blair Henry
Equity-Market Liberalizations as Country IPO's pp. 97-101
Rodolfo Martell and René M. Stulz
Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons pp. 102-106
Michael Kremer
Fieldwork, Economic Theory, and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries pp. 107-111
Christopher R. Udry
Payoffs from Panels in Low-Income Countries: Economic Development and Economic Mobility pp. 112-117
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Weak Instruments: Diagnosis and Cures in Empirical Econometrics pp. 118-125
Jinyong Hahn and Jerry Hausman
Sensitivity to Exogeneity Assumptions in Program Evaluation pp. 126-132
Guido Imbens
Cluster-Sample Methods in Applied Econometrics pp. 133-138
Jeffrey Marc Wooldridge
Market Design: The Policy Uses of Theory pp. 139-144
John McMillan
Modern Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations: Empirics and Policy Applications pp. 145-150
Robert Ernest Hall
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics pp. 151-155
Pierre Chiappori and Steven Levitt
Economic Behavior in Political Context pp. 156-161
Larry M. Bartels and Henry E. Brady
A Psychological Perspective on Economics pp. 162-168
Daniel Kahneman
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Symbols: A Sociologist's View of the Economic Pursuit of Truth pp. 169-174
Joel M. Podolny
Libertarian Paternalism pp. 175-179
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Optimal Defaults pp. 180-185
James Jinwoo Choi , David Isaac Laibson , Brigitte C. Madrian and Andrew Metrick
Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes pp. 186-191
O'Donoghue, Ted and Matthew Rabin
Models of Thinking, Learning, and Teaching in Games pp. 192-195
Colin Camerer , Teck Hua Ho and Juin-Kuan Chong
Decision Making with Naive Advice pp. 196-201
Andrew Schotter
Lessons Learned: Generalizing Learning Across Games pp. 202-207
David Jacob Cooper and John H. Kagel
Testing Political Economy Models of Reform in the Laboratory pp. 208-212
Timothy Cason and Vai-Lam Mui
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? pp. 213-220
Richard H. Steckel
Living Standards During the Industrial Revolution: An Economist's Guide pp. 221-226
Hans-Joachim Voth
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods pp. 227-232
Dora L. Costa and Matthew Kahn
At What Level of Labor-Market Intermittency Are Women Penalized? pp. 233-237
Julie L. Hotchkiss and Melinda Pitts
Low Take-Up in Medicaid: Does Outreach Matter and for Whom? pp. 238-241
Anna Aizer
Impact of Immigration on Prenatal Care Use and Birth Weight: Evidence from California in the 1990's pp. 242-246
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Kusum Mundra
Did Expanding the EITC Promote Motherhood? pp. 247-251
Reagan Baughman and Stacy Dickert-Conlin
Price and Spouse's Coverage in Employee Demand for Health Insurance pp. 252-256
Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig
Guaranteeing Individual Accounts pp. 257-260
Marie-Eve Lachance and Olivia S. Mitchell
The Interaction of Public Retirement Income Programs in the United States pp. 261-265
Elizabeth T. Powers and David Neumark
Monetary Policy Under Imperfect Capital Markets in a Small Open Economy pp. 266-270
Anita Tuladhar
Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Incremental Health-Insurance Expansion pp. 271-276
Jonathan Gruber
A New Approach to Risk-Spreading via Coverage-Expansion Subsidies pp. 277-282
John Holahan , Len M. Nichols , Linda J. Blumberg and Yu-Chu Shen
Reinsuring Risk to Increase Access to Health Insurance pp. 283-287
Katherine Swartz
Why Did the Welfare Rolls Fall During the 1990's? The Importance of Entry pp. 288-292
Jeffrey T. Grogger , Steven J. Haider and Jacob Klerman
Some Evidence on Race, Welfare Reform, and Household Income pp. 293-298
Marianne P. Bitler , Jonah B. Gelbach and Hilary Williamson Hoynes
How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent Achievement pp. 299-303
Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman , Greg J. Duncan and Pamela Morris
Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's pp. 304-308
Rebecca M. Blank and Robert F. Schoeni
The Gender Gap in Wages, circa 2000 pp. 309-314
O'Neill, June E
Assimilation across the Latino Generations pp. 315-319
James P. Smith
Catching Up: Wages of Black Men pp. 320-325
Finis Welch
The Economics of Reparations pp. 326-329
William Alexander Darity and Dania Frank
The Political Economy of Antiracism Initiatives in the Post-Durban Round pp. 330-333
Samuel L. Myers , Lajune Thomas Lange and Bruce Corrie
Racial Stigma: Toward a New Paradigm for Discrimination Theory pp. 334-337
Glenn Cartman Loury
Rethinking Economic Discrimination pp. 338-342
Jomo K.S.
Social Security and Individual Accounts as Elements of Overall Risk-Sharing pp. 343-347
Robert J. Shiller
Comparing the Risks of Social Security with and without Individual Accounts pp. 348-353
Sita Nataraj and John B. Shoven
What Do We Know About the Risk of Individual Account Pensions? Evidence from Industrial Countries pp. 354-359
Gary Burtless
Inter-asset Differences in Effective Estate-Tax Burdens pp. 360-365
James Poterba and Scott J. Weisbenner
Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritances and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from across States and Time pp. 366-370
Jon Bakija , William G. Gale and Joel Slemrod
Thanatology and Economics: The Behavioral Economics of Death pp. 371-375
Joel Slemrod
Consumption Risk and Expected Stock Returns pp. 376-382
Jonathan A. Parker
Stock-Market Participation, Intertemporal Substitution, and Risk-Aversion pp. 383-391
Annette Vissing-Jørgensen and Orazio Attanasio
Average Debt and Equity Returns: Puzzling? pp. 392-397
Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott
Employer Stock and 401(k) Plans pp. 398-404
James Poterba
Accounting for Employee Stock Options pp. 405-409
Wayne Guay and Richard Sloan
Accounting in Partnerships pp. 410-414
Steven J. Huddart and Pierre Jinghong Liang
The Impact of Bankruptcy on Airline Service Levels pp. 415-419
Severin Borenstein and Nancy L. Rose
Integration and Independent Innovation on a Network pp. 420-424
Joseph Farrell
Measuring Unilateral Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets: The California Market, 1998–2000 pp. 425-430
Frank A. Wolak
The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing pp. 431-435
Lori D. Snyder , Nolan H. Miller and Robert Norman Stavins
How Effective Is Green Regulatory Threat? pp. 436-441
Werner Antweiler
Estimating Regulation-Induced Substitution: The Effect of the Clean Air Act on Water and Ground Pollution pp. 442-448
Michael Greenstone
The Instructional Use and Teaching Preparation of Graduate Students in U.S. Ph.D.-Granting Economics Departments pp. 449-454
William B. Walstad and William Edward Becker
A Model Teacher-Education Program for Economics pp. 455-459
Michael K. Salemi
Regional Workshops to Improve the Teaching Skills of Economics Faculty pp. 460-462
Rae Jean B. Goodman , Mark H. Maier and Robert L. Moore
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 521-524
Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried
Volume 93, issue 1 , 2003
Macroeconomic Priorities pp. 1-14
Robert E. Lucas
Why Don't Prices Rise During Periods of Peak Demand? Evidence from Scanner Data pp. 15-37
Judith Ann Chevalier , Anil K Kashyap and Peter E. Rossi
Micro Effects of Macro Announcements: Real-Time Price Discovery in Foreign Exchange pp. 38-62
Torben G. Andersen , Tim Bollerslev , Francis X. Diebold and Clara Vega
Stages of Diversification pp. 63-86
Jean M. Imbs and Romain Wacziarg
The Survival of the Welfare State pp. 87-112
John Hassler , José V. Rodríguez Mora , Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti
The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country pp. 113-132
Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal
Lying for Strategic Advantage: Rational and Boundedly Rational Misrepresentation of Intentions pp. 133-149
Vincent P. Crawford
The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies pp. 150-169
Arthur John Robson and Hillard Seth Kaplan
Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle pp. 170-192
James E. Anderson and Eric van Wincoop
Portfolio Choice and Trading in a Large 401(k) Plan pp. 193-215
Julie Agnew , Pierluigi Balduzzi and Annika Sundén
Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation pp. 216-240
W. Bentley Macleod
Corporate Lobbying and Commitment Failure in Capital Taxation pp. 241-251
Nicolas Marceau and Michael Smart
Access to Food and the Biological Standard of Living: Perspectives on the Nutritional Status of Native Americans pp. 252-255
John H. Komlos
Redistributive Promises and the Adoption of Economic Reform pp. 256-264
Sanjay Jain and Sharun Mukand
Speed Limit Policies: The Output Gap and Optimal Monetary Policy pp. 265-278
Carl Walsh
Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion pp. 279-288
Susan Marie Dynarski
Expert Opinion and Compensation: Evidence from a Musical Competition pp. 289-296
Victor A. Ginsburgh and Jan van Ours
Choosing the Wrong Calling Plan? Ignorance and Learning pp. 297-310
Eugenio J. Miravete
Energy, the Stock Market, and the Putty-Clay Investment Model pp. 311-323
Chao Wei
Winter Blues: A SAD Stock Market Cycle pp. 324-343
Mark Jack Kamstra , Lisa A. Kramer and Maurice David Levi
Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era pp. 344-353
Christopher M. Meissner
The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study pp. 354-365
B. Douglas Bernheim , Lorenzo Forni , Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Monetary and Nonmonetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism pp. 366-380
David Masclet , Charles Noussair , Steven James Tucker and Marie Claire Villeval
Consumer Response to Tax Rebates pp. 381-396
Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod
Do Consumers React to Anticipated Income Changes? Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund pp. 397-405
Chang-Tai Hsieh
"3rd of tha Month": Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks? pp. 406-422
Melvin Stephens
Jealousy and Equilibrium Overconsumption pp. 423-428
Bill Dupor and Wen-Fang Liu
The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Labor-Market Activity: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations: Comment pp. 429-447
Francine Blau , Lawrence Kahn , Joan Y. Moriarty and André Portela Souza
Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining: Comment pp. 448-455
Catherine de Fontenay and Joshua Gans
Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining: Reply pp. 456-457
Lars A Stole and Jeffrey Zwiebel
Willingness To Pay and Willingness To Accept: How Much Can They Differ? Comment pp. 458-463
Edoh Y. Amiran and Daniel A. Hagen
Willingness To Pay and Willingness To Accept: How Much Can They Differ? Reply pp. 464-464
W. Michael Hanemann