Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2009

Edited by Roger H. Gordon and John McMillan

from American Economic Association
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The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States pp. 983-1028: Edward L. Glaeser and Joshua D. Gottlieb
Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare pp. 1029-75: Marc Fleurbaey
Law and Finance "at the Origin" pp. 1076-1108: Ulrike Malmendier
Learning from Schelling's Strategy of Conflict pp. 1109-25: Roger B. Myerson

The Economics and Law of Sovereign Debt and Default pp. 651-98: Ugo Panizza, Federico Sturzenegger and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
The Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies pp. 699-728: Saul Estrin, Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda and Jan Svejnar
Toward a Theory of Regulation for Developing Countries: Following Jean-Jacques Laffont's Lead pp. 729-70: Antonio Estache and Liam Wren-Lewis
A Review of Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India pp. 771-80: Lant Pritchett
Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law-Growth Nexus pp. 781-800: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel

Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field pp. 315-72: Stefano DellaVigna
Can the West Save Africa? pp. 373-447: William Easterly
Gender Differences in Preferences pp. 448-74: Rachel Croson and Uri Gneezy
A Review of Michael Tomz's Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries pp. 475-81: Mark Gersovitz

Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation pp. 5-86: Guido W. Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development pp. 87-122: Janet Currie
The Age of Milton Friedman pp. 123-35: Andrei Shleifer
Globalization and the Welfare State: A Review of Hans-Werner Sinn's Can Germany Be Saved? pp. 136-58: Dennis J. Snower, Alessio J. G. Brown and Christian P. Merkl
What Do (and Don't) We Know about the Value Added Tax? A Review of Richard M. Bird and Pierre-Pascal Gendron's The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries pp. 159-70: Michael Keen

The Economic Effects of Energy Price Shocks pp. 871-909: Lutz Kilian
Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence pp. 910-45: Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
A Review of Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World pp. 946-73: Robert Carson Allen
Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Review of Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles's Obesity, Business and Public Policy pp. 974-82: Tomas Philipson and Richard A. Posner
A Review of Tito Boeri, Lans Bovenberg, Benoît Coeuré, and Andrew Roberts's Dealing with the New Giants and Peter J. Orszag, Mark Iwry, and William G. Gale's Aging Gracefully pp. 983-88: Olivia Mitchell

Covering the Uninsured in the United States pp. 571-606: Jonathan Gruber
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic Development pp. 607-68: Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann
Real Business Cycle Views of the Great Depression and Recent Events: A Review of Timothy J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott's Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century pp. 669-84: Peter Temin
Horizons of Understanding: A Review of Ray Fair's Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works pp. 685-703: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
The Efficacy of Information Policy: A Review of Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil's Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency pp. 704-17: Clifford M. Winston

The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins pp. 285-332: Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer
Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data pp. 333-83: Janet Currie and Firouz Gahvari
Is the U.S. Labor Market Really That Exceptional? A Review of Richard Freeman pp. 384-95: Stephen Nickell
The Enigma of India pp. 396-406: Kaushik Basu
A Review of David Colander pp. 407-11: Daniel Hamermesh

Economic Forecasting pp. 3-56: Graham Elliott and Allan Timmermann
What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality? pp. 57-94: Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal
Relative Income, Happiness, and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles pp. 95-144: Andrew Clark, Paul Frijters and Michael A. Shields
A Review of Janos Kornai pp. 145-50: Gérard Roland

Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation pp. 887-935: Peter Blair Henry
The Obstinate Passion of Foreign Exchange Professionals: Technical Analysis pp. 936-972: Lukas Menkhoff and Mark P. Taylor
Interesting Questions in Freakonomics pp. 973-1000: John Enrico DiNardo
A True Development Round? A Review of Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton's Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development pp. 1001-1010: Robert Z. Lawrence
Children in the Vanguard of the U.S. Welfare State: A Review of Janet Currie's The Invisible Safety Net and Jane Waldfogel's What Children Need pp. 1011-1023: Eugene Smolensky

Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement pp. 595-628: W. Bentley Macleod
Vertical Integration and Firm Boundaries: The Evidence pp. 629-685: Francine Lafontaine and Margaret Slade
A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change pp. 686-702: William D. Nordhaus
A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change pp. 703-724: Martin L. Weitzman
A Review of Avner Greif’s Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade pp. 725-741: Gregory Clark

Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites? pp. 331-372: Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh
Automobile Externalities and Policies pp. 373-399: Ian Parry, Margaret Walls and Winston Harrington
Global Capital Markets in the Long Run: A Review of Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor’s Global Capital Markets pp. 400-409: Jeffrey Gale Williamson
A Review of Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman’s Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market pp. 410-418: Olivier Blanchard
Optimal Executive Compensation versus Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried’s Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation pp. 419-428: Michael Steven Weisbach

Making Famine History pp. 5-38: Cormac O Grada
Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries pp. 39-82: Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik
A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L Friedman’s The World is Flat pp. 83-126: Edward E. Leamer
Whither Russia? A Review of Andrei Shleifer’s A Normal Country pp. 127-146: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
The Big One: A Review of Richard Posner’s Catastrophe: Risk and Response pp. 147-213: Edward A. Parson