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Volume 94, issue 5, 2004
- Bad Beta, Good Beta pp. 1249-1275

- John Campbell and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
- Does Fund Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? The Role of Liquidity and Organization pp. 1276-1302

- Joseph Chen, Harrison Hong, Ming Huang and Jeffrey D. Kubik
- The Interest Rate, Learning, and Inventory Investment pp. 1303-1327

- Louis Maccini, Bartholomew J. Moore and Huntley Schaller
- Markups, Aggregation, and Inventory Adjustment pp. 1328-1353

- Daniele Coen-Pirani
- Intergenerational Persistence of Earnings: The Role of Early and College Education pp. 1354-1378

- Diego Restuccia and Carlos Urrutia
- Constructing Price Indexes across Space and Time: The Case of the European Union pp. 1379-1410

- Robert J. Hill
- Rationalizing the Penn World Table: True Multilateral Indices for International Comparisons of Real Income pp. 1411-1428

- J. Peter Neary
- Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities pp. 1429-1451

- Jan Eeckhout
- An Efficient Ascending-Bid Auction for Multiple Objects pp. 1452-1475

- Lawrence M. Ausubel
- A Group Rule–Utilitarian Approach to Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence pp. 1476-1504

- Stephen Coate and Michael Conlin
- When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting pp. 1505-1535

- Yan Chen and Robert Gazzale
- Confidence-Enhanced Performance pp. 1536-1557

- Olivier Compte and Andrew Postlewaite
- Addiction and Cue-Triggered Decision Processes pp. 1558-1590

- B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel
- Capturing Knowledge within and across Firm Boundaries: Evidence from Clinical Development pp. 1591-1612

- Pierre Azoulay
- Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program pp. 1613-1634

- Joshua Angrist and Kevin Lang
- International Protection of Intellectual Property pp. 1635-1653

- Gene M. Grossman and Edwin Lai
- Riding the South Sea Bubble pp. 1654-1668

- Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth
- Why Parents Play Favorites: Explanations for Unequal Bequests pp. 1669-1681

- Audrey Light and Kathleen McGarry
- Partnership Firms, Reputation, and Human Capital pp. 1682-1692

- Alan D. Morrison and William J. Wilhelm
- The Effect of Health Risk on Housing Values: Evidence from a Cancer Cluster pp. 1693-1704

- Lucas Davis
- Progressive Taxation and Long-Run Growth pp. 1705-1716

- Wenli Li and Pierre -Daniel Sarte
- Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior: Testing "Conditional Cooperation" in a Field Experiment pp. 1717-1722

- Bruno Frey and Stephan Meier
Volume 94, issue 4, 2004
- Determinants of Long-Term Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach pp. 813-835

- Xavier Sala-I-Martin, Gernot Doppelhofer and Ronald I. Miller
- Why Does the Cyclical Behavior of Real Wages Change Over Time? pp. 836-856

- Kevin X.D. Huang, Zheng Liu and Louis Phaneuf
- Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments pp. 857-869

- Dirk Engelmann and Martin Strobel
- The Long and Short of the Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement pp. 870-895

- Daniel Trefler
- Sunk Investments Lead to Unpredictable Prices pp. 896-918

- George Mailath, Andrew Postlewaite and Larry Samuelson
- Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates pp. 919-943

- Jonathan Guryan
- The Macroeconomics of Labor and Credit Market Imperfections pp. 944-963

- Etienne Wasmer and Philippe Weil
- The Cost of Business Cycles Under Endogenous Growth pp. 964-990

- Gadi Barlevy
- Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination pp. 991-1013

- Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan
- The Opportunity Criterion: Consumer Sovereignty Without the Assumption of Coherent Preferences pp. 1014-1033

- Robert Sugden
- The Politician and the Judge: Accountability in Government pp. 1034-1054

- Eric Maskin and Jean Tirole
- A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications pp. 1055-1084

- Christina Romer and David Romer
- Running to Keep in the Same Place: Consumer Choice as a Game of Status pp. 1085-1107

- Ed Hopkins and Tatiana Kornienko
- The Home-Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns pp. 1108-1129

- Gordon Hanson and Chong Xiang
- Insurance, Consumption, and Saving: A Dynamic Analysis in Continuous Time pp. 1130-1140

- R.A. Somerville
- Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases) pp. 1141-1151

- Eric Van den Steen
- Effects of Technology on Incentive Design of Share Contracts pp. 1152-1168

- Priyanka Pandey
- Saving, Risk Sharing, and Preferences for Risk pp. 1169-1182

- Maurizio Mazzocco
- Balance Sheets and Exchange Rate Policy pp. 1183-1193

- Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco
- Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Dynamics of Retail Trade Industries on the U. S.-Canada Border pp. 1194-1206

- Jeffrey Campbell and Beverly Lapham
- Policy Gambles pp. 1207-1222

- Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand
- A Comment on the Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap pp. 1223-1237

- Russell Cooper and Jonathan Willis
- A Comment on the Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap: Reply pp. 1238-1244

- Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel
- A Comment on the Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap: Rejoinder pp. 1245-1247

- Russell Cooper and Jonathan Willis
Volume 94, issue 3, 2004
- Risk and Volatility: Econometric Models and Financial Practice pp. 405-420

- Robert Engle
- Time Series Analysis, Cointegration, and Applications pp. 421-425

- Clive Granger
- The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality pp. 426-454

- Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Matthew Jackson
- Liquidity, Efficiency, and Bank Bailouts pp. 455-483

- Gary Gorton and Lixin Huang
- Distinguishing Informational Cascades from Herd Behavior in the Laboratory pp. 484-498

- Boğaçhan Çelen and Shachar Kariv
- Referrals pp. 499-525

- Luis Garicano and Tano Santos
- The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development pp. 526-556

- Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales
- Irreversible Decisions and Record-Setting News Principles pp. 557-568

- Svetlana Boyarchenko
- In-Kind Finance: A Theory of Trade Credit pp. 569-590

- Mike Burkart and Tore Ellingsen
- What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and the Housing Market pp. 591-604

- David Figlio and Maurice E. Lucas
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers Through Backward Linkages pp. 605-627

- Beata Javorcik
- Pareto-Improving Campaign Finance Policy pp. 628-655

- Stephen Coate
- Workers' Education, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions pp. 656-690

- Enrico Moretti
- Efficient Patent Pools pp. 691-711

- Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
- Is There a Politically Optimal Level of Judicial Independence? pp. 712-729

- F. Andrew Hanssen
- Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Income and Life Satisfaction in East Germany Following Reunification pp. 730-740

- Paul Frijters, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael Shields
- Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences pp. 741-752

- John List, Robert Berrens, Alok Bohara and Joe Kerkvliet
- After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies pp. 753-763

- Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz
- Incentives and Discrimination pp. 764-773

- Eyal Winter
- Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment pp. 774-780

- William Easterly, Ross Levine and David Roodman
- Aid, Policies, and Growth: Reply pp. 781-784

- Craig Burnside and David Dollar
- Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty: Comment pp. 785-795

- Antonio Ciccone
- Opportunism in Multilateral Vertical Contracting: Nondiscrimination, Exclusivity, and Uniformity: Comment pp. 796-801

- Leslie Marx and Greg Shaffer
- Opportunism in Multilateral Vertical Contracting: Nondiscrimination, Exclusivity, and Uniformity: Reply pp. 802-803

- Randolph McAfee and Marius Schwartz
Volume 94, issue 2, 2004
- The Institutions of Monetary Policy pp. 1-13

- Mervyn King
- Editors' Introduction pp. 7-7

- David J. Baldwin and Ronald Oaxaca
- Foreword pp. 8-8

- Martin Feldstein
- Asset Prices, Financial Instability, and Monetary Policy pp. 14-18

- Charles Bean
- Inflation Illusion and Stock Prices pp. 19-23

- John Campbell and Tuomo Vuolteenaho
- The Fed Response to Equity Prices and Inflation pp. 24-28

- Bill Dupor and Timothy Conley
- Aggregate Short Interest and Market Valuations pp. 29-32

- Owen Lamont and Jeremy C. Stein
- Risk and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy pp. 33-40

- Alan Greenspan
- Panel Discussion pp. 41-48

- Martin Feldstein, Mervyn King and Janet Yellen
- Preemption, Changing Structure, and U. S. Monetary Policy pp. 49-52

- Allen Sinai
- Serial Default and the "Paradox" of Rich-to-Poor Capital Flows pp. 53-58

- Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
- Financial Openness, Sudden Stops, and Current-Account Reversals pp. 59-64

- Sebastian Edwards
- Financial Opening and Development: Evidence and Policy Controversies pp. 65-70

- Joshua Aizenman
- Monetary and Fiscal Remedies for Deflation pp. 71-75

- Alan Auerbach and Maurice Obstfeld
- Policy Options in a Liquidity Trap pp. 76-79

- Gauti Eggertsson and Michael Woodford
- Exchange-Rate Policy and the Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates pp. 80-84

- Günter Coenen and Volker Wieland
- Conducting Monetary Policy at Very Low Short-Term Interest Rates pp. 85-90

- Ben Bernanke and Vincent Reinhart
- Transparency of Information and Coordination in Economies with Investment Complementarities pp. 91-98

- George-Marios Angeletos and Alessandro Pavan
- Deflation and Depression: Is There an Empirical Link? pp. 99-103

- Andrew Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe
- Negative Nominal Interest Rates pp. 104-108

- Marco Bassetto
- Wedges and Taxes pp. 109-113

- Narayana Kocherlakota
- A Scapegoat Model of Exchange-Rate Fluctuations pp. 114-118

- Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop
- Accounting for Exchange-Rate Variability in Present-Value Models When the Discount Factor Is Near 1 pp. 119-125

- Charles Engel and Kenneth West
- Can Portfolio Rebalancing Explain the Dynamics of Equity Returns, Equity Flows, and Exchange Rates? pp. 126-133

- Harald Hau and Helene Rey
- Why Is Manufacturing Trade Rising Even as Manufacturing Output is Falling? pp. 134-138

- Raphael Bergoeing, Timothy Kehoe, Vanessa Strauss-Kahn and Kei-Mu Yi
- Variety Growth and World Welfare pp. 139-144

- Christian Broda and David Weinstein
- On the Measurement of Product Variety in Trade pp. 145-149

- Robert Feenstra and Hiau Looi Kee
- Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations pp. 150-154

- Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz
- How Much Equity Does the Government Hold? pp. 155-160

- Alan Auerbach
- Toward a Consumption Tax, and Beyond pp. 161-165

- Roger Gordon, Laura Kalambokidis, Jeffrey Rohaly and Joel Slemrod
- What Do Aggregate Consumption Euler Equations Say About the Capital-Income Tax Burden? pp. 166-170

- Casey Mulligan
- Taxation and Corporate Payout Policy pp. 171-175

- James Poterba
- Is the Social Security Trust Fund a Store of Value? pp. 176-181

- Kent Smetters
- Social Security Financing: Facts, Fantasies, Foibles, and Follies pp. 182-186

- Robert L. Clark
- Improving Social Security's Progressivity and Solvency with Hybrid Indexing pp. 187-191

- Robert Pozen, Sylvester J. Schieber and John B. Shoven
- CEO Pay and Appointments: A Market-Based Explanation for Recent Trends pp. 192-196

- Kevin J. Murphy and Jan Zabojnik
- Inequality and the Organization of Knowledge pp. 197-202

- Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
- Task-Specific Human Capital pp. 203-207

- Robert Gibbons and Michael Waldman
- Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship pp. 208-211

- Edward Lazear
- The Structure of Wages and Internal Mobility pp. 212-216

- Edward Lazear and Paul Oyer
- Using "Insider Econometrics" to Study Productivity pp. 217-223

- Casey Ichniowski and Kathryn Shaw
- Integrated Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data for the United States pp. 224-229

- John Abowd, John Haltiwanger and Julia Lane
- Changing Labor-Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers, 1957-2000 pp. 230-235

- Sean Corcoran, William Evans and Robert M. Schwab
- Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States pp. 236-240

- Caroline M. Hoxby and Andrew Leigh
- Teacher Testing, Teacher Education, and Teacher Characteristics pp. 241-246

- Joshua Angrist and Jonathan Guryan
- The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data pp. 247-252

- Jonah E. Rockoff
- Efficiency in the Use of Technology in Economic Education: Some Preliminary Results pp. 253-258

- Kim Sosin, Betty J. Lecha, Rajshree Agarwal, Robin L. Bartlett and Joseph Daniel
- What Students Remember and Say about College Economics Years Later pp. 259-265

- Sam Allgood, William Bosshardt, Wilbert van der Klaauw and Michael Watts
- Ph. D. Program Learning and Job Demands: How Close Is the Match? pp. 266-271

- Wendy A. Stock and Lee W. Hansen
- The Market for New Ph. D. Economists in 2002 pp. 272-285

- John Siegfried and Wendy A. Stock
- Panel Discussion pp. 286-290

- Alan Auerbach, Francine Blau and John B. Shoven
- Can Demand-Side Variables Explain the Low Numbers of Minority Faculty in Higher Education? pp. 291-295

- Stephen Cole and Elizabeth Arias
- The Effects of Ph. D. Supply on Minority Faculty Representation pp. 296-301

- Samuel L. Myers and Caroline S. Turner
- Panel Discussion pp. 302-306

- John Brooks Slaughter, Ronald Ehrenberg and Eric A. Hanushek
- Institutional Strategies to Achieve Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Does Title IX Harm Male Athletes? pp. 307-311

- Deborah J. Anderson and John J. Cheslock
- Understanding How Child-Support Arrears Reached $18 Billion in California pp. 312-316

- Elaine Sorensen
- Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium pp. 317-321

- Kate Antonovics and Robert Town
- Occupation, Sex-Integration, and Divorce pp. 322-325

- Terra McKinnish
- Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan pp. 326-330

- Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton and Esther Duflo
- Medical Compliance and Income-Health Gradients pp. 331-335

- Anne Case, Ingrid Le Roux and Alicia Menendez
- Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA's Control Randomized Experiment pp. 336-341

- Paul Gertler
- The Role of Information in Medical Markets: An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery pp. 342-346

- David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Mary Beth Landrum
- Managed Care, Information, and Diffusion: The Case of Treatment for Heart-Attack Patients pp. 347-351

- Laurence C. Baker, Christopher C. Afendulis and Paul A. Heidenreich
- Hospital Transaction Prices and Managed-Care Discounting for Selected Medical Technologies pp. 352-356

- Avi Dor, Michael Grossman and Siran M. Koroukian
- The Productivity of Physician Specialization: Evidence from the Medicare Program pp. 357-361

- Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
- Repetition and Reputation: Implications for Trust and Trustworthiness When Institutions Change pp. 362-366

- Iris Bohnet and Steffen Huck
- Mood-Driven Behavior in Strategic Interactions pp. 367-372

- C. Monica Capra
- Social Capital and Contributions in a Public-Goods Experiment pp. 373-376

- Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo
- Gender and Competition at a Young Age pp. 377-381

- Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini
- Property Rights to Technical Knowledge in Premodern Europe, 1300-1800 pp. 382-387

- Stephan R. Epstein
- Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Historical Patent Citations pp. 388-394

- Petra Moser and Tom Nicholas
- Institutions and Democratic Invention in 19th-Century America: Evidence from "Great Inventors," 1790-1930 pp. 395-401

- Zorina Khan and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
- Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Cultural Competition? pp. 402-407

- Bryan Caplan and Tyler Cowen
- Psychology and the Market pp. 408-413

- Edward Glaeser
- Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior? pp. 414-418

- Andrei Shleifer
- A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty pp. 419-423

- Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
- Design Choices in Privatized Social-Security Systems: Learning from the Swedish Experience pp. 424-428

- Henrik Cronqvist and Richard Thaler
- Toward National Well-Being Accounts pp. 429-434

- Daniel Kahneman, Alan Krueger, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz and Arthur Stone
- Persuasion in Politics pp. 435-439

- Kevin Murphy and Andrei Shleifer
- The Employment Consequences of Wrongful-Discharge Laws: Large, Small, or None at All? pp. 440-446

- David Autor, John Donohue and Stewart J. Schwab
- Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects pp. 447-453

- Christine Jolls
- Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias pp. 454-460

- Orley Ashenfelter and Michael Greenstone
- What Is a Barrier to Entry? pp. 461-465

- Preston R. Fee, Hugo Mialon and Michael Williams
- Why Barriers to Entry Are Barriers to Understanding pp. 466-470

- Dennis Carlton
- Sunk Costs and Antitrust Barriers to Entry pp. 471-475

- Rchard Schmalensee
Volume 94, issue 1, 2004
- Social Security pp. 1-24

- Peter Diamond
- Constitutional Rules and Fiscal Policy Outcomes pp. 25-45

- Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
- Bidder Discounts and Target Premia in Takeovers pp. 46-56

- Boyan Jovanovic and Serguey Braguinsky
- Costly Voting pp. 57-66

- Tilman Börgers
- Factor Proportions and the Structure of Commodity Trade pp. 67-97

- John Romalis
- Do We Really Know That the WTO Increases Trade? pp. 98-114

- Andrew Rose
- Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces After a Terrorist Attack pp. 115-133

- Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
- Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Antidumping Policy: Theory and Evidence pp. 134-154

- Bruce Blonigen and Jee-Hyeong Park
- The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports pp. 155-189

- Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti
- Testing for Indeterminacy: An Application to U.S. Monetary Policy pp. 190-217

- Thomas Lubik and Frank Schorfheide
- Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations pp. 218-232

- Peter Kuhn and Mikal Skuterud
- Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago pp. 233-258

- Brian A. Jacob
- Pareto-Efficient International Taxation pp. 259-275

- Michael Keen and David Wildasin
- Understanding Trend and Cycle in Asset Values: Reevaluating the Wealth Effect on Consumption pp. 276-299

- Martin Lettau and Sydney Ludvigson
- Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms pp. 300-316

- Elhanan Helpman, Marc Melitz and Stephen Yeaple
- Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California pp. 317-328

- Justine S. Hastings
- How Will 401(k) Pension Plans Affect Retirement Income? pp. 329-343

- Andrew Samwick and Jonathan Skinner
- The Impact of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand: An Application to Professional Sports pp. 344-357

- Martin Schmidt and David Berri
- Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees pp. 358-368

- Erik Plug
- On A Political Solution to the NIMBY Conflict pp. 369-381

- Eli Feinerman, Israel Finkelshtain and Iddo Kan
- Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Comment pp. 382-390

- Ron Shachar and Barry Nalebuff
- Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Reply pp. 391-396

- B McCullough and Hrishikesh Vinod
- Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Comment pp. 397-399

- David Drukker and Vince Wiggins
- Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study: Reply pp. 400-406

- B McCullough and Hrishikesh Vinod
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