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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 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 Brock and Anastasios Xepapadeas
- Fundamentals, Panics, and Bank Distress During the Depression pp. 1615-1647

- Charles Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
- Assessing the Importance of Tiebout Sorting: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990 pp. 1648-1677

- Paul 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 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 Haskel, Denise 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 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 Glaeser and Erzo Luttmer
- Social Security Investment in Equities pp. 1047-1074

- Peter Diamond and John Geanakoplos
- On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: Facts and Theory pp. 1075-1090

- Luis 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 Whiteman
- Technological Change and the Stock Market pp. 1240-1267

- John Laitner and Dmitriy Stolyarov
- Plants and Productivity in International Trade pp. 1268-1290

- Andrew Bernard, Jonathan Eaton, J. Jensen and Samuel Kortum
- The Economic Significance of National Border Effects pp. 1291-1312

- Carolyn 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 Black, Jeffrey Smith, Mark 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

- Thomas Hertz
- Inflation Persistence and Relative Contracting pp. 1369-1372

- Steinar Holden and John 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 Field
- Wage Adjustment Under Low Inflation: Evidence from U.S. History pp. 1414-1424

- Christopher Hanes and John 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 Green
- Dynamic Speculative Attacks pp. 603-621

- Christophe Chamley
- The Performance of Forecast-Based Monetary Policy Rules Under Model Uncertainty pp. 622-645

- Andrew Levin, Volker Wieland and John 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 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 Myatt
- Information, International Substitutability, and Globalization pp. 775-791

- James Rauch and Vitor Trindade
- Do Government Grants to Private Charities Crowd Out Giving or Fund-raising? pp. 792-812

- James Andreoni and A. 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 McCullough and Hrishikesh 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. Sørensen 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 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 Coatney
- Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Comment pp. 980-994

- Bruce Blonigen, Ronald Davies and Keith Head
- Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Reply pp. 995-1001

- David L. Carr, James Markusen and Keith 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 Oaxaca
- Foreword pp. 8-8

- Peter Diamond
- The Future of the IMF pp. 31-38

- Ricardo Caballero
- The World Bank of the Future pp. 39-44

- Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He
- The Future of the IMF and World Bank: Panel Discussion pp. 45-50

- Stanley Fischer, Allan Meltzer, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Nicholas 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 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 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 Udry
- Payoffs from Panels in Low-Income Countries: Economic Development and Economic Mobility pp. 112-117

- Mark 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 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 E. 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 Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- Optimal Defaults pp. 180-185

- James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick
- Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes pp. 186-191

- Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
- Models of Thinking, Learning, and Teaching in Games pp. 192-195

- Colin Camerer, Teck 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 Cooper and John 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 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 Mitchell
- The Interaction of Public Retirement Income Programs in the United States pp. 261-265

- Elizabeth 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 Grogger, Steven J. Haider and Jacob Klerman
- Some Evidence on Race, Welfare Reform, and Household Income pp. 293-298

- Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary W. Hoynes
- How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent Achievement pp. 299-303

- Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Greg Duncan and Pamela Morris
- Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's pp. 304-308

- Rebecca Blank and Robert F. Schoeni
- The Gender Gap in Wages, circa 2000 pp. 309-314

- June O'Neill
- 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 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 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 Weisbenner
- Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritances and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from across States and Time pp. 366-370

- Jon Bakija, William 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 Parker
- Stock-Market Participation, Intertemporal Substitution, and Risk-Aversion pp. 383-391

- Annette Vissing-Jorgensen and Orazio Attanasio
- Average Debt and Equity Returns: Puzzling? pp. 392-397

- Ellen McGrattan and Edward 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 Huddart and Pierre Jinghong Liang
- The Impact of Bankruptcy on Airline Service Levels pp. 415-419

- Severin Borenstein and Nancy 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 N. 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 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 Maier and Robert L. Moore
- American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 521-524

- Charles E. Scott and John Siegfried
Volume 93, issue 1, 2003
- Macroeconomic Priorities pp. 1-14

- Robert Lucas
- Why Don't Prices Rise During Periods of Peak Demand? Evidence from Scanner Data pp. 15-37

- Judith Chevalier, Anil Kashyap and Peter Rossi
- Micro Effects of Macro Announcements: Real-Time Price Discovery in Foreign Exchange pp. 38-62

- Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis Diebold and Clara Vega
- Stages of Diversification pp. 63-86

- Jean Imbs and Romain Wacziarg
- The Survival of the Welfare State pp. 87-112

- John Hassler, Sevi 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 Crawford
- The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies pp. 150-169

- Arthur Robson and Hillard Kaplan
- Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle pp. 170-192

- James 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 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 Dynarski
- Expert Opinion and Compensation: Evidence from a Musical Competition pp. 289-296

- Victor Ginsburgh and Jan van Ours
- Choosing the Wrong Calling Plan? Ignorance and Learning pp. 297-310

- Eugenio 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 Kamstra, Lisa Kramer and Maurice Levi
- Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era pp. 344-353

- Christopher 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 Kotlikoff
- Monetary and Nonmonetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism pp. 366-380

- David Masclet, Charles Noussair, Steven 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 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 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
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