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Volume 89, issue 5, 1999
- Using Field Experiments to Test Equivalence between Auction Formats: Magic on the Internet pp. 1063-1080

- David Reiley
- The Effect of Price Advertising on Prices: Evidence in the Wake of 44 Liquormart pp. 1081-1096

- Joel Waldfogel and Jeffrey Milyo
- Adverse Selection in Durable Goods Markets pp. 1097-1115

- Alessandro Lizzeri and Igal Hendel
- Endogenous Lobby Formation and Endogenous Protection: A Long-Run Model of Trade Policy Determination pp. 1116-1134

- Devashish Mitra
- Protection for Sale: An Empirical Investigation pp. 1135-1155

- Giovanni Maggi and Pinelopi Goldberg
- On the Size of U.S. Government: Political Economy in the Neoclassical Growth Model pp. 1156-1181

- José-Víctor Ríos-Rull and Per Krusell
- Bicameralism and Its Consequences for the Internal Organization of Legislatures pp. 1182-1196

- Roger Myerson and Daniel Diermeier
- Marginal Tax Rates and Income Inequality in a Life-Cycle Model pp. 1197-1215

- Charles Carlstrom and David Altig
- Monopoly Rights: A Barrier to Riches pp. 1216-1233

- Edward Prescott and Stephen Parente
- On the Driving Forces behind Cyclical Movements in Employment and Job Reallocation pp. 1234-1258

- John Haltiwanger and Steven Davis
- Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence pp. 1259-1278

- Daron Acemoglu
- Do Investors Trade Too Much? pp. 1279-1298

- Terrance Odean
- New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities pp. 1299-1318

- Olivia Mitchell
- A Simple Approach for Deciding When to Invest pp. 1319-1326

- Jonathan B. Berk
- Policy Persistence pp. 1327-1336

- Stephen Morris and Stephen Coate
- Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border pp. 1337-1357

- Antonio Spilimbergo and Gordon Hanson
- Longevity Complementarities under Competing Risks pp. 1358-1371

- Tomas Philipson, William Dow and Xavier Sala-i-Martin
- Intrinsic Bubbles: The Case of Stock Prices: Comment pp. 1372-1376

- William C. Hunter and Lucy Ackert
- Voting on the Budget Deficit: Comment pp. 1377-1381

- Robert Dur, Ben D. Peletier and Otto H. Swank
- The Economics of Child Labor: Comment pp. 1382-1385

- Carol Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton
- The Economics of Child Labor: Reply pp. 1386-1388

- Van Pham and Kaushik Basu
Volume 89, issue 4, 1999
- Does Where You Stand Depend on Where You Sit? Tithing Donations and Self-Serving Beliefs pp. 703-727

- Michael Ransom and Gordon Dahl
- Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking? pp. 728-747

- Matthew C. Farrelly, William Evans and Edward Montgomery
- The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design pp. 748-780

- Elliott Peranson and Alvin Roth
- Gaming against Managers in Incentive Systems: Experimental Results with Chinese Students and Chinese Managers pp. 781-804

- David Cooper
- Measuring Duopoly Power in the British Electricity Spot Market pp. 805-826

- Catherine D. Wolfram
- An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance pp. 827-846

- Tomas Philipson and John Cawley
- Emergence of Money as a Medium of Exchange: An Experimental Study pp. 847-877

- Jack Ochs and John Duffy
- A Dynamic Economy with Costly Price Adjustments pp. 878-901

- Leif Danziger
- Household Production and the Excess Sensitivity of Consumption to Current Income pp. 902-920

- Urban Jermann and Marianne Baxter
- Machine Replacement and the Business Cycle: Lumps and Bumps pp. 921-946

- John Haltiwanger, Russell Cooper and Laura Power
- The Response of Household Consumption to Income Tax Refunds pp. 947-958

- Nicholas S. Souleles
- The Reaction of Household Consumption to Predictable Changes in Social Security Taxes pp. 959-973

- Jonathan Parker
- Commodity Taxes under Fiscal Competition: Stackelberg Equilibrium and Optimality pp. 974-981

- You-Qiang Wang
- Rents, Competition, and Corruption pp. 982-993

- Rafael Di Tella and Alberto Ades
- The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach pp. 994-1009

- Robert N. Stavins
- Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence from Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions pp. 1010-1027

- James T. Hamilton and W Viscusi
- Models of Energy Use: Putty-Putty versus Putty-Clay pp. 1028-1043

- Patrick Kehoe and Andrew Atkeson
- The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Comment pp. 1044-1045

- John K. Horowitz and John Quiggin
- The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Reply pp. 1046-1048

- William Nordhaus and Robert Mendelsohn
- The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Comment pp. 1049-1052

- Roy Darwin
- The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Reply pp. 1053-1055

- William Nordhaus and Robert Mendelsohn
- Central-Bank Independence, Economic Behavior, and Optimal Term Lengths: Comment pp. 1056-1062

- Xiang Lin
Volume 89, issue 3, 1999
- The Possibility of Social Choice pp. 349-378

- Amartya Sen
- Does Trade Cause Growth? pp. 379-399

- David Romer and Jeffrey Frankel
- Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Trade Policy pp. 400-430

- James Levinsohn, Steven Berry and Ariel Pakes
- Aid, Nontraded Goods, and the Transfer Paradox in Small Countries pp. 431-449

- Jeffrey Nugent and Makoto Yano
- A Schumpeterian Model of Protection and Relative Wages pp. 450-472

- Paul Segerstrom and Elias Dinopoulos
- The Twin Crises: The Causes of Banking and Balance-of-Payments Problems pp. 473-500

- Carmen Reinhart and Graciela Kaminsky
- Competing for Endorsements pp. 501-524

- Elhanan Helpman and Gene Grossman
- Follow the Leader: Theory and Evidence on Political Participation pp. 525-547

- Barry Nalebuff and Ron Shachar
- What's in a Name? Reputation as a Tradeable Asset pp. 548-563

- Steven Tadelis
- The Market for Evaluations pp. 564-584

- Paul Resnick, Christopher Avery and Richard Zeckhauser
- Unequal Treatment of Identical Agents in Cournot Equilibrium pp. 585-604

- Greg Shaffer and Stephen W. Salant
- Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Direct Foreign Investment? Evidence from Venezuela pp. 605-618

- Ann E. Harrison and Brian J. Aitken
- Roads to Prosperity? Assessing the Link between Public Capital and Productivity pp. 619-638

- John Fernald
- International Stock Market Equilibrium with Heterogenous Tastes pp. 639-648

- Leslie Young and James A. Bennett
- Unbiased Value Estimates for Environmental Goods: A Cheap Talk Design for the Contingent Valuation Method pp. 649-665

- Laura Taylor and Ronald G. Cummings
- State Taxes and Interstate Hazardous Waste Shipments pp. 666-677

- Arik Levinson
- Anomalous Behavior in a Traveler's Dilemma? pp. 678-690

- C. Monica Capra
- Strategic Behavior in Contests: Comment pp. 691-693

- Onsong Shin and Michael Baye
- Strategic Behavior in Contests: Reply pp. 694-694

- Avinash Dixit
Volume 89, issue 2, 1999
- In Defense of Inequality pp. 1-17

- Finis Welch
- Fifty Years of U.S. Income Data from the Current Population Survey: Alternatives, Trends, and Quality pp. 18-22

- Daniel Weinberg
- U.S. Wage-Inequality Trends and Recent Immigration pp. 23-28

- Robert Lerman
- Some Income-Measurement Issues and Their Policy Implications pp. 29-33

- John C. Weicher
- Why Do Different Wage Series Tell Different Stories? pp. 34-39

- James R. Spletzer, Katharine Abraham and Jay C. Stewart
- Economic Growth: How Good Can It Get? pp. 40-44

- Frank P. Stafford
- Measuring Labor's Share pp. 45-51

- Alan Krueger
- The NAIRU and Wages in Local Labor Markets pp. 52-57

- Robert M. Coen
- Does the NAIRU Have the Right Dynamics? pp. 58-62

- Ray Fair
- Behind This Structural Boom: The Role of Asset Valuations pp. 63-68

- Edmund Phelps
- Wage Dynamics: Reconciling Theory and Evidence pp. 69-74

- Lawrence Katz and Olivier Blanchard
- Toward a General Theory of Wage and Price Rigidities and Economic Fluctuations pp. 75-80

- Joseph Stiglitz
- Price Dynamics and Production Lags pp. 81-88

- Dennis J. Snower and Assar Lindbeck
- Firm-Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job-Changers pp. 89-93

- Josef Zweimüller and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
- Productivity Differences across Employers: The Roles of Employer Size, Age, and Human Capital pp. 94-98

- Julia Lane, John C. Haltiwanger and James Spletzer
- Examining the Employer-Size Wage Premium in the Manufacturing, Retail Trade, and Service Industries Using Employer-Employee Matched Data pp. 99-103

- Kenneth Troske and Kimberly Bayard
- Workers Are More Productive in Large Firms pp. 104-108

- Walter Oi and Todd Idson
- Information Technology and Growth pp. 109-115

- Kevin J. Stiroh and Dale Jorgenson
- The Information-Technology Revolution and the Stock Market pp. 116-122

- Boyan Jovanovic and Jeremy Greenwood
- U.S. Economic Growth since 1870: One Big Wave? pp. 123-128

- Robert Gordon
- Zipf's Law and the Growth of Cities pp. 129-132

- Xavier Gabaix
- Productivity Growth and Factor Prices in East Asia pp. 133-138

- Chang-Tai Hsieh
- Growth: With or Without Scale Effects? pp. 139-144

- Charles Jones
- Population and Economic Growth pp. 145-149

- Edward Glaeser, Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy
- From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth pp. 150-154

- David Weil and Oded Galor
- Income-Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility pp. 155-160

- Daniel Chen and Michael Kremer
- Generational Accounting around the Globe pp. 161-166

- Bernd Raffelhuschen and Laurence Kotlikoff
- Generational Accounting in Europe pp. 167-170

- Bernd Raffelhuschen
- Lessons from Generational Accounting in Japan pp. 171-175

- Yukinobu Kitamura and Noriyuki Takayama
- Analyzing the Fiscal Impact of U.S. Immigration pp. 176-180

- Philip Oreopoulos and Alan Auerbach
- Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? pp. 181-185

- Barry Chiswick
- Immigrants and Human-Capital Investment pp. 186-191

- Mark Regets and Harriet Orcutt Duleep
- Immigration Policy and Immigrant Quality: The Australian Points System pp. 192-197

- Paul Miller
- Women's Wages in Women's Work: A U.S./Canada Comparison of the Roles of Unions and "Public Goods" Sector Jobs pp. 198-203

- Nicole Fortin and Michael Baker
- Exchange Rates and Employment Instability: Evidence from Matched CPS Data pp. 204-210

- Joseph Tracy, Linda Goldberg and Stephanie Aaronson
- Employment and Retirement Following a Late-Career Job Loss pp. 211-216

- Ann Huff Stevens and Sewin Chan
- Medicare Reform: Obstacles and Options pp. 217-221

- Linda Bilheimer and Joseph Antos
- Prefunding Medicare pp. 222-227

- Martin Feldstein
- The Geography of Medicare pp. 228-233

- Louise Sheiner and David Cutler
- Household Resource Allocation in Stepfamilies: Darwin Reflects on the Plight of Cinderella pp. 234-238

- I-Fen Lin, Anne Case and Sara McLanahan
- Parental Resources and Child Abuse and Neglect pp. 239-244

- Jane Waldfogel and Christina Paxson
- Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Low Birthweight pp. 245-250

- Rosemary Hyson and Janet Currie
- Population Growth, Dependency, and Consumption pp. 251-255

- David Weil
- Fertility Decline in the Developed World: Where Will It End? pp. 256-260

- John Bongaarts
- U.S. Abortion Policy and Fertility pp. 261-264

- Jacob Alex Klerman
- Measures of Agricultural Support Policies in Transition Economies: 1994-1997 pp. 265-270

- Alberto Valdes
- Land Reform and Farm Restructuring: What Has Been Accomplished to Date? pp. 271-275

- Zvi Lerman
- Inside China's Cities: Institutional Barriers and Opportunities for Urban Migrants pp. 276-280

- Xuejin Zuo and Wang Feng
- Leaving the Countryside: Rural-to-Urban Migration Decisions in China pp. 281-286

- Yaohui Zhao
- Migration, Remittances, and Agricultural Productivity in China pp. 287-291

- J. Edward Taylor, Scott Rozelle and Alan deBrauw
- Markets and Inequality in Rural China: Parallels with the Past pp. 292-295

- Loren Brandt and Dwayne Benjamin
- Income Distribution in Urban China during the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization pp. 296-300

- Keith Griffin, Azizur Rahman Khan and Carl Riskin
- China's Lagging Poor Areas pp. 301-305

- Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion
- Urban-Biased Policies and Rising Income Inequality in China pp. 306-310

- Dennis Yang
- The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration? pp. 311-316

- Edward Glaeser and Glenn Ellison
- Scale of Local Production and City Size pp. 317-320

- Thomas J. Holmes
- Spatial Evolution of Population and Industry in the United States pp. 321-327

- Vernon Henderson and Duncan Black
- Decomposition of Productivity and Unit Costs pp. 328-332

- Lawrence Slifman and Carol Corrado
- Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Framework for Price and Output Measurement pp. 333-337

- Matthew D. Shapiro, Irving Shapiro and David Wilcox
- Discrepancies in International Data: An Application to China-Hong Kong Entrepot Trade pp. 338-343

- Robert Feenstra
- How Departments of Economics Evaluate Teaching pp. 344-349

- Michael Watts and William Becker
- What Do College Seniors Know about Economics? pp. 350-354

- Sam Allgood and William B. Walstad
- The State of Economic Education pp. 355-361

- John Siegfried and Michael K. Salemi
- Credit and Banking Structure: Asian and African-American Experience in Los Angeles pp. 362-366

- Lisa Mohanty and Gary Dymski
- What Can We Expect from Community-Based Lending for the District of Columbia pp. 367-371

- Gwendolyn Flowers
- The Economic Performance of African-American-Owned Banks: The Role of Loan Loss Provisions pp. 372-376

- Christopher C. Henderson
- Portfolio Choices of Parents and Their Children as Young Adults: Asset Accumulation by African-American Families pp. 377-380

- Frank P. Stafford and Ngina S. Chiteji
- Financial Decision-Making: Are Women Really More Risk-Averse? pp. 381-385

- Renate Schubert
- Gender and Culture: International Experimental Evidence from Trust Games pp. 386-391

- Nancy Buchan and Rachel Croson
- Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Gender and Promotion in the Economics Profession pp. 392-396

- Larry D. Singell, John McDowell and James Ziliak
- Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion in the Humanities pp. 397-402

- Kathy J. Hayes and Donna Ginther
- Same Song, Same Refrain? Economic Sanctions in the 1990's pp. 403-408

- Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Kimberly Elliott
- Sanctions: Some Simple Analytics pp. 409-414

- Maxim Engers and Jonathan Eaton
- Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do? pp. 415-420

- Philip Levy
- Recent Theoretical Work on the Soft Budget Constraint pp. 421-425

- Eric Maskin
- Policy Burdens, Accountability, and the Soft Budget Constraint pp. 426-431

- Guofu Tan and Justin Lin
- The Myth of the East Asian Miracle: The Macroeconomic Implications of Soft Budgets pp. 432-437

- Yijiang Wang and Chong-En Bai
- Institutions, Innovations, and Growth pp. 438-443

- Chenggang Xu and Haizhou Huang
- Minutes of the Annual Meeting pp. 447-448

- John Siegfried
- Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings pp. 449-461

- John Siegfried
- Report of the Secretary for 1998 pp. 462-464

- John Siegfried
- Report of the Treasurer for the Year Ending December 31, 1998 pp. 465-465

- C. Elton Hinshaw
- Report of the Finance Committee pp. 466-466

- C. Elton Hinshaw
- Report of the Editor: American Economic Review pp. 467-475

- Orley Ashenfelter
- Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature pp. 476-478

- John McMillan
- Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives pp. 479-483

- Alan Krueger
- Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists pp. 484-485

- C. Elton Hinshaw
- Report of the Committee on Economic Education pp. 486-487

- Michael K. Salemi
- Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession pp. 488-491

- Susan M. Collins
- Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession pp. 492-498

- Robin L. Bartlett
- American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 499-502

- Charles E. Scott
Volume 89, issue 1, 1999
- Catching Up with the Economy pp. 1-21

- Robert Fogel
- The Voracity Effect pp. 22-46

- Philip Lane and Aaron Tornell
- Endogenous Technological Change and Wage Inequality pp. 47-77

- Huw Lloyd-Ellis
- Technological Revolutions pp. 78-102

- Francesco Caselli
- Doing It Now or Later pp. 103-124

- Matthew Rabin and Ted O'Donoghue
- Cooperative Investments and the Value of Contracting pp. 125-147

- Donald B. Hausch and Yeon-Koo Che
- Rules of Thumb versus Dynamic Programming pp. 148-174

- Harald Uhlig and Martin Lettau
- The Generalized War of Attrition pp. 175-189

- Paul Klemperer and Jeremy Bulow
- The Role of Multilateral Institutions in International Trade Cooperation pp. 190-214

- Giovanni Maggi
- An Economic Theory of GATT pp. 215-248

- Robert W. Staiger and Kyle Bagwell
- Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations? pp. 249-271

- Jordi Galí
- Scale Economies and Industry Agglomeration Externalities: A Dynamic Cost Function Approach pp. 272-290

- Donald S. Siegel and Catherine Morrison Paul
- Can Affirmative Action Be Cost Effective? An Experimental Examination of Price-Preference Auctions pp. 291-305

- Andrew Schotter and Allan Corns
- Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Approach pp. 306-318

- Dan Lovallo and Colin Camerer
- The Winner's Curse and Public Information in Common Value Auctions: Comment pp. 319-324

- Samuel H. Dinkin, James Cox and Vernon L. Smith
- The Winner's Curse and Public Information in Common Value Auctions: Reply pp. 325-334

- John Kagel, Colin Campbell and Dan Levin
- Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games: Comment pp. 335-339

- Bruno Frey and Iris Bohnet
- Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games: Reply pp. 340-341

- Kevin McCabe, Elizabeth Hoffman and Vernon L. Smith
- Optimal Inflation Targets, "Conservative" Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts: Comment pp. 342-347

- Henrik Jensen and Roel Beetsma
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