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Volume 87, issue 6, 1997
- An Outline of My Main Contributions to Economic Science pp. 3-12

- Maurice Allais
- Econometrics and the Welfare State pp. 13-15

- Trygve Haavelmo
- The Accounts of Society pp. 17-29

- Richard Stone
Volume 87, issue 5, 1997
- Exchange Economies and Loss Exposure: Experiments Exploring Prospect Theory and Competitive Equilibria in Market Environments pp. 801-28

- Mikhail Myagkov and Charles Plott
- Anomalous Behavior in Public Goods Experiments: How Much and Why? pp. 829-46

- Thomas Palfrey and Jeffrey E Prisbrey
- Information Cascades in the Laboratory pp. 847-62

- Lisa Anderson and Charles Holt
- Contagion and Bank Failures during the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic pp. 863-83

- Charles Calomiris and Joseph R Mason
- Interactions between the Seasonal and Business Cycles in Production and Inventories pp. 884-92

- Stephen Cecchetti, Anil Kashyap and David Wilcox
- Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 893-910

- Charles Carlstrom and Timothy Fuerst
- Credibility of Optimal Monetary Delegation pp. 911-20

- Henrik Jensen
- The Welfare State and Competitiveness pp. 921-39

- Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti
- A Coalition-Formation Approach to Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs pp. 940-56

- John Burbidge, James A. DePater, Gordon M. Meyers and Abhijit Sengupta
- The Economics of Split-Ticket Voting in Representative Democracies pp. 957-76

- Varadarajan Chari, Larry Jones and Ramon Marimon
- Political Institutions and Sorting in a Tiebout Model pp. 977-92

- Ken Kollman, John H Miller and Scott E Page
- Evidence of Nominal Wage Stickiness from Microdata pp. 993-1008

- Shulamit Kahn
- Intergenerational Income Mobility in Sweden Compared to the United States pp. 1009-18

- Anders Bjorklund and Markus Jantti
- Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Comment pp. 1019-32

- Mark Partridge
- Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries: Comment pp. 1033-39

- Subhash Ray and Evangelia Desli
- Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries: Reply pp. 1040-43

- Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf and Mary Norris
Volume 87, issue 4, 1997
- Technology, Factor Supplies, and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model pp. 475-94

- James Harrigan
- The International Transmission of Financial Shocks: The Case of Japan pp. 495-505

- Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren
- A Political-Economic Analysis of Free-Trade Agreements pp. 506-19

- Philip Levy
- An Empirical Assessment of the Proximity-Concentration Trade-off between Multinational Sales and Trade pp. 520-44

- S Lael Brainard
- The Decision to Export in Colombia: An Empirical Model of Entry with Sunk Costs pp. 545-64

- Mark Roberts and James Tybout
- Privatization in Eastern Germany: Management Selection and Economic Transition pp. 565-97

- Isaac Dyck
- Competition or Compensation: Supplier Incentives under the American and Japanese Subcontracting Systems pp. 598-618

- Curtis Taylor and Steven N Wiggins
- Demand Uncertainty and Price Maintenance: Markdowns as Destructive Competition pp. 619-41

- Raymond Deneckere, Howard P Marvel and James Peck
- Public Policy towards R&D in Oligopolistic Industries pp. 642-62

- Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary
- Secret Reserve Prices in a Bidding Model with a Resale Option pp. 663-84

- Ignatius J Horstmann and Chantale LaCasse
- Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment pp. 685-704

- Ching-to Ma and Thomas G McGuire
- The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Labor-Market Activity: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations pp. 705-27

- Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin
- Transaction Costs and Price Volatility: Evidence from Commission Deregulation pp. 728-37

- Charles Jones and Paul J Seguin
- Risk Aversion and Stock Price Sensitivity to Dividends pp. 738-45

- May Hagiwara and Miguel A Herce
- The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out pp. 746-55

- Bruno Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
- Long-Run Neutrality and Superneutrality in an ARIMA Framework: Comment pp. 756-59

- Alfred A Haug and Robert Lucas
- Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes: Comment pp. 760-67

- Robert Feenstra
- Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes: Reply pp. 768

- Zvi Griliches and Iain Cockburn
Volume 87, issue 3, 1997
- Equity and Time to Sale in the Real Estate Market pp. 255-69

- David Genesove and Christopher Mayer
- Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime pp. 270-90

- Steven Levitt
- The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity: A Study of Steel Finishing Lines pp. 291-313

- Casey Ichniowski, Kathryn Shaw and Giovanna Prennushi
- Productivity under Group Incentives: An Experimental Study pp. 314-41

- Haig R Nalbantian and Andrew Schotter
- Long-Run Implications of Investment-Specific Technological Change pp. 342-62

- Jeremy Greenwood, Zvi Hercowitz and Per Krusell
- Technological Progress, Mobility, and Economic Growth pp. 363-82

- Oded Galor and Daniel Tsiddon
- On the Speed of Convergence in Endogenous Growth Models pp. 383-99

- Salvador Ortigueira and Manuel S Santos
- Size, Sunk Costs, and Judge Bowker's Objection to Free Trade pp. 400-420

- John McLaren
- Using International and Japanese Regional Data to Determine When the Factor Abundance Theory of Trade Works pp. 421-46

- Donald Davis, David Weinstein, Scott Bradford and Kazushige Shimpo
- Firm-Specific Assets and the Link between Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment pp. 447-65

- Bruce Blonigen
Volume 87, issue 2, 1997
- Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations pp. 1-12

- D. Johnson
- The IMF and Russia pp. 13-16

- Yegor Gaidar
- Argentina's Convertibility Plan and the IMF pp. 17-22

- Domingo F Cavallo and Joaquin A Cottani
- Applied Economics in Action: IMF Programs pp. 23-27

- Stanley Fischer
- IMF Surveillance pp. 28-31

- Michael Mussa
- Asset Inequality Matters: An Assessment of the World Bank's Approach to Poverty Reduction pp. 32-37

- Nancy Birdsall and Juan Luis Londono
- Project Analysis and the World Bank pp. 38-42

- Glenn Jenkins
- Trade Liberalization Reforms and the World Bank pp. 43-48

- Sebastian Edwards
- What Do Economists Know That Policymakers Need To? pp. 49-53

- James W Fox
- The Evolution of Economic Policymaking in Africa pp. 54-57

- Jerome M Wolgin
- Speed of Policy Reform and Outcomes pp. 58-62

- Samuel L Skogstad and Stephen S Everhart
- Project Evaluation Training and Public Investment in Chile pp. 63-67

- Ernesto R Fontaine
- Highway Franchising: Pitfalls and Opportunities pp. 68-72

- Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic
- Trade Reform and Uniform Import Tariffs: The Chilean Experience pp. 73-77

- Vittorio Corbo
- The CPI Commission: Findings and Recommendations pp. 78-83

- Boskin, Michael J, et al
- Quality Change and New Products pp. 84-88

- Robert Gordon and Zvi Griliches
- Implications of Overstating Inflation for Indexing Government Programs and Understanding Economic Progress pp. 89-93

- Michael J Boskin and Dale Jorgenson
- The Council of Economic Advisers: From Stabilization to Resource Allocation pp. 99-102

- Martin Feldstein
- Presidents and Economists: The Council of Economic Advisers pp. 103-06

- Roger B Porter
- It Ain't the Things You Don't Know That Hurt You, It's the Things You Know That Ain't So pp. 107-08

- Robert Solow
- Looking out for the National Interest: The Principles of the Council of Economic Advisers pp. 109-13

- Joseph Stiglitz
- Consumption Taxes and Saving: The Role of Uncertainty in Tax Reform pp. 114-19

- Eric M Engen and William Gale
- Neglected Effects on the Uses Side: Even a Uniform Tax Would Change Relative Goods Prices pp. 120-25

- Don Fullerton and Diane Lim
- The Long-Run Dynamics of Fundamental Tax Reform pp. 126-32

- Dale Jorgenson and Peter Wilcoxen
- Developing Policy Analysis of Fundamental Tax Reform pp. 133-37

- Peter M Taylor
- How Different Are Income and Consumption Taxes? pp. 138-42

- R Glenn Hubbard
- The Future of Fundamental Tax Reform pp. 143-46

- Alan Auerbach
- Potential Disruption from the Move to a Consumption Tax pp. 147-50

- Robert E Hall
- Deconstructing the Income Tax pp. 151-55

- Joel Slemrod
- Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government pp. 156-59

- Richard A Musgrave
- Choice, Exchange, and Public Finance pp. 160-63

- Richard Wagner
- Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government: The International Perspective pp. 164-68

- Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht
- Reconciling Normative and Positive Theories of Government pp. 169-72

- Joseph Cordes
- Levels of Economic Activity across Countries pp. 173-77

- Robert E Hall and Charles Jones
- I Just Ran Two Million Regressions pp. 178-83

- Xavier Sala-i-Martin
- Fundamental Sources of Long-Run Growth pp. 184-88

- Jeffrey D Sachs and Andrew Warner
- Credible Economic Liberalizations and Overborrowing pp. 189-93

- Ronald McKinnon and Huw Pill
- Per Capita Income Convergence and the Role of International Trade pp. 194-99

- Matthew J Slaughter
- International Labor Flows and National Wages pp. 200-204

- Stanley L Engerman and Ronald Jones
- Trade Policy, Growth, and Income Distribution pp. 205-10

- Sebastian Edwards
- Preferences, Domains, and Sustainability pp. 211-13

- Peter Kenen
- Currency Areas, Common Currencies, and EMU pp. 214-16

- Robert Mundell
- Political and Institutional Commitment to a Common Currency pp. 217-20

- Michael Mussa
- Fiscal Aspects of Monetary Integration pp. 221-23

- Rüdiger Dornbusch
- The Common Unresolved Problem with the EMS and EMU pp. 224-26

- Dominick Salvatore
- EMU as a Device for Collective Fiscal Retrenchment pp. 227-29

- Ronald McKinnon
- Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics We Should All Believe In? pp. 230-32

- Robert Solow
- A Core of Practical Macroeconomics pp. 233-35

- John Taylor
- Some Thoughts on Practical Stabilization Policy pp. 236-39

- Martin Eichenbaum
- Is There a Core of Practical Macroeconomics That We Should All Believe? pp. 240-43

- Alan Blinder
- Is There a Core of Usable Macroeconomics? pp. 244-46

- Olivier Blanchard
- National Voluntary Content Standards for Pre-College Economics Education pp. 247-53

- John Siegfried and Bonnie T Meszaros
- An Appraisal of Economics Content in the History, Social Studies, Civics, and Geography National Standards pp. 254-59

- Stephen Buckles and Michael Watts
- The Effect of National Standards and Curriculum-Based Exams on Achievement pp. 260-64

- John H Bishop
- Valuing Alternative-Fuel Vehicles in Southern California pp. 265-71

- Camilla Kazimi
- Federal Housing Assistance, Residential Relocation, and Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Baltimore pp. 272-77

- Helen Ladd and Jens Ludwig
- A Vector-Autoregression Analysis of State-Government Expenditure pp. 278-82

- Therese A McCarty and Stephen J Schmidt
- The Rise and Downward Trend of the Natural Rate pp. 283-89

- Edmund Phelps and Gylfi Zoega
- The Rise and Persistence of Rigidities pp. 290-94

- Gilles Saint-Paul
- Unemployment and Nonemployment pp. 295-300

- Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel
- Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the United States: A Secular Perspective pp. 301-05

- William Darity, Jason Dietrich and David K Guilkey
- The Racial Unemployment Gap in Long-Run Perspective pp. 306-10

- Robert Fairlie and William A Sundstrom
- Occupational Gains of Black Women since the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Long-Term or Episodic? pp. 311-14

- Augustin Fosu
- Recent Perspectives on African-Americans in Post-Industrial Labor Markets pp. 315-20

- James B Stewart
- Challenges of China's Economic System for Economic Theory pp. 321-27

- Gregory Chow
- Income, Growth, and Economic Freedom pp. 328-32

- Stephen Easton and Michael A Walker
- Trust in Large Organizations pp. 333-38

- La Porta, Rafael, et al
- The Reform of the Welfare State and Public Opinion pp. 339-43

- János Kornai
- Russian Dilemmas pp. 344-48

- Axel Leijonhufvud and Christof Ruhl
- Policy Performance and Output Growth in the Transition Economies pp. 349-53

- Marcelo Selowsky and Ricardo Martin
- The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand pp. 354-58

- Timothy Frye and Andrei Shleifer
- Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Incentives pp. 359-64

- David Kreps
- Social Norms and the Law: An Economic Approach pp. 365-69

- Richard Posner
- Incentives and Social Norms in Household Behavior pp. 370-77

- Assar Lindbeck
- Power of Incentives in Private versus Public Organizations pp. 378-82

- Avinash Dixit
- Measuring Government Performance: Lessons from a Federal Job-Training Program pp. 383-88

- Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke
- Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies pp. 389-95

- James J Heckman, Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith
- Exploring the "Present through the Past": Career and Family across the Last Century pp. 396-99

- Claudia Goldin
- Cliometrics after Forty Years pp. 400-403

- Avner Greif
- The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present pp. 404-08

- James J Heckman
- Notes on Cliometrics' Fortieth pp. 409-11

- John R Meyer
- Cliometrics--Forty Years Later pp. 412-14

- Douglass North
- Vertical Integration as a Self-Enforcing Contractual Arrangement pp. 415-20

- Benjamin Klein and Kevin Murphy
- Deregulation, the Evolution of Corporate Governance Structure, and Survival pp. 421-25

- Stacey R Kole and Kenneth Lehn
- The Firm in Economic Theory: A Quiet Revolution pp. 426-29

- Harold Demsetz
- Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect: Fisher's Introductory Text pp. 430-32

- James Tobin
- One Little Piece of Irving Fisher pp. 433-35

- Robert Solow
- Irving Fisher's Self-Stabilizing Money pp. 436-38

- Robert E Hall
- Irving Fisher: Modern Behavioral Economist pp. 439-41

- Richard Thaler
- Irving Fisher and Modern Macroeconomics pp. 442-44

- Robert Dimand
- Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect pp. 445-47

- William Barber
- The Effect of Insurance Coverage on Breast Cancer Patients' Treatment and Hospital Choices pp. 448-53

- Jean M Mitchell and Jack Hadley
- Women and Substance Use: Are Women Less Susceptible to Addiction? pp. 454-59

- Rosalie Pacula
- The Allocation of Resources in Intergenerational Households: Adult Children and Their Elderly Parents pp. 460-64

- Liliana E Pezzin and Barbara Steinberg Schone
Volume 87, issue 1, 1997
- Trade Policy and Economic Development: How We Learn pp. 1-22

- Anne O Krueger
- The Macroeconomic Effects of War Finance in the United States: World War II and the Korean War pp. 23-40

- Lee Ohanian
- True Measures of GDP and Convergence pp. 41-64

- Steve Dowrick and John Quiggin
- Replicating Ricardian Equivalence Tests with Simulated Series pp. 65-79

- Emanuela Cardia
- Measuring the Liquidity Effect pp. 80-97

- James D Hamilton
- Optimal Inflation Targets, "Conservative" Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts pp. 98-114

- Lars E O Svensson
- Aggregate Employment Dynamics: Building from Microeconomic Evidence pp. 115-37

- Ricardo Caballero, Eduardo Engel and John Haltiwanger
- Capital-Account Liberalization as a Signal pp. 138-54

- Leonardo Bartolini and Allan Drazen
- Excess Volatility and Closed-End Funds pp. 155-69

- Jeffrey Pontiff
- The International Diversification Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think pp. 170-80

- Marianne Baxter and Urban Jermann
- An Asset Allocation Puzzle pp. 181-91

- Niko Canner, N. Gregory Mankiw and David Weil
- The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance pp. 192-205

- Jonathan Gruber
- Welfare-Improving Health Expenditure Subsidies pp. 206-21

- William Jack and Louise Sheiner
- Disease Eradication: Private versus Public Vaccination pp. 222-30

- Pierre Geoffard and Tomas Philipson
- A Solution to the Problem of Externalities When Agents Are Well-Informed: Comment pp. 231-35

- Steffen Ziss
- Resolving Differences in Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept: Comment pp. 236-40

- Gwendolyn C Morrison
- Resolving Differences in Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept: Reply pp. 241-44

- Jason Shogren and Dermot Hayes
- Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxes: Comment pp. 245-51

- Don Fullerton
- Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation: Reply pp. 252-53

- Lans Bovenberg and Ruud de Mooij
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