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Volume 86, issue 5, 1996
- Why Is Capital So Immobile Internationally? Possible Explanations and Implications for Capital Income Taxation pp. 1057-75

- Roger Gordon and Lans Bovenberg
- Altered States: Taxes and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in America pp. 1076-94

- Hines, James R,
- State Infrastructure and Productive Performance pp. 1095-1111

- Catherine Morrison Paul and Amy Schwartz
- How Wide Is the Border? pp. 1112-25

- Charles Engel and John Rogers
- The Payments System, Liquidity, and Rediscounting pp. 1126-38

- Scott Freeman
- Central-Bank Independence, Economic Behavior, and Optimal Term Lengths pp. 1139-53

- Christopher Waller and Carl Walsh
- Factor-Hoarding and the Propagation of Business-Cycle Shocks pp. 1154-74

- Craig Burnside and Martin Eichenbaum
- Staggering and Synchronization in Price-Setting: Evidence from Multiproduct Firms pp. 1175-96

- Saul Lach and Daniel Tsiddon
- Dynamic Capital Structure under Managerial Entrenchment pp. 1197-1215

- Jeffrey Zwiebel
- Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence and Measurement across Industries and Countries pp. 1216-38

- Andrew Bernard and Charles Jones
- The Productivity Slowdown: The Culprit at Last? Follow-Up on Hulten and Wolff pp. 1239-52

- Edward Wolff
- Industry Differences in the Persistence of Firm-Specific Returns pp. 1253-65

- Geoffrey F Waring
- Localization Economies, Vertical Organization, and Trade pp. 1266-78

- Gordon Hanson
- Symmetric Tax Competition with Multiple Jurisdictions in Each Metropolitan Area pp. 1279-90

- Ralph M Braid
- The Uncertain Unit Root in Real GNP: Comment pp. 1291-98

- Francis Diebold and Abdelhak S Senhadji
- The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment pp. 1299-1305

- Sara J Solnick and David Hemenway
- The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Reply pp. 1306-08

- Joel Waldfogel
- The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: Comment pp. 1309-11

- William Cline
- The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: Reply pp. 1312-15

- Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus
Volume 86, issue 4, 1996
- Monetary Policy as a Process of Search pp. 689-702

- Andrew Caplin and John Leahy
- Capital-Market Imperfections and Countercyclical Markups: Theory and Evidence pp. 703-25

- Judith Chevalier and David S Scharfstein
- Arbitrage-Based Tests of Target-Zone Credibility: Evidence from ERM Cross-Rate Options pp. 726-40

- Jose Campa and P H Kevin Chang
- A Regional Dynamic General-Equilibrium Model of Alternative Climate-Change Strategies pp. 741-65

- William Nordhaus and Zili Yang
- The Evolution of Social Norms in Common Property Resource Use pp. 766-88

- Rajiv Sethi and E Somanathan
- Effects of Air Quality Regulation pp. 789-813

- J Vernon Henderson
- How (Not) to Sell Nuclear Weapons pp. 814-29

- Philippe Jehiel, Benny Moldovanu and Ennio Stacchetti
- Reciprocal Exchange: A Self-Sustaining System pp. 830-51

- Rachel Kranton
- Multinationals, Linkages, and Economic Development pp. 852-73

- Andres Rodriguez-Clare
- Bequest Behavior and the Effect of Heirs' Earnings: Testing the Altruistic Model of Bequests pp. 874-92

- Mark Wilhelm
- New Evidence on Altruism: A Study of TIAA-CREF Retirees pp. 893-908

- John Laitner and F. Juster
- Migration with Endogenous Moving Costs pp. 909-30

- William J Carrington, Enrica Detragiache and Tara Vishwanath
- Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution pp. 931-53

- Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig
- The Price Is Right, but Are the Bids? An Investigation of Rational Decision Theory pp. 954-70

- Jonathan B Berk, Eric Hughson and Kirk Vandezande
- Household Responses to Pricing Garbage by the Bag pp. 971-84

- Don Fullerton and Thomas Kinnaman
- Optimal Environmental Taxation in the Presence of Other Taxes: General-Equilibrium Analyses pp. 985-1000

- Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence H Goulder
- Turning Points in the Civil War: Views from the Greenback Market pp. 1001-18

- Kristen L Willard, Timothy Guinnane and Harvey Rosen
- A Signaling Explanation for Charity pp. 1019-28

- Amihai Glazer and Kai Konrad
Volume 86, issue 3, 1996
- Rat Race Redux: Adverse Selection in the Determination of Work Hours in Law Firms pp. 329-48

- Renee M Landers, James Rebitzer and Lowell Taylor
- Veblen Effects in a Theory of Conspicuous Consumption pp. 349-73

- Laurie Simon Bagwell and B. Douglas Bernheim
- The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth pp. 374-87

- Oded Galor and David Weil
- The Timing and Incidence of Exploratory Drilling on Offshore Wildcat Tracts pp. 388-407

- Kenneth Hendricks and Robert Porter
- The Swing Voter's Curse pp. 408-24
- Timothy J Feddersen and Wolfgang Pesendorfer
- How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology pp. 425-41

- Steven Levitt
- Revenue Effects and Information Processing in English Common Value Auctions pp. 442-60

- Dan Levin, John Kagel and Jean-Francois Richard
- Avoidable Cost: Ride a Double Auction Roller Coaster pp. 461-77

- Mark Van Boening and Nathaniel Wilcox
- Holdups, Standard Breach Remedies, and Optimal Investment pp. 478-501

- Aaron Edlin and Stefan Reichelstein
- Employee Buyout in a Bargaining Game with Asymmetric Information pp. 502-23

- Avner Ben-Ner and Byoung Jun
- Aggregation without Separability: A Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem pp. 524-43

- Arthur Lewbel
- Voluntary Export Restraints, Antidumping Procedure, and Domestic Politics pp. 544-61

- B. Rosendorff
- Entry, Exit, Growth, and Innovation over the Product Life Cycle pp. 562-83

- Steven Klepper
- Heterogeneity, Stratification, and Growth: Macroeconomic Implications of Community Structure and School Finance pp. 584-609

- Roland Benabou
- Investment Lags pp. 610-22

- Avner Bar-ilan and William C Strange
- On the Dixit-Stiglitz Model of Monopolistic Competition pp. 623-29

- Claude d'Aspremont, Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira and Louis-André Gérard-Varet
- R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production pp. 630-40

- David Audretsch and Maryann P Feldman
- Company-Scientist Locational Links: The Case of Biotechnology pp. 641-52

- David Audretsch and Paula E Stephan
- Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games pp. 653-60

- Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe and Vernon L Smith
- Money, Expectations, and U.S. Civil War pp. 661-71

- McCandless, George T,
- Contracts as a Barrier to Entry: Comment pp. 672-74

- Steffen Ziss
- Serving the Public Debt: The Role of Expectations: Comment pp. 675-79

- Roel Beetsma
Volume 86, issue 2, 1996
- The Missing Piece in Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform pp. 1-14
- Martin Feldstein
- Household Survey Data from Developing Countries: Progress and Prospects pp. 15-19

- Margaret E Grosh and Paul Glewwe
- International Price and Quantity Comparisons: Potentials and Pitfalls pp. 20-24

- Alan Heston and Robert Summers
- International Comparisons of the Sources of Economic Growth pp. 25-29
- Chrys Dougherty and Dale Jorgenson
- Measurement and Mismeasurement of Social Indicators pp. 30-34

- John Strauss and Duncan Thomas
- Trade, Technology, and Wages: A Tale of Two Countries pp. 35-40

- Ronald Jones and Stanley L Engerman
- The United States in a New Global Economy? A Century's Perspective pp. 41-46

- Douglas Irwin
- Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries, and Frontiers pp. 47-51

- Ronald Findlay
- Regional Trading Arrangements: Natural or Supernatural pp. 52-56

- Jeffrey Frankel, Ernesto Stein and Shang-Jin Wei
- How Severe Is Global Retaliation Risk under Increasing Regionalism? pp. 57-61

- Carlo Perroni and John Whalley
- Free-Trade Agreements: For Better or Worse? pp. 62-66

- Ronald Wonnacott
- Asset-Market Structure and International Trade Dynamics pp. 67-70

- Athanasios V Arvanitis and Anne Mikkola
- Incomplete Exchange-Rate Pass-Through and Imperfect Competition: The Effect of Local Production pp. 71-76
- Anne Gron and Deborah L Swenson
- U.S. Equity Investment in Foreign Markets: Portfolio Rebalancing or Return Chasing? pp. 77-81

- Henning Bohn and Linda Tesar
- The Theory of Preferential Trade Agreements: Historical Evolution and Current Trends pp. 82-87

- Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya
- Compatibility of Regional and Multilateral Trading Agreements: Reforming the WTO Process pp. 88-92

- Gary P Sampson
- Regionalism and the (Dis)advantage of Dispute-Settlement Access pp. 93-98

- Philip Levy and T N Srinivasan
- Distributional Conflicts, Factor Mobility, and Political Integration pp. 99-104

- Patrick Bolton and Gérard Roland
- Fiscal Consolidation in Europe: Composition Matters pp. 105-10

- Roberto Perotti
- Monetary Cohabitation in Europe pp. 111-16

- Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
- Theoretical Aspects of Transition pp. 117-22

- Olivier Blanchard
- Enterprises and Workers in the Transition: Econometric Evidence pp. 123-27

- Jan Svejnar
- The Transition at Mid Decade pp. 128-33

- Jeffrey D Sachs
- Federalism, Fiscal Restraints, and European Monetary Union pp. 134-38

- Juergen von Hagen and Barry Eichengreen
- Implementing EMU pp. 139-42

- Richard Portes
- The New EMS: Narrow Bands inside Deep Bands pp. 143-46

- Vincent Labhard and Charles Wyplosz
- Economic Transition and the Exchange-Rate Regime pp. 147-52

- Jeffrey D Sachs
- Recent Exchange-Rate Experience and Proposals for Reform pp. 153-58

- Jeffrey Frankel
- Exchange Rates and the Political Economy of Macroeconomic Discipline pp. 159-63

- Sebastian Edwards
- One Year of Solitude: Some Pilgrim Tales about Mexico's 1994-1995 Crisis pp. 164-69

- Francisco Gil-Diaz and Agustin Carstens
- Petty Crime and Cruel Punishment: Lessons from the Mexican Debacle pp. 170-75

- Guillermo Calvo and Enrique Mendoza
- Exchange-Rate Anchors, Credibility, and Inertia: A Tale of Two Crises, Chile and Mexico pp. 176-80

- Sebastian Edwards
- The "Fundamental Transformation" in Macroeconomics pp. 181-86

- Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L Hammour
- Modeling Aggregate Liquidity pp. 187-91

- Bengt Holmstrom and Jean Tirole
- Trading Costs, Price, and Volume in Asset Markets pp. 192-96

- Andrew Caplin and John Leahy
- The First Industrial Revolution: A Guided Tour for Growth Economists pp. 197-201

- Nicholas Crafts
- Why, Indeed, in America? Theory, History, and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth pp. 202-06

- Paul Romer
- Hybridizing Growth Theory pp. 207-12

- Martin Weitzman
- Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms pp. 213-17

- Michael Bruno and William Easterly
- International Measures of Schooling Years and Schooling Quality pp. 218-23

- Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee
- Accounting for China's Growth Performance pp. 224-28

- Eduardo Borensztein and Jonathan Ostry
- Economies in Transition: The Beginnings of Growth pp. 229-33

- Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay and Carlos Vegh
- U.S. Trade with Developing Countries and Wage Inequality pp. 234-39

- Jeffrey D Sachs and Howard J Shatz
- Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality pp. 240-45

- Robert Feenstra and Gordon Hanson
- Searching for the Effect of Immigration on the Labor Market pp. 246-51

- George Borjas, Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz
- Technology, Skill, and the Wage Structure: Insights from the Past pp. 252-57

- Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz
- With What Skills Are Computers a Complement? pp. 258-62

- Frank Levy and Richard Murnane
- Human-Capital Investments and Productivity pp. 263-67

- Sandra Black and Lisa Lynch
- Do Men Whose Wives Work Really Earn Less? pp. 268-73

- Joyce Jacobsen and Wendy Rayack
- Domestic Violence: The Value of Services as Signals pp. 274-79

- Amy Farmer and Jill Tiefenthaler
- Gender Differences in Overeducation: A Test of the Theory of Differential Overqualification pp. 280-84

- KimMarie McGoldrick and John Robst
- Wage Disparities and Affirmative Action in the 1980's pp. 285-89
- Jonathan Leonard
- The Effect of Federal Contractor Status on Racial Differences in Establishment-Level Employment Shares: 1979-1992 pp. 290-93

- Rodgers, William M, and William E Spriggs
- Do Preferential Procurement Programs Benefit Minority Business? pp. 294-97

- Timothy Bates and Darrell Williams
- The Ebb and Flow of Enforcing Executive Order 11246 pp. 298-301
- Bernard E Anderson
- Changes in the Distribution of Wages and Unemployment in OECD Countries pp. 302-08

- Stephen Nickell and Brian Bell
- Wage Inequality from International Competition and Technological Change: Theory and Country Experience pp. 309-14

- Edward Leamer
- Reorganization of Firms and Labor-Market Inequality pp. 315-21
- Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J Snower
- Challenges for the Post-Apartheid Economy pp. 322-25

- Francis Wilson
- Compulsory Centralization of Collective Bargaining in South Africa pp. 326-29

- Peter Moll
- Education across Generations in South Africa pp. 330-34

- Duncan Thomas
- Education Returns across Quantiles of the Wage Function: Alternative Explanations for Returns to Education by Race in South Africa pp. 335-39

- Germano Mwabu and T Paul Schultz
- Some Effects of Taxes on Schooling and Training pp. 340-46

- Dupor, Bill, et al
- On the Divergence between "Ideal" and Conventional Income-Tax Treatment of Human Capital pp. 347-52

- Louis Kaplow
- How Should Government Allocate Subsidies for Human Capital? pp. 353-57

- C Eugene Steuerle
- Different Approaches for Dealing with Social Security pp. 358-62

- Edward Gramlich
- Social Security Privatization: A Structure for Analysis pp. 363-67

- Olivia Mitchell and Stephen Zeldes
- Privatizing School Security at Home and Abroad pp. 368-72

- Laurence Kotlikoff
- Social Security Reform: Around the World in 80 Ways pp. 373-77

- Sylvester J Schieber and John B Shoven
- The Effect of Medicaid Expansions on Public Insurance, Private Insurance, and Redistribution pp. 378-83

- David Cutler and Jonathan Gruber
- Do (More and Better) Drugs Keep People Out of Hospitals? pp. 384-88

- Frank Lichtenberg
- HMO Penetration and the Cost of Health Care: Market Discipline or Market Segmentation? pp. 389-94

- Laurence C Baker and Kenneth Corts
- Budget Institutions and Fiscal Policy in the U.S. States pp. 395-400

- James Poterba
- Fiscal Discipline and the Budget Process pp. 401-07

- Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti
- European versus American Perspectives on Balanced-Budget Rules pp. 408-13
- Giancarlo Corsetti and Nouriel Roubini
- Structural Analysis of Auction Data pp. 414-20

- Jean-Jacques Laffont and Quang Vuong
- Empirical Models of Discrete Strategic Choices pp. 421-26

- Peter C Reiss
- Public-Policy Uses of Discrete-Choice Dynamic Programming Models pp. 427-32

- Kenneth I Wolpin
- Religion, Science, and Rationality pp. 433-37

- Rodney Stark, Laurence Iannaccone and Roger Finke
- The Discontents of Islamic Economic Morality pp. 438-42

- Timur Kuran
- Contemplations on the Economic Approach to Religious Behavior pp. 443-47

- James D Montgomery
- Chalk and Talk: A National Survey on Teaching Undergraduate Economics pp. 448-53

- William Becker and Michael Watts
- Laboratory-Based Experimental and Demonstration Initiatives in Teaching Undergraduate Economics pp. 454-59

- Cardell, N Scott, et al
- Teacher Training Programs in Economics: Past, Present, and Future pp. 460-64

- Michael K Salemi, Phillip Saunders and William B Walstad
Volume 86, issue 1, 1996
- Economics, Values, and Health Care Reform pp. 1-24
- Victor Fuchs
- Mortgage Lending in Boston: Interpreting HMDA Data pp. 25-53
- Alicia Munnell, Geoffrey Tootell, Lynn E. Browne and James McEneaney
- Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity pp. 54-70

- Antonio Ciccone and Robert E Hall
- Real-Business-Cycle Models and the Forecastable Movements in Output, Hours, and Consumption pp. 71-89
- Julio Rotemberg and Michael Woodford
- Money and Output: A Test of Reverse Causation pp. 90-111

- Wilbur Coleman
- Business Cycles and Labor-Market Search pp. 112-32

- David Andolfatto
- The Spirit of Capitalism and Stock-Market Prices pp. 133-57

- Gurdip S Bakshi and Zhiwu Chen
- Income Risk, Borrowing Constraints, and Portfolio Choice pp. 158-72

- Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli and Daniele Terlizzese
- The LeChatelier Principle pp. 173-79

- Paul Milgrom and John Roberts
- Auctions versus Negotiations pp. 180-94

- Jeremy Bulow and Paul Klemperer
- Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining pp. 195-222

- Lars Stole and Jeffrey Zwiebel
- Divisionalization, Franchising, and Divestiture Incentives in Oligopoly pp. 223-36

- Michael Baye, Keith J Crocker and Jiandong Ju
- Strategic Trade Policies with Endogenous Mode of Competition pp. 237-58

- Giovanni Maggi
- Understanding the Costs of Sovereign Default: American State Debts in the 1840's pp. 259-75

- William B English
- Canadian National Health Insurance and Infant Health pp. 276-84

- Maria J Hanratty
- Health Insurance and Precautionary Savings pp. 285-95
- Martha Starr-McCluer
- Budget Constraints and Time-Series Evidence on Consumption: Comment pp. 296-97

- William Roberds
- Budget Constraints and Time-Series Evidence on Consumption: Reply pp. 298-99
- Jordi Galí
- Monetary Policy and Credit Conditions: Evidence from the Composition of External Finance: Comment pp. 300-309

- Stephen Oliner and Glenn Rudebusch
- Monetary Policy and Credit Conditions: Evidence from the Composition of External Finance: Reply pp. 310-14

- Anil Kashyap, Jeremy C Stein and David Wilcox
- Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: Comment pp. 315-26
- Morley Gunderson, Robert Hebdon and Douglas Hyatt
- Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: Reply pp. 327-28

- Janet Currie and Sheena McConnell
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