Journal of Economic Literature

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Volume 51, issue 4, 2013

The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and Policy Evaluation Using Housing Markets pp. 1007-62

Nicolai Kuminoff, V. Kerry Smith and Christopher Timmins

Exchange Rate Predictability pp. 1063-1119

Barbara Rossi

Facts and Challenges from the Great Recession for Forecasting and Macroeconomic Modeling pp. 1120-54

Serena Ng and Jonathan Wright

A Review Essay about Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis by Paul Glimcher pp. 1155-82

Colin Camerer

Volume 51, issue 3, 2013

Environment, Health, and Human Capital pp. 689-730

Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell

Understanding China's Urban Pollution Dynamics pp. 731-72

Siqi Zheng and Matthew Kahn

On the Performance of the U.S. Transportation System: Caution Ahead pp. 773-824

Clifford Winston

A Review of Enrico Moretti's The New Geography of Jobs pp. 825-37

Edward Glaeser

The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change: Grafting Gross Underestimation of Risk onto Already Narrow Science Models pp. 838-59

Nicholas Stern

Climate Change Policy: What Do the Models Tell Us? pp. 860-72

Robert Pindyck

Tail-Hedge Discounting and the Social Cost of Carbon pp. 873-82

Martin Weitzman

Volume 51, issue 2, 2013

How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development? pp. 325-69

Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg

U.S. High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations pp. 370-422

Richard Murnane

Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets pp. 423-77

Kym Anderson, Gordon Rausser and Johan Swinnen

What's the Good of the Market? An Essay on Michael Sandel's What Money Can't Buy pp. 478-95

Timothy Besley

Bounded-Rationality Models: Tasks to Become Intellectually Competitive pp. 496-511

Ronald Harstad and Reinhard Selten

Boundedly Rational versus Optimization-Based Models of Strategic Thinking and Learning in Games pp. 512-27

Vincent Crawford

Incorporating Limited Rationality into Economics pp. 528-43

Matthew Rabin

Volume 51, issue 1, 2013

Structural Models of Nonequilibrium Strategic Thinking: Theory, Evidence, and Applications pp. 5-62

Vincent Crawford, Miguel Costa-Gomes and Nagore Iriberri

Home Bias in Open Economy Financial Macroeconomics pp. 63-115

Nicolas Coeurdacier and Helene Rey

On Economics: A Review of Why Nations Fail by D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson and Pillars of Prosperity by T. Besley and T. Persson pp. 116-43

W. Bentley Macleod

Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics pp. 144-61

David Card and Stefano DellaVigna

Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing: Who and How? pp. 162-72

Daniel S. Hamermesh

Uncertainty Measures for Economics Journal Impact Factors pp. 173-89

David Stern

Volume 50, issue 4, 2012

Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics pp. 959-1006

Kevin Lang and Jee-Yeon Lehmann

Analyzing the Spectrum of Asset Returns: Jump and Volatility Components in High Frequency Data pp. 1007-50

Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jean Jacod

Women Empowerment and Economic Development pp. 1051-79

Esther Duflo

Psychologists at the Gate: A Review of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow pp. 1080-91

Andrei Shleifer

Global Financial Stability and the Lessons of History: A Review of Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff's This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly pp. 1092-1105

Alan Taylor

Volume 50, issue 3, 2012

Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care pp. 645-80

Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan Skinner

Globalization, Brain Drain, and Development pp. 681-730

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

Forensic Economics pp. 731-69

Eric Zitzewitz

The Mirrlees Review and the State of Public Economics pp. 770-80

Anthony Atkinson

The Mirrlees Review pp. 781-90

Martin Feldstein

Volume 50, issue 2, 2012

Macroeconomics and the Term Structure pp. 331-67

Refet Gürkaynak and Jonathan Wright

Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements? pp. 368-425

Samuel Bowles and Sandra Polania-Reyes

What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology pp. 426-63

Daron Acemoglu and David Autor

Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: A Reassessment of Conventional Wisdom pp. 464-76

Michael Keane and Richard Rogerson

Consumer Protection and Contingent Charges pp. 477-93

Mark Armstrong and John Vickers

Financial Advice pp. 494-512

Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani

Volume 50, issue 1, 2012

The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review pp. 3-50

Emmanuel Saez, Joel Slemrod and Seth Giertz

Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 51-84

Markus Kitzmueller and Jay Shimshack

The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850: Review Essay pp. 85-95

Gregory Clark

Economic History or History of Economics? Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius: Review Essay pp. 96-102

Orley Ashenfelter

Fighting Poverty One Experiment at a Time: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty: Review Essay pp. 103-14

Martin Ravallion

Thinking Small: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty: Review Essay pp. 115-27

Mark Rosenzweig

Getting Up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide pp. 128-50

Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick

Reading about the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review pp. 151-78

Andrew Lo

Volume 49, issue 4, 2011

Nonlinear Models of Measurement Errors pp. 901-37

Xiaohong Chen, Han Hong and Denis Nekipelov

Sign Restrictions in Structural Vector Autoregressions: A Critical Review pp. 938-60

Renee Fry-McKibbin and Adrian Pagan

Labor Supply and Taxes: A Survey pp. 961-1075

Michael Keane

The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development pp. 1076-1151

Chenggang Xu

Economic Liberalization and Indian Economic Growth: What's the Evidence? pp. 1152-99

Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Wadhwa

European Integration at the Crossroads: A Review Essay on the 50th Anniversary of Bela Balassa's Theory of Economic Integration pp. 1200-1229

André Sapir

Volume 49, issue 3, 2011

The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists pp. 589-614

Timothy Guinnane

The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods pp. 615-51

Helena Holmlund, Mikael Lindahl and Erik Plug

Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era: Fixed, Floating, and Flaky pp. 652-72

Andrew Rose

Can Government Purchases Stimulate the Economy? pp. 673-85

Valerie Ramey

An Empirical Analysis of the Revival of Fiscal Activism in the 2000s pp. 686-702

John Taylor

On Measuring the Effects of Fiscal Policy in Recessions pp. 703-18

Jonathan Parker

Volume 49, issue 2, 2011

Illiquidity and All Its Friends pp. 287-325

Jean Tirole

What Determines Productivity? pp. 326-65

Chad Syverson

Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? pp. 366-420

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

A World without Intellectual Property? A Review of Michele Boldrin and David Levine's Against Intellectual Monopoly pp. 421-32

Richard Gilbert

Volume 49, issue 1, 2011

Top Incomes in the Long Run of History pp. 3-71

Anthony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

Frontiers of Real-Time Data Analysis pp. 72-100

Dean Croushore

Thinking about the Firm: A Review of Daniel Spulber's The Theory of the Firm pp. 101-13

Oliver Hart

The Squam Lake Report: Commentary pp. 114-19

Charles A. E. Goodhart

Financial Regulation: Lessons from the Recent Financial Crises pp. 120-28

Takeo Hoshi