Journal of Economic Literature

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Volume 45, issue 4, 2007

Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation pp. 887-935

Peter Henry

The Obstinate Passion of Foreign Exchange Professionals: Technical Analysis pp. 936-972

Lukas Menkhoff and Mark Taylor

Interesting Questions in Freakonomics pp. 973-1000

John DiNardo

A True Development Round? A Review of Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton's Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development pp. 1001-1010

Robert Lawrence

Children in the Vanguard of the U.S. Welfare State: A Review of Janet Currie's The Invisible Safety Net and Jane Waldfogel's What Children Need pp. 1011-1023

Eugene Smolensky

Volume 45, issue 3, 2007

Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement pp. 595-628

W. Bentley Macleod

Vertical Integration and Firm Boundaries: The Evidence pp. 629-685

Francine Lafontaine and Margaret Slade

A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change pp. 686-702

William Nordhaus

A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change pp. 703-724

Martin Weitzman

A Review of Avner Greif's Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade pp. 725-741

Gregory Clark

Volume 45, issue 2, 2007

Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites? pp. 331-372

Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh

Automobile Externalities and Policies pp. 373-399

Ian Parry, Margaret Walls and Winston Harrington

Global Capital Markets in the Long Run: A Review of Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor's Global Capital Markets pp. 400-409

Jeffrey Williamson

A Review of Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman's Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market pp. 410-418

Olivier Blanchard

Optimal Executive Compensation versus Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation pp. 419-428

Michael Weisbach

Volume 45, issue 1, 2007

Making Famine History pp. 5-38

Cormac Ó Gráda

Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries pp. 39-82

Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L Friedman's The World is Flat pp. 83-126

Edward Leamer

Whither Russia? A Review of Andrei Shleifer's A Normal Country pp. 127-146

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

The Big One: A Review of Richard Posner's Catastrophe: Risk and Response pp. 147-213

Edward A. Parson

Volume 44, issue 4, 2006

Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States pp. 869-924

Gordon Hanson

Regulating Infrastructure: The Impact on Risk and Investment pp. 925-972

Graeme Guthrie

Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion? A Review of the World Bank's Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform pp. 973-987

Dani Rodrik

How Big a Problem is Too Big to Fail? A Review of Gary Stern and Ron Feldman's Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts pp. 988-1004

Frederic Mishkin

Economics and the Biologists: A Review of Geerat J. Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History pp. 1005-1013

Joel Mokyr

Volume 44, issue 3, 2006

Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms pp. 589-630

Elhanan Helpman

Extending the Bounds of Rationality: Evidence and Theories of Preferential Choice pp. 631-661

Jörg Rieskamp, Jerome R. Busemeyer and Barbara A. Mellers

Reviews of the 2006 Economic Report of the President pp. 662-693

Alan Auerbach, Rebecca Blank, Martin Feldstein, Michael Katz and Kenneth Rogoff

Advancing Beyond Advances in Behavioral Economics pp. 694-711

Drew Fudenberg

Behavioral Economics Comes of Age: A Review Essay on Advances in Behavioral Economics pp. 712-721

Wolfgang Pesendorfer

Volume 44, issue 2, 2006

Regulation, Competition and Liberalization pp. 325-366

Mark Armstrong and David Sappington

Decentralization, Hierarchies, and Incentives: A Mechanism Design Perspective pp. 367-390

Dilip Mookherjee

Schumpeter Redux: A Review of Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales's Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists pp. 391-404

Richard Sylla

A Review of Steven Shavell's Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law pp. 405-414

Richard Posner

A Review of Peter Isard's Globalization and the International Financial System: What's Wrong and What Can be Done? pp. 415-419

Barry Eichengreen

Volume 44, issue 1, 2006

On Doctors, Mechanics, and Computer Specialists: The Economics of Credence Goods pp. 5-42

Uwe Dulleck and Rudolf Kerschbamer

What Determines Cartel Success? pp. 43-95

Margaret C. Levenstein and Valerie Suslow

The Big Push Déjà Vu: A Review of Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time pp. 96-105

William Easterly

The Great Escape: A Review of Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 pp. 106-114

Angus Deaton

The International Monetary Fund in a Time of Crisis: A Review of Stanley Fischer's IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis: The International Financial System, Stabilization, and Development pp. 115-144

Patrick Conway

Volume 43, issue 4, 2005

Editor's Note pp. 958-958

Roger H. Gordon

Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market: A Survey pp. 959-988

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright

Economic Growth: Lessons from Two Centuries of American Agriculture pp. 989-1024

Yair Mundlak

Constitutions, Politics, and Economics: A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's The Economic Effects of Constitutions pp. 1025-1048

Daron Acemoglu

Are We Collapsing? A Review of Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed pp. 1049-1062

Scott E. Page

Volume 43, issue 3, 2005

Corporate Governance, Economic Entrenchment, and Growth pp. 655-720

Randall Morck, Daniel Wolfenzon and Bernard Yeung

Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archives pp. 721-761

Paul Gregory and Mark Harrison

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance pp. 762-800

Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara

Reviews of the 2005 Economic Report of the President: Innovation and Regulation pp. 801-805

Joseph Farrell

Review of Chapter 5 of the Economic Report of the President pp. 805-809

Jonathan Gruber

Reviews of the 2005 Economic Report of the President: The ERP's Analysis of the Adverse Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Increases pp. 809-812

Robert E. Hall

Globalization and the Economic Report of the President pp. 813-816

Gordon Hanson

"Options for Tax Reform": A Review of the 2005 Economic Report of the President's Tax Chapter pp. 816-822

Joel Slemrod

Volume 43, issue 2, 2005

Heterogeneity and Aggregation pp. 347-391

Richard Blundell and Thomas M. Stoker

Interdependent Preferences and Reciprocity pp. 392-436

Joel Sobel

Complementarities and Games: New Developments pp. 437-479

Xavier Vives

Getting the Properties Right to Secure Property Rights: Dixit's Lawlessness and Economics pp. 480-487

James Rauch

Foundations of Human Sociality: A Review Essay pp. 488-497

Larry Samuelson

Volume 43, issue 1, 2005

Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics pp. 9-64

Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec

Economic Theory and Experimental Economics pp. 65-107

Larry Samuelson

Development by Joseph A. Schumpeter: Introduction pp. 108-111

Markus C. Becker, Hans Ulrich Esslinger, Ulrich Hedtke and Thorbjorn Knudsen

Development by Joseph A. Schumpeter pp. 112-120

Joseph A. Schumpeter