Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): Steven Durlauf

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Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint pp. 1095-1136: János Kornai, Eric Maskin and Gérard Roland
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests pp. 1137-1187: Stefan Szymanski
Which Is the Fairest One of All? A Positive Analysis of Justice Theories pp. 1188-1239: James Konow
Sraffa, Wittgenstein, and Gramsci pp. 1240-1255: Amartya Sen
Meltzer's History of the Federal Reserve pp. 1256-1271: David Laidler

Auctions and the Price of Art pp. 763-787: Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy
Forecasting Output and Inflation: The Role of Asset Prices pp. 788-829: James H. Stock and Mark Watson
Price Regulation of Access to Telecommunications Networks pp. 830-862: Ingo Vogelsang
The Marketization of New Zealand Schools: Assessing Fiske and Ladd pp. 863-884: Alan Woodfield and Philip Gunby
Globalization and the Politics of International Finance: The Stiglitz Verdict pp. 885-899: Kaushik Basu

The Rise of the Regulatory State pp. 401-425: Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer
What Is Wrong with Taylor Rules? Using Judgment in Monetary Policy through Targeting Rules pp. 426-477: Lars E. O. Svensson
Forecasting Volatility in Financial Markets: A Review pp. 478-539: Ser-Huang Poon and Clive Granger
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter pp. 540-544: Steven Levitt
On Networks and Markets by Rauch and Casella, eds pp. 545-565: Ezra W. Zuckerman
Review of Hoshi and Kashyap's Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan pp. 566-574: Juro Teranishi

Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States pp. 7-73: Timothy Besley and Anne Case
The Gains from Pension Reform pp. 74-112: Assar Lindbeck and Mats Persson
Health, Inequality, and Economic Development pp. 113-158: Angus Deaton
Measurement Error in the Consumer Price Index: Where Do We Stand? pp. 159-201: David E. Lebow and Jeremy B. Rudd
Review of The Ordinary Business of Life by Backhouse pp. 202-206: Samuel Brittan

Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States pp. 1105-1166: Rebecca Blank
Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons for the Economics of Education pp. 1167-1201: George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton
Anatomy of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality pp. 1202-1214: Steven Raphael
Review of Shleifer's Inefficient Markets pp. 1215-1220: Jeffrey Zwiebel
Review of Grossman and Helpman's Special Interest Politics pp. 1221-1229: David P. Baron

Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey pp. 739-792: Simeon Djankov and Peter Murrell
Growth in Transition: What We Know, What We Don't, and What We Should pp. 793-836: Nauro Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli
Modern Hyper- and High Inflations pp. 837-880: Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay and Carlos Vegh
Equality, Efficiency, and Market Fundamentals: The Dynamics of International Medical-Care Reform pp. 881-906: David Cutler
Review of Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth pp. 907-918: Romain Wacziarg

Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review pp. 351-401: Shane Frederick, George Loewenstein and Ted O'Donoghue
What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research? pp. 402-435: Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer
Schools and Skills in Developing Countries: Education Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes pp. 436-482: Paul Glewwe
Who Talks to Whom? Intra- and Interdisciplinary Communication of Economics Journals pp. 483-509: Rik Pieters and Hans Baumgartner
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay pp. 510-519: James Robinson

Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market pp. 7-72: Daron Acemoglu
Delegated Monitors, Large and Small: Germany's Banking System, 1800–1914 pp. 73-124: Timothy Guinnane
Looking Inside the Labor Market: A Review Article pp. 125-138: Peter Howitt
Can We Trust Social Capital? pp. 139-154: Joel Sobel
Review of Skidelsky's John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain pp. 155-162: James DeLong

Financial Contracting pp. 1079-1100: Oliver Hart
Education for Growth: Why and for Whom? pp. 1101-1136: Mikael Lindahl and Alan Krueger
The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach pp. 1137-1176: Melissa Osborne Groves, Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles
Business and Social Networks in International Trade pp. 1177-1203: James Rauch
A Ricardo-Sraffa Paradigm Comparing Gains from Trade in Inputs and Finished Goods pp. 1204-1214: Paul A. Samuelson
Review of de Soto's The Mystery of Capital pp. 1215-1223: Christopher Woodruff

The School-to-Work Transition: A Cross-National Perspective: Corrigendum pp. 767-767: Paul Ryan
Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of "Secondary" Data-Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries As a Case Study pp. 771-799: Andrea Brandolini and Anthony Atkinson
The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals pp. 800-838: Thomas Gresik
Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market: Is It Effective and, If So, How Does It Work? pp. 839-868: Mark Taylor and Lucio Sarno
Economics of Alliances: The Lessons for Collective Action pp. 869-896: Keith Hartley and Todd Sandler
An Early Application of the Average Total Cost Concept pp. 897-901: F. M. Scherer

From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization pp. 321-389: Jeffry M. Netter and William L. Megginson
Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function pp. 390-431: Christopher Pissarides and Barbara Petrongolo
Silver Signals: Twenty-Five Years of Screening and Signaling pp. 432-478: John Riley
Perfect Competition and the Creativity of the Market pp. 479-535: Joseph Ostroy and Louis Makowski
Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography pp. 536-561: J. Peter Neary
A Review of Monetary Policy Rules pp. 562-566: Christopher A. Sims

Economics Online pp. 7-10: John McMillan and Drucilla Ekwurzel
The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior pp. 11-33: Arthur Robson
The School-to-Work Transition: A Cross-National Perspective pp. 34-92: Paul Ryan
Review of Meritocracy and Economic Inequality Edited by Kenneth Arrow, Sameul Bowles, and Steven Durlaf pp. 93-104: Charles Brown
Fitness and Age: Review of Carroll and Hannan's Demography of Corporations and Industries pp. 105-119: Boyan Jovanovic