Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): Steven Durlauf

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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 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 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

Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics pp. 827-874: Kenneth I. Wolpin and Mark Rosenzweig
Renewable Natural Resource Management and Use without Markets pp. 875-914: Gardner M. Brown
The "New Political Economy": Recent Books by Allen Drazen and by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini pp. 915-925: Gilles Saint-Paul
A Review of O'Rourke and Williamson's Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy pp. 926-935: Knick Harley

Assessing Affirmative Action pp. 483-568: David Neumark and Harry Holzer
Understanding Productivity: Lessons from Longitudinal Microdata pp. 569-594: Mark Doms and Eric Bartelsman
The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead pp. 595-613: Oliver Williamson
The Emigration of German-Speaking Economists after 1933 pp. 614-626: F. M. Scherer
A Review of Markets for Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey pp. 627-633: Peter Cramton

Preferential Trade Liberalization: The Traditional Theory and New Developments pp. 287-331: Arvind Panagariya
Developments in Non-expected Utility Theory: The Hunt for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk pp. 332-382: Chris Starmer
What Do We Say about Ourselves and What Does It Mean? Yet Another Look at Economics Department Research pp. 383-404: Jerry Thursby
Review of Sargent's The Conquest of American Inflation pp. 405-411: Ramon Marimon

Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why? pp. 11-44: James Tybout
The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law pp. 45-76: Steven Shavell and A. Mitchell Polinsky
Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences pp. 77-114: Dominik Enste and Friedrich Schneider

Corrigenda: The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software pp. 1565-1565: Hrishikesh Vinod and B McCullough
The Microfinance Promise pp. 1569-1614: Jonathan Morduch
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories pp. 1615-1660: Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa, Eve Caroli and Philippe Aghion
The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective pp. 1661-1707: Mark Gertler, Jordi Galí and Richard Clarida

Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory pp. 1067-1082: Roger Myerson
Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards pp. 1083-1119: Kaushik Basu
An Essay on Fiscal Federalism pp. 1120-1149: Wallace Oates
Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: An International Perspective pp. 1150-1175: Robert J. Flanagan

Corrigendum: The Economics of Wagering Markets pp. 567-567: Raymond Sauer
Trying to Explain Home Bias in Equities and Consumption pp. 571-608: Karen Lewis
Adam Smith: Critical Theorist? pp. 609-632: Keith Tribe
The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software pp. 633-665: Hrishikesh Vinod and B McCullough

The Provision of Incentives in Firms pp. 7-63: Canice Prendergast
Explaining African Economic Performance pp. 64-111: Jan Willem Gunning and Paul Collier
The New Growth Evidence pp. 112-156: Jonathan Temple
The Young Person's Guide to Writing Economic Theory pp. 157-183: William Thomson