Journal of Economic Perspectives

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Volume 13, issue 4, 1999

Global Financial Instability: Framework, Events, Issues pp. 3-20

Frederic Mishkin

International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability pp. 21-42

Kenneth Rogoff

Restoring Banking Stability: Beyond Supervised Capital Requirements pp. 43-64

Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

How Effective Are Capital Controls? pp. 65-84

Sebastian Edwards

On the Need for an International Lender of Last Resort pp. 85-104

Stanley Fischer

Are Preferential Trading Arrangements Trade-Liberalizing or Protectionist? pp. 105-124

Anne O. Krueger

Survey Measures of Expected U.S. Inflation pp. 125-144

Lloyd B. Thomas

Executive Compensation: Six Questions That Need Answering pp. 145-168

John Abowd and David Kaplan

On the Complexities of Complex Economic Dynamics pp. 169-192

J. Barkley Rosser

Measuring Returns on Investments in Collectibles pp. 193-212

Benjamin J. Burton and Joyce Jacobsen

Discounting Inside the Washington D.C. Beltway pp. 213-228

Coleman Bazelon and Kent Smetters

In Honor of the Nobel Laureates Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes: A Partial Differential Equation That Changed the World pp. 229-248

Robert Jarrow

Retrospectives: Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association pp. 249-258

Bradley W. Bateman and Ethan B. Kapstein

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 259-268

Bernard Saffran

Correspondence pp. 269-272

Jonathan Willner and David J. Smyth

Volume 13, issue 3, 1999

Why Has Africa Grown Slowly? pp. 3-22

Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa pp. 23-40

Angus Deaton

Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 41-66

Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen O'Connell

Health and Schooling Investments in Africa pp. 67-88

T. Schultz

Africa's Economic Performance: Limitations of the Current Consensus pp. 89-114

John Sender

The Labor Market for New Ph.D. Economists pp. 115-134

John Siegfried and Wendy A. Stock

The Changing Distributions of New Ph.D. Economists and Their Employment: Implications for the Future pp. 135-138

Ronald Ehrenberg

It's Better Being an Economist (But Don't Tell Anyone) pp. 139-145

Richard Freeman

The Link from Graduate Education in Economics to the Labor Market pp. 147-151

W. Lee Hansen

Implications of the Labor Market for Graduate Education in Economics pp. 153-156

Anne O. Krueger

The Social Experiment Market pp. 157-172

David Greenberg, Mark Shroder and Matthew Onstott

The Economics of Casino Gambling pp. 173-192

William Eadington

Policy Watch: The Marriage Penalty pp. 193-204

James Alm, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Leslie A. Whittington

Data Watch: Research Data in the Economics of Education pp. 205-216

Thomas Dee, William Evans and Sheila E. Murray

Classroom Games: Rent-Seeking and the Inefficiency of Non-market Allocations pp. 217-226

Jacob Goeree and Charles Holt

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 227-234

David Felix

Correspondence pp. 235-242

Frederick Guy, Neil Perry, Andrei Shleifer, Andrew Metrick, Martin Weitzman, Barbara Bergmann, David Laidler and George Tavlas

Volume 13, issue 2, 1999

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Reflections on Managing Global Integration pp. 3-18

Lawrence Summers

Introduction to the Symposium on Business Cycles pp. 19-22

J. Bradford De Long

Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations pp. 23-44

Christina Romer

Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective pp. 45-68

Susanto Basu and Alan Taylor

Theory and History behind Business Cycles: Are the 1990s the Onset of a Golden Age? pp. 69-90

Victor Zarnowitz

The Law and Economics of the Economic Expert Witness pp. 91-99

Richard Posner

The Economist in Tort Litigation pp. 101-112

Robert Thornton and John Ward

Going for the Gold: Economists as Expert Witnesses pp. 113-120

Michael J. Mandel

The Structure of Foreign Trade pp. 121-144

Elhanan Helpman

Healthy Bodies and Thick Wallets: The Dual Relation between Health and Economic Status pp. 145-166

James Smith

Three Sides of Harberger Triangles pp. 167-188

James Hines

Hedge Funds and the Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management pp. 189-210

Franklin R. Edward

Classroom Games: Strategic Interaction on the Internet pp. 211-220

Marko Grobelnik, Charles Holt and Vesna Prasnikar

Retrospectives: American Economists in the Progressive Era on the Minimum Wage pp. 221-230

Robert Prasch

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 231-237

Bernard Saffran

Correspondence pp. 239-246

Arthur B. Kennickell, F. Juster, James Smith and Frank Stafford

Volume 13, issue 1, 1999

The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium pp. 3-12

Charles Clotfelter

Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education pp. 13-36

Gordon Winston

The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940 pp. 37-62

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work pp. 63-84

Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Elena Rouse

Tenure Issues in Higher Education pp. 85-98

Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro

Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator pp. 99-116

Ronald Ehrenberg

Will Aging Baby Boomers Bust the Federal Budget? pp. 117-140

Ronald Lee and Jonathan Skinner

Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets pp. 141-164

Martin Gaynor and Deborah Haas-Wilson

Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize pp. 165-180

Agnar Sandmo

Policy Watch: Developments in Antitrust Economics pp. 181-194

Jonathan B. Baker

Retrospectives: Say's Law pp. 195-204

William Baumol

Classroom Games: A Market for Lemons pp. 205-214

Charles Holt and Roger Sherman

Correspondence pp. 223-225

Reinard Schuessler and Robert Dimand