Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

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Volume 29, issue 4, 2015

On the Verges of Overconfidence pp. 3-8

Ulrike Malmendier and Timothy Taylor

Overconfident Consumers in the Marketplace pp. 9-36

Michael Grubb

Behavioral CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence pp. 37-60

Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate

Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading pp. 61-88

Kent Daniel and David Hirshleifer

The Ongoing Evolution of US Retail: A Format Tug-of-War pp. 89-112

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

Adolescence and the Path to Maturity in Global Retail pp. 113-34

Bart J. Bronnenberg and Paul B. Ellickson

Online Higher Education: Beyond the Hype Cycle pp. 135-54

Michael S. McPherson and Lawrence S. Bacow

How Economics Faculty Can Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) in a Brave New Online World pp. 155-76

Peter Navarro

Rewriting Monetary Policy 101: What's the Fed's Preferred Post-Crisis Approach to Raising Interest Rates? pp. 177-98

Jane E. Ihrig, Ellen Meade and Gretchen Weinbach

Household Surveys in Crisis pp. 199-226

Bruce Meyer, Wallace K C Mok and James Sullivan

Seven Centuries of European Economic Growth and Decline pp. 227-44

Roger Fouquet and Stephen Broadberry

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 245-52

Timothy Taylor

Volume 29, issue 3, 2015

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation pp. 3-30

David Autor

The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? pp. 31-50

Joel Mokyr, Chris Vickers and Nicolas Ziebarth

Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics? pp. 51-60

Gill A. Pratt

Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans pp. 61-80

Benjamin Olken

Pre-analysis Plans Have Limited Upside, Especially Where Replications Are Feasible pp. 81-98

Lucas Coffman and Muriel Niederle

Law, Regulation, and the Business Climate: The Nature and Influence of the World Bank Doing Business Project pp. 99-120

Timothy Besley

How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules pp. 121-40

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Lant Pritchett

The Microeconomic Dimensions of the Eurozone Crisis and Why European Politics Cannot Solve Them pp. 141-64

Christian Thimann

E-Books: A Tale of Digital Disruption pp. 165-84

Richard Gilbert

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Its Effects on American Indian Economic Development pp. 185-208

Randall Akee, Katherine A. Spilde and Jonathan B. Taylor

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 209-16

Timothy Taylor

Volume 29, issue 2, 2015

A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler pp. 3-24

Austan D. Goolsbee and Alan Krueger

The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pp. 25-52

W Frame, Andreas Fuster, Joseph Tracy and James Vickery

An Assessment of TARP Assistance to Financial Institutions pp. 53-80

Charles W. Calomiris and Urooj Khan

AIG in Hindsight pp. 81-106

Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson

Legal, Political, and Institutional Constraints on the Financial Crisis Policy Response pp. 107-22

Phillip Swagel

Understanding the Increase in Disability Insurance Benefit Receipt in the United States pp. 123-50

Jeffrey Liebman

The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands pp. 151-72

Pierre Koning and Maarten Lindeboom

Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the United Kingdom pp. 173-90

James Banks, Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson

Reforming LIBOR and Other Financial Market Benchmarks pp. 191-212

Darrell Duffie and Jeremy C. Stein

Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance pp. 213-38

Rainer Böhme, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman and Tyler Moore

Systematic Bias and Nontransparency in US Social Security Administration Forecasts pp. 239-58

Konstantin Kashin, Gary King and Samir Soneji

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 259-66

Timothy Taylor

Volume 29, issue 1, 2015

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism pp. 3-28

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality pp. 29-46

Charles Jones

What Do We Know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States? pp. 47-66

Wojciech Kopczuk

Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century pp. 67-88

Thomas Piketty

The Superiority of Economists pp. 89-114

Marion Fourcade, Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan

The Case for Paying College Athletes pp. 115-38

Allen R. Sanderson and John Siegfried

Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs pp. 139-62

David H. Howard, Peter B. Bach, Ernst R. Berndt and Rena Conti

The Window Tax: A Case Study in Excess Burden pp. 163-80

Wallace Oates and Robert M. Schwab

Matthew Gentzkow, Winner of the 2014 Clark Medal pp. 181-92

Andrei Shleifer

Retrospectives: The Marginal Cost Controversy pp. 193-206

Brett M. Frischmann and Christiaan Hogendorn

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 207-14

Timothy Taylor

Fair Trade Coffee: Correspondence pp. 215-16

Victor Claar and Colleen E. Haight

Volume 28, issue 4, 2014

Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors pp. 3-22

Matthew Jackson

From Micro to Macro via Production Networks pp. 23-48

Vasco Carvalho

Community Networks and the Process of Development pp. 49-76

Kaivan Munshi

How Can Scandinavians Tax So Much? pp. 77-98

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven

Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little? pp. 99-120

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Taxing across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits pp. 121-48

Gabriel Zucman

Tax Morale pp. 149-68

Erzo Luttmer and Monica Singhal

The Economics of Guilds pp. 169-92

Sheilagh Ogilvie

The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure, and Human Capital Accumulation pp. 193-212

Joshua Goodman

Retrospectives: The Cold-War Origins of the Value of Statistical Life pp. 213-26

Spencer Banzhaf

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 227-34

Timothy Taylor

The Missing Middle: Correspondence pp. 235-36

James Tybout

Volume 28, issue 3, 2014

The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism pp. 3-24

Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation pp. 25-48

William Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics pp. 49-70

Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto Weber

The Lewis Model: A 60-Year Retrospective pp. 71-88

Douglas Gollin

The Missing "Missing Middle" pp. 89-108

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Benjamin Olken

Informality and Development pp. 109-26

Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer

Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence pp. 127-48

Aart Kraay and David McKenzie

Page Limits on Economics Articles: Evidence from Two Journals pp. 149-68

David Card and Stefano DellaVigna

What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics pp. 169-88

Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez and László Sándor

The Effects of an Anti-grade-Inflation Policy at Wellesley College pp. 189-204

Kristin Butcher, Patrick McEwan and Akila Weerapana

The Research Productivity of New PhDs in Economics: The Surprisingly High Non-success of the Successful pp. 205-16

John Conley and Ali Onder

The Economics of Fair Trade pp. 217-36

Raluca Dragusanu, Daniele Giovannucci and Nathan Nunn

Evaluating Counterterrorism Spending pp. 237-48

John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 249-56

Timothy Taylor

Volume 28, issue 2, 2014

Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics pp. 3-28

Hal R. Varian

High-Dimensional Methods and Inference on Structural and Treatment Effects pp. 29-50

Alexandre Belloni, Victor Chernozhukov and Christian Hansen

Political Campaigns and Big Data pp. 51-74

David W. Nickerson and Todd Rogers

Privacy and Data-Based Research pp. 75-98

Ori Heffetz and Katrina Ligett

Slicing Up Global Value Chains pp. 99-118

Marcel Timmer, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer and Gaaitzen de Vries

Five Facts about Value-Added Exports and Implications for Macroeconomics and Trade Research pp. 119-42

Robert Johnson

Raj Chetty: 2013 Clark Medal Recipient pp. 143-52

Martin Feldstein

Fluctuations in Uncertainty pp. 153-76

Nicholas Bloom

The Market for Blood pp. 177-96

Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang and Ellen Garbarino

Retrospectives: The Cyclical Behavior of Labor Productivity and the Emergence of the Labor Hoarding Concept pp. 197-212

Jeff Biddle

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 213-20

Timothy Taylor

Correction and Update: The Economic Effects of Climate Change pp. 221-26

Richard Tol

Farewell to Notes pp. 227-30

Timothy Taylor

Volume 28, issue 1, 2014

US Manufacturing: Understanding Its Past and Its Potential Future pp. 3-26

Martin Neil Baily and Barry Bosworth

Competing in Advanced Manufacturing: The Need for Improved Growth Models and Policies pp. 27-48

Gregory Tassey

Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors pp. 49-72

Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson

Global Biofuels: Key to the Puzzle of Grain Market Behavior pp. 73-98

Brian Wright

Agricultural Biotechnology: The Promise and Prospects of Genetically Modified Crops pp. 99-120

Geoffrey Barrows, Steven Sexton and David Zilberman

Agriculture in the Global Economy pp. 121-46

Julian Alston and Philip Pardey

American Farms Keep Growing: Size, Productivity, and Policy pp. 147-66

Daniel Sumner

From Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar: Germany's Resurgent Economy pp. 167-88

Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Uta Sch?nberg and Alexandra Spitz-Oener

When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, Worldviews, and Policy Innovations pp. 189-208

Dani Rodrik

An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data pp. 209-34

Jonathan Schwabish

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 235-42

Timothy Taylor