Economica

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Volume 76, month 10, 2009

Water Expansions in Shantytowns: Health and Savings pp. 607-622

Sebastian Galiani, Martin Gonzalez‐rozada and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi‐natural Experiment for Peru pp. 623-648

Alberto Chong, Virgilio Galdo and Maximo Torero

Does Society Win or Lose as a Result of Privatization? The Case of Water Sector Privatization in Colombia pp. 649-674

Felipe Barrera‐osorio, Mauricio Olivera and Carlos Ospino

The Balance Sheet Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from the United Kingdom pp. 675-703

Eleni Angelopoulou and Heather Gibson

Redistribution and Inequality in a Heterogeneous Society pp. 704-718

Roland Hodler

Economics of Food Energy Density and Adolescent Body Weight pp. 719-740

M. Christopher Auld and Lisa M. Powell

Endogenous Acquisition of Information and the Equity Home Bias pp. 741-759

Frederik Lundtofte

Human Capital and Inequality Dynamics: The Role of Education Technology pp. 760-778

Jean-Marie Viaene and Itzhak Zilcha

Measuring Globalisation: Gauging its Consequences. By AXEL DREHER, NOEL GASTON and PIM MARTENS pp. 779-780

Martin Gassebner

The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries. By A.B. ATKINSON pp. 780-781

Wiemer Salverda

Globalization and Its Enemies. By DANIEL COHEN, translated by JESSICA BAKER pp. 781-782

Meghnad Desai

Walrasian Economics. By DONALD A. WALKER pp. 782-784

Franco Donzelli

Europe After Enlargement. Edited by ANDERS ASLUND and MAREK DABROWKI pp. 785-786

Alfred Tovias

Economics as a Moral Science pp. 791-804

Anthony Atkinson

Defining Economics: The Long Road to Acceptance of the Robbins Definition pp. 805-820

Roger Backhouse and Steven Medema

The Continuing Muddles of Monetary Theory: A Steadfast Refusal to Face Facts pp. 821-830

C. A. E. Goodhart

Effective Tension in Robbins' Economic Methodology pp. 831-844

D. Wade Hands

Some Legacies of Robbins' An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science pp. 845-856

Richard Lipsey

Can Economics be Founded on ‘Indisputable Facts of Experience’? Lionel Robbins and the Pioneers of Neoclassical Economics pp. 857-872

Robert Sugden

Robbins on Economic Generalizations and Reality in the Light of Modern Econometrics pp. 873-890

Roger Backhouse and Steven Durlauf

Volume 76, month 07, 2009

Redistributive Effects of Transfer Programmes in the United Kingdom pp. 413-431

Keshab Bhattarai and John Whalley

Robust International Comparisons of Distributions of Disposable Income and Regional Public Goods pp. 432-461

Nicolas Gravel, Patrick Moyes and Benoît Tarroux

Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh pp. 462-485

Olof Johansson‐stenman, Minhaj Mahmud and Peter Martinsson

Robust Monetary Policy with the Cost Channel pp. 486-504

Peter Tillmann

Public Spending on Education and the Incentives for Student Achievement pp. 505-527

William Blankenau and Gabriele Camera

O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labour Market Outcomes pp. 528-556

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

A Model of Lending Resumption after Default: Lessons from Capital Markets during the Nineteenth Century pp. 557-573

Juan Solé

Uncertainty, Irreversibility, Durable Consumption and the Great Depression pp. 574-587

João Miguel Ejarque

Detecting Discrimination against Homosexuals: Evidence from a Field Experiment on the Internet pp. 588-597

Ali M. Ahmed and Mats Hammarstedt

The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services Through Choice and Competition. By JULIAN LE GRAND pp. 598-599

Sarah Smith

How China Grows: Investment, Finance, and Reform. By JAMES RIEDEL, JING JIN and JIAN GAO and Assessing the Extent of China's Marketization. Edited by XIAOXI LI pp. 599-600

Linda Yueh

Critical Political Economy: Complexity, Rationality, and the Logic of Post‐Orthodox Pluralism. By CHRISTIAN ARNSPERGER pp. 601-602

Duncan Foley

Islamic France, Law, Economics and Practice. By MAHMOUD A. El‐GAMAL pp. 603-604

Hamid Hosseini

From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective. By CHERYL SCHONHARDT‐BAILEY pp. 604-605

Gordon Bannerman

Volume 76, month 04, 2009

The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications pp. 219-224

David Paton, Donald Siegel and Leighton Vaughan Williams

Using Markets to Inform Policy: The Case of the Iraq War pp. 225-250

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

A More General Non‐expected Utility Model as an Explanation of Gambling Outcomes for Individuals and Markets pp. 251-263

David Peel and David Law

Private Investor Participation and Commercialization Rates for Government‐sponsored Research and Development: Would a Prediction Market Improve the Performance of the SBIR Programme? pp. 264-281

Albert Link and John Scott

An Examination of the Determinants of Biased Behaviour in a Market for State Contingent Claims pp. 282-303

Alistair C. Bruce, Johnnie E. V. Johnson, John Peirson and Jiejun Yu

A Manipulator Can Aid Prediction Market Accuracy pp. 304-314

Robin Hanson and Ryan Oprea

Understanding Declining Mobility and Inter‐household Transfers among East African Pastoralists pp. 315-336

Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher Barrett and John McPeak

Non‐Deteriorating Choice pp. 337-363

Walter Bossert and Yves Sprumont

Pensions and Intergenerational Risk‐sharing in General Equilibrium pp. 364-386

Roel Beetsma and Lans Bovenberg

Education and Taxation Policies in the Presence of Countervailing Incentives pp. 387-399

Alan Krause

Understanding Financial Crises. By FRANKLIN ALLEN and DOUGLAS GALE pp. 400-402

Sudipto Bhattacharya

A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy. By JAMES MACDONALD pp. 402-403

Pascal Bridel

Behavioral Economics and its Applications. Edited by PETER DIAMOND and HANNU VARTIAINEN pp. 404-405

Moses Shayo

Post Walrasian Macroeconomics: Beyond the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model. Edited by DAVID COLANDER pp. 405-406

Michel De Vroey

Does Education Really Help? Skill, Work, and Inequality. By EDWARD N. WOLFF pp. 406-407

Analia Schlosser

The Natural Origins of Economics. By MARGARET SCHABAS pp. 407-408

Renee Prendergast

The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long Run Perspective. Edited by PAUL W. RHODE and GIANNI TONIOLO pp. 408-409

Peter Howlett

Volume 76, month 02, 2009

Ideas and Growth pp. 1-19

Robert Lucas

Booms and Busts: Consumption, House Prices and Expectations pp. 20-50

Orazio P. Attanasio, Laura Blow, Robert Hamilton and Andrew Leicester

Who Withdraws Housing Equity and Why? pp. 51-70

Andrew Benito

Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets pp. 71-88

Wouter Vermeulen and Jos van Ommeren

Random Consumer Demand pp. 89-107

William McCausland

Macroeconomic Instability and Business Exit: Determinants of Failures and Acquisitions of UK Firms pp. 108-131

Arnab Bhattacharjee, C. Higson, Sean Holly and P. Kattuman

Knowledge and Creative Destruction over the Industry Life Cycle: The Case of the German Automobile Industry pp. 132-148

Uwe Cantner, Jens Krüger and Kristina von Rhein

The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Executive Pay in the United Kingdom pp. 149-175

Paul Guest

Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part‐time Work Make the Family Happier? pp. 176-196

Alison Booth and Jan van Ours

Labour Force Status and Sexual Orientation pp. 197-207

Karen Leppel

Top Incomes Over the 20th Century: A Contrast Between Continental European and English‐Speaking Countries. By A. B. ATKINSON and T. PIKETTY pp. 208-209

Lars Osberg

Culture and Economic Explanation: Economics in the US and Japan. By DONALD W. KATZNER pp. 209-210

David Flath

Entrepreneurship, Money and Coordination: Hayek's Theory of Cultural Evolution. By JURGEN G. BACKHAUS pp. 210-212

Peter Rosner

Reconstructing Macroeconomics: A Perspective from Statistical Physics and Combinational Stochastic Processes. By MASANAO AOKI and HIROSHI YOSHIKAWA pp. 212-213

Steven Durlauf

Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia: Foreign Direct Investment, Corporate Strategies and National Economic Development. Edited by SHUJIRO URATA, CHIA SIOW YUE and FUKUNARI KIMURA pp. 213-214

Linda Yueh

Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed. By ANDERS ÅSLUND pp. 215-216

Brigitte Granville

Finance for Development: Latin America in a Comparative Perspective. By BARBARA STALLINGS with ROGERIO STUDART pp. 216-217

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