The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Volume 112, issue 4, 1997

Determinants of Privatization Prices pp. 965-1025

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

On the Number and Size of Nations pp. 1027-1056

Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore

The Breakup of Nations: A Political Economy Analysis pp. 1057-1090

Patrick Bolton and Gérard Roland

Disorganization pp. 1091-1126

Olivier Blanchard and Michael Kremer

The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons pp. 1127-1161

Oliver Hart, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny

Separation of Powers and Political Accountability pp. 1163-1202

Torsten Persson, Gérard Roland and Guido Tabellini

Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions pp. 1203-1250

William Easterly and Ross Levine

Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation pp. 1251-1288

Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer

A Theory of Misgovernance pp. 1289-1332

Abhijit Banerjee

Volume 112, issue 3, 1997

Financial Intermediation, Loanable Funds, and The Real Sector pp. 663-691

Bengt Holmstrom and Jean Tirole

Large Shareholders, Monitoring, and the Value of the Firm pp. 693-728

Mike Burkart, Denis Gromb and Fausto Panunzi

The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference pp. 729-758

Gary Becker and Casey Mulligan

The Reasons for Wage Rigidity: Evidence from a Survey of Firms pp. 759-789

Carl Campbell and Kunal S. Kamlani

The Magnitude of Menu Costs: Direct Evidence from Large U. S. Supermarket Chains pp. 791-824

Daniel Levy, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta and Robert Venable

Are Ghettos Good or Bad? pp. 827-872

David M. Cutler and Edward L. Glaeser

Contractual Fragility, Job Destruction, and Business Cycles pp. 873-911

Garey Ramey and Joel Watson

Unemployment Insurance Takeup Rates and the After-Tax Value of Benefits pp. 913-937

Patricia Anderson and Bruce Meyer

The Dynamics of Smithian Growth pp. 939-964

Morgan Kelly

Volume 112, issue 2, 1997

Money Illusion pp. 341-374

Eldar Shafir, Peter Diamond and Amos Tversky

Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility pp. 375-406

Daniel Kahneman, Peter Wakker and Rakesh Sarin

Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time pp. 407-441

Colin Camerer, Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein and Richard Thaler

Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting pp. 443-478

David Laibson

A Test of the Theory of Reference-Dependent Preferences pp. 479-505

Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden

Measuring Players' Losses in Experimental Games pp. 507-536

Drew Fudenberg and David Levine

Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Study pp. 537-579

Robert Barsky, F. Juster, Miles Kimball and Matthew Shapiro

The Evolution of Bargaining Behavior pp. 581-602

Tore Ellingsen

What Makes Markets Allocationally Efficient? pp. 603-630

Dhananjay K. Gode and Shyam Sunder

An Experiment on Risk Taking and Evaluation Periods pp. 631-645

Uri Gneezy and Jan Potters

The Effect of Myopia and Loss Aversion on Risk Taking: An Experimental Test pp. 647-661

Richard Thaler, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman and Alan Schwartz

Volume 112, issue 1, 1997

Buffer-Stock Saving and the Life Cycle/Permanent Income Hypothesis pp. 1-55

Christopher Carroll

Growth and Interdependence pp. 57-84

Jaume Ventura

An Economic Model of Representative Democracy pp. 85-114

Timothy Besley and Stephen Coate

How Much does Sorting Increase Inequality? pp. 115-139

Michael Kremer

Marriage and Class pp. 141-168

Ken Burdett and Melvyn Coles

Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints? pp. 169-215

Steven Kaplan and Luigi Zingales

Personal Bankruptcy and Credit Supply and Demand pp. 217-251

Reint Gropp, John Scholz and Michelle J. White

Workers, Wages, and Technology pp. 253-290

Mark Doms, Timothy Dunne and Kenneth Troske

The Returns to Computer Use Revisited: Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too? pp. 291-303

John DiNardo and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Do Gasoline Prices Respond Asymmetrically to Crude Oil Price Changes? pp. 305-339

Severin Borenstein, A. Cameron and Richard Gilbert

Volume 111, issue 4, 1996

A Walrasian Theory of Money and Barter pp. 955-1005

Abhijit Banerjee and Eric Maskin

Learning and Wage Dynamics pp. 1007-1047

Henry S. Farber and Robert Gibbons

Redlining in Boston: Do Mortgage Lenders Discriminate Against Neighborhoods? pp. 1049-1079

Geoffrey Tootell

Channels of Interstate Risk Sharing: United States 1963–1990 pp. 1081-1110

Pierfederico Asdrubali, Bent Sorensen and Oved Yosha

Speculative Investor Behavior and Learning pp. 1111-1133

Stephen Morris

Costly Arbitrage: Evidence from Closed-End Funds pp. 1135-1151

Jeffrey Pontiff

Preemptive R&D, Rent Dissipation, and the "Leverage Theory" pp. 1153-1181

Jay Choi

Monetary Policy Shifts and Long-Term Interest Rates pp. 1183-1209

Jeffrey Fuhrer

Convergence to the Law of One Price Without Trade Barriers or Currency Fluctuations pp. 1211-1236

David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

Tax Subsidies and Household Saving: Evidence from Canada pp. 1237-1268

Gary V. Engelhardt

Volume 111, issue 3, 1996

The Finance-Growth Nexus: Evidence from Bank Branch Deregulation pp. 639-670

Jith Jayaratne and Philip E. Strahan

How Teachers' Unions Affect Education Production pp. 671-718

Caroline Hoxby

Procyclical Productivity: Increasing Returns or Cyclical Utilization? pp. 719-751

Susanto Basu

Options, the Value of Capital, and Investment pp. 753-777

Andrew B. Abel, Avinash Dixit, Janice Eberly and Robert Pindyck

A Microfoundation for Social Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation pp. 779-804

Daron Acemoglu

On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction pp. 805-852

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

Nominal Wage Stickiness and Aggregate Supply in the Great Depression pp. 853-883

Ben Bernanke and Kevin Carey

Demand Uncertainty, Inventories, and Resale Price Maintenance pp. 885-913

Raymond Deneckere, Howard P. Marvel and James Peck

Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study pp. 915-941

David Neumark, Roy J. Bank and Kyle D. Van Nort

A Further Augmentation of the Solow Model and the Empirics of Economic Growth for OECD Countries pp. 943-953

Walter Nonneman and Patrick Vanhoudt

Volume 111, issue 2, 1996

An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States pp. 277-317

George Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen and Michael Katz

The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation pp. 319-351

Steven Levitt

Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine? pp. 353-390

Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan

Does Public Insurance Crowd out Private Insurance? pp. 391-430

David M. Cutler and Jonathan Gruber

Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical Care, and Child Health pp. 431-466

Janet Currie and Jonathan Gruber

Teen Motherhood and Abortion Access pp. 467-506

Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

Crime and Social Interactions pp. 507-548

Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote and Jose Scheinkman

Integrating Behavioral Choice into Epidemiological Models of AIDS pp. 549-573

Michael Kremer

Immigration and the Welfare State: Immigrant Participation in Means-Tested Entitlement Programs pp. 575-604

George Borjas and Lynette Hilton

Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 605-637

Nada Eissa and Jeffrey Liebman

Volume 111, issue 1, 1996

Choosing the Wrong Pond: Social Comparisons in Negotiations That Reflect a Self-Serving Bias pp. 1-19

Linda Babcock, Xianghong Wang and George Loewenstein

Why Are Professional Forecasters Biased? Agency versus Behavioral Explanations pp. 21-40

Tilman Ehrbeck and Robert Waldmann

Income Inequality and Choice of Free Trade in a Model of Intraindustry Trade pp. 41-64

Ronald Fischer and Pablo Serra

A Model of Political Competition with Citizen-Candidates pp. 65-96

Martin Osborne and Al Slivinski

Do Public Schools Hire the Best Applicants? pp. 97-133

Dale Ballou

Income Distribution, Communities, and the Quality of Public Education pp. 135-164

Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson

Loss-Avoidance and Forward Induction in Experimental Coordination Games pp. 165-194

Gérard P. Cachon and Colin Camerer

The Creation and Capture of Rents: Wages and Innovation in a Panel of U. K. Companies pp. 195-226

John van Reenen

Wages, Profits, and Rent-Sharing pp. 227-251

David Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald and Peter Sanfey

Search with Learning and Price Adjustment Dynamics pp. 253-268

Arthur Fishman

Is Fixed Investment the Key to Economic Growth? pp. 269-276

Magnus Blomstrom, Robert Lipsey and Mario Zejan