American Economic Review 1997 - Abstracts

American Economic Review 1997
TitleSubjectAuthors
A core of practical macroeconomics. (Is There a Core of Practical Macroeconomics That We Should All Believe?)EconomicsJohn B. Taylor
Aggregate employment dynamics: building from microeconomic evidence.EconomicsJohn Haltiwanger, Ricardo J. Caballero, Eduardo M.R.A. Engel
Agriculture and the wealth of nations.(Richard T. Ely Lecture)EconomicsD. Gale Johnson
An appraisal of economics content in the history, social studies, civics, and geography national standards.(What Should High-school Graduates Know in Economics?)EconomicsMichael Watts, Stephen Buckles
An asset allocation puzzle.EconomicsN. Gregory Mankiw, David N. Weil, Niko Canner
An empirical assessment of the proximity-concentration trade-off between multinational sales and trade.EconomicsS. Lael Brainard
A political-economic analysis of free-trade agreements.EconomicsPhilip I. Levy
Applied economics in action: IMF programs. (International Monetary Fund)(Applied Economics in Action: The International Monetary Fund)EconomicsStanley Fischer
Argentina's convertibility plan and the IMF. (International Monetary Fund)(Applied Economics in Action: The International Monetary Fund)EconomicsDomingo F. Cavallo, Joaquin A. Cottani
A solution to the problem of externalities when agents are well-informed: comment.EconomicsSteffen Ziss
Assessing the performance of performance standards in public bureaucracies.(Studies of Incentives in Government Bureaucracies)EconomicsJames Heckman, Carolyn Heinrich, Jeffrey Smith
Asset inequality matters: an assessment of the World Bank's approach to poverty reduction.(Applied Economics in Action: The World Bank)EconomicsNancy Birdsall, Juan Luis Londono
A vector-autoregression analysis of state-government expenditure.(Current Issues in State and Local Public Policy)EconomicsTherese A. McCarty, Stephen J. Schmidt
Capital-account liberalization as a signal.EconomicsLeonardo Bartolini, Allan Drazen
Challenges of China's economic system for economic theory.(Interaction of Economic Institutions and Theory)EconomicsGregory C. Chow
Choice, exchange, and public finance.(Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government)EconomicsRichard E. Wagner
Cliometrics - 40 years later.(Cliometrics After 40 Years)EconomicsDouglass C. North
Cliometrics after 40 years.(Cliometrics After 40 Years)EconomicsAvner Greif
Competition or compensation: supplier incentives under the American and Japanese subcontracting systems.EconomicsSteven N. Wiggins, Curtis R. Taylor
Consumption taxes and saving: the role of uncertainty in tax reform.(Applied Economics in Action: Assessing Fundamental Tax Reform)EconomicsEric M. Engen, William G. Gale
Credible economic liberalizations and overborrowing.(Economic Development and International Trade)EconomicsRonald I. McKinnon, Huw Pill
Currency areas, common currencies, and EMU. (European Monetary Union)(Common Currencies versus Currency Areas)EconomicsRobert A. Mundell
Deconstructing the income tax.(Prospects for Fundamental Tax Reform)EconomicsJoel Slemrod
Demand uncertainty and price maintenance: markdowns as destructive competition.EconomicsJames Peck, Raymond Deneckere, Howard P. Marvel
Deregulation, the evolution of corporate governance structure, and survival.(The Emerging New Economics of the Firm)EconomicsKenneth Lehn, Stacey Kole
Developing policy analysis of fundamental tax reform. (legislative role of the Joint Committee on Taxation)(Applied Economics in Action: Assessing Fundamental Tax Reform)EconomicsPeter M. Taylor
Disease eradication: private versus public vaccination.EconomicsPierre-Yves Geoffard, Tomas Philipson
EMU as a device for collective fiscal retrenchment. (European Monetary Union)(Common Currencies versus Currency Areas)EconomicsRonald I. McKinnon
Environmental levies and distortionary taxation: comment.EconomicsDon Fullerton
Environmental levies and distortionary taxation: reply.EconomicsA. Lans Bovenberg, Ruud A. de Mooij
Equity and time to sale in the real estate market.EconomicsChristopher J. Mayer, David Genesove
Excess volatility and closed-end funds.EconomicsJeffrey Pontiff
Exploring the "present through the past": career and family across the last century.(Cliometrics After 40 Years)EconomicsClaudia Goldin
Federal housing assistance, residential relocation, and educational opportunities: evidence from Baltimore.(Current Issues in State and Local Public Policy)EconomicsJens Ludwig, Helen F. Ladd
Firm-specific assets and the link between exchange rates and foreign direct investment.EconomicsBruce A. Blonigen
Fiscal aspects of monetary integration.(Common Currencies versus Currency Areas)EconomicsRudi Dornbusch
Fisher's introductory text. (Elementary Principles of Economics)(Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect)EconomicsJames Tobin
Fundamental sources of long-run growth.(What Have We Learned from Recent Empirical Growth Research?)EconomicsJeffrey D. Sachs, Andrew M. Warner
Generics and new goods in pharmaceutical price indexes: comment.EconomicsRobert C. Feenstra
Generics and new goods in pharmaceutical price indexes: reply.EconomicsZvi Griliches, Iain Cockburn
Highway franchising: pitfalls and opportunities.(Applied Economics in Action: Lessons from Chile)EconomicsAlexander Galetovic, Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fisher
How different are income and consumption taxes?(Prospects for Fundamental Tax Reform)EconomicsR. Glenn Hubbard
I just ran two million regressions. (identifying variables that correlate with economic growth)(What Have We Learned from Recent Empirical Growth Research?)EconomicsXavier X. Sala-I-Martin
IMF surveillance. (International Monetary Fund)(Applied Economics in Action: The International Monetary Fund)EconomicsMichael Mussa
Implications of overstating inflation for indexing government programs and understanding economic progress.(Applied Economics in Action: The CPI Commission)EconomicsDale W. Jorgenson, Michael J. Boskin
Incentives and social norms in household behavior.(The Interaction Between Norms and Economic Incentives)EconomicsAssar Lindbeck
Income, growth, and economic freedom.(Interaction of Economic Institutions and Theory)EconomicsStephen T. Easton, Michael A. Walker
International labor flows and national wages.(Economic Development and International Trade)EconomicsStanley L. Engerman, Ronald W. Jones
Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic incentives.(The Interaction Between Norms and Economic Incentives)EconomicsDavid M. Kreps
Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in retrospect.(Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect)EconomicsWilliam J. Barber
Irving Fisher and modern macroeconomics.(Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect)EconomicsRobert W. Dimand
Irving Fisher: modern behavioral economist.(Irving Fisher (1867-1947) in Retrospect)EconomicsRichard H. Thaler
Is there a core of practical macroeconomics that we should all believe?(Is There a Core of Practical Macroeconomics That We Should All Believe?)EconomicsAlan S. Blinder
Is there a core of usable macroeconomics?(Is There a Core of Practical Macroeconomics That We Should All Believe?)EconomicsOlivier Blanchard
Levels of economic activity across countries.(What Have We Learned from Recent Empirical Growth Research?)EconomicsRobert E. Hall, Charles I. Jones
Long-run implications of investment-specific technological change.EconomicsJeremy Greenwood, Per Krusell, Zvi Hercowitz
Long-run neutrality and superneutrality in an ARIMA framework: comment.EconomicsAlfred A. Haug, Robert F. Lucas
Looking out for the national interest: the principles of the Council of Economic Advisers.(Applied Economics in Action: The Council of Economic Advisers)EconomicsJoseph E. Stiglitz
Measuring government performance: lessons from a federal job-training program.(Studies of Incentives in Government Bureaucracies)EconomicsPascal Courty, Gerald Marschke
Measuring the liquidity effect.EconomicsJames D. Hamilton
National voluntary content standards for pre-college economics education.(What Should High-school Graduates Know in Economics?)EconomicsJohn J. Siegfried, Bonnie T. Meszaros
Neglected effects on the uses side: even a uniform tax would change relative goods prices.(Applied Economics in Action: Assessing Fundamental Tax Reform)EconomicsDon Fullerton, Diane Lim Rogers
Notes on cliometrics' fortieth.(Cliometrics After 40 Years)EconomicsJohn R. Meyer
Occupational gains of black women since the 1964 Civil Rights Act: long-term or episodic?(African-American Economic Gains: A Long-Term Assessment)EconomicsAugustin Kwasi Fosu
On the speed of convergence in endogenous growth models.EconomicsSalvador Ortigueira, Manuel S. Santos
Optimal health insurance and provider payment.EconomicsThomas G. McGuire, Ching-to Albert Ma
Optimal inflation targets, "conservative" central banks, and linear inflation contracts.EconomicsLars E.O. Svensson
Per capita income convergence and the role of international trade.(Economic Development and International Trade)EconomicsMatthew J. Slaughter
Policy performance and output growth in the transition economies.(The Transition from Socialism)EconomicsMarcelo Selowsky, Ricardo Martin
Political and institutional commitment to a common currency.(Common Currencies versus Currency Areas)EconomicsMichael Mussa
Power of incentives in private versus public organizations.(Studies of Incentives in Government Bureaucracies)EconomicsAvinash Dixit
Preferences, domains, and sustainability. (difference between common currencies and currency areas)(Common Currencies versus Currency Areas)EconomicsPeter B. Kenen
Presidents and economists: The Council of Economic Advisers.(Applied Economics in Action: The Council of Economic Advisers)EconomicsRoger B. Porter
Privatization in Eastern Germany: management selection and economic transition.EconomicsI.J. Alexander Dyck
Productivity under group incentives: an experimental study.EconomicsAndrew Schotter, Haig R. Nalbantian
Project analysis and the World Bank.(Applied Economics in Action: The World Bank)EconomicsGlenn P. Jenkins
Project evaluation training and public investment in Chile.(Applied Economics in Action: Lessons from Chile)EconomicsErnesto R. Fontaine
Public policy towards R&D in oligopolistic industries. (research and development)EconomicsDermot Leahy, J. Peter Neary
Quality change and new products. (quality-change bias for each product category in the Consumer Price Index)(Applied Economics in Action: The CPI Commission)EconomicsRobert J. Gordon, Zvi Griliches
Racial and ethnic inequality in the United States: a secular perspective.(African-American Economic Gains: A Long-Term Assessment)EconomicsWilliam Darity Jr., David K. Guilkey, Jason Dietrich
Recent perspectives on African-Americans in post-industrial labor markets.(African-American Gains: A Long-Term Assessment)EconomicsJames B. Stewart
Reconciling normative and positive theories of government.(Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government)EconomicsJoseph J. Cordes
Reconsidering the fiscal role of government.(Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government)EconomicsRichard A. Musgrave
Reconsidering the fiscal role of government: the international perspective.(Reconsidering the Fiscal Role of Government)EconomicsLudger Schuknecht, Vito Tanzi
Replicating Ricardian equivalence tests with simulated series.EconomicsEmanuela Cardia
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.(Proceedings of the Hundred and Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association)EconomicsSusan M. Collins
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.(Proceedings of the Hundred and Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association)EconomicsRobin L. Bartlett
Resolving differences in willingness to pay and willingness to accept: comment.EconomicsGwendolyn C. Morrison
Resolving differences in willingness to pay and willingness to accept: reply.EconomicsJason F. Shogren, Dermot J. Hayes
Risk aversion and stock price sensitivity to dividends.EconomicsMay Hagiwara, Miguel A. Herce
Russian dilemmas. (macropolicy problems)(The Transition from Socialism)EconomicsAxel Leijonhufvud, Christof Ruhl
Secret reserve prices in a bidding model with a resale option.EconomicsChantale LaCasse, Ignatius J. Horstmann
Size, sunk costs, and Judge Bowker's objection to free trade.EconomicsJohn McLaren
Social norms and the law: an economic approach.(The Interaction Between Norms and Economic Incentives)EconomicsRichard A. Posner
Some thoughts on practical stabilization policy.(Is There a Core of Practical Macroeconomics That We Should All Believe?)EconomicsMartin Eichenbaum
Speed of policy reform and outcomes.(Applied Economics in Action: The U.S. Foreign-Aid Program)EconomicsSamuel L. Skogstad, Stephen S. Everhart
Technological progress, mobility and economic growth.EconomicsOded Galor, Daniel Tsiddon
Technology, factor supplies and international specialization: estimating the neoclassical model.EconomicsJames Harrigan
The allocation of resources in intergenerational households: adult children and their elderly parents.(Women, Health, and Aging)EconomicsBarbara Steinberg Schone, Liliana E. Pezzin
The common unresolved problem with the EMS and EMU. (European Monetary System, European Monetary Union)(Common Currencies versus Currency Areas)EconomicsDominick Salvatore
The consumption smoothing benefits of unemployment insurance.EconomicsJonathan Gruber
The cost of price incentives: an empirical analysis of motivation crowding-outEconomicsBruno S. Frey, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
The Council of Economic Advisers: from stabilization to resource allocation.(Applied Economics in Action: The Council of Economic Advisers)EconomicsMartin S. Feldstein
The CPI Commission: discussion. (discussion on Final Report to the Senate Finance Committee from the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index)(Applied Economics in Action: The CPI Commission)Economics 
The CPI Commission: findings and recommendations. (Consumer Price Index)(Applied Economics in Action: The CPI Commission)EconomicsDale W. Jorgenson, Michael J. Boskin, Robert J. Gordon, Zvi Griliches, Ellen R. Dulberger
The decision to export in Colombia: an empirical model of entry with sunk costs.EconomicsJames R. Tybout, Mark J. Roberts
The effect of insurance coverage on breast cancer patients' treatment and hospital choices.(Women, Health, and Aging)EconomicsJack Hadley, Jean M. Mitchell
The effect of national standards and curriculum-based exams on achievement.(What Should High-school Graduates Know in Economics?)EconomicsJohn H. Bishop
The effects of human resource management practices on productivity: a study of steel finishing lines.EconomicsKathryn Shaw, Casey Ichniowski, Giovanna Prennushi
The evolution of economic policymaking in Africa.(Applied Economics in Action: The U.S. Foreign-Aid Program)EconomicsJerome M. Wolgin
The firm in economic theory: a quiet revolution.(The Emerging New Economics of the Firm)EconomicsHarold Demsetz
The future of fundamental tax reform.(Prospects for Fundamental Tax Reform)EconomicsAlan J. Auerbach
The IMF and Russia. (International Monetary Fund)(Applied Economics in Action: The International Monetary Fund)EconomicsYegor Gaidar
The international diversification puzzle is worse than you think.EconomicsUrban J. Jermann, Marriane Baxter
The international transmission of financial shocks: the case of Japan.EconomicsJoe Peek, Eric S. Rosengren
The invisible hand and the grabbing hand. (effect of relationship between government and entrepreneurs in Russia and Poland)(The Transition from Socialism)EconomicsAndrei Shleifer, Timothy Frye
The long-run dynamics of fundamental tax reform.(Applied Economics in Action: Assessing Fundamental Tax Reform)EconomicsDale W. Jorgenson, Peter J. Wilcoxen
The macroeconomic effects of war finance in the United States: World War II and the Korean war.EconomicsLee E. Ohanian
The racial unemployment gap in long-run perspective.(African-American Economic Gains: A Long-Term Assessment)EconomicsRobert W. Fairlie, William A. Sundstrom
The reform of the welfare state and public opinion.(The Transition from Socialism)EconomicsJanos Kornai
The rise and downward trend of the natural rate.(Persistent Unemployment)EconomicsEdmund S. Phelps, Gylfi Zoega
The rise and persistence of rigidities. (unemployment in Europe)(Persistent Unemployment)EconomicsGilles Saint-Paul
The role of the family in immigrants' labor-market activity: an evaluation of alternative explanations.EconomicsMichael Baker, Dwayne Benjamin
The value of quantitative evidence on the effect of the past on the present.(Cliometrics After 40 Years)EconomicsJames J. Heckman
Trade liberalization reforms and the World Bank.(Applied Economics in Action: The World Bank)EconomicsSebastian Edwards
Trade policy and economic development: how we learn.EconomicsAnne O. Krueger
Trade policy, growth, and income distribution.(Economic Development and International Trade)EconomicsSebastian Edwards
Trade reform and uniform import tariffs: the Chilean experience.(Applied Economics in Action: Lessons from Chile)EconomicsVittorio Corbo
Transaction costs and price volatility: evidence from commission deregulation.EconomicsCharles M. Jones, Paul J. Seguin
True measures of GDP and convergence.(gross domestic product)EconomicsJohn Quiggin, Steve Dowrick
Trust in large organizations.(Interaction of Economic Institutions and Theory)EconomicsRafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny
Unemployment and nonemployment. (American men)(Persistent Unemployment)EconomicsKevin M. Murphy, Robert Topel
Using electoral cycles in police hiring to estimate the effect of police on crime.EconomicsSteven D. Levitt
Using international and Japanese regional data to determine when the Factor Abundance Theory of Trade works.EconomicsDonald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, Scott C. Bradford, Kazushige Shimpo
Valuing alternative-fuel vehicles in Southern California.(Current Issues in State and Local Public Policy)EconomicsCamilla Kazimi
Vertical integration as a self-enforcing contractual arrangement.(The Emerging New Economics of the Firm)EconomicsKevin M. Murphy, Benjamin Klein
Welfare-improving health expenditure subsidies.EconomicsLouise Sheiner, William Jack
What do economists know that policymakers need to?(Applied Economics in Action: The U.S. Foreign-Aid Program)EconomicsJames W. Fox
Women and substance use: are women less susceptible to addiction?(Women, Health, and Aging)EconomicsRosalie Liccardo Pacula
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