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Front Matter (pp. i - i)

Editors' Introduction (pp. x - x)

Foreword (pp. xi - xii)

Computer Mediated Transactions (pp. 1 - 10)

Okun's Law and Productivity Innovations (pp. 11 - 15)

Indicators for Dating Business Cycles: Cross-History Selection and Comparisons (pp. 16 - 19)

Real-Time Macroeconomic Monitoring: Real Activity, Inflation, and Interactions (pp. 20 - 24)

The Business Cycle in a Changing Economy: Conceptualization, Measurement, Dating (pp. 25 - 29)

Some Fiscal Calculus (pp. 30 - 34)

Fiscal Policy in a Model with Financial Frictions (pp. 35 - 40)

Debt Consolidation and Fiscal Stabilization of Deep Recessions (pp. 41 - 45)

Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing (pp. 46 - 50)

The Great Recession: Lessons from Microeconomic Data (pp. 51 - 56)

Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles (pp. 57 - 61)

Growth, Size, and Openness: A Quantitative Approach (pp. 62 - 67)

Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Performance: Lessons from the Golden Era of International Finance (pp. 68 - 72)

The Marginal Product of Capital, Capital Flows, and Convergence (pp. 73 - 77)

The Quantitative Role of Capital Goods Imports in US Growth (pp. 78 - 82)

Political Limits to Globalization (pp. 83 - 88)

Making Room for China in the World Economy (pp. 89 - 93)

What Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-Up Growth? (pp. 94 - 98)

How Do You Measure a "Technological Revolution"? (pp. 99 - 104)

New Approaches to Surveying Organizations (pp. 105 - 09)

Artistic Originals as a Capital Asset (pp. 110 - 14)

Institutions, Factor Prices, and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States? (pp. 115 - 19)

Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya's 2007 Election Crisis (pp. 120 - 24)

Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India (pp. 125 - 29)

Creating Property Rights: Land Banks in Ghana (pp. 130 - 34)

Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared (pp. 135 - 40)

Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity (pp. 141 - 46)

Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa (pp. 147 - 52)

The Public and Private Sectors in the Process of Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Mouse Genetics Revolution (pp. 153 - 58)

Network Effects in Biology R&D (pp. 159 - 64)

Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance (pp. 165 - 71)

Economywide Implications from US Bioenergy Expansion (pp. 172 - 77)

Ethanol Policy Effects on U.S. Natural Gas Prices and Quantities (pp. 178 - 82)

Are Biofuels the Culprit? OPEC, Food, and Fuel (pp. 183 - 87)

The Health Returns of Education Policies from Preschool to High School and Beyond (pp. 188 - 94)

Family Health, Children's Own Health, and Test Score Gaps (pp. 195 - 99)

Time Preference, Noncognitive Skills and Well Being across the Life Course: Do Noncognitive Skills Encourage Healthy Behavior? (pp. 200 - 204)

Adult Child Migration and the Health of Elderly Parents Left behind in Mexico (pp. 205 - 08)

Investment in General Human Capital and Turnover Intention (pp. 209 - 13)

Applicant Screening and Performance-Related Outcomes (pp. 214 - 18)

Stop the Clock Policies and Career Success in Academia (pp. 219 - 23)

Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs among High Skilled US Natives (pp. 224 - 28)

The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women (pp. 229 - 33)

The Education-Health Gradient (pp. 234 - 38)

Inputs and Impacts in Charter Schools: KIPP Lynn (pp. 239 - 43)

Human Capital and Imperfectly Informed Financial Markets (pp. 244 - 49)

Using Performance on the Job to Inform Teacher Tenure Decisions (pp. 250 - 55)

Using Student Performance Data to Identify Effective Classroom Practices (pp. 256 - 60)

Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness (pp. 261 - 66)

Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality (pp. 267 - 71)

Achievement Goals, Locus of Control, and Academic Success in Economics (pp. 272 - 76)

The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring on Student Achievement at the University Level (pp. 277 - 82)

Do Online Homework Tools Improve Student Results in Principles of Microeconomics Courses? (pp. 283 - 86)

The Efficacy of Collaborative Learning Recitation Sessions on Student Outcomes (pp. 287 - 91)

How Sensitive Are Low Income Families to Health Plan Prices? (pp. 292 - 96)

Disentangling the Effects of Health Reform in Massachusetts: How Important Are the Special Provisions for Young Adults? (pp. 297 - 302)

Patient Cost Sharing in Low Income Populations (pp. 303 - 08)

Culture and Intraracial Wage Inequality among America's African Diaspora (pp. 309 - 15)

Mexican Immigrant Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle (pp. 316 - 20)

The Effect of Migration on Wages: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (pp. 321 - 26)

Directed Search on the Job, Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Fluctuations (pp. 327 - 32)

Unemployment and Small Cap Returns: The Nexus (pp. 333 - 37)

Wage Dispersion in the Search and Matching Model (pp. 338 - 42)

Job to Job Movements in a Simple Search Model (pp. 343 - 47)

Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial (pp. 348 - 52)

Are There Gender Differences in the Job Mobility Patterns of Academic Economists? (pp. 353 - 57)

Female Hires and the Success of Start-Up Firms (pp. 358 - 61)

Gender Differences in Wealth at Retirement (pp. 362 - 67)

Dynamic Asset Pricing in a System of Local Housing Markets (pp. 368 - 72)

Local Multipliers (pp. 373 - 77)

Changes in Transportation Infrastructure and Commuting Patterns in US Metropolitan Areas, 1960-2000 (pp. 378 - 82)

Place Based Policies, Heterogeneity, and Agglomeration (pp. 383 - 87)

Risk and Global Economic Architecture: Why Full Financial Integration May Be Undesirable (pp. 388 - 92)

Decoupling and Recoupling (pp. 393 - 97)

Credit Externalities: Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Implications (pp. 398 - 402)

Excessive Volatility in Capital Flows: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach (pp. 403 - 07)

Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade (pp. 408 - 13)

Imports "Я" Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for Developing-Country Imports (pp. 414 - 18)

Facts and Figures on Intermediated Trade (pp. 419 - 23)

Intermediation and Economic Integration (pp. 424 - 28)

Trading Favors within Chinese Business Groups (pp. 429 - 33)

Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? (pp. 434 - 38)

Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Using Occupational Licensing as a Shifter of Offshoring Costs (pp. 439 - 43)

Intrafirm Trade and Product Contractibility (pp. 444 - 48)

Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era (pp. 449 - 53)

Climate Shocks and Exports (pp. 454 - 59)

Oil Monopoly and the Climate (pp. 460 - 64)

Trade and Carbon Taxes (pp. 465 - 69)

"One Discriminatory Rent" or "Double Jeopardy": Multicomponent Negotiation for New Car Purchases (pp. 470 - 74)

The Impact of Commissions on Home Sales in Greater Boston (pp. 475 - 79)

Investigating Income Effects in Scanner Data: Do Gasoline Prices Affect Grocery Purchases? (pp. 480 - 84)

An Individual Health Plan Exchange: Which Employees Would Benefit and Why? (pp. 485 - 89)

What "Triggers" Mortgage Default? (pp. 490 - 94)

Learning to Cope: Voluntary Financial Education and Loan Performance during a Housing Crisis (pp. 495 - 500)

Issuer Credit Quality and the Price of Asset Backed Securities (pp. 501 - 05)

Statistical Default Models and Incentives (pp. 506 - 10)

Consumer Confusion in the Mortgage Market: Evidence of Less Than a Perfectly Transparent and Competitive Market (pp. 511 - 15)

The Failure and Promise of Mandated Consumer Mortgage Disclosures: Evidence from Qualitative Interviews and a Controlled Experiment with Mortgage Borrowers (pp. 516 - 21)

Affine Disagreement and Asset Pricing (pp. 522 - 26)

The Short and Long Run Benefits of Financial Integration (pp. 527 - 31)

Growth Opportunities and Technology Shocks (pp. 532 - 36)

Confidence Risk and Asset Prices (pp. 537 - 41)

Long Run Risks, the Macroeconomy, and Asset Prices (pp. 542 - 46)

Long Run Risks, Credit Markets, and Financial Structure (pp. 547 - 51)

Long Run Risk, the Wealth-Consumption Ratio, and the Temporal Pricing of Risk (pp. 552 - 56)

An Equilibrium Term Structure Model with Recursive Preferences (pp. 557 - 61)

Global Interest Rates, Currency Returns, and the Real Value of the Dollar (pp. 562 - 67)

Estimation of De Facto Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate Regimes (pp. 568 - 72)

Growth in a Time of Debt (pp. 573 - 78)

Interest Rate Risk in Credit Markets (pp. 579 - 84)

Price Pressure in the Government Bond Market (pp. 585 - 90)

Repo Market Effects of the Term Securities Lending Facility (pp. 591 - 96)

Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions (pp. 597 - 602)

Online Advertising: Heterogeneity and Conflation in Market Design (pp. 603 - 07)

The Impact of Targeting Technology on Advertising Markets and Media Competition (pp. 608 - 13)

Wage Subsidies for Microenterprises (pp. 614 - 18)

Why Do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity? (pp. 619 - 23)

Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements (pp. 624 - 28)

What Capital Is Missing in Developing Countries? (pp. 629 - 33)

Minutes of the Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, January 4, 2010 (pp. 637 - 38)

Report of the Secretary for 2009 (pp. 639 - 42)

Report of the Treasurer (pp. 643 - 46)

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics (pp. 647 - 50)

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 24, 2009 (pp. 653 - 59)

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Atlanta, GA, January 2, 2010 (pp. 660 - 66)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review (pp. 667 - 76)

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature (pp. 678 - 79)

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives (pp. 680 - 81)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (pp. 682 - 84)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (pp. 685 - 87)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (pp. 688 - 91)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (pp. 692 - 95)

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists (pp. 696 - 98)

Report of the Committee on Economic Education for 2009 (pp. 699 - 703)

Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2009 (pp. 704 - 09)

Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession: Report of Committee Activities for the 2009 Calendar Year (pp. 710 - 12)

American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat): Annual Report--2009 (pp. 713 - 14)

Committee on Government Relations (pp. 715 - 17)

Report of the Ad Hoc Search Committee for the American Economic Review Editor (pp. 718 - 718)