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Regular Articles

Abdellaoui, Mohammed; Baillon, Aurélien; Placido, Laetitia and Wakker, Peter P.: The Rich Domain of Uncertainty

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Gotte, Lorenz and Huffman, David: Reference Points and Effort Provision

Aguirre, Iñaki; Cowan, Simon George and Vickers, John: Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature [Preview]

Alessandria, George; Kaboski, Joseph and Midrigan, Virgiliu: Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations

Alexopoulos, Michelle: Read All About It! What Happens Following a Technology Shock?

Algan, Yann and Cahuc, Pierre: Inherited Trust and Growth

Alger, Ingela and Weibull, Jorgen: Kinship, Incentives, and Evolution [Preview]

Anderson, James E. and Yotov, Yoto V.: The Changing Incidence of Geography [Preview]

Ashraf, Nava; Berry, James and Shapiro, Jesse M.: Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

Asker, John: A Study of the Internal Organization of a Bidding Cartel [Preview]

Avery, Christopher and Levin, Jonathan: Early Admissions at Selective Colleges

Bacchetta, Philippe and van Wincoop, Eric: Infrequent Portfolio Decisions: A Solution to the Forward Discount Puzzle [Preview]

Bailey, Martha: "Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing [Preview]

Bardhan, Pranab and Mookherjee, Dilip: Ideology Versus Competition in Redistributive Politics: Land Reform in West Bengal [Preview]

Baron, David: Morally-Motivated Self-Regulation [Preview]

Barseghyan, Levon; Prince, Jeffrey and Teitelbaum, Joshua C.: Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J. and Schott, Peter K.: Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching [Preview]

Bonatti, Alessandro and Horner, Johannes: Collaborating

Brandts, Jordi; Abbink, Klaus; Herrmann, Benedikt and Orzen, Henrik: Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game [Preview]

Broner, Fernando A.; Ventura, Jaume and Martin, Alberto: Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets [Preview]

Bustos, Paula: Trade Liberalization, Exports, and Technology Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of MERCOSUR on Argentinean Firms

Cabrales, Antonio; Miniaci, Raffaele; Piovesan, Marco and Ponti, Giovanni: Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: an Experiment on Markets and Contracts

Chakraborty, Archishman and Harbaugh, Rick: Persuasion by Cheap Talk [Preview]

Chandra, Amitabh; Gruber, Jonathan and McKnight, Robin: Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly [Preview]

Chassang, Sylvain: Building Routines: Learning, Cooperation and the Dynamics of Incomplete Relational Contracts [Preview]

Chen, Yan; Harper, Franklin Maxwell; Konstan, Joseph and Li, Sherry Xin: Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens [Preview]

Chu, Chenghuan Sean; Leslie, Phillip and Sorensen, Alan T.: Bundle-Size Pricing as an Approximation to Mixed Bundling

Comin, Diego and Hobijn, Bart: An Exploration of Technology Diffusion

Conley, Timothy and Udry, Christopher: Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana [Preview]

Correia, Isabel: Consumption Taxes and Redistribution [Preview]

Dafny, Leemore: Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive? [Preview]

Dal Bo, Pedro; Foster, Andrew and Putterman, Louis: Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy

Dohmen, Thomas and Falk, Armin: Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf and Sutter, Matthias: The Economics of Credence Goods: An Experiment on the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Eeckhout, Jan; Persico, Nicola and Todd, Petra: A Theory of Optimal Crackdowns [Preview]

Ellingsen, Tore and Ostling, Robert: Communication and Coordination: The Case of Boundedly Rational Players

Ellison, Glenn; Glaeser, Edward and Kerr, William: What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns [Preview]

Ellul, Andrew; Pagano, Marco and Panunzi, Fausto: Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms

Fehr, Ernst; Hart, Oliver and Zehnder, Christian: Contracts as Reference Points-Experimental Evidence

Ferrari, Stijn; Verboven, Frank and Degryse, Hans: Investment and Usage of New Technologies: Evidence from a Shared ATM Network [Preview]

Fowlie, Meredith: Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Abatement [Preview]

Fuchs, William and Skrzypacz, Andrzej: Bargaining with Arrival of New Traders [Preview]

Galeotti, Andrea and Goyal, Sanjeev: The Law of Few [Preview]

Gavazza, Alessandro: The Role of Trading Frictions in Real Asset Markets

Gopinath, Gita; Itskhoki, Oleg and Rigobon, Roberto: Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-Through [Preview]

Gruber, Jonathan and Abaluck, Jason T.: Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence From Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program

Gul, Faruk and Pesendorfer, Wolfgang: Strategic Redistricting [Preview]

Hall, Robert and Woodward, Susan E.: The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship [Preview]

Harrison, Ann Elizabeth and Scorse, Jason: Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism [Preview]

Heidhues, Paul and Koszegi, Botond: Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market

Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel and Weinschenk, Philipp: Binary Payment Schemes: Moral Hazard and Loss Aversion

Hitsch, Gunter; Hortacsu, Ali and Ariely, Dan: Matching and Sorting in Online Dating [Preview]

Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni and Staiger, Robert: Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts [Preview]

Huck, Steffen; Seltzer, Andrew and Wallace, Brian: Deferred Compensation in Multi-Period Labor Contracts: An Experimental Test of Lazear's Model

King, Lindsay M.; Bushong, Benjamin; Camerer, Colin F. and Rangel, Antonio: Pavlovian Processes in Consumer Choice: The Physical Presence of a Good Increases Willingness-to-Pay [Preview]

Landry, Craig; Lange, Andreas; List, John A.; Price, Michael and Rupp, Nicholas G.: Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment [Preview]

Lee, Young Han and Malmendier, Ulrike: The Bidder's Curse

León-Ledesma, Miguel; McAdam, Peter and Willman, Alpo: Identifying the Elasticity of Substitution [Preview]

Lerner, Josh and Malmendier, Ulrike: Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements [Preview]

Leth-Petersen, Soren: Intertemporal Consumption and Credit Constraints: Does Total Expenditure Respond to an Exogenous Shock to Credit? [Preview]

Li, Wei: Peddling Influence through Intermediaries [Preview]

Long, Jason and Ferrie, Joseph: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the US Since 1850

Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas and Pistaferri, Luigi: Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle [Preview]

Mateos-Planas, Xavier: Demographics and the Politics of Capital Taxation in a Life-cycle Economy [Preview]

McCrary, Justin and Royer, Heather: The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence From School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth

McGrattan, Ellen R. and Prescott, Edward C.: Technology Capital and the US Current Account [Preview]

McLaren, John Edward; Chaudhuri, Shubham and Artuc, Erhan: Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach [Preview]

Mendoza, Enrique G.: Sudden Stops, Financial Crises, and Leverage

Mian, Atif; Sufi, Amir and Trebbi, Francesco: The Political Economy of the US Mortgage Default Crisis

Muendler, Marc-Andreas and Becker, Sascha O.: Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Olszewski, Wojciech and Sandroni, Alvaro: Falsifiability

Pope, Devin G. and Schweitzer, Maurice E.: Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes

Romer, Christina D. and Romer, David H.: The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks [Preview]

Salant, Yuval: Procedural Analysis of Choice Rules with Applications to Bounded Rationality

Samaniego, Roberto M.: Entry, Exit, and Investment-Specific Technical Change [Preview]

Sarin, Rajiv and Grosskopf, Brit: Is Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment [Preview]

Sieg, Holger; Epple, Dennis and Gordon, Brett: A New Approach to Estimating the Production Function for Housing [Preview]

Siegel, Ron: Asymmetric Contests with Conditional Investments

Tinn, Katrin: Technology Adoption with Exit in Imperfectly Informed Equity Markets [Preview]

Van den Steen, Eric: Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm [Preview]

von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin; van Soest, Arthur and Wengström, Erik: Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population

Wang, Joseph Tao-yi; Spezio, Michael and Camerer, Colin F.: Pinocchio's Pupil: Using Eyetracking and Pupil Dilation to Understand Truth-Telling and Deception in Games [Preview]

Waugh, Michael: International Trade and Income Differences

Weinstein, David E. and Broda, Christian: Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications [Preview]

Weizsacker, Georg: Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations

Weyl, Eric Glen: The Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms [Preview]

Woodford, Michael: Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy Under Near-Rational Expectations [Preview]

Yi, Kei-Mu: Vertical Specialization and the Border Effect Puzzle [Preview]

Shorter Papers

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Che, Yeon-Koo and Yasuda, Yosuke: Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice: the "Boston" Mechanism Reconsidered

Aizer, Anna: Wages, Violence and Health in the Household [Preview]

Anderson, Steven T.; Friedman, Daniel and Oprea, Ryan: Preemption Games: Theory and Experiment [Preview]

Apesteguia, Jose and Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio: Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

Baillon, Aurélien; L'Haridon, Olivier and Placido, Laetitia: Ambiguity Models and the Machina Paradoxes

Benjamin, Daniel; Choi, James and Strickland, Albert Joshua: Social Identity and Preferences [Preview]

Brown, Meta; Flinn, Christopher and Schotter, Andrew R.: Real-Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market

Calsamiglia, Catarina; Haeringer, Guillaume and Klijn, Flip: Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans and Schirm, John: Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment [Preview]

Chang, Roberto: Elections, Capital Flows, and Politico Economic Equilibria [Preview]

Chone, Philippe and , Guy Laroque: Negative Marginal Tax Rates and Heterogeneity [Preview]

Coibion, Olivier and Gorodnichenko, Yuriy: Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation, and the Great Moderation: An Alternative Interpretation

Couch, Kenneth A. and Placzek, Dana W.: The Earnings Impact of Job Displacement Measured with Longitudinally Matched Individual and Firm Data [Preview]

Covas, Francisco and den Haan, Wouter: The Cyclical Behavior of Debt and Equity Finance

Dal Bo, Pedro and Frechette, Guillaume Roy: The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence

Duggan, Mark G. and Scott Morton, Fiona: The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization [Preview]

Eckel, Catherine C. and Petrie, Ragan: Face Value

Eichholtz, Piet; Kok, Nils and Quigley, John M.: Doing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings [Preview]

Ellman, Matthew Benjamin and Pezanis-Christou, Paul: Organizational Structure, Communication, and Group Ethics [Preview]

Eyigungor, Burcu: Specific Capital and Vintage Effects on the Dynamics of Unemployment and Vacancies [Preview]

Feri, Francesco; Irlenbusch, Bernd and Sutter, Matthias: Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination – Large-Scale Experimental Evidence [Preview]

Fischbacher, Urs and Gaechter, Simon: Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods [Preview]

Fryer Jr., Roland G. and Levitt, Steven D.: Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

Garcia-Cicco, Javier; Pancrazi, Roberto and Uribe, Martin: Real Business Cycles in Emerging Countries? [Preview]

Greenwood, Jeremy; Sanchez, Juan M. and Wang, Cheng: Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs [Preview]

Guimaraes, Bernardo and Sheedy, Kevin D.: Sales and Monetary Policy

Hamman, John; Loewenstein, George F. and Weber, Roberto: Self-Interest Through Agency: An Alternative Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship [Preview]

Jacoby, Hanan and Mansuri, Ghazala: Watta Satta: Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan [Preview]

Kogan, Shimon; Kwasnica, Anthony M. and Weber, Roberto: Coordination in the Presence of Asset Markets

Lane, Philip R. and Shambaugh, Jay C.: Financial Exchange Rates and International Currency Exposures [Preview]

Lawler, Phillip and James, Jonathan Gerwyn: Optimal Policy Intervention and the Social Value of Public Information

Lewis, Gregory: Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection and Online Disclosure: The Case of eBay Motors

List, John A.; Levitt, Steven and Sadoff, Sally: Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

Mavroeidis, Sophocles: Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Some New Evidence [Preview]

Moen, Espen Rasmus and Riis, Christian: When Does it Take a Nixon to go to China? [Preview]

Reutskaja, Elena; Nagel, Rosemarie; Camerer, Colin F. and Rangel, Antonio: Search Dynamics in Consumer Choice under Time Pressure: An Eye-Tracking Study

Shy, Oz and Wang, Zhu: Why Do Payment Card Networks Charge Proportional Fees?

Sunde, Uwe; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin and Huffman, David: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability? [Preview]

Tanaka, Tomomi; Camerer, Colin F. and Nguyen, Quang: Risk and Time Preferences: Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam [Preview]

Wright, Jonathan: Term Premia and Inflation Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from an International Panel Dataset

Wright, Randall; Menzio, Guido and Berentsen, Aleksander: Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

Comments and Replies

Blonigen, Bruce and Haynes, Stephen: Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-through of Antidumping Duties and Exchange Rates: Reply [Preview]

Bolton, Gary and Ockenfels, Axel: Risk Taking and Social Comparison: A Comment on "Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States"

Brunner, Christoph; Camerer, Colin F. and Goeree, Jacob K.: A Correction and Re-Examination of "Stationary Concepts for 2x2 Experimental Games"

Che, Yeon-Koo and Kim, Jinwoo: Bidding with Securities: Comment

Chen, Bo: All-or-Nothing Monitoring: Comment [Preview]

Davig, Troy Allen and Leeper, Eric: Reply to "Generalizing the Taylor Principle: A Comment" [Preview]

Farmer, Roger E. A. and Beyer, Andreas: On the Indeterminacy of Determinacy and Indeterminacy: Comments on the Paper "Testing for Indeterminacy" by Thomas Lubik and Frank Schorfheide

Goerg, Sebastian; Chmura, Thorsten G.H. and Selten, Reinhard: Correction and Re-Examination of Stationary Concepts for Experimental 2x2 Games: A Reply

Hastings, Justine: Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Reply

Isoni, Andrea; Loomes, Graham and Sugden, Robert: The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect", Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations: A Reassessment

Kelly, Brian Daniel: Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-through of Antidumping Duties and Exchange Rates: Comment [Preview]

Taylor, Christopher T.; Kreisle, Nicholas and Zimmerman, Paul R.: Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Comment [Preview]

Corrigenda

Debs, Alexandre; Snyder, James and Ting, Michael: Legislative Bargaining under Weighted Voting: A Corrigendum








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