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American Economic Review

Vol. 98, No. 5, December 2008


Front Matter (page i)

Articles



Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile (pp. 1737-65)
Jean-Marie Baland and James A. Robinson

The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification (pp. 1766-97)
Stephen J. Redding and Daniel M. Sturm

The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Reunification (pp. 1798-1828)
Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln

The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status (pp. 1829-63)
Rebecca L. Thornton

Does Job Corps Work? Impact Findings from the National Job Corps Study (pp. 1864-86)
Peter Z. Schochet, John Burghardt and Sheena McConnell

Consumption Inequality and Partial Insurance (pp. 1887-1921)
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston

Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed (pp. 1922-42)
Robert Shimer and Ivan Werning

Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan (pp. 1943-77)
Ricardo J. Caballero, Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap

Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring (pp. 1978-97)
Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Pricing-to-Market, Trade Costs, and International Relative Prices (pp. 1998-2031)
Andrew Atkeson and Ariel Burstein

Optimal Tariffs and Market Power: The Evidence (pp. 2032-65)
Christian Broda, Nuno Limao and David E. Weinstein

Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices (pp. 2066-2100)
Nicholas Barberis and Ming Huang

Trend Inflation, Indexation, and Inflation Persistence in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (pp. 2101-26)
Timothy Cogley and Argia M. Sbordone

Contextual Inference in Markets: On the Informational Content of Product Lines (pp. 2127-49)
Emir Kamenica

Shorter Papers



Conversations among Competitors (pp. 2150-62)
Jeremy C. Stein

The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision: A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study (pp. 2163-84)
Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd Stinebrickner

On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict (pp. 2185-2202)
Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray

How Do Budget Deficits and Economic Growth Affect Reelection Prospects? Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries (pp. 2203-20)
Adi Brender and Allan Drazen

Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families (pp. 2221-41)
Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Medicare (pp. 2242-58)
David Card, Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas

Can Hepatitis B Mothers Account for the Number of Missing Women? Evidence from Three Million Newborns in Taiwan (pp. 2259-73)
Ming-Jen Lin and Ming-Ching Luoh