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American Economic Review

Vol. 99, No. 1, March 2009


Front Matter (pp. i-vi)

Articles



Governance Institutions and Economic Activity (pp. 5-24)
Avinash Dixit

Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea after All! (pp. 25-48)
Juan Carlos Conesa, Sagiri Kitao and Dirk Krueger

Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending (pp. 49-84)
William Adams, Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin

Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth (pp. 85-111)
Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi

Peers at Work (pp. 112-45)
Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti

Women, Wealth, and Mobility (pp. 146-78)
Lena Edlund and Wojciech Kopczuk

Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design (pp. 179-215)
Miguel Urquiola and Eric Verhoogen

Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs (pp. 216-42)
Paul Beaudry, Charles Blackorby and Dezsö Szalay

Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs (pp. 243-64)
Robert J. Barro

Cognition and Incomplete Contracts (pp. 265-94)
Jean Tirole

The Value of Groups (pp. 295-323)
Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Daniel John Zizzo

The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine, Public Health, and Crime (pp. 324-49)
Carlos Dobkin and Nancy Nicosia

Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data (pp. 350-84)
Jean Boivin, Marc P. Giannoni and Ilian Mihov

Risk, Ambiguity, and the Rank-Dependence Axioms (pp. 385-92)
Mark J. Machina

Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market (pp. 393-430)
Katherine Ho

Group Identity and Social Preferences (pp. 431-57)
Yan Chen and Sherry Xin Li

Shorter Papers



Excise Taxes with Multiproduct Transactions (pp. 458-71)
Stephen F. Hamilton

Diversity in the Workplace (pp. 472-85)
John Morgan and Felix Várdy

Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How Do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles' Consumption? (pp. 486-508)
Manuela Angelucci and Giacomo De Giorgi

Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations? (pp. 509-27)
Michael D. Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann

Democracy and Foreign Education (pp. 528-43)
Antonio Spilimbergo

Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially (pp. 544-55)
Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier