Front Matter
(pp. i-iii)
American Economic Review
Vol. 99 No. 4 September 2009
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Can News about the Future Drive the Business Cycle?
(pp. 1097-1118)
Portfolio Claustrophobia: Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets
(pp. 1119-44)
Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence
(pp. 1145-77)
Decentralized Organizational Learning: An Experimental Investigation
(pp. 1178-1205)
Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking
(pp. 1206-17)
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
(pp. 1218-44)
Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines
(pp. 1245-77)
Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment
(pp. 1278-1308)
One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry
(pp. 1309-34)
Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
(pp. 1335-55)
Tax Changes and Asset Pricing
(pp. 1356-83)
The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
(pp. 1384-1414)
Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models
(pp. 1415-50)
Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices
(pp. 1451-83)
Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight: An Experimental Study of a Small-Market Investment Game with Common and Private Values
(pp. 1484-1507)
Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices
(pp. 1508-43)
Why Do Sellers (Usually) Prefer Auctions?
(pp. 1544-75)
Learning about the Future and Dynamic Efficiency
(pp. 1576-87)
Bank Runs and Institutions: The Perils of Intervention
(pp. 1588-1607)
Expectation Damages, Divisible Contracts, and Bilateral Investment
(pp. 1608-18)
Field Centipedes
(pp. 1619-35)
VAR Analysis and the Great Moderation
(pp. 1636-52)
Art as an Investment and Conspicuous Consumption Good
(pp. 1653-63)
Offshoring and Volatility: Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladora Industry
(pp. 1664-71)
Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Comment
(pp. 1672-75)
Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Reply
(pp. 1676-83)