Front Matter
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American Economic Review
Vol. 90 No. 2 May 2000
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International Financial Crises: Causes, Prevention, and Cures
(pp. 1-16)
Crisis and Risk Management
(pp. 17-21)
Tunneling
(pp. 22-27)
U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts: From Mexico to LTCM
(pp. 28-31)
Floating, Fixed, or Super-Fixed? Dollarization Joins the Menu of Exchange-Rate Options
(pp. 32-37)
Conflicting Demands on the International Monetary Fund
(pp. 38-42)
Rules and Authorities in International Monetary Arrangements: The Role of the Central Bank
(pp. 43-47)
Why Did the Ruble Collapse in August 1998?
(pp. 48-52)
The Polish Zloty, 1990-1999: Success and Underperformance
(pp. 53-58)
Capital-Markets Crises and Economic Collapse in Emerging Markets: An Informational-Frictions Approach
(pp. 59-64)
Mirage of Floating Exchange Rates
(pp. 65-70)
Exchange-Rate Policy for Developing Countries
(pp. 71-75)
Telling Better Stories in Introductory Macro
(pp. 76-80)
Eight Reasons Why Real versus Nominal Interest Rates Is the Most Important Concept in Macroeconomics Principles Courses
(pp. 81-84)
The Principles of Macroeconomics at the Millennium
(pp. 85-89)
Teaching Modern Macroeconomics at the Principles Level
(pp. 90-94)
The First Year of the Eurosystem: Inflation Targeting or Not?
(pp. 95-99)
Pitfalls of Forward-Looking Monetary Policy
(pp. 100-104)
Inflation Targeting in Emerging-Market Countries
(pp. 105-109)
Requiem for the Representative Consumer? Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior
(pp. 110-115)
Testing the (S, s) Model
(pp. 116-119)
The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy
(pp. 120-125)
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development
(pp. 126-130)
Ethnicity and Development in Africa: A Reappraisal
(pp. 131-134)
Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels
(pp. 135-139)
Participatory Politics, Social Cooperation, and Economic Stability
(pp. 140-144)
Beyond the Algebra of Explanation: HOV for the Technology Age
(pp. 145-149)
International Trade as an "Integrated Equilibrium": New Perspectives
(pp. 150-154)
Aggregation Bias in the Factor Content of Trade: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
(pp. 155-160)
U.S. Economic Growth at the Industry Level
(pp. 161-167)
Economic and Productivity Growth in Canadian Industries
(pp. 168-171)
A Comparison of Industrial Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
(pp. 172-175)
Productivity Levels and International Competitiveness between Canadian and U.S. Industries
(pp. 176-179)
The IBM and Microsoft Cases: What's the Difference?
(pp. 180-183)
A Competitive Perspective on Internet Explorer
(pp. 184-187)
Toward a Quantification of the Effects of Microsoft's Conduct
(pp. 188-191)
Antitrust Issues in Schumpeterian Industries
(pp. 192-196)
Has the "Million-Dollar Cap" Affected CEO Pay?
(pp. 197-202)
Agents with and without Principals
(pp. 203-208)
Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options
(pp. 209-214)
Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Citations: Evidence from a Survey of Inventors
(pp. 215-218)
Who Benefits Most from Employee Involvement: Firms or Workers?
(pp. 219-223)
Is Cost-Cutting Evidence of X-Inefficiency?
(pp. 224-227)
Economists and Field Research: "You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watching."
(pp. 228-232)
Can Downstream Waste Disposal Policies Encourage Upstream "Design for Environment"?
(pp. 233-237)
Two Generalizations of a Deposit-Refund Systems
(pp. 238-242)
Restricting the Trash Trade
(pp. 243-246)
Economic Measurement: Progress and Challenges
(pp. 247-252)
Getting the 21st-Century GDP Right: What's Underway?
(pp. 253-258)
New Directions in National Economic Accounting
(pp. 259-263)
The Income and Tax Share of Very High-Income Households, 1960-1995
(pp. 264-270)
Taxes, High-Income Executives, and the Perils of Revenue Estimation in the New Economy
(pp. 271-275)
Capital-Gains Realizations of the Rich and Sophisticated
(pp. 276-282)
Tax Policy and Entrepreneurial Entry
(pp. 283-287)
How Much Should Americans Be Saving for Retirement?
(pp. 288-292)
Generational Accounts for the United States: An Update
(pp. 293-296)
Saver Behavior and 401(k) Retirement Wealth
(pp. 297-302)
Generational Aspects of Medicare
(pp. 303-307)
Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: The International Record
(pp. 308-311)
Persistent Discrimination: Racial Disparity in the United States, 1967-1988
(pp. 312-316)
Intergroup Economic Inequality in South Africa: The Post-apartheid Era
(pp. 317-321)
Does Caste Still Define Disparity? A Look at Inequality in Kerala, India
(pp. 322-325)
The Convergence in Black-White Infant Mortality Rates during the 1960's
(pp. 326-332)
Labor-Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap: 1940-1990
(pp. 333-338)
Evaluating a Simple Method for Estimating Black-White Gaps in Median Wages
(pp. 339-343)
Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990
(pp. 344-349)
Immigration, Social Security, and Broader Fiscal Impacts
(pp. 350-354)
Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates
(pp. 355-359)
Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?
(pp. 360-367)
Immigrant Earnings Assimilation: Estimates from Longitudinal Data
(pp. 368-372)
Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in U.S. Time Series
(pp. 373-377)
The Economics of Fatherhood
(pp. 378-382)
Women on Welfare: A Macroeconomic Analysis
(pp. 383-388)
Carrots and Sticks: Fertility Effects of China's Population Policies
(pp. 389-392)
Child Health and Household Resources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension Program
(pp. 393-398)
Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children
(pp. 399-404)
Sibling Rivalry in Africa
(pp. 405-409)
The Power of Incentives
(pp. 410-414)
The Use of Performance Measures in Incentive Contracting
(pp. 415-420)
What Trade-Off of Risk and Incentives?
(pp. 421-425)
Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior
(pp. 426-432)
A Boundedly Rational Decision Algorithm
(pp. 433-438)
Thinking and Feeling
(pp. 439-443)
Growth in Women's Relative Wages and in Inequality among Men: One Phenomenon or Two?
(pp. 444-449)
The Rise of Female Professionals: Are Women Responding to Skill Demand?
(pp. 450-455)
Are Women's Wage Gains Men's Losses? A Distributional Test
(pp. 456-460)
Career and Marriage in the Age of the Pill
(pp. 461-465)
Why Are Women Such Reluctant Economists? Evidence from Liberal Arts Colleges
(pp. 466-470)
Do Colleges Shortchange Women? Gender Differences in the Transition from College to Work
(pp. 471-475)
Harriet Taylor Mill
(pp. 476-479)
Nineteenth-Century American Feminist Economics: From Caroline Dall to Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(pp. 480-484)
John Bates Clark Medalist
(p. 486)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
(p. 487)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 488-494)
Report of the Secretary for 1999
(pp. 495-497)
Report of the Treasurer for the Year Ending December 31, 1999
(p. 498)
Report of the Finance Committee
(p. 499)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 500-507)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 508-510)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 511-513)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 514-516)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 517-518)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
(pp. 519-520)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(pp. 521-527)
Report of the AEA Committee on the Journals
(pp. 528-531)
Report of the Representative to the National Bureau of Economic Research
(pp. 532-533)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 534-536)