Editors' Introduction
(p. vii)
American Economic Review
Vol. 94 No. 2 May 2004
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Foreword
(p. viii)
The Institutions of Monetary Policy
(pp. 1-13)
Asset Prices, Financial Instability, and Monetary Policy
(pp. 14-18)
Inflation Illusion and Stock Prices
(pp. 19-23)
The Fed Response to Equity Prices and Inflation
(pp. 24-28)
Aggregate Short Interest and Market Valuations
(pp. 29-32)
Risk and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy
(pp. 33-40)
Panel Discussion
(pp. 41-48)
Preemption, Changing Structure, and U. S. Monetary Policy
(pp. 49-52)
Serial Default and the "Paradox" of Rich-to-Poor Capital Flows
(pp. 53-58)
Financial Openness, Sudden Stops, and Current-Account Reversals
(pp. 59-64)
Financial Opening and Development: Evidence and Policy Controversies
(pp. 65-70)
Monetary and Fiscal Remedies for Deflation
(pp. 71-75)
Policy Options in a Liquidity Trap
(pp. 76-79)
Exchange-Rate Policy and the Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates
(pp. 80-84)
Conducting Monetary Policy at Very Low Short-Term Interest Rates
(pp. 85-90)
Transparency of Information and Coordination in Economies with Investment Complementarities
(pp. 91-98)
Deflation and Depression: Is There an Empirical Link?
(pp. 99-103)
Negative Nominal Interest Rates
(pp. 104-108)
Wedges and Taxes
(pp. 109-113)
A Scapegoat Model of Exchange-Rate Fluctuations
(pp. 114-118)
Accounting for Exchange-Rate Variability in Present-Value Models When the Discount Factor Is Near 1
(pp. 119-125)
Can Portfolio Rebalancing Explain the Dynamics of Equity Returns, Equity Flows, and Exchange Rates?
(pp. 126-133)
Why Is Manufacturing Trade Rising Even as Manufacturing Output is Falling?
(pp. 134-138)
Variety Growth and World Welfare
(pp. 139-144)
On the Measurement of Product Variety in Trade
(pp. 145-149)
Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations
(pp. 150-154)
How Much Equity Does the Government Hold?
(pp. 155-160)
Toward a Consumption Tax, and Beyond
(pp. 161-165)
What Do Aggregate Consumption Euler Equations Say About the Capital-Income Tax Burden?
(pp. 166-170)
Taxation and Corporate Payout Policy
(pp. 171-175)
Is the Social Security Trust Fund a Store of Value?
(pp. 176-181)
Social Security Financing: Facts, Fantasies, Foibles, and Follies
(pp. 182-186)
Improving Social Security's Progressivity and Solvency with Hybrid Indexing
(pp. 187-191)
CEO Pay and Appointments: A Market-Based Explanation for Recent Trends
(pp. 192-196)
Inequality and the Organization of Knowledge
(pp. 197-202)
Task-Specific Human Capital
(pp. 203-207)
Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
(pp. 208-211)
The Structure of Wages and Internal Mobility
(pp. 212-216)
Using "Insider Econometrics" to Study Productivity
(pp. 217-223)
Integrated Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data for the United States
(pp. 224-229)
Changing Labor-Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers, 1957-2000
(pp. 230-235)
Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States
(pp. 236-240)
Teacher Testing, Teacher Education, and Teacher Characteristics
(pp. 241-246)
The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data
(pp. 247-252)
Efficiency in the Use of Technology in Economic Education: Some Preliminary Results
(pp. 253-258)
What Students Remember and Say about College Economics Years Later
(pp. 259-265)
Ph. D. Program Learning and Job Demands: How Close Is the Match?
(pp. 266-271)
The Market for New Ph. D. Economists in 2002
(pp. 272-285)
Panel Discussion
(pp. 286-290)
Can Demand-Side Variables Explain the Low Numbers of Minority Faculty in Higher Education?
(pp. 291-295)
The Effects of Ph. D. Supply on Minority Faculty Representation
(pp. 296-301)
Panel Discussion
(pp. 302-306)
Institutional Strategies to Achieve Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Does Title IX Harm Male Athletes?
(pp. 307-311)
Understanding How Child-Support Arrears Reached $18 Billion in California
(pp. 312-316)
Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium
(pp. 317-321)
Occupation, Sex-Integration, and Divorce
(pp. 322-325)
Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan
(pp. 326-330)
Medical Compliance and Income-Health Gradients
(pp. 331-335)
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA's Control Randomized Experiment
(pp. 336-341)
The Role of Information in Medical Markets: An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
(pp. 342-346)
Managed Care, Information, and Diffusion: The Case of Treatment for Heart-Attack Patients
(pp. 347-351)
Hospital Transaction Prices and Managed-Care Discounting for Selected Medical Technologies
(pp. 352-356)
The Productivity of Physician Specialization: Evidence from the Medicare Program
(pp. 357-361)
Repetition and Reputation: Implications for Trust and Trustworthiness When Institutions Change
(pp. 362-366)
Mood-Driven Behavior in Strategic Interactions
(pp. 367-372)
Social Capital and Contributions in a Public-Goods Experiment
(pp. 373-376)
Gender and Competition at a Young Age
(pp. 377-381)
Property Rights to Technical Knowledge in Premodern Europe, 1300 -1800
(pp. 382-387)
Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Historical Patent Citations
(pp. 388-394)
Institutions and Democratic Invention in 19th-Century America: Evidence from "Great Inventors," 1790-1930
(pp. 395-401)
Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Cultural Competition?
(pp. 402-407)
Psychology and the Market
(pp. 408-413)
Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior?
(pp. 414-418)
A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty
(pp. 419-423)
Design Choices in Privatized Social-Security Systems: Learning from the Swedish Experience
(pp. 424-428)
Toward National Well-Being Accounts
(pp. 429-434)
Persuasion in Politics
(pp. 435-439)
The Employment Consequences of Wrongful-Discharge Laws: Large, Small, or None at All?
(pp. 440-446)
Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects
(pp. 447-453)
Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
(pp. 454-460)
What Is a Barrier to Entry?
(pp. 461-465)
Why Barriers to Entry Are Barriers to Understanding
(pp. 466-470)
Sunk Costs and Antitrust Barriers to Entry
(pp. 471-475)
John Bates Clark Award
(p. 478)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
(pp. 479-480)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 481-491)
Report of the Secretary for 2003
(pp. 492-494)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 495-498)
Report of the Finance Committee
(pp. 499-500)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 501-513)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 514-517)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 518-519)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 520-522)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 523-524)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(pp. 525-533)
Report of the Search Committee for a JEL Editor
(p. 534)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 535-538)
Information on the Association
(p. 539)