Editors' Introduction
(p. viii)
American Economic Review
Vol. 97 No. 2 May 2007
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Foreword
(p. ix)
Beliefs, Doubts and Learning: Valuing Macroeconomic Risk
(pp. 1-30)
The Technology of Skill Formation
(pp. 31-47)
Ex Ante Policy Evaluation, Structural Estimation and Model Selection
(pp. 48-52)
Testing the Mechanisms of Structural Models: The Case of the Mickey Mantle Effect
(pp. 53-59)
Bayesian Model Comparison and Validation
(pp. 60-64)
Reciprocity in Groups and the Limits to Social Capital
(pp. 65-69)
Risk Sharing Across Communities
(pp. 70-74)
Risk Sharing and Network Formation
(pp. 75-79)
Community Size and Network Closure
(pp. 80-85)
Communication Networks: Knowledge and Decisions
(pp. 86-91)
Diffusion of Behavior and Equilibrium Properties in Network Games
(pp. 92-98)
Financial Networks
(pp. 99-103)
Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach
(pp. 104-107)
Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Duration, and Post-Unemployment Jobs: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(pp. 108-112)
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
(pp. 113-118)
Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance
(pp. 119-124)
An Ascending Auction for Interdependent Values: Uniqueness and Robustness to Strategic Uncertainty
(pp. 125-130)
Designing Efficient Mechanisms for Dynamic Bilateral Trading Games
(pp. 131-136)
On Quitting Rights in Mechanism Design
(pp. 137-141)
Neuroeconomic Studies of Impulsivity: Now or Just as Soon as Possible?
(pp. 142-147)
The Neuroeconomic Theory of Learning
(pp. 148-152)
Revealing Preferences Graphically: An Old Method Gets a New Tool Kit
(pp. 153-158)
Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices, and the Preference for Skewed Returns
(pp. 159-165)
Experimental Testing of Intrinsic Preferences for NonInstrumental Information
(pp. 166-169)
Guilt in Games
(pp. 170-176)
Adding a Stick to the Carrot? The Interaction of Bonuses and Fines
(pp. 177-181)
Incomplete Contracts and Ownership: Some New thoughts
(pp. 182-186)
Can Contract Theory Explain Social Preferences?
(pp. 187-192)
Liquidity and Risk Management
(pp. 193-197)
Search in Asset Markets: Market Structure, Liquidity, and Welfare
(pp. 198-202)
Information Percolation in Large Markets
(pp. 203-209)
Market Maker Inventories and Stock Prices
(pp. 210-214)
Slow Moving Capital
(pp. 215-220)
Systemic Illiquidity in the Federal Funds Market
(pp. 221-225)
Increasing Income Inequality, External Habits, and Self-Reported Happiness
(pp. 226-231)
Pricing to Habits and the Law of One Price
(pp. 232-238)
Explaining Asset Prices with External Habits and Wage Rigidities in a DSGE Model
(pp. 239-243)
Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market
(pp. 244-249)
Uncertainty and the Dynamics of R&D
(pp. 250-255)
Investment under Uncertainty with Strategic Debt Service
(pp. 256-261)
The Bank of Amsterdam and the Leap to Central Bank Money
(pp. 262-265)
Backing, the Quantity Theory, and the Transition to the US Dollar, 1723-1850
(pp. 266-270)
The Political Economy of the US Monetary Union: The Civil War Era as a Watershed
(pp. 271-275)
John Law's System
(pp. 276-279)
The Net Worth of the US Federal Government, 1784-1802
(pp. 280-284)
The Great Financial Crisis of 1914: What Can We Learn from Aldrich–Vreeland Emergency Currency?
(pp. 285-289)
The McKenna Rule and UK World War I Finance
(pp. 290-294)
How Occupied France Financed Its Own Exploitation in World War II
(pp. 295-299)
The Perils of Transparency in Bureaucracies
(pp. 300-305)
Decision–Making Procedures for Committees of Careerist Experts
(pp. 306-310)
The Transparency of Politics and the Quality of Politicians
(pp. 311-315)
Aid Effectiveness – Opening the Black Box
(pp. 316-321)
Does Aid Affect Governance?
(pp. 322-327)
Was Development Assistance a Mistake?
(pp. 328-332)
The Returns to Currency Speculation in Emerging Markets
(pp. 333-338)
If Exchange Rates are Random Walks, Then Almost Everything We Say About Monetary Policy is Wrong
(pp. 339-345)
Random Walk Expectations and the Forward Discount Puzzle
(pp. 346-350)
Unbalanced Trade
(pp. 351-355)
Trade Flow Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms
(pp. 356-361)
Pricing-to-Market in a Ricardian Model of International Trade
(pp. 362-367)
The Effect of Globalization on the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the United States: Does Owners' Race/Ethnicity Matter?
(pp. 368-372)
The Effects of Recent Immigration on Racial/Ethnic Labor Market Differentials
(pp. 373-377)
Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Employment Patterns in US Manufacturing
(pp. 378-382)
Differential Impacts of Immigrants on Native Black and White Workers
(pp. 383-387)
Nonlinearities and Robustness in Growth Regressions
(pp. 388-392)
Public Education Expenditures, Taxation, and Growth: Linking Data to Theory
(pp. 393-397)
Why Do Poor Children Lose Health Insurance in the SCHIP Era? The Role of Family Health
(pp. 398-401)
The Effect of Child Gender on Parents' Labor Supply: An Examination of Natives, Immigrants, and their Children
(pp. 402-406)
Reaching Equilibrium in the Market for Obstetricians and Gynecologists
(pp. 407-411)
Gender Differences in the Labor Market: Impact of IRCA
(pp. 412-416)
The Role of Labor Market Intermittency in Explaining Gender Wage Differentials
(pp. 417-421)
Women Helping Women, Men Helping Women? Same-Gender Mentoring, Initial Job Placements, and Early Career Publishing Success for Economics PhDs
(pp. 422-426)
Integrated Insurance Design in the Presence of Multiple Medical Technologies
(pp. 427-432)
Social Value and the Speed of Innovation
(pp. 433-437)
The Impact of New Drugs on US Longevity and Medical Expenditure, 1990–2003: Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data
(pp. 438-443)
Identification and Estimation of Bidders' Risk Aversion in First-Price Auctions
(pp. 444-448)
An Estimate Dynamic Model of Entry, Exit, and Growth in Oligopoly Retail Markets
(pp. 449-454)
Bounding Revenue Comparisons across Multi-Unit Auction Formats under ε-Best Response
(pp. 455-458)
Linear Regression Estimation of Discrete Choice Models with Nonparametric Distributions of Random Coefficients
(pp. 459-463)
Toward Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
(pp. 464-470)
Welfare without Happiness
(pp. 471-476)
Mistakes in Choice-Based Welfare Analysis
(pp. 477-481)
Some Evolutionary Economics of Family Partnerships
(pp. 482-486)
Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective
(pp. 487-491)
Why do We Die? Economics, Biology and Aging
(pp. 492-495)
The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences
(pp. 496-500)
Is There An Insider Advantage in Getting Tenure?
(pp. 501-505)
The Search for Economics Talent: Doctoral Completion and Research Productivity
(pp. 506-511)
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes
(pp. 512-520)
John Bates Clark Award
(pp. 521-522)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
(pp. 523-524)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 525-533)
Report of the Secretary
(pp. 534-537)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 538-541)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Review
(pp. 542-554)
Report of the Editor, Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 555-557)
Report of the Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 558-559)
Report of the Director, Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 560-562)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 563-565)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(pp. 566-572)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
(pp. 573-580)
Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics
(pp. 581-582)
Report of the Representative to the International Economic Association
(p. 583)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(p. 584)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(p. 585)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(p. 586)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(p. 587)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(p. 588)