Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 18 No. 1 Winter 2004

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Title

Abstract

Author

Symposium: Japan's Economy

Japan's Financial Crisis and Economic Stagnation

Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap

(pp. 3-26)

Competition in Japan

Michael E. Porter and Mariko Sakakibara

(pp. 27-50)

Symposium: Political Economy

Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?

Casey B. Mulligan, Ricard Gil and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

(pp. 51-74)

Constitutions and Economic Policy

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

(pp. 75-98)

Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting

Timothy J. Feddersen

(pp. 99-112)

Legislative Organization

Keith Krehbiel

(pp. 113-128)

Articles

Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History

Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer

(pp. 129-162)

Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not

Steven D. Levitt

(pp. 163-190)

Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn't It More Affordable?

John M. Quigley and Steven Raphael

(pp. 191-214)

Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe

Emily Oster

(pp. 215-228)

Features

Retrospectives: Gender in Classical Economics

Robert W. Dimand, Evelyn L. Forget and Chris Nyland

(pp. 229-240)

Recommendations for Further Reading

Bernard Saffran

(pp. 241-248)

Notes (pp. 249-250)