The Global Monetary System
International Monetary Relations: Taking Finance Seriously
(pp. 3–28)
The Safe Assets Shortage Conundrum
(pp. 29–46)
Dealing with Monetary Paralysis at the Zero Bound
(pp. 47–66)
Journal of Economic Perspectives
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The Modern Corporation
Is the US Public Corporation in Trouble?
by Kathleen M. Kahle and René M. Stulz
(pp. 67–88)
The Agency Problems of Institutional Investors
by Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Scott Hirst
(pp. 89–102)
Towards a Political Theory of the Firm
by Luigi Zingales
(pp. 113–30)
A Skeptical View of Financialized Corporate Governance
by Anat R. Admati
(pp. 131–50)
Recent Ideas in Econometrics
The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation
by Susan Athey and Guido W. Imbens
(pp. 3–32)
The Use of Structural Models in Econometrics
by Hamish Low and Costas Meghir
(pp. 33–58)
Twenty Years of Time Series Econometrics in Ten Pictures
by James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson
(pp. 59–86)
Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach
by Sendhil Mullainathan and Jann Spiess
(pp. 87–106)
Identification and Asymptotic Approximations: Three Examples of Progress in Econometric Theory
by James L. Powell
(pp. 107–24)
Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
(pp. 125–44)
Are Measures of Economic Growth Biased?
Underestimating the Real Growth of GDP, Personal Income, and Productivity
by Martin Feldstein
(pp. 145–64)
Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the US Productivity Slowdown
by Chad Syverson
(pp. 165–86)
How Government Statistics Adjust for Potential Biases from Quality Change and New Goods in an Age of Digital Technologies: A View from the Trenches
by Erica L. Groshen, Brian C. Moyer, Ana M. Aizcorbe, Ralph Bradley, and David M. Friedman
(pp. 187–210)
China
Is China Socialist?
by Barry Naughton
(pp. 3–24)
Human Capital and China's Future Growth
by Hongbin Li, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle, and Binzhen Wu
(pp. 25–48)
From "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges
by Shang-Jin Wei, Zhuan Xie, and Xiaobo Zhang
(pp. 49–70)
A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China?
by Siqi Zheng and Matthew E. Kahn
(pp. 71–92)
A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics
by Edward Glaeser, Wei Huang, Yueran Ma, and Andrei Shleifer
(pp. 93–116)
Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
by Bei Qin, David Strömberg, and Yanhui Wu
(pp. 117–40)
The Evolution of China's One-Child Policy and Its Effects on Family Outcomes
by Junsen Zhang
(pp. 141–60)
Women in the Labor Market
The New Life Cycle of Women's Employment: Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops
by Claudia Goldin and Joshua Mitchell
(pp. 161–82)
Specialization Then and Now: Marriage, Children, and the Gender Earnings Gap across Cohorts
by Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue
(pp. 183–204)
The Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries
by Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo
(pp. 205–30)
Immigration and Labor Markets
Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets
by Giovanni Peri
(pp. 3–30)
The Impact of Immigration: Why Do Studies Reach Such Different Results?
by Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg, and Jan Stuhler
(pp. 31–56)
Is the Mediterranean the New Rio Grande? US and EU Immigration Pressures in the Long Run
by Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh
(pp. 57–82)
Global Talent Flows
by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons
(pp. 83–106)
What is Happening in Game Theory?
Game Theory in Economics and Beyond
by Larry Samuelson
(pp. 107–30)
New Directions for Modelling Strategic Behavior: Game-Theoretic Models of Communication, Coordination, and Cooperation in Economic Relationships
by Vincent P. Crawford
(pp. 131–50)
Whither Game Theory? Towards a Theory of Learning in Games
by Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine
(pp. 151–70)
Schools and Accountability
The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
by Ludger Woessmann
(pp. 3–32)
Accountability in US Education: Applying Lessons from K-12 Experience to Higher Education
by David J. Deming and David Figlio
(pp. 33–56)
What Can We Learn from Charter School Lotteries?
by Julia Chabrier, Sarah Cohodes, and Philip Oreopoulos
(pp. 57–84)
The Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems
by Brian Jacob and Jesse Rothstein
(pp. 85–108)
The Need for Accountability in Education in Developing Countries
by Isaac M. Mbiti
(pp. 109–32)
Motivated Beliefs
The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning
by Nicholas Epley and Thomas Gilovich
(pp. 133–40)
Mindful Economics: The Production, Consumption, and Value of Beliefs
by Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole
(pp. 141–64)
The Preference for Belief Consonance
by Russell Golman, George Loewenstein, Karl Ove Moene, and Luca Zarri
(pp. 165–88)
Motivated Bayesians: Feeling Moral While Acting Egoistically
by Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton, and Roberto A. Weber
(pp. 189–212)
NSF Funding for Economists
In Defense of the NSF Economics Program
by Robert A. Moffitt
(pp. 213–34)
A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research
by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
(pp. 235–48)
Inequality Beyond Income
Consumption Inequality
by Orazio P. Attanasio and Luigi Pistaferri
(pp. 3–28)
Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
by Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt
(pp. 29–52)
Health Insurance and Income Inequality
by Robert Kaestner and Darren Lubotsky
(pp. 53–78)
Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
by Shelly Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak, and Jenna Stearns
(pp. 79–102)
Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality
by Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael
(pp. 103–26)
The Bretton Woods Institutions
The International Monetary Fund: 70 Years of Reinvention
by Carmen M. Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch
(pp. 3–28)
The IMF's Unmet Challenges
by Barry Eichengreen and Ngaire Woods
(pp. 29–52)
The New Role for the World Bank
by Michael A. Clemens and Michael Kremer
(pp. 53–76)
The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
by Martin Ravallion
(pp. 77–94)
The World Trade Organization and the Future of Multilateralism
by Richard Baldwin
(pp. 95–116)
Oil and Gas Markets
Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels?
by Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, and Christopher R. Knittel
(pp. 117–38)
Forty Years of Oil Price Fluctuations: Why the Price of Oil May Still Surprise Us
by Christiane Baumeister and Lutz Kilian
(pp. 139–60)
Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has It Proven So Difficult?
by Anthony J. Venables
(pp. 161–84)
Overconfidence
On the Verges of Overconfidence
by Ulrike Malmendier and Timothy Taylor
(pp. 3–8)
Overconfident Consumers in the Marketplace
by Michael D. Grubb
(pp. 9–36)
Behavioral CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence
by Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate
(pp. 37–60)
Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading
by Kent Daniel and David Hirshleifer
(pp. 61–88)
The Future of Retail
The Ongoing Evolution of US Retail: A Format Tug-of-War
by Ali Hortaçsu and Chad Syverson
(pp. 89–112)
Adolescence and the Path to Maturity in Global Retail
by Bart J. Bronnenberg and Paul B. Ellickson
(pp. 113–34)
Online Higher Education
Online Higher Education: Beyond the Hype Cycle
by Michael S. McPherson and Lawrence S. Bacow
(pp. 135–54)
How Economics Faculty Can Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) in a Brave New Online World
by Peter Navarro
(pp. 155–76)
Automation and Labor Markets
Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation
by David H. Autor
(pp. 3–30)
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?
by Joel Mokyr, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth
(pp. 31–50)
Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?
by Gill A. Pratt
(pp. 51–60)
Pre-Analysis Plans in Economics
Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans
by Benjamin A. Olken
(pp. 61–80)
Pre-analysis Plans Have Limited Upside, Especially Where Replications Are Feasible
by Lucas C. Coffman and Muriel Niederle
(pp. 81–98)
Doing Business
Law, Regulation, and the Business Climate: The Nature and Influence of the World Bank Doing Business Project
by Timothy Besley
(pp. 99–120)
How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules
by Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Lant Pritchett
(pp. 121–40)