Asset-Market Effects of the Baby Boom and Social-Security Reform

By Robin Brooks

American Economic Review, May 2002

Intergenerational Risk-Sharing via Social Security when Financial Markets Are Incomplete

By Dirk Krueger and Felix Kubler

American Economic Review, May 2002

Taxation of Financial Services under a VAT

By Alan J. Auerbach and Roger H. Gordon

American Economic Review, May 2002

Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations

By Avner Greif

American Economic Review, May 2006

Capital-Income Taxation with Imperfect Competition

By Kenneth L. Judd

American Economic Review, May 2002

Exchange-Traded Funds: A New Investment Option for Taxable Investors

By James M. Poterba and John B. Shoven

American Economic Review, May 2002

Modern Evidence on the Firm

By Scott E. Masten

American Economic Review, May 2002

Complexity, Flexibility, and the Make-or-Buy Decision

By Steven Tadelis

American Economic Review, May 2002

The Lens of Contract: Private Ordering

By Oliver E. Williamson

American Economic Review, May 2002

Can Web Courses Replace the Classroom in Principles of Microeconomics?

By Byron W. Brown and Carl E. Liedholm

American Economic Review, May 2002

Microeconomic Principles Teaching Tricks

By Daniel S. Hamermesh

American Economic Review, May 2002

Reconsidering Crucial Concepts in Micro Principles

By Karl E. Case

American Economic Review, May 2002

The Economic Naturalist: Teaching Introductory Students How to Speak Economics

By Robert H. Frank

American Economic Review, May 2002

Use It or Lose It: Teaching Literacy in the Economics Principles Course

By W. Lee Hansen, Michael K. Salemi, and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2002

Promoting Economic Literacy: Panel Discussion

American Economic Review, May 2002

Technological Change, Technological Catch-up, and Capital Deepening: Relative Contributions to Growth and Convergence

By Subodh Kumar and R. Robert Russell

American Economic Review, June 2002

We decompose labor-productivity growth into components attributable to (1) technological change (shifts in the world production frontier), (2) technological catch-up (movements toward or away from the frontier), and (3) capital accumulation (movement alon...

An Experimental Test of an Optimal Growth Model

By Vivian Lei and Charles N. Noussair

American Economic Review, June 2002

This paper describes the design and behavior of an experimental economy with the structure of the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model of optimal growth. The experiment includes three different implementations of the model: a decentralized implementation with multi...

Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization

By Thomas J. Kniesner and James P. Ziliak

American Economic Review, June 2002

An income tax provides implicit insurance by dampening the variability of disposable income and consumption. Using an empirical framework derived from the consumption insurance literature and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics we examine the eff...

Reputation and Competition

By Johannes Hörner

American Economic Review, June 2002

This paper shows how competition generates reputation-building behavior in repeated interactions when the product quality observed by consumers is a noisy signal of firms' effort level. There are two types of firms and "good" firms try to distinguish them...

Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience

By Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

American Economic Review, June 2002

We develop a model linking maximum damage awards available to plaintiffs in wrongful termination lawsuits, workers' propensity to sue as a function of experience, and returns to experience. Using Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data on protected-w...