Government Failures in Development

[Symposium: The State and Economic Development]

By Anne O. Krueger

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1990

By the 1970s and early 1980s, governments in most developing countries were mired down in economic policies that were manifestly unworkable. Whether market failures had been present or not, most knowledgeable observers concluded that there had been coloss...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2011

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1999

Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth

By Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi

American Economic Review, March 2009

This paper studies the estate tax in a quantitative framework with business investment, borrowing constraints, estate transmission, and wealth inequality. We find that the estate tax has little effect on the saving and investment decisions of small bus...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014

Index to Volume 6

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1992

Tropical Economics

By Solomon M. Hsiang and Kyle C. Meng

American Economic Review, May 2015

Why wealth is systematically lower in the tropics remains a puzzle. We point out that latitude may have fundamental economic consequence because it plays a key role in how countries experience geophysical processes that have economic implications. We dem...

Are Risk Preferences Stable across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data

By Levon Barseghyan, Jeffrey Prince, and Joshua C. Teitelbaum

American Economic Review, April 2011

Using a unique dataset, we test whether households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance reflect stable risk preferences. Our test relies on a structural model that assumes households are objective expected utility maximizers and claims are gener...

Microstructure Bluffing with Nested Information

By Archishman Chakraborty and Bilge Yilmaz

American Economic Review, May 2008

Vertical Contracting with Informational Opportunism

By Vianney Dequiedt and David Martimort

American Economic Review, July 2015

We consider vertical contracting arrangements between a manufacturer and a retailing network when retailers have private information and the organization is run through bilateral contracts. We highlight a new form of informational opportunism arising when...

What Do We Know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States?

[Symposium: Wealth and Inequality]

By Wojciech Kopczuk

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2015

I discuss available evidence about the evolution of top wealth shares in the United States over the course of the 20th century. The three main approaches—the Survey of Consumer Finances, estate tax multiplier, and capitalization methods—gene...

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2009

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations

By Eric A. Hanushek and Dennis D. Kimko

American Economic Review, December 2000

Direct measures of labor-force quality from international mathematics and science test scores are strongly related to growth. Indirect specification tests are generally consistent with a causal link: direct spending on schools is unrelated to student perf...

Report: Committee on Economic Education

American Economic Review, May 2014

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2013

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1989

Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

By Iain M. Cockburn, Jean O. Lanjouw, and Mark Schankerman

American Economic Review, January 2016

Analysis of the timing of launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries during 1983-2002 shows that patent and price regulation regimes strongly affect how quickly new drugs become commercially available in different countries. Price regulation delays launch,...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2015

Symposium on Women in the Labor Market

[Symposium: Women in the Labor Market]

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1989

This symposium contains four essays on the general topic of women in the labor market. The essays are varied, not only in focus, but also in philosophical outlook. The topic is of central importance today. Few economic trends have been more pronounced or ...