Front Matter
(pp. i–iii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 99, No. 4, September 2009
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Can News about the Future Drive the Business Cycle?
(pp. 1097–1118)
Portfolio Claustrophobia: Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets
(pp. 1119–44)
Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence
(pp. 1145–77)
Decentralized Organizational Learning: An Experimental Investigation
(pp. 1178–1205)
Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking
(pp. 1206–17)
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
(pp. 1218–44)
Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines
(pp. 1245–77)
Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment
(pp. 1278–1308)
One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry
(pp. 1309–34)
Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
(pp. 1335–55)
Tax Changes and Asset Pricing
(pp. 1356–83)
The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
(pp. 1384–1414)
Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models
(pp. 1415–50)
Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices
(pp. 1451–83)
Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight: An Experimental Study of a Small-Market Investment Game with Common and Private Values
(pp. 1484–1507)
Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices
(pp. 1508–43)
Why Do Sellers (Usually) Prefer Auctions?
(pp. 1544–75)
Learning about the Future and Dynamic Efficiency
(pp. 1576–87)
Bank Runs and Institutions: The Perils of Intervention
(pp. 1588–1607)
Expectation Damages, Divisible Contracts, and Bilateral Investment
(pp. 1608–18)
Field Centipedes
(pp. 1619–35)
VAR Analysis and the Great Moderation
(pp. 1636–52)
Art as an Investment and Conspicuous Consumption Good
(pp. 1653–63)
Offshoring and Volatility: Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladora Industry
(pp. 1664–71)
Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Comment
(pp. 1672–75)
Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Reply
(pp. 1676–83)