American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 98, No. 4, September 2008
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Leverage Cycles and the Anxious Economy
(pp. 1211–44)
Competition and Price Variation When Consumers Are Loss Averse
(pp. 1245–68)
Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection
(pp. 1269–91)
Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution
(pp. 1292–1311)
The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization
(pp. 1312–46)
How Strong Are Weak Patents?
(pp. 1347–69)
Does Innovation Cause Stock Market Runups? Evidence from the Great Crash
(pp. 1370–96)
The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
(pp. 1397–1412)
Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market
(pp. 1413–42)
The Power of Focal Points Is Limited: Even Minute Payoff Asymmetry May Yield Large Coordination Failures
(pp. 1443–58)
Optimal Contracting with Endogenous Social Norms
(pp. 1459–75)
Great Expectations and the End of the Depression
(pp. 1476–1516)
Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model
(pp. 1517–52)
Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption
(pp. 1553–77)
Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation
(pp. 1578–90)
The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
(pp. 1591–1604)
The Relationship between Economic Status and Child Health: Evidence from the United States
(pp. 1605–18)
All-or-Nothing Monitoring
(pp. 1619–28)
Commitment and Conflict in Bilateral Bargaining
(pp. 1629–35)
Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism
(pp. 1636–52)
The Limited Influence of Unemployment on the Wage Bargain
(pp. 1653–74)
Trade Policy and Loss Aversion
(pp. 1675–91)
The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited
(pp. 1692–1706)
Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade
(pp. 1707–21)
A Note on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory
(pp. 1722–30)
Testing for a Reference Consumer in International Comparisons of Living Standards
(pp. 1731–32)