Trade Agreements and Enforcement: Evidence from WTO Dispute Settlement

By Chad P. Bown and Kara M. Reynolds

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2017

This paper examines implications of the terms-of-trade theory for the determinants of outcomes arising under the enforcement provisions of international agreements. Like original trade agreement negotiations, formal trade dispute negotiations are modeled ...

Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

By David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, and John Van Reenen

American Economic Review, May 2017

The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small n...

What Really Matters in Auction Design

By Paul Klemperer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2002

The most important issues in auction design are the traditional concerns of competition policy-preventing collusive, predatory, and entry-deterring behavior. Ascending and uniform-price auctions are particularly vulnerable to these problems. The Anglo-Dut...

A Greater Price for a Greater Good? Evidence That Consumers Pay More for Charity-Linked Products

By Daniel W. Elfenbein and Brian McManus

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2010

To study whether consumers will pay more for products that generate charitable donations, we analyze data from eBay on charity and noncharity auctions of otherwise identical products. Charity prices are 6 percent higher, on average, than noncharity prices...

Monetary Policy Lessons of Recent Inflation and Disinflation

[Symposium: Monetary Lessons of the 1980s]

By William Poole

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1988

I will consider the monetary policy lessons of the recent inflation and disinflation. The next section of this paper is devoted to the decline of M1 velocity after 1981 and the demise of the "standard" money demand function. Some authors conclude that thi...

Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya

By Adrienne M. Lucas and Isaac M. Mbiti

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2014

The most desirable Kenyan secondary schools are elite government schools that admit the best students from across the country. We exploit the random variation generated by the centralized school admissions process in a regression discontinuity design to o...

Correspondence

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1988

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1988

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1988

Puzzles: Sylvia, Ice Cream and More

By Joseph Farrell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1988

This installment of Puzzles includes answers to all the puzzles presented. The puzzles are titled: "Competition as a Welfare Minimum"; "Externalities Galore"; "The Utility of Ice Cream"; "Congestion Pricing"; and "Are There Pareto Improvements?"

A Model of Discovery

By Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine

American Economic Review, May 2009

Public Policy and the Dynamics of Children's Health Insurance, 1986-1999

By John C. Ham, Xianghong Li, and Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

By Andrew Postlewaite

American Economic Review, May 2009

Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-election Polling

By Elias Walsh, Sarah Dolfin, and John DiNardo

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics

By Katharine Abraham

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives

By Andrei Shleifer

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Treasurer

By John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2009

Matching and Price Competition

By Jeremy Bulow and Jonathan Levin

American Economic Review, June 2006

We develop a model in which firms set impersonal salary levels before matching with workers. Wages fall relative to any competitive equilibrium while profits rise almost as much, implying little inefficiency. Furthermore, the best firms gain the most f...

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

By Alan J. Auerbach

American Economic Review, May 2009

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics

By Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2009