Freedom Fries

By Guy Michaels and Xiaojia Zhi

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2010

Do firms always choose the cheapest suitable inputs, or can group attitudes affect their choices? To investigate this question, we examine the deterioration of relations between the United States and France from 2002-2003, when France's favorability ratin...

New Directions in National Economic Accounting

By William D. Nordhaus

American Economic Review, May 2000

Forecasting the Recovery from the Great Recession: Is This Time Different?

By Kathryn M. E. Dominguez and Matthew D. Shapiro

American Economic Review, May 2013

This paper asks whether the slow recovery of the US economy from the trough of the Great Recession was anticipated, and identifies some of the factors that contributed to surprises in the course of the recovery. We construct a narrative using news reports...

Generalizing the Taylor Principle: Comment

By Roger E. A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha

American Economic Review, March 2010

Troy Davig and Eric Leeper (2007) have proposed a condition they call the generalized Taylor principle to rule out indeterminate equilibria in a version of the new-Keynesian model where the parameters of the policy rule follow a Markov-switching process....

The Increased Frequency and Duration of the Postdoctorate Career Stage

By Paula Stephan and Jennifer Ma

American Economic Review, May 2005

Life Is Not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth

[Symposium: The North American Economy]

By Nora Lustig

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

In the wake of the debt crisis in 1982, Mexico adopted far reaching reforms but growth and stability remained elusive for many years. At present, the reforms and NAFTA seem to be finally paying off: inflation for 2000 is close to 10 percent and output per...

Corrigendum: Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution

By Stefano Demichelis and Jörgen W. Weibull

American Economic Review, December 2009

Retrospectives: An Early Supply-Side-Demand-Side Controversy: Petty, Law, Cantillon

By John Berdell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2010

Early modern Europe in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries witnessed an unprecedented increase in the rate of economic growth, and governments entertained a wide range of proposals aimed at developing and harnessing foreign trade and emerg...

A Theory of Defensive Skill-Biased Innovation and Globalization

By Mathias Thoenig and Thierry Verdier

American Economic Review, June 2003

This paper considers a dynamic model of innovations in which firms can endogenously bias the direction of technological change. Both in a North-North and North-South context, we show that, when globalization triggers an increased threat of technological l...

When Is It Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-Track Authority

By Levent Celik, Bilgehan Karabay, and John McLaren

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2015

With fast-track authority (FTA), the US Congress delegates trade policy authority to the president by committing not to amend a trade agreement. Why would it cede such power? We suggest an interpretation in which Congress uses FTA to forestall destructive...

Sunk Costs and Antitrust Barriers to Entry

By Rchard Schmalensee

American Economic Review, May 2004

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1996

Endogenous Technological Change and Wage Inequality

By Huw Lloyd-Ellis

American Economic Review, March 1999

Although microeconomic studies find a positive relationship between R&D and skill premia, much of the recent rise in U.S. wage inequality was accompanied by slowing labor-productivity growth and relatively slow introduction of new technologies. These conf...

Emerging Market Currency Excess Returns

By Stephen Gilmore and Fumio Hayashi

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2011

We consider the excess return from 20 internationally tradable emerging market (EM) currencies against the US dollar. It has two contributions. First, we document stylized facts about EM currencies. EM currencies have provided significant equity-like exce...

A Numerical Investigation of the Potential for Negative Emissions Leakage

By Niven Winchester and Sebastian Rausch

American Economic Review, May 2013

Emissions restrictions in one region may decrease emissions elsewhere (negative leakage), as increased demand for capital and labor to abate emissions in constrained regions may reduce output in unconstrained regions. We investigate leakage in computable ...

On the Demise of the Long Run

By Roy B. Helfgott

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1989

John Maynard Keynes observed that, "In the long run we are all dead," but in terms of economic analysis, the long run also may be dead. The culprit is new technology that is wiping out many of the distinctions between the long and short run. As pointed ou...

What Can We Learn from Charter School Lotteries?

[Symposium: Schools and Accountability]

By Julia Chabrier, Sarah Cohodes, and Philip Oreopoulos

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2016

We take a closer look at what can be learned about charter schools by pooling data from lottery-based impact estimates of the effect of charter school attendance at 113 schools. On average, each year enrolled at one of these schools increases math scores ...

Search Advertising

By Alexandre de Cornière

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2016

Search engines enable advertisers to target consumers based on the query they have entered. In a framework in which consumers search sequentially after having entered a query, I show that such targeting reduces search costs, improves matches and intensifi...

Return to Treatment in the Formal Health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania

By Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2015

Improving access to the formal health care sector is a primary public health goal in many low-income countries. But the returns to this access are unclear, given that the quality of care at public health facilities is often considered inadequate. We explo...

Social Preferences and Fairness Norms as Informal Institutions: Experimental Evidence

By Pamela Jakiela

American Economic Review, May 2011

We conduct a series of dictator games in which the status of the dictator relative to other players varies across treatments. Experiments are conducted in a conventional university lab and in villages in rural Kenya. We find that status is an important de...