Inertia of Forward-Looking Expectations

By Stephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin

American Economic Review, May 2006

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1992

Testing the (S, s) Model

By Christopher Foote, Erik Hurst, and John Leahy

American Economic Review, May 2000

Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index

[Symposium: Measuring the CPI]

By Katharine G. Abraham, John S. Greenlees, and Brent R. Moulton

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1998

In this paper, we first comment on the recent (1996) report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, appointed by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and the recommendations it contains. We then describe some of the initiatives current...

Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages? National Labor Markets and Global Trade: Comment

By Jürgen Meckl

American Economic Review, December 2006

The WTO as a Mechanism for Securing Market Access Property Rights: Implications for Global Labor and Environmental Issues

[Symposium: Trade, Labor and the Environment]

By Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2001

Can the World Trade Organization (WTO) contribute to the attainment of sound labor and environmental policies? An answer requires an understanding of WTO rules. We argue that the purpose of WTO rules is to create a negotiating forum where governments can ...

Sequential Kidney Exchange

By Lawrence M. Ausubel and Thayer Morrill

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014

The traditional literature on kidney exchange assumes that all components of the exchange must occur simultaneously. Unfortunately, the number of operating rooms required for concurrent surgeries poses a significant constraint on the beneficial exchanges ...

Climate, Grapevine Phenology, Wine Production, and Prices: Pauillac (1800-2009)

By Jean-Michel Chevet, Sébastien Lecocq, and Michael Visser

American Economic Review, May 2011

This paper analyzes 19th and 20th century data from a well-known château in Bordeaux. The dataset includes information on weather conditions, starting dates of three phenological stages of grapevine, prices, and yields. We discuss how these variable...

A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century

By Robert A. Mundell

American Economic Review, June 2000

A Welfare Analysis of Arbitration

By Wojciech Olszewski

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2011

The paper compares conventional and final-offer arbitration. One party is supposed to make a payment to another party, whose amount depends on a state. Under one scenario, parties obtain signals about the state, which cannot be recognized by the opponents...

Asset Markets: How They Are Affected by Tournament Incentives for Individuals

By Duncan James and R. Mark Isaac

American Economic Review, September 2000

The Link from Graduate Education in Economics to the Labor Market

By W. Lee Hansen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

Against the background of the evidence presented by John Siegfried and Wendy Stock in this issue on labor market outcomes for new economics Ph.D. recipients, this paper discusses the links between the Ph.D. labor market and graduate education

Capital Reallocation and Growth

By Janice Eberly and Neng Wang

American Economic Review, May 2009

Data Watch: The Redesigned Current Population Survey

By Anne E. Polivka

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1996

The Current Population Survey (CPS), a national survey of 50,000 households, is a major source of information about the American labor market. In January 1994, the CPS underwent a major redesign both in the wording of the questionnaire and the methodology...

Does Aid Affect Governance?

By Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian

American Economic Review, May 2007

Indicators for Dating Business Cycles: Cross-History Selection and Comparisons

By James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson

American Economic Review, May 2010

Income Distribution in Urban China during the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization

By Azizur Rahman Khan, Keith Griffin, and Carl Riskin

American Economic Review, May 1999

Judging Experimental Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency

By Charles Sprenger

American Economic Review, May 2015

This article briefly summarizes and judges recent experimental developments exploring the predictions of dynamically inconsistent models. An opinion is provided as to how the literature may evolve given these recent advances.

Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-Protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa, India

By Alessandro Tarozzi, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong, and Brian Blackburn

American Economic Review, May 2009

Firm-Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job-Changers

By Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimuller

American Economic Review, May 1999