Symposium on Organizations and Economics

[Symposium: Organizations and Economics]

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1991

Legality and Market Reform in Soviet-Type Economies

[Symposium: Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe]

By John M. Litwack

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1991

The classical Soviet-type system operates in the virtual absence of economic legality, which is a prerequisite to a successful transition to a market economy in the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe. In the absence of economic legality, the l...

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review

By Robert A. Moffitt

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

By Esther Duflo

American Economic Review, May 2013

A Review of Avner Greif's Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade

By Gregory Clark

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2007

Avner Greif's Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2006) is a major work in the ongoing project of many economists and economic historians to show that institutions are the funda...

Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts

By Michael J. Harper, Brent R. Moulton, Steven Rosenthal, and David B. Wasshausen

American Economic Review, May 2009

The Rich Domain of Uncertainty: Source Functions and Their Experimental Implementation

By Mohammed Abdellaoui, Aurélien Baillon, Laetitia Placido, and Peter P. Wakker

American Economic Review, April 2011

We often deal with uncertain events for which no probabilities are known. Several normative models have been proposed. Descriptive studies have usually been qualitative, or they estimated ambiguity aversion through one single number. This paper introduces...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2010

Understanding, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Earnings in the Immigrant Labor Market

By Anthony P. Carnevale, Richard A. Fry, and B. Lindsay Lowell

American Economic Review, May 2001

Demand Systems with and without Errors

By Arthur Lewbel

American Economic Review, June 2001

Revealed preference theory assumes that each consumer has demands that are rational, meaning that they arise from the maximization of his or her own utility function. In contrast, econometric or statistical demand models assume that each consumer's demand...

The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Comment

By Roy Darwin

American Economic Review, September 1999

Safety Traps

By Kenza Benhima and Baptiste Massenot

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2013

Fear of risk provides a rationale for protracted economic downturns. We develop a real business cycle model where investors with decreasing relative risk aversion choose between a risky and a safe technology that exhibit decreasing returns. Because of ...

Report: Ad Hoc Search Committee for the Editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

By David Cutler, Amy Finkelstein, Adriana Lleras-Muney, James Poterba, David Romer, and Robert Shimer

American Economic Review, May 2013

Has the "Million-Dollar Cap" Affected CEO Pay?

By Nancy L. Rose and Catherine Wolfram

American Economic Review, May 2000

Controlling Automobile Insurance Costs

By J. David Cummins and Sharon Tennyson

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1992

We begin by providing an overview of the auto insurance system and the structure of the auto insurance market. We then turn to an analysis of the factors underlying the auto insurance price increases experienced in recent years. We find that the auto insu...

Tracking Intergenerational Progress for Immigrant Groups: The Problem of Ethnic Attrition

By Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo

American Economic Review, May 2011

In tracking the later-generation descendants of immigrants, measurement biases can arise from "ethnic attrition" (e.g., US-born individuals who do not self-identify as Mexican despite having ancestors who immigrated from Mexico). We present evidence that ...

Does Vertical Integration Decrease Prices? Evidence from the Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948

By Ricard Gil

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2015

I empirically examine the impact of the 1948 Paramount antitrust case on ticket prices using a unique dataset collected from Variety magazine issues between 1945 and 1955. With information on prices, revenues, and theater ownership for an unbalanced panel...

Productivity Growth and Factor Prices in East Asia

By Chang-Tai Hsieh

American Economic Review, May 1999

Symposium on Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

[Symposium: Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe]

By Peter Murrell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1991

This symposium examines the economic problems facing the reforming countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the interrelationships between these problems, and current knowledge on how to deal with them. The word "reform" is surely a misnomer for ...

Nonlinearities and Robustness in Growth Regressions

By Jenny Minier

American Economic Review, May 2007