Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2010

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2016

Editor's Note

By Alan J. Auerbach

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2009

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2012

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2007

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2010

Pandering to Persuade

By Yeon-Koo Che, Wouter Dessein, and Navin Kartik

American Economic Review, February 2013

An agent advises a principal on selecting one of multiple projects or an outside option. The agent is privately informed about the projects' benefits and shares the principal's preferences except for not internalizing her value from the outside option. ...

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2015

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2012

But Who Will Monitor the Monitor?

By David Rahman

American Economic Review, October 2012

Suppose that providing incentives for a group of individuals in a strategic context requires a monitor to detect their deviations. What about the monitor's deviations? To address this question, I propose a contract that makes the monitor responsible for m...

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2013

President's Foreword

By Claudia Goldin

American Economic Review, May 2013

Correspondence

By Xavier Vives, Jens Barmbold, Reiner Eichenberger, Ulrich Bindseil, Bruno S. Frey, and Justus Haucap

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

Correspondence and responses regarding American and European Economists The Economic Case against Higher Alcohol Taxes

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2017

Academic Undermatching of High-Achieving Minority Students: Evidence from Race-Neutral and Holistic Admissions Policies

By Sandra E. Black, Kalena E. Cortes, and Jane Arnold Lincove

American Economic Review, May 2015

College is a pathway to social mobility in the United States. Yet too often high-achieving students from low-income and minorities families fail to apply to selective postsecondary institutions. Our study examines the extent to which academic undermatchin...

The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence from the New York City High School Match

By Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Nikhil Agarwal, and Parag A. Pathak

American Economic Review, December 2017

Coordinated single-offer school assignment systems are a popular education reform. We show that uncoordinated offers in NYC's school assignment mechanism generated mismatches. One-third of applicants were unassigned after the main round and later administ...

Making admissions more efficient

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NYC reformed their high school admissions process, and it worked.

The Design and Price of Information

By Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, and Alex Smolin

American Economic Review, January 2018

A data buyer faces a decision problem under uncertainty. He can augment his initial private information with supplemental data from a data seller. His willingness to pay for supplemental data is determined by the quality of his initial private information...

The Micro Origins of International Business-Cycle Comovement

By Julian di Giovanni, Andrei A. Levchenko, and Isabelle Mejean

American Economic Review, January 2018

This paper investigates the role of individual firms in international business-cycle comovement using data covering the universe of French firm-level value added and international linkages over the period 1993–2007. At the micro level, trade and mul...

Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Input Linkages: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

By Ana Cecília Fieler, Marcela Eslava, and Daniel Yi Xu

American Economic Review, January 2018

A quantitative model brings together theories linking international trade to quality, technology, and demand for skills. Standard effects of trade on importers and exporters are magnified through domestic input linkages. We estimate the model with data fr...