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Standard Setting Committees: Consensus Governance for Shared Technology Platforms

By Timothy Simcoe

蝌蚪网 Review, February 2012

Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) use a consensus process to create new compatibility standards. Practitioners have suggested that SSOs are increasingly politicized and perhaps incapable of producing timely standards. This article develops a...

Investigating Income Effects in Scanner Data: Do Gasoline Prices Affect Grocery Purchases?

By Dora Gicheva, Justine Hastings, and Sofia Villas-Boas

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2010

The Day Care Assignment: A Dynamic Matching Problem

By John Kennes, Daniel Monte, and Norovsambuu Tumennasan

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, November 2014

We study the problem of centralized allocation of children to public daycare centers, illustrated by the case of Denmark. Our framework applies to problems of dynamic matching in which there is entry and exit of agents over time; for example, the schoo...

Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By Stefan Eriksson and Dan-Olof Rooth

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2014

The stigma associated with long-term unemployment spells could create large inefficiencies in labor markets. While the existing literature points toward large stigma effects, it has proven difficult to estimate causal relationships. Using data from a fiel...

Trade, Tastes, and Nutrition in India

By David Atkin

蝌蚪网 Review, August 2013

This paper explores the causes and consequences of regional taste differences. I introduce habit formation into a standard general equilibrium model. Household tastes evolve over time to favor foods consumed as a child. Thus, locally abundant foods are...

Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments

By Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2011

We show that political institutions affect corruption levels. We use audit reports in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and test whether electoral accountability affects the corruption practices of incumbent ...

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2017

Economic Policy and Prospects in Iraq

[Symposium: Middle East]

By Christopher Foote, William Block, Keith Crane, and Simon Gray

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2004

This paper describes the Coalition Provisional Authority's attempts to stabilize and reform Iraq's economy along market lines. It argues that while security concerns remain serious, Iraq's economy has not been crippled by violence. However, sustained econ...

Macroeconomic Priorities

By Robert E. Lucas Jr.

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2003

Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2014

Child Abuse and Abortion Availability

By Marianne Bitler and Madeline Zavodny

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2002

Testing for Indeterminacy: An Application to U.S. Monetary Policy

By Thomas A. Lubik and Frank Schorfheide

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2004

This paper considers a prototypical New Keynesian model, in which the equilibrium is undetermined if monetary policy is "passive." The likelihood-based estimation of dynamic equilibrium models is extended to allow for indeterminacies and sunspot fluctuati...

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2015

Interesting Questions in Freakonomics

By John DiNardo

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2007

Freakonomics is more about "entertainment" than it is a serious attempt at popularization. Consequently, rather than conduct a comprehensive fact check, I use the book as a springboard for a broader inquiry into social science research and take ...

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2015

The Acceleration of Variety Growth

By Mark Bils and Peter J. Klenow

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001

The Role of International Fragmentation in the Development Process

By Ronald W. Jones and Sugata Marjit

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001

Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia

By Menno Pradhan, Daniel Suryadarma, Amanda Beatty, Maisy Wong, Arya Gaduh, Armida Alisjahbana, and Rima Prama Artha

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2014

Education ministries worldwide have promoted community engagement through school committees. This paper presents results from a large field experiment testing alternative approaches to strengthen school committees in public schools in Indonesia. Two no...

Should Central Banks Respond to Movements in Asset Prices?

By Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001

Teaching Economics at the Start of the 21st Century: Still Chalk-and-Talk

By William E. Becker and Michael Watts

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001