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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets

By M. Keith Chen

蝌蚪网 Review, April 2013

Languages differ widely in the ways they encode time. I test the hypothesis that the languages that grammatically associate the future and the present, foster future-oriented behavior. This prediction arises naturally when well-documented effects of la...

What is Discrimination? Gender in the 蝌蚪网, 1935-2004

By Stephen G. Donald and Daniel S. Hamermesh

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2006

We illustrate problems of measuring discrimination using elections to 蝌蚪网 offices. With a new econometric technique, we find female candidates have a much better than random chance of victory. This advantage is either reverse discrimination or reflects be...

Bargaining over Entry with a Compulsory License Deadline: Price Spillovers and Surplus Expansion

By Eric W. Bond and Kamal Saggi

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, February 2017

We analyze bargaining between a developing country (South) and a multinational firm over the local price of its patented product. We use an alternating offers bargaining game in which the South can resort to compulsory licensing (CL) if the two parties fa...

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[Symposium: Intellectual Property Rights]

By Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2005

Economists often assume that a patent gives its owner a well-defined legal right to exclude others from practicing the invention described in the patent. In practice, however, the rights afforded to patent holders are highly uncertain. Under patent law, a...

Real Exchange Rate Adjustment in and out of the Eurozone

By Martin Berka, Michael B. Devereux, and Charles Engel

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

It is often suggested that currency unions unduly inhibit the efficient adjustment of real exchange rates. Recently, this has been seen as a key failure of the Eurozone. This paper presents evidence that throws doubt on this conclusion. Our evidence sugge...

A Teacher Like Me: Does Race, Ethnicity, or Gender Matter?

By Thomas S. Dee

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2005

Migration, Remittances, and Male and Female Employment Patterns

By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2006

Line-Item Veto: Where Is Thy Sting?

By John R. Carter and David Schap

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1990

Proponents of giving the president the authority to use a line-item veto argue that the institutional change is needed to limit special-interest legislation and restrain spending. Opponents respond that it would grant too much added power to the president...

Matching Patterns When Group Size Exceeds Two

By Christian Ahlin

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, February 2017

We study one-sided matching when groups with n > 2 members are being formed. Type-complementarity rules out all but the rank-ordered grouping. Type-substitutability (for example, matching to share risk) rules out much less. It requires that every two g...

Toward National Well-Being Accounts

By Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, and Arthur Stone

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2004

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蝌蚪网 Review, June 2011

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Bringing the Market inside the Firm?

By George Baker, Robert Gibbons, and Kevin J. Murphy

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001

The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States

By Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

Using microdata from the 2000 Census, we analyze how the employment rates of foreign-born and US-born men vary with education. After a period of adjustment during the first few years upon arrival, the overall employment rate of immigrant men quickly appro...

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government-What We Don't Know Could Hurt Us: Some Reflections on the Measurement of Economic Activity

By Katharine G. Abraham

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2005

The routine production of U.S. economic statistics dates back to the early part of the twentieth century. But in recent decades, as services output has continued to expand a system of economic statistics that had been designed during the manufacturing era...

The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust: Corrigendum

By Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira, and Stephen L. Ross

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, February 2017

Population Size Effects in the Structural Development of England

By Oksana M. Leukhina and Stephen J. Turnovsky

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2016

The English structural transformation from farming to manufacturing was accompanied by rapid technological change, expansion of trade, and massive population growth. While the roles of technology and trade in this process have been investigated, the liter...

Extreme Wage Inequality: Pay at the Very Top

By Brian D. Bell and John Van Reenen

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

We provide new evidence on the growth in pay at the very top of the wage distribution in the United Kingdom. Sectoral decompositions show that workers in the financial sector have accounted for the majority of the gains at the top over the last decade. Ne...

Measuring Returns on Investments in Collectibles

By Benjamin J. Burton and Joyce P. Jacobsen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1999

This paper considers the question of how to measure and interpret the financial return to investing in collectibles. We review various methodologies for creating priced indexes and then discuss studies that explicitly calculate a rate of return to some se...

Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data

By Jean Boivin, Marc P. Giannoni, and Ilian Mihov

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2009

This paper shows that the recent evidence that disaggregated prices are volatile does not necessarily challenge the hypothesis of price rigidity used in a large class of macroeconomic models. We document the effect of macroeconomic and sectoral disturb...

International Unions

By Alberto Alesina, Ignazio Angeloni, and Federico Etro

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2005

We model an international union as a group of countries deciding to centralize the provision of public goods, or policies, that generate externalities across union members. The trade-off between the benefits of coordination and the loss of independent pol...