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Assessment Practices and Trends in Undergraduate Economics Courses

By Georg Schaur, Michael Watts, and William E. Becker

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2008

Classroom Experiments: Is More More?

By Tisha L. N. Emerson and Linda English

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2016

Studies have demonstrated that classroom experiments have a positive effect on student achievement in economics courses. Questions remain regarding the appropriate number of experiments. In the current study we attempt to determine whether more intensive ...

Institutions, Innovations, and Growth

By Haizhou Huang and Chenggang Xu

蝌蚪网 Review, May 1999

A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks

By Rachel E. Kranton and Deborah F. Minehart

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2001

This paper introduces a new model of exchange: networks, rather than markets, of buyers and sellers. It begins with the empirically motivated premise that a buyer and seller must have a relationship, a "link," to exchange goods. Networks--buyers, sellers,...

How to Judge Voting Schemes

[Symposium: Economics of Voting]

By Amartya Sen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

This symposium on voting procedures presents many interesting findings and insights. This note scrutinizes them and discusses two general issues. First, the assumption that voters' preferences are menu-independent (and based on one canonical ordering of t...

A Simple Mechanism for the Efficient Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence

By Josef Falkinger, Ernst Fehr, Simon 骋盲肠丑迟别谤, and Rudolf Winter-Ember

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2000

Racial Profiling as a Public Policy Question: Efficiency, Equity, and Ambiguity

By Steven N. Durlauf

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2005

Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment: Reply

By Masanori Hashimoto

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2001

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cumulative Research and the Patent Law

[Symposium: Intellectual Property]

By Suzanne Scotchmer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1991

Most innovators stand on the shoulders of giants, and never more so than in the current evolution of high technologies, where almost all technical progress builds on a foundation provided by earlier innovators. Most economics literature on patenting and p...

Space: The Final Frontier

[Symposium: Urban Agglomeration]

By Paul Krugman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998

Traditionally, until the early 1990s, spatial economics -- the study of where economic activity takes place and why -- was pretty much neglected. Even now not one of the best-selling introductory textbooks in economics contains a single index entry for "l...

Repo Market Effects of the Term Securities Lending Facility

By Michael J. Fleming, Warren B. Hrung, and Frank M. Keane

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2010

Bank Leverage Cycles

By Galo 狈耻帽辞 and Carlos Thomas

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2017

We propose a general equilibrium framework with financial intermediaries subject to endogenous leverage constraints, and assess its ability to explain the observed fluctuations in intermediary leverage and real economic activity. In the model, intermediar...

Beneficial Long Communication in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game

By Kris De Jaegher

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, November 2015

In the two-player electronic mail game (EMG), as is well-known, the probability of collective action is lower the more confirmations and reconfirmations are made available to players. In the multiplayer EMG, however, we show players may coordinate on equi...

Do Online Homework Tools Improve Student Results in Principles of Microeconomics Courses?

By William Lee, Richard H. Courtney, and Steven J. Balassi

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2010

Bicameralism and Its Consequences for the Internal Organization of Legislatures

By Daniel Diermeier and Roger B. Myerson

蝌蚪网 Review, December 1999

Theories of organization of legislatures have mainly focused on the U.S. Congress, explaining why committee systems emerge there, but not explaining variance in organization across legislatures of different countries. To analyze the effects of different c...

Explaining Asset Prices with External Habits and Wage Rigidities in a DSGE Model

By Harald Uhlig

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2007

Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance

By Suzanne Scotchmer

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2010

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2008

Coming to America: Does Having a Developed Home Country Matter for Self-Employment in the United States?

By Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

This research examines the relationship between the economic status of an immigrant's home country and the probability of self-employment in the US. We find that immigrants from developing countries on average have lower self-employment probabilities rela...

A Note on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory

By Matthijs van Veelen and Roy van der Weide

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2008