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Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index

[Symposium: Measuring the CPI]

By Katharine G. Abraham, John S. Greenlees, and Brent R. Moulton

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1998

In this paper, we first comment on the recent (1996) report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, appointed by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and the recommendations it contains. We then describe some of the initiatives current...

The WTO as a Mechanism for Securing Market Access Property Rights: Implications for Global Labor and Environmental Issues

[Symposium: Trade, Labor and the Environment]

By Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2001

Can the World Trade Organization (WTO) contribute to the attainment of sound labor and environmental policies? An answer requires an understanding of WTO rules. We argue that the purpose of WTO rules is to create a negotiating forum where governments can ...

Sequential Kidney Exchange

By Lawrence M. Ausubel and Thayer Morrill

òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014

The traditional literature on kidney exchange assumes that all components of the exchange must occur simultaneously. Unfortunately, the number of operating rooms required for concurrent surgeries poses a significant constraint on the beneficial exchanges ...

Climate, Grapevine Phenology, Wine Production, and Prices: Pauillac (1800-2009)

By Jean-Michel Chevet, ³§Ã©²ú²¹²õ³Ù¾±±ð²Ô Lecocq, and Michael Visser

òòò½Íø Review, May 2011

This paper analyzes 19th and 20th century data from a well-known château in Bordeaux. The dataset includes information on weather conditions, starting dates of three phenological stages of grapevine, prices, and yields. We discuss how these variable...

A Welfare Analysis of Arbitration

By Wojciech Olszewski

òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, February 2011

The paper compares conventional and final-offer arbitration. One party is supposed to make a payment to another party, whose amount depends on a state. Under one scenario, parties obtain signals about the state, which cannot be recognized by the opponents...