Front Matter
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American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 100, No. 2, May 2010
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Editors' Introduction
(p. x)
Foreword
(pp. xi–xii)
Computer Mediated Transactions
(pp. 1–10)
Okun's Law and Productivity Innovations
(pp. 11–15)
Indicators for Dating Business Cycles: Cross-History Selection and Comparisons
(pp. 16–19)
Real-Time Macroeconomic Monitoring: Real Activity, Inflation, and Interactions
(pp. 20–24)
The Business Cycle in a Changing Economy: Conceptualization, Measurement, Dating
(pp. 25–29)
Some Fiscal Calculus
(pp. 30–34)
Fiscal Policy in a Model with Financial Frictions
(pp. 35–40)
Debt Consolidation and Fiscal Stabilization of Deep Recessions
(pp. 41–45)
Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing
(pp. 46–50)
The Great Recession: Lessons from Microeconomic Data
(pp. 51–56)
Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles
(pp. 57–61)
Growth, Size, and Openness: A Quantitative Approach
(pp. 62–67)
Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Performance: Lessons from the Golden Era of International Finance
(pp. 68–72)
The Marginal Product of Capital, Capital Flows, and Convergence
(pp. 73–77)
The Quantitative Role of Capital Goods Imports in US Growth
(pp. 78–82)
Political Limits to Globalization
(pp. 83–88)
Making Room for China in the World Economy
(pp. 89–93)
What Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-Up Growth?
(pp. 94–98)
How Do You Measure a "Technological Revolution"?
(pp. 99–104)
New Approaches to Surveying Organizations
(pp. 105–09)
Artistic Originals as a Capital Asset
(pp. 110–14)
Institutions, Factor Prices, and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?
(pp. 115–19)
Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya's 2007 Election Crisis
(pp. 120–24)
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India
(pp. 125–29)
Creating Property Rights: Land Banks in Ghana
(pp. 130–34)
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared
(pp. 135–40)
Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
(pp. 141–46)
Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa
(pp. 147–52)
The Public and Private Sectors in the Process of Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Mouse Genetics Revolution
(pp. 153–58)
Network Effects in Biology R&D
(pp. 159–64)
Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance
(pp. 165–71)
Economywide Implications from US Bioenergy Expansion
(pp. 172–77)
Ethanol Policy Effects on U.S. Natural Gas Prices and Quantities
(pp. 178–82)
Are Biofuels the Culprit? OPEC, Food, and Fuel
(pp. 183–87)
The Health Returns of Education Policies from Preschool to High School and Beyond
(pp. 188–94)
Family Health, Children's Own Health, and Test Score Gaps
(pp. 195–99)
Time Preference, Noncognitive Skills and Well Being across the Life Course: Do Noncognitive Skills Encourage Healthy Behavior?
(pp. 200–204)
Adult Child Migration and the Health of Elderly Parents Left behind in Mexico
(pp. 205–08)
Investment in General Human Capital and Turnover Intention
(pp. 209–13)
Applicant Screening and Performance-Related Outcomes
(pp. 214–18)
Stop the Clock Policies and Career Success in Academia
(pp. 219–23)
Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs among High Skilled US Natives
(pp. 224–28)
The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women
(pp. 229–33)
The Education-Health Gradient
(pp. 234–38)
Inputs and Impacts in Charter Schools: KIPP Lynn
(pp. 239–43)
Human Capital and Imperfectly Informed Financial Markets
(pp. 244–49)
Using Performance on the Job to Inform Teacher Tenure Decisions
(pp. 250–55)
Using Student Performance Data to Identify Effective Classroom Practices
(pp. 256–60)
Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness
(pp. 261–66)
Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality
(pp. 267–71)
Achievement Goals, Locus of Control, and Academic Success in Economics
(pp. 272–76)
The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring on Student Achievement at the University Level
(pp. 277–82)
Do Online Homework Tools Improve Student Results in Principles of Microeconomics Courses?
(pp. 283–86)
The Efficacy of Collaborative Learning Recitation Sessions on Student Outcomes
(pp. 287–91)
How Sensitive Are Low Income Families to Health Plan Prices?
(pp. 292–96)
Disentangling the Effects of Health Reform in Massachusetts: How Important Are the Special Provisions for Young Adults?
(pp. 297–302)
Patient Cost Sharing in Low Income Populations
(pp. 303–08)
Culture and Intraracial Wage Inequality among America's African Diaspora
(pp. 309–15)
Mexican Immigrant Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle
(pp. 316–20)
The Effect of Migration on Wages: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(pp. 321–26)
Directed Search on the Job, Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Fluctuations
(pp. 327–32)
Unemployment and Small Cap Returns: The Nexus
(pp. 333–37)
Wage Dispersion in the Search and Matching Model
(pp. 338–42)
Job to Job Movements in a Simple Search Model
(pp. 343–47)
Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
(pp. 348–52)
Are There Gender Differences in the Job Mobility Patterns of Academic Economists?
(pp. 353–57)
Female Hires and the Success of Start-Up Firms
(pp. 358–61)
Gender Differences in Wealth at Retirement
(pp. 362–67)
Dynamic Asset Pricing in a System of Local Housing Markets
(pp. 368–72)
Local Multipliers
(pp. 373–77)
Changes in Transportation Infrastructure and Commuting Patterns in US Metropolitan Areas, 1960-2000
(pp. 378–82)
Place Based Policies, Heterogeneity, and Agglomeration
(pp. 383–87)
Risk and Global Economic Architecture: Why Full Financial Integration May Be Undesirable
(pp. 388–92)
Decoupling and Recoupling
(pp. 393–97)
Credit Externalities: Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Implications
(pp. 398–402)
Excessive Volatility in Capital Flows: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach
(pp. 403–07)
Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade
(pp. 408–13)
Imports "Я" Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for Developing-Country Imports
(pp. 414–18)
Facts and Figures on Intermediated Trade
(pp. 419–23)
Intermediation and Economic Integration
(pp. 424–28)
Trading Favors within Chinese Business Groups
(pp. 429–33)
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize?
(pp. 434–38)
Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Using Occupational Licensing as a Shifter of Offshoring Costs
(pp. 439–43)
Intrafirm Trade and Product Contractibility
(pp. 444–48)
Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era
(pp. 449–53)
Climate Shocks and Exports
(pp. 454–59)
Oil Monopoly and the Climate
(pp. 460–64)
Trade and Carbon Taxes
(pp. 465–69)
"One Discriminatory Rent" or "Double Jeopardy": Multicomponent Negotiation for New Car Purchases
(pp. 470–74)
The Impact of Commissions on Home Sales in Greater Boston
(pp. 475–79)
Investigating Income Effects in Scanner Data: Do Gasoline Prices Affect Grocery Purchases?
(pp. 480–84)
An Individual Health Plan Exchange: Which Employees Would Benefit and Why?
(pp. 485–89)
What "Triggers" Mortgage Default?
(pp. 490–94)
Learning to Cope: Voluntary Financial Education and Loan Performance during a Housing Crisis
(pp. 495–500)
Issuer Credit Quality and the Price of Asset Backed Securities
(pp. 501–05)
Statistical Default Models and Incentives
(pp. 506–10)
Consumer Confusion in the Mortgage Market: Evidence of Less Than a Perfectly Transparent and Competitive Market
(pp. 511–15)
The Failure and Promise of Mandated Consumer Mortgage Disclosures: Evidence from Qualitative Interviews and a Controlled Experiment with Mortgage Borrowers
(pp. 516–21)
Affine Disagreement and Asset Pricing
(pp. 522–26)
The Short and Long Run Benefits of Financial Integration
(pp. 527–31)
Growth Opportunities and Technology Shocks
(pp. 532–36)
Confidence Risk and Asset Prices
(pp. 537–41)
Long Run Risks, the Macroeconomy, and Asset Prices
(pp. 542–46)
Long Run Risks, Credit Markets, and Financial Structure
(pp. 547–51)
Long Run Risk, the Wealth-Consumption Ratio, and the Temporal Pricing of Risk
(pp. 552–56)
An Equilibrium Term Structure Model with Recursive Preferences
(pp. 557–61)
Global Interest Rates, Currency Returns, and the Real Value of the Dollar
(pp. 562–67)
Estimation of De Facto Flexibility Parameter and Basket Weights in Evolving Exchange Rate Regimes
(pp. 568–72)
Growth in a Time of Debt
(pp. 573–78)
Interest Rate Risk in Credit Markets
(pp. 579–84)
Price Pressure in the Government Bond Market
(pp. 585–90)
Repo Market Effects of the Term Securities Lending Facility
(pp. 591–96)
Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions
(pp. 597–602)
Online Advertising: Heterogeneity and Conflation in Market Design
(pp. 603–07)
The Impact of Targeting Technology on Advertising Markets and Media Competition
(pp. 608–13)
Wage Subsidies for Microenterprises
(pp. 614–18)
Why Do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity?
(pp. 619–23)
Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements
(pp. 624–28)
What Capital Is Missing in Developing Countries?
(pp. 629–33)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, January 4, 2010
(pp. 637–38)
Report of the Secretary for 2009
(pp. 639–42)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 643–46)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 647–50)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 24, 2009
(pp. 653–59)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Atlanta, GA, January 2, 2010
(pp. 660–66)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 667–76)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 678–79)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 680–81)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 682–84)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 685–87)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 688–91)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 692–95)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 696–98)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education for 2009
(pp. 699–703)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2009
(pp. 704–09)
Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession: Report of Committee Activities for the 2009 Calendar Year
(pp. 710–12)
American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat): Annual Report--2009
(pp. 713–14)
Report of the Committee on Government Relations
(pp. 715–17)
Report of the Ad Hoc Search Committee for the American Economic Review Editor
(p. 718)