Front Matter
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American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 90, No. 2, May 2000
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International Financial Crises: Causes, Prevention, and Cures
(pp. 1–16)
Crisis and Risk Management
(pp. 17–21)
Tunneling
(pp. 22–27)
U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts: From Mexico to LTCM
(pp. 28–31)
Floating, Fixed, or Super-Fixed? Dollarization Joins the Menu of Exchange-Rate Options
(pp. 32–37)
Conflicting Demands on the International Monetary Fund
(pp. 38–42)
Rules and Authorities in International Monetary Arrangements: The Role of the Central Bank
(pp. 43–47)
Why Did the Ruble Collapse in August 1998?
(pp. 48–52)
The Polish Zloty, 1990-1999: Success and Underperformance
(pp. 53–58)
Capital-Markets Crises and Economic Collapse in Emerging Markets: An Informational-Frictions Approach
(pp. 59–64)
Mirage of Floating Exchange Rates
(pp. 65–70)
Exchange-Rate Policy for Developing Countries
(pp. 71–75)
Telling Better Stories in Introductory Macro
(pp. 76–80)
Eight Reasons Why Real versus Nominal Interest Rates Is the Most Important Concept in Macroeconomics Principles Courses
(pp. 81–84)
The Principles of Macroeconomics at the Millennium
(pp. 85–89)
Teaching Modern Macroeconomics at the Principles Level
(pp. 90–94)
The First Year of the Eurosystem: Inflation Targeting or Not?
(pp. 95–99)
Pitfalls of Forward-Looking Monetary Policy
(pp. 100–104)
Inflation Targeting in Emerging-Market Countries
(pp. 105–109)
Requiem for the Representative Consumer? Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior
(pp. 110–115)
Testing the (S, s) Model
(pp. 116–119)
The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy
(pp. 120–125)
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development
(pp. 126–130)
Ethnicity and Development in Africa: A Reappraisal
(pp. 131–134)
Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels
(pp. 135–139)
Participatory Politics, Social Cooperation, and Economic Stability
(pp. 140–144)
Beyond the Algebra of Explanation: HOV for the Technology Age
(pp. 145–149)
International Trade as an "Integrated Equilibrium": New Perspectives
(pp. 150–154)
Aggregation Bias in the Factor Content of Trade: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
(pp. 155–160)
U.S. Economic Growth at the Industry Level
(pp. 161–167)
Economic and Productivity Growth in Canadian Industries
(pp. 168–171)
A Comparison of Industrial Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
(pp. 172–175)
Productivity Levels and International Competitiveness between Canadian and U.S. Industries
(pp. 176–179)
The IBM and Microsoft Cases: What's the Difference?
(pp. 180–183)
A Competitive Perspective on Internet Explorer
(pp. 184–187)
Toward a Quantification of the Effects of Microsoft's Conduct
(pp. 188–191)
Antitrust Issues in Schumpeterian Industries
(pp. 192–196)
Has the "Million-Dollar Cap" Affected CEO Pay?
(pp. 197–202)
Agents with and without Principals
(pp. 203–208)
Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options
(pp. 209–214)
Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Citations: Evidence from a Survey of Inventors
(pp. 215–218)
Who Benefits Most from Employee Involvement: Firms or Workers?
(pp. 219–223)
Is Cost-Cutting Evidence of X-Inefficiency?
(pp. 224–227)
Economists and Field Research: "You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watching."
(pp. 228–232)
Can Downstream Waste Disposal Policies Encourage Upstream "Design for Environment"?
(pp. 233–237)
Two Generalizations of a Deposit-Refund Systems
(pp. 238–242)
Restricting the Trash Trade
(pp. 243–246)
Economic Measurement: Progress and Challenges
(pp. 247–252)
Getting the 21st-Century GDP Right: What's Underway?
(pp. 253–258)
New Directions in National Economic Accounting
(pp. 259–263)
The Income and Tax Share of Very High-Income Households, 1960-1995
(pp. 264–270)
Taxes, High-Income Executives, and the Perils of Revenue Estimation in the New Economy
(pp. 271–275)
Capital-Gains Realizations of the Rich and Sophisticated
(pp. 276–282)
Tax Policy and Entrepreneurial Entry
(pp. 283–287)
How Much Should Americans Be Saving for Retirement?
(pp. 288–292)
Generational Accounts for the United States: An Update
(pp. 293–296)
Saver Behavior and 401(k) Retirement Wealth
(pp. 297–302)
Generational Aspects of Medicare
(pp. 303–307)
Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality: The International Record
(pp. 308–311)
Persistent Discrimination: Racial Disparity in the United States, 1967-1988
(pp. 312–316)
Intergroup Economic Inequality in South Africa: The Post-apartheid Era
(pp. 317–321)
Does Caste Still Define Disparity? A Look at Inequality in Kerala, India
(pp. 322–325)
The Convergence in Black-White Infant Mortality Rates during the 1960's
(pp. 326–332)
Labor-Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap: 1940-1990
(pp. 333–338)
Evaluating a Simple Method for Estimating Black-White Gaps in Median Wages
(pp. 339–343)
Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990
(pp. 344–349)
Immigration, Social Security, and Broader Fiscal Impacts
(pp. 350–354)
Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates
(pp. 355–359)
Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?
(pp. 360–367)
Immigrant Earnings Assimilation: Estimates from Longitudinal Data
(pp. 368–372)
Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in U.S. Time Series
(pp. 373–377)
The Economics of Fatherhood
(pp. 378–382)
Women on Welfare: A Macroeconomic Analysis
(pp. 383–388)
Carrots and Sticks: Fertility Effects of China's Population Policies
(pp. 389–392)
Child Health and Household Resources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension Program
(pp. 393–398)
Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children
(pp. 399–404)
Sibling Rivalry in Africa
(pp. 405–409)
The Power of Incentives
(pp. 410–414)
The Use of Performance Measures in Incentive Contracting
(pp. 415–420)
What Trade-Off of Risk and Incentives?
(pp. 421–425)
Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior
(pp. 426–432)
A Boundedly Rational Decision Algorithm
(pp. 433–438)
Thinking and Feeling
(pp. 439–443)
Growth in Women's Relative Wages and in Inequality among Men: One Phenomenon or Two?
(pp. 444–449)
The Rise of Female Professionals: Are Women Responding to Skill Demand?
(pp. 450–455)
Are Women's Wage Gains Men's Losses? A Distributional Test
(pp. 456–460)
Career and Marriage in the Age of the Pill
(pp. 461–465)
Why Are Women Such Reluctant Economists? Evidence from Liberal Arts Colleges
(pp. 466–470)
Do Colleges Shortchange Women? Gender Differences in the Transition from College to Work
(pp. 471–475)
Harriet Taylor Mill
(pp. 476–479)
Nineteenth-Century American Feminist Economics: From Caroline Dall to Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(pp. 480–484)
John Bates Clark Medalist
(p. 486)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
(p. 487)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 488–494)
Report of the Secretary for 1999
(pp. 495–497)
Report of the Treasurer for the Year Ending December 31, 1999
(p. 498)
Report of the Finance Committee
(p. 499)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 500–507)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 508–510)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 511–513)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 514–516)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 517–518)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
(pp. 519–520)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(pp. 521–527)
Report of the AEA Committee on the Journals
(pp. 528–531)
Report of the Representative to the National Bureau of Economic Research
(pp. 532–533)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 534–536)