Front Matter
(pp. i–ii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 102, No. 1, February 2012
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Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection
(pp. 1–28)
Overcoming Adverse Selection: How Public Intervention Can Restore Market Functioning
(pp. 29–59)
Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch, and Systemic Bailouts
(pp. 60–93)
New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?
(pp. 94–130)
The Environment and Directed Technical Change
(pp. 131–66)
Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
(pp. 167–201)
The Value of Information in the Court: Get It Right, Keep It Tight
(pp. 202–37)
Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Shocks
(pp. 238–71)
The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery
(pp. 272–304)
Standard Setting Committees: Consensus Governance for Shared Technology Platforms
(pp. 305–36)
A Continuous Dilemma
(pp. 337–63)
Understanding International Prices: Customers as Capital
(pp. 364–95)
Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
(pp. 396–427)
Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences
(pp. 428–68)
A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
(pp. 469–503)
Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?
(pp. 504–23)
Was the New Deal Contractionary?
(pp. 524–55)
The Internet and Local Wages: A Puzzle
(pp. 556–75)
The Impact of Shrouded Fees: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Indian Mutual Funds Market
(pp. 576–93)
Contracts versus Salaries in Matching
(pp. 594–601)
Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Comment
(pp. 602–07)
Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Reply
(pp. 608–12)
Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Corrigendum (Mortality Rate Update)
(pp. 613–16)