Front Matter
(pp. i–viii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 102, No. 6, October 2012
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The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment
(pp. 2381–2409)
Modeling the Change of Paradigm: Non-Bayesian Reactions to Unexpected News
(pp. 2410–36)
Markups and Firm-Level Export Status
(pp. 2437–71)
The Evolution of Brand Preferences: Evidence from Consumer Migration
(pp. 2472–2508)
The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment
(pp. 2509–39)
The Rise of the Service Economy
(pp. 2540–69)
Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and the Financial Crisis: A New Monetarist Approach
(pp. 2570–2605)
How General Are Risk Preferences? Choices under Uncertainty in Different Domains
(pp. 2606–38)
Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D
(pp. 2639–73)
Maturity, Indebtedness, and Default Risk
(pp. 2674–99)
Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions, and Risk Sharing
(pp. 2700–2733)
Disaster Risk and Business Cycles
(pp. 2734–66)
But Who Will Monitor the Monitor?
(pp. 2767–97)
Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks
(pp. 2798–2825)
Physician Agency and Adoption of Generic Pharmaceuticals
(pp. 2826–58)
Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk Due to Intermittent Portfolio Rebalancing?
(pp. 2859–96)
The Strategy of Manipulating Conflict
(pp. 2897–2922)
Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi
(pp. 2923–54)
Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior
(pp. 2955–80)
Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction
(pp. 2981–3003)
Credit Traps
(pp. 3004–32)
Economic Growth with Bubbles
(pp. 3033–58)
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment
(pp. 3059–76)
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
(pp. 3077–3110)