American Economic Review
Vol. 98 No. 4 September 2008
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Leverage Cycles and the Anxious Economy
(pp. 1211-44)
Competition and Price Variation When Consumers Are Loss Averse
(pp. 1245-68)
Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection
(pp. 1269-91)
Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution
(pp. 1292-1311)
The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization
(pp. 1312-46)
How Strong Are Weak Patents?
(pp. 1347-69)
Does Innovation Cause Stock Market Runups? Evidence from the Great Crash
(pp. 1370-96)
The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
(pp. 1397-1412)
Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market
(pp. 1413-42)
The Power of Focal Points Is Limited: Even Minute Payoff Asymmetry May Yield Large Coordination Failures
(pp. 1443-58)
Optimal Contracting with Endogenous Social Norms
(pp. 1459-75)
Great Expectations and the End of the Depression
(pp. 1476-1516)
Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model
(pp. 1517-52)
Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption
(pp. 1553-77)
Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation
(pp. 1578-90)
The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
(pp. 1591-1604)
The Relationship between Economic Status and Child Health: Evidence from the United States
(pp. 1605-18)
All-or-Nothing Monitoring
(pp. 1619-28)
Commitment and Conflict in Bilateral Bargaining
(pp. 1629-35)
Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism
(pp. 1636-52)
The Limited Influence of Unemployment on the Wage Bargain
(pp. 1653-74)
Trade Policy and Loss Aversion
(pp. 1675-91)
The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited
(pp. 1692-1706)
Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade
(pp. 1707-21)
A Note on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory
(pp. 1722-30)
Testing for a Reference Consumer in International Comparisons of Living Standards
(pp. 1731-32)