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The East Asian Tigers
Industrial Policy, Asian Miracle Style
by Reda Cherif and Fuad Hasanov
(pp. 101–26)
The World Bank's East Asian Miracle: Too Much a Product of Its Time?
by Nancy Birdsall
(pp. 127–48)
Housing Markets
How Regional Inequality and Migration Drive Housing Prices and Rents
by Greg Howard and Jack Liebersohn
(pp. 3–26)
Curbing Rising Housing Costs: A Model-Based Policy Comparison
by Boaz Abramson and Tim Landvoigt
(pp. 27–44)
The Folk Economics of Housing
by Christopher S. Elmendorf, Clayton Nall, and Stan Oklobdzija
(pp. 45–66)
Building Costs and House Prices
by Brian Potter and Chad Syverson
(pp. 67–86)
International Dimensions of Housing Markets
by Cristian Badarinza and Tarun Ramadorai
(pp. 87–106)
Drug Pricing and Regulation
Economic Markets and Pharmaceutical Innovation
by Craig Garthwaite
(pp. 3–26)
Patents, Innovation, and Competition in Pharmaceuticals: The Hatch-Waxman Act after 40 Years
by C. Scott Hemphill and Bhaven N. Sampat
(pp. 27–52)
Lessons for the United States from Pharmaceutical Regulation Abroad
by Margaret K. Kyle
(pp. 53–78)
The Economics of Generic Drug Shortages: The Limits of Competition
by Rena M. Conti and Marta E. Wosińska
(pp. 79–102)
Income Inequality
Measuring Income and Income Inequality
by Conor Clarke and Wojciech Kopczuk
(pp. 103–26)
Macro Perspectives on Income Inequality
by Matthieu Gomez
(pp. 127–48)
Public Finance Implications of Economic Inequality
by Alan J. Auerbach
(pp. 149–70)
Bond Markets
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Federal Reserve Participation in Fixed Income Markets
by Nina Boyarchenko and Or Shachar
(pp. 171–94)
How US Treasuries Can Remain the World's Safe Haven
by Darrell Duffie
(pp. 195–214)
US Corporate Bond Markets: Bigger and (Maybe) Better?
by Maureen O'Hara and Xing (Alex) Zhou
(pp. 215–34)
Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?
by John M. Griffin, Nicholas Hirschey, and Samuel Kruger
(pp. 235–60)
The 2023 Merger Guidelines and Beyond
The 2023 Merger Guidelines and the Arc of Antitrust History
by Daniel Francis
(pp. 3–28)
Improving Economic Analysis in Merger Guidelines
by Louis Kaplow
(pp. 29–52)
Acquisitions to Enter New Markets
by Carl Shapiro
(pp. 53–76)
US Safety Net
Two Histories of the Public Safety Net
by Christopher Howard
(pp. 77–100)
Did Welfare Reform End the Safety Net as We Knew It? The Record since 1996
by Lucie Schmidt, Lara Shore-Sheppard, and Tara Watson
(pp. 101–28)
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net
by Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan
(pp. 129–50)
Industrial Policy
Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?
by Tristan Reed
(pp. 3–26)
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy
by Réka Juhász and Nathan Lane
(pp. 27–54)
Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding
by Panle Jia Barwick, Myrto Kalouptsidi, and Nahim Bin Zahur
(pp. 55–80)
Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy
by Chad P. Bown and Dan Wang
(pp. 81–110)
Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufactures and Industrial Policy
by Richard Sylla
(pp. 111–30)
Behavioral Incentive Compatibility
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments
by David Danz, Lise Vesterlund, and Alistair J. Wilson
(pp. 131–54)
Behavioral Incentive Compatibility and Empirically Informed Welfare Analysis: An Introductory Guide
by Alex Rees-Jones
(pp. 155–74)
Designing Simple Mechanisms
by Shengwu Li
(pp. 175–92)
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
by William G. Gale, Jeffrey L. Hoopes, and Kyle Pomerleau
(pp. 3–32)
The US Individual Income Tax: Recent Evolution and Evidence
by Jon Bakija
(pp. 33–60)
Lessons from the Biggest Business Tax Cut in US History
by Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick
(pp. 61–88)
US International Corporate Taxation after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
by Kimberly A. Clausing
(pp. 89–112)
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?
by Kevin Corinth and Naomi Feldman
(pp. 113–36)
Expanding the Appeal of Economics
Seeking the "Missing Women" of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge
by Tatyana Avilova and Claudia Goldin
(pp. 137–62)
Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
by Sergio Barrera, Susan Sajadi, Marionette Holmes, and Sarah Jacobson
(pp. 163–90)
Lessons for Expanding the Share of Disadvantaged Students in Economics from the AEA Summer Program at Michigan State University
by Lisa D. Cook and Christine Moser
(pp. 191–208)
How Research Informs Policy Analysis
How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress
by Staff of the Congressional Budget Office
(pp. 3–24)
The Economic Constitution of the United States
by Cass R. Sunstein
(pp. 25–42)
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research
by Wendy Edelberg and Greg Feldberg
(pp. 43–62)
Philanthropic Cause Prioritization
by Emily Oehlsen
(pp. 63–82)
Labor Market and Macroeconomics
The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge Curve Shifts
by Gadi Barlevy, R. Jason Faberman, Bart Hobijn, and Ayşegül Şahin
(pp. 83–106)
Perspectives on the Labor Share
by Loukas Karabarbounis
(pp. 107–36)
Why Labor Supply Matters for Macroeconomics
by Richard Rogerson
(pp. 137–58)
How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?
by Marianna Kudlyak
(pp. 159–80)
Privacy Protection and Government Data
Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns
by Claire McKay Bowen
(pp. 181–200)
When Privacy Protection Goes Wrong: How and Why the 2020 Census Confidentiality Program Failed
by Steven Ruggles
(pp. 201–26)
The Global Market for Talent
Skilled Immigrants, Firms, and the Global Geography of Innovation
by Britta Glennon
(pp. 3–26)
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data
by Francesco Lissoni and Ernest Miguelez
(pp. 27–54)
Taxation and Developing Countries
Tax Equity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
by Pierre Bachas ⓡ Anders Jensen ⓡ Lucie Gadenne
(pp. 55–80)
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
by Oyebola Okunogbe and Gabriel Tourek
(pp. 81–106)
Does the Value-Added Tax Add Value? Lessons Using Administrative Data from a Diverse Set of Countries
by Anne Brockmeyer ⓡ Giulia Mascagni ⓡ Vedanth Nair ⓡ Mazhar Waseem ⓡ Miguel Almunia
(pp. 107–32)
After the Pandemic
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?
by Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Jorge R. Ledesma
(pp. 3–22)
The Evolution of Work from Home
by José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis
(pp. 23–50)
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes
by Rebecca Jack and Emily Oster
(pp. 51–70)
Wealth
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War
by Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick
(pp. 71–90)
Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?
by Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Rory McGee
(pp. 91–114)
Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway
by Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Fanny Landaud, and Kjell G. Salvanes
(pp. 115–36)
The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field
by Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
(pp. 137–54)
The Electricity Grid
Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid
by Lucas W. Davis, Catherine Hausman, and Nancy L. Rose
(pp. 155–80)
The Economics of Electricity Reliability
by Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, and Erin Mansur
(pp. 181–206)