American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Vol.7, No. 1 – January 2015

Contents:

• Six Randomized Evaluation of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps / by Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman (pp. 1-20)
• The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaliation / by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan (pp. 22-53)
• The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Ethiopia / by Alessandro Tarozzi, Jaikishan Desai, and Kristin Johnson (pp. 54-89)
• The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia / by Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Emla Fitzsimons, and Heike Harmgart (pp. 90-122)
• Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco / by Bruno Crépon, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, and William Parienté (pp. 123-150)
• Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco / by Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman (pp. 151-182)
• The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina / by Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart, and Costas Meghir (pp. 183-203)

 

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Vol. 7, No. 1 – February 2015

Contents:

• Inflation Expectations and Readiness to Spend: Cross-Sectional Evidence / by Rüdiger Bachmann, Tim O. Berg, and Eric R. Sims (pp. 1-35)
• Taxes on the Internet: Deterrence Effects of Public Disclosure / by Erlend E. Bø, Joel Slemrod, and Thor O. Thoresen (pp. 36-62)
• Is There a Link between Foreclosure and Health? / by Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin (pp. 63-94)
• The Impact of Including, Adding, and Subtracting a Tax on Deman / by Naomi E. Feldman and Bradley J. Ruffle (pp. 95-118)
• The Role of Proximity in Foreclosure Externalities: Evidence from Condominiums / by Lynn M. Fisher, Lauren Lambie-Hanson, and Pual Willen (pp. 119-140)
• The Effects of Voting Costs on the Democratic Process and Public Finances / by Roland Hodler, Simon Luechinger, and Alois Stutzer (pp. 141-170)
• Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health / by Hilary Hoynes, Doug Miller, and David Simon (pp. 172-211)
• Using Taxes to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rates of New Passenger Vehicles: Evidence from France, Germany, and Sweden / by Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn (pp. 212-242)
• Diagnosing Hospital System Bargaining Power in Managed Care Networks / by Matthew S. Lewis and Kevin E. Pflum (pp. 243-274)
• Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understand Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment / by Jeffrey B. Liebman and Erzo F.P. Luttmer (pp. 275- 299)
• Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Connection between Property Taxes and Residential Capital Investment / by  Bryon Lutz (pp. 300-330)
• New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment / by  Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, and Thomas Kniesner (pp. 331-359)

 

 

 

American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics

(contents can be viewed and downloaded online)

Vol. 7, No. 1 – January 2015

Contents:

• Conventional and Unconventional Monetary policy with Endogenous Collateral Constraints / by Aloisio Araujo, SUsan Schommer, and Michael Woodford (pp. 1-43)
• Monetary Policy Surprises, Credit Costs, and Economic Activity / by Mark Gertler and Peter Karadi (pp. 44-76)
• Monetary policy and Real Borrowing Costs at the Zero Lower Bound / by Simon Gilchrist, David Lopez-Salido, and Egon Zakrajsek (pp. 77-109)
• Understanding the Great Recession / by Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin S. Eichenbaum, and Mathias Trabandt (pp. 110-167)
• Inflation in the Great Recession and New Keynesian Models / by Marco Del Negro, Marc P. Giannoni, and Frank Schorfheide (pp. 168-196)
• Is the Phillips Curve Alive and Well after All? Inflation Expectations and the Missing Disinflation / by Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko (pp. 197-232)
• The Effects of Monetary Policy on Stock market Bubbles: Some Evidence / by Jordi Gali and Luca Gambetti (pp. 233-256)
• The Possible Unemployment Cost of Average Inlation below a Credible Target / by Lars E. O. Svensson (pp. 258-296)
• International Credit Flows and Pecuniary Externalities / by Markus K. Brunnermeier and Yuliy Sannikov (pp. 297- 338)

 

 

American Economic Journal : Microeconomics

 

Vol. 7, No. 1 – February 2015

Contents:

• Expanding “Choice” in School Choice / by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, and Yosuke Yasuada (pp. 1-42)
• Sharp for SARP: Nonparametric Bounds on Counterfactual Demands / by Richard Blundell, Martin Browning, Laurens Cherchye, Ian Crawford, Bram De Rock ,and Frederic Vermeulen (pp. 43-60)
• Harsanyi’s Aggregation Theorem with Incomplete Preferences / by Eric Dann, Thibault Gajados, and Jean-Marc Tallon (pp. 61-69)
• Distributional Preferences, Reciprocity-Like Behavior, and Efficiency in Bilateral Exchange / by Daniel J. Benjamin (pp. 70-98)
• Subjective Evaluations : Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility / by William Fuchs (pp. 99-108)
• Optimal Design of trade Agreements in the Presence of Renegotiation / by Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger (pp. 109-143)
• The Core Matchings of Markets with Transfers / by Chrsitopher P. Chambers and Federico Echenique (pp. 144-164)
• Information and Extremism in Elections /by Raphael Boleslavsky and Christopher Cotton (pp. 165-207)
• A Continuous0-Time Model Multilateral Bargaining / by Attile Ambrus and Shih En Lu (pp. 208-249)
• Repeated Interaction and Rating Inflation: A Model of Double Reputation / by Sivan Frenkel (pp. 250-280)
• Mobility and Conflict / by Sourav Bhattacharya, Joyee Deb, and Tapas Kundu (pp. 281-319)
• Searching for a Bargain: Power of Strategic Commitment /by Selçuk Özyurt (pp. 320-353)
• Corrigendum: Pride and Diversity in Social Economies / by Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci, and Aldo Rustichini (pp. 354-359)

 

 

Asian Economic Journal

Vol. 29, No. 1 – March 2015

Contents:

• Multiple Structural Breaks and Inflation Persistence: Evidence from China / by Tianfeng Li and June Weit (pp. 1-20)
• Love Actually? Dissecting the Marriage-Happiness Relationship / by Donata Bessey (pp. 21-39)
• Long-run Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on Singapore’s Tourism and the Economy / by Xianming Meng, Anthony Chin and Bligh Grant (pp. 41-60)
• Price Rigidity and Industrial Concentration: Evidence from the Indonesian Food and Beverages Industry / by Maman Setiawan, Grigorios Emvalomatis and Alfons Oude Lansink (pp. 61-72)
• Dynamic Relationships between Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment: Empirical Evidence from Korea / by Jung Wan Lee (pp. 73-90)

 

 

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Vol. 39, No. 1 – January 2015

Contents:

• The nature of the firm and peculiarities of the corporation / by Tony Lawson (pp. 1-32)
• Addressing uncertainty in economics and the economy / by Sheila C. Dow (pp. 33-48)
• Spin-off and clustering: a return to the Marshallian district / by Lucia Cusmano, Andrea Morrison and Enrico Pandolfo (pp. 49-66)
• Why ‘financialisation’ hasn’t depressed US productive investment / by Andrew Kliman and Shannon D. Williams (pp. 67-92)
• Aggregate consumption and debt accumulation: an empirical examination of US household behaviour / by Yun K. Kim, Mark Setterfield and yuan Mei (pp. 93-112)
• Premature de-industrialisation: theory, evidence and policy recommendations in the Mexican xase / by Moritz Cruz (pp. 113-138)
• Financial hierarchy and banking strategies: a regional analysis for the Brazilian case / by Mara Nogueira, Marco Crocco, Ana Teresa Figueiredo and Gustavo Diniz (pp. 139-156)
• Comparative evaluation of post-Keynesian interest rate rules, income ditribution and firms’ debts from macroeconomic performance / by Hiroshi Nishi (pp. 189-220)
• The middle class in macroeconomics and growth theory: a three-class-neo-Kaleckian-Goodwin model / by Thomas I. Palley (pp. 221-244)
• Demand and structural change in Adam Smith’s view of economic progress/ by Kwangsu Kim (pp. 245-264)
• Natural price and the long run: Alfred Marshall’s misreading of Adam Smith / by David Andrews (pp. 265-280)
• Jonathan Swift’s critique of consequentialism? / by Renee Prendergast (pp. 281- 297)

 

 

Vol. 39, No. 2 – March 2015

Contents:

• Equal Pay as a Moving Target: International perspectives on forty-years of addressing the gender pay gap / by Jacquline O’Reilly, Mark Smith, Simon Deakin and Brendan Burchell (pp. 299-319)
• The 40-year pursuit of equal pay: a case of constantly moving goalposts / by Jil Rubery and Damian Grimshaw (pp. 219-244)
• Regulation distance, labour segmentation and gender gaps/ by David Peetz (pp. 345-362)
• Understanding the variations of uninon’s litigation strategies to promote equal pay: reflection on the British case / by Cecile Guillaume (pp. 363-380)
• Are litigation and collective bargaining complements or substitutes for achieving gender equality? A study on the British Equal Pay Act / by Simon Deakin, Sarah Fraser Butlin, Colm McLaughlin and Aleksandra Polanska (pp. 381-404)
• Economic analysis, ideology and the public sphere: insights from Australia’s equal remuneration hearings / by Siobhan Austen and Therese Jefferson (pp. 405-420)
• Australia’s gender pay equity legislation: how new, how different, what prospects? / by Sarah Charlesworth and Fiona Macdonald (pp. 421-440)
• Contradictions and misalighnment in the EU approach towards the gender pay gap / by Marco Peruzzi (pp. 441-467)
• From wage regulation to wage gap: how wage-setting institutions and structures shape the gender wage gap across three industries in 24 European countries and Germany / by Andre Schäfer and Karin Gottschall (pp. 467-496)
• Gender wage inequality in inclusive and exclusive industrial relations systems: a comparison of Argentina and Chile / by Sebastian M. Ugarte, Damian Grimshaw and Jill Rubery (pp. 497-536)
• Do high-performance work practices exacerbate or mitigate the gender pay gap? / by Rhys Davies, Robert McNabb, and Keith Whitfield  (pp. 537-564)
• Gender pay gaps and the restructuring of graduate labour markets in Southern Europe / by Hugo Figueiredo, Vera Rocha, Ricardo Biscaia and Pedro Teixeira (pp. 565-598)
• The gender wage gap among PhDs in the UK / by Ute Schulze  (pp. 599-630)
• Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South-Eastern Europe / by Niall O’Higgins (pp. 631-654)
• Equal pay by gender and by nationality: a comparative analysis of Switzerland’s unequal equal pay policy regimes across time / by Roland Erne and Natalie Imboden (pp. 655-674)

 

 

 

Econometrica

Journal of the Econometric Society

Vol. 83, No. 2 – March 2015

Contents:

• Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence From Brazil / by Thomas Fujiwara (pp. 423–464)
• How is Power Shared in Africa? / by Patrick Francois, Ilia Rainer, and Francesco Trebbi (pp. 465-503)
• Democratization Under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence From the Great Reform Act of 1832 / by Toke S. Aidt and Raphaël Franck (pp. 505-547)
• Sentiments and Aggregate Demand Fluctuations / by Jess Benhabib, Pengfei Wang and Yi Wen (pp. 549-585)
• Time Horizon and Cooperation in Continuous Time / by Maria Bigoni, Marco Casari, Andrzej Skrzypacz and Giancarlo Spagnolo (pp. 587-616)
• Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice / by Debopam Bhattacharya (pp. 617-649)
• Dynamic Logit with Choice Aversion / by Drew Fudenberg and Tomasz Strazalecki (pp. 651-691)
• Cautious Expected Utility and the Certainty Effect / by Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, David Dillenberger and Pietro Ortoleva (pp. 693-728)
• A Polynomial Optimization Approach to Principal-Agent Problems / by Philipp Renner and Karl Schmedders (pp. 729-769)
• Nearly Optimal Tests When a Nuisance Parameter is Present Under the Null Hypothesis / by Graham Elliott, Ulrich K. Müller and Mark W. Watson (pp. 771-811)

Notes and Comments

• Bootstrap Testing of Hypotheses on Co-Integration Relations in Vector Autoregressive Models / by Guiseppe Cavaliere, Heino Bohn Nielson and Anders Rahbek (pp. 813-831)

 

 

 

Health Policy and Planning

The journal on health policy and systems research

Vol. 30, Suppl. 1 – March 2015

Contents:

Symposium on the Private Sector in Health: Sydney 2013 | Guest Editor: David Bishai

• (Editorial) The role of the private sector in health systems / by D. Bishai and K Sachathep (pp. 1)
• An impact evaluation of medical insurance for poor in Georgia: preliminary results and policy implications / by G Gotsadze, A Zoidze, N Rukhadze, N Shengelia and N Chkhaidze (pp. 2-13)
• A total market approach for condoms in Myanmar: the need for the private, public and socially marketed sectors to work together for a sustainable condom market for HIV prevention / by H W Htat, K Longfield, G Mundy, Z Win and D Montagu (pp. 14-22)
• Private sector participation in delivering tertiary health care: a dichotomy of access and affordability across two Indian states / by A Katyal, P V Singh, S Bergkvist, A Samarth and M Rao (pp. 23-31)
• Who serves the urban poor? A geospatial and descriptive analysis of health services in slum settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh / by A M Adams, R Islam and T Ahmed (pp. 32-45)
• Quality of inpatient care in public and private hospitals in Sri Lanka / by R P Rannan-Eliya, N Wijemanne, I K Liyanage, S Dalpatadu, S de Alwis, S Amarasinghe and S Shanthikumar (pp. 46-58)
• The quality of outpatient primary care in public and private sectors in Sri Lanka—how well do patient perceptions match reality and what are the implications? / by R P Rannan-Eliya, N Wijemanne, I K Liyanage, J Jayanthan, S Dalpatadu, S Amarasinghe and C Anuranga (pp. 59-74)
• Mortality outcomes in hospitals with public, private not-for-profit and private for-profit ownership in Chile 2001–2010 / by C Cid Pedraza, C A Herrera, L Prieto Toledo and F Oyarzún (pp. 75-81)
• Can mobile phone messages to drug sellers improve treatment of childhood diarrhoea?—A randomized controlled trial in Ghana / by W Friedman, B Woodman and M Chatterji (pp. 82-92)
• Regulating the for-profit private health sector: lessons from East and Southern Africa / by J E Doherty (pp. 93-102)

 

 

 

Intereconomics

Review of European Economic Policy

Vol. 50, No. 2 – March/April 2015

Contents:

Editorial

• Closing the Gender Pay Gap in the EU / by Jilly Rubery (pp. 62 – 63)

Forum: Currency Interventions: Effective Policy Tool or Shortsighted Gamble?

• Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market: Rationale, Effectiveness, Costs and Benefits / by Keith Pilbeam (pp. 674-69)
• A Strong Franc: The Future Competitiveness of the Swiss Economy / by Arturo Bris (pp. 70-74)
• The Fall in Long-Term Interest Rates: Quantitative Easing Effect or Trend? / by Cinzia Alcidi, Mikkel Barslund, Willem Pieter De Groen, Daniel Gros (pp. 75-81)

Articles:

• (Monetary Policy) Eurosystem Collateral Policy and Framework – Post-Lehman Time as a New Collateral Space / by Ansgar Belke (pp. 82-90)
• (Greek Crisis) Give Greece a Chance / by Michael Mitsopoulos, Theodore Pelagidis (pp. 91-98)
• (Debt Brake) Experiences with Budget Rules in Switzerland and Germany / by Karl Heinz Hausner, Silvia Simon (pp. 99-107)
• (Behavioural Economics) The Behavioural Turn in Consumer Policy: Perspectives and Clarifications / by Francesco Bogliacino, Christiano Codagnone, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri (pp. 108-114)

Letter from America

• Will the Politics or Economics of Deflation Prove More Harmful? / by Mark Blyth (pp. 115-116)

 

 

 

 

Journal of East Asian Studies

Vol. 15, No. 1 – January-April 2015

Contents:

Special Section : Contentious Politics in China and Taiwan

• Managing Social Stability: The Perspective of a Local Government in China / by Juan Wang (pp. 1-25)
• Petition and Repression in China’s Authoritarian Regime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment / by Stan Hok-wai Wong and Minggang Peng (pp.27-67)
• Occupy Congress in Taiwan: Political Opportunity, Threat, and the Sunflower Movement / by Ming-Sho Ho (pp. 69-97)

Articles

• Removing Boundaries, Losing Connections: Electoral Consequences of Local Government Reform in Japan / by Yusaki Horiuchi, Jun Saito, and Kyohei Yamada (pp. 99-125)
• Voter Demands for Patronage: Evidence from Indonesia / by Jae Hyeok Shin (pp. 127-151)

Book Reviews

• Ralf Emmers, ‘Resource Management and Contested Territories in East Asia’ / reviewed by Jonathan Spangler (pp. 153-155)
• Yoonkyung Lee, ‘Militants or Partisans: Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan’ / reviewed by Hyunji Lee (pp. 156-158)
• Sasakawa Ryoichi, ‘Sugamo Diary’ / reviewed by Ivo Plsek (pp. 158-161)
• Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, ‘China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know’ / reviewed by Kai Chen (pp. 161-163)

 

 

 

 

Review of World Economics

Vol. 151, No. 1 – February 2015

Contents:

• What is really puzzling about the “distance puzzle” / by Clément Bosquet and Hervé Boulhol (pp. 1-21)
• How to combine high sunk costs of exporting and low export survival / by Joakim Gullstrand, Maria Persson (pp. 23-51)
• Trade and technology: new evidence on the productivity sorting of firms / by Irene Bertschek, Jan Hogrefe, Fabienne Rasel (pp. 53-72)
• How trade credits foster exporting / by Katharina Eck, Martina Engemann, Monika Schnitzer (pp. 73-101)
• Foreign direct investment and the ease of doing business / by Adrian Corcoran, Robert Gillanders (pp. 103-126)
• Administrative costs of regulation and foreign direct investment: the Standard Cost Model in non-OECD countries / by Jacopo Torriti, Eka Ikpe (pp. 127-144)
• Regional export promotion offices and trade margins / by Salvador Gil-Pareja, Rafael Llorca-Vivero, José Antonio Martínez-Serrano, and Francisco Requena-Silvente (pp. 145-167)

 

 

 

 

The Economic Journal

The Journal of the Royal Economic Society

Vol. 125, No. 582 – February 2015

Contents:

• Impatience, Incentives and Obesity / by Charles Courtemanche, Garth Heutel, and Patrick McAlvanah (pp. 1-31)
• HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behaviour / by Erick Gong (pp. 32-60)
• Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in England, 1858-2012: Surnames and Social Mobility / by Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins (pp. 61-85)
• Competition, Disclosure and Signalling / by Maarten C.W. Janssen and Santanu Roy (pp. 86-114)
• Are Women more Attracted to Co-operation than Men? / by Petern Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval (pp. 115-140)
• Should Central Banks Burst Bubbles? Some Microeconomic Issues / by John R. Conlon (pp. 141-161)
• Smoothed Interest Rate Setting by Central Banks and Staggered Loan Contract / by Yuki Teranishi (pp. 162-183)
• A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception / by Andrew Caplin and Daniel Martin (pp. 184- 202)

 

 

Vol. 125, No. 583 – March 2015

Contents:

• Economic Journal 125th Anniversary Special Issue / by EJ Editors (pp. 203-208)
• Unveiling the Ethics behind Inequality Measurement: Dalton’s Contribution to Economics / by Anthony B. Atkinson and Andres Brandolini (pp. 209-234)
• In Praise of Frank Ramsey’s Contribution to the Theory of Taxation / by Joseph E. Stiglitz (pp. 235-268)
• Frank Ramsey’s A Mathematical Theory of Saving / by Orazio P. Attanasio (pp. 269-294)
• Keynesian Controversies on Wages / by John Pencavel (pp. 295-349)
• Harrod 1939 / by Lawrence E. Blume and Thomas J. Sargent (pp. 350-377)
• Introduction to the Distribution of Earnings and of Individual Output, by A.D. Roy / by James J. Heckman and Michael Sattinger (pp. 378-402)
• Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker / by James J. Heckman (pp. 403-409)
• Gary Becker’s A Theory of Allocation of Time / by Pierre-André Chiappori and Arthur Lewbel (pp. 410-442)
• Localised and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz’s New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change / by Daron Acemoglu (pp. 443-463)
• Taxation and Saving – A Retrospective / by Alan J. Auerbach (pp. 464-492)
• Regret Theory: A Bold Alternative to the Alternative / by Han Bleichrodt and Peter P. Wakker (pp. 493-532)
• Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Growth / by Philippe Aghion and Xavier Jaravel (pp. 533-573)
• Endogenous Growth, Convexity of Damage and Climate Risk: How Nordhaus’ Framework Supports Deep Cuts in Carbon Emissions / by Simon Dietz and Nicholas Stern (pp. 574-620)

 

 

 

 

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Vol. 130, Issue 1 – February 2015

Contents:

• Very Long-Run Discount Rates / by Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, and Johannes Stroebel (pp. 1-53)
• Waves in Ship Prices and Investment / by Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson (pp. 55-109)
• Regulating Consumer Financial Products: Evidence from Credit Cards / by Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Neale Mahoney, and Johannes Stroebel (pp. 111-164)
• Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment / by Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts, and Zhichun Jenny Ying (pp. 165-218)
• Do Markets Erode Social Responsibility? / by Björn Bartling, Roberto A. Weber, and Lan Yao (pp. 219-266)
• The Geography of Interstate Resource Wars / by Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli, and Dominic Rohner (pp. 267-315)
•  Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts / by Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman (pp. 317-369)
• The Psychological Effect of Weather on Car Purchases / by Meghan R. Busse, Devin G. Pope, Jaren C. Pope, and Jorge Silva-Risso (pp. 371-414)
• Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns / by Andrew Atkeson, Christian Hellwig, and Guillermo Ordoñez (pp. 415-464)
• The Impact of Housing Assistance on Child Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Lottery / by Brian A. Jacob, Max Kapustin, and Jens Ludwig (pp. 465-506)