New Acquisitions (Periodicals) – May 2015

The American Economic Review

Volume 105 Number 1 – January 2015

 

Contents:

  • Price Reaction to Information with Heterogeneous Beliefs and Wealth Effects: Underreaction, Momentum, and Reversal  / by Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sørensen (pp. 1-34)
  •  Infrastructure Quality and the Subsidy Trap / by Shaun McRae (pp. 35-66)
  •  Efficient Matching under Distributional Constraints: Theory and Applications  / by Yuichiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima (pp. 67-99)
  • Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters (pp. 100-130) / by Jesse Rothstein
  • Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the US Steel Industry / by Allan Collard-Wexler and Jan De Loecker (pp. 131-71)
  • Mergers When Prices Are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry / by Gautam Gowrisankaran, Aviv Nevo and Robert Town (pp. 172-203)
  • Paying Attention or Paying Too Much in Medicare Part D / by Jonathan D. Ketcham, Claudio Lucarelli and Christopher A. Powers (pp. 204-33)
  • Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock / by Michael D. Grubb and Matthew Osborne (pp. 234-71)
  • Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model / by Filip Matêjka and Alisdair McKay (pp. 272-98)
  • Revealed (P)Reference Theory / Efe A. Ok, Pietro Ortoleva and Gil Riella (pp. 299-321)
  • How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign  / by Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini and Francesco Trebbi (pp. 322-53)
  • Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan / by Michael Callen and James D. Long (pp. 354-81)
  • The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development / by Marcella Alsan (pp. 382-410)
  • When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in US Electricity Generation / by Steve Cicala (pp. 411-44)
  • The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers  / by Ralph S. J. Koijen and Motohiro Yogo (pp. 445-75)

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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Vol. 39 No. 1 – January 2015

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Vol. 39 No. 2 – March 2015

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American Economic Journal – Microeconomics

Volume 6 Number 4 – November 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

  • Credit Market Speculation and the Cost of Capital / by Yeon-Koo Che and Rajiv Sethi (pp. 1-34)
  • Effects of Mergers in Two-Sided Markets: The US Radio Industry / by PrzemysŁaw Jeziorski (pp. 35-73)
  • Strategic Private Experimentation  / by Mike Felgenhauer and Elisabeth Schulte (pp. 74-105)
  • Internet Penetration and Capacity Utilization in the US Airline Industry / by James D. Dana Jr. and Eugene Orlov (pp. 106-37)
  • The Control Premium: A Preference for Payoff Autonomy / by David Owens, Zachary Grossman and Ryan Fackler (pp. 138-61)
  • The Strategic Dis/advantage of Voting Early  / by Eddie Dekel and Michele Piccione (pp. 162-79)
  • Hypothetical Thinking and Information Extraction in the Laboratory / by Ignacio Esponda and Emanuel Vespa (pp. 180-202)
  • Voter Preferences, Polarization, and Electoral Policies  / by Yuichiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima (pp. 203-36)
  • Pride and Diversity in Social Economies  / by Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci and Aldo Rustichini (pp. 237-71)
  • Competitive Altruism, Mentalizing, and Signaling / by Ed Hopkins (pp. 272-92)
  • (Good and Bad) Reputation for a Servant of Two Masters  / by Heski Bar-Isaac and Joyee Deb (pp. 293-325)
  • Wasteful Sanctions, Underperformance, and Endogenous Supervision / by David A. Miller and Kareen Rozen (pp. 326-61)
  • The Day Care Assignment: A Dynamic Matching Problem  / by John Kennes, Daniel Monte and Norovsambuu Tumennasan (pp. 362-406)
  • Mergers and Sunk Costs: An Application to the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry / by Allan Collard-Wexler (pp. 407-47)

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American Economic Journal – Applied Economics

Volume 6 Number 4 – October 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents:

  • Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia / by Benjamin A. Olken, Junko Onishi and Susan Wong (pp. 1-34)
  • Citizenship, Fertility, and Parental Investments  / by Ciro Avitabile, Irma Clots-Figueras and Paolo Masella (pp. 35-65)
  • Price, Quality, and Variety: Measuring the Gains from Trade in Differentiated Products  / by Gloria Sheu (pp. 66-89)
  • Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin  / by Moussa P. Blimpo (pp. 90-109)
  • Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance (pp. 110-41) / by David Autor, Mark Duggan and Jonathan Gruber
  • Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment  / by Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Marc Gurgand (pp. 142-74)
  • The Distributive Impacts of Financial Development: Evidence from Mortgage Markets during US Bank Branch Deregulation / by Ishani Tewari (pp. 175-96)
  • Soil Endowments, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Deficit of Women in India  / by Eliana Carranza (pp. 197-225)
  • When the Floodgates Open: “Northern” Firms’ Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods  / by Hale Utar (pp. 226-50)
  • Merit Aid, College Quality, and College Completion: Massachusetts’ Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy  / by Sarah R. Cohodes and Joshua S. Goodman (pp. 251-85)

American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics

Volume 6 Number 4 – October 2014

 

 

 

 

 

Contents:

  • Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices / Samuel Bazzi and Christopher Blattman (pp. 1-38)
  • Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Business Cycle Comovement  / Robert C. Johnson (pp. 39-83)
  • Consumption, Income Changes, and Heterogeneity: Evidence from Two Fiscal Stimulus Programs  / Kanishka Misra and Paolo Surico (pp. 84-106)
  • Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity / Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri (pp. 107-36)
  • Monetary Policy without Interest Rates: Evidence from France’s Golden Age (1948 to 1973) Using a Narrative Approach / Eric Monnet (pp. 137-69)
  • Government Spending Multipliers in Developing Countries: Evidence from Lending by Official Creditors / Aart Kraay (pp. 170-208)
  • Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries / Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha and Luis Serven (pp. 209-45)
  • Welfare Reversals in a Monetary Union / Stéphane Auray and Aurélien Eyquem (pp. 246-90)
  • The Political Economy of the Greek Debt Crisis: A Tale of Two Bailouts  / Silvia Ardagna and Francesco Caselli (pp. 291-323)

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American Economic Journal – Economic Policy

Volume 6 Number 4 – November 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents:

  • Efficiency and Substitutability of Transit Subsidies and Other Urban Transport Policies / Leonardo J. Basso and Hugo E. Silva (pp. 1-33)\
  • Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform / Lex Borghans, Anne C. Gielen and Erzo F. P. Luttmer (pp. 34-70)
  • The Trade-Offs of Welfare Policies in Labor Markets with Informal Jobs: The Case of the “Seguro Popular” Program in Mexico / Mariano Bosch and Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez (pp. 71-99)
  • Are Incentives for R&D Effective? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach / Raffaello Bronzini and Eleonora Iachini (pp. 100-134)
  • Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start  / Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja (pp. 135-73)
  • Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges / Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Claudia Goldin (pp. 174-206)
  • Cash for Coolers: Evaluating a Large-Scale Appliance Replacement Program in Mexico / Lucas W. Davis, Alan Fuchs and Paul Gertler (pp. 207-38)
  • The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology / David Dranove, Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein (pp. 239-70)
  • Estimating Taxable Income Responses Using Danish Tax Reforms  / Henrik Jacobsen Kleven and Esben Anton Schultz (pp. 271-301)
  • Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior  / Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn and Erich Muehlegger (pp. 302-42)
  • The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying / William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln and Prachi Mishra (pp. 343-79)
  • A Test for the Rational Ignorance Hypothesis: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Brazil / Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon and Renata Rizzi (pp. 380-98)

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Environment and Development Economics

Volume 20 Part 1 – February 2015

Contents:

  • The impact of climate change on agricultural net revenue: a case study in the Fouta Djallon, West Africa / Stephen A. Wood and Robert O. Mendelsohn
  • Climate change, agriculture and economic effects on different regions of Brazil / Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho and Gustavo Inácio de Moraes
  • Irrigation as an adaptive strategy to climate change: an economic perspective on Brazilian agriculture / Dênis Antônio da Cunha and Alexandre Bragança Coelho and José Gustavo Féres
  • Estimating the causal effect of improved fallows on environmental services provision under farmers’ field conditions in Chongwe, Zambia / Elias Kuntashula and Eric Mungatana
  • Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands / Elisa Ticci and Javier Escobal
  • The effect of reducing the pre-harvest burning of sugar cane on respiratory health in Brazil / Alexandre C. Nicolella and Walter Belluzzo

Journal of East Asian Studies

Volume 14 Number 3 – September – December 2014

ContentsRed China” and the “Yellow Peril”: How Ideology Divides Americans over China / Peter Hays GriesIncome, Electoral Turnout, and Partisan Voting in Taiwan / Wen-Chun ChangWreck/Conciliation? The Politics of Truth Commissions in Thailand / Duncan McCargo and Naruemon ThabchumponBetween Pork and People: An Analysis of the Policy Balance in the LDP’s Election Platforms / Christian G. Winkler

Health Policy and Planning

Volume 30 Number 1 –

February 2015

Contents:

  • Bypassing birth centres for childbirth: an analysis of data from a community-based prospective cohort study in Nepal / Rajendra Karkee, Andy H Lee, and Colin W Binns
  • HIV/AIDS policy-making in Kyrgyzstan: a stakeholder analysis / Svetlana Ancker and Bernd Rechel
  • The administrative costs of community-based health insurance: a case study of the community health fund in Tanzania / Josephine Borghi, Suzan Makawia, and August Kuwawenaruwa
  • Stakeholder perspectives on national policy for regulating the school food environment in Mexico / Eva C Monterrosa … et al.
  • What explains regulatory failure? Analysing the architecture of health care regulation in two Indian states / Kabir Sheikh, Prasanna S Saligram, and Krishna Hort
  • Policymaking ‘under the radar’: a case study of pesticide regulation to prevent intentional poisoning in Sri Lanka / Melissa Pearson … et al.
  • Improving Chinese primary care providers’ recruitment and retention: a discrete choice experiment / Kuimeng Song … et al.
  • Utilization of focused antenatal care in Zambia: examining individual- and community-level factors using a multilevel analysis / Chitalu M Chama-Chiliba and Steven F Koch
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of a voucher scheme combined with obstetrical quality improvements: quasi experimental results from Uganda / Y Natalia Alfonso … et al.
  • Buy now, saved later? The critical impact of time-to-pandemic uncertainty on pandemic cost-effectiveness analyses / Tom Drake, Zaid Chalabi, and Richard Coker
  • Coherence between health policy and human resource strategy: lessons from maternal health in Vietnam, India and China / Tim Martineau … et al.

Volume 30 Number 2 –

March 2015

Contents:

  • National-level differences in the adoption of environmental health technologies: a cross-border comparison from Benin and Togo / Kelly J Wendland, Subhrendu K Pattanayak, and Erin O Sills.
  • Boosting health insurance coverage in developing countries: do conditional cash transfer programmes matter in Mexico? / Olga Biosca and Heather Brown
  • Integrating mental health and social development in theory and practice / Sophie Plagerson
  • Insecticide-treated mosquito nets in rural Burkina Faso: assessment of coverage and equity in the wake of a universal distribution campaign / Caroline Zöllner … et al.
  • Can health workers reliably assess their own work? A test–retest study of bias among data collectors conducting a Lot Quality Assurance Sampling survey in Uganda / Colin A Beckworth … et al.
  • Paying for outpatient care in rural China: cost escalation under China’s New Co-operative Medical Scheme / Wei Yang and Xun Wu
  • Do stock prices drive people crazy? / Chung-Liang Lin, Chin-Shyan Chen, and Tsai-Ching Liu
  • ‘One health’ and development priorities in resource-constrained countries: policy lessons from avian and pandemic influenza preparedness in Zambia / Kennedy Kapala Mwacalimba and Judith Green
  • The health system cost of post-abortion care in Rwanda / Michael Vlassoff … et al.
  • Meeting the challenge in performance management: the diffusion and implementation of the balanced scorecard in Chinese hospitals / Tian Gao and Bruce Gurd
  • Health seeking behaviour and the related household out-of-pocket expenditure for chronic non-communicable diseases in rural Malawi / Qun Wang … et al.

Keio Economic Studies

2014 Volume L

Contents:

  • Bank ownership and efficiency in India: some fresh evidence / Anup Kumar Bhandari (pp.1-28)
  • International trade and wage inequality in a dynamic model / Manash Ranjan Gupta, Priya Brata Dutta (pp. 29-50)
  • The impact of local government cultural policies on the sales of tickets for private music concerts in Japan / Miyuki Taniguchi (pp.51-68)
  • Relative profit maximization and irrelevance of leadership in Stackelberg model / Yasuhito Tanaka (pp.69-75)
  • A formula for calculating the Slutsky matrix / Yunki Hosoya (pp.77-82)
  • Efficient horizontal mergers in polluting industries with green R&D and endogenous taxation / Luca Lambertini, Alessandro Tampieri (pp.83-89)

The Philippine Review of Economics

Volume LI Number 2 – December 2014

 

 

 

 

 

Contents:

  • Market competition in the downstream oil industry: is there evidence of price asymmetry?    / Ma. Joy Abrenica, Rolando Danao, Nimfa Mendoza (pp. 1-20)
  • Poor parents, rich children: the role of schooling, non farm work, and migration in rural Philippines / Jonna Estudillo, Yukichi Mano, Yasusuki Sawada, Keijiro Otsuka (pp. 21-46)
  • Has the Philippines forever lost its chance at industrialization? / Jeffrey Williamson, Emmanuel de Dios (pp. 47-66)
  • Evolutionary economics and household behavior / Charles Horioka (pp. 67-82)
  • Empirical measurement of illicit tobacco trade in the Philippines / Victor Abola, Deborah Sy, Ryan Denniston, Anthony So (pp. 83-96)
  • The effects of a minimum wage on employment outcomes: an application of regression discontinuity design / Kristine Laura Canales (pp. 97-120)
  • The impacts of microcredit on poverty reduction: evidence from Cambodian rural villages   / Phim Runsinarith (pp. 121-150)

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The Review of Economics and Statistics

Volume XCVI Number 5 – December 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents:

  • Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox / Hunt Allcott and Nathan Wozny (pp. 779-795)
  • Smithian Growth through Creative Organization / Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, and Eugenio Proto (pp. 796-811)
  • Evidence of Treatment Spillovers Within Markets / Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, and Gerard J. van den Berg (pp. 812-823)
  • Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance / Sandra E. Black … et al. (pp. 824-837)
  • Happy Doctor Makes Happy Baby? Incentivizing Physicians Improves Quality of Prenatal Care / Vibeke Myrup Jensen (pp. 838-848)
  • The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills / Catherine J. Weinberger (pp. 849-861)
  • Monetary Policy Regime Shifts and Inflation Persistence / Troy Davig and Taeyoung Doh (pp. 862-875)
  • Job Loss, Credit Constraints, and Consumption Growth / Thomas F. Crossley and Hamish W. Low (pp. 876-884)
  • New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Reweighting and Matching Estimators / Matias Busso, John DiNardo, and Justin McCrary (pp. 885-897)
  • Observation-Driven Mixed-Measurement Dynamic Factor Models with an Application to Credit Risk / Drew Creal, Bernd Schwaab, Siem Jan Koopman, and André Lucas (pp. 898-915)
  • Nested Logit or Random Coefficients Logit? A Comparison of Alternative Discrete Choice Models of Product Differentiation / Laura Grigolon and Frank Verboven (pp. 916-935)
  • Social Networks and Research Output / Lorenzo Ductor … et al. (pp. 936-948)
  • Opium for the Masses? Conflict-Induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan / Jo Thori Lind, Karl Ove Moene, and Fredrik Willumsen (pp. 949-966)
  • Localized Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Citations: A Distance-Based Approach / Yasusada Murata … et al. (pp. 967-985)
  • Sequentiality Versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand / Magne K. Asphjell … et al. (pp. 986-998)