Content from 2003
Advances
Does Federal Research Funding Increase University Research Output?
A. Abigail Payne and Aloysius Siow
Do Publicly Traded Corporations Act in the Public Interest?
Roger H. Gordon
Protection and the Business Cycle
Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger
Ethnic Ties and the Provision of Credit: Relationship-Level Evidence from African Firms
Raymond J. Fisman
Spillovers from Local Market Human Capital and the Spatial Distribution of Productivity in Malaysia
Timothy G. Conley, Fredrick Flyer, and Grace R. Tsiang
Welfare Reform and Non-Marital Fertility in the 1990s: Evidence from Birth Records
Ted Joyce, Robert Kaestner, and Sanders Korenman
Contributions
Suggested Subsidies are Sub-optimal Unless Combined with an Output Tax
Don Fullerton and Robert D. Mohr
War or Peace
Hongbin Cai
Selective Information Provision and Special Interest Influence: The Case of Trade Policy
Carl-Johan Belfrage
The Spite Motive and Equilibrium Behavior in Auctions
John Morgan, Ken Steiglitz, and George Reis
Optimal Liability for Libel
Oren Bar-Gill and Assaf Hamdani
Aggregation of Non Stationary Demand Systems
Jérôme Adda and Jean-Marc Robin
The Savings Impact of College Financial Aid
Andrew W. Dick, Aaron S. Edlin, and Eric R. Emch
A Theory of Utilization Review
David Dranove and Kathryn E. Spier
Cigarette Demand, Structural Change, and Advertising Bans: International Evidence, 1970-1995
Jon P. Nelson
Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music
Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan Png
Oligopoly Deregulation and the Taxation of Commodities
Gilbert E. Metcalf and George Norman
Ethnicity and Networks in African Trade
Marcel Fafchamps
Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Analysis
Christopher S. Magee
Topics
The Neutrality of Interchange Fees in Payment Systems
Joshua S. Gans and Stephen P King
Time-Consistent Policy and Politics: Does Voting Matter When Individuals Are Identical?
Dan Anderberg and Carlo Perroni
New Evidence on Eastern Europe's Pollution Progress
Matthew E. Kahn
Can economic theory explain piracy behavior?
Håkan J. Holm
Pouring Money Down the Drain? How Sunk Investments and Signing Bonuses can Improve Employee Incentives
Anil Arya, Hans Frimor, and Brian Mittendorf
Mergers and Deterrence
Daniel J. Richards
Legal Hold-up in Cotenancy
Manel Baucells and Steven A. Lippman
How Should Unemployment Benefits Respond to the Business Cycle?
Michael T. Kiley
Preventive Health Care and Payment Systems
Pedro P. Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt
The Geography of Intra-Industry Trade: empirics
Anthony J. Venables, Patricia G. Rice, and Martin Stewart
National Treatment and the Choice Between Exports and FDI
Bernard Hoekman and Kamal Saggi
What Determines Environmental Performance at Paper Mills? The Roles of Abatement Spending, Regulation, and Efficiency
Ronald J. Shadbegian and Wayne B. Gray
Federal Tax Benefits for Child Care: Progressivity Over Time, EGTRRA, and the Alternative Minimum Tax
John R. Eiler and Warren B. Hrung
Real Options, Conflicting Valuations, and Favoritism
Anil Arya and Jonathan Glover
Incentives to Invest in Transport Cost Reduction - Conceptual Issues and an Application to Electronic Commerce
Martin Bandulet and Karl Morasch