Content from 2004
Advances
Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime"
Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok
Merger Simulation with Brand-Level Margin Data: Extending PCAIDS with Nests
Roy J. Epstein and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Internationally Common Features of Public Old-Age Pensions, and Their Implications for Models of the Public Sector
Casey B. Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Political and Economic Forces Sustaining Social Security
Casey B. Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin
The Budgetary Repercussions Of Capital Convictions
Katherine Baicker
The Value of Information in International Trade: Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong
Robert C. Feenstra, Gordon H. Hanson, and Songhua Lin
Entrepreneurship and Household Saving
William M. Gentry and R. Glenn Hubbard
Advances » The Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Trade Integration and Political Turbulence: Environmental Policy Consequences
Per G. Fredriksson and Muthukumara Mani
The Unintended Disincentive in the Clean Air Act
John A. List, Daniel L. Millimet, and Warren McHone
Unilateral Emission Reductions and Cross-Country Technology Spillovers
Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel
Testing for Pollution Havens Inside and Outside of Regional Trading Blocs
Matthew E. Kahn and Yutaka Yoshino
Managed Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Local Pollution
Pierre M. Regibeau and Alberto Gallegos
Trade Liberalization and Pollution Havens
Josh Ederington, Arik Levinson, and Jenny Minier
Trade Pessimists vs Technology Optimists: Induced Technical Change and Pollution Havens
Corrado Di Maria and Sjak A. Smulders
Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
M. Scott Taylor
Contributions
Contestable Licensing
Zvika Neeman and Gerhard Oskar Orosel
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature
Debra Israel and Arik Levinson
Why Do the Poor and the Less-Educated Pay More for Long-Distance Calls?
Jerry A. Hausman and J. Gregory Sidak
A Model of Welfare-Reducing Settlement
Abraham L. Wickelgren
How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement?
Sewin Chan and Ann H. Stevens
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Testable Empirical Implications of the Growth and Environment Literature: Comment
David E. Bloom and Jaypee Sevilla
Quantity Controls, License Transferability, and the Level of Investment
Kala M. Krishna, Ling Hui Tan, and Ram Ranjan
Instrumental Variables for Binary Treatments with Heterogenous Treatment Effects: A Simple Exposition
Alan Manning
Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach
Mark J. McCabe
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Additional Theory and Evidence
Dhammika Dharmapala and Stephen L. Ross
Poverty Measurement Under Risk Aversion Using Panel Data
Guillermo Cruces, Paul Makdissi, and Quentin T. Wodon
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium
Nuno Limao and Arvind Panagariya
Race and the Digital Divide
Robert W. Fairlie
A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth
Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer, and Paul Seabright
Selective Enforcement of Copyright as an Optimal Monopolistic Behavior
Danny Ben-Shahar and Assaf Jacob
Robin Hood's Compromise: The Economics of Moderate Land Reforms
Oriana Bandiera and Gilat Levy
Pricing Coordination Failures and Health Care Provider Integration
Karen Eggleston, George Norman, and Lynne Marie Pepall
Access Charges in the Presence of Call Externalities
Ulrich Berger
Contributions » The Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Environmental Policy, Population Dynamics and Agglomeration
Chris Elbers and Cees Withagen
Cross-Country Policy Harmonization with Rent-Seeking
Patrik T. Hultberg and Edward B. Barbier
Environmental Regulation and International Trade: Empirical Results for Germany, the Netherlands and the US, 1977-1992
Abay Mulatu, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, and Cees Withagen
Pollution Abatement Expenditure by U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Do Community Characteristics Matter?
Randy A. Becker
Environmental Regulation as Export Promotion: Product Standards for Dirty Intermediate Goods
Carol McAusland
Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Shang-Jin Wei
Topics
Measuring the Impact of Welfare Benefits on Welfare Durations: State Stratified Partial Likelihood and Fixed Effect Approaches
John M. Fitzgerald
A Note on Weak Double Dividends
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Mustafa H. Babiker, and John Reilly
Spatial Competition and Merger
Richard S. Higgins, Paul A. Johnson, and John T. Sullivan
Toll Competition Among Congested Roads
Eduardo M. Engel, Ronald Fischer, and Alexander Galetovic
Commitment and Discretion in Health Care Policy Making
Robert Rosenman and Daniel Friesner
Information Transmission and the Bounds to Growth
Guido Cozzi and Luca Spinesi
Membership Diversity in Club Decisions
Gary Biglaiser and James Friedman
WTO Negotiations on Market Access in Agriculture: a Comparison of Alternative Tariff Cut Proposals for the EU and the US
Jean-Christophe Bureau and Luca Salvatici
An Economic Assessment of Parents' Self-Composure: The Case of Physical Child Abuse
Mark D. Agee, Thomas Crocker, and Jason F. Shogren
Producers and Predators in a Multiple Community Setting
Shinkyoo Han and Jack Ochs
Tax Competition and Tax Harmonization With Evasion
Néstor Gandelman and Rubén Hernández-Murillo
Do Unbundling Policies Discourage CLEC Facilities-Based Investment
Robert W. Crandall, Allan T. Ingraham, and Hal J. Singer
Foreign Portfolio Investment Improves Performance: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Andrew Weiss and Georgiy A. Nikitin
Intranational Trade Diversion, the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, and the L Curve
Serge Coulombe
Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions
Courtney Coile
HIV Testing: a Trojan Horse?
Stéphane Mechoulan
Economic Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections: Who Blames Whom for What
Daniel Eisenberg and Jonathan Ketcham
Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms
Silke Uebelmesser
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Substance Use and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Susan L. Averett, Daniel I. Rees, Brian Duncan, and Laura Argys
Citizens Should Vote on Secession
Essi Eerola, Niku Määttänen, and Panu Poutvaara
Do Long Work Hours Contribute to Divorce?
John H. Johnson IV
Public Venture Capital, Occupational Choice, and Entrepreneurship
Oana Secrieru and Marianne Vigneault
Estimating Productivity When Primal and Dual TFP Accounting Fail: An Illustration Using Singapore's Industries
Hiau Looi Kee
eBay's Buy-It-Now Function: Who, When, and How
Yvonne Durham, Matthew R. Roelofs, and Stephen S. Standifird
Time In Purgatory: Examining the Grant Lag for U.S. Patent Applications
David Popp, Ted Juhl, and Daniel K.N. Johnson
Global Health Warnings on Tobacco Packaging: Evidence from the Canadian Experiment
Nikolay Gospodinov and Ian J. Irvine
Interest Groups and Get Out the Vote Drives
John Cadigan
Media Competition on the Internet
Pedro P. Barros, Hans Jarle Kind, Tore Nilssen, and Lars Sørgard