Content from 2005
Frontiers
Advances
Behavioral Biases Meet the Market: The Case of Magazine Subscription Prices
Sharon M. Oster and Fiona M. Scott Morton
Regulatory Incentives and Consolidation: The Case of Commercial Bank Mergers and the Community Reinvestment Act
Raphael Bostic, Anna L. Paulson, Hamid Mehran, and Marc Saidenberg
Slotting Allowances and Optimal Product Variety
Greg Shaffer
Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier
Jonathan H. Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan
Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?
Jonathan H. Gruber
Optimal Taxation with Cournot Oligopoly
Leslie J. Reinhorn
Risk and Career Choice
Raven E. Saks and Stephen H. Shore
Recipient of the Arrow Prize for Junior Economists
Bounding Treatment Effects with Contaminated and Censored Data: Assessing the Impact of Early Childbearing on Children
Charles H. Mullin
Contributions
Cash Constraints and Business Start-Ups: Deutschmarks Versus Dollars
Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Harvey S. Rosen
On-the-Job Learning, Firing Costs and Employment
Pilar Díaz-Vázquez, Dennis J. Snower, and Luis E. Arjona-Béjar
The Effect of the Nonprofit Motive on Hospital Competitive Behavior
Teresa D. Harrison and Kristina M. Lybecker
Electoral Competition and Redistribution with Rationally Informed Voters
Valentino Larcinese
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring a Fresh Specification
David F. Bradford, Rebecca A. Fender, Stephen H. Shore, and Martin Wagner
Uncertain R&D and the Porter Hypothesis
David Popp
Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One? A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science
Paul J. Ferraro and Laura O. Taylor
A Theory of Health Disparities and Medical Technology
Dana P. Goldman and Darius N. Lakdawalla
Entry-Level Products with Consumer Learning
Justin P. Johnson
Adjustment Costs and Irreversibility as Determinants of Investment: Evidence from African Manufacturing
Arne Bigsten, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps, Bernard Gauthier, Jan Willem Gunning, Remco Oostendorp, Catherine Pattillo, Måns Söderbom, and Francis Teal
An Index For Venture Capital, 1987-2003
Min Hwang, John M. Quigley, and Susan E. Woodward
Environmental Information Provision as a Public Policy Instrument
Emmanuel Petrakis, Eftichios Sophocles Sartzetakis, and Anastasios Xepapadeas
Competition Policy and Exit Rates: Evidence from Switzerland
Stefan Buehler, Christian Kaiser, and Franz Jaeger
Topics
The Evolution of Open Source Communities
Joerg Gutsche
Vertical Foreign Direct Investment, Welfare, and Employment
Walter Elberfeld, Georg Götz, and Frank Stähler
Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence from Nielsen Ratings
Eric M. Aldrich, Peter S. Arcidiacono, and Jacob L. Vigdor
Why do Municipalities Recycle?
Thomas C. Kinnaman
How Do "Point Oh-Eight" (.08) BAC Laws Work?
Christopher Carpenter and Katherine Harris
Implications of Changes in Men's and Women's Labor Force Participation for Real Compensation Growth and Inflation
Katharine Anderson, Lisa Barrow, and Kristin F. Butcher
On the Virtues of the Shame Lane
Matteo G. Richiardi
A Modigliani-Miller Theory of Altruistic Corporate Social Responsibility
Joshua Graff Zivin and Arthur Small
The Origins of Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: Evidence from the Heartland in the Age of Mass Migration
Gary Richardson
Nonpoint Source Pollution When Polluters Might Cooperate
Katrin Millock and François Salanié
The Role of Immigration in the Retirement Age Reform : A Theoretical Analysis
Francisco Lagos and Juan Lacomba
Price Discrimination and Smuggling of AIDS Drugs
Richard A. Hornbeck
State-Level R&D Tax Credits: A Firm-Level Analysis
Lolita A. Paff
The Payment of Hospital Services: a Waiting Lists Model
Dr. Alessandra Ferrari
Do Local Relative Factor Supplies Affect Local Relative Factor Prices?
Joelle Saad-Lessler
Trade Potentials in Gravity Panel Data Models
Luca De Benedictis and Claudio Vicarelli
File Sharing and International Sales of Copyrighted Music: An Empirical Analysis with a Panel of Countries
Alejandro Zentner
Voting on Tariff and Retaliation
Tanguy van Ypersele