Journal issues

Volume 87/ April 2020/ Issue 346

 

Does Social Pressure Hinder Entrepreneurship in Africa? The Forced Mutual Help Hypothesis, by Philippe Alby, Emmanuelle Auriol and Pierre Nguimkeu

High‐powered Contracts, Self‐selection and Welfare in Settings with Externalities, by Eberhard Feess, M. Vittoria Levati, Marcel Rieser and Ivan Soraperra

Endogenous Institutions and Economic Outcomes, by Carmine Guerriero

Euler Equations, Subjective Expectations and Income Shocks, by Orazio Attanasio, Agnes Kovacs and Krisztina Molnar

Credit Constraints and the Inverted‐U Relationship Between Competition and Innovation, by Roberto Bonfatti and Luigi Pisano

Paying Politicians: Not Too Little, Not Too Much, by Alessandro Fedele and Pierpaolo Giannoccolo

What Drives Enrolment Gaps in Further Education? The Role of Beliefs in Sequential Schooling Decisions, by Chris Belfield, Teodora Boneva, Christopher Rauh and Jonathan Shaw

Financial Development, Endogenous Dependence on External Financing, and Trade, by ByeongHwa Choi

Volume 87/ January 2020/ Issue 345

 

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Post‐Soviet Russia, by Gleb V. Borisov and Christopher A. Pissarides

School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal, by Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts

Exponential‐growth Bias in Experimental Consumption Decisions, by Matthew R. Levy and Joshua Tasoff

Chameleons: The Misuse of Theoretical Models in Finance and Economics, by Paul Pfleiderer

Incomplete Preferences and Equilibrium in Contingent Markets, by Robert Chambers and Tigran Melkonyan

A Two‐sided Matching Model of Monitored Finance, by Arturo Antón and Kaniṣka Dam

The Evolution of Charter School Quality, by Patrick L. Baude, Marcus Casey, Eric A. Hanushek, Gregory R. Phelan and Steven G. Rivkin

Economic Crises and Unemployment Persistence: Analysis of Job Losses During the Finnish Recession of the 1990s, by Jouko Verho

Firm‐level Investment Spikes and Aggregate Investment over the Great Recession, by Richard Disney, Helen Miller and Thomas Pope

Saving and Bequest in China: An Analysis of Intergenerational Exchange, by Ingvild Almås, Eleonora Freddi and Øystein Thøgersen

How Important are Firms in Explaining Wage Changes During a Recession?, by Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

Volume 86 / October 2019 / Issue 344

The Decline in Capital Efficiency and Labour Share, by Fernando del Río and Francisco-Xavier Lores

Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence, by Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg and Yama Temouri

Old and Young Politicians, by Alberto Alesina, Traviss Cassidy and Ugo Troiano

The Real Effects of Credible Disinflation in the Presence of Real Wage Rigidities, by Mewael F. Tesfaselassie

Do-it-yourself Digital: the Production Boundary, the Productivity Puzzle and Economic Welfare, by Diane Coyle

When do Voters Weaken Checks and Balances to Facilitate Economic Reform?, by Alvaro Forteza and Juan S. Pereyra

Early Marriage, Social Networks and the Transmission of Norms, by M. Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj

Efficiency under Uncertainty and Non-convexity: Evaluating the Role of Probabilities, by Jean-Paul Chavas and Walter Briec

Volume 86 / July 2019 / Issue 343

 

Monetary Policy, Product Market Competition and Growth, by Philippe Aghion, Emmanuel Farhi and Enisse Kharroubi

Who Got the Brexit Blues? The Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK, by Nattavudh Powdthavee, Anke C. Plagnol, Paul Frijters and Andrew E. Clark

The Rise and Fall of Consumption in the 2000s: A Tangled Tale, by Yuliya Demyanyk, Dmytro Hryshko, María José Luengo-Prado and Bent E. Sørensen

Special Economic Zones and WTO Compliance: Evidence from the Dominican Republic, by Fabrice Defever, José-Daniel Reyes, Alejandro Riaño and Miguel Eduardo Sánchez-Martín

Local Environmental Quality and Interjurisdictional Spillovers, by John William Hatfield and Katrina Kosec

The Effect of University Fees on Applications, Attendance and Course Choice: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the UK, by Filipa Sá

Volume 86 / April 2019 / Issue 342

 

Risky Sexual Behaviours: Biological Markers and Self-reported Data, by Lucia Corno and Áureo De Paula

Inflation Targets and the Zero Lower Bound in a Behavioural Macroeconomic Model, by Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji

Airport Size and Urban Growth, by Nicholas Sheard

The Public and Private Marginal Product of Capital, by Matt Lowe, Chris Papageorgiou and Fidel Perez-Sebastian

Foreign Direct Investment, Source Country Heterogeneity and Management Practices, by Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Rickard Hammarberg

Note on Idea Diffusion Models with Cohort Structures, by Santiago Caicedo

Some Misconceptions About Public Investment Efficiency and Growth, by Andrew Berg, Edward F. Buffie, Catherine Pattillo, Rafael Portillo, Andrea F. Presbitero and Luis-Felipe Zanna

Volume 86 / January 2019 / Issue 341

Coase Lecture - The Inverted-U Relationship Between Credit Access and Productivity Growth, by Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Rémy Lecat and Hélène Maghin

Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia, by Alberto Alesina, Caterina Gennaioli and Stefania Lovo

Destination-based vs. Origin-based Commodity Taxation in Large Open Economies with Unemployment, by Fabio Antoniou, Panos Hatzipanayotou and Nikos Tsakiris

Real Effect of Bank Efficiency: Evidence from Disaggregated Manufacturing Sectors, by Ali Mirzaei and Tomoe Moore

Export Destination Characteristics and Markups: The Role of Country Size, by Umut Kilinç

A Non-unitary Discount Rate Model, by Takeo Hori and Koichi Futagami

Don’t Look Down: The Consequences of Job Loss in a Flexible Labour Market, by Richard Upward and Peter W. Wright

Immigration Policies and the Choice between Documented and Undocumented Migration, by Slobodan Djajic ́ and Alexandra Vinogradova

Volume 86 / October 2018 / Issue 340

 

How Much do Existing Borrowers Value Microfinance? Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance, by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Richard Hornbeck

Wage Regulation and the Quality of Police Applicants, by Rowena Crawford and Richard Disney

What Do We Know About the Effects of Macroprudential Policy?, by Gabriele Galati and Richhild Moessner

The Competitive Effects of Credit Constraints in the Global Economy, by Peter Egger, Sebastian Kunert and Tobias Seidel

A Head-count Measure of Rank Mobility and its Directional Decomposition, by Walter Bossert, Burak Can and Conchita D’Ambrosio

Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long Run: Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931–75, by Arnaud Lefranc

Attitudes Towards Large Income Risk in Welfare States: An International Comparison, by Fred Schroyen and Karl Ove Aarbu

Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets by, Christos Genakos, Kai-Uwe Kühn and John Van Reenen

Volume 85 / July 2018 / Issue 339

Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector, by Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Should Congestion Tolls be Set by the Government or by the Private Sector? The Knight-Pigoy Debate Revisited, by Stephen Salant and Nathan Seegert

House Prices, Wealth Effects and Labour Supply, by Richard Disney and John Gathergood

The Economic Consequences of Political Donation Limits, by John Maloney and Andrew Pickering

Clientelism, Contagious Voting and Governance, by Abhirup Sarkar

Did the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly Set Monopoly Prices?, by Marcus Asplund

Did the Euro Common Currency Increase or Decrease Business Cycle Synchronization for its Member Countries?, by William Miles, Chu-Ping C Vijverberg

Accounting for the UK Productivity Puzzle: A Decomposition and Predictions, by Peter Goodridge, Jonathan Haskel, and Gavin Wallis

Trends in Life Expectancy by Income and the Role of Specific Causes of Death, by Karin Hederos, Markus Jantti, Lena Lindahl, and Jenny Torssander

Debt Relief for Poor Countries: Conditionality and Effectiveness, by Almuth Scholl

The Effects of Recommended Retail Prices on Consumer and Retailer Behaviour, by Lisa Bruttel

Volume 85 / April 2018 / Issue 338

Coase Lecture – The Glass Ceiling, by Marianne Bertrand

Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang, by
Julia Tanndal and Daniel Waldenstrom

Mandated Political Representation and Redistribution, by Anirban Mitra

General Equilibrium Dynamics with Naïve and Sophisticated Hyperbolic Consumers in an Overlapping Generations Economy, by Takeshi Ojima

Risk Preferences and the Role of Emotions, by Anna Conte, M Vittoria Levati and Chiara Nardi

International Technology Spillovers and Growth over the Past 142 Years: The Role of Genetic Proximity, by Jakob B Madsen and Minoo Farhadi

Towards an Understanding of the Origins of the Favourite–Longshot Bias: Evidence
from Online Poker Markets, a Real-money Natural Laboratory, by Leighton Vaughan Williams, Ming-Chien Sung, Peter A F Fraser-Mackenzie, John Peirson and
Johnnie E V Johnson

Measuring Corruption in China: An Expenditure-based Approach Using Household Survey Data, by Hai Zhong

Volume 85 / January 2018 / Issue 337

 

Phillips Lecture – Why Some Times Are Different: Macroeconomic Policy and the Aftermath of Financial Crises, by Christina D Romer and David H Romer

Friends with Benefits: How Political Connections Help to Sustain Private Enterprise Growth in China, by James Kai-sing Kung and Chicheng Ma

Public–Private Mixed Delivery and Information Effects, by Illoong Kwon and Sangin Park

The Impact of House Prices on Consumption in the UK: a New Perspective, by Vivien Burrows

Job Loss and Immigrant Labour Market Performance, by Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

The Clash of Central Bankers with Labour Market Insiders, and the Persistence of Inflation and Unemployment, by George Alogoskoufis

Export and Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises: The Role of Concentrated Bank Borrowing, by Maria Luisa Mancusi, Andrea Vezzulli, Serena Frazzoni, Zeno Rotondi and Maurizio Sobrero

Volume 84 / October 2017 / Issue 336

On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon, by Martin L Weitzman

Non-additivity and the Salience of Marginal Productivities: Experimental Evidence on Distributive Fairness, by Urs Fischbacher, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz and Ulrike Stefani

Knowledge is Power: A Theory of Information, Income and Welfare Spending, by Jo Thori Lind and Dominic Rohner

Migration when Social Preferences are Ordinal: Steady-state Population Distribution and Social Welfare, by Oded Stark

Demographic Change and R&D-based Economic Growth, by Klaus Prettner and Timo Trimborn

Do Banks Lend Less in Uncertain Times?, by Burkhard Raunig, Johann Scharler and Friedrich Sindermann

Social Spillovers in the Classroom: Identification, Estimation and Policy Analysis, by Santiago Pereda-Fernández

The Intergenerational Transmission of Education: New Evidence from Adoptions in the USA, by Mary A Silles

Fiscal Policy and Inflation in a Monetary Union, by José-Miguel Cardoso-Costa and Vivien Lewis

Government Size and Macroeconomic Volatility, by Fabrice Collard, Harris Dellas and George Tavlas

The Discounted Euler Equation: A Note, by Alisdair McKay, Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson

Volume 84 / July 2017 / Issue 335

 

Coase Lecture - Taxes, Targets and the Social Cost of Carbon, by Robert S Pindyck

Group Learning, Wage Dispersion and Non-stationary Offers, by Julio J Rotemberg

Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition, by Dora L Costa and Matthew E Kahn

Baumol's Cost Disease and the Sustainability of the Welfare State, by Torben M Andersen and Claus T Kreiner

Do the Right Thing: Incentives for Policy Selection in Presidential and Parliamentary Systems, by Michela Cella, Giovanna Iannantuoni and Elena Manzoni

The Good, the Bad and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?, by Paulo Júlio and José Tavares

Spacey Parents and Spacey Hosts in Foreign Direct Investment, by Harald Badinger and Peter Egger

Workplace Productivity and Bonus Preferences: Why Do Men With Low Productivity Prefer Individual Pay?, by Gaute Torsvik

Volume 84 / April 2017 / Issue 334  Special Issue on Inequality

The issue commemorates Frank Cowell's contribution to Economica as Editor from 1982 to 2015.

Pareto and the Upper Tail of the Income Distribution in the UK: 1799 to the Present, by A B Atkinson

Two Decades of Income Inequality in Britain: The Role of Wages, Household Earnings and Redistribution, by Chris Belfield, Richard Blundell, Jonathan Cribb, Andrew Hood and Robert Joyce

Gender Inequality and Economic Development: Fertility, Education and Norms, by Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais

Wellbeing Inequality and Preference Heterogeneity, by Koen Decancq, Marc Fleurbaey and Erik Schokkaert

On the Share of Inheritance in Aggregate Wealth: Europe and the USA, 1900–2010, by Facundo Alvaredo, Bertrand Garbinti and Thomas Piketty

Pareto Models, Top Incomes and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality, by Stephen P Jenkins

Inequality with Ordinal Data, by Frank A Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire

Dynamic Equality of Opportunity, by John E Roemer and Burak Ünveren

Volume 84 / January 2017 / Issue 333

 

Phillips Lecture - The Anatomy of Stagnation in a Modern Economy, by Robert E Hall

Defaults, Decision Costs and Welfare in Behavioural Policy Design, by Nicholas Chesterley

The Importance of Product Reformulation Versus Consumer Choice in Improving Diet Quality, by Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

The Design of Vertical R&D Collaborations, by Patrick Herbst and Uwe Walz

Centralised Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions, by Jenny Simon and Justin Mattias Valasek

Martial Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany, by Nico  Pestel

Volume 83 / October 2016 / Issue 332

 

Recovery from Work and the Productivity of Working Hours, by John Pencavel

Churn Versus Diversion in Antitrust: An Illustrative Model, by Yongmin Chen and Marius Schwartz

Resilient Leaders and Institutional Reform: Theory and Evidence, by Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson and Marta Reynal-Querol

Aid, Catastrophes and the Samaritan's Dilemma, by Paul A Raschky and Manijeh Schwindt

Sale of Visas: a Smuggler's Final Song?, by Emmanuelle Auriol and Alice Mesnard

Assessing Individual Income Growth, by Stephen P Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

Role-dependent Social Preferences, by Friedel Bolle and Philipp E Otto

Incentive Provision when Contracting is Costly, by Ola Kvaløy and Trond E Olsen

Volume 83 / July 2016 / Issue 331

 

Saints Marching In, 1590-2012, by Robert J Barro and Rachel M McCleary

Subjective Expectations and Income Processes in Rural India, by Orazio Attanasio and Britta Augsburg

Real Rigidities and Nominal Price Changes, by Peter J Klenow and Jonathan L Willis

Growth and Violence: Argument for a Per Capita Measure of Civil War, by Hannes Mueller

Does the Federal Reserve have Private Information about its Future Actions?, by Bedri Kamil Onur Taş

'For Richer, For Poorer': Assortative Mating and Savings Preferences, by Luc Arrondel and Nicolas Frémeaux

Volume 83 / April 2016 / Issue 330

 

Coase Lecture - Human Capital, Inequality and Tax Reform: Recent Past and Future Prospects, by Richard Blundell         

Why Can Modern Governmen Tax So Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries, by Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez

Shopping Around: How Households Adjusted Food Spending Over the Great Recession, by Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium, by Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin

Predicateble Recoveries, by Xiaoming Cai, Wouter J Den Haan and Jonathan Pinder

Intra-industry trade: A Krugman-Ricardo Model and Data, by Kwok Tong Soo

The Impact of Government Debt, Expenditure  and Taxes on Aggregate Investment and Productivity Growth, by Simone Salotti and Carmine Trecroci

Volume 83 / January 2016 / Number 329

 

Education as Liberation?, by Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel and Rebecca Thornton 

A General Equilibrium Analysis of Personal Bankruptcy Law, by Ulf Von Lilienfeld-Toal and Dilip Mookherjee

Information and Enforcement in Informal Credit Markets, by Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray

The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?, by Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson

Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step, by François Ortalo-Magné and Andrea Prat

Does Competition Solve the Hold-up Problem?, by Leonardo Felli and Kevin Roberts