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Volume 98, Number 4, September 2008
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Articles

Leverage Cycles and the Anxious Economy
pp. 1211-1244(34)
Authors: Fostel, Ana; Geanakoplos, John

Competition and Price Variation when Consumers Are Loss Averse
pp. 1245-1268(24)
Authors: Heidhues, Paul; Kőszegi, Botond

Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection
pp. 1269-1291(23)
Author: Esponda, Ignacio

Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution
pp. 1292-1311(20)
Authors: Demichelis, Stefano; Weibull, Jörgen W.

The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization
pp. 1312-1346(35)
Authors: Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D.

How Strong Are Weak Patents?
pp. 1347-1369(23)
Authors: Farrell, Joseph; Shapiro, Carl

Does Innovation Cause Stock Market Runups? Evidence from the Great Crash
pp. 1370-1396(27)
Author: Nicholas, Tom

The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
pp. 1397-1412(16)
Authors: Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen J.; Zilibotti, Fabrizio

Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market
pp. 1413-1442(30)
Authors: Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Mian, Atif

The Power of Focal Points Is Limited: Even Minute Payoff Asymmetry May Yield Large Coordination Failures
pp. 1443-1458(16)
Authors: Crawford, Vincent P.; Gneezy, Uri; Rottenstreich, Yuval

Optimal Contracting with Endogenous Social Norms
pp. 1459-1475(17)
Authors: Fischer, Paul; Huddart, Steven

Great Expectations and the End of the Depression
pp. 1476-1516(41)
Author: Eggertsson, Gauti B.

Explaining Changes in Female Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Model
pp. 1517-1552(36)
Authors: Attanasio, Orazio; Low, Hamish; Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia

Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption
pp. 1553-1577(25)
Authors: Jensen, Robert T.; Miller, Nolan H.

Shorter Papers

Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation
pp. 1578-1590(13)
Authors: Agrawal, Ajay; Goldfarb, Avi

The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
pp. 1591-1604(14)
Authors: Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele

The Relationship between Economic Status and Child Health: Evidence from the United States
pp. 1605-1618(14)
Authors: Condliffe, Simon; Link, Charles R.

All-or-Nothing Monitoring
pp. 1619-1628(10)
Author: Zhao, Rui R.

Commitment and Conflict in Bilateral Bargaining
pp. 1629-1635(7)
Authors: Ellingsen, Tore; Miettinen, Topi

Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism
pp. 1636-1652(17)
Authors: Pathak, Parag A.; Sönmez, Tayfun

The Limited Influence of Unemployment on the Wage Bargain
pp. 1653-1674(22)
Authors: Hall, Robert E.; Milgrom, Paul R.

Trade Policy and Loss Aversion
pp. 1675-1691(17)
Authors: Freund, Caroline; Özden, Çağlar

The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited
pp. 1692-1706(15)
Authors: Hagedorn, Marcus; Manovskii, Iourii

Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade
pp. 1707-1721(15)
Author: Chaney, Thomas

A Note on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory
pp. 1722-1730(9)
Authors: van Veelen, Matthijs; van der Weide, Roy

Testing for a Reference Consumer in International Comparisons of Living Standards
pp. 1731-1732(2)
Authors: Crawford, Ian; Neary, J. Peter

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