Article history: Received 14 August 2008 Accepted 20 January 2009 Available online 7 February 2009 JEL classification: E42 E52 E63

Tinbergen Rules the Taylor Rule by Thomas R. Michl JEL E12, E52

Article history: Received 16 June 2009 Accepted 19 April 2010 Available online xxxx JEL classification: E31 E50 E52 E58 F41

Article history: Received 26 June 2012 Revised 25 June 2013 Available online xxxx JEL classification: E52 E58

JEL Classification: J15, N31 Improving early prenatal and postnatal conditions account for at least 16 to 17 percent of the decline in ten year mortality rates of 60-79 year olds between 1900 and 1960-80. Historical trends in early prenatal and postnatal conditions imply that while the baby-boom cohort may be particularly long-lived compared to past cohorts, mortality rates may not fall as stee...

Article history: Received 8 February 2010 Available online 11 February 2010 JEL classification: D50 D51 D53 D61 E40 E50 E51 E52 E58

We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks. We collected detailed demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then tracked eventual participation. We exploit exogenous variation in the importance (in a network sense) of the people who were first informed about the program,...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the recent developments in the theory and practice of monetary policy, drawing on the work of influential monetary economists of the past. JEL Classification: E5, E52

By introducing the concepts of implicit coalitions and con‡ict of interests in a multiple-player context, this paper generalizes some theorems on policy invariance and equilibrium existence and uniqueness for LQ policy games. JEL: C72, E52, E61