Economic Inquiry

A Journal of the Western Economic Association International

Edited by:

R. Preston McAfee

Coeditors
Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara (economics of publishing)
Tim Brennan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Janet Currie, Columbia University (economics of child health)
William Rogerson, Northwestern University (economics of defense)
John Rust, University of Maryland (applied microeconometrics)
Andrew Caplin, New York University (model-based approaches to non-standard data)

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2006: 124/175 (Economics)
Impact Factor: 0.457

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Published since 1962, (formerly Western Economic Journal), EI is widely regarded as one of the top scholarly journals in its field. Besides containing research on all economics topic areas, a principal objective is to make each article understandable to economists who are not necessarily specialists in the article's topic area. Nine Nobel laureates are among EI's long list of prestigious authors.

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We are pleased to announce the appointment of R. Preston McAfee as the editor of Economic Inquiry. He brings an exciting new perspective to the journal and has proposed an innovative manuscript review policy that you would want to know about. We invite you to read about Dr. McAfee and his exciting no-revision submission policy.

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TopHighlights

Crony Capitalism and Financial System Stability
Joseph H. Haslag and Rowena Pecchenino
Volume 43, Number 1

Samuelson's Dictum and the Stock Market
Jeeman Jung and Robert J. Shiller
Volume 43, Number 2

Longevity and Public Old-age Pensions
Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas T. Saving
Volume 43, Number 2

Forced Information Disclosure and the Fallacy of Transparency in Markets
Timothy N. Cason and Charles R. Plott
Volume 43, Number 4

International Outsourcing and the Productivity of Low-skilled Labor in the EU
Hartmut Egger and Peter Egger
Volume 44, Number 1

Do Newly Retired Workers in the United States have Sufficient Resources to maintain Wellbeing?
Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe and Shane Sherlund
Volume 44, Number 2

Did the Euro Foster Online Price Competition? Evidence from an International Price Comparison Site
Michael R. Baye, Rupert J. Gatti, Paul Kattuman, and John Morgan
Volume 44,Number 2

The Labor Market Effects of Sex and Race Discrimination Laws
David Neumark and Wendy A. Stock
Volume 44, Number 3

Principal Agency Theory and Health Care Utilization
Helen Schneider and Alan Mathios
Volume 44, Number 3