Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Vol. 9, No. 4, Fall 1995

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Title

Abstract

Author

Front Matter

(pp. 1–2)

Symposium: The Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Symposium on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

by Frederic S. Mishkin

(pp. 3–10)

The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: An Empirical Framework

by John B. Taylor

(pp. 11–26)

Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission

by Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler

(pp. 27–48)

Monetary, Credit and (Other) Transmission Processes: A Monetarist Perspective

by Allan H. Meltzer

(pp. 49–72)

The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates

by Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

(pp. 73–96)

Symposium: Might Environmental Regulation Promote Growth?

Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship

by Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde

(pp. 97–118)

Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?

by Karen Palmer, Wallace E. Oates, and Paul R. Portney

(pp. 119–132)

Articles

Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages

by Andrew Weiss

(pp. 133–154)

Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy

by Timur Kuran

(pp. 155–173)

The Economic Case against Drug Prohibition

by Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel

(pp. 175–192)

Women in the Economics Profession

by Shulamit B. Kahn

(pp. 193–206)

Features

Retrospectives: The Convergence Debate between David Hume and Josiah Tucker

by Bruce Truitt Elmslie

(pp. 207–216)

The Flypaper Effect

by James R. Hines and Richard H. Thaler

(pp. 217–226)

Recommendations for Further Reading

(pp. 227–234)

Correspondence

(pp. 235–240)

Notes

(pp. 241–245)

Index by Author to Volume 9

(pp. 246–248)