Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1993:1

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Contents Include:

Regulatory Constraints on CEO Compensation, Paul Joskow, Nancy Rose, and Andrea Shepard

The Incidence and Costs of Job Loss: 1982-91, Henry S. Farber

The Consumer Welfare Effects of Liability for Pain and Suffering: An Exploratory Analysis, John E. Calfee and Clifford Winston

The Diversification of Production, Boyan Jovanovic

Semiconductory Dependency and Strategic Trade Policy, Kenneth Flamm

Improving Job Matches in the U.S. Labor Market, John Bishop

Martin Neil Baily is the director of the Business Initiative at Brookings. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1999 to 2001. He is the author of Transforming the European Economy (Institute for International Economics, 2004). Peter C. Reiss is a professor of economics at Stanford University and directs the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, also at Stanford. Clifford Winston is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Among his previous books are Deregulation of Network Industries: What's Next? coedited with Sam Peltzman (AEI-Brookings, 2000), and Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation, cowritten with Chad Shirley (Brookings, 1998).