In a recent paper, O. Ashenfelter, D. Ashmore, and R. Lalonde (1993) found they could explain the variation in the price (and quality) of Bordeaux vintages by a combination of age, temperature, and rainfall. The same ideas are applied here to Grange hermitage, Australia's premier wine. Weather...

In this paper we provide a simple, credible method for assessing the effects of climate change on the quality of agricultural land and then apply this method using a rich set of data on the vineyards of the Mosel Valley in Germany. The basic idea is to use a simple model of solar radiation to...

This paper reports on the current status of the microeconomic research on labor supply behavior. The purpose is to direct attention to microeconomic research that may be helpful in the continuing evaluation of aggregate models designed to explain the dynamic behavior of wages, employment and...

This paper contains a review of the burgeoning research that has been designed to shed light on how the art auction system actually works and what it indicates about price formation. First, we find that in recent years returns on art assets appear to be little different from returns on other...