Department of Economics
Queen's University

ECON 835: Topics in Development Economics

Winter Term, 2011

          Teaching Assistant: Babak Mahmoudi
          Office: Dunning 332    
          Office Hours: Wednesdays  2:30 - 4:00 pm

Course Outline

Course Description:
ECON 835 focuses on topics central to the growth and economic development of both developed and developing nations.  The course will conclude with a "mini-conference" in which you are expected to present and discuss recent papers in development economics and growth.

Evaluation:
There will be a term paper, 4 assignments and a conference presentation. The marks will be allocated according to the following grading scheme:

Text: There is no required text for this course. We will mostly be studying some of the journal articles listed below. However we will make use of some readings from the following texts:
Development Economics by Debraj Ray (Princeton University Press, 1998)
The Economics of Rural Organization by K. Hoff, A. Braverman and J. Stiglitz (OUP, 1993)
The Economics of Microfinance by Beatriz A. de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch (MIT Press, 2005).
Economic Growth by David N. Weil (Pearson - Addison Wesley, 2005)
The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterley (MIT Press, 2001)
Economic Growth by Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (2004: MIT Press, 2nd edition).

     Topics and Readings (Under Construction)


“Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments,” by Angrist, Joshua D., and Alan B. Krueger (2001), Journal of Economic Perspectives 15:4 (2001), 69–86.


Macro Topics

Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences

Backround Papers
Weil, chapter 1 --- discusses per capita GNP growth as measured by the Penn World Tables (includes a useful appendix on PPP)
"Getting Income Shares Right," by Gollin (2002), Journal of Political Economy, vol. 110 (2), pp. 458-474.
"Why do some Countries Produce so much more Output per Worker than Others?" by Hall and Jones (1999), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 114 (1), pp.  83-116.


Recent Articles
"Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences," by Francesco Caselli (2006), in the Handbook of Economic Growth.
"Accounting For the Effect of Health on Economic Growth" by David Weil (2007), The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
"Agriculture and aggregate productivity: A quantitative cross-country analysis" by Diego Restuccia, Dennis Tao and Xiaodong Zhu (2008), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2008, Pages 234-250


Growth and Development


Background Papers
"A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth," by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107, pp. 407-437.
"The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has it Gone too Far?" by Peter Klenow and Andres Rodriguez-Clare (1997), NBER Macroeconomics Annual.
“Why Doesn't Capital Flow From Poor to Rich Countries?” by Robert Lucas (1990),  American Economic Review 80, 92-96.
"Is Growth Exogenous?: Taking Mankiw, Romer and Weil Seriously," by Bernanke and Gurkaynak (2001), NBER Working Paper #836.
"Endogenous Technological Change," by Paul Romer (1990), Journal of Political Economy, vol. 98 (Part 2), pp. S71-S102.
"Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million BC to 1990", by Michael Kremer, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 108 (3), 1993, pp. 681-716.

Recent Articles
“Does Schooling Cause Growth?,” by Mark Bils and Peter Klenow (2000), American Economic Review, vol. 90(5), pp. 1160-1183.
"Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectency on Economic Growth" by Acemoglu and Johnson (2006), MIT Working Paper.
"AIDS and Economic Growth: A Human Capital Approach" by Scott McDonald and Jennifer Roberts (2006), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 80.
"Why doesn't capital flow from rich to poor countries? An emprical investigation" by Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych (2005)


Geography, History and Institutions

Background Papers
"Why do some Countries Produce so much more Output per Worker than Others?" by Hall and Jones (1999), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 114 (1), pp.  83-116.
"History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World", by Sokoloff, K. and S. Engerman (2000), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), 217-232.
"The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation," by D. Acemoglu, J. Robinson and S. Johnson (2001), American Economic Review

Recent Articles
"Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution", by Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (2002), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, 1231-1294.
"Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development," by Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian, and Francesco Trebbi, 2004, Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 9(2).
"Institutions Don't Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income," Jeffrey Sachs (2003), NBER Working Paper 9490.
"Do Institutions Cause Growth?", by Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2004), NBER Working Paper 10568.
“Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions,” by Acemoglu, D. and J. Robinson (2008), American Economic Review 98(1), 267--293.
“Unbundling Institutions,” Acemoglu, D. and S. Johnson (2005), Journal of Political Economy 113(5), 949-995.
"History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India", by Banerjee, Abhijit and Lakshmi Iyer (2005), American Economic Review, 95, 1190-1213.
“Modeling Inefficient Economic Institutions,” Acemoglu, D. (2005),  Published in Advances in Economic Theory: Proceedings of the 2005 World Congress.
"Income and Democracy."
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, and Pierre Yared. 2008. American Economic Review, 98(3): 808–42.
"The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades" Nunn, Nathan (2008) The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 123(1), pages 139-176.
"Historical legacies: A model linking Africa's past to its current underdevelopment," by Nathan Nunn (2007)
"Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change." 
by Torsten Persson, and Guido Tabellini. 2009.  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 1(2): 88–126.
"Religion and Economic Growth" by Robert J. Barro and Rachel M. McCleary (2003)



Inequality

Background Papers
"Income Distribution, Market Size and Industrialization," by Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (1989), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 104, pp. 537-64.
“Income Distribution and Macroeconomics,” by Galor, O. and J. Zeira (1993), Review of Economic Studies 60, 35-52.
"Occupational Choice and the Process of Development",by Banerjee, Abhijit and Andrew Newman (1993), Journal of Political Economy, 101, 274-298.
"Distributive Politics and Economic Growth",by Alesina, Alberto and Dani Rodrik (1994), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109(2), 465-490.
"A Theory of Trickle-Down Growth and Development", Aghion, P. and P. Bolton (1997), Review of Economic Studies, 64, 151-172.
"Enterprise, Inequality and Economic Development," by  Lloyd-Ellis and Bernhardt (2000), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 67, pp. 147-168.
"On the Impacts of Inequality on Growth in the Short and Long Run: A Synthesis", by Lloyd-Ellis (2003), Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 29, supplement 1, 2003.
"New Ways of Looking at old issues: Inequality and Growth," by Deininger and Squire (1998), Journal of Development Economcs, vol. 57, pp. 259-287.
"A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth," by Forbes, Kristin J. (2000),  American Economic Review 90(4), pp. 869-887. 

Recent Articles

"Inequality, Growth and Investment," by Barro, Robert (2001) , NBER Working Paper #7038 (published in the Journal of Economic Growth).
"Inequality does Cause Underdevelopment," by William Easterly (2005), mimeo NYU



Conflict and the Resource Curse

Background Papers
"Polarized Peoples" ch. 13 of Easterly, pp. 255-281
"The Curse of Natural Resources" by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner (2001), European Economic Review, vol. 45, pp. 827-838.

Recent Articles
"On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict" by F. Caselli and W. Coleman (2006) CEP Discussion Paper 732.
"On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict" by Esteban, Joan, and Debraj Ray (2008).American Economic Review, 98(5): 2185–2202.
“Wars and State Capacity”by Besley, Timothy, and Torsten Persson (2008) forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association.
“Political foundations of the resource curse,” by Robinson, James, Ragnar Torvik, Thierry Verdier (2006) Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 79, 447-468.
"Greed and Grievance in Civil War," by Collier, P. and A. Hoeffler (2004), Oxford Economic Papers 56, 563–95.
“Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach,” by Miguel, Edward, Shanker Satyanath, Ernest Sergenti (2004) Journal of Political Economy, 112(4): 725-753.
“Diamonds Are Forever, Wars Are Not. Is Conflict Bad for Private Firms?" by Guidolin, M., and Eliana la Ferrara (2007), American Economic Review, 97(5): 1978-1993.
"Addressing the Natural Resource Curse: An Illustration from Nigeria" by Sala-i-Martin and Subramanian (2003), NBER Working Paper 9804
"Institutions and the Resource Curse" by Mehlem, Moene and Torvik (2006), Economic Journal, vol. 116, pp. 1-20.
"Power Struggles and the Natural Resource Curse," F. Caselli (2006), MIT Working Paper

Foreign Aid

Background Papers
"Aid for Investment", ch. 2 of Easterly, pp. 25-44
"Aid, Policies and Growth" by Craig Burnside and David Dollar (2000), American Economic Review, vol. 90 (4), pp. 847-68.
"New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar (2000)," Easterly, Levine and Roodman (2003), NBER Working Paper 9846.

Recent Articles
"Aid, Policies and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence," by Burnside and Dollar (2004), World Bank Policy Research Paper 3251.
"Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?" Raghuram G. Rajan and Arvind Subramanian, Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2008, Vol. 90, No. 4, Pages 643-665
"Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?", by William Easterly (2003): Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer Issue
"How much is a seat on the Security Council worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations" by Kuziemko, Ilyana and Eric Werker(2006):  – Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 114(5)
"Why Conditional Aid Doesn’t Work and What Can Be Done About It?" by Jakob Svensson, , Journal of Development Economics, 2003, vol. 70 (2): 381-402.
"An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa"  Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle (2008) in Reinventing Foreign Aid, edited by William Easterly (MIT Press).
"What Undermines Aid’s Impact on Growth?" Raghuram G. Rajan and Arvind Subramanian (2005)  IMF Working paper # 05/126
"Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle?," Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; and Tarp, Finn (2010) Journal of Globalization and Development: Vol. 1 : Iss. 2, Article 5.

International Trade and Development

Background Papers

Recent Articles


Debt and Financial Crises

Background Papers

"The Loans that Were, the Growth That Wasn't," ch. 6 of Easterly, pp. 101-120

Recent Articles
"IMF and Economic Growth: The Effects of Programs, Loans and Compliance with Conditionality" by Axel Dreher, World Development, vol. 34(5), 2006, pp. 769-788.



Micro Topics

Land Institutions and Land Markets

Background Papers
"Testing between Models of Sharecropping," by Shaban (1987), Journal of Political Economy, vol. 95, pp. 893-920.
"Land Institutions and Land Markets," by Deininger and Feder (1999), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper # 2014.
“Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana” by Timothy Besley (1995)  Journal of Political Economy, 103, 903-937.

Recent Articles

"Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal," by Banerjee, Gertler and Ghatak (2002), Journal of Political Economy, vol. 110 (2), pp. 239-280.
“Do Property Titles Increase Credit Access Among the Urban Poor? Evidence from a Nationwide Titling Program,” by Field, E. and M. Torero (2006). Working Paper.
"The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana" by Udry and Goldstein (2006).
"Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile." by Baland, Jean-Marie, and James A. Robinson. 2008. American Economic Review, 98(5): 1737–65.

Informal Credit

Background Papers
"Credit Rationing in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Theory" by Ghosh, Mookherjee and Ray (2000)  in A Reader in Development Economics, London: Blackwell.
"Why Intervene in Credit Markets ?" chapter 2 of de Aghion and Morduch (2005)
"Group Lending" chapter 4 of de Aghion and Morduch (2005)
"Measuring Impacts" chapter 8 of de Aghion and Morduch (2005)
"The Performance of Village Intermediaries in Rural Credit Delivery under Changing Penalty Regimes: Evidence from Senegal," by Warning and Sadoulet (1998), Journal of Development Studies, vol. 35(1) pp. 115 - 138.
"Moneylenders and Bankers: Price Increasing Subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market," by Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 52, 1997, pp. 429-462.
"The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations," by Besley, Coate and Loury (1993),  American Economic Review, vol. 83, pp. 792-810.
"Thy neighbour's keeper: The design of a credit cooperative with theory and a test," by Abhijit Banerjee,Timothy Besley and Timothy Guinnane (1994), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 117 (3): pp. 983-995.
"Screening by the Company you keep: Joint Liability lending and the peer selection effect" by Maitreesh Ghatak (2000), Economic Journal, vol. 110, pp. 601-631.
"Group Lending, Repayment Incentives and Social Collateral," by Besley and Coate (1995), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 46, pp. 1-18.
"The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice." by Ghatak, M; Guinnane, TW. Journal of Development Economics 1999 OCT, V60 N1:195-228.
"The impact of group lending in Northeast Thailand" by Coleman, Brett E. Journal of Development Economics, 60(1), 1999, pp. 105-141. link
"The Impact of Group Based Credit Progams on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter?" by Pitt, Mark, and Shahidur Khandker. Journal of Political Economy, 1998, Vol.106 No. 5, pp. 958-996 link
"Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence on Flagship Programs in Bangladesh" by Morduch, Jonathan. 1998.


Recent Articles

"Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines," by X. Gine and D. Karlan (2006), Working Paper.
"Signalling Credit Worthiness: Land Titles, Banking Practices and Access to Formal Credit in Indonesia" by Dowar and Potamites (2005), NYU Working Paper.
"The Economics of ROSCAs and intra-household allocation," by Siwan Anderson and Jean-Marie Baland (2002), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 117 (3): pp. 983-995.
"Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence using panel data from Bangladesh," by Shahidur Khandker (2005), The World Bank Economic Review, vol. 19 (2), pp. 263-286.
"Microfinance in Northeast Thailand: Who Benefits and How Much?" by Brett Coleman (2006), World Development, vol. 34 (9), pp. 1612-38.
"Outreach, sustainability and leverage in monitored and peer-monitored lending," by Jonathan Conning (1999), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 60, pp. 51-77.
"Incentives between firms (and within)," by Robert Gibbons (2005), Management Science, Vol. 51, (1), pp. 2–17
“Here today, gone tomorrow: Can dynamic incentives make microfinance more flexible?” by Tedeschi, Gwendolyn Alexander. 2006. Journal of Development Economics, 80(1), pp. 84-105.
"Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern Bangladesh" by Sajeda Amin, Ashok S. Rai and Giorgio Topa. Journal of Development Economics, 70(1), February 2003, Pages 59-82.
“Policies and Impact: An Analysis of Village-Level Microfinance Institutions”. Kaboski, JP , RM Townsend. 2005. Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 3, No. 1, Pages 1-50.
“Social Connections and Group Banking,” by Karlan, Dean. 2006.
"Incentives with Non-Profit Objectives: Microfinance Agents and the Selection of Very Poor Borrowers" by Cecile Aubert, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005.
"How Rising Competition among Microfinance Lenders Affect Incumbent Village Bank", by McIntosh, Craig, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. The Economic Journal (2005) 115(506). Pp. 987
"Financial Performance and Outreach: A Global Analysis of Microbanks" by Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Murdoch (2007)

Gender Issues

Background Papers
“More than 100 million women are missing,” by Sen, Amartya (1990) New York Review of Books, Dec 23.

Recent Articles
“Hepatitis B and the case of the Missing Women,” by Oster, Emily (2005), Journal of Political Economy, 113(6).
“Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Income on Sex Imbalance,” by Qian, Nancy (2008) The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(3).
“Sex-Selective Abortions in India,” by Arnold, F., Kishor, S., and Roy, T.K. (2002) Population and Development Review 28, 4: 759-785.
“Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Prejudice?” Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova (2008) Working Paper, Kennedy School of Government.
"Missing women: age and disease”, by Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray (2010), Review of Economic Studies, vol. 77, pp. 1262–1300


Health

Background Papers

Recent Articles
"AIDS crisis and growth" by Paul Corrigan, Gerhard Glomm and Fabio Mendez (2005), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 77, pp. 107-124.
"Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World," by Kremer, Michael (2002): Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall Issue.
“Selection IV.B.3: Confronting AIDS”, by Meier, Gerald M., and James E. Rauch. (2005). in Leading Issues in Economic Development, Eight Edition. Oxford University Press, pp. 231-239.
"Worms: Identifying Impacts of Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities," by Kremer, Michael and Edward Miguel (2004): Econometrica, Vol. 72(1).
“Health and Democracy” by Timothy Besley and Masa Kudamatsu, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), May 2006, pp.313-18.
“Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Micro Data” (August 20, 2008), by Masa Kudamatsu. Working Paper, IIES, Stockholm.


Education

Background Papers
“Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?” Krueger, Alan and Mikael Lindahl. (2001). Journal of Economic Literature, 39 (4), 1101-1136.

Recent Articles
"Why does Education Lead to Lower Fertility? A Critical Review of Some Possibilities" by Basu, A.M. 2002. World Development 30, 10: 1779-1790.
“Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment” by Duflo, Esther (2001): American Economic Review, September.
“Incentives to Learn: Merit Scholarships that Pay Kids to Do Well”, by Kremer, Michael, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton. (2007). unpublished working paper, U.C. Berkeley.
“Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India,” August 2007 by A. Banerjee, S. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden. MIT Working Paper.

Corruption & Rent-seeking

Background Papers
"Corruption and Growth" ch. 12 of Easterly, p. 241-252
"Corruption" by Shleifer and Vishny (1993), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 108, pp. 599-617.
"Why Is Rent-Seeking So Costly to Growth?" by Murphy, Kevin, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny(1993): American Economic Review, May issue
"The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society", by Krueger, Anne(1974): American Economic Review, June issue.

Recent Articles
"Estimating the Value of Political Connections”, Fisman, Raymond. (2001). American Economic Review, 91(4), 1095-1102.
“Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia”, by Olken, Ben. (2006). unpublished working paper. [http://www.nber.org/~bolken/corruptionexperiments.pdf]
“Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda”, by Reinikka, Ritva, and Jakob Svensson. (2004). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119 (2).
“Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?” by M Bertrand, S Djankov, R Hanna and S Mullainathan, Mimeo, Harvard University Dept of Economics. Forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics.
“Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets,” Ray Fismand and Edward Miguel, forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy, 2008.
"Red Tape and Corruption", by Sergei Guriev (2004), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 73, pp. 489-504.

Family Economics

Background Papers
Udry, Christopher (1996), "Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 104 (5), pp. 1010-1045.
Case, A. and A. Deaton. 1998. "Large cash transfers to the elderly in South Africa." Economic Journal, 108.450:1330-61.
“The Economics of Child Labor.” by Basu, Kaushik, and Van, Pham Hoang (1998). American Economic Review 88: 412–27.
“Child Labour: An Economic Perspective.” by Grootaert, Christiaan, and Kanbur, Ravi M. (1995) International Labour Review 134(2): 187–203.

Recent Articles
"Educational Policy and the Economics of the family", by Banerjee, Abhijit (2004), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 74 (1), pp. 3-32.
"Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa," by Duflo, Esther (2003), World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 17 (1), pp. 1-25.
"Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices," by Duflo, Esther and Christopher Udry (2001), NBER WP #10498, also BREAD WP016.
"Public policy and extended families: Evidence from pensions in South Africa." Bertrand, M., S. Mullainathan and D. Miller (2003). World Bank Economic Review, 17.1:27-50.
“Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines” by Nava Ashraf, unpublished working paper.
“Is Child Labor Inefficient? ” by Robinson, James, Jean-Marie Baland (2000) Journal of Political Economy, 108, 663-679.



Environment and development

Background Papers

Recent Articles
“Dams” by Duflo, Esther, and Rohini Pande. (2006) , forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics.
“Economic Growth and the Rise of Forests”, Foster, Andrew, and Mark Rosenzweig. (2003). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (2), 601-637.
“Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires”, by Jayachandran, Seema. (2006). unpublished working paper. [http://www.stanford.edu/~jayachan/indo_fires.pdf]
“Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement”, Kremer, Michael, Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel, and Alix Zwane (2007). unpublished working paper. [http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/emiguel/miguel_water.pdf]





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