Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2025

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Volume 18, issue 4, 2000

IS THERE A ROLE FOR TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS IF WE VIEW FIRMS AS COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS? pp. 369-385

John Foster

ORGANIZATIONAL PORTFOLIO THEORY: PERFORMANCE‐DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE pp. 386-396

L Donaldson

DEMAND UNCERTAINTY AND RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE pp. 397-403

David Flath and T Nariu*

BRETTON WOODS ‐ ORIGINAL INTENTIONS AND CURRENT PROBLEMS pp. 404-414

Mikesell Rf

HAS MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE REGAINED ITS ANTIPOVERTY BITE? pp. 415-427

Robert Haveman and Jonathan Schwabish

Income inequality and inflation: the cross‐country evidence pp. 428-439

Al‐Marhubi Fa

Suicide as an indicator of quality of life: evidence from dialysis patients pp. 440-448

Jon Ford and Kaserman Dl

The appeal of voluntary environmental programs: which firms participate and why? pp. 449-460

Julio Videras and Anna Alberini

INTEREST GROUPS AND ECONOMIC POLICY: EXPLAINING THE PATTERN OF PROTECTION IN THE BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR pp. 462-476

Steven Helfand

THE DECLINE OF CHINA'S BUDGETARY REVENUE: REASONS AND CONSEQUENCES pp. 477-490

S Lin

Volume 18, issue 3, 2000

The acquisition and labor market value of four English skills: new evidence from NALS pp. 259-269

A. Gonzalez

Labor productivity of small and large manufacturing firms: the case of Taiwan pp. 270-283

M. Hsu and B‐L. Chen

The term structure of interest rates and the Mexican economy pp. 284-294

Jg. Gonzalez, Rw. Spencer and Dt. Walz

Uzbekistan: the silk road to nowhere? pp. 295-303

Mc. Spechler

US domestic airline alliances: does the national welfare impact turn on strategic international gains? pp. 304-314

Joseph Clougherty

A note on the effect of minimum drinking age laws on youth alcohol consumption pp. 315-325

Robert Kaestner

Smoking laws and their differential effects on restaurants, bars, and taverns pp. 326-333

J. Dunham and Michael Marlow

Growth management and housing prices: the case of Portland, Oregon pp. 334-344

J. Phillips and E. Goodstein

The economic impact of reducing on‐base naval housing pp. 345-358

P. Bernstein and G. Tolley

Policy issues in the teaching of economics in cyberspace: research design, course design, and research results pp. 359-366

Peter Navarro and J. Shoemaker

Volume 18, issue 2, 2000

Country impacts of multilateral oil sanctions pp. 135-144

Me. Canes

Does NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) Chapter 19 make a difference? Dispute settlement and the incentive structure of U.S./Canada unfair trade petitions pp. 145-158

K. Jones

Public capital formation and labor productivity growth in Chile pp. 159-169

Miguel Ramirez

Inflation, inflation uncertainty, and monetary policy in Turkey: 1960–1998 pp. 170-180

Tf. Nas and Mj. Perry

The nature and consequences of lawyers’market regulation in Japan pp. 181-193

T. Kinoshita

Economic efficiency and social insurance reforms in China pp. 194-204

Hui Li

Three measures of East Asian currency evaluation pp. 205-214

Menzie Chinn

East Asia's growth: technology or accumulation? pp. 215-227

G. Chris Rodrigo

Four decades of Asian American women's earnings: Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American women's earnings 1960–1990 pp. 228-237

D. Mar

Economies of scale in public education: an econometric analysis pp. 238-247

Kalyan Chakraborty, Basudeb Biswas and Wc. Lewis

Educational contributions, academic quality, and athletic success pp. 248-258

Thomas Rhoads and S. Gerking

Volume 18, issue 1, 2000

World oil: the growing case for international policy pp. 1-13

D. Chapman and Neha Khanna

African elephants: the effect of property rights and political stability pp. 14-26

Ma. McPherson and Michael Nieswiadomy

What do schools produce? Implications of multiple outputs in education pp. 27-36

Jw. Wenger

Who pays for minor league training costs? pp. 37-47

Ac. Krautmann, E. Gustafson and L. Hadley

Value of public goods from sports stadiums: the CVM approach pp. 48-58

Bk. Johnson and John Whitehead

The effects of the Uruguay round: empirical evidence from U.S. industry pp. 59-69

J. Mutti, R. Sampson and B. Yeung

Do German, Japanese, and U.S. export prices asymmetrically respond to exchange rate changes? Evidence from aggregate data pp. 70-81

S. Mahdavi

Why is U.S. direct investment in China so small? pp. 82-94

Kh. Zhang

Integration of rice markets: the case of southern China pp. 95-106

Zy. Zhou, Gh. Wan and Lb. Chen

Government Purchases, Government Transfers, and the Post‐1970 Slowdown In U.S. Economic Growth pp. 107-123

Christian Weber

Crowding‐out and crowding‐in effects of the components of government expenditure pp. 124-133

Habib Ahmed and Sm. Miller

Volume 17, issue 4, 1999

DOES FEDERAL FUNDING “CROWD IN” PRIVATE FUNDING OF SCIENCE? pp. 423-431

Arthur Diamond

R&D SPILLOVERS TO AGRICULTURE: MEASUREMENT AND APPLICATION pp. 432-456

Daniel Johnson and Robert E. Evenson

THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY: PATENTS, R&D SPILLOVERS, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED STATES pp. 457-468

David Schimmelpfennig and Colin Thirtle

HAVE PRICE POLICIES DAMAGED LDC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY? pp. 469-475

Lilyan Fulginiti and Richard Perrin

SNAKE RIVER SALMON RECOVERY: QUANTIFYING THE COSTS pp. 476-491

Daniel D. Huppert

IS THE DEMISE OF M2 GREATLY EXAGGERATED? pp. 492-505

Robert D. Laurent

A K% MONEY GROWTH LEADERSHIP RULE IN AN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY POLICY GAME pp. 506-516

Dennis Jansen and Ming-Jang Weng

FACTOR ENDOWMENTS, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, AND THE FUTURE OF APEC TRADE PATTERNS pp. 517-529

Kitty K. Chan and Jeffrey Nugent

CHINA'S CORPORATIZATION DRIVE: AN EVALUATION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS pp. 530-539

Tian Zhu

REAL ESTATE TAX IN URBAN CHINA pp. 540-551

Shunfeng Song, George S.‐F. Chu and Rongqing Cao

CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY AND CHAPTER CHOICE: STATE PANEL EVIDENCE pp. 552-566

Jon Nelson

Volume 17, issue 3, 1999

ESTIMATING THE NON‐ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS IS HARDER THAN YOU THINK pp. 279-295

Stephen DeCanio

THE KYOTO PROTOCOL, CAFE STANDARDS, AND GASOLINE TAXES pp. 296-308

Jean Agras and Duane Chapman

THE DETERMINANTS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL CHOICE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF HALOGENATED SOLVENT WASTE SHIPMENTS pp. 309-320

Anna Alberini and John Bartholomew

ASSESSING THE EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS AND FRONTIER REGRESSION pp. 321-331

John Ruggiero and Donald Vitaliano

INFLATION TARGETING IN PRACTICE: FURTHER EVIDENCE pp. 332-347

Jim Lee

E‐MONEY AND PAYMENT SYSTEM RISKS pp. 348-357

James McAndrews

EXCHANGE RATE‐BASED STABILIZATION IN WESTERN EUROPE: GREECE, IRELAND, ITALY, AND PORTUGAL pp. 358-369

Enrica Detragiache and A. Javier Hamann

DOES FINANCIAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT STIMULATE SAVINGS? EVIDENCE FROM EMERGING STOCK MARKETS pp. 370-380

Catherine Bonser‐neal and Kathryn Dewenter

IS THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE WORTHWHILE? pp. 381-389

Evan Osborne

INFRASTRUCTURE AND PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY: AN ANALYSIS ON THE KOREAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY pp. 390-400

Sangho Kim, Jaewoon Koo and Young Hoon Lee

THE WAIVER PORK BARREL: COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP AND THE APPROVAL TIME OF MEDICAID WAIVERS pp. 401-411

Eric Helland

A REDUCTION IN CONSUMER EXPENDITURE ON CIGARETTES AND ITS EFFECTS ON EMPLOYMENT: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICA pp. 412-422

Rowena van der Merwe and Iraj Abedian

Volume 17, issue 2, 1999

MARKETS FOR ORGANS: THE QUESTION OF SUPPLY pp. 147-155

A. Frank Adams, A. H. Barnett and David L. Kaserman

DIVERSITY AND ECONOMIC EVOLUTION: FAILURES OF COMPETITIVE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS pp. 156-165

Clement Tisdell

WINDOW GUIDANCE BY THE BANK OF JAPAN: WAS LENDING CONTROLLED? pp. 166-176

James Rhodes and Naoyuki Yoshino

TAXES AND GROWTH: TESTING THE NEOCLASSICAL AND ENDOGENOUS GROWTH MODELS pp. 177-188

Georgios Karras

AN ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE STUDENT PERFORMANCE: A FRESH APPROACH TO AN OLD DEBATE pp. 189-198

Sanjiv Jaggia and Alison Kelly

TIME LIMITS ON WELFARE RECEIPT pp. 199-209

Maury Gittleman

STATE WELFARE‐REFORM IMPACTS: CONTENT AND ENFORCEMENT EFFECTS pp. 210-222

Bradley R. Schiller

THE DEMAND FOR CIGARETTES IN TAIWAN: DOMESTIC VERSUS IMPORTED CIGARETTES pp. 223-234

Chee‐ruey Hsieh, Teh‐wei Hu and Chien‐fu Jeff Lin

CONSTITUENCY PREFERENCE AND POLICE CONSOLIDATION: THE CASE OF WEST HOLLYWOOD pp. 235-242

Miles Finney

A TEST OF EMPLOYER DISCRIMINATION IN THE NBA pp. 243-255

Örn B. Bodvarsson and Raymond T. Brastow

LETTING THE MARKET PRESERVE LAND: THE CASE FOR A MARKET‐DRIVEN TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS PROGRAM pp. 256-266

Paul Thorsnes and Gerald Simons

TOWARD BEHAVIORAL MODELING OF ALASKA GROUNDFISH FISHERIES: A DISCRETE CHOICE APPROACH TO BERING SEA/ALEUTIAN ISLANDS TRAWL FISHERIES pp. 267-277

Douglas M. Larson, William R. Sutton and Joseph M. Terry

Volume 17, issue 1, 1999

POWER MARKETS: RESTRUCTURING ELECTRICITY pp. 1-19

Richard A. Bilas, Kenneth L. Lay, Gordon R. Smith, Michal C. Moore and Robert J. Michaels

MARGINAL COST PRICING FOR UTILITIES: A DIGEST OF THE CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCE pp. 20-32

Roger L. Conkling

MONEY AGGREGATES MANAGEMENT: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS IN CHINA'S ECONOMIC TRANSITION pp. 33-43

Qiao Yu and Ping Xie

A COOPERATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON SOVEREIGN DEBT: PAST AND PRESENT pp. 44-53

Yang der‐yuan

ARE WAGE INCREASES IN CHINESE STATE INDUSTRY EFFICIENT? PRODUCTIVITY IN NANJING'S MACHINE‐BUILDING INDUSTRY pp. 54-67

Elliott Parker

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? DEMOGRAPHIC BULGES, THE PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLE, AND CPP REFORM pp. 68-78

John Emery and Ian Rongve

COMMUNAL DUALITY: AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES FROM TVES pp. 79-86

Guanzhong James Wen and Gene Hsin Chang

THE DETERMINANTS OF JAPANESE LOCAL‐BENEFIT SEEKING pp. 87-96

Steven A. Meyer and Shigeto Naka

EXPORT‐LINKED EMPLOYMENT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA pp. 97-108

Lisa Grobar

ROLE OF MARKET INSTITUTIONS IN PACIFIC RIM DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSITION pp. 109-137

Michael Intriligator, Serguey Braguinsky, Jewell Ray Bowen, Gordon Tullock and Hilton Root

THE HEARTY AND CHEERY STATE pp. 138-146

Walter Oi