Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2025

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Volume 14, issue 4, 1996

NEW ESTIMATES OF THE U.S. ECONOMY'S POTENTIAL GROWTH RATE pp. 1-16

George Kahn

EFFECTS OF PERSONAL INCOME TAX ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION: EXAMPLE FROM BULGARIA pp. 17-28

Fareed M. A. Hassan and Zeljko Bogetic

POLITICS AND LENGTH OF TIME TO BANK FAILURE: 1986–1990 pp. 29-41

Randall W. Bennett and Christine Loucks

UNIFICATION OF CHINA'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES pp. 42-57

Guobo Huang and Clement Yuk‐pang Wong

COMPETITIVE NEED LIMITS AND THE U.S. GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCE pp. 58-66

James DeVault

CONSEQUENCES OF MINIMUM WAGE INDEXING pp. 67-77

William Even and David Macpherson

RECENT TRENDS IN PART‐TIME EMPLOYMENT pp. 78-89

Alec R. Levenson

PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CRISES IN WORLD FISHERIES: TURNING THE TIDE? pp. 90-99

R. Quentin Grafton, Dale Squires and James E. Kirkley

CLIMATE CHANGE AND OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS pp. 100-111

Richard Howarth

BINGE DRINKING IN COLLEGE: THE IMPACT OF PRICE, AVAILABILITY, AND ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICIES pp. 112-124

Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler

Volume 14, issue 3, 1996

A SIMPLISTIC GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF CORRUPTION pp. 1-5

Steven N. S. Cheung

CORRUPTION THEORY AND PRACTICE pp. 6-13

Gordon Tullock

CORRUPTION AND SCHUMPETERIAN GROWTH IN DIFFERENT ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTS pp. 14-25

Serguey Braguinsky

THREE ASPECTS OF CORRUPTION pp. 26-29

Francis Lui

DOLLARIZATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: RATIONAL REMEDY OR DOMESTIC DILEMMA? pp. 30-40

Michael Melvin and Bettina Peiers

DEPOSIT GUARANTEES AND THE BURST OF THE JAPANESE BUBBLE ECONOMY pp. 41-52

Thomas F. Cargill, Michael Hutchison and Takatoshi Ito

HAS THE QUALITY OF IMMIGRANTS DECLINED? EVIDENCE FROM THE LABOR MARKET ATTACHMENT OF IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVES pp. 53-70

Richard Fry

COMPARING THE NEW ENGLAND AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL RECESSIONS pp. 71-84

Lisa Grobar

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMODITIES MARKETS: ‘MESSY’ VERSUS ‘IDEAL’ WORLDS pp. 85-97

Richard McCann

ENERGY‐EFFICIENT LIGHTING: MARKET DATA, MARKET IMPERFECTIONS, AND POLICY SUCCESS pp. 98-111

Jonathan G. Koomey, Alan H. Sanstad and Leslie J. Shown

SALMON STOCK VARIABILITY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE PACIFIC SALMON TREATY pp. 112-129

Kathleen A. Miller

Volume 14, issue 2, 1996

TRANSACTION COST IMPAIRMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE: LESSONS FROM EGYPT pp. 1-14

Abla M. Abdel‐latif and Jeffrey Nugent

BALANCED BUDGETS: ECONOMIC NIRVANA OR FISCAL CHAOS? pp. 15-25

Richard H. Day

SEVERITY OF ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS UNDER A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT pp. 26-40

Charles Weise

EMU, MAASTRICHT, AND THE 1996 INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE pp. 41-55

Patrick Crowley

TIME PREFERENCE, ABATEMENT COSTS, AND INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY: AN APPRAISAL OF IPCC 1995 pp. 56-66

Neha Khanna and Duane Chapman

A CASE STUDY IN POLLUTION MARKETS: DISMAL SCIENCE VS. DISMAL REALITY pp. 67-78

Jane V. Hall and Amy L. Walton

THE SO2 EMISSIONS TRADING PROGRAM: COST SAVINGS WITHOUT ALLOWANCE TRADES pp. 79-94

Dallas Burtraw

THE IMPACT OF PROVIDER AVAILABILITY ON ABORTION DEMAND pp. 95-106

Robert W. Brown and R. Todd Jewell

COMMERCIAL BANKS AND LDC DEBT REDUCTION pp. 107-123

Gary M. Woller and Kerk Phillips

Volume 14, issue 1, 1996

WELFARE ACROSS THE GENERATIONS pp. 1-21

Harold Demsetz, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Henning Bohn, Earl Thompson and Andrew Samwick

DO TAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS AFFECT THE SIZE AND GROWTH OF STATE GOVERNMENT? pp. 22-35

Ron Shadbegian

NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BILATERAL TRADE EFFECTS pp. 36-47

Michelle Casario

EC INTEGRATION AND JAPANESE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE EC pp. 48-57

Tadashi Yamada and Tetsuji Yamada

IMPLICATIONS OF LIBERALISED EUROPEAN LABOUR MARKETS pp. 58-69

Sarah Brown, Kenneth Button and John Sessions

AVIATION DEREGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: DO ACTORS LEARN IN THE REGULATION GAME? pp. 70-80

Kenneth Button

MARKET STRUCTURE, PROGRAM DIVERSITY, AND RADIO AUDIENCE SIZE pp. 81-91

Robert P. Rogers and John R. Woodbury

WELFARE LOSS OF WETLANDS DISINTEGRATION: A LOUISIANA STUDY pp. 92-106

Stephen Farber

CERCLA AND DEEP POCKETS: MARKET RESPONSE TO THE SUPERFUND PROGRAM pp. 107-115

Richard K. Harper and Stephen C. Adams

DO‐IT‐YOURSELF AND ENERGY CONSERVATION pp. 116-118

Peter C. Mayer

Volume 13, issue 4, 1995

PACIFIC RIM TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS pp. 1-25

Jack Hou, Shinichi Ichimura, Seiji Naya, Lars Werin and Leslie Young

TYING, BANKING, AND ANTITRUST: IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE pp. 26-35

Lawrence White

BANK ASSET RISK: EVIDENCE FROM EARLY‐WARNING MODELS pp. 36-50

Linda M. Hooks

IN SEARCH OF AN OPTIMAL DEBT RATIO FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 51-59

David J. Smyth and Yu Hsing

COMPARING PARTIAL AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATES OF THE WELFARE COST OF INFLATION pp. 60-71

Max Gillman

TIME, MONEY, AND OPTIMAL CRIMINAL PENALTIES pp. 72-79

Sandy Baum and Linda Kamas

ANALYZING POSTSECONDARY RETURNS: DOES EDUCATIONAL LOAN DEFAULT PLAY A ROLE? pp. 80-92

Laura A. Boyd

WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR DESERT PROTECTION pp. 93-104

Jerrell Richer

COSTS AND BENEFITS OF AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HONG KONG pp. 105-117

William F. Barron, Joseph Liu, T. H. Lam, C. M. Wong, Jean Peters and Anthony Hedley

EXTERNAL ECONOMIES IN TAIWAN'S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES pp. 118-130

Vei‐Lin Chan, Been-Lon Chen and Kee‐Nam Cheung

Volume 13, issue 3, 1995

ROLLING DICE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET pp. 1-9

Duane Chapman, Vivek Suri and Steven G. Hall

VALUE OF IMPROVED LONG‐RANGE WEATHER INFORMATION pp. 10-19

Richard M. Adams, Kelly J. Bryant, Bruce McCarl, David M. Legler, James O'Brien, Andrew Solow and Rodney Weiher

EFFECTS OF IMMIGRANTS ON THE 1980–1990 U.S. WAGE EXPERIENCE pp. 20-38

Maria Enchautegui

MAKING WORK PAY FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS pp. 39-52

David Greenberg, Charles H. Michalopoulos, Philip Robins and Robert H. Wood

PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING: AN ANALYSIS OF POLICY ALTERNATIVES pp. 53-63

Lok Ho

RISK OF ACCIDENTS AND THE POLICY OF FORCED RETIREMENT pp. 64-76

Gaines H. Liner

PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY RACE pp. 77-87

Neil B. Niman

WHAT CAN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS CONTRIBUTE TO THE ‘SUSTAINABILITY’ DEBATE? pp. 88-100

Jonathan A. Lesser and Richard O. Zerbe

DISCOUNT RATES AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY pp. 101-109

Richard Howarth and Alan H. Sanstad

MONETARY POLICY AND LONG‐TERM INTEREST RATES: A SURVEY OF EMPIRICAL LITERATURE pp. 110-130

M. A. Akhtar

Volume 13, issue 2, 1995

THE GREAT DEPRESSION RECONSIDERED: IMPLICATIONS FOR TODAY pp. 1-15

William Mcdonald Wallace

PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP: POLICY IMPLICATIONS pp. 16-25

Daniel J. B. Mitchell

A QUALITY POLICY FOR AMERICA pp. 26-37

David Levine and Susan Helper

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR PROFIT SHARING, GAINSHARING, ESOPs, AND TQM pp. 38-48

Roger Kaufman and Raymond Russell

A MACROECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE OF AFTA'S PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS pp. 49-62

Francisco Nadal De Simone

IDENTIFYING CREDIT CRUNCHES pp. 63-76

Raymond Owens and Stacey Schreft

AIR QUALITY POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp. 77-85

Jane Vise Hall

EXTERNAL HEALTH COSTS OF A STEEL MILL pp. 86-97

Michael Ransom and C. Pope

RESIDENTIAL RURAL SOLAR ELECTRICITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp. 98-108

Duane Chapman and Jon D. Erickson

ELECTRICITY CONSERVATION: CONSUMER RATIONALITY VERSUS PROSPECT THEORY pp. 109-118

Peter C. Mayer

GRAZING ON PUBLIC RANGELANDS: AN EVOLVING PROBLEM OF PROPERTY RIGHTS pp. 119-128

David Lambert

Volume 13, issue 1, 1995

ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS: CHINA VIS‐A‐VIS HONG KONG pp. 1-9

Steven N. S. Cheung

CAN CHINA'S “MINI‐BANG” SUCCEED? pp. 10-14

Justin Lin

CHINA'S ECONOMIC REFORM: THE TROIKA pp. 15-17

Andrew Sheng

CHINA'S ECONOMIC REFORM: THE NEXT STEP pp. 18-27

Yue‐Chim Richard Wong

STRATEGIES FOR RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF HONG KONG pp. 28-37

Leonard K. Cheng

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL DILEMMAS pp. 38-49

Clement Tisdell

VEHICULAR EMISSIONS AND CONTROL POLICIES IN HONG KONG pp. 50-61

Frank W. Rusco and W. Walls

MARKETS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL pp. 62-73

Fred L. Smith

IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: ARE MARKETS THE SOLUTION? pp. 74-79

Michael Hanemann

IS THERE PROGRESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY? pp. 80-83

Robert W. Crandall

ELECTRIC UTILITY DEMAND‐SIDE MANAGEMENT IN POLAND pp. 84-91

Janusz Sowis…Ski, Geoffrey Rothwell and Don Shirey

THE GLOBALIZATION OF INVESTMENT pp. 92-100

Timothy Koechlin

A SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS TAX AND CAPITAL MARKET EFFICIENCY pp. 101-112

Paul Kupiec

THE IMPACT OF CIGARETTE ADVERTISING ON CONSUMER SURPLUS, PROFIT, AND SOCIAL WELFARE pp. 113-124

Carol Horton Tremblay and Victor J. Tremblay