Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2025

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Volume 8, issue 4, 1990

ARE SOME BANKS TOO LARGE TO FAIL? MYTH AND REALITY pp. 1-14

George G. Kaufman

IMPACTS OF VIOLENT CRIME ON BLACK FAMILY STRUCTURE pp. 15-29

William Darity and Samuel L. Myers

IS GOVERNMENT SPENDING STIMULATIVE? pp. 30-46

David Aschauer

MILITARY RECRUITING PROGRAMS DURING THE 1980s: THEIR SUCCESS AND POLICY ISSUES pp. 47-67

John Warner

ARMY RECRUITING IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT pp. 68-78

Cyril E. Kearl, David K. Horne and Curtis L. Gilroy

PRICING FOR WATER CONSERVATION pp. 79-91

John R. Morris

MANAGING CALIFORNIA's WATER IN THE LONG RUN pp. 92-105

Margriet F. Caswell and David Zilberman

COSTS OF CALIFORNIA's CORRELATIVE RIGHTS DOCTRINE AS A SOLUTION TO GROUNDWATER OVERDRAFT pp. 106-117

Nathan Eric Hampton

FUEL CHOICE FOR MULTI‐FUEL VEHICLES pp. 118-137

David L. Greene

THE ECONOMICS OF ALTERNATIVE FUEL USE: SUBSTITUTING METHANOL FOR GASOLINE pp. 138-152

Thomas J. Lareau

Volume 8, issue 3, 1990

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND PRIVATE COSTS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES pp. 1-2

Darwin C. Hall

THE STRAIGHT STORY ABOUT THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT pp. 3-15

John Firor

EQUITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF POSSIBLE CO2 TREATY PROPOSALS pp. 16-28

Duane Chapman and Thomas Drennen

OFFSETTING NEW CO2 EMISSIONS: A RATIONAL FIRST GREENHOUSE POLICY STEP pp. 29-42

Daniel J. Dudek and LeBLANC Alice

UNCERTAINTY AND THE COST OF ACID RAIN CONTROL pp. 43-58

Hadi Dowlatabadi and Winston Harrington

ECONOMIC VALUATION OF ACID DEPOSITION DAMAGES pp. 59-72

John M. Callaway and Jeffrey Englin

SUBSIDY TO NUCLEAR POWER THROUGH PRICE‐ANDERSON LIABILITY LIMIT pp. 73-79

Jeffrey A. Dubin and Geoffrey Rothwell

THE ETERNITY PROBLEM: NUCLEAR POWER WASTE STORAGE pp. 80-93

Duane Chapman

REACTOR SAFETY AND RISK ISSUES pp. 94-105

Jim Harding

NUCLEAR TERRORISM: REACTOR SABOTAGE AND WEAPONS PROLIFERATION RISKS pp. 106-121

Paul L Leventhal and Milton M. Hoenig

FOUR REVOLUTIONS IN ELECTRIC EFFICIENCY pp. 122-141

Amory B. Lovins

REVENUE‐NEUTRAL INCENTIVES FOR EFFICIENCY AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY pp. 142-156

Jonathan Koomey and Arthur H. Rosenfeld

POTENTIALS FOR AND BARRIERS TO BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION IN CHINA pp. 157-173

Yu Joe Huang

COST‐EFFECTIVENESS OF CONSERVATION PROGRAMS: THE HOOD RIVER EXPERIMENT pp. 174-184

Muhannad Khawaja, Thomas P Potiowsky and H. Gil Peach

WILL ELECTRIC UTILITIES COMPETE EFFECTIVELY WITHOUT A PROFIT MOTIVE? pp. 185-199

Michael Messenger

LEVELIZED COST OF ELECTRICITY GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES pp. 200-214

Gerald R. Bemis and DoANGELIS Michael

SWEDEN AFTER NUCLEAR POWER pp. 215-239

Evan Mills

SOLAR POWER pp. 240-254

A. L Walton and Darwin C. Hall

SOCIAL COSTS OF ELECTRICITY GENERATION: WIND AND PHOTOVOLTAIC VERSUS FOSSIL AND NUCLEAR pp. 255-282

Olav Hohmeyer

PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES OF CUMULATIVE PRIVATE AND EXTERNAL COSTS OF ENERGY pp. 283-307

Darwin C. Hall

Volume 8, issue 2, 1990

INTEREST RATE VOLATILITY AND EXCHANGE RISK: NEW RULES FOR A COMMON MONETARY STANDARD pp. 1-17

Ronald McKinnon

ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT IN HEAVILY INDEBTED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp. 18-35

Norman S. Fieleke

MONETARISM AND THE USE OF MARKET PRICES AS MONETARY POLICY INDICATORS pp. 36-49

Robert E. Keleher

DISTRIBUTIVE CONFLICT AND MONETARY POLICY pp. 50-61

Thomas Havrilesky

PROBLEMS OF THE FSLIC: A FORMER POLICY MAKER'S VIEW pp. 62-81

Lawrence White

MARKET VALUE ACCOUNTING AND THE BANK BALANCE SHEET pp. 82-94

David L. Mengle

AFTERMATH OF THE THRIFT CRISIS: BALANCING THE ECONOMY'S BOOKS pp. 95-106

Angelo R. Mascaro

THE HYBRID PLAN: A PROPOSAL FOR FEDERAL CREDIT REFORM pp. 107-121

William Gale

REGULATORY REFORM: LESSONS FOR NATURAL GAS PIPELINES pp. 122-141

Ronald R. Braeutigam

DEFINING A RIGHT OF ACCESS TO INTERSTATE NATURAL GAS PIPELINES pp. 142-158

Rodney T. Smith, Arthur S. de Vany and Robert J. Michaels

CROSS‐CONTRACT CREDITING UNDER FERC ORDER 500 pp. 159-175

Stephen DeCanio

WELFARE COST OF AN OIL IMPORT FEE pp. 176-189

Margaret Walls

Volume 8, issue 1, 1990

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES‘ DEBT PROBLEMS AND EFFORTS AT POLICY REFORM pp. 1-18

Anne O. Krueger, Arnold Harberger, Sebastian Edwards and Ronald McKinnon

USING OXYGENATED FUELS TO MITIGATE CARBON MONOXIDE AIR POLLUTION: THE CASE OF DENVER pp. 39-53

Robert D. Rowe, Michael G. Shelby, Joshua B. Epel and Ari Michelsen

TARGETING METHANOL OR OTHER ALTERNATIVE FUELS: HOW INTRUSIVE SHOULD PUBLIC POLICY BE? pp. 54-61

Robert A. Collinge and Anne Stevens

ALTERNATIVE FUELS FOR POLLUTION CONTROL: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF BENEFITS AND COSTS pp. 62-74

Arthur Fraas and Albert McGartland

DETERMINANTS OF CHILD SUPPORT: A PILOT SURVEY OF ABSENT PARENTS pp. 75-94

Freya L. Sonenstein and Charles A. Calhoun

CHILD SUPPORT AND MOTHERS‘ EMPLOYMENT pp. 95-109

John Graham

A DECADE OF DECLINING WELFARE PARTICIPATION: SORTING OUT THE CAUSES pp. 110-123

Philip Robins

POLICY ISSUES AND CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENT BEHAVIOR: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS pp. 124-134

Kurt J. Beron