Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2025

Current editor(s): Brad R. Humphreys

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Volume 34, issue 4, 2016

HOW DO SPEED AND SECURITY INFLUENCE CONSUMERS' PAYMENT BEHAVIOR? pp. 595-613

Scott Schuh and Joanna Stavins

IMPROVING U.S. TRANSMISSION EXPANSION POLICY THROUGH ORDER NO. 1000 pp. 614-629

Richard M. Benjamin

MASS LAYOFFS, MANUFACTURING AND STATE BUSINESS CLIMATES: DOES STATE POLICY MATTER? pp. 630-645

Christopher Surfield and C. Surender Reddy

OLD-AGE PENSION AND EXTENDED FAMILIES: HOW IS ADULT CHILDREN'S INTERNAL MIGRATION AFFECTED? pp. 646-659

Xi Chen

DOES EDUCATION LOAN DEBT INFLUENCE HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL DISTRESS? AN ASSESSMENT USING THE 2007–2009 SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES PANEL pp. 660-677

Jesse Bricker and Jeffrey Thompson

HOW DID EXCHANGE RATES AFFECT EMPLOYMENT IN U.S. CITIES? pp. 678-697

Haifang Huang and Yao Tang

EFFECTIVENESS OF MONETARY POLICY IN SWEDEN pp. 698-709

Richhild Moessner, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNANCE, AND CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS pp. 710-728

Abu Shonchoy

JOB REALLOCATION, FINANCIAL CRISES, AND POLICY REFORMS: EVIDENCE FROM KOREA pp. 729-745

Junghwan Hyun

INTEREST RATE CORRIDOR, LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT, AND THE OVERNIGHT SPREAD pp. 746-761

Hande Kucuk, Pınar Özbay Özlü, İsmaİl Anil Talaslı, Deren Ünalmış and Canan Yüksel

Contemporary Economic Policy 2015 Editor's Report pp. 762-765

Brad Humphreys

Volume 34, issue 3, 2016

INEQUALITY: AN INTRODUCTION pp. 395-395

Ravi Kumar

SEPARATING EFFICIENCY AND EQUALITY, AUTOMATION, AND PIKETTY'S THEORY OF INCREASING CAPITAL SHARE pp. 396-398

Yew-Kwang Ng

CAPITAL AND INEQUALITY pp. 399-402

James Mirrlees

ADDRESSING THE FORCES DRIVING INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES pp. 403-411

Peter Diamond

INEQUALITY: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, AND ANSWERS pp. 412-414

Peter Diamond, James Mirrlees, Yew-Kwang Ng and Ravi Kumar

DO MINIMUM LEGAL TOBACCO PURCHASE AGE LAWS WORK? pp. 415-429

Ceren Ertan Yörük and Barş K. Yörük

SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF TAX-BASED STIMULUS PACKAGES? pp. 430-445

Kerim Arin, Peter H. Helles, Murat Koyuncu and Otto F. M. Reich

WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR SPORTING SUCCESS OF FOOTBALL BUNDESLIGA TEAMS pp. 446-462

Pamela Wicker, John Whitehead, Bruce Johnson and Daniel S. Mason

EXERCISING WILLPOWER: DIFFERENCES IN WILLPOWER DEPLETION AMONG ATHLETES AND NONATHLETES pp. 463-474

Adam Hoffer and Lisa Giddings

THE (AGGREGATE) DEMAND FOR STATE-LOTTERY TICKETS: WHAT HAVE WE REALLY LEARNED? pp. 475-482

Thomas A. Garrett

THE IMPACT OF INFLATION ON PROPERTY CRIME pp. 483-499

John M. Nunley, Michael Stern, Richard Seals and Joachim Zietz

FOREIGN ENTRY INTO U.S. SERVICE INDUSTRY BY TAKEOVERS AND THE CREATION OF NEW FIRMS pp. 500-512

Zadia Feliciano and Jing Sun

THE RISK OF FIRE SALES IN THE TRI-PARTY REPO MARKET pp. 513-530

Brian Begalle, Antoine Martin, James McAndrews and Susan McLaughlin

WOULD AUSTRALIA–NEW ZEALAND BE A VIABLE CURRENCY UNION? EVIDENCE FROM INTERSTATE RISK-SHARING PERFORMANCES pp. 531-552

Faisal Rana and Faruk Balli

CRYPTOCURRENCIES, NETWORK EFFECTS, AND SWITCHING COSTS pp. 553-571

William Luther

FACTOR DETERMINANTS OF TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH FOR THE JAPANESE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY pp. 572-586

Sangho Kim

Volume 34, issue 2, 2016

INTEREST GROUPS, DEMOCRACY, AND POLICY VOLATILITY pp. 223-233

Jac Heckelman and Bonnie Wilson

CRISES AND GOVERNMENT: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE pp. 234-249

Andrew Young and Jamie Bologna

DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS IN LARGE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM U.S. BANK HOLDING COMPANIES pp. 250-267

Zhichao Zhang, Li Xie, Xiangyun Lu and Zhuang Zhang

IDENTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF SIMULTANEOUS MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS pp. 268-296

Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas

INTRANATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE FLOWS: EFFECTS ON THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL SECTORS pp. 297-311

Rajeev Goel, James Saunoris and Xingyuan Zhang

CAN STATE TAX POLICIES BE USED TO GROW SMALL AND LARGE BUSINESSES? pp. 312-335

Erin Borchers, John Deskins and Amanda Ross

OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE: TRADE OPENNESS AND FDI FLOWS—ARE THE EMERGING ECONOMIES CONVERGING? pp. 336-351

Nicholas Apergis and Arusha Cooray

CROSS-BORDER M&As AND FIRM VALUE: A COMPARISON OF CHINA- AND US-JAPAN M&As pp. 352-368

Keisuke Chikamoto, Fumiko Takeda and Ai Yokoyama

LIVING STANDARDS INEQUALITY BETWEEN MIGRANTS AND LOCAL RESIDENTS IN URBAN CHINA—A QUANTILE DECOMPOSITION pp. 369-386

Zheng Fang and Christos Sakellariou

Volume 34, issue 1, 2016

BEN BERNANKE AND THE ZERO BOUND pp. 7-20

Laurence Ball

REVISITING GLADWELL'S HOCKEY PLAYERS: INFLUENCE OF RELATIVE AGE EFFECTS UPON EARNING THE PHD pp. 21-36

Kevin M. Kniffin and Andrew Hanks

IS IT WHERE YOU GO OR WHAT YOU STUDY? THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF COLLEGE SELECTIVITY AND COLLEGE MAJOR ON EARNINGS pp. 37-46

Eric R. Eide, Michael J. Hilmer and Mark H. Showalter

THE EFFICIENCY IMPLICATIONS OF USING PROPORTIONAL EVALUATIONS TO SHAPE THE TEACHING WORKFORCE pp. 47-62

Cory Koedel and Jiaxi Li

LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS AT SCHOOL-LEAVING: LONG-RUN EFFECTS ON MARRIAGE AND FERTILITY pp. 63-88

Johanna Maclean, Reginald Covington and Asia Sikora Kessler

THE IMPACT OF PUBLICLY PROVIDED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS ON DISTRICT-LEVEL TEST SCORES pp. 89-106

Benjamin Artz and David M. Welsch

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRAINING IN THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS: EVIDENCE FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES pp. 107-118

Fabio Mendez and Facundo Sepúlveda

ASSET FORFEITURE AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT TOOL pp. 119-126

Thomas J. Miceli and Derek Johnson

DRUG POLICY AND INTERGENERATIONAL INCOME MOBILITY IN THE UNITED STATES pp. 127-145

Owen Thompson

SPECIAL-INTEREST SPILLOVERS AND TOBACCO TAXATION pp. 146-157

Adam Hoffer

WIC PARTICIPATION AND MATERNAL BEHAVIOR: BREASTFEEDING AND WORK LEAVE pp. 158-172

Lindsey Rose Bullinger and Tami Gurley-Calvez

EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE AND JOB MOBILITY: DID THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT REDUCE JOB LOCK? pp. 173-183

James Bailey and Anna Chorniy

HAVE RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS RAISED ELECTRICITY RATES? EVIDENCE FROM U.S. ELECTRIC UTILITIES pp. 184-189

Constant I. Tra

IN TANDEM OR OUT OF SYNC? ACADEMIC ECONOMICS RESEARCH AND PUBLIC POLICY MEASURES pp. 190-202

Lea-Rachel Kosnik

EFFECTS OF THE SUNDAY SHOPPING RESTRICTION IN KOREA pp. 203-215

Yun Jeong Choi and Jinook Jeong