Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2025

Current editor(s): Brad R. Humphreys

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Volume 32, issue 4, 2014

LABOR MARKET IMPACTS OF SMOKING REGULATIONS ON THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY pp. 681-694

Tami Gurley-Calvez, George W. Hammond and Randall A. Childs

LOST IN TRANSLATION? TEACHER TRAINING AND OUTCOMES IN HIGH SCHOOL ECONOMICS CLASSES pp. 695-709

Robert Valletta, K. Jody Hoff and Jane S. Lopus

ATTITUDES TOWARD RISK AND SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS RELATED TO EDUCATIONAL LOANS pp. 710-718

Aurora Ortiz-Nuñez

INFORMATION AND THE DEMAND FOR CLEAN AIR pp. 719-728

Miles M. Finney

WELFARE REFORM AND CHILDREN'S EARLY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT pp. 729-751

Hau Chyi, Orgul Ozturk and Weilong Zhang

IS EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION BASED ON TOBACCO USE EFFICIENT? pp. 752-768

Ian Irvine and Hai V. Nguyen

MEASURING SOME EFFECTS OF THE 2011 DEBIT CARD INTERCHANGE FEE REFORM pp. 769-783

Oz Shy

FISCAL CONVERGENCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION BEFORE THE CRISIS pp. 784-801

Silvia Bertarelli, Roberto Censolo and Caterina Colombo

CENTRAL BANK STRATEGIC FORECASTING pp. 802-810

Sebastian Gomez-Barrero and Julián Parra-Polanía

THE IMPACT OF LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION ON HOUSEHOLD ENERGY INSECURITY pp. 811-825

Anthony G. Murray and Bradford Mills

SAVINGS INCENTIVES AND INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FEES: A STUDY OF THE 529 COLLEGE SAVINGS PLAN MARKET pp. 826-842

Vicki L. Bogan

CROSSING THE BORDER AND MIGRATION DURATION pp. 843-861

Michael A. Quinn

ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS AND KOREAN TRADE DYNAMICS pp. 862-877

Artatrana Ratha and Eungmin Kang

Contemporary Economic Policy 2013 Editor's Report pp. 878-884

Brad Humphreys

Volume 32, issue 3, 2014

COMMERCIAL REVITALIZATION IN LOW-INCOME URBAN COMMUNITIES: THE HOLDUP PROBLEM AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY pp. 545-559

Li Zhou

HOW ENDAs EXTEND THE WORKWEEK: LEGAL PROTECTION AND THE LABOR SUPPLY OF BEHAVIORALLY GAY MEN pp. 560-577

Michael Martell

MINIMUM WAGE EFFECTS ON PERMANENT VERSUS TEMPORARY MINIMUM WAGE EMPLOYMENT pp. 578-591

Michele Campolieti, Morley Gunderson and Byron Lee

TAXES, INCOME, AND RETIREMENT SAVINGS: DIFFERENCES BY PERMANENT AND TRANSITORY INCOME pp. 592-617

Bradley Heim and Ithai Z. Lurie

THE POST-ASIAN CRISIS DROP IN INVESTMENT: THE CASES OF INDONESIA, KOREA, MALAYSIA, AND THAILAND pp. 618-638

Tai-Kuang Ho and Kuo-Chun Yeh

RESTRICTING EMPLOYMENT OF LOW-PAID IMMIGRANTS: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE IMPLICATIONS FOR LEGAL U.S. WAGE-EARNERS pp. 639-652

Peter Dixon, Maureen Rimmer and Bryan W. Roberts

UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS' EMPLOYMENT ACROSS U.S. BUSINESS CYCLES pp. 653-670

J. David Brown, Şerife Genç İleri, Julie Hotchkiss and Myriam Quispe-Agnoli

EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION MANDATES AND THE LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES OF LIKELY UNAUTHORIZED AND NATIVE WORKERS pp. 671-680

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak

Volume 32, issue 2, 2014

SPORTS, EXERCISE, AND LENGTH OF STAY IN HOSPITALS: IS THERE A DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT FOR THE CHRONICALLY ILL PEOPLE? pp. 247-260

Nazmi Sari

HEALTH INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC OUTPUT IN REGIONAL CHINA pp. 261-274

Gang Chen, Brett Inder and Bruce Hollingsworth

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, BUT HOW ABOUT A RECESSION? pp. 275-287

Jeremy Arkes and Yu-Chu Shen

UNDERSTANDING MEASURES OF NONMARITAL FERTILITY: THE ROLES OF MARRIAGE AND ACCESS TO HUMAN CAPITAL pp. 288-305

Jo Anna Gray and Joe Stone

THE EFFECT OF WELFARE ASSET RULES ON AUTO OWNERSHIP, EMPLOYMENT, AND WELFARE PARTICIPATION: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS pp. 306-333

Lorien Rice and Cynthia Bansak

PERSISTENT EFFECTS OF TRANSITORY EXCHANGE RATE SHOCKS ON FIRM DYNAMICS pp. 334-350

Jen Baggs, Eugene Beaulieu and Loretta Fung

STRESS AND SMOKING: ASSOCIATIONS WITH TERRORISM AND CAUSAL IMPACT pp. 351-371

Michael Pesko

RIGHT ON TARGET: EXPLORING THE FACTORS LEADING TO INFLATION TARGETING ADOPTION pp. 372-389

Anna Samarina and Jakob de Haan

THE INSTABILITY IN THE MONETARY POLICY REACTION FUNCTION AND THE ESTIMATION OF MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS pp. 390-402

N Kishor and Monique Newiak

THE TWO-WAY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND CORRUPTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 403-419

Ratbek Dzhumashev

JUDGING BIAS IN COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC DEBATE: THE EFFECTS OF REGION, SIDE, AND SEX pp. 420-434

Clifford C. Henson and Paul R. Dorasil

SCALE EFFECT VERSUS INDUCED POLICY RESPONSE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE: THE CASE OF U.S. WATER POLLUTION pp. 435-450

Ching-Yao Irene Lai and C.C. Yang

REGULATORY DEALING: TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION VERSUS ENFORCEMENT STRINGENCY OF EMISSION TAXES pp. 451-473

Jessica Coria and Clara Villegas-Palacio

GENDER INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION IN CHINA: A META-REGRESSION ANALYSIS pp. 474-491

Junxia Zeng, Xiaopeng Pang, Linxiu Zhang, Alexis Medina and Scott Rozelle

DO POLITICS CAUSE REGIME SHIFTS IN MONETARY POLICY? pp. 492-502

Shiu-Sheng Chen and Chun-Chieh Wang

DO ACTIONS SPEAK AS LOUD AS WORDS? COMMITMENTS TO “GOING GREEN” ON CAMPUS pp. 503-519

Philip Sirianni and Michael O’hara

ESTIMATING PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE KOREAN ECONOMY WITHOUT RESTRICTIVE ASSUMPTIONS pp. 520-532

Sangho Kim

NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT UNDER MLB FINAL-OFFER SALARY ARBITRATION SYSTEM pp. 533-543

J. Richard Hill and Nicholas Jolly

Volume 32, issue 1, 2014

ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF THE WORLD: AN ACCOUNTING OF THE LITERATURE pp. 1-19

Joshua Hall and Robert Lawson

TRADE, STRUCTURAL REFORM, AND INSTITUTIONS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA pp. 20-29

Djeto Assane and Eric Chiang

ALL ECONOMIC FREEDOM IS NOT CREATED EQUAL: EVIDENCE FROM A GRAVITY MODEL pp. 30-41

Robert Sonora

ECONOMIC FREEDOM, SPORT POLICY, AND INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON pp. 42-55

Jane Ruseski and Katerina Maresova

ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS: EVIDENCE FROM THE STATES pp. 56-66

Lauren Heller and E. Frank Stephenson

ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND INCOME INEQUALITY REVISITED: EVIDENCE FROM A PANEL ERROR CORRECTION MODEL pp. 67-75

Nicholas Apergis, Oguzhan Dincer and James Payne

SCHOOL CHOICE: SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS pp. 76-92

David Brasington and Diane Hite

A WARM EMBRACE OR THE COLD SHOULDER? WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES IN ETHNIC ENCLAVES pp. 93-110

Roberto Pedace and Stephanie Rohn Kumar

ARE DISAGREEMENTS AMONG MALE AND FEMALE ECONOMISTS MARGINAL AT BEST?: A SURVEY OF AEA MEMBERS AND THEIR VIEWS ON ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY pp. 111-132

Ann Mari May, Mary G. McGarvey and Robert Whaples

HIRING FROM HIGH-RISK POPULATIONS: LESSONS FROM THE U.S. MILITARY pp. 133-143

Lauren Malone

STADIUM CONSTRUCTION AND MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ATTENDANCE pp. 144-154

Seth Gitter and Thomas Rhoads

BEAUTY AND PRODUCTIVITY: THE CASE OF THE LADIES PROFESSIONAL GOLF ASSOCIATION pp. 155-168

Seung Chan Ahn and Young Hoon Lee

TRACING THE EFFECTS OF GUARANTEED ADMISSION THROUGH THE COLLEGE PROCESS: EVIDENCE FROM A POLICY DISCONTINUITY IN THE TEXAS 10% PLAN pp. 169-186

Jason Fletcher and Adalbert Mayer

DO CHINESE UNIONS HAVE “REAL” EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION? pp. 187-202

Ying Ge

REGULATORY FORBEARANCE AND DEPOSITOR MARKET DISCIPLINE: EVIDENCE FROM SAVINGS BANKS IN KOREA pp. 203-218

Hyosoon Choi and Wook Sohn

SAVING ENERGY THROUGH BETTER INFORMATION: A NEW ENERGY PARADIGM? pp. 219-229

Mark Bernstein and Myles Collins

ASIA'S ROLE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE pp. 230-245

Masahiro Kawai and Peter Petri