Scottish Journal of Political Economy

1954 - 2025

Current editor(s): Tim Barmby, Andrew Hughes-Hallett and Campbell Leith

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Volume 51, issue 5, 2004

We Can Work It Out: The Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low‐Skill Workers pp. 581-608

Alan Manning

The Incidence and Intensity of Employer Funded Training: Australian Evidence on the Impact of Flexible Work pp. 609-625

Mirko Draca and Colin Green

Market Power, Multinationality and Intra‐Eu Industry Exports in the 90s pp. 626-640

Peter Egger

Hybrid Inflation‐Price‐Level Targeting in an Economy With Output Persistence pp. 641-653

Teruyoshi Kobayashi

Wage Flexibility and Unemployment: The Keynesian Perspective Revisited pp. 654-674

Mario Amendola, Jean-Luc Gaffard and Francesco Saraceno

Pricing Personal Services: An Empirical Study of Earnings in the UK Prostitution Industry pp. 675-690

Peter Moffatt and Simon A. Peters

Is There a Trade‐Off Between Inflation Variability and Output‐Gap Variability in the EMU Countries? pp. 691-706

Philip Arestis and Kostas Mouratidis

Welfare, Growth and Environment: A Sceptical Review of the Skeptical Environmentalist by B. Lomborg pp. 707-717

Felix FitzRoy and Ian Smith

Volume 51, issue 4, 2004

CREDIBILITY, MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS AND MARKOV REGIME SWITCHES IN THE EMS pp. 453-476

Nicholas Sarantis and Sylviane Piard

UNIONS AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH IN BRITISH WORKPLACES DURING THE 1990S: A PANEL ANALYSIS pp. 477-506

Alex Bryson

MARGINAL DETERRENCE THROUGH AMBIENT ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTIONS pp. 507-527

Laurent Franckx

INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ITS EFFECT ON TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN MANUFACTURING PLANTS, 1990–1998 pp. 528-543

Richard Harris and Catherine Robinson

IS THE VIEW FROM THE EUROTOWER PURELY EUROPEAN? – NATIONAL DIVERGENCE AND ECB INTEREST RATE POLICY pp. 544-558

Friedrich Heinemann and Felix Huefner

BANKING LICENCES, BAILOUTS AND REGULATOR ABILITY pp. 559-579

Alan Morrison

Volume 51, issue 3, 2004

EXPLAINING ATTITUDES TOWARDS AMBIGUITY: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE COMPARATIVE IGNORANCE HYPOTHESIS pp. 281-301

Paul Dolan and Martin Jones

THE CHANGING LIFE CYCLE PATTERN IN FEMALE EMPLOYMENT: A COMPARISON OF GERMANY AND THE UK pp. 302-328

Bernd Fitzenberger and Gaby Wunderlich

JOB MOBILITY IN BRITAIN: ARE THE SCOTS DIFFERENT? EVIDENCE FROM THE BHPS pp. 329-358

Axel Heitmueller

REVENUE DIVERGENCE AND COMPETITIVE BALANCE IN A DIVISIONAL SPORTS LEAGUE pp. 359-376

Stephen Dobson and John Goddard

UNEMPLOYMENT, HYSTERESIS AND TRANSITION pp. 377-401

Miguel A. León‐Ledesma and Peter McAdam

JOB REALLOCATION, EMPLOYMENT CHANGE AND AVERAGE JOB TENURE: THEORY AND WORKPLACE EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA pp. 402-421

Karen Mumford and Peter Smith

FINANCIAL MARKET INTEGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLE VOLATILITY IN A MONETARY UNION pp. 422-442

Christian Pierdzioch

RE‐ESTIMATING FEMALE DOMESTIC WORK: BASED ON THE BRITISH SURVEY EVIDENCE FROM 1986–7 pp. 443-449

Prodromos Prodromidis

BOOK REVIEW pp. 450-451

Atanas Christev and Felix FitzRoy

Volume 51, issue 2, 2004

The Economics of Education: Special Issue Editorial pp. 151-155

Steve Bradley and Jim Taylor

What if there are no ‘best practices’? pp. 156-172

Eric Hanushek

Stratified or Comprehensive? The Economic Efficiency of School Design pp. 173-193

Giorgio Brunello and Massimo Giannini

High School Graduation in Australia: Do Schools Matter? pp. 194-208

Anh Le and Paul Miller

Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14–16 Gender Gap in English Schools pp. 209-229

Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson

Educational Inequality and the Expansion of UK Higher Education pp. 230-249

Joanne Blanden and Stephen Machin

Degree performance of Economics students in UK universities: absolute and relative performance in prior qualifications pp. 250-265

Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

The Labour Market Impact of Adult Education and Training: A Cohort Analysis pp. 266-280

Anna Vignoles, Fernando Galindo‐Rueda and Leon Feinstein

Volume 51, issue 1, 2004

Competition and Costs: Evidence from Competitive Tendering in the Scottish National Health Service pp. 1-23

Robin Milne and Robert Wright

A Permanent Change in the Route to Owner Occupation? pp. 24-48

Mark Andrew

Multinationals and Training: Some Evidence from Irish Manufacturing Industries pp. 49-61

Frank Barry, Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

The Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on UK Exports to EU Countries pp. 62-81

Glauco De vita and Andrew Abbott

The Impact of Computer Use On Earnings in the UK pp. 82-94

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani, J.M. Emami and A. Marin

Ricardian Consumers With Non‐Keynesian (And Possibly Ricardian) Propensities pp. 95-104

James Pemberton

Model Uncertainty, Optimal Monetary Policy and the Preferences of the Fed pp. 105-126

Efrem Castelnuovo and Paolo Surico

Productive Efficiency and Salary Distribution: The Case of US Major League Baseball pp. 127-142

R. Todd Jewell and David J. Molina

Micro‐Level Data Sources for Scottish Policy Studies pp. 143-147

David N. F. Bell, Gregor Jack and Robert Wright

Book Review pp. 148-149

Felix FitzRoy

Volume 50, issue 5, 2003

‘Policy Rules–the Next Steps’–Scottish Journal of Political Economy Special Issue pp. i-iii

Jagjit Chadha, Vito Muscatelli and Charles Nolan

Persistence, The Transmission Mechanism And Robust Monetary Policy pp. 527-549

Ignazio Angeloni, Günter Coenen and Frank Smets

Friedman's Money Supply Rule vs. Optimal Interest Rate Policy pp. 550-566

George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja

Some implications for monetary policy of uncertain exchange rate pass‐through pp. 567-584

Benjamin Hunt and Peter Isard

The Exchange Rate and Inflation in the UK pp. 585-608

Amit Kara and Edward Nelson

What Can We Learn from the Current Crisis in Argentina? pp. 609-633

Timothy Kehoe

Is The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level Learnable? pp. 634-649

Bennett McCallum

Optimal monetary policy: is price‐level targeting the next step? pp. 650-667

A. Patrick Minford and David Peel

Volume 50, issue 4, 2003

Asymmetric output‐gap effects in Phillips Curve and mark‐up pricing models: Evidence for the US and the UK pp. 359-374

Michael Clements and Marianne Sensier

Inflation and Investment pp. 375-397

Jakob Madsen

Endogenous Money: An Analytical Approach pp. 398-416

Giuseppe Fontana and Ezio Venturino

R&D, Imperfect Competition and Growth with Human Capital Accumulation pp. 417-439

Alberto Bucci

What goes up sometimes stays up: shocks and institutions as determinants of unemployment persistence pp. 440-470

Gianni Amisano and Massimiliano Serati

Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages pp. 471-491

Olaf Hübler and Uwe Jirjahn

Earnings, Education, and Fixed‐Term Contracts pp. 492-506

Sarah Brown and John Sessions

The Political Feasibility of Privatizing Old‐Age Insurance pp. 507-525

Georg Hirte

Volume 50, issue 3, 2003

Dollar‐Deutschemark Polarisation: Comparing The Pound And Franc pp. 217-231

James Forder and Stan Hurn

Have output growth rates stabilised? evidence from the g‐7 economies pp. 232-246

Terence C. Mills and Ping Wang

Why exporting countries agree to voluntary export restraints: the oligopolistic power of the foreign supplier pp. 247-263

Roberto De Santis

Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in the UK pp. 264-290

Roy Thurik

Ricardo on Agricultural Improvements: a Note pp. 291-296

Christian Gehrke, Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori

‘Independence’ and the founding of the Federal Reserve pp. 297-310

James Forder

The Influence of Economists On the Federal Reserve Act pp. 311-325

Barbara Caporale

Measuring central bank independence: a latent variables approach pp. 326-340

Jakob de Haan, Erik Leertouwer, Erik Meijer and Tom Wansbeek

China: Further Evidence on the Evolution of Stock Markets in Transition Economies pp. 341-358

Xiao-Ming Li

Volume 50, issue 2, 2003

Editors Introduction pp. 111-112

Nick Hanley and James Shortle

Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability:A Taxonomy Of Assumptions And Results pp. 113-130

Geir Asheim

A Paleoeconomic Theory of Co‐Evolution and Extinction of Domesticable Animals pp. 131-148

Richard Horan, Jason Shogren and Erwin Bulte

Quantifying Central Hypotheses on Environmental Kuznets Curves for a Rich Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium Study pp. 149-173

Annegrete Bruvoll, Taran Fæhn and Birger Strøm

Single or double bounded contingent valuation? A Bayesian test pp. 174-188

Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Carmelo J. León

Estimating Households’ Preferences for Environmental Amenities Using Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions pp. 189-206

JunJie Wu and Seong-Hoon Cho

Crop Genetic Diversity, Productivity and Stability of Agroecosystems. A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation pp. 207-216

Salvatore Di Falco and Charles Perrings

Volume 50, issue 1, 2003

The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work? pp. 1-16

Felix Büchel and Harminder Battu

Beyond the Sovereign Debt Crisis: Alternative Forms of Market‐Based Debt Restructuring Schemes pp. 17-40

Luisa Corrado

No Credit for Transition: European Institutions and German Unemployment pp. 41-60

Edward Driffill and Marcus Miller

Central Bankers and Central Bank Independence pp. 61-68

Miroslav Beblavý

Another Piece in the Feldstein — Horioka Puzzle pp. 69-89

Andrew J. Abbott and Glauco De Vita

Public Investment Rules and Endogenous Growth with Empirical Evidence From Canada pp. 90-110

Sarantis Kalyvitis