Scottish Journal of Political Economy

1954 - 2025

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

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Volume 55, issue 5, 2008

HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING, PUBLIC DEBT AND BALANCED BUDGET RULES pp. 543-560

Bernd Huber and Marco Runkel

UNEMPLOYMENT, LABOR MARKET TRANSITIONS, AND RESIDUAL WAGE DISPERSION pp. 561-590

Bernd Fitzenberger and Alfred Garloff

SYNCHRONISING DEREGULATION IN PRODUCT AND LABOUR MARKETS pp. 591-617

Jo Seldeslachts

‘BRAIN DRAIN’ OR ‘BRAIN CIRCULATION’: EVIDENCE FROM OECD'S INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND R&D SPILLOVERS pp. 618-636

Thanh Le

ASSESSING THE ASSESSMENT OR, THE RAE AND THE OPTIMAL ORGANIZATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH pp. 637-653

Manfredi M. A. La Manna

A META‐ANALYSIS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 654-682

Laura de Dominicis, Raymond Florax and Henri de Groot

Volume 55, issue 4, 2008

SIX WAYS TO LEAVE UNEMPLOYMENT pp. 393-419

Pedro Portugal and John Addison

OCCUPATIONAL AND INDUSTRY SPECIFICITY OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE BRITISH LABOUR MARKET pp. 420-443

Alexandros Zangelidis

FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS, GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT, AND FIRM SURVIVAL IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: EVIDENCE FROM MICRO DATA pp. 444-464

Sarah Bridges and Alessandra Guariglia

FOOL THE MARKETS? CREATIVE ACCOUNTING, FISCAL TRANSPARENCY AND SOVEREIGN RISK PREMIA pp. 465-487

Kerstin Bernoth and Guntram Wolff

UNBALANCED SCHEDULES AND THE ESTIMATION OF COMPETITIVE BALANCE IN THE SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE pp. 488-508

Liam Lenten

CROSS‐COUNTRY EVIDENCE ON OUTPUT GROWTH VOLATILITY: NONSTATIONARY VARIANCE AND GARCH MODELS pp. 509-541

WenShwo Fang, Stephen Miller and ChunShen Lee

Volume 55, issue 3, 2008

INFORMAL CENTRAL BANK INDEPENDENCE: AN ANALYSIS FOR THREE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 251-280

David Cobham, Stefania Cosci and Fabrizio Mattesini

UNEMPLOYMENT PERSISTENCE AND THE NAIRU: A BAYESIAN APPROACH pp. 281-299

Tino Berger and Gerdie Everaert

INTEREST RATE RULES AND WELFARE IN OPEN ECONOMIES pp. 300-329

Ozge Senay

BIASED TECHNOLOGICAL SHOCKS, RELATIVE WAGE RIGIDITIES AND LOW‐SKILLED UNEMPLOYMENT pp. 330-352

Olivier Pierrard and Henri Sneessens

OVERINVESTMENT IN TEAM SPORTS LEAGUES: A CONTEST THEORY MODEL pp. 353-368

Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Markus Lang

THE (IR)RELEVANCE OF THE NRU FOR POLICY MAKING: THE CASE OF DENMARK pp. 369-392

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Pablo Salvador

Volume 55, issue 2, 2008

HOW MUCH DO VOTERS KNOW? AN ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION AND POLITICAL AWARENESS pp. 123-142

Philip Jones and Peter Dawson

GOVERNMENT CONSUMPTION AND THE COMPOSITION OF PRIVATE EXPENDITURE: A CONDITIONAL ERROR CORRECTION MODEL pp. 143-166

David Aristei and Luca Pieroni

OVERTIME WORK AS A SIGNALING DEVICE† pp. 167-189

Silke Anger

EXPORTING AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS PLANTS pp. 190-209

Meng-Wen Tsou, Jin-Tan Liu, James Hammitt and Kuang‐Hsien Wang

OPTIMAL GROWTH, GENUINE SAVINGS AND LONG‐RUN DYNAMICS pp. 210-226

Simone Valente

CONSUMPTION AND LEISURE EXTERNALITIES, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EQUILIBRIUM EFFICIENCY pp. 227-249

Manuel Gómez

Volume 55, issue 1, 2008

MONETARY POLICY WITH A WIDER INFORMATION SET: A BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING APPROACH pp. 1-30

Fabio Milani

THIRD PARTIES, INFORMATION DISCLOSURE AND MONITORING INCENTIVES pp. 31-50

Anna Maria Menichini

A RE‐EXAMINATION OF PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS AND EFFICIENCY ESTIMATES FOR THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION pp. 51-66

Young Hoon Lee and David Berri

TRAINING, JOB SECURITY AND INCENTIVE WAGES pp. 67-78

Margarita Katsimi

PUBLIC DEBT MATURITY AND CURRENCY CRISES pp. 79-106

Paul Levine, Alex (Alexandros) Mandilaras and Jun Wang

THE NUMBER OF FIRMS AND THE POLITICS OF STRATEGIC TRADE POLICY pp. 107-122

Koichi Kagitani

Volume 54, issue 5, 2007

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE pp. 601-605

Jonathan Thomas

THREE SOLITUDES IN CONTRACT: LAW, DATA, AND THEORY pp. 606-616

W. Bentley Macleod

REAL WAGE CYCLICALITY IN THE PANEL STUDY OF INCOME DYNAMICS pp. 617-647

Eric Swanson

NEW EVIDENCE ON REAL WAGE CYCLICALITY WITHIN EMPLOYER–EMPLOYEE MATCHES pp. 648-660

Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon

THE SPOT MARKET MATTERS: EVIDENCE ON IMPLICIT CONTRACTS FROM BRITAIN pp. 661-683

Paul Devereux and Robert Hart

HETEROGENEITY IN REAL WAGE CYCLICALITY pp. 684-698

Pedro Martins

WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT DETERMINATION THROUGH NON‐COOPERATIVE BARGAINING pp. 699-720

Kevin Roberts

STABLE SETS AND STEADY WAGES pp. 721-730

John Moore

ON EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS WITH ENDOGENOUS ON‐THE‐JOB SEARCH pp. 731-749

Francis Kiraly

LIMITED COMMITMENT MODELS OF THE LABOUR MARKET pp. 750-773

Jonathan Thomas and Timothy Worrall

Volume 54, issue 4, 2007

MANAGEMENT BUYOUTS, SUPERVISION AND EMPLOYEE DISCRETION pp. 447-474

Kevin Amess, Sarah Brown and Steve Thompson

OUTPUT AND INFLATION IN MODELS OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE WITH NOMINAL RIGIDITIES: FURTHER COUNTERFACTUAL IMPLICATIONS pp. 475-491

Juan Páez‐Farrell

OPTIMAL IMPLEMENTATION DELAYS: WHEN SHOULD POLICIES BE ANNOUNCED? pp. 492-507

Christian Jensen

INEQUALITY AND GROWTH: FROM MICRO THEORY TO MACRO EMPIRICS pp. 508-530

Niko Gobbin, Glenn Rayp and Dirk Van de gaer

OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS, WAGES, AND JOB MOBILITY IN GERMANY pp. 531-552

Birgitta Rabe

IMPACT OF THE MINIMUM WAGE ON THE INCIDENCE OF SECOND JOB HOLDING IN BRITAIN pp. 553-574

Helen Robinson and Jonathan Wadsworth

KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES, GROWTH, AND DISTRIBUTION pp. 575-600

Christopher Tsoukis

Volume 54, issue 3, 2007

ECONOMICS OF SPORT: EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION pp. 309-313

John Vrooman

THEORY OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME: THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPEAN FOOTBALL pp. 314-354

John Vrooman

THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND THE COASE THEOREM pp. 355-373

Stefan Szymanski

RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND PRO SPORTS LEAGUES pp. 374-387

Rodney Fort and James Quirk

THE PECULIAR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL IN EUROPE pp. 388-399

Stefan Kesenne

BROADCASTING AND TEAM SPORTS pp. 400-421

Roger Noll

THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS' LABOR MARKET: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MAJOR EUROPEAN LEAGUES pp. 422-446

Bernd Frick

Volume 54, issue 2, 2007

THE CASE FOR PAY‐AS‐YOU‐GO PENSIONS IN A SERVICE ECONOMY pp. 151-165

Bas van Groezen, Lex Meijdam and Harrie A. A. Verbon

THE SCOTS MAY BE BRAVE BUT THEY ARE NEITHER HEALTHY NOR HAPPY pp. 166-194

David Bell and David Blanchflower

MONEY, SEX AND RELIGION: THE CASE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND pp. 195-219

Ian Smith, John Sawkins and Robert I. Mochrie

ENDOGENOUS ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE STRUCTURE OF PRODUCTION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE pp. 220-253

Kwok Tong Soo

FINANCIAL LIBERALISATION, CONSUMPTION AND WEALTH EFFECTS IN SEVEN OECD COUNTRIES pp. 254-267

Ray Barrell and E Davis

MONETARY POLICY IN EMU WITH ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSION AND NON‐TRADABLE GOODS pp. 268-282

Daniel Gros and Carsten Hefeker

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BLACK MARKET AND OFFICIAL EXCHANGE RATES: AN EXAMINATION OF LONG‐RUN DYNAMICS IN INDIA pp. 283-294

Jim Love and Ramesh Chandra

DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY: ROBUST RULES IN MONETARY POLICY pp. 295-307

Maria Demertzis and Alexander Tieman

Volume 54, issue 1, 2007

ON THE USE OF PANEL DATA METHODS TO ESTIMATE RATIONAL ADDICTION MODELS pp. 1-18

Badi Baltagi

INACTIVITY AND LABOUR MARKET ATTACHMENT IN BRITAIN pp. 19-54

Allan Little

IS THE COST OF DEBT CAPITAL HIGHER FOR YOUNGER FIRMS? pp. 55-71

Ari Hyytinen and Mika Pajarinen

SHORT‐TERM CONTRACTS REGULATIONS AND DYNAMIC LABOUR DEMAND: THEORY AND EVIDENCE pp. 72-104

Luca Nunziata and Stefano Staffolani

JOINING EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION: A REAL OPTIONS PERSPECTIVE pp. 105-115

Frank Strobel

FISCAL INDULGENCE IN CENTRAL EUROPE: LOSS OF THE EXTERNAL ANCHOR? pp. 116-135

Helge Berger, George Kopits and Istvan P Szekely

A NOTE ON NEGATIVE ELECTORAL ADVERTISING: DENIGRATING CHARACTER VS. PORTRAYING EXTREMISM pp. 136-149

Subhadip Chakrabarti