Atlantic Economic Journal articles from December 1999

Atlantic Economic Journal archives from December 1999

BEST ARTICLE AWARD.
December 1, 1999... The Atlantic Economic Journal is proud to announce the winners of the Best Article Award for 1998, Edward J. Bierhanzl and Paul B. Downing of Florida A&M University and Florida State University, respectively. Their paper entitled, "User Charges...

An Artificial Intelligence Approach to the Role of Exports in the Economic Development of Malaysia.
December 1, 1999... S. ALI AHMADI [*] Over the past three decades, Malaysia has shown impressive economic growth, placing this country in a group of fast-growing Southeast Asian economies and among the top performing economies in the world. This achievement...

Criteria for Contracting-Out Decisions When Contractors Can Deceive.
December 1, 1999... JONAS PRAGER [*] This paper presents a decision rule for contracting out that explicitly takes into account the possibility of contractor deception. In the model presented here, the contracting agency opts to contract out only when the...

Gun Lobbies and Gun Control: Senate Voting Patterns on the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban.
December 1, 1999... LEO H. KAHANE [*] This paper uses an econometric model to analyze the political and economic factors affecting the Senate voting patterns on the 1993 Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban. Results of a logit estimation procedure support...

Quality Choice: Does It Matter Which Workers Own and Manage the Cooperative Firm?
December 1, 1999... IRA HOROWITZ [*] The information age and the spread of information technology has implications for organizational structure. Accordingly, the age-old issues of product and service quality are put into a new perspective. It is this new...

Effects of Birth Spacing and Timing on Mothers' Labor Force Participation.
December 1, 1999... JING JIAN XIAO [*] Data from the March 1991 Current Population Survey [Bureau of the Census, 1992] were used to investigate the effects of children on single and married mothers' labor force participation decisions. Logit results indicated...

Cointegration and Causality Between Fertility and Female Labor Participation in Taiwan: A Multivariate Approach.
December 1, 1999... BENJAMIN S. CHENG [*] Applying Hsiao's version of Granger causality, this paper uncovers no causality from fertility to female labor participation and fails to find the expected relationship that female labor participation negatively...

Treasury Bill Rates and Treasury Cash Reserves.
December 1, 1999... WILLIAM GISSY [*] Recent studies have observed that, on a monthly basis, net Treasury borrowing and the budget deficit often move in opposite directions. Whether this pattern of behavior is due to chronic miscalculations or results from a...

Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights and Product versus Process Innovations.
December 1, 1999... SHARMILA VISHWASRAO [*] The incentives of southern governments to protect process and product patents are examined in a game with endogenous research and development and licensing. Patent protection results in the licensing of...

The Influence of Instructor Gender on Learning and Instructor Ratings.
December 1, 1999... PHILLIP SAUNDERS [*] This paper uses two large databases to determine if students of a given gender learn more from instructors of the same gender and if instructors of a given gender receive higher ratings from students of the same gender...

Economics and the Law from Posner to Post-Modernism.
December 1, 1999... This overview presents the core elements of the different perspectives on the varied traditions within law and economics. One perspective considers what economics has to offer the law. This includes the microeconomic analytic framework based on...

Tax Structure and Welfare in a Model with Human Capital.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Quantitative assessments of tax reforms in endogenous growth models with human capital accumulation are relatively recent. These studies concentrate on the relationship between tax rates and long-run growth. This paper, instead, considers the...