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Atlantic Economic Journal archives from December 2000
BEST ARTICLE AWARD.
December 1, 2000... The Atlantic Economic Journal is proud to announce that the winner of the Best Article Award for 1999 is Kevin D. Frick of Johns Hopkins University. His paper entitled, "Cross Product Subsidization in the Health Insurance Market with Managed...
Generalized Purchasing Power Parity and the Case of the European Union as a Successful Currency Area.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... DAVID J. BERNSTEIN [*]
This article uses multicountry purchasing power parity (PPP) tests to study the success of the European monetary system (EMS) in creating a successful currency area for a stable European monetary union. If the EMS...
Volatility Behavior of Exchange Rate Future Contracts.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... REZA SAIDI [*]
The increasing globalization of economies and the concurrent increase in the risk of currency exposure has stimulated the development of new instruments to allow both investors and traders to hedge their currency risk. The...
Export Performance and Economic Growth Causality: An Empirical Analysis.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... MANUCHEHR IRANDOUST [*]
The cointegration and causal relationship between export growth and economic growth is investigated for the Nordic economies. On the basis of Johansen's technique and the augmented Granger causality tests, the...
Monetary Basis of Trade Imbalance.
December 1, 2000... JONATHAN C. SAMPSON [*]
The purpose of this paper is to lay simple yet elegant, formal microeconomic foundations for the theory that monetary policy is a principal determinant of international trade imbalance. Foreign exchange is a...
The Impact of Sectoral Shifts in Investment on Unemployment in U.S. Labor Markets.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... PAUL R. BLACKLEY [*]
Capital stock data for the U.S. economy are used to develop a measure of sectoral shifts in productive resources. Within the context of the creative destruction process, this measure provides a direct indicator of...
Nonprice Rivalry Among Health Insurers and Coverage of New Technologies.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... NEIL R. POWE [*]
This paper develops a multiple-period theoretical model of health maintenance organization (HMO) coverage of medical procedures as a function of HMO competition and a market's predisposition toward managed care. Previous...
U.S. Petroleum Consumption Behavior and Oil Price Uncertainty: Tests of Cointegration and Parameter Instability.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... A. C. ARIZE [*]
This study utilizes cointegration theory to correctly characterize U.S. petroleum consumption behavior. Initial estimates show the absence of any long-run, unique relationship among petroleum consumption, real income, and...
Advance Notice of Real-Time Electricity Prices.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... PETER M. SCHWARZ [*]
Many utilities are offering real-time pricing (RTP) to their large industrial customers. Under RTP, hourly rates change with real-time supply and demand. As compared to fixed rates, RTP shifts price risk from the...
Information-Type Goods and the New Paradigm Economy.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... A standard economic analysis of the supply side of the economy is based on the following assumptions:
1) The technology used in production displays (eventually) decreasing returns to scale. That is, an increase in the amount of inputs used...
Economic Education and Economic Growth.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Throughout much of the discipline's history, formal training in economics was available only to those able to attend college. Slowly, as the benefits of an economically literate citizenry became apparent, economic education filtered down into...
A Characteristic Exponent Test for the Cauchy Distribution.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Mandelbrot-Levy distributions are a family of infinite-variance distributions without explicit analytical expressions, except for special cases. Limiting distributions include the normal, with finite variance, and the Cauchy, with the most...
Is Transitory Consumption Really Independent of Transitory Income?(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... DAVID J. SMYTH [*]
JAMES M. HOLMES [**]
JOSHY Z. EASAW [*]
A key element of Milton Friedman's permanent income theory of the consumption function is that transitory consumption does not depend on transitory income. This paper...
New Evidence on Fare and Income Elasticity of the U.S. Airline Industry.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Post-deregulation research in the airline industry has focused on mergers, concentration, market power [Hergott, Review of Industrial Organization, 1997; Kim and Singal, American Economic Review, 1993; Liu and Lynk, Applied Economics, 1999],...
Splines, Tigers, and Economic Growth.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The empirical findings for a cross-section of about 100 countries strongly support Robert J. Barro's belief [Determinants of Economic Growth, 1998] that a higher (lower) starting level of per capita output implies a lower (higher) per capita...