Atlantic Economic Journal articles from December 2002

Atlantic Economic Journal archives from December 2002

Atlantic Economic Journal Best Article Award.
December 1, 2002... The Atlantic Economic Journal is proud to announce that the winner of the Best Article Award for 2001 is Abdiweli M. Ali of Harvard University. His paper entitled, "Political Instability, Policy Uncertainty, and Economic Growth: An Empirical...

Transparency in monetary policy.
December 1, 2002... Introduction Transparency of monetary policy can be defined as a continuous flow of information from the monetary authority to the public about the policy objectives, the central bankers' preferences as regards trade-offs, their...

Public capital formation and labor productivity growth in Mexico.
December 1, 2002... Introduction The demise of Import-Substitution Industrialization (151) in Latin America has led many countries of the region to adopt an outward-oriented, market-based strategy of economic growth and development. Chile was the first major...

A rationale for meeting quotas asymmetrically.
December 1, 2002... Introduction In the literature on quotas, there seems to be a dearth of detailed empirical investigation of how quotas are met by individual firms. The authors offer theoretical reasons why this void should be filled and suggestions how it...

Asymmetric effects of inflation shocks on inflation uncertainty.
December 1, 2002... Introduction A growing body of work shows that contractionary, or dis-inflationary, monetary shocks have greater effect on output than equivalently sized positive shocks. The roots of this work can be found in Friedman and Schwartz' [1963]...

Jurisdictional competition for quality standards: competition of laxity?
December 1, 2002... Introduction It has recently been argued that competition among decentralized governments generally leads to problems of market failure as long as governments are bound to the so called selection principle, that is, only engage in...

A comparison of rents and producer surplus when industry input supply functions are interdependent.
December 1, 2002... Introduction The term producer surplus conventionally has been used to refer to the area above the competitive industry supply curve for output and below the equilibrium output price. In the long run, economic profits are zero. Hence, for...

Net interstate population growth rates and the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis: new empirical evidence, 1990-2000.(United States)
December 1, 2002... Introduction There is a rich literature dealing with the determinants of geographic mobility and regional population growth rate differentials in the United States (see Greenwood [1975] and Cebula [1979] for surveys of earlier-period...

Russia's second shift: is housework hurting women's wages?
December 1, 2002... Introduction For nearly five decades, postwar programs in the Soviet Union offered women equal education and employment opportunities. Since all able-bodied men and women were required by law to be employed, women, not surprisingly,...

Winners, Losers, and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology.
December 1, 2002... Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, 1999, PP. 288 Introduction The antitrust suit against Microsoft Corporation (MS) is proving to be one of the most important antitrust cases in history. The decisions made on the various issues...

The fuzzy math on butterfly ballots and the Buchanan vote. (Anthology).(Pat Buchanan and Palm Beach County, Florida's butterfly ballot in the November 7, 2000 presidential election)
December 1, 2002... At the core of the Democrats' challenge to the November 7, 2000 election results in Florida was the ballot design for Palm Beach County. The butterfly ballot was said to easily confuse voters. On such a ballot there are two columns of...

Preliminary evidence on unbundled elements demand in local telephony. (Anthology).
December 1, 2002... The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent local exchange carriers to offer elements of their networks to competitors to promote competition in monopoly markets. Prices for these elements are set by state regulatory commissions based...