Atlantic Economic Journal articles from December 2004

Atlantic Economic Journal archives from December 2004

Monetary policy and EMU enlargement: the adoption of the euro.(Economic and Monetary Union)
December 1, 2004... On May 1, 2004, in the fifth enlargement round, ten more countries, (1) eight of which are from central and eastern Europe, became members of the European Union (EU). (2) The final monetary objective of EU accession and, indeed, a treaty...

The ERM II issues: an interpretation of the Slovenian approach.(Enterprise Resource Management )
December 1, 2004... Introduction On the May 1, 2004, Slovenia joined the European Union. As with all the new accession states, it entered the EU with a derogation clause, the commitment to eventually adopt the euro for its domestic currency. While the...

Poland and the euro zone enlargement: monetary policy, ERM II, and other issues.(Enterprise Resource Management )
December 1, 2004... Introduction Together with nine other countries Poland joined the European Union in May 2004. On the one hand, this event can be seen as a corollary of the success of Poland's 15-year transition from a planned economy to a market system....

Monetary policy and EMU enlargement: issues regarding ERM II and adoption of the euro in Estonia.(Economic and Monetary Union and Enterprise Resource Management )
December 1, 2004... Official Position on Membership in ERM II and the Euro Adoption Estonian authorities have declared that Estonia seeks to join the European Economic and Monetary Union as soon as possible, with the goal of being technically prepared to adopt...

Adoption of the euro: why is the Czech approach cautious?(analysis of Czech Republic's economic policy)
December 1, 2004... Convergence Criteria In May 2004, the Czech Republic became a new member of the European Union (EU). The celebrations will be short for Czech policymakers, since there is no time to rest. Now that the Copenhagen criteria have been...

A theory of reciprocal gifts.(research)
December 1, 2004... Introduction Gift giving and gift receiving are features of traditional as well as modern societies. Gifts are regularly exchanged during business transactions, weddings, birthdays, baby showers, farewell parties, and many other occasions....

Empirical estimation of agglomeration economies associated with research facilities.(research on regional development)
December 1, 2004... Introduction Locating a large firm or facility in a region can fuel economic development through three main avenues. The effects most discussed in the economic literature are the direct and indirect impacts. The direct impacts stem from...

English mercantilist influences on the foundation of the Portuguese School of Commerce in 1759.(analysis of commercial education)
December 1, 2004... Introduction This paper examines an instance of the transfer of ideas for the development of commercial education in mercantilist 18th century Western Europe. The authors explore the source of the educational know-how embodied in the...

Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds.(book)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of funds Thomas Getzen, 2004, pp. 464 Introduction Healthcare has increased its share of U.S. GDP from 5.7 percent in 1929 to 14.7 percent in 2002 [Getzen, p. 7]. Given the increasing number...

Learning style appropriate study methods the benefits of awareness.(Anthology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The author has discovered that few economic students are aware of their learning style, causing inefficient employment of study methods. To solve the problem of learning style awareness, the author prepared and presented an 80-minute lecture on...

Pricing default risk premium through fear of ruin.(Anthology)
December 1, 2004... Pricing the default risk premium is becoming a growing compelling challenge for every risk financial manager. The worldwide explosion of credit derivative products like Credit Default Swaps makes evidence on this fact. According to the...

An analysis of infant mortality rates in the U.S.(Anthology)
December 1, 2004... For individual groups and nations, there is abundant evidence of a strong quantitative association between measures of economic status and a variety of health outcomes, such as mortality and morbidity [J.P. Smith, Journal of Economic...

Health care expenditures in Africa: an econometric analysis.(Anthology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... This paper empirically identifies some of the determinants of health care expenditure, in African countries, using the most recent available cross-sectional data. While there have been many econometric investigations of health care expenditure...

eBay prices vs. book prices: the market for baseball cards.(Anthology)
December 1, 2004... The market for individual baseball cards is unique, being completely a secondary market. Although there are several companies selling baseball cards, they are sold in packs. Cards of particular value are inserted randomly into these packs. The...

A new test for moral hazard and hit batsmen.(Anthology)(ethical aspects of designated hitters and pitchers)
December 1, 2004... Goff, Shughart, and Tollison (GST) [Economic Inquiry, 1997] argue that the introduction of the designated hitter (DH) into the American League (AL) created the potential for moral hazard by AL pitchers who would no longer bat and would,...