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Atlantic Economic Journal articles from December 2005
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Atlantic Economic Journal archives from December 2005
Best article award.(Eric J. Solberg of California State University)
December 1, 2005... The Atlantic Economic Journal is proud to announce that the winner of the Best Article Award for 2004 is Eric J. Solberg of California State University, Fullerton. His paper entitled, "Occupational Assignment, Hiring Discrimination, and the...
Some reflections on the interactions between the Bank of England's forecasts and the MPC's policy decisions.(Monetary Policy Committee)
December 1, 2005... The purpose of this paper is to precis a couple of current research studies, which relate to the interaction between forecasts, the policy response to those forecasts by the Bank of England and the Monetary Policy Committee, and outcomes. Most...
Empirical studies of foreign direct investment.
December 1, 2005... Over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have grown at remarkable rates, with outflows averaging over 28 percent a year from 1991 to 2000 alone [UNCTAD, 2004], greatly outpacing growth of exports. Though there has been a...
A review of the empirical literature on FDI determinants.(foreign direct investment)
December 1, 2005... Introduction
It is well known that the growth of multinational enterprise (MNE) activity in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown at a faster rate than most other international transactions, particularly trade flows between...
"Following" or "attracting" the customer? Japanese banking FDI in Europe.(foreign direct investment)
December 1, 2005... Introduction
Much of the recent expansion of global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is the result of an increase in services--rather than manufacturing-related investment. As a result, a growing literature has arisen investigating...
Are regional concentrations of OECD exports and outward FDI consistent with gravity?
December 1, 2005... Introduction
Globalization is a concept that has swept the academic and business communities. It is believed by most that the world's leading corporations operate globally on a large scale. This perception is widely held in the academic...
International technology diffusion: effects of trade and FDI.
December 1, 2005... Introduction
Recent theories of economic growth refer to endogenous technological improvement as the driving force of the growth process as opposed to neoclassical models where capital accumulation is emphasized [Romer, 1990, pp. $71-102]....
Poverty: insurance theory and the medically uninsured.
December 1, 2005... Introduction
Allegedly the following exchange occurred. "You know, Ernest, the rich are different from us," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Yes, I know. They have more money than we do," responded Ernest Hemingway [Samuelson and Nordhaus,...
Inflation and structural change in 50 developing countries.
December 1, 2005... Introduction
During the last 20 years, beginning with the seminal work of Nelson and Plosser [1982], which found evidence that most U.S. macroeconomic time series have a unit root (a stochastic trend), the question of whether the inflation...
Valuing Tullock's rejects: the reception of his work in rent seeking.
December 1, 2005... Gordon Tullock's published articles fall into two categories: those which were accepted upon first submission and those which were rejected by one or more journals until they were finally accepted [Brady and Tollison, 1994]. In most cases,...
Easiness, attractiveness, and faculty evaluations: evidence from RateMyProfessors.com.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2005... Among the many wonders of the internet is the possibility of the rapid collection of information from decentralized sources. An example of this is the RateMyProfessors.com website where students may submit evaluations of their professors and...
Socio-economic determinants of participation in on-line auctions.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2005... Electronic commerce is becoming increasingly more important to both sellers and buyers, including large corporations. Though still considered to be in its infancy, Internet usage and on-line marketing are growing explosively. During 2003,...
The influence of free-agent filing on MLB player performance.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2005... Major League Baseball players who file for free agency are motivated to put together a good season before they file (known as their "contract year"). This brief note examines their performance in the years before and after their free-agent...
Disentangling total intra-industry trade into horizontal and vertical elements.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2005... The principal objective of this paper is to examine whether disentangling total volume of intra-industry trade (IIT) into vertical IIT (VIIT) and horizontal IIT (HIIT) has empirical significance in investigating country-specific determinants of...