Atlantic Economic Journal articles from December 2008

Atlantic Economic Journal archives from December 2008

Influence of the number of statewide referenda involving emotionally-charged issues on voter turnout, 2006.(Formula)(Report)
December 1, 2008... Introduction As Putnam (2000, p. 35) states, "Voting is by a substantial margin the most common form of political activity, and it embodies the most fundamental democratic principle of equality... Moreover, like the canary in the mining...

Do campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures by firms create "political" capital?(Report)
December 1, 2008... Introduction In this paper we examine a simple yet important question: Are firm political contributions and lobbying a way of buying long-term influence? Specifically, our analysis examines the extent to which capital markets view campaign...

PAC contributions from sectors of the financial services industry, 1998-2002.(Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999)(political action committees)(Statistical table)(Report)
December 1, 2008... Introduction The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) representing the financial services industry and membership on Congressional committees from...

Premarital birth among young Hispanic women: evidence from semiparametric competing risks analysis.(Statistical table)(Report)
December 1, 2008... Introduction The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program [replaced by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)] was often blamed for increasing illegitimate births, declining marriage, and rising divorce. The main...

Imperfect competition in German food retailing: evidence from state level data.(Industry overview)(Report)(Statistical data)
December 1, 2008... Introduction The European food retailing market is characterized by high and rising concentration and increased vertical dependency (Dobson et al. 2003). Politicians and economists have raised concerns about European food retailers'...

Determinants of the allocation of volunteer time: church-related versus other non-market activities.(Report)(Statistical data)
December 1, 2008... Introduction Dating from Gary Becker's (1965) seminal work on time allocation, economists have studied a variety of time allocation decisions. One of the more interesting uses of the time allocation model is concerned with tradeoffs of...

Single versus multi-market approach: an application to the Greek cotton market.(Statistical table)(Report)
December 1, 2008... Introduction A number of complications arise in multi-market models that create confusion regarding the proper application of the theory. Complications due to the simultaneous nature of the price changes are handled with line integral...

Motor vehicle output and GDP, 1968-2007.(Report)(Statistical data)
December 1, 2008... Literature According to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper by Barsky and Killian (2004), a "model that explains how an oil price shock may lower real GDP is the sectoral shifts model of Hamilton (1988). The...

Additional evidence on the effect of class attendance on academic performance.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2008... JEL A20 * C12 Professors often claim that students who attend their classes regularly receive better grades and learn more than those who do not. Romer (Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, 1993), Launius (College Student Journal 31, 1997),...

Hedging with a new risk-aversion concept.(ANTHOLOGY)(Formula)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... JEL D80 In this note, we apply a new definition of risk aversion to the standard hedging model where the firm (producer) is concerned with the negative impact of the shocks. From the perspective of the risk-averse producer, shocks can only...

Gun ownership and the gun control index.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2008... Keywords Gun control * Gun ownership JEL K1 Most prior research on gun control has attempted to establish a link between gun control laws and crime rates. A smaller set of work has attempted to determine if gun ownership rates have any...

Patent infringement and royalty rates: is litigation a 'deterrent'?(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2008... JEL K41 Patent infringement cases require that a damages expert put forth a reasonable royalty calculation to assist the trier of fact in determining damages absent the ability of the patent holder to make the sales that the infringer...

Inflation in post-conflict countries: the case of Sierra Leone.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2008... JEL 050 Little formal analysis has been done on the causes of monetary disequilibrium in countries that have been ravaged by civil conflict over sustained periods of time. Sierra Leone is a case in point. This West-African country endured...

Economics, sociology, politics, and religion: success of marketing students.(ANTHOLOGY)
December 1, 2008... JEL D71 Various recent studies show the positive impact of a person's religiosity or spirituality on his or her ethical inclination and leadership effectiveness. UCLA's Higher Education Institute's study also found a positive relationship...

Responsibility to punish: discouraging free-riders in public goods games.(Report)
December 1, 2008... Introduction John Nash brought economists' attention to the potential for dissonance between social and individual optimums with his groundbreaking work in game theory. Similarly, the recent growth of behavioral economics signals...