Business Economics articles from April 1991

Business Economics archives from April 1991

Cost of capital: reflections of a CEO. (the necessity of closing the gap in the cost of capital between the U.S. and its foreign competitors)
April 1, 1991... *George N. Hatsopoulos is Chairman of the Board and President, Thermo Electron, Waltham, MA. The author gratefully acknowledges the invaluable assistance of Dr. James M. Poterba, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Cost of capital for industry and banks.
April 1, 1991... *Robert N. McCauley is Research Officer and Senior Economist, International Finance Department, and Steven A. Zimmer is Senior Economist, International Capital Markets staff, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 1 See footnote at end of text....

The cost of capital: a summary of results for the U.S. and Japan in the 1980s.
April 1, 1991... *Robert E. Lippens is International Economist, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit. MI. 1 See footnotes and references at end of text. The cost of capital for the U. S. and Japan was an intensively studied and widely debated topic during the...

The cost of capital in Japan: update.
April 1, 1991... * Jeffrey A. Frankel is Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Scholar of the Institute of International Economics. 1 See...

Some financial perspectives on comparative costs of capital.
April 1, 1991... *J. Fred Weston is Professor Emeritus of Managerial Economics and Finance, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, CA. He also is an Associate Editor of this Journal. The author thanks Clement G. Krouse...

The role of homeownership and home price appreciation in the accumulation and distribution of household sector wealth.
April 1, 1991... *Thomas M. Holloway is Senior Economist, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, Washington DC. This article is adapted from one presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the National Association of Business Economists, September 23-27, 1990,...

Promoting the U.S. flag merchant marine. (negative effects of the decision to allow three giant tankers from the international fleet to enter domestic commerce)
April 1, 1991... *Gerald A. Pollack is Associate Professor of Finance at Pace University, New York, NY. 1 See footnotes at end of text. For national security reasons, the United States has long had a policy of promoting the country's merchant marine....

Canada: recession and recovery.
April 1, 1991... *Douglas D. Peters is Senior Vice-president and Chief Economist, Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto, Canada. The Canadian economy has been affected by the Gulf War, a value-added tax, the free trade agreement with the U. S. and a tight...

Atlantic Richfield Company. (economics department at Arco)(petroleum industry and trade)
April 1, 1991... *Anthony Finizza is Chief Economist, Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA. See references at end of text. At Arco, the focus of the Economics Department is on the business aspects of the economic environment. Three levels of...

The statistics corner: new products from the Census Bureau.
April 1, 1991... *John Ostenso is Economic and Legal Advisor, Bureau of The Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. We plan two articles on new statistics from the Census Bureau. John Ostenso has agreed to provide an overview of the many new...

The PC corner: business graphics today.
April 1, 1991... *Helga Smith is Manager, Analytical Support Department, Citicorp, New York, NY. My guest columnist this month is Helga Smith, who was a speaker at the Skills Seminar held at our annual meeting last September. Her speech on business...

The Interstate Banking Revolution: Benefits, Risks and Tradeoffs for Bankers and Consumers.
April 1, 1991... The interstate Banking Revolution: Benefits, Risks and Tradeoffs for Bankers and Consumers By Peter S. Rose, westport, CT: Quorum Books (an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group), 1989, Pp. 244, $45.00. PETER S. ROSE, holder of the Jeanne...