Contemporary Economic Policy articles from January 2003

Contemporary Economic Policy archives from January 2003

Forecasting the demand for health care in OECD nations and China.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION A specter is haunting the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations. It is not the specter of poverty or class warfare, as was the case a century or so ago, when leisure was the privilege of the...

Urbanization and health care in rural China.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION In the past two decades, China has experienced unprecedented economic growth at an average annual rate of 10% in the 1980s and 11.2% in the 1990s, whereas the worldwide average rates were 3.2% and 2.5%, respectively (World...

To tax or not to tax? The case of electronic commerce.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION The sales tax treatment of goods and services purchased via the Internet has attracted attention far beyond that normally afforded to issues of state and local taxation. The discussion is motivated by widely different...

The relationship between large fiscal adjustments and short-term output growth under alternative fiscal policy regimes.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION During the past quarter century, nearly all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries undertook at least one large fiscal contraction to deal with high levels and rapid growth of public debt....

Habitat-fishery linkages and mangrove loss in Thailand.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION An extensive literature in ecology has emphasized the role of coastal wetland habitats in supporting neighboring marine fisheries (Mitsch and Gosselink, 1993; Mooney et al., 1995; World Conservation Monitoring Centre...

Pacific salmon restoration: trade-offs between economic efficiency and political acceptance.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION In a 1997 article, Jonathan Brinckman of the Oregonian concluded that the $3 billion effort to save salmon in the Columbia River Basin was a failure. He attributed the failure to "intensively competing interests and public...

Cutting carbon emissions at a profit (part II): impacts on U.S. competitiveness and jobs.
January 1, 2003... Input-output data are used to estimate the impact on export prices of goods and services produced in the United States. Similar data are used to translate changes in GDP and energy production into employment impacts in energy and nonenergy...

The cost of the U.S. sugar program revisited.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION The sugar program has used farm commodity and trade policy instruments to maintain domestic sugar prices at levels that exceed world prices without requiring the government to buy large quantities of domestic sugar in most...

A revisionist view of Chinese agricultural productivity?
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION Most studies on Chinese agricultural productivity come to the same general conclusion regarding the early agricultural reforms: productivity growth was dramatic between 1979 and 1984 (McMillan et al., 1989; Lin, 1992; Wen,...

Identifying and estimating sources of technical inefficiency in Korean manufacturing industries.
January 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION The South Korean government has continuously pursued an industrial policy that promotes strategic manufacturing industries, although the target of the policy shifted from light industries in the 1960s to heavy and chemical...