Contemporary Economic Policy articles from October 2001

Contemporary Economic Policy archives from October 2001

An economic analysis of aspects of petroleum and military security in the Persian Gulf.
October 1, 2001... NEHA KHANNA (*) Geologic estimates of remaining global petroleum resources place about 50% in the Persian Gulf. Production costs are estimated at $5 per barrel there and $15 per barrel in the North Sea and Alaska. According to mathematical...

Children and the environment: Valuing indirect effects on a child's life chances.
October 1, 2001... JASON F. SHOGREN (*) Children can face disproportionately greater risk from environmental hazards because they are kids--smaller bodies, faster metabolisms, shorter attentions spans, less knowledge, and fewer resources. Environmental...

Valuing reduced risks to children: The case of bicycle safety helmets.
October 1, 2001... LANELLE BEMBENEK WIGGINS (*) The protection of children's health has recently become a mandated priority for federal policy makers. To assess many of the regulations that affect children's health, policy makers need estimates of the...

The effect of job mobility on academic salaries.
October 1, 2001... JAMES W. HUGHES (*) The hypothesis that individuals increase future earnings by investing in themselves through job change has considerable empirical support. To date, this hypothesis has not been tested on the academic labor market. Using...

The evolution of VAT rates and government tax revenue in Mexico.(value added tax)
October 1, 2001... JOSE A. TIJERINA-GUAJARDO (*) As a response to the 1994 Mexican peso crisis, in April 1995 the Mexican government increased the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate from 10 to 15%. More recently, policy makers have debated the potential economic...

Short-run monetary policy and the macroeconomic environment.(United States Federal Open Market Committee)
October 1, 2001... KEN REBECK (*) This study investigates factors influencing monetary policy decisions of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) over the period 1960-1998. Competing perspectives regarding the process of monetary policy making exist, with...

Reforming bank capital regulation: Using subordinated debt to enhance market and supervisory discipline.
October 1, 2001... LARRY D. WALL (*) In 1988 the Basel Capital Accord introduced minimum risk-weighted capital requirements for internationally active banks. In recent years there has been a growing realization that there are significant problems with the...

Wages and employment in the U.S. apparel industry.
October 1, 2001... BRUCE C. BROWN (*) This article uses individual-level data from the U.S. Census, Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), to examine wages and employment in the U.S. apparel industry. Total employment in this sector has been falling since 1970,...

Health insurance coverage and enterpreneurship.
October 1, 2001... ALISON J. WELLINGTON (*) This article estimates the importance of health insurance coverage on the probability of self-employment. Using data from the 1993 Current Population Survey (CPS), the author focuses on the impact of having health...

Federal land exchanges: 1960-1999.
October 1, 2001... MOLLY ESPEY (*) This research estimates the influence of various economic, legal, and political factors on the occurrence of federal land exchanges over time. Economic growth is found to significantly increase the number of land exchanges....

Contemporary economic policy: 2000-2001 editor's report.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... In 2000 a total of 42 articles and 490 pages covered such topics as transactions cost economics, international monetary relations, exchange rate policy and reform, monetary policy in the United States and elsewhere, NAFTA and GATT,...