Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance articles from January 1995

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance archives from January 1995

Introduction. (essays presented at the centennial celebration of the Dept. of Economics of the University of Illinois)(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... On September 30, 1995 the Department of Economics of the University of Illinois celebrated its centennial. As noted in the first essay in this volume, it was in 1895 that David Kinley, the ranking instructor, was made head and departmental...

Economics at Illinois: the first hundred years.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign owes its beginnings and early development to David Kinley, a man clearly on the fast-track. Born in Dundee, Scotland, August 2, 1861, Kinley came to the United States at the age of 11....

Keynote address: financial markets at the end of the 20th century. (Goldman Sachs Chairman Jon Corzine speech)(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)(Transcript)
January 1, 1995... Ladies and Gentlemen. It's a pleasure to join you this evening and a privilege to address you on the 100th anniversary of the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois. On a personal level, today marks a gratifying opportunity...

Bounded rationality and game theory.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION In the beginning, at least for academics, there was philosophy. All of learned inquiry occurred within the discipline of philosophy and was carried out by philosophers. We retain the vestiges of this organization in our...

On time series econometrics.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The issue of decomposing output fluctuations into permanent (trend) and transitory (cycles) components has received much attention in the recent literature. The traditional practice until the early 1980s was to fit a...

The past and future of economic history in economics.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION In the Economics Department's 100 years, the profession of economics has undergone a remarkable transformation. Successive revolutions in the theory and practice economics make much of what was taught one hundred years ago...

The use of economics in the public policy debate in telecommunications.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois, I am very honored to be asked to present a paper. I wish to address the topic with which I am most familiar, namely using...

Emerging policy issues in development finance.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION When I was first asked to be a member of this "Economics and Policy" panel and express my views about the impact the current state of the profession may have had on policy makers and vice versa, the answer, at first instance,...

Capital flows and economic growth: reflections on Latin America in the 1990s.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The Mexican crisis of December 1994 has generated new and rehashed old policy debates, especially around the role of capital flows. Even the IMF, in a recent study, has concluded that under certain circumstances, some type of...

Economic policy making in Sub-Saharan Africa and IMF involvement. (International Monetary Fund)(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The IMF is generally called upon to assist a member country in addressing a balance of payments imbalance brought about by several factors, including external and domestic shocks, and internal economic and financial...

The role of the economist in business.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The opportunities for economists with graduate degrees to provide consulting services to the business community have increased significantly in the past decade. In contrast to the early 1980s, all "Big Six" accounting firms...

Economics and the media.(Illinois Centennial Essays on Economics)
January 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION I am delighted to be here on this wonderful occasion of the centennial of the Department of Economics. As an economist I am deeply devoted to the concept of comparative advantage. I do not view it as an abstraction to be...