International Advances in Economic Research articles from February 2001

International Advances in Economic Research archives from February 2001

Tariff Rate Quotas and the Economic Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalization in the World Trade Organization.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... CHRISTINA MONNICH [*] Since their implementation at the Uruguay Round, tariff rate quotas (TRQs) have become a widely used instrument of trade policy in agricultural trade. With almost 1,300 TRQs scheduled at the World Trade Organization,...

SLOPOL1: A Macroeconomic Model for Slovenia.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... REINHARD NECK [*] This paper presents the specification and estimation of SLOPOL1 (Slovenian Economic Policy Model, Version 1), a macroeconometric model for Slovenia. Since Slovenia became an independent state in 1991, the available time...

Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Play Nonlinearity in Aggregate Employment.
February 1, 2001... MATTHIAS GOCKE [*] In a microeconomic model, a band of inaction due to hiring and firing costs is widened by option-value effects of exchange rate uncertainty. Applying an adequate aggregation approach, uncertainty leads to intervals of a...

Dynamic Forecasting of Monetary Exchange Rate Models: Evidence from Cointegration.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... JAE-KWANG HWANG [*] The Frenkel-Bilson and Dornbusch-Frankel monetary exchange rate models are used to estimate the out-of-sample forecasting performance for the U.S. dollar/Canadian dollar exchange rate. By using Johansen's multivariate...

The Effect of Ceded Reinsurance on Solvency of Primary Insurers.
February 1, 2001... YUEYUN CHEN [*] ISKANDAR S. HAMWI [**] TIM HUDSON [**] Primary insurance companies diversify their underwriting risk and thus improve their financial stability through buying reinsurance contracts. However, excessive use of...

The Role and Impact of Monetary Policy in CEFTA Countries.
February 1, 2001... ANTONIN RUSEK [*] An effective monetary policy requires a stable relationship between the money stock and macroeconomic variables such as output, price level, interest rates, and exchange rates. A dynamism of structural changes in...

The Impact of Electronic Commerce on Small and Midsized Spanish Companies.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... PALOMA BILBAO CALABUIG [*] Electronic commerce (EC) is not new for some European Union countries, but in others, such as Spain, it is only at the developmental stage. Now that Spain has joined the third phase of the economic and monetary...

Price Differentials in a Homogenous Product Market: The Case of Water.
February 1, 2001... DAVID W. YOSKOWITZ [*] This paper examines the existing price differentials for raw water along the Rio Grande. An extremely active spot market for this good, more than 926 transactions have been made over a five-year time period....

An Analysis of Accounting Measures on the Performance of U.S. International Corporations.
February 1, 2001... ALAN REINSTEIN [*] Accounting measures (earnings and cash flow) have been shown to affect market performance (stock price) in U. S. firms operating domestically. In general, earnings have statistically significant explanatory power of...

Why Governments Sell Public Firms: The Spanish Case.
February 1, 2001... JOAQUIM VERGES [*] This paper compares the goals that the successive Spanish governments have actually pursued (as deduced from the set of privatizations carried out over the last fifteen years) with the standard hypotheses used in...

Activity-Based Costing Methodology for Third-Party Logistics Companies.
February 1, 2001... CARLES GRIFUL-MIQUELA [*] This paper will analyze the main costs that third-party logistics companies are facing and develops an activity-based costing methodology useful for this kind of company. It will examine the most important...

Scientific Policy and Free Riders.(the effects of knowledge capital and institutions on technology transfer funding)
February 1, 2001... OSCAR ALFRANCA [*] This paper presents econometric evidence of the effects of knowledge capital and institutions on technology transfer funding. A model is proposed and fitted for 31 research units on agricultural, forestry, and food...

The Impact of NAFTA on California Exports.
February 1, 2001... JAMES L. DOTT [*] This study conducts an examination of the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) impact on California's export levels to Mexico and Canada while holding constant other variables that explain a state's exports to...

A Classroom Game Course for Teaching Public Goods Theory.(Brief Article)(Abstract)
February 1, 2001... This paper offers a fully developed course of up to eight lectures to teach almost all aspects of public goods theory with a simple, noncomputerized classroom game. The lectures deal with the decisions students can make, the underlying linear...

The Effect of Monetary Policy on Real Exchange Rate Misalignment.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... This paper investigates the relationship between monetary policy and the exchange rate. Our primary goal is to analyze the effect of tight monetary policy on reversing currency undervaluation. Tight monetary policy is defined in two different...

Capitalism Redefined--Russian Style.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... This study focuses on the failure of attempted change: from the Russian state-dominated "command economy" to a Western-style market economy. The Russian economy of the 1990s underwent a transition from Soviet socialism to unique capitalism that...

A Comparative Analysis of Banking Development in Estonia and Poland.
February 1, 2001... This paper aims at a comparative analysis of Estonian and Polish banking systems. The DuPont financial ratio analysis method and the matrix approach method are mainly used for this comparison. Theoretical principles of these methods are not...

Economic Factors in Drug Law Enforcement Decisions.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Data about attitudes toward forfeiture in criminal and civil cases were collected from all sworn officers of three drug law enforcement groups who regularly participated in assets forfeiture at the federal level in southeast Florida. Six...

A Firm's Performance and Behavior in a Transition Economy.(the Estonian economy)(Abstract)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Restructuring the whole economy in the transition countries of central and eastern Europe has a strong influence on the economic performance and behavior of the real sector firms. Business firms must operate in the unstable economic...

Prospects of Health Care Reform in Estonia.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... This research analyzes some factors connected with the population's health situation and discusses the aims of health care policy and the underlying problems of health care reform that are connected with the primary-level medical care. Time...

A First Assessment of the Public Procurement System in Latvia.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Public procurement is a new research domain in Latvia. Government consumption constitutes 20 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Public funds assigned to state and municipal entities for goods and services make up 9 percent of the GDP....

Identifying Linkages Between the Money and Currency Markets Using Artificial Neural Networks.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... This paper designs an artificial neural network (ANN) model to identify the connection strengths that link the money market to the foreign exchange market. By extending the one-way arbitrage model to include currency futures rates, a dual...