International Advances in Economic Research articles from November 2001

International Advances in Economic Research archives from November 2001

The world came together.(Accounts)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The tragic events of September 11, 2001 have deeply impacted all of us. Many of us knew people who lost their lives on that dark day in American history. All of us have been touched by the horrific acts that led to such a profound loss of life....

Unemployment Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Economic Growth.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... ROBERT E. WRIGHT (*) It is important but difficult to distinguish between desirable and undesirable effects of unemployment insurance (UI) that are observationally equivalent when designing optimal UI schemes. For example, a UI-induced...

Central Bank Intervention and Foreign Exchange Volatility.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... TONY CAPORALE (*) This paper provides additional empirical evidence on the topic of the effectiveness and the impact of Federal Reserve intervention on U.S. exchange rates. Using a daily measure of exchange rate intervention in the...

Intraindustry Trade in Intermediate Goods.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... TEIT LUTHJE (*) Since intermediate goods play such a vital role in foreign trade, this paper develops a model that explains the benefits from intraindustry trade in differentiated intermediate goods. In comparison with a situation of...

Keynes' Theory of Money and His Attack on the Classical Model.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... L. E. JOHNSON (*) ROBERT LEY (*) THOMAS CATE (**) This paper centers on Keynes' theory of money and his attack on the classical model. Keynes criticized the self-correcting model of the British orthodoxy along two separate lines....

Politicians, Deficits, and Monetary Policy in the U.S. Revisited.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... RICHARD J. CEBULA (*) This paper reconsiders the evidence regarding the existence of executive and congressional influences on monetary policy in the U.S. Results regarding the source of the federal deficit (cyclical or structural) provide...

Charitable Contributions and Tax Price Elasticities for Nonitemizing Taxpayers.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... DAVID H. EATON (*) This paper uses a balanced panel of taxpayers to examine the price and income elasticities for charitable contributions for nonitemizing taxpayers. One-way and two-way static fixed effects models are used to estimate...

An Empirical Analysis of Assortative Mating in India and the U.S.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... PAREENA G. LAWRENCE (*) This paper uses a conditional logit model to analyze empirically how individuals sort themselves through marriage into households in India and the US. The results support positive assortative mating of spouses with...

Nontourism Services in Barbados: 1970-97.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... DARRIN DOWNES (*) This paper initially refers to some of the classifications of services used by various authors, followed by the components that comprise nontourism services in Barbados and their linkages to the other sectors of the...

Short-Run Maquiladora Employment Dynamics.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... DAVID A. SCHAUER (*) The Ciudad Juarez maquiladora sector has grown enormously during the last three decades. To examine whether the trends underlying this remarkable performance are quantifiable, this paper analyzes the short-term time...

Educational Choice, Wage Determination, and Rates of Return to Education in Taiwan.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... CHEN-YENG CHAO (*) This paper estimates educational choice, wage determination, and the rate of return to education in Taiwan using Taiwan's Manpower Utilization Survey data of 1996. As education investment is a self-selection process,...