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November 2004, Volume 57, Issue 4
- 533-558 Intra‐Firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance: Evidence from Linked Employer‐Employee Data
by Thierry Lallemand & Robert Plasman & François Rycx - 559-586 The Political Economy of Privatization: Empirical Evidence from Transition Economies
by Sonja Opper - 587-620 Convergence in Government Spending: Theory and Cross‐Country Evidence
by Mark Skidmore & Hideki Toya & David Merriman - 621-626 Dry Holes in Economic Research: Comment
by Thomas Mayer - 627-628 Dry Holes in Economic Research: Reply
by David N. Laband & Robert D. Tollison
August 2004, Volume 57, Issue 3
- 303-326 When Tax Collectors Become Collectors for Child Support and Student Loans: Jeopardizing the Revenue Base?
by Eliza Ahmed & Valerie Braithwaite - 327-356 Is Board Size an Independent Corporate Governance Mechanism?
by Stefan Beiner & Wolfgang Drobetz & Frank Schmid & Heinz Zimmermann - 357-386 Does Ownership Matter? Empirical Evidence from the German Wine Industry
by Bernd Frick - 387-402 Does Ethical Activism Lead to Firm Relocation?1
by Gilles Grolleau & Tarik Lakhal & Naoufel Mzoughi - 403-427 Policy Advice as an Investment Problem
by Klaus Heine & Karsten Mause - 429-456 Corruption's Effect on Growth and its Transmission Channels
by Lorenzo Pellegrini & Reyer Gerlagh - 457-470 Deceptive Field Experiments of Discrimination: Are they Ethical?
by Peter A. Riach & Judith Rich
May 2004, Volume 57, Issue 2
- 149-171 Taxation of the Global Arms Trade? An Overview of the Issues
by Michael Brzoska - 173-196 The Price of Bodies: A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthetic World
by Edward Castronova - 197-215 What Do We Know about Ourselves? on the Economics of Economics
by Tom Coupé - 217-235 Take or Leave? Distribution in Asymmetric One‐Off Conflict
by Anthony de Jasay & Werner Güth & Hartmut Kliemt & Axel Ockenfels - 237-252 Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries
by Jan Hanousek & Filip Palda - 253-264 Industry Matters for Poverty: A Critique of Agricultural Fundamentalism
by Rana Hasan & M. G. Quibria - 265-286 The Euro Cash Changeover Process
by Mikael Stenkula - 287-300 The Economics of the FIFA Football Worldcup
by Benno Torgler
February 2004, Volume 57, Issue 1
- 3-19 A Note on Paradoxes in Economics
by Luciano Andreozzi - 21-44 Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development
by Christopher J. Coyne & Peter T. Leeson - 45-65 Transnational Corporations and Repression of Political Rights and Civil Liberties: An Empirical Analysis
by Matthias Busse - 67-85 Legislating for Economic Sclerosis: Are Lawyers a Baleful Influence on Growth Rates?
by Sam Cameron & Andy Thorpe - 87-102 Do Public Subsidies Complement Business R&D? A Meta‐Analysis of the Econometric Evidence
by José García‐Quevedo - 103-123 The Institutional Determinants of Bilateral Trade Patterns
by Henri L. F. De Groot & Gert‐Jan Linders & Piet Rietveld & Uma Subramanian - 125-146 Migration, Self‐Selection and Income Inequality: An International Analysis
by Thomas Liebig & Alfonso Sousa‐Poza
November 2003, Volume 56, Issue 4
- 441-456 Rent Seeking into the Income Distribution
by William F. Shughart II & Robert D. Tollison & Zhipeng Yan - 457-474 How Corruption Affects Productivity
by Johann Graf Lambsdorff - 475-490 The Relationship Between Currency Competition and Inflation
by Elham Mafi‐Kreft - 491-508 Does Foreign Direct Investment Always Enhance Economic Growth?
by Jože Mencinger - 509-540 Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Performance: Evidence Based on Surveys among Senior Business Executives
by Horst Feldmann - 541-562 Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment
by Patrick A. Puhani
August 2003, Volume 56, Issue 3
- 315-340 E‐exchange and the Boundary between Households and Organizations
by Assar Lindbeck & Solveig Wikström - 341-360 Social Capital and the Internet: Evidence from Swiss Panel Data
by Axel Franzen - 361-380 The Future of the Defence Firm
by Keith Hartley & Todd Sandler - 381-393 A Divided Europe? Regional Convergence and Neighbourhood Spillover Effects
by Anca Carrington - 395-400 A Market Mechanism for Scientific Communication: A Comment
by Rajeev K. Goel - 401-403 A Market Mechanism for Scientific Communication: Reply
by Yohanes E. Riyanto & I. Hakan Yetkiner
May 2003, Volume 56, Issue 2
- 161-173 Dry Holes in Economic Research
by David N. Laband & Robert D. Tollison - 175-197 Reputation and Relevance of Economics Journals
by Michael Bräuninger & Justus Haucap - 199-221 Access as a Motivational Device: Implications for Human Resource Management
by Pablo Arocena & Mikel Villanueva - 223-244 Corruption, Productivity and Socialism
by Geoffrey Wyatt - 245-262 Choice Behaviour: Looking for Remedy to Some Central Logical Problems in Rational Action
by Jukka Kaisla
February 2003, Volume 56, Issue 1
- 3-16 The Happy Few: Cross–Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life Satisfaction
by Christian Bjørnskov - 17-46 Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998
by Dora L. Costa & Matthew E. Kahn - 47-68 Self–Serving Bias in Tax Perceptions: Federalism as a Source of Political Instability
by Bruno Heyndels & John Ashworth - 69-94 Does Competition Enhancement Have Permanent Inflation Effects?
by Paul Cavelaars - 95-110 Roles of Bilateral and Multilateral Aid in Economic Growth of Developing Countries
by Rati Ram
November 2002, Volume 55, Issue 4
- 473-494 Preferences over Prosperity and Pollution: Environmental Valuation based on Happiness Surveys
by Heinz Welsch - 495-522 Privatization and Equity in Brazil and Russia
by Werner Baer & James T. Bang - 523-542 Public Profit Sharing
by Ronnie Schöb - 543-562 ICT Innovation and Economic Performance: The Role of Financial Intermediation
by Aerdt Houben & Jan Kakes - 563-567 A Market Mechanism for Scientific Communication: A Proposal
by Yohanes E. Riyanto & I. Hakan Yetkiner - 569-573 Pay More Tribute to Smart Ants: A Note on the Tullockian Environmental Coordination in Non–Human Societies
by Guang–Zhen Sun
August 2002, Volume 55, Issue 3
- 315-334 Quality Control in Economics
by David N. Laband & Robert D. Tollison & Gokhan Karahan - 335-360 Competition for Sainthood and the Millennial Church
by Mario Ferrero - 361-380 The Impact of Intelligence and Institutional Improvements on Economic Growth
by Erich Weede & Sebastian Kämpf - 381-402 Regional Cluster Policies: Learning by Comparing?
by Gert–Jan Hospers & Sjoerd Beugelsdijk - 403-416 Which Economic Freedoms Contribute to Growth? A Comment
by Jan–Egbert Sturm & Erik Leertouwer & Jakob de Haan - 417-420 Which Economic Freedoms Contribute to Growth? Reply
by Jac C. Heckelman & Michael D. Stroup
May 2002, Volume 55, Issue 2
- 157-178 Power Corrupts, But Can Office Ennoble?
by Geoffrey Brennan & Philip Pettit - 179-195 On the Role of Heroes in Political and Economic Processes
by Gebhard Kirchgässner - 197-221 Tax Evasion and Voting: An Experimental Analysis
by Lars P. Feld & Jean‐Robert Tyran - 223-246 Evolutionary Approaches to Politics
by Michael Wohlgemuth - 247-264 Undemocratic Governments
by Gordon Tullock - 265-287 Democratic Governance for a Globalized World
by Reiner Eichenberger & Bruno S. Frey - 289-310 Choosing Not To Choose: When Politicians Choose To Delegate Powers
by Stefan Voigt & Eli M. Salzberger
2002, Volume 55, Issue 1
- 3-26 Linking Measured Risk Aversion to Individual Characteristics
by Joop Hartog & Ada Ferrer‐i‐Carbonell & Nicole Jonker - 27-56 Redistribution as a Local Public Good: An Empirical Test for Flemish Municipalities
by John Ashworth & Bruno Heyndels & Carine Smolders - 57-80 The Path of Liberalization and Economic Growth
by Hans Pitlik - 81-98 Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty
by David B. Audretsch & Martin A. Carree & Adriaan J. Van Stel & A. Roy Thurik
November 2001, Volume 54, Issue 4
- 509-531 Institutions of Conflict Management and Economic Growth in the European Union
by Friedrich Schneider & Alexander F. Wagner - 533-546 The Enlargement of the European Union and the Redistribution of Seigniorage Wealth
by Holger Feist - 547-556 European Monetary Union, the Term Structure, and the Lucas Critique
by Peter A. G. Van Bergeijk & Jan Marc Berk - 557-590 The Positive Economics of Labor Market Rigidities and Investor Protection
by Rainer Fehn & Carsten‐Patrick Meier - 591-602 Can Inflation Be Too Low?
by Torben M. Andersen
May 2001, Volume 54, Issue 2‐3
- 193-206 The Strange Disappearance of Welfare Economics
by Anthony B. Atkinson - 207-212 Political Parties and Paper Money Inflation in Sweden During the 18th Century
by Peter Bernholz - 213-233 Five Rational Actor Accounts of the Welfare State
by Geoffrey Brennan - 235-242 Direct Democracy, Classical Liberalism, and Constitutional Strategy
by James M. Buchanan - 243-264 Product Standards and International Trade. Harmonization through Private Coalitions?
by Alessandra Casella - 265-286 The Politicization of Growth Theory
by Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr. - 287-308 Can We Decentralize Our Unemployment Policies? Evidence from the United States
by Robert P. Inman & Daniel L. Rubinfeld - 309-316 Rationality and Reality
by Hartmut Kliemt - 317-342 Intrinsic Motivation in a New Light
by Siegwart Lindenberg - 343-353 Public Choice after 50 Years, Bruno Frey after 60
by Dennis C. Mueller - 355-378 Why Do People Vote? The Cognitive‐Illusion Proposition and Its Test
by Karl‐Dieter Opp - 379-381 Economics that Matters: Using the Tax System to Solve the Shortage of Human Organs
by Andrew Oswald - 383-413 Corruption and Religion Adding to the Economic Model
by Martin Paldam - 415-443 Trust and Honesty in Post‐Socialist Societies
by Susan Rose‐Ackerman - 445-452 The Reluctant Rebel Or Glamour and Poverty of the Homo Oeconomicus
by Kurt W. Rothschild - 453-464 Thinking About Something Else: A Rationality‐Compatible Mechanism with Macroscopic Consequences
by Pierre Salmon - 465-472 The Interest‐Group Theory of Government: Problems and Prospects
by Robert D. Tollison - 473-490 Partly for the Money: Rewards and Incentives to Artists
by Ruth Towse - 491-506 Emotional Hazard Exemplified by Taxation‐Induced Anger
by Frans Van Winden
February 2001, Volume 54, Issue 1
- 3-26 Rational Ignorance versus Rational Irrationality
by Bryan Caplan - 27-48 Short‐Term Horizons in Foreign Exchange? Survey Evidence from dealers and Fund Managers
by Lukas Menkhoff - 49-66 The Economics of Shame in Work Groups: How Mutual Monitoring Can Decrease Cooperation in Teams
by Shepley W. Orr - 67-88 Unemployment and the Separation of Married Couples
by Kornelius Kraft - 89-114 The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments: Sensitivity Analyses of Cross‐Country Regressions
by Avik Chakrabarti - 115-124 Note: On Assessing the Efficiency of the Welfare State: A Comment
by Martin Ravallion
November 2000, Volume 53, Issue 4
- 337-361 Resources, Agriculture, and Economic Growth in Economies in Transition
by Thorvaldur Gylfason - 435-466 Towdards an Institutional Legal Framework for Regulatory Competition in Europe
by Roger Van Den Bergh - 467-508 Product Liability and Product Safety in Europe: Harmonization or Differentitation
by Michael G. Faure - 509-526 Multiculturalism, and Ethnic Conflict: A Rent‐Seeking Perspective
by Evan Osborne - 527-544 Whcich Economic Freedoms Contribute to Growth?
by Jac C. Heckelman & Michael D. Stroup - 581-586 Who&s Who in Economics?
by Bruno S. Frey & Reiner Eichenberger - 587-592 How to Make Scientists Agree: An Evolutionary Betting Mechanism
by Tilman Slembeck
August 2000, Volume 53, Issue 3
- 249-264 Europe and the USA: Comparing What with What?
by Kurt W. Rothschild - 265-291 State Buildng by Bargaining for Monopoly Rents
by Oliver Volckart - 293-315 Income Inequality and Economic Growth
by Pak Hung Mo - 317-335 Kinds of Assumptions and Their Truth: Shaking an Untwisted F‐Twist
by Uskali Mäki - 337-361 Did the Tax Cuts Increase Hours of Work? A Statistical Analysis of a Natural Experiment
by N. Anders Klevmarken - 363-386 Functionalm Federalism: Communal or Individual Rights?
by Viktor J. Vanberg
May 2000, Volume 53, Issue 2
- 117-134 Promoting Product Market Competition to Reduce Unemployment in Europe: An Alternative Approach?
by Hans Gersbach - 135-152 Taking Another Look at the Gender/Job‐Satisfaction Paradox
by Alfonso Sousa‐Poza & Andrés A. Sousa‐Poza - 153-160 Why the Rich Are Nastier Than the Poor – A Note on the Distribution of Wealth When Individuals Care for Payoff Differentials
by Steffen Huck & Wieland Müller - 161-172 What Happened to the Neanderthals? – The Survival Trap
by João Ricardo Faria - 173-200 I, Too, Sail Past: Odysseus and the Logic of Self‐Control
by David Sally
February 2000, Volume 53, Issue 1
- 3-16 Civic Duty and Expressive Voting: Is Virtue its own Reward?
by Philip Jones & John Hudson - 17-38 International Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Swedish Patent Data
by Steve Globerman & Ari Kokko & Fredrik Sjöholm - 39-50 Producers' Expectations: their Role in the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
by Tobias F. Rötheli - 51-69 Wage Expectations: A Comparison of Swiss and US Students
by Stefan C. Wolter - 71-74 Co‐Existing Prices and Cross‐Elasticity of Demand
by Jerry Mushin
November 1999, Volume 52, Issue 4
- 497-510 The Communitarian Attack on Economics
by Alan Peacock - 511-535 Habermasian Ethics and Institutional Law and Economics
by Kenneth L. Avio - 537-553 Efficiency of the Welfare State
by Claudine Gouyette & Pierre Pestieau - 555-572 Intra‐firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance
by Rudolf Winter‐Ebmer & Josef Zweimüller - 573-590 Team Performance as a Constellation of Forces: A General Model
by Wolfgang Brandes & Peter Weise
August 1999, Volume 52, Issue 3
- 311-311 A Case of Plagiarism
by René L. Frey & Bruno S. Frey & Reiner Eichenberger - 313-314 Bidding for Research Initiatives: a Reprise
by Geoffrey J. Wyatt - 315-343 Because It Is There: The Challenge of Mountaineering… for Utility Theory
by George Loewenstein - 345-368 The Demand for UN Peacekeeping, 1975–1996
by Jyoti Khanna & Todd Sandler & Hirofumi Shimizu - 369-390 Copyright and Economic Incentives: An Application to Performers’ Rights in the Music Industry
by Ruth Towse - 391-413 The Political and Tax Capacity of Government in Developing Countries
by Christine Fauvelle‐Aymar - 415-439 On Keynes’ Animal Spirits
by Roberto Marchionatti - 441-448 Relative Deprivation, Envy and Economic Inequality: A Comment
by Satya Paul - 449-452 Relative Deprivation, Envy and Economic Inequality: Reply
by Nripesh Podder
May 1999, Volume 52, Issue 2
- 141-171 Changing the Social Norm of Tax Compliance by Voting
by James Alm & Gary H. McClelland & William D. Schulze - 173-200 Consumer Evaluation of Money as a Gift: A Two‐Utility Model and an Empirical Test
by Rik Pieters & Henry Robben - 201-218 Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization
by Richard N. Langlois & Nicolai J. Foss - 219-238 Season Tickets and the Demand for Public Transport
by Felix FitzRoy & Ian Smith - 239-258 On the Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer
by Young Back Choi - 259-262 Monetary Policy Implications of Digital Money: A Comment
by Malte Krueger - 263-264 Monetary Policy Implications of Digital Money: Reply to Malte Krueger
by Aleksander Berentsen
February 1999, Volume 52, Issue 1
- 3-25 Does Growth Cause Happiness, or Does Happiness Cause Growth?
by Charles Kenny - 27-43 A Theory of Population Growth When Women Really Count
by Morris Altman - 45-61 Economic Growth and Saving Theory
by Stephen G. Triantis - 63-81 Cooperative Inter‐Firm Relations: A Game Theoretic Approach and Application to the Furniture Industry
by Richard J. Parkin - 83-102 The Problem With Pegged Exchange Rates
by Kurt Schuler - 103-104 Ahmad, Ehtisham (ed.) (1997). Financing Decentralized Expenditures. An International Comparison of Grants
by Anand N. Asthana - 104-106 Capros, Pantélis and Danièle Meulders (eds.) (1997). Budgetary Policy Modelling. Public Expenditures
by Lars P. Feld - 107-109 Clague, Christopher (ed.) (1997). Institutions and Economic Development. Growth and Governance in Less‐Developed and Post‐Socialist Countries
by Waltraud Schelkle - 109-111 Corden, W. Max (1997). Trade Policy and Economic Welfare
by D. Tripati Rao - 111-113 CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (1997). Challenging Neighbours.; Delsen, Lei and Eelke de Jong (eds.) (1998). The German and Dutch Economies
by Lothar Funk - 114-115 Endres, Alfred und Karin Holm‐Müller (1998). Die Bewertung von Umweltschäden
by Frank G. Miiller - 115-116 Estrin, Saul and Peter Holmes (eds.) (1998). Competition and Economic Integration in Europe
by Ivo Maes - 116-118 Janssen, Hauke (1998). Nationalökonomie und Nationalsozialismus
by Wilfried Fuhrmann - 118-120 Judd, Kenneth L. (1998). Numerical Methods in Economics
by Burkhard Heer - 120-122 Maier, Hans und Michael Schäfer (Hrsg.) (1997). Totalitarismus und Politische Religionen
by Heide Reiß - 122-123 Pines, David, Efraim Sadka and Itzhak Zilcha (eds.) (1998). Topics in Public Economics
by Anand N. Asthana - 124-126 Sadowski, Dieter und Martin Schneider (Hrsg.) (1997). Vorschläge zu einer neuen Lohnpolitik; Sadowski, Dieter und Kerstin Pull (Hrsg.) (1997). Vorschläge jenseits der Lohnpolitik
by Slephan Seiter - 126-128 Tullock, Gordon (1998). On Voting
by Peter Bernholz - 128-129 Ungerer, Horst (1997). A Concise History of European Monetary Integration
by Ivo Maes - 129-131 Xepapadeas, Anastasios (1997). Advanced Principles in Environmental Policy
by Werner Meißner & Birgitta Weitz
November 1998, Volume 51, Issue 4
- 469-488 Entry, Entry‐Deterrence and Exit: A Study of the Market for CFCs
by Horst Albach & Ellen Krupa & Dieter Koster - 489-508 R&D, International Technical Diffusion and Total Factor Productivity
by Dirk Frantzen - 509-536 Does EMU Promote Labor‐Market Reforms?
by Norbert Berthold & Rainer Fehn - 537-545 The Economics of Witchcraft and the Big Eye Effect
by JoaTo Ricardo Faria - 547-563 Externalities, Fixed Costs and Information
by Jan Horst Keppler - 565-575 When Should the Ecotax Kick In? A Cost and Choice Approach
by Jürgen G. Backhaus
August 1998, Volume 51, Issue 3
- 321-338 Discounting and the Economic Costs of Altruism in Greenhouse Gas Abatement
by Gunter Stephan & Georg Muller‐Fürstenberger - 339-357 Strategic Trade Policy Reconsidered: National Rivalry vs Free Trade vs International Cooperation
by Keith Cowling & Roger Sugden - 359-378 Accumulating Knowledge over the Economist's Lifetime
by Hendrik P. van Dalen - 379-397 Who Benefits from Progress?
by Alexander Tabarrok & Tyler Cowen - 399-408 A Singular Feature of European Business Cycles
by Amado Peiró - 409-415 Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Politicus: A Comment
by Peter Bernholz - 417-425 Who Needs Homo Politicus? A Note On Faber, Manstetten and Petersen
by Fritz Söllner
May 1998, Volume 51, Issue 2
- 171-196 Unification and Secession: Group Size and ‘Escape from Lock‐In’
by Beth V. Yarbrough & Robert M. Yarbrough - 197-218 Three Items for the Macroeconomic Agenda
by Axel Leijonhufvud - 219-236 Trade Regime Bias and the Response to Trade Liberalisation in Sub‐Saharan Africa
by Chris Milner - 237-257 Variable Payment Schemes and Industrial Relations: Evidence from Germany
by John S. Heywood & Olaf Hübler & Uwe Jirjahn - 259-276 Strategic Trade Policy and Endogenous R&D‐Subsidies: An Empirical Study
by Peter Svensson - 277-284 A Note on Buridan's Ass: The Consequences of Failing to See a Difference
by Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap - 285-288 Buridan's Ass, Rationality and Entrepreneurship: A Reply to Hargreaves Heap
by Elias L. Khalil
February 1998, Volume 51, Issue 1
- 3-24 Public Versus Private Provision of Altruism: Can Fiscal Policy Make Individuals ‘Better’ People?
by Philip R. Jones & John G. Cullis & Alan Lewis - 25-44 The Economics of Religious Participation: A Cross‐country Study
by Ian Smith & John W. Sawkins & Paul T. Seaman - 45-72 The New Geography of Eastern European Trade
by Mathilde Maurel & Guillaume Cheikbossian - 73-88 Seigniorage and the Transfer of Central Bank Profits to the Government
by Ernst Baltensperger & Thomas J. Jordan - 89-118 Monetary Policy Implications of Digital Money
by Aleksander Berentsen - 119-126 Commitment Rather than Independence: An Institutional Design for Reducing the Inflationary Bias of Monetary Policy: a Comment on Henriëtte M. Prast
by Jakob De Haan - 127-128 Commitment Rather than Independence: An Institutional Design for Reducing the Inflationary Bias of Monetary Policy: Reply to Jakob de Haan
by Henriëtte M. Prast - 129-160 Petersen, Thomas (1996). Individuelle Freiheit und allgemeiner Wille
by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
November 1997, Volume 50, Issue 4
- 457-483 Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Politicus. Political Economy, Constitutional Interest and Ecological Interest
by Malte Faber & Reiner Manstetten & Thomas Petersen - 485-505 Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law
by Roger D. Congleton - 507-538 Direct Democracy Matters for Economic Performance: An Empirical Investigation
by Lars P. Feld & Marcel R. Savioz - 539-559 Dinkies' and Housewives: The Regulation of Shopping Hours
by Marcel Thum & Alfons Weichenrieder