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- An International Comparison of the Effects of Government Agricultural Support on Food Budget Shares
- This study evaluates econometrically the effect of government support to agriculture on a measure of the affordability of food in 10 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD countries. The panel model we construct specifically utilizes two values calculated by the OECD: Producer Support Estimates as a percentage of gross...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Stock ownership and congressional elections: the political economy of the mutual fund revolution
- I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, political analysts have conjectured that voting has been affected by the rise of an investor class in the United States, where the stock ownership rate has doubled from under 25% in the late 1970s to over 50% by 2001. (1) This shift in portfolio...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Another look at yield spreads: the role of liquidity
- 1. Introduction The expectations hypothesis hereafter EH of the term structure of interest rates states that the long-term rate is determined by the expectation for the short-term rate plus a constant term premium. With rational expectations, one of the EH implications is that the coefficient in a regression of...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Selling the game: estimating the economic impact of professional sports through taxable sales
- Sports leagues, franchises, and civic boosters tout the economic benefits of professional sports as an incentive for host cities to construct new stadiums or arenas at considerable public expense. Past league-sponsored studies have estimated that new stadiums, franchises, and mega-events such as the Super Bowl increase economic activity by potentially...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- What determines the level of short-selling activity?
- I test several explanations for the short-sale trading for a sample of the NYSE and the Nasdaq stocks during the 1988-2002 period. I find that short-selling activity is positively related to arbitrage opportunities and hedging demand, and negatively related to previous short-term returns. ANOVA analysis shows that the stock option...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Consistency or conflict in OECD agricultural trade and aid policies
- In advance of the Cancun meeting of trade ministers convened in September 2004 to further the Doha Development Agenda DDA, the heads of the IMF, OECD, and World Bank declared, "We need a decisive break with trade policies that hurt economic development. Donors cannot provide aid to create development opportunities...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Fair-value accounting and MSRs: current accounting rules require that mortgage loan servicing rights be recorded at fair value. A recently published study examines whether or not that measurement principle is being met
- A study published in the June-July 2007 issue of Bank Accounting and Finance, by Robert J. Cochran, Edward N. Coffman and David W. Harless, examines the question of whether publicly traded mortgage banking firms record their mortgage loan servicing rights MSRs in accordance with current accounting rules. Current accounting rules...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Critically evaluated rate coefficients for free-radical polymerization Part 6: propagation rate coefficient of methacrylic acid in aqueous solution
- Pure and Applied Chemistry Vol. 79, No 8, pp. 1463-1469, 2007 doi:10.1351/pac200779081463 Critically evaluated propagation rate coefficients, [k.sub.p], for free-radical polymerization of methacrylic acid, MAA, in aqueous solution are presented. The underlying [k.sub.p] values are from two independent sources, which both used the IUPAC-recommended technique of pulsed-laser-initiated...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- A general correlation for heat transfer during saturated boiling with flow across tube bundles
- INTRODUCTION Heat exchangers consisting of bundles of horizontal tubes with boiling on the outer surface of the tubes are widely used in the industry. Examples are refrigerated liquid coolers and kettle reboilers. The boiling liquid may be flowing upwards or downwards. The outer surfaces of the tubes may be...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Wall Street Journal distress disclosures and bankruptcy research
- ABSTRACT This study assesses the extent to which the Wall Street Journal WSJ is a useful and reliable source of distress disclosures for bankruptcy research. Prior accounting and finance studies document the importance of controlling for distress disclosures in bankruptcy research. These studies identify distress disclosures from numerous sources:...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- MODELING TRAFFIC FLOWS WITH QUEUEING MODELS: A REVIEW
- In this paper, an overview of different analytic queueing models for traffic on road networks is presented. In the literature, it has been shown that queueing models can be used to adequately model uninterrupted traffic flows. This paper gives a broad review on this literature. Moreover, it is shown that...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Determinants and effects on property values of participation in voluntary cleanup programs: the case of Colorado
- I. INTRODUCTION Environmental regulation and enforcement-based environmental programs sometimes result in unintended consequences that defeat the purpose of the programs themselves. Many observers argue that the U.S. Superfund program is one such program. Over the last 25 yr, Superfund has identified contaminated sites needing environmental remediation, tracked down the...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Labour Market Performance Differentials and Dynamics in EU-15 Countries and Regions*
- Abstract The aim of this paper is to contribute to empirical analysis of the differentials, dynamics and determinants of labour market performance in EU-15. One innovation of the paper reflects our decision not to use a single indicator of labour market performance, but to adopt three variables: employment rate, unemployment...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Location model in the national football league: predicting optimal expansion and relocation sites
- Abstract: The National Football League has experienced both expansion and relocation of its franchises in the past decade. It is a dynamic market; the relocation of a NFL franchise is an annual possibility. This study looked at the demographic and economic factors that determine the current locations of NFL...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Youth, poverty reduction, and economic growth in developing countries
- ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of young people ages 12-24 in poverty reduction and economic growth in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank and using a sample of forty-three developing economies, we find that the fraction of the population below the poverty line is linearly...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- AN EXAMINATION OF TREASURY TERM INVESTMENT INTEREST RATES
- * The U.S. Treasury, through its Term Investment Option TIO program, lends excess cash balances to banks at interest rates determined by single-rate auctions. * An important issue in TIO auctions is whether the Treasury receives a market rate of return on TIO funds. * An analysis of the spread...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Macroeconomic stabilization through an employer of last resort
- The employer of last resort ELR policy proposal, also referred to as the job guarantee or public sector employment, is promoted by its supporters as an alternative to unemployment as the primary means of currency stability (see Forstater 1998; Mitchell 1998; Wray 1998; 2000; Mitchell and Wray 2004; Tcherneva and...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Strategic behaviors toward environmental regulation: a case of trucking industry
- I. INTRODUCTION Since Becker (1968) suggested that the cost of committing a crime would increase--and thus the crime rate would decrease--if probability or severity of punishment were increased, a large body of literature has been dedicated to study the enforcement and compliance of an environmental policy. For example, Innes...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Dribble quibble: experiments find that new basketball gets slick
- A dispute in professional basketball about a new ball has bounced its way into a physics lab. A study launched last month at the University of Texas at Arlington compares a controversial plastic ball introduced in preseason games this summer by the National Basketball Association NBA with the previous standard--a...
- Research articles 2006-11-04
- TO WHAT EXTENT ARE PUBLIC SAVINGS OFFSET BY PRIVATE SAVINGS IN THE OECD?
- Abstract The substitutability of private and public savings has implications for the effectiveness of fiscal policy. Using annual data for the period 1970-2004, this study re-examines long-run relationships between OECD private and public savings rates. However, unlike previous work, panel data unit root and cointegration tests are employed. The results...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
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