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Antidumping tariff : the case of certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.

Hoang, Tram N.

In 2003, certain catfish fillets from Vietnam were claimed as having been dumped into the United States market, causing material injuries to domestic producers, and were assessed antidumping duties in the range of 37 to ...
Capital Regulation, Heterogeneous Monitoring Costs, and Aggregate Loan Quality

Kopecky, Kenneth; VanHoose, David D.

This paper develops a banking-sector framework with heterogeneous loan monitoring costs. Banks are exposed to the moral hazard behavior of borrowers and endogenously choose whether to monitor their loans to eliminate this ...
Could sub-debts of banks be potential tools for supervision? Empirical study with data set 1999-2007.

Zhang, Lin, 1983-

Most previous research has discussed how spreads of sub-debts could be tools to signal the risks of banks. However, studies have focused on data preceding 1999, when the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) has not yet been ...
The determinants of Chinese housing price inflation.

Lin, Fangshi, 1988- (, )

Housing prices in major Chinese cities have been soaring since 2003. Some economists believe that this represents a dangerous speculative bubble while others argue that Chinese housing price inflation is a normal consequence ...
Determinants of faculty salaries at elite liberal arts colleges.

Konsor, Kellie J.

In this paper we focus on the determinants of faculty salary levels at elite liberal arts colleges for specific years over the past decade. We address the role regional personal income per capita and endowment play in ...
Does Consumer Search Matter for Firm Markups?

Gwin, Carl R.

This study investigates the relationship between consumer search costs, inflation, and firm markups in retail trade by employing actual measures of search cost. Consistent with theory, results indicate that markups can be ...
Do We Really Understand Home Ownership Rates? An International Study

Gwin, Carl R.; Ong, Seow-Eng

This paper attempts to fill two gaps in the homeownership literature identified by Dietz and Haurin (2003): homeownership in less developed countries and the effects of race, ethnicity and income on tenure choice. We use ...
Existence of Equilibriuim in Welfare-enhancing Free Trade Areas

Grinols, Earl L.; Silva, Peri A.

Proving the existence of equilibrium having specified properties is often synonymous with proving the result in trade theory. The Grandmont-McFadden proposition that any autarkic allocation can be replaced by a Pareto ...
Export sophistication and catching up.

Vogelgesang, James W.

The catching up model predicts that countries who continue to increase technology through economic policies will experience sustained growth and success in closing the gap between themselves and the current technology ...
Global Patent Protection: Channels of North & South Welfare Gain

Grinols, Earl L.; Lin, Hwan C.

Much of the dynamic literature on intellectual property protection (IPP) arrays goods along a segment of the real line, one endpoint of which expands with innovation. A single margin of innovation brings computational ...
Hispanic assimilation to American health insurance.

Jamal, Sheri K.

Policy makers, insurance companies, physicians, healthcare administrators, and especially patients have acknowledged the need for healthcare reform. Some economists speculate high healthcare costs arise from charging ...
Information leaks and information systems.

Madden, Joshua E. (, )

While the rise of WikiLeaks and other leak-related organizations has been reflected in the research in international relations, it has received limited focus within the field of information systems. This study surveyed ...
Internal social media's impact on socialization and commitment.

Gonzalez, Ester S. (, )

Social media technologies present an opportunity for organizations to create value by acclimating new employees and increasing organizational commitment. Past research has indicated that many organizations have leveraged ...
Measurement of total factor productivity growth in countries with high rates of structural change.

Racsa, Patrick N.

In a neoclassical framework, high rates of economic growth can be sustained if the main source of this growth is improvements in technical efficiency, measured by Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG). This study argues ...
Openness, Central Wage Bargaining, and Inflation

Daniels, Joseph P.; Nourzad, Farrokh; VanHoose, David D.

This paper develops a model of an open economy containing both sectors in which wages are market-determined and sectors with wage-setting arrangements. A portion of the latter group of sectors coordinate their wages, ...
Openness, the Sacrifice Ratio, and Inflation: Is there a Puzzle?

Daniels, Joseph P.; VanHoose, David D.

The standard time-inconsistency-based explanation for the negative correlation between openness and inflation requires an inverse relationship between the sacrifice ratio and openness, but Daniels et al. (forthcoming) ...
Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Plans, and Promoting Progress

Grinols, Earl L.; Henderson, James W.

Monopoly response to buyers who pay fraction c of the product cost is to raise the buyer price for the initial quantity q0 from p0 to 1/c p0, and adjust to a different price and quantity only if profits are thereby raised ...
Privatization and the resistance to change: technological, political, and sociological issues.

Lackmeyer, Jay.

Both Florida and Texas child welfare systems function heavily off of legislative mandates. In 1996, the Florida legislature mandated four pilot programs that privatized child welfare services through contracts with ...
Religious Freedom and State Religion in an Interational Panel

Gwin, Carl R.; North, Charles M.

This paper explores the determinants and implications of church-state relationships. A theoretical model of a government’s decision to establish, or disestablish, a state church is developed and then tested with data from ...
Religious Pluralism and Religious Adherence in U.S. Counties: Assessing the Reassessment

North, Charles, M.; Staha, Melissa B.

We conduct an empirical test of the relationship between religious pluralism and religious participation in U.S. counties using a fixed-effects panel estimation technique. The empirical technique allows us to control for ...