This paper examines the relationship between team payroll and team performance in major league baseball from 1985 to 2002. The results indicate that the relationship has changed over time. Unlike the early years, there is now a much clearer relationship between payroll and performance....

This study evaluates the reaction of exchange market, in a macroeconomic point of view, with new information came from the change of regime from fixed to floating in local currencies in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. So, we used the method RMS (Root Mean Square), which estimates the Hurst...

This letter calls attention a recent trend in economics publishing that seems to have slipped under the radar: large increases in submissions rates across a wide range of economics journals and steeply declining acceptance rates as a consequence. It is argued that this is bad for scholarly...

This announcement is forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics. The announcement regards the creation of a new online submission and manuscript processing system for the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics.

This paper links incentives posed by Judeo-Christian beliefs to economic behavior. Tests support strength for the links even when likely bias favors the alternative one would otherwise expect. Model results explain why strength of faith is irrelevant to behavior in some belief archetypes but...

The European Journal of Comparative Economics, an online refereed journal for scientific articles publishing theoretical and empirical research in any field of comparative economic studies, is promiting the issue 2 2004 freely downloadable at the website http://eaces.liuc.it/ New submission for...

It is widely assumed that the productivity of academic specialists declines with academic age. This paper provides empirical evidence of this phenomenon among economists using a panel data set from the departments of nine major midwestern universities.

This study uses comprehensive panel data to determine the effect of publications on the salaries of full-time economics faculty in nine midwestern universities. The data set allows us to control not only the volume but also the quality of publications. Recent developments in the ISI-Web of...

Applying some built-in functions of Mathematica, this note provides some graphics derived from convergent paths in "Solow Model." The main aim is to attarct other economists and introduces alternative analyzing tools but I also expect that this material helps teaching economics (programming...

Previous models of the popular vote in U.S. Presidential elections emphasize economic growth and price stability, the role of parties and incumbency, and pre-election expectations for the future. Despite the closeness of the pre-election polls in 2004, formal models instead predict a landslide...