This empirical study investigates determinants of interstate differentials in the cost of housing for the year 2006. While the literature on geographic cost-of-living differentials is well developed, the literature on geographic cost-of-housing (as opposed to housing-price) differentials is much...

This innovative book offers targeted strategies for effectively and efficiently teaching economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It provides professors and other teachers of economics various techniques to engage and retain the interest of students, and challenges them to apply...

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students...

Arguably, the types of examples used by texts in examining Coasian bargains that address negative externalities are not the types of situations or stories that typically appeal to traditional college and university students. The chapter provides a more modern story for principles instructors to...

The chapter seeks to facilitate the teaching and learning of income tax evasion behavior, which is tacitly illegal, by providing a balanced view of the factors that motivate a taxpayer either to comply with the Internal Revenue Code or engage in income tax evasion. The context is one of a...

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students...

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students...

This empirical note provides updated empirical evidence regarding whether a higher inflation rate of real prices on crude oil and whether real oil price shocks led to higher domestic inflation in the U.S. over the 1965-2012 period. Using autoregressive two stage least squares estimation, the...

This study empirically investigates the impact of the federal budget deficit on the nominal interest rate yields on seven and ten year treasury notes over the 1992?2003 period. To measure the budget deficit, the primary budget deficit, which excludes net interest payments by the treasury, is...