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Factors behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work, and Some International Illustrations

Rosner, Menachem; Putterman, Louis - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) 1

An economic framework for understanding the incidence of less alienating job designs in varying industrial settings is developed. Both the supply and demand sides are discussed, and the approach is illustrated by consideration of the frequency of introduction of alienation‐reducing job designs...

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The Impact of the Tariff‐Rate Quota on Sugar Imports on the US Economy

Uri, Noel D.; Boyd, Roy - In: Journal of Economic Studies 21 (1994) 1, pp. 16-40

Examines the impact of the sugar tariff‐rate import quota programme on the United States economy. Uses a computable general equilibrium model composed of 14 producing sectors, 14 consuming sectors, six household categories classified by fincome, and a government. Examines the effects of...

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Interactions among Private Investors and Government Policies

Fountas, Stilianos - In: Journal of Economic Studies 21 (1994) 2, pp. 38-56

Models fiscal policy interactions between fiscal authorities and private investors in the foreign exchange market in a game‐theoretic framework. Using a two‐period game, I consider the credible and noncredible announcements of the domestic fiscal authority with respect to the stance of its...

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Testing Proportionality, Symmetry and Exclusiveness in Long‐run PPP

Moosa, Imad A. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 21 (1994) 3, pp. 3-21

Present some empirical evidence on long‐run Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using a sample of annual data covering the period 1900‐1987. Three exchange rates are used in the analysis: the dollar, yen and French franc against the pound. It is shown that PPP does hold in the long run and that is...

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Aggregation and the Welfare Analysis of US Tariffs

Arce, Hugh M.; Reinert, Kenneth A. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 21 (1994) 6, pp. 26-30

A recurrent concern of researchers who measure the cost of protection is that welfare estimates based on models with highly aggregated sectors of the economy in question will understate the true cost of protection if the tariff system is not uniform. Uses the 1988 tariff schedule of the US and a...

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Advertising and information

Ekelund, Robert B.; Mixon, Franklin G.; Ressler, Rand W. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 2, pp. 33-43

Investigates empirically the importance of buyer characteristics as well as product and service classifications on the informational content of advertising supply by sellers utilizing Yellow Pages advertisements from six US cities. The analysis and tests extend the categories used in previous...

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Monetary policies of developed countries

Katsimbris, George M.; Miller, Stephen M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 2, pp. 44-58

coercive (asymmetric) regimes. Did the USA (Germany) dominate other developed (European) countries during the Bretton Woods … (European Monetary) system? Examines the linkages, if any, between the USA (German) money stock and money stocks in other … developed (European) countries, using the cointegration and error‐correction methodology. Finds evidence that USA (German) money …

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Testing the rational expectations hypothesis using survey data from vegetable growers in the USA

Beach, E. Douglas; Fernandez‐Cornej, Jorge; Uri, Noel D. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 6, pp. 46-59

Survey data on expected and actual prices received by individual vegetable growers in Florida, Michigan and Texas in 1990 are used to test the rational expectations hypothesis. The use of individual grower data overcomes many of the issues that have limited previous tests of this hypothesis in...

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The market valuation of wheat quality characteristics

Uri, Noel D.; Hyberg, Bengt - In: Journal of Economic Studies 23 (1996) 3, pp. 44-63

Agriculture in determining the quality grades of wheat exported by the USA including test weight, dockage, moisture content …

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Do temporal causality tests provide information on policy dominance?

Katsimbris, George M.; Miller, Stephen M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 24 (1997) 6, pp. 379-391

A number of recent papers have raised serious questions about the validity of the German dominance hypothesis, using Granger (temporal) causality tests. If Germany dominates within the European Monetary System, then German monetary policy, measured by either money stocks or interest rates should...

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