It is demonstrated that entropy is a useful measure for examining industrial diversity either among regions or for a particular region over time. Using the entropy method, employment diversity indices are computed for the 50 states and the district of Columbia for the ten‐year period from 1972...

Economists of the Public Choice School have argued that compensation payments to victims of crime will increase the crime rate. This proposition is examined by estimating crime supply functions for rape and aggravated assault in which the expected probability and magnitude of compensation...

A simultaneous equation model is used to estimate export demand and supply functions for US soybeans. Price, income, exchange rate and other effects on exports to four world regions are estimated. Inclusion of export supply relationships have very significant implications for estimated price‐,...

The relative impacts of the monetised and non‐monetised deficit on output and inflation in the United States are assessed using annual data for the 1923‐1982 period. With Federal Reserve purchases of government debt serving as a measure of monetisation, the results of Granger causality tests...

1982 US intra‐industry trade (IIT) for 308 four‐digit manufacturing products is related to industry characteristics in a cross‐section regression study of the sources of two‐way trade. Results indicate the empirical relevance of models which present IIT as the result of international...

Argues the case for reform of US tax codes from a feminist viewpoint. “The household” and “the individual” are falsely distinguished in the tradition of taxing only adult male breadwinners ‐women being engulfed in “the household”. Describes recent analysis of human identity in...

Uses comprehensive data on the geographical and industry distribution of company‐owned and franchised outlets in franchise chains to test hypotheses on the ownership fror choice in US state markets. Comfirms the importance of geographical factors, associating company ownership with...

Investigates the importance of English language sources of Friedrich Theodor Althoff (1839‐1908), a German of great influence both in his own country and, indirectly, in the United States. Explores some measures of his influence in education and international understanding. Examines a wide...

We analyze historical business cycles as a sum of short‐ and medium‐term cycles defined for a particular class of unobserved component models. By associating the trend with the low frequencies of the pseudo‐spectrum in the frequency domain, manipulation of the spectral bandwidth will allow...