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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) October, 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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Advertising and information: an empirical study of search, experience and credence goods

Ekelund, Robert B.; Mixon, Franklin G.; Ressler, Rand W. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) May, 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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Interactions among Private Investors and Government Policies: Rules versus Discretion

Fountas, Stilianos - In: Journal of Economic Studies 21 (1994) May, 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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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) January, 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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Monetary policies of developed countries: co-ordination, coercion or independence

Katsimbris, George M.; Miller, Stephen M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) May, 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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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...

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Income inequality and mortality in U.S. cities: Weighing the evidence. A response to Ash

Deaton, Angus; Lubotsky, Darren - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009

Deaton and Lubotsky (2003) found that the robust positive relationship across American cities between mortality and income inequality became small, insignificant, and/or non-robust once they controlled for the fraction of each city’s population that is black. Ash and Robinson (Ash, M., &...

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Convergence Clubs of State-Level Agricultural Productivity in the U.S.A.

Fousekis, Panos - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 59 (2006) 4, pp. 481-501

-level agricultural productivity of the USA. This is pursued using Total Factor Productivity (TFP) data from 48 contiguous states over the …

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Is It Fair to Treat China as a Christmas Tree to Hang Everybody’s Complaints? Putting its Own Energy Saving into Perspective

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

China had been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. However, recent studies show that China had overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate...

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An experiment with two-way offers into court: restoring the balance in pre-trial negotiation

Main, Brian G.M.; Park, Andrew - In: Journal of Economic Studies 30 (2003) May, pp. 125-143

will lead to out of court settlement. Both in the UK following the Woolf Report and the Cullen Report and in the USA, the …

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