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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the effect of individual and institutional sentiments on the US stock returns during a prolonged bull phase of ten years in the 1990s compared to shorter boom and bust cycles of the 2000s. The study is focussed on a set of stocks...