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Department of Economics
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WORKING PAPERS


1997

97-1 R. Carter Hill, "Shrinkage Estimation in Nonlinear Models" with Lee Adkins and Minbo Kim.

97-2 R. Carter Hill, "A Random Walk Down Main Street?" with C.F. Sirmans and John R. Knight.

97-3 Dek Terrell, "Experience, Tenure, and Wage Growth of Young Black and White Men," with Bernt Bratsberg, forthcoming Journal of Human Resources (Summer 1998).

97-4 Dek Terrell, "World Interest Shocks, Capital, and the Current Account," with Walter H. Fisher.

97-5 Dek Terrell, "Immigrant's Returns to Education and Quality of Schooling," with Bernt Bratsberg.

97-6 Dek Terrell, "Evaluating the Performance of the Fourier Series, Asymptotically Ideal Model, and Neural Net: A Guide to Semi-nonparametric Forms," July 1996 with Adrian Fleissig and Terry Kastens.

97-7 Dek Terrell, "Imposing Monotonocity and Concavity Restrictions on Stochastic Frontiers," with Imad Dashti. Download paper in postscript form

97-8 Dek Terrell, "Measuring Productive Efficiency of Small Firms in Pakistan: A Nonparametric Approach," with Amid Burki, forthcoming World Development (January 1998).

97-9 Dek Terrell, "The Tradeoff Between the Crime Rate and Equal Justice," with Amy Farmer.

97-10 Dek Terrell, "An Empirical Examination of the Effect of World Interest Shocks on Indebted Nations," November 1996, with Walt Fisher.

97-11 William J. Moore, Robert J. Newman, and Karen Gutermuth, "Determinates of Medicaid Drug Expenditure and the Effects of Cost Control Policies, Oct. 1996.

97-12 William J. Moore and Karen Gutermuth, "An Economic Analysis of Medicaid Retrospective Drug Utilization Review Programs, Nov. 1996.

97-13 William J. Moore and Etienne E. Pracht, " Trends in State Medicaid Pharmacy Payments, 1983-1993, Sept. 1996.

97-14 Theodore Palivos, "Transitional Dynamics and Indeterminacy of Equilibria in an Endogenous Growth Model with Public Input," with Chong Yip and Junxi Zhang.

97-15 Theodore Palivos, "Economic Growth, Human Capital Accumulation, and Endogenous Fertility: A tale of Two Approaches to Development Traps."

97-16 Theodore Palivos, "Vertical Innovations, Product Cycles and Endogenous Growth in Search Equilibrium," with Derek Laing and Ping Wang.

97-17 Theodore Palivos, "On the Relationship between Public Education and Fertility in Different Stages of Development," with Carol Scotese.

97-18 John P. Bigelow , "The Economics of Relationships and the Limits of the Law," with Jim Bowers.

97-19 W. Douglas McMillin and Faik Koray, "Monetary Shocks, the Exchange Rate, and the Trade Balance," Journal of International Money and Finance, December 1999. Download paper in pdf format

97-21 W. Douglas McMillin, "Historical Decomposition of Aggregate Demand and Supply Shocks in a Small Macro Model," with J. S. Fackler, October 1996,forthcoming Southern Economic Journal.

97-22 Geoffrey K. Turnbull, "The Polycentric City Under GARP."

97-23 Geoffrey K. Turnbull, "The Median Voter Across Levels of Government," with Peter M. Mitias, forthcoming Public Choice.

97-24 Geoffrey K. Turnbull, "Income Illusion, Grant Illusion, and Local Government Spending," with Peter M. Mitias.

97-25 Geoffrey K. Turnbull, "Prices, Incentives, and Choice of Management Form," with C. F. Sirmans and G. Stacy Sirmans.

97-26 Geoffrey K. Turnbull, "Bureaucratic Behavior in the Public Sector: A Nonparametric Approach," with Chinkun Chang.

97-27 W. Douglas McMillin, "Lag Length Selection in Vector Autoregressive Models: Symmetric and Asymetric Lags," with Omer Ozcicek, forthcoming Applied Economics. Download paper in pdf format

97-28 Dek Terrell, "Biases in Assessments of Probabilities: New Evidence from Greyhound Racing," forthcoming Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Download paper in postscript format

97-29 Andrew N. Kleit, "Creating Entry to Fight Monopolization: The Case of BMI."

97-30 Andrew N. Kleit, "Does It Matter That the Prosecutor is Also the Judge: The Administrative Complaint Process at the Federal Trade Commission,"with Malcolm B. Coate.

97-31 Andrew N. Kleit and R. Carter Hill, "Environmental Protection, Bureaucratic Incentives, and Rent-Extraction: The Regulation of Water Pollution in Louisiana," with Meredith A. Pierce.

97-32 Andrew N. Kleit, "Cogeneration and Electric Power Industry Restructuring" with David Dismukes.

97-33 Andrew N. Kleit,"ASCAP vs. BMI: Competition Between Performance Rights Organizations."

97-34 Andrew N. Kleit,"Did Open Access Integrate Natural Gas Markets? An Arbitrage Cost Approach."

97-35 James J. Arias,"Shopping Time in an Exchange Economy with Friction"

97-36 Etienne E. Pracht and William J. Moore, "An Analysis of the Variation in Reimbursement Rates of Pharmaceutical Drugs Under Medicaid"

97-37 Jeanne S. Ringel, "It's Too Darn Hot! Using Temperature as an Instrument for Teen Fertility."

97-38 David J. Smyth,"Empirical Evidence on Hysteresis in the United States Labor Market."

97-39 David J. Smyth, "The Effect of Hysteresis on Fluctuations in Unemployment and Inflation."

97-40 David J. Smyth, "Estimating the Public's Social Preference Function between Inflation and Unemployment"

97-41 David J. Smyth, "Presidential Popularity: What Matters Most: Macroeconomics or Scandals?"

97-42 David J. Smyth, "Barter in the U.S. Economy, " with A. Marvasti.

97-43 David J. Smyth, "Inflation and Growth in the Japanese Economy."

97-44 David J. Smyth, "A Production Function for the Reputations of Economics Departments: Pages Published, Citations, and the Andy Rooney Effect."