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[CITATION] The theory of optimum currency areas and exchange-rate flexibility

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The economic impact--industrial and regional--of an arms cut

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W Leontief, A Morgan, K Polenske… - The Review of …, 1965 - JSTOR
I. The Problem and its Analytical Formulation 1. The object of the computations described in
this paper was to determine what effect a hypothetical reduction in military accompanied by
a compensating increase in non-military demand would have on the industrial ...
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The optimum quota and retaliation

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E Tower - The Review of Economic Studies, 1975 - JSTOR
It is well known that a country can generally raise its welfare above that which prevails under
free trade by imposing a tariff on imports. Moreover, under competitive conditions, it is well
known that for every tariff there is an" equivalent quota" on imports or exports which will ...
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The textile bill of 1985: The determinants of congressional voting patterns

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SC Tosini… - Public Choice, 1987 - Springer
The following tables show the results of the probit analysis for the Senate and the House. A
table including results for different combinations of the independent variables is included in
an unpublished appendix available from the authors upon request.
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More on the Welfare Cost of Inflationary Finance: Comment

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E Tower - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1971 - JSTOR
It is well known that by resorting to inflationary finance, a government can appropriate for
itself a portion of national income. The costs involved are also well known. An inflation which
is steady and correctly anticipated by all has little impact on the redistribution of income ...
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The ranking of alternative tariff and quota policies in the presence of domestic monopoly

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RJ Sweeney, E Tower… - Journal of International Economics, 1977 - Elsevier
Abstract Bhagwati demonstrated the nonequivalence between tariffs and quotas in the
presence of monopoly. This paper also assumes domestic production to be monopolized
and shows that giving import licenses or tariff revenues to the domestic producer may ...
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[CITATION] The concept of optimum currency areas and the choice between fixed and flexible exchange rates

E Tower… - Approaches to Greater Flexibility of Exchange Rates, …, 1970
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Commercial policy under fixed and flexible exchange rates

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E Tower - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1973 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract I. Is devaluation deflationary? 437.—II. The Keynesian model, 442.—III. Commercial
policy under fixed rates, 446.—IV. Commercial policy under flexible rates, 449.—V. The
terms-of-trade effect can be zero or negative, 452.—VI. Concluding remarks, 453.
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[CITATION] Effective protection, domestic resource costs, and shadow prices: a general equilibrium perspective

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[CITATION] Agricultural protectionism and the less developed countries: the relationship between agricultural prices, debt servicing capacities and the need for …

T Loo… - Working paper, 1988 - agris.fao.org
Go to AGRIS search. Working paper ([1988). Agricultural protectionism and
the less developed countries: the relationship between agricultural prices, debt
servicing capacities and the need for development aid. ...
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Agricultural Liberalization, Welfare, Revenue and Nutrition in Developing Countries'

T Loo… - Agricultural trade liberalization: implications for …, 1990 - books.google.com
Less developed countries, particularly the poorest ones, typically impose restrictions on
imports of final industrial goods and tax exports of agricultural products. The rationales for
such policies are to protect domestic industry, raise nutritional standards, increase ...
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On shadow pricing labour and foreign exchange

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E Tower… - Oxford Economic Papers, 1987 - JSTOR
THE CONCEPTS of the shadow price of foreign exchange and the shadow prices of non-
traded goods as laid out in Little and Mirrlees (1974) have been subsequently refined in six
important papers (among others) by Bacha and Taylor (1971), Balassa (1974), Bertrand ( ...
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Ranking the optimum tariff and the maximum revenue tariff

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This note uses a two-commodit: y model to demonstrate that if (l) ttte tarif revenue is given to
the private sector,(2) the home trade indifference curves are strictly concave and (3) the
foreign &er CUHWha sa continuousf irst derivative, then the maximum revenue tarifl will ...
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Trade policy and the American income distribution

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JC Hartigan, E Tower - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982 - JSTOR
P REVIOUS studies of the effects of US tariffs and quotas on US real income and its
distribution have concluded that these effects are minimal. Moreover, this conclusion has
emerged from both partial equilibrium'and general equilibrium2 approaches. However, ...
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Exchange Rate Flexibility and Macro-Economic Stability

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E Tower… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1974 - JSTOR
W OULD a movement from fixed to flexible exchange rates increase or decrease the stability
of economic activity? This paper presents calculations of how increased responsiveness of
exchange rates to balance-of-payments pressures would have affected macro-economic ...
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Currency areas and exchange-rate flexibility

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TD Willett… - Review of World Economics, 1970 - Springer
Zusammenfassung WÄhrungsgebiete und WechselkursflexibilitÄt.—Der vorliegende Aufsatz
diskutiert den Plan von optimalen WÄhrungsgebieten und gibt eine kritische Betrachtung
der Literatur über dieses Thema. WÄhrend es keine allgemeine übereinstimmung über ...
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On the best use of trade controls in the presence of foreign market power

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E Tower - Journal of International Economics, 1983 - Elsevier
This paper derives optimum tariffs for a country whose trading partner always exploits its
own market power but assumes naively that the home country will leave its restriction
unchanged. It then shows that a country which is a monopolist or monopsonist will always ...
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On the functional relationship between tariffs and welfare

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E Tower - Journal of International Economics, 1975 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper uses a model of trade in two commodities between two countries to
establish the following proposition. If the foreign offer curve has no points of inflection and if
for each home rate of duty the equilibrium most favorable to the home country is selected ( ...
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Money demand and the terms of trade

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E Tower - Review of World Economics, 1975 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Geldnachfrage und Terms of Trade.—In diesem Aufsatz wird untersucht,
wie eine Abwertung die Geldnachfrage beeinflussen würde, wenn man von Friedmans
permanenter Einkommenshypothese oder der Kassenhaltungs-hypothese von Baumol ...
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Alternative optimum tariff strategies as devices for transferring real income

E Tower, A Sheer… - Southern Economic Journal, 1978 - JSTOR
Almost no student of international economics avoids learning about the idea of an optimum
tariff. Yet it seems likely that no policy maker or economist has more than a rough idea of
how much his own economy would stand to gain from imposing the optimum tariff (except ...
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[BOOK] On shadow pricing

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E Tower, G Pursell… - 1986 - www-wds.worldbank.org
ABSTRACT The principal purpose of the monograph is to use general equilibrium
methodology to explain the logical foundations of shadow prices and the techniques for
deriving shadow price expressions. We first discuss the nature and meaning of shadow ...
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a World of Capital Mobility: A Respecification

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E Tower - The Review of Economic Studies, 1972 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Several years ago in this journal, Professor JE Floyd [2] analyzed the effects of monetary
and fiscal policy in a small Keynesian economy under fixed and flexible exchange rate
systems. In Floyd's model the valuation of capital was assumed to depend on its expected ...
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The Short-Run Stability of the Foreign Exchange Market

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JL Stein… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1967 - JSTOR
Anticipatory purchases of foreign exchange tend to produce or at any rate to hasten the
anticipated fall in the exchange value of the national currency, and the actual fall may set up
or strengthen expectations of a further fall.... Exchange rates in such circumstances are ...
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MORE ON OFFICIAL VERSUS MARKET FINANCING OF PAYMENTS DEFICITS AND THE OPTIMAL PRICING OF INTERNATIONAL RESERVES*

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E Tower… - Kyklos, 1972 - Wiley Online Library
Tower, E. and Willett, TD (1972), MORE ON OFFICIAL VERSUS MARKET FINANCING OF
PAYMENTS DEFICITS AND THE OPTIMAL PRICING OF INTERNATIONAL RESERVES.
Kyklos, 25: 537–552. doi: 10.1111/j. 1467-6435.1972. tb02342. x
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Trade protectionism

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WH Kaempfer, E Tower… - The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 2003 - Springer
If we had a situation where these [steel workers] were our constituents and someone was
breaking in their house and raping and robbing and pillaging them, we would want to send
in a policeman to do something. In this instance, they [importers of foreign steel] are just ...
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Index fundamentalism revisited

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KS Reinker… - The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2004 - iijournals.com
A structured global optimization model budgets a fund's total active risk (tracking error)
among its asset classes or across investment managers. Its objective is to maximize total
fund expected excess return (over benchmark) for a given level of total fund tracking error ...
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School choice: Money, race, and congressional voting on vouchers

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O Gokcekus, JJ Phillips… - Public Choice, 2004 - Springer
Milton Friedman has suggested that the political power of the AmericanFederation of
Teachers and the National Education Association (the twomajor teachers unions) has been
instrumental in defeating the adoption ofeducational vouchers. We test this hypothesis. ...
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The balance of payments approach to trade tax symmetry theorems

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WH Kaempfer… - Review of World Economics, 1982 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Der Zahlungsbilanzansatz für die Theoreme der Steuersymmetrie im Au\
enhandel.—In diesem Aufsatz wird zur Symmetrie zwischen Einfuhr-und Ausfuhrsteuern
zweierlei festgestellt. Erstens: Wenn man die Steuer bei allen Positionen auf der Sollseite ...
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On water in the quota

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AL Hillman, E Tower… - The Canadian Journal of Economics/ …, 1980 - JSTOR
The quite extensive literature on trade barriers has recognized that a tariff may not be fully
exploited, 1 a phenomenon sometimes termed'water-inthe-tariff', but it has invariably
assumed that quotas, once purchased by potential importers, are entirely utilized. ...
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The Stahl-Alexeev Paradox: A Note

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IN Gang, E Tower - Journal of Economic Theory, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract We offer a simple proof of the paradox discovered by Stahl and Alexeev that the
introduction of black markets in a fixed price economy with a rationing mechanism consisting
of waiting line queues is not necessarily a Pareto improvement. We show that the ...
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The geometry of community indifference curves

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E Tower - Review of World Economics, 1979 - Springer
Summary While all of our proofs assumed only one or two residents, the following summary
applies to the case of an N person community for any N> 0 and for many commodities.
Community indifference curves will be non-intersecting and convex if we assume that the ...
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[CITATION] Nontraded Goods, Factor Market Distortions, and the Gains from Trade: Comment

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MC Kemp… - American Economic Review, 1975 - ideas.repec.org
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view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
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On the long and short run relationship between the forward rate and the interest parity

G Pedersson… - Journal of Macroeconomics, 1979 - Elsevier
Abstract The interest parity theory postulates that a one percentage point increase in the
interest differential favoring a currency will be accompanied by an increase in the discount
on that currency in the forward market of one percentage point as well. Using Canadian ...
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On Negotiated Quotas, Tariffs, and Transfers

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B Copeland, E Tower… - Oxford Economic Papers, 1989 - JSTOR
RECENT developments in international trade policy have emphasized that issues involving
the strategic setting of trade barriers can only be fully understood in models with multiple
instruments of protection. Participants in recent rounds of trade negotiations, such as the ...
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Profit control in New Zealand.∗

E Tower - New Zealand Economic Papers, 1979 - Taylor & Francis
In order to control inflation and combat monopoly power, the New Zealand Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI) has required category A firms in recent years to set their prices low
enough so that their profit rate on the book value of their invested capital typically does not ...
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[PDF] Steeling house votes at low prices for the Steel Import Quota Bill of 1999

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R Fisher, O Gokcekus… - Working Papers, 2002 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract Robert Crandall in the March 19, 1999 Wall Street Journal wrote,“On Wednesday
the House passed one of the most blatantly protectionist pieces of legislation since the
1930s. Reacting to the anguished cries from the steel industry and its rapidly declining ...
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Protectionism, labor mobility, and immiserizing growth in developing economies

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J Gilbert, E Tower - Economics Letters, 2002 - Elsevier
In a small, tariff-ridden, developing economy with imperfect labor mobility, we show that
capital accumulation may not immiserize even with foreign rent repatriation. Employment
creation effects can outweigh losses in tariff revenue. With perfect immobility, ...
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[CITATION] The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas and Exchange-rate Flexibility

TD Willett… - 1976 - NJ, International Finance Section, …
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The welfare economics of an unstable real exchange rate

DH Feldman… - Southern economic journal, 1986 - JSTOR
It is frequently useful to be able to approximate the effects of non-infinitesimal changes of a
policy variable in a general equilibrium setting without having to solve a computable general
equilibrium model. This paper develops a technique for deriving analytic solutions to any ...
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Domestic Resource Cost

E Tower - Journal of International Economic Integration, 1992 - JSTOR
This paper resolves several points about proper use of the domestic resource cost (DRC)
concept. It explores its relationship to the effective rate of protection, resolves the conflict
between differing views of the DRC,. generalizes it, and argues that the DRC depends on ...
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Predicting Equity Returns Using Tobin'S q and Price-Earnings Ratios

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M Harney… - The Journal of Investing, 2003 - iijournals.com
In the spring of 2000, two books predicted a substantial fall in the S&P 500 Index. Robert
Shiller's Irrational Exuberance found that, historically, a high price earnings ratio, with real
earnings averaged over 10 years, accurately predicts a low real rate of return from ...
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The Optimum Tariff, Retaliation and Autarky

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E Tower - Eastern Economic Journal, 1976 - JSTOR
Tibor Scitovsky (1942) and Harry G. Johnson (1953-4) have explored what would happen to
a country which imposes the optimum tariff when its trading partner retaliates by imposing
the optimum tariff in its turn. In their analyses" it is assumed that'retaliation'takes the form of ...
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Is Talk Cheap?

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R Gibbs, O Gokcekus… - The Journal of Policy Reform, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
JEL: F13 ''A Statesman is the animal who works with phrases instead of with the burglar's
jimmy.'' ''Why form a party when you can as well form a pressure group?'' ''Politicians are like
bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with keeping in the saddle that they can't bother ...
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PERFORMANCE CONTINGENT PROTECTION*

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WH Kaempfer, E Tower… - Economics & Politics, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we ask how to construct a tariff or quota schedule which depends on the
behavior of a domestic monopsonistic monopolist in order to achieve the best tradeoff
between two objectives of a government. We consider various political and economic ...
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The Welfare Economics of International Adjustment

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TO Willett… - The Journal of Finance, 1971 - JSTOR
In conclusion, I would like to suggest that theoretical analysis of the problems of the
international monetary system has been dominated and excessively restricted by concern
with the mechanics of analysis, and the time has come for introducing some elements of ...
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The Short‐Run Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates*

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E Tower - Economic Record, 1972 - Wiley Online Library
* This paper is a substantial revision of chapter V of the author's Ph. D. thesis [21]. Thanks
are due to Gottfried Haberler, Lawrence H. Officer and Thomas D. Willett for encouragement
and help in formulating the problem. The paper has also been enriched by the comments ...
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On Using Computable General Equilibrium Models to Facilitate Tax, Tariff, and Other Policy Reforms in Less Developed Countries

E Tower… - Tax reform in developing countries, 1989 - books.google.com
This paper is a guide for policy advisers on how to use computable general equilibrium
models (CGES) in the policy process. It draws heavily on Tower's work for the World Bank
and USAID and on joint work of Loo and Tower. Discussion of this work is used to ...
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Trade and industrial policy under oligopoly: comment

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WW Csaplar… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1988 - JSTOR
Recently in this Journal Eaton and Grossman [1986] built a model characterized by a home
firm that sells abroad with one foreign competitor. They determined what the home
government tax policy should be, under different assumptions about oligopoly behavior ...
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[PDF] Do Vanguard's Managed Funds Beat Its Index Funds?

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A Rodriguez… - Looking for prescient stock and style selection. J …, 2008 - Citeseer
ABSTRACT Is John Bogle right that Vanguard's index and managed funds are comparable
and by his example that investors should hold both? Each Vanguard managed fund
produces the same return as the tracking basket of Vanguard's indexed funds plus a ...
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HOW DID THE 2003 PRESCRIPTION DRUG RE‐IMPORTATION BILL PASS THE HOUSE?

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O Gokcekus, M Adams, H Grabowski… - Economics & …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
GOKCEKUS, O., ADAMS, M., GRABOWSKI, H. and TOWER, E.(2006), HOW DID THE 2003
PRESCRIPTION DRUG RE-IMPORTATION BILL PASS THE HOUSE?. Economics & Politics,
18: 27–45. doi: 10.1111/j. 1468-0343.2006. 00161. x
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Monetary and fiscal policy under fixed and flexible exchange rates in the inter-run

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E Tower - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1972 - JSTOR
HOW DO MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICIES affect the equilibrium growth path of a small
under-employed open economy in which wages are inflexible and portfolio balance is
continually maintained? This paper extends the work of McKinnon and Oates [16] to ...
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Enforceability and the Resolution of International Jurisdictional Conflicts: Comments on Abbott, Atwood, and Ordover

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E Tower… - Law and Contemporary Problems, 1987 - JSTOR
The three articles by Abbott, Atwood, and Ordover illustrate the importance of combining
economic, political, and legal analyses in considering issues of international economic
relationships and also the difficulties inherent in doing so. The international dimension to ...
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The leontief question: A Cobb-Douglas approach to simulating the US income distribution in Autarky

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JC Hartigan, E Tower - Review of World Economics, 1986 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Leontiefs Frage: Ein Cobb-Douglas Verfahren zur Simulierung der US-
Einkommensverteilung bei Autarkie.-Die Frage, die Leontief 1956 in seinem klassischen
Artikel über die komparativen Vorteile der USA stellte, war, wie sich die ...
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Are Vanguard's Managers Good Stock-Pickers or Style-Pickers?

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KS Reinker… - The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2005 - iijournals.com
Jared Kizer's article in the Winter 2005 issue indicates for Vanguard's managed funds that
the return to stock-picking skill is not enough to offset the additional transactions costs of a
managed portfolio. Thus, the superior performance of Vanguard's managed portfolio was ...
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Inelastic offer curves, stability and the difference between tariffs and quotas

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E Tower - Atlantic Economic Journal, 1977 - Springer
It is commonly thought that under competi- tive conditions, and without retaliation, for ev- ery
tariff there is a quota on imports or exports which will have equivalent economic effects in all
respects. 1 This assumes, of course, that the rents from the allocation of quotas are ...
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Allocating Jobs under a Minimum Wage: Queues vs. Lotteries*

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IN Gang, E Tower - Economic Record, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we provide a simple diagrammatic technique for incorporating variable labour
supply into the specific factors model We then use the framework to analyze the positive and
normative effects of a minimum wage both with a broadly based employment lottery (on- ...
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The impact of monopoly pricing on the Lerner Symmetry theorem: a comment

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J Eaton, GM Grossman, WH Kaempfer… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1983 - JSTOR
In an article appearing in this Journal, Edward John Ray [1975] claims to show that, when a
domestic producer has monopoly power in the world market, the symmetry between import
and export tariffs found by Lerner for the competitive case no longer obtains. This result ...
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Sweetening the Pot: How American Sugar Buys Protection

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O Gokcekus, J Knowles… - The political economy of …, 2003 - books.google.com
Abstract We use Probit and Tobit analysis to explore the determinants of campaign
contributions from the sugar industry to Senators from 1989 to 2002. We find that the power
and willingness of Senators to protect sugar influence campaign contributions significantly ...
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The Optimum Incentive-Schedule Tariff

E Tower - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1978 - JSTOR
In this JOURNAL Carlos Rodriguez (1976) has shown that, if there are distortions in factor
markets so that the factor prices faced by a domestic monopolist deviate from the fixed social
opportunity costs of using factors, then all the inefficiency on the production side can be ...
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[CITATION] The estimation of the cost of adjustment to external disequilibria: Comment

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E Tower - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1976 - econpapers.repec.org
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DRC criteria: Comment on Lucas

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G Pursell, E Tower - Journal of Development Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
Journal of Development Economics 26 (1987) 163-167. North-Holland DRC CRITERIA Comment
on Lucas* Garry PURSELL The World Bank, Washington, DC 20433, USA Edward TOWER Duke
University, Durham, NC, 27706, USA Received December 1984, final version received ...
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[CITATION] Revaluation Can Be Inflationary: An Analysis of the Inflationary Impact of Demand Shifts in a Simple Policy Dilemma Model

R Shields, E Tower… - The Effects of Exchange Rate Adjustment, edited by …, 1974
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Enhanced versus Passive Mutual Fund Indexing: Has DFA Outperformed Vanguard by Enough to Justify its Advisor and Transaction Fees?

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E Tower… - The Journal of Investing, 2008 - iijournals.com
Passive and enhanced index funds are two important options for investors. Vanguard is the
largest provider of passive indexed funds, and DFA is one of the major providers of
enhanced indexed funds, with uniquely close ties to academic financial research and an ...
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Can a Periodic VER Raise Import ing C ount ry We lfa re?

O Gokcekus… - Journal of Economic Integration, 1997 - Sejong University
Several authors have argued that if exporting firms anticipate a voluntary export restriction in
a future period, and they expect VERs to be allocated in proportion to past exports, then they
have an incentive to dump in the earlier period. In this paper we ask: How does a regime ...
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Buffer stocks are better stabilizers than quotas

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E Tower - Journal of International Economics, 1981 - Elsevier
Abstract Michael Pelcovits (1979, p. 307) recently showed that with an unstable foreign
excess supply curve, either a fixed quota or a buffer stock program with a fixed tariff can be
used to stabilize domestic price at a given level, and both policies 'will have the same ...
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[PDF] Are GMO's predictions prescient? Using them to predict Vanguard's mutual fund returns

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E Tower - Duke University Economics Department Working Paper …, 2008 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract Each month, GMO publishes on the web its predictions of the real rate of return for
various asset styles over the next seven years. Its web library also retains its quarterly
predictions, dating back to the end of the second quarter of 2000. I ask whether these ...
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[CITATION] Excise Tax Evasion: Comment

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E Tower - Public Finance= Finances publiques, 1989 - econpapers.repec.org
... EconPapers has moved to http://EconPapers.repec.org! Please update your bookmarks. Excise
Tax Evasion: Comment. Edward Tower (). Public Finance = Finances publiques, 1989, vol.
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[CITATION] Macro & monetary economics reading lists

E Tower - 1985 - Eno River Press
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[CITATION] Agricultural liberalization, welfare, revenue and nutrition in LDCS

T Loo… - 1989 - Duke University Program in Political …
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[CITATION] Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Appraisal

E Tower, M Bleaney… - Companion to Contemporary Economic Thought, 1991
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Temporary duty suspension in the United States

L Pinsky… - The North American Journal of Economics and …, 1995 - Elsevier
This article investigates the temporary duty suspension program of the United States
Congress. It documents how the legislative process works and discusses the likely
economic effects of the program. It proposes that this program be revamped so as to ...
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[CITATION] Effective Protection

E Tower - Domestic Resource, 1984
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On the dynamic non-equivalence of tariffs and quotas in the monetary model of the balance of payments: Comment

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BC Daniel, HO Fried… - Journal of International Economics, 1985 - Elsevier
Abstract This comment uses a simple monetary model of the balance of payments to
demonstrate that adjustment speed is higher under a tariff than under the quota which is
equivalent to it in longrun equilibrium if and only if the tariff is less than the maximum ...
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[CITATION] History of Economic Thought: Economics Reading Lists, Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles and Problems, vol. 24

E Tower - 1990 - Eno River Press, Durham NC
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[CITATION] Economic Liberalization in Less Developed Countries: Guidelines from the Empirical Evidence and Clarification of the Theory

P Brock… - Economic Reform and Stabilization in Latin America, …, 1987
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[CITATION] 'Steeling'House Votes at Low Prices for the Steel Import Quota Bill of 1999,'Working Paper

RC Fisher, O Gokcekus… - 2002
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Profitable Destabilizing Speculation as Intertemporal Price Discrimination

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DH Feldman… - The American Economist, 1984 - JSTOR
In" The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates" Milton Friedman [4, p. 175] developed the
proposition that destabilizing speculation is necessarily unprofitable. On the same page
through, he qualified his proposition by not ing that a full analysis of the problem would ...
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Strategic Asset Allocation in Practice: Using Vanguard Funds to Clone GMO's Benchmark‐Free Allocation Fund

E Tower - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: GMO offers a mutual fund which is free to change its composition of assets in
accordance with expected risks and returns. It is called the GMO Benchmark Free Allocation
Fund III, ticker: GBMFX. This study asks whether one could obtain the same performance ...
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The choice between a tariff and a quota: Comment

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E Tower - Review of World Economics, 1980 - Springer
R ecently in this journal, Claus Vastrup 1 analyzed the choice between a tariff and a quota
under uncertainty. One of the six different problems he analyzed was whether a quota or a
tariff which is equivalent to it in the initial equilibrium would minimize fluctuations in the ...
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[CITATION] The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas and Exchange Rate Flexibility

T Edward… - Special Papers in International Economics, 1976
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Shadow pricing in a specific-factors model: comment

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E Tower, GG Pursell… - The Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 1987 - JSTOR
Recently in this journal Maneschi (1985) calculated shadow prices of factors for a small
country that produces and consumes many goods, all of which are traded at fixed world
prices and are produced using intersectorally mobile labour and a sector-specific capital ...
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[CITATION] Economics reading lists, course outlines, exams, puzzles & problems

E Tower, Duke University… - 1995 - getcited.org
An academic directory and search engine.
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[CITATION] Rational Pessimism: Predicting Equity Returns Using Tobin's

H Matthew… - Q” and Price/Earnings Ratios”, The Journal of Investing …, 2003
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[CITATION] Microeconomics reading lists

E Tower - 1995 - Eno River Press
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Super 301 trade sanctions: An empirical investigation of the wood products case

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A Baker, F Gross… - The North American Journal of Economics …, 1997 - Elsevier
In 1988, partly in response to a rapidly increasing trade deficit in the 1980s and declining
exports. Congress made Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act “super” to pry open foreign
markets. We assess the effectiveness of this new trade tool, dubbed Super 301, and show ...
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Ranking mutual fund families: minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude

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E Tower… - International Review of Economics, 2008 - Springer
Abstract We evaluate the performance of 51 mutual fund families based on a study of their
diversified US managed mutual funds over an 11-year-period and explore the determinants
of performance gross of published expenses. We find that mutual fund families which ...
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[CITATION] On shadow pricing foreign exchange, goods and factors

E Tower, G Pursell - Typescript, World Bank, 1976
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An efficiency enhancing minimum wage

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O Gokcekus… - Policy Reform, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We consider an economy with a tax on all labor earnings. We discover that a slightly binding
minimum wage on one sector can enhance efficiency. The minimum wage attracts high‐
reservation wage workers into the minimum‐wage sector. If the labor demand curve in the ...
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[PDF] Fidelity versus Vanguard: Comparing the performance of the two largest mutual fund families

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W Zheng… - International Review of Economics and …, 2005 - econ.duke.edu
ABSTRACT This paper compares the risk and return of investing in equity mutual funds
provided by the world's two largest mutual fund families: Fidelity and Vanguard over a long
horizon. We believe this will help guide investors; this study is an example of the ...
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[CITATION] US Concessions in the Kennedy Round and Short-run Labor Adjustment Costs: Still Further Evidence

DL Allen, L Lewis… - Quarterly Review of Economics and Business20 ( …, 1980
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[CITATION] Resolution Ex ante versus ex post DRC's and the possibility of negative shadow prices

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REB Lucas, G Pursell… - Journal of Development …, 1987 - ideas.repec.org
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
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Performance of actively managed versus index funds: The Vanguard case

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E Tower - Mutual Funds, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Vanguard wants you to “believe” in indexing. Your faith in indexing is the cornerstone of their
business. But it'sa lie. And your trust could cost you... plenty!... Indexing doesn't work for you.
It works for them. The big famous Index funds at Vanguard have chronically ...
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[CITATION] Effect of a fertilizer subsidy on income distribution and efficiency in Malawi

E Tower… - Eastern Africa economic …, 1988 - Oxford University Press.
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[CITATION] Financial Policy Under Alternative Exchange Rate Systems

E Tower - unpublished Ph. D. thesis completed June, 1970 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 31009872. Financial policy under alternative exchange rate
systems. Tower, Edward. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1971. Details
der Publikation. Download, http://worldcat.org/oclc/77000504. ...
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Dynamic Stability and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates

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E Tower - The Economic Journal, 1977 - JSTOR
We show that the Marshall-Lerner condition is necessary and sufficient for stability under
flexible rates, whereas it is necessary but insufficient to assure stability of the Hume
mechanism. Thus, on the grounds of dynamic stability, according to that model, flexible ...
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[CITATION] Do the US and China treat one another's exports fairly? Some calculations

E Tower - Asian Profile, 1993
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[PDF] Time-Zone Arbitrage in Vanguard International Index Funds

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KR Donnelly, E Tower, T Bolerslev, M Connolly… - 2008 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract Historically, mutual funds have often calculated their asset values for international
mutual funds using stale prices, because some fund components finish trading before the
market close. This caused daily fund returns to be predictable. This allows an arbitrage ...
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[CITATION] On Shadow Pricing Foreign Exchange

E Tower, G Pursell - Goods and Factors', World Bank, typescript, 1976
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Predicting Equity Returns for 37 Countries

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KS Reinker… - The Journal of Investing, 2004 - iijournals.com
EDWARD TOWER is a professor of economics at Duke University in Durham, NC. tower@
econ. duke. edu eign indexes. Using Morningstar's Principia Pro disk, we compile a list of
just over two dozen mutual funds that are based on international indexes. While the ...
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Industrial policy in less developed countries

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E Tower - Contemporary Economic Policy, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
The idea of industrial policy is to cure perceived market failures of various sorts. This also
has been the meat of development economics for decades. Moreover, strong similarities
exist between the specific goals of industrial policy advocates for developed countries and ...
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