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The performance of black-owned banks in their primary market areas
Clair, Robert T. (1988-11)
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Nov , Pages 11-20

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Welfare and the locational choices of new immigrants
Zavodny, Madeline (1997-04)
The 1996 welfare law ends most noncitizens' eligibility for federally funded public assistance programs and allows states to cut off payments under other welfare programs to noncitizens. If some states choose to continue extending benefits while others terminate payments to immigrants, interstate differentials in welfare generosity will widen. Potential policy differences create concern that states that continue to offer benefits to immigrants will become welfare magnets. ; In this article, Madeline Zavodny examines whether welfare generosity is correlated with the number of new immigrants ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Q II , Pages 2-10

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Regulation, bank competitiveness, and episodes of missing money
Duca, John V. (1993-04)
John Duca reviews three episodes of "missing money," periods during which one of the monetary aggregates was unusually weak. Duca finds that in each of these episodes, an increased regulatory burden on banks encouraged households and firms to bypass the banking system in favor of nonbank financial liabilities and assets. Using a standard analytical framework, he shows how these shifts by investors can lead to cases of missing money and declines in banks' role in providing credit. Duca further shows that increases in bank regulatory burden can create potential problems for analysts in using ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Apr , Pages 1-23

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Privatization and the transition to a market economy
Saving, Jason L. (1998-10)
The Chinese government has announced its intention to privatize thousands of state-owned enterprises. Such an effort would dwarf recent privatizations in the industrialized West and be comparable only to the Eastern European experience following the fall of the Soviet Union. As such, an examination of the Eastern European privatization may provide valuable lessons for China and any other developing economy that embarks upon a large-scale privatization program. In this article, Jason Saving considers three problems with which Eastern European privatizations have had to contend: a scarcity of ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Q IV , Pages 17-25

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Is NAFTA economic integration?
Gruben, William C.; Welch, John H. (1994-04)
Most economists agree that trade liberalization raises incomes and living standards. To achieve trade liberalization, though, countries must sometimes first reach trade agreements. And trade agreements, as William Gruben and John Welch observe, may intertwine elements of both liberalization and protectionism. As an example, Gruben and Welch examine the negotiation process that preceded passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. ; Is NAFTA economic integration? Although some authors think so, Gruben and Welch believe that interpreting NAFTA purely as economic integration is ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Q II , Pages 35-51

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Has long-run profitability risen in the 1990s
Duca, John V. (1997-10)
This article analyzes the recent rebound in nonfinancial corporate profitability, as measured by after-tax profits as a share of output. Virtually all the resurgence in corporate profitability during the 1990s reflects a cyclical increase in profits and a decline in net interest expense associated with deleveraging and lower interest rates. In this sense, it is not clear that a long lasting upward shift in the economic returns to capital has occurred, after accounting for short-run cyclical-related movements and for how deleveraging and lower interest rates have shifted capital payments away ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Q IV , Pages 2-14

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The pricing of natural gas in U.S. markets
Yücel, Mine K.; Brown, Stephen P. A. (1993-04)
Stephen Brown and Mine Ycel examine how different natural gas users and the market institutions serving them affect the transmission of price changes throughout various markets for natural gas. Electrical utilities and industrial users buy much of their natural gas in a competitive spot market served by brokers and interstate pipeline companies. In contrast, most commercial and residential customers are dependent on local distribution companies, which earn a regulated rate of return and buy their gas under long-term contracts. ; Using time-series methods, Brown and Ycel find that even in the ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Apr , Pages 41-51

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Gasoline and crude oil prices: why the asymmetry?
Yücel, Mine K.; Brown, Stephen P. A. (2000-07)
Many consumers complain that gasoline and crude oil prices have an asymmetric relationship in which gasoline prices raise more quickly when crude oil prices are rising than they fall when crude oil prices are falling. Many also regard the asymmetry they observe as evidence of market power in the petroleum industry. Most previous research provides econometric evidence of the asymmetry, confirming at least part of what consumers suspect. In this article Stephen Brown and Mine Yucel extend the inquiry by examining the market conditions underlying the asymmetric relationship between gasoline ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Q3 , Pages 23-29

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The labor-intensive nature of manufacturing high-technology capital goods
Clair, Robert T. (1986-03)
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Mar , Pages 11-19

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The evidence on government competition
Taylor, Lori L. (2000-04)
Society clearly benefits when businesses compete. The social benefits of government competition are still being debated, however. A large economics literature has sprung up to explore the premise that governments facing intense competitive pressure behave differently than do governments facing little or no competition. Lori Taylor examines the literature on government size, service quality, and productivity. She concludes that an ill-defined market for government, together with inconsistent and potentially inappropriate measuring sticks, raises the strong possibility that competition has ...
Economic and Financial Policy Review , Issue Q2 , Pages 2-10

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