.... International migration Returned migrants Task qualification Contamination bias Immigration United States of America South America South American countries have experienced large migration flows over the past few decades, particularly to the USA, their major host in that period. Understanding...

... by a negative and statistically significant error correction term in the error correction representation of each ARDL model. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Trade in services Depreciation J‐curve Exchange rates United States of America United Kingdom The effects of a real...

... markets SVAR United States of America Private sector organizations One of the most interesting approaches, outside the mainstream context, used to make economic projections is the sectoral balances approach pioneered by Godley (1999) at Levy Institute of Economics. This approach starts from...

... their ability to barter. Akbar Marvasti can be contacted at: Akbar.Marvasti@noaa.gov © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Barter Television commercials Sales management Microeconomics Broadcasting Panel data In this paper, we investigate what accounts...

...‐predictions. Hamid Baghestani can be contacted at: baghesta@msn.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Monetary policy Politics Macroeconomics Employment Federal Open Market Committee Taylor rule Forecasting bias Political business cycle...

.... Abdulnasser Hatemi‐J can be contacted at: ahatemi@uaeu.ac.ae © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Equation 1 United States of America Canada Japan Australia Government Economic policy Trade Government spending Terms of trade volatility Hidden cointegration Asymmetry...

... States of America Income Ethnic minorities Religion Ethnic and religious heterogeneity Polarization Fractionalization Inequality Redistribution Several empirical studies, based on cross‐country regressions, such as Alesina et al. (2003) and Montalvo and Reynal‐Querol (2005a...

.... Belay Seyoum can be contacted at: Seyoum@nova.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Foreign trade International trade Free trade Foreign trade zones Trade agreement parity Legislation The paper is organized as follows: we briefly explore...

... expenditure sub‐categories [9] . Saeid Mahdavi can be contacted at: smahdavi@utsa.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Wagner's Law State and local governments Public expenditures Income Co‐integration Granger causality United States of America The “Law of Increasing...

... (accessed July 10, 2009). Weintraub , S. (1997), NAFTA at Three: A Progress Report , The Center for Strategic and International Studies , Washington, DC . Further Reading Clark , D.P. (2007), “ Intra‐industry specialization and the United States‐Central America‐Dominican...

.... Oguzhan Dincer can be contacted at: odincer@ilstu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Poverty Income Equal opportunities United States of America Poverty is not a problem specific to developing countries. Today, almost 12.5 per cent of the US population (more than 35 million...

...‐gender measures is uncertain. Walter O. Simmons can be contacted at: wsimmons@jcu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 United States of America Obesity Income Road accidents Death rate Particularly noteworthy is the finding that the death rate has a statistically...

... have theoretically correct signs. Hamid Baghestani can be contacted at: baghesta@msn.com) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Inflation Forecasting Financial information United States of America In support of the asymmetric information hypothesis, a number of recent...

... on the sources of technical inefficiency of health care foodservice operations for Australia and USA. A. Assaf can be contacted at: albert.assaf@vu.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Process efficiency Stochastic modelling Food service Health services Australia United States...

... (China Business, 2007). Abdol S. Soofi can be contacted at: soofi@uwplatt.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Exchange rates International trade Government policy China United States of America A great deal of discussions in mass media and extensive debates among...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Sub Saharan Africa United States of America Imports Exports International trade The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law on 18 May, 2000. It is intended to offer beneficiary countries trade preferences as a complement...

... Statistics Population United States of America Economists have a habit of correcting a typical limitation of US official time‐series aggregate‐type data: Such data do not go sufficiently far back in time for historical research; so they are supplemented with privately produced series that do so...

... been volatile and fragile. Originality/value This paper highlights productivity trends in the USA. Productivity rate Economic trends United States of America This paper investigates productivity growth and technical progress bias in the United States [1] . We build on a large body...

... Money Monetary policy United States of America Variance The empirical findings indicate that the conditional volatility of output varies directly with both versions of the conditional volatility of money supply. In addition, such variation in monetary volatility exhibits an asymmetric pattern...

... Economics Demand History United States of America Demand deposits could be distributed according to size, banks, geographical regions, or by type of depositors. The present paper is concerned with the last mentioned type of distribution. The distribution of deposits by type of holder is a new field...