... 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 the evolution and determinants...

... but the long‐run coefficients are positive (see, amongst others, Bahmani‐Oskooee and Hajilee (2009)). Trade in services Depreciation J‐curve Exchange rates United States of America United Kingdom The effects of a real exchange rate depreciation (or devaluation) have been discussed...

... at: anto_paradiso@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Household financial balance Corporate financial balance Business cycle Financial markets SVAR United States of America Private sector organizations One of the most interesting approaches, outside the mainstream context...

.... United States of America Barter Television commercials Sales management Microeconomics Broadcasting Panel data In this paper, we investigate what accounts for the variations in the level of barter transactions among markets and firms in broadcasting industry. The economics literature...

... Limited 2012 United States of America Monetary policy Politics Macroeconomics Employment Federal Open Market Committee Taylor rule Forecasting bias Political business cycle There exists a strand of literature documenting the difference in the two US political parties' emphasis...

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

... United 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...

.... 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 Importers can bring in products for display to wholesalers...

... be required to identify potential factor adjustment problems. Don P. Clark can be contacted at: dclark3@utk.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Intra‐industry specialization Economic integration Free trade agreements Colombia United States of America The United States...

... 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...

... 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 people) live in poverty. According to the Census Bureau, although the percentage of the population living in poverty...

... in scholarly outlets [2] . United States of America Obesity Income Road accidents Death rate © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Walter O. Simmons can be contacted at: wsimmons@jcu.edu The relationship between obesity and motor vehicle deaths is of particular interest...

... information United States of America In support of the asymmetric information hypothesis, a number of recent studies, including Romer and Romer (2000) and Sims (2002) , conclude that the Federal Reserve forecasts of inflation are accurate and embody useful predictive information beyond...

... States of America The studies on performance measurement have developed rapidly in several industries such as telecommunication, banks and hotels (Mahadevan, 2002 ; Uri, 2002). This is because of the well‐established link between performance, business capacity and profitability. In the health...

..., the debate has been reduced to the issue of policy sequencing, as is described below. 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...

...‐Saharan Africa that are eligible for AGOA benefits. © 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...

... 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...

... States of America This paper investigates productivity growth and technical progress bias in the United States [1] . We build on a large body of recent literature that (unlike Solow, 1957) takes a flexible functional forms approach in a multiple‐output multiple‐input context. In particular, we...

... Equation 5 Equation 6 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Money Monetary policy United States of America Variance This paper seeks to investigate, for the first time, the presence of any asymmetric impact of the volatility of money on the volatility of output...

...Roger J. Sandilands Presents a memorandum written by Lauchlin Currie in December 1940 to the President of the USA on the subject of expansion possibilities of the US monetary system. © Company 2004 Economics History United States of America The most important single factor...