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The Economic Journal 1998

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NOVEMBER 1998

This issue includes the following:

Standard Measures of Literacy Ignore its Distribution across Households

Staying in Power: The Often Successful Electoral Politics of Extreme Policies

Noise Traders' Drive Fluctuations in the Foreign Exchange Markets

Paul Krugman on What Economists Do

Policy Forum: The New Monetary Policy Framework in the UK
     
Sir Alan Budd on the Role and Operations of the Monetary Policy Committee:

Will the Bank Pursue Inflation Stability at the Expense of High Output Volatility?
Inflation Targets: Lessons for the European Central Bank from the UK Experience
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SEPTEMBER 1998:
Among the topics discussed in the January 1999 issue:
Lowering Prices Charged by the Privatised Utilities: 'Output Floor'
Regulation Would be More Effective Than RPI-X
Strategies for Reducing Corruption and Increasing Investment and
Growth
Globalisation Means Rising Inequality in the Rich Countries
Globalisation and New Technology: If the Unskilled are the Victims, These are the Villains
Public Policy Can do Little for the Unskilled
Trade with Low Wage Economies: The Impact on UK Jobs, Wages and Productivity
Trade Liberalisation is Good for Growth - and Protection is Unquestionably Bad
Open Economies are Much Richer
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JULY 1998:
 
How to Get High Quality Public Health Services at Reasonable Cost
Why EMU Will Work - Even if it Looks Like a Bad Idea in Advance
Assessing the Threat of Major Exchange Rate Realignments
The Determinants of UK Business Cycles
Standard Measures of Barriers to Trade are Seriously Flawed
Will Preferential Agreements Undermine the Global Trading System?
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MAY 1998:
 
‘Are Women Less Selfish than Men?’ by Catherine Eckel (National Science Foundation and Virginia Polytechnic and State University) and Philip Grossman (University of Texas at Arlington)

‘Did the Forced Selling-off of Brewery-owned Pubs Raise Beer Prices?’ by Professor Margaret Slade (University of British Columbia, Canada)

‘Rival Telecommunications Networks and the Cost of a Phone Call’ by Mark Armstrong (Nuffield College, Oxford)

‘Tax Evasion and ‘Cash Cow’ Taxation Systems’ by Professor John McLaren (Columbia University, New York)

‘The Sacrifice Ratio: How Big an Output Drop to Reduce Inflation’ by Professors Michael Hutchison and Carl Walsh (University of California, Santa Cruz)
       
Controversy: The Economics of Unemployment in the OECD Countries

‘How Can We Reverse the Rise in OECD Unemployment Since the 1970s?’ by Professor Edmund Phelps (Columbia University) and Gylfi Zoega (Birkbeck College, London)

‘On which Labour Market Institutions should Unemployment Policy Focus?’ by Professor Stephen Nickell (Oxford University)

‘After the Natural Rate: ‘Chain Reaction’ Theory and Labour Market Flexibility’ by Marika Karanassou (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London) and Professor Dennis Snower (Birkbeck College, London)

‘The Impact of Interest Rates and Public Spending on Unemployment’ by Jakob Madsen (University of Western Australia)

‘Return to the Golden Age? Reforming the International Financial System’ by Professor Paul Davidson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Other papers include Jonathan Thomas of University College London on the role of selective job search in UK unemployment, and Sebastian Edwards of UCLA on inflation and currency crises.


MARCH 1998
 

Training on the Job: How Trade Unions Overcome Corporate Under-Investment by Alison Booth and Monojit Chatterji

Privatising Pensions: The Likely Cost for This and Future Generations by Alessandra Casarico

The Potential Gains from Reducing Inflation Even Further by Jagjit Chadha, Andrew Haldane and Norbert Janssen

Open Trading Countries Reap Productivity Growth Benefits by Sebastian Edwards

The Negative Impact of House Owner-Occupation on Labour Market Flexibility by Andrew Henley

EU Trade Measures Against Foreign Producers: The Cost to Consumers by Tim Lloyd, Oliver Morrissey and Geoffrey Reed

The Advantage of Letting the Bank of England Set the Inflation Target by Anton Muscatelli

Media briefings on these papers are attached. Other papers include:

  • Men Without Children: Welfare and the Failure of the Family in America by George Akerlof (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Economic Policy and Special Interest Politics by Torsten Persson (Stockholm University)

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JANUARY 1998
 
Topics covered in this issue include:

Death and the Policy-Maker: Mortality as an Indicator of Economic Success and Failure by Amartya Sen

The Inequality Myth: Post-War Stability in the International Distribution of Income by Hongyi Li, Lyn Squire and Heng-fu Zou

Location, Location, Location: The Economics of Revival in Lower Manhattan by Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

Inflation Stabilisation and the Boom-Bust Cycle of Consumer Durables by José De Gregorio, Pablo Guidotti and Carlos A. Végh

Securing Full Employment: Keynesian Economic Policies for the New Millennium by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer
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