Working Papers | CEP (2001-2010)
The CEP (Carleton Economic Papers) is the Departmental working paper series. All such papers produced since 1994 are listed below by year of publication, some with associated links to PDF files. If you wish to order hard copies of one or more of these papers, a payment of $10.00 per copy in Canadian funds payable to Carleton University is required. Please note that any papers with revised versions published elsewhere will not be sent out by mail.
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1991-2000
2010
2009
2008
2007
| Issue |
Author(s) |
Title |
| 07-13 |
Ingela K.M. Alger and Jörgen W. Weibull |
The Fetters of the Sib: Weber Meets Darwin – revised version: Kinship, Incentives, and Evolution, under review |
| 07-12 |
Yiagadeesen Samy and Vivek H. Dehejia |
Trade and Labor Standards: A Review of the Theory and New Empirical Evidence |
| 07-11 |
Vivek H. Dehejia |
Democracy and Development: Friends or Foes? |
| 07-10 |
Ingela K.M. Alger and Jörgen W. Weibull |
Family Ties, Incentives and Development: A Model of Coerced Altruism – revised version in Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, ed. Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanburn, Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| 07-09 |
Richard L. Carson |
On Sustaining Economic Growth Over the Long Term |
| 07-08 |
Charlotta Groth and Hashmat Khan |
Investment Adjustment Costs: An Empirical Assessment |
| 07-07 |
Richard A. Brecher, Zhiqi Chen, and Ehsan U. Choudhri |
Optimal Taxation in a Dynamic Model of Shirking and Unemployment: Shapiro and Stiglitz Meet Chamley |
| 07-06 |
Frances R. Woolley |
Liability Without Control: The Curious Case of Pension Income Splitting – revised version in Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3 (2007), pp. 603-625 |
| 07-05 |
Richard A. Brecher and Zhiqi Chen |
Comment on Chamley’s (1986) Optimal Taxation Of Capital |
| 07-04 |
Stanley L. Winer, Michael W. Tofias, Bernard Grofman, and John H. Aldrich |
Is It Economics or Politics? Trending Economic Factors and the Structure of Congress in the Growth of Government, 1930-2002 |
| 07-03 |
Stanley L. Winer, George Tridimas, and Walter Hettich |
Social Welfare and Collective Goods Coercion in Public Economics |
| 07-02 |
J. Stephen Ferris |
Is the Bank of Canada Any More or Less Independent Than the Fed? |
| 07-01 |
Richard L. Carson |
On the Cost of Rent-Seeking Under Democracy and Under Dictatorship (revised May 2008) |
2006
| Issue |
Author(s) |
Title |
| 06-10 |
Thomas K. Rymes |
On National Income |
| 06-09 |
Zhihao Yu |
The Fear of Competitive Pressure of Globalization and Outsourcing |
| 06-08 |
Prem Shankar Jha |
Atoms, Germs and Fear Make a Deadly Cocktail |
| 06-07 |
James W. Dean |
Paradoxes and Puzzles in Our Globalized World |
| 06-06 |
Frances R. Woolley |
Why Public Goods Are a Pedagogical Bad |
| 06-05 |
J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer |
Politics, Political Competition, and the Political Budget Cycle in Canada, 1870-2000: A Search Across Alternative Fiscal Transmission Mechanisms |
| 06-04 |
J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer |
Just How Much Bigger is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929-2003 – revised version in Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 33, No. 2 (June 2007), pp. 173-206 |
| 06-03 |
Amir Kia |
Deficits, Debt Financing, Monetary Policy and Inflation in Developing Countries: Internal or External Factors? Evidence from Iran |
| 06-02 |
Frances R. Woolley |
Control over Money and Wealth Accumulation in Canadian Families – revised version: Control over Money and the Savings Decisions of Canadian Households (with Shelley Phipps), Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 37, No. 2 (April 2008), pp. 592-611 |
| 06-01 |
Yanling Wang |
North-South Technology Diffusion: How Important Are Trade, FDI and International Telecommunications? |
2005
2004
| Issue |
Author(s) |
Title |
| 04-19 |
Zhiqi Chen |
Monopoly and Product Diversity: The Role of Retailer Countervailing Power |
| 04-18 |
Richard L. Carson |
Output Invariance Across Products |
| 04-17 |
James W. Dean |
Optimal Globalization and National Welfare |
| 04-16 |
James W. Dean |
Euroizing the New Europe |
| 04-15 |
Amir Kia |
Deficits, Debt Financing, Monetary Policy and Inflation in Developing Countries: Internal or External Factors? |
| 04-14 |
Thomas K. Rymes |
Modern Central Banks Only Have Real Effects |
| 04-13 |
Zhihao Yu |
Government Anti-smoking Campaigns: An Endogenous Yardstick Political Competition Approach |
| 04-12 |
Archibald R.M. Ritter |
Cuba’s Underground Economy |
| 04-11 |
Archibald R.M. Ritter |
Canada’s ‘Mineral Cluster’: Structure, Evolution, and Functioning |
| 04-10 |
Archibald R.M. Ritter |
Mineral Sector Development and the Community: Some Canadian Experiences |
| 04-09 |
Keir G. Armstrong |
A Graphical Depiction of Hicksian Partial-Equilibrium Welfare Analysis |
| 04-08 |
Vivek H. Dehejia and Douglas W. Dwyer |
Output and Unemployment Dynamics in Transition – revised version in Journal of Policy Reform, Vol. 7, No. 2 (June 2004), pp. 69-81 |
| 04-07 |
Amir Kia and Hilde Patron |
Market-Based Monetary Policy Transparency Index, Risk and Volatility-The Case of the United States |
| 04-06 |
J. Stephen Ferris, Soo-Bin Park, and Stanley L. Winer |
Politics versus Economics in the Explanation of Government Size – revised version: Studying the Role of Political Competition in the Evolution of Government Size over Long Horizons, Public Choice, Vol. 137, No. 1/2 (October 2008), pp. 369-401; also published as CESifo Working Paper No. 1646. |
| 04-05 |
Soo-Bin Park |
The North Korean Economy: Current Issues and Prospects |
| 04-04 |
George Tridimas and Stanley L. Winer |
A Contribution to the Political Economy of Government Size: ‘Demand’, ‘Supply’, and ‘Political Influence’ |
| 04-03 |
Walter Hettich and Stanley L. Winer |
Regulation and Taxation: Analyzing Policy Interdependence |
| 04-02 |
Kanta Marwah and Akbar Tavakoli |
The Effect of Foreign Capital and Imports on Economic Growth: Further Evidence From Four Asian Countries (1970-1998) |
| 04-01 |
Kanta Marwah and Lawrence R. Klein |
Lost Productivity and Defense Burden of the Southern Cone of Latin America |
2003
| Issue |
Author(s) |
Title |
| 03-13 |
Amir Kia and Ali F. Darrat |
Modeling Money Demand Under the Profit-Sharing Banking Scheme: Evidence on Policy Invariance and Long-Run Stability |
| 03-12 |
Vivek H. Dehejia |
The Choice of Monetary/Exchange Rate Regimes: Concepts and Arguments |
| 03-11 |
William Pouliot |
Introducing Uncertainty into Baland and Robinson’s Model of Child Labour http://www1.carleton.ca/economics/ccms/wp-content/ccms-files/cep03-11.pdf |
| 03-10 |
James W. Dean |
Exchange Rate Regimes for the 21st Century: Asia, Europe and the Americas |
| 03-09 |
J. Stephen Ferris and Jack Galbraith |
Could Non-redeemable Money have Evolved Naturally from Commodity Money Under Free Banking? |
| 03-08 |
Zhihao Yu |
A New Push on An Old Fundamental: Understanding the Patterns of Outsourcing |
| 03-07 |
Zhihao Yu |
Environmental Protection: A Theory of Direct and Indirect Competition for Political Influence – revised version in Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 72, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 269-286 |
| 03-06 |
Zhihao Yu |
IT, Production Specialization, and Division of Labor: A Smith-Ricardo Model of International Trade |
| 03-05 |
A.L. Keith Acheson and Christopher J. Maule |
Convention on Cultural Diversity |
| 03-04 |
Zhihao Yu |
Why Take on the Tobacco Industry: The Political Economy of Government Anti-smoking Campaign |
| 03-03 |
Archibald R.M. Ritter |
An Overview of Cuba’s Economy in the 2000s: Recuperation and/or Relapse |
| 03-02 |
J. Stephen Ferris |
Competitive Bank Monies: Reconsidering Hayek and Klein from a Transactions Perspective |
| 03-01 |
Larry D. Qiu and Zhihao Yu |
Can Technology Transfer Induce the South to Sign International Environmental Agreements? – revised version: Technology Transfer and the South’s Participation in an International Environmental Agreement, Review of International Economics, Vol. 17, No. 3 (August 2009), pp. ? -? |
2002
| Issue |
Author(s) |
Title |
| 02-12 |
Yongmin Chen, Jota Ishikawa, and Zhihao Yu |
Trade Liberalization and Strategic Outsourcing – revised version in Journal of International Economics, Vol. 63, No. 2 (July 2004), pp. 419-436 |
| 02-11 |
Stanley L. Winer and Walter Hettich |
The Political Economy of Taxation: Positive and Normative Analysis when Collective Choice Matters |
| 02-10 |
Ambrose Leung and J. Stephen Ferris |
School Size and Youth Violence – revised version in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 65, No. 2 (February 2008), pp. 318-333 |
| 02-09 |
Richard L. Carson |
Competition, Economic Profit, and Political Capture |
| 02-08 |
Frances R. Woolley |
Why Pay Child Benefits to Mothers? – revised version in Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 47-69 |
| 02-07 |
A.L. Keith Acheson and Christopher J. Maule |
Cultural Issues in Trade Agreements: Multiculturalism, Liberalism and the NICD Initiative |
| 02-06 |
J. Stephen Ferris and Michael McKee |
Measuring Academic Potential: A Case for Academic Tenure and Process |
| 02-05 |
Samuel Hollander |
Economic Organization, Distribution and the Equality Issue: The Marx-Engels Perspective |
| 02-04 |
O.E. Perez Villanueva |
Cuba: An Overview of Foreign Direct Investment |
| 02-03 |
Ambrose Leung, Frances R. Woolley, Richard E. Tremblay, and Frank Vitaro |
Who Gets Caught? Statistical Discrimination in Law Enforcement |
| 02-02 |
Christopher J. Maule |
Rhetoric and Reality-the Debate over Trade and Culture |
| 02-01 |
J. Stephen Ferris and Edwin G. West |
Economies of Scale, School Violence, and the Optimal Size of Schools – revised version in Applied Economics, Vol. 36, No. 15 (20 August 2004), pp. 1677-1684; reprinted in Modern Classics in the Economics of Education, Vol. II, ed. Clive Belfield, Edward Edgar, 2006, pp. 257-266 |
2001
| Issue |
Author(s) |
Title |
| 01-08 |
Kathleen Day and Stanley L. Winer |
Policy-Induced Migration in Canada: An Empirical Study |
| 01-07 |
Gabriel Rodríguez and P. Nicholas Rowe |
Why U.S. Money Does Not Cause U.S. Output, but Does Cause Hong Kong Output – revised version in Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 26, No. 7 (November 2007), pp. 1174-1186 |
| 01-06 |
Thomas E. Borcherding, J. Stephen Ferrris, and Andrea Garzoni |
Growth in the Real Size of Government since 1970 – revised version in Kluwer Handbook in Public Finance, ed. Juergen Backhaus and Richard Wagner, Kluwer Academic Press, 2004, 77-108 |
| 01-05 |
Zhiqi Chen |
Dominant Retailers and the Countervailing Power Hypothesis – revised version in RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter 2003), 612-625 |
| 01-04 |
Zhiqi Chen and Ying Kong |
Price Dispersion in a Model of Identical Agents with Perfect Information – revised version in Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (February 2004), 29-44 |
| 01-03 |
Lawrence Kenny and Stanley L. Winer |
Tax Systems in the World: An Empirical Investigation into the Importance of Tax Bases, Collection Costs, and Political Regime |
| 01-02 |
Bartholomew Moore and Huntley J. Schaller |
Persistent and Transitory Shocks, Learning, and Investment Dynamics – revised version in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 34, No. 3 (August 2002), pp. 650-677 |
| 01-01 |
Edwin G. West |
Property Rights in the History of Economic Thought: From Locke to J.S. Mill |