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

Issue Author(s) Title

2009

Issue Author(s) Title
09-02 Liqun Wang, Marcel-Cristian Voia, and Ričardas Zitikis A Distributional Analysis of Treatment Effects on Subpopulations of a Socioeconomic Experiment
09-01 Luke Ignaczak and Marcel-Cristian Voia A Nonparametric Analysis Of Canadian Employment Patterns

2008

Issue Author(s) Title
08-09 Vivek H. Dehejia and Jiankang Zhang Can Median-Maximizing Behavior Be Rational?
08-08 Yiagadeesen Samy and Vivek H. Dehejia Trade and Labor Standards in the European Union: A Gravity Model Approach
08-07 Richard A. Brecher and Zhiqi Chen Unemployment of Skilled and Unskilled Labor in an Open Economy: International Trade, Migration and Outsourcing
08-06 J. Stephen Ferris and Marcel-Cristian Voia What Determines the Length of a Typical Canadian Parliamentary Government? – revised version in Canadian Journal of Political Science, forthcoming
08-05 J. Stephen Ferris and Hossein Kavand The Monetary Effects Arising from Stochastic Resource Revenues and the Subsidization of Financial Intermediation in Resource Rich Developing Economies
08-04 Jun Chen and Zhiqi Chen The Quiet Life of a Monopolist: The Efficiency Losses of Monopoly Reconsidered
08-03 Deming Luo and J. Stephen Ferris Optimal Simple Monetary Policy Rules in a Small Open Economy with Exchange Rate Imperfections
08-02 Vivek H. Dehejia and Marcel-Cristian Voia International Income Comparisons and Location Choice: Methodology, Analysis, and Implications
08-01 Vivek H. Dehejia Risk Aversion, Stochastic Dominance, and Rules of Thumb: Concept and Application

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

Issue Author(s) Title
05-09 J. Stephen Ferris, Soo-Bin Park, and Stanley L. Winer Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals: With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of the Public Sector
05-08 Amir Kia Sustainability of the Fiscal Process in Developing Countries-Egypt, Iran and Turkey: A Multicointegration Approach
05-07 Amir Kia Overnight Monetary Policy in the United States: Active or Interest-Rate Smoothing?
05-06 Soo-Bin Park Estimating a Linear Simultaneous Equation Model with Panel Data
05-05 Frances R. Woolley The Citation Impact of Feminist Economics – revised version in Feminist Economics, Vol. 11, No. 3 (November 2005), pp. 85-106
05-04 Tatyana Teplova and Frances R. Woolley Balancing Work and Care in the Post-Soviet Russian Labor Market
05-03 James W. Dean and Vivek H. Dehejia Would a Borderless North America Kill Canadian Culture? – revised version in American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 313-327
05-02 Amir Kia Developing a Market-Based Monetary Policy Transparency Index and Testing Its Impact on Risk and Volatility in the United States
05-01 Nadja Kamhi and Vivek H. Dehejia An Assessment of the Currency Board Regime in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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