BEJEAP Topics Articles
"Topics" articles make a valuable contribution and will interest those working on similar topics. These articles would be suitable for good selective journals. The publication rate is 22%.Volume 10 (2010) - Issue 1 (Topics)
What Kind of Job is Safer? A Note on Occupational Vulnerability
Ashok Bardhan and John Tang
Legalization and Immigrants in U.S. Agriculture
Anita Alves Pena
Volume 9 (2009) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Should (and Could) We Ban Prescriptions?
Matteo G. Richiardi
A Note on the Valuation of Collective Goods: Overlooked Input Market Free Riding for Non-Individually Incrementable Goods
Philip E. Graves
Environmental Products Manufacturing: A Look inside the Green Industry
Randy A. Becker and Ronald J. Shadbegian
Technology Diffusion, Product Differentiation and Environmental Subsidies
Matthew McGinty and Frans P. de Vries
Grading Across Schools
Valentino Dardanoni, Salvatore Modica, and Aline Pennsi
The Effect of Salary Caps in Professional Team Sports on Social Welfare
Helmut M. Dietl, Markus Lang, and Alexander Rathke
Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence on Littering
Benno Torgler, Bruno S. Frey, and Clevo Wilson
The Socioeconomic Gap in University Dropouts
Anna F. Vignoles and Nattavudh Powdthavee
How Do Individuals Choose Banks? An Application to Household Level Data from Turkey
Oya Pinar Ardic and Uygar Yuzereroglu
Flexible Scheduling and the Gender Wage Gap
Katie L. Winder
Don't Get Skewed Over by Journal Rankings
Howard J. Wall
Vertical Integration and Sabotage with a Regulated Bottleneck Monopoly
Alvaro E. Bustos and Alexander Galetovic
Separating Equilibria in Public Auctions
Arieh Gavious
Retail Return Policy, Endowment Effect, and Consumption Propensity: An Experimental Study
Xianghong Wang
Integrating Mental Health in Welfare Evaluation: An Empirical Application
Sanghamitra Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, and Tridip Ray
Vertical Mergers and Competition with a Regulated Bottleneck Monopoly
Alexander Galetovic and Ricardo Sanhueza
Olympic Athlete Selection
Yoichi Hizen and Ryo Okui
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver
Trade and Variety in a Model of Endogenous Product Differentiation
Oliver Lorz and Matthias Wrede
Volume 8 (2008) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Trade Liberalization and New Exporters' Size: A Test of Heterogeneous Firm Models
Rosen Marinov, Nadia Rocha, and Virginia DiNino
Determinants of Business Tax Compliance
Kanybek D. Nur-tegin
Too Few Cooks Spoil the Broth:
Division of Labor and Directed Production
Marisa Ratto and Wendelin Schnedler
The Employment Effects of Mergers in a Declining Industry: The Case of South African Gold Mining
Alberto Behar and James Hodge
Environmental Policy and Uncertain Arrival of Future Abatement Technology
Andreas von Döllen and Till Requate
Political Altruism of Transboundary Water Sharing
Anik Bhaduri and Edward B. Barbier
Equilibrium State Aid in Integrating Markets
Stephen Martin and Paola Valbonesi
Optimal Fiscal Policy When Migration Is Feasible
Filippo Occhino
Dynamic Scoring in the Ramsey Growth Model
Ergete Ferede
Measuring Hypothetical Bias in Choice Experiments: The Importance of Cognitive Consistency
Olof Johansson-Stenman and Henrik Svedsäter
The Effect of Trade Facilitation on Sectoral Trade
Inma Martinez-Zarzoso and Laura Márquez-Ramos
After-School Supervision and Children's Cognitive Achievement
David M. Welsch and David M. Zimmer
Does Crime Affect Economic Decisions? An Empirical Investigation of Savings in a High-Crime Environment
Joao M. De Mello and Eduardo Zilberman
Volume 7 (2007) - Issue 2 (Topics)
Intergenerational Economic Mobility around the World
Volume 7 (2007) - Issue 1 (Topics)
The Timing of Prenatal WIC Participation
Christopher A. Swann
The Role of Distance in Gravity Regressions: Is There Really a Missing Globalisation Puzzle?
Laura Márquez-Ramos, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, and Celestino Suárez-Burguet
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution
Sumeet Gulati and Devesh Roy
The Transactions Demand for Credit Cards
Kathleen W. Johnson
Endogenous Corruption in a Federation
Alexander Plekhanov
Cost Effectiveness of R&D and Strategic Trade Policy
Praveen Kujal and Juan M. Ruiz
Capital Structure and Entry Deterrence with Multiple Incumbents
Jorge Antonio Tarzijan
Alcohol Control Policies and Youth Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from 28 Years of Monitoring the Future
Christopher S. Carpenter, Deborah D. Kloska, Patrick O'Malley, and Lloyd Johnston
Can Stricter Environmental Regulations Increase Export of the Polluting Good?
Monica Das and Sandwip K. Das
Human Capital and Welfare Dynamics in Canada
Jorgen Hansen
Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK
Matthew A. Cole and Rob J. Elliott
Understanding the Internet's Relevance to Media Ownership Policy: A Model of Too Many Choices
Matthew G. Nagler
The Pollution Haven Paradox: Can an Effluent Tax Improve both Profits and Welfare?
Robert Driskill and Andrew W. Horowitz
Life Is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk
Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
Family Expenditures on Child Care
Dan T. Rosenbaum and Christopher J. Ruhm
Financial Aid and Student Bargaining Power
David M. Lang
The Ghost of Corruption
Cemile Yavas
Ideology, Inequality and Inequitable Trade Policies
Daron O. Djerdjian
The 1990 Clean Air Act and the Implicit Price of Sulfur in Coal
Ian Lange and Allen S. Bellas
Coordination Failure in Foreign Aid
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
Trade and Development in a Labor Surplus Economy
Edward B. Barbier and Michael Rauscher
Economic Geography and the Effect of Environmental Pollution on Agglomeration
Andreas Lange and Martin F. Quaas
Bank Fragility and Growth Expectations
Eugenio Proto
Firm Regulation and Profit Sharing: A Real Option Approach
Michele Moretto and Paola Valbonesi
Understanding Participation in Social Programs: Why Don't Households Pick up the Lifeline?
Mark Burton, Jeffrey Macher, and John W. Mayo
Cross-Border Shopping and the Sales Tax: An Examination of Food Purchases in West Virginia
Mehmet S. Tosun and Mark L. Skidmore
Volume 6 (2006) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Did the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Accurately Assess Economic Losses?
Frank D. Tinari, Kevin E. Cahill, and Elias Grivoyannis
The Firm's Cost of Capital, Its Effective Marginal Tax Rate, and the Value of the Government's Tax Claim
Ramesh K. S. Rao and Eric C. Stevens
Do Plants Overcomply with Water Pollution Regulations? The Role of Discharge Variability
Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and John Horowitz
The Impact of Delivery Synergies on Bidding in the Georgia School Milk Market
Robert C. Marshall, Matthew E. Raiff, Jean-Francois Richard, and Steven P. Schulenberg
Credit Constraints and Contract Enforcement
Dennis Powers
What Did the "Illegitimacy Bonus" Reward?
Sanders Korenman, Ted Joyce, Robert Kaestner, and Jennifer Walper
Does Integrating Economic and Biological Systems Matter for Public Policy? The Case of Yellowstone Lake
Chad Settle and Jason F. Shogren
Capital Movements and the Political Economy of Trade Policy
Delfim Gomes Neto
Searching For Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage
Leora Friedberg, Michael T. Owyang, and Tara M. Sinclair
Consumption Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Two Panel Data Sets
Jonathan D. Fisher and David S. Johnson
Corruption, Environmental Resources, and International Trade
Priya Ranjan and Baishali Bakshi
Relative Performance, Risk and Entry in the Mutual Fund Industry
Gyongyi Loranth and Emanuela Sciubba
Public Complaints and Alberta's Environmental Regulation
Heather L. Eckert
The Effects of Political Action Committee Contributions on Medical Liability Legislation
Amy M. Wolaver and Christopher S. Magee
Absorptive Capacity in R&D Joint Ventures When Basic Research Is Costly
Mark R. Frascatore
Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?
Joshua S. Gans and Andrew Leigh
After the Traffic Stops: Officer Characteristics and Enforcement Actions
Billy R. Close and Patrick L. Mason
Volume 5 (2005) - Issue 1 (Topics)
The Evolution of Open Source Communities
Joerg Gutsche
Vertical Foreign Direct Investment, Welfare, and Employment
Walter Elberfeld, Georg Götz, and Frank Stähler
Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence from Nielsen Ratings
Eric M. Aldrich, Peter S. Arcidiacono, and Jacob L. Vigdor
Why do Municipalities Recycle?
Thomas C. Kinnaman
How Do "Point Oh-Eight" (.08) BAC Laws Work?
Christopher Carpenter and Katherine Harris
Implications of Changes in Men's and Women's Labor Force Participation for Real Compensation Growth and Inflation
Katharine Anderson, Lisa Barrow, and Kristin F. Butcher
On the Virtues of the Shame Lane
Matteo G. Richiardi
A Modigliani-Miller Theory of Altruistic Corporate Social Responsibility
Joshua Graff Zivin and Arthur Small
The Origins of Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: Evidence from the Heartland in the Age of Mass Migration
Gary Richardson
Nonpoint Source Pollution When Polluters Might Cooperate
Katrin Millock and François Salanié
The Role of Immigration in the Retirement Age Reform : A Theoretical Analysis
Francisco Lagos and Juan Lacomba
Price Discrimination and Smuggling of AIDS Drugs
Richard A. Hornbeck
State-Level R&D Tax Credits: A Firm-Level Analysis
Lolita A. Paff
The Payment of Hospital Services: a Waiting Lists Model
Dr. Alessandra Ferrari
Do Local Relative Factor Supplies Affect Local Relative Factor Prices?
Joelle Saad-Lessler
Trade Potentials in Gravity Panel Data Models
Luca De Benedictis and Claudio Vicarelli
File Sharing and International Sales of Copyrighted Music: An Empirical Analysis with a Panel of Countries
Alejandro Zentner
Voting on Tariff and Retaliation
Tanguy van Ypersele
Volume 4 (2004) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Measuring the Impact of Welfare Benefits on Welfare Durations: State Stratified Partial Likelihood and Fixed Effect Approaches
John M. Fitzgerald
A Note on Weak Double Dividends
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Mustafa H. Babiker, and John Reilly
Spatial Competition and Merger
Richard S. Higgins, Paul A. Johnson, and John T. Sullivan
Toll Competition Among Congested Roads
Eduardo M. Engel, Ronald Fischer, and Alexander Galetovic
Commitment and Discretion in Health Care Policy Making
Robert Rosenman and Daniel Friesner
Information Transmission and the Bounds to Growth
Guido Cozzi and Luca Spinesi
Membership Diversity in Club Decisions
Gary Biglaiser and James Friedman
WTO Negotiations on Market Access in Agriculture: a Comparison of Alternative Tariff Cut Proposals for the EU and the US
Jean-Christophe Bureau and Luca Salvatici
An Economic Assessment of Parents' Self-Composure: The Case of Physical Child Abuse
Mark D. Agee, Thomas Crocker, and Jason F. Shogren
Producers and Predators in a Multiple Community Setting
Shinkyoo Han and Jack Ochs
Tax Competition and Tax Harmonization With Evasion
Néstor Gandelman and Rubén Hernández-Murillo
Do Unbundling Policies Discourage CLEC Facilities-Based Investment
Robert W. Crandall, Allan T. Ingraham, and Hal J. Singer
Foreign Portfolio Investment Improves Performance: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Andrew Weiss and Georgiy A. Nikitin
Intranational Trade Diversion, the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, and the L Curve
Serge Coulombe
Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions
Courtney Coile
HIV Testing: a Trojan Horse?
Stéphane Mechoulan
Economic Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections: Who Blames Whom for What
Daniel Eisenberg and Jonathan Ketcham
Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms
Silke Uebelmesser
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Substance Use and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Susan L. Averett, Daniel I. Rees, Brian Duncan, and Laura Argys
Citizens Should Vote on Secession
Essi Eerola, Niku Määttänen, and Panu Poutvaara
Do Long Work Hours Contribute to Divorce?
John H. Johnson IV
Public Venture Capital, Occupational Choice, and Entrepreneurship
Oana Secrieru and Marianne Vigneault
Estimating Productivity When Primal and Dual TFP Accounting Fail: An Illustration Using Singapore's Industries
Hiau Looi Kee
eBay's Buy-It-Now Function: Who, When, and How
Yvonne Durham, Matthew R. Roelofs, and Stephen S. Standifird
Time In Purgatory: Examining the Grant Lag for U.S. Patent Applications
David Popp, Ted Juhl, and Daniel K.N. Johnson
Global Health Warnings on Tobacco Packaging: Evidence from the Canadian Experiment
Nikolay Gospodinov and Ian J. Irvine
Interest Groups and Get Out the Vote Drives
John Cadigan
Media Competition on the Internet
Pedro P. Barros, Hans Jarle Kind, Tore Nilssen, and Lars Sřrgard
Volume 3 (2003) - Issue 1 (Topics)
The Neutrality of Interchange Fees in Payment Systems
Joshua S. Gans and Stephen P King
Time-Consistent Policy and Politics: Does Voting Matter When Individuals Are Identical?
Dan Anderberg and Carlo Perroni
New Evidence on Eastern Europe's Pollution Progress
Matthew E. Kahn
Can economic theory explain piracy behavior?
Hĺkan J. Holm
Pouring Money Down the Drain? How Sunk Investments and Signing Bonuses can Improve Employee Incentives
Anil Arya, Hans Frimor, and Brian Mittendorf
Mergers and Deterrence
Daniel J. Richards
Legal Hold-up in Cotenancy
Manel Baucells and Steven A. Lippman
How Should Unemployment Benefits Respond to the Business Cycle?
Michael T. Kiley
Preventive Health Care and Payment Systems
Pedro P. Barros and Xavier Martinez-Giralt
The Geography of Intra-Industry Trade: empirics
Anthony J. Venables, Patricia G. Rice, and Martin Stewart
National Treatment and the Choice Between Exports and FDI
Bernard Hoekman and Kamal Saggi
What Determines Environmental Performance at Paper Mills? The Roles of Abatement Spending, Regulation, and Efficiency
Ronald J. Shadbegian and Wayne B. Gray
Federal Tax Benefits for Child Care: Progressivity Over Time, EGTRRA, and the Alternative Minimum Tax
John R. Eiler and Warren B. Hrung
Real Options, Conflicting Valuations, and Favoritism
Anil Arya and Jonathan Glover
Incentives to Invest in Transport Cost Reduction - Conceptual Issues and an Application to Electronic Commerce
Martin Bandulet and Karl Morasch
Volume 2 (2002) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Ambient environmental inspections and commitment towards enforcement policies: substitutes or complements?
Laurent Franckx
Threats Without Binding Commitment
Steven Shavell and Kathryn E. Spier
The Costs of A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Dana P. Goldman, Geoffrey F. Joyce, and Jesse Dylan Malkin
Cost Optimization in the SIS Model of Infectious Disease with Treatment
Steven Marc Goldman and James Lightwood
On Vertical Differentiation Under Bertrand and Cournot: When Input Quality has Upward Sloping Supply
Mark R. Frascatore
Is More for the Poor Less for the Poor? The Politics of Means-Tested Targeting
Jonah B. Gelbach and Lant Pritchett
System Components, Network Effects, and Bundling
Matthew T. Clements
Income Redistribution and Risky Occupational Choices
Panu Poutvaara
The Optimal Provision of Services in National Parks
Robert W. Turner
Volume 1 (2001) - Issue 1 (Topics)
Pension systems in integrated capital markets
Alessandra Casarico