Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 13 Issue 2

The Economic Impact of Taxes in the US: Some Tests Based on the St. Louis Model

Ali F. Darrat

The primary purpose of this article is to investigate empirically for the US the potential impact of monetary and fiscal policy upon real economic activity using the “St. Louis…

Entry and Market Characteristics: A Logit Study of Newspaper Launching in the Republic of Ireland

R.S. Thompson

The author uses multiple logit analysis to investigate and explain variations in the success of new entrants to the Irish provincial newspaper industry. Using local geographical…

Earnings and Job Mobility: Professional Chemists in Britain

J. Creedy, K. Whitfield

Examining the process of job mobility and its effect on earnings, the authors find that this particular labour market is characterised by a high incidence of specific training…

An Assessment of Cyprus' Association with the EEC

Nicholas Perdikis

This article assesses the impact of Cyprus' agreement of association on the development and maintenance of trade with the EEC and Britain. It begins with a description of Cyprus'…

Emigrants' Remittances, Non‐Traded Goods and Economic Welfare in the Source Country

Frank Kirwan, Darryl Holden

This article analyses the welfare effect of emigration on a source country whose output consists in part of non‐traded goods but where emigrants make remittances to the source…

On Incomplete Current Information and Empirical Tests of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis

D.A. Peel

The purpose in this article is to examine some implications which arise from assuming agents faced a mixed information structure for some standard tests of the rational…

Review Article: Wages and Shares

Anthony Clunies Ross

Weitzman's book is short, lively, written for non‐economists, and persuasive. Starting with doubts over reported versions of the Weitzman thesis, this reviewer became convinced…