Most Recent Articles from Economic Inquiry

• War and pestilence as labor market shocks: U.S. manufacturing wage growth 1914-1919 

  there is not a single expert machinist in the labor market today. If such a one exists he will be able to command his own wages... The Arkansas...

  10/01/09 by Thomas A. Garrett · More from publication

• The effects of financial education in the workplace: evidence from a survey of employers 

  I. INTRODUCTION Since the early work of Mincer (1958), economists studying the returns to education have traditionally focused on the relation...

  10/01/09 by Patrick J. Bayer; B. Douglas Bernheim; John Karl Scholz · More from publication

• Twin sons of different mothers: the long and the short of the twin deficits debate 

  I. INTRODUCTION The relationship between the government budget deficit and the current account deficit has been a contentious subject in...

  10/01/09 by Kevin Grier; Haichun Ye · More from publication

• Costly external finance and investment efficiency in a market equilibrium model 

  I. INTRODUCTION A large body of research has stressed the quality of a country's financial markets as an important determinant of the firms' real...

  10/01/09 by Jan Zabojnik · More from publication

• Studying the effects of household and firm credit on the trade balance: the composition of funds matters 

  I. INTRODUCTION The implications of higher levels of financial development have been investigated in a large number of studies, both in the...

  10/01/09 by Berrak Buyukkarabacak; Stefan Krause · More from publication

• Estimating a New Keynesian Phillips curve with a corrected measure of real marginal cost: evidence in Japan 

  I. INTRODUCTION The New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC), which was developed most notably by Rotemberg (1982a) and Calvo (1983), holds a central...

  10/01/09 by Ichiro Muto · More from publication

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