Most Recent Articles from Southern Economic Journal

• Smuggling illegal versus legal goods across the U.S.-Mexico border: a structural equations model approach 

  1. Introduction In this article, we study smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border from 1975 to 2004. We contribute to the literature in the...

  10/01/09 by Andreas Buehn; Stefan Eichler · More from publication

• Price discrimination and efficient distribution 

  1. Introduction Economists have long warned of the danger that, on occasion, antitrust enforcement might be used perversely to protect...

  10/01/09 by T. Randolph Beard; Roger D. Blair; David L. Kaserman; Michael L. Stern · More from publication

• Did leaving the gold standard tame the business cycle? Evidence from NBER reference dates and real GNP 

  1. Introduction "Our empirical results are striking [...] a clear rejection of the null hypothesis of no postwar duration stabilization." This is...

  10/01/09 by Andrew T. Young; Shaoyin Du · More from publication

• Trade barriers, openness, and economic growth 

  1. Introduction A recurring theme in international economics is the relationship between openness and economic growth. Based on postwar data that...

  10/01/09 by Jakob B. Madsen · More from publication

• Foreign direct investment and inflation 

  1. Introduction In recent years interest in understanding the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) has intensified hand in hand with...

  10/01/09 by Selin Sayek · More from publication

• An experimental study of the holdout problem in a multilateral bargaining game 

  1. Introduction When an economic exchange requires agreement by multiple independent parties, the potential exists for an individual to...

  10/01/09 by John Cadigan; Pamela Schmitt; Robert Shupp; Kurtis Swope · More from publication

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