Directory of Working Papers in Economics

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WPE 02.15 Peter J. Boettke and Peter Leeson An 'Austrian' Perspective on Public Choice
Michael Makowsky An Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and Urban Crime
WPE 02.12 Theodore Breton An Extension of Neoclassical Growth Theory to Include Institutions
WPE 04.02
Peter J. Boettke Anarchism as a Progressive Research Program in Political Economy
WPE 02.27 Theodore R. Breton Can Institutions or Education Explain World Poverty?
WPE 02.06 Peter J. Boettke and Bridget I. Butkevich Changing Conceptions of the State in Post-Communist Political Economy
WPE 02.02 Peter J. Boettke and Anne Rathbone Civil Society, Social Entrepreneurship, and Economic Calculation: Toward a Political Economy of the Philanthropic Enterprise
WPE 02.10 Bart J. Wilson and Douglas D. Davis Cost Synergies and Post-Merger Predictions in Asymmetric Logit Environments
WPE 03.04 Peter J. Boettke and Edward Stringham Czech Your Premises: Are Regulations the Answer for Stock Markets in Transition?
WPE 97.09 W. Mark Crain Districts, Diversity and Fiscal Biases: Evidence from the American States
WPE 03.02 Theodore Breton Education, Human Capital, and National Income
WPE 03.07 Theodore Breton Education: How Its Distribution Affects A Nations's Income
WPE 01.01 Peter J. Boettke and Bridget Butkevich Entry and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Post-Communist Russia
WPE 00.03 Peter Boettke F.A. Hayek As An Intellectual Historian of Economics
WPE 02.24 Suleyman Degirman Financial Interventions and the Turkish Banking Sector
WPE 02.09 Hanjiang Zhang Fixed Versus Flexible Exchange Rate in China
WPE 02.18 Peter J. Boettke and Ryan Oprea Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)
WPE 97.07 James M. Buchanan and Yong Yoon Generalized Increasing Returns, Euler's Theorem and Competitive Equilibrium
WPE 04.01
Peter J. Boettke Hayek and Market Socialism: Science, Ideology and Public Policy
WPE 98.05 James C. Miller III Incumbents' Advantage
WPE 02.21 Peter J. Boettke Information and Knowledge: Austrian Economics In Search Of Its Uniqueness
WPE 02.05 Peter J. Boettke Information, Knowledge, and the Close of Friedrich Hayek's System A Comment
WPE 02.20 Peter J. Boettke Information, Knowledge, and the Close of Friedrich Hayek's System A Comment
WPE 02.16 Dean Stansel Interjurisdictional Competition and Local Economic Performance: A Cross-Sectional Examination of U.S. Metropolitan Areas
WPE 02.17 Hanjiang Zhang International portfolio choice and numeraire portfolio in real term - Review and redo the work of "International Portfolio Choice and Corporation Finance: A Synthesis"
WPE 98.07 Karen I. Vaughn and J. Loren Poulsen Is Hayek's Social Theory an Example of Complexity Theory?
WPE 02.03 William N. Butos and Peter J. Boettke Kirznerian Enrepreneurship and the Economics of Science
WPE 98.01 Sam Papenfuss Legislatures and Lotto: Taxing Federal Transfers
WPE 03.01
Making the Case for the Solow Growth Model
WPE 03.05 Peter J. Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Peter Leeson Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics
WPE 02.25 Theodore R. Breton Missing Data and Omitted Variables: Continuing Search for a Complete Solow Growth Model
WPE 97.08 Willem Thorbecke Monetary Policy, Time-Varying Risk, and the Bond Market Debacle of 1994
WPE 05.02 Joshua P. Hill Moolah for Mugabe, Cash for Qaddafi: Inducing meaningful reform
WPE 98.04 Noel D. Campbell Political Entrepreneurs and the Transfer Demanding Process: Homesteading the Unassigned District
WPE 01.04 Peter J. Boettke andVirgil Storr Post Classical Political Economy: Polity, Society and Economy in Weber, Mises and Hayek
WPE 99.05 Noel D. Campbell and Edward J. Lopez Price Theory, Vote Scores, and Campaign Expenditures: Signaling or Ideology?
WPE 99.03 Edward J. Lopez Prisoners on the Hill: The Dilemma of Congressional Voting on Term Limits . . .
WPE 01.03 Peter J. Boettke Putting the Political Back Into Political Economy
WPE 97.10 Joseph McGarrity, Harvey D. Palmer and Marc Poitras Reconsidering the Evidence of Consumer Racial Discrimination in the Market for Baseball Cards
WPE 02.22 Peter J. Boettke Remebering Don Lavoie (1951-2001): A Students Perspective
WPE 99.10  Jay Cochran Replicating Gibson: Or, A Pair of Dummies Does Not Beat a Paradox
WPE 99.04 Gareth Davis Repression, Rationality, and Relative Deprivation: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Cross-National Variations in Political Violence
WPE 02.14 Peter J. Boettke and Ryan Oprea Rule of Law
WPE 02.19 Peter J. Boettke and John R. Subrick Rule of Law, Development and Human Capabilities
WPE 99.06 Emory Peters Social Choice and Individual Liberties
WPE 02.13 Charles Rowley and Anne Rathbone Terrorism
WPE 01.06 Peter J. Boettke The Austrian School of Economics
WPE 02.04 Peter J. Boettke and Peter Leeson The Austrian School of Economics: 1950-2000
WPE 97.02 Carlos D. Ramirez The Cost of Glass Steagall on Corporate Investment: Evidence from Bank, Trust Company, and Insurance Company Affiliations
WPE 02.11 Bart J. Wilson and Charles J. Thomas The Effect of Offer Verifiability on the Relationship Between Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations
WPE 99.08 Joseph D. Reid, Jr. The Evolution of Federal Employment
WPE 97.03 Carrie A. Meyer The Greening of National Accounts
WPE 03.03 Peter J. Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Peter Leeson The Indiginous Path to Progress: Institutional Stickiness and the Failure of Development Economics
WPE 02.08 Peter J. Boettke The Place of Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens in Modern Political Economy
WPE 99.07  Carrie A. Meyer The Political Economy of NGOs and Globalization
WPE 02.23 W. Mark Crain and Carlos Scartascini The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems
WPE 01.05 Carlos G. Scartascini and W. Mark Crain The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems
WPE 02.01 Peter J. Boettke, Don Lavoie, and Virgil Henry Storr The Subjectivist Methodology of Austrian Economics and Dewey's Theory of Inquiry
WPE 03.06 Douglas W. MacKenzie The Use of Knowledge about Society
WPE 02.26 Douglas W. MacKenzie The Use of Knowledge about Society
WPE 98.02 Stephanie Owings and Rainald Borck Throw the Bums Out: Do Citizen Legislators Really Spend Less?
WPE 99.02 Peter J. Boettke Towards a History of the Theory of Socialist Planning
WPE 97.01 James M. Buchanan Transcending Genetic Limits
WPE 02.07 Mark Steckbeck and Peter J. Boettke Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: Entrepreneurial solutions to adverse selection problems in E-Commerce
WPE 99.09  Stephen Miller Visualizing Growth: Exploratory Data Analysis Meets the Augmented Solow Model
WPE 00.01 Anthony deCarvalho Wage Adjustment, Imperfect Competition and Real Exchange Rate Reversion: An Attempt to Unravel the PPP Puzzle
WPE 00.02 Jay Cochran Where Did All the Money Go? Measuring the Extent of the Market During the Interwar Years, 1919-1939
WPE 99.01 Peter J. Boettke Which Enlightenment, Whose Liberalism: Hayek's Research Program for Understanding the Liberal Society
WPE 97.04 Tyler Cowen and Sam Papenfuss Why are Most Universities Not for Profit?
WPE 98.03 Carlos Ramirez and Christian Eigen-Zucchi Why Did the Clayton Act Pass? A Look at the Senate Vote